Monday, March 11, 2013

10 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
    Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
  • The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
    Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.
  • Mislabeled Seafood: More than Overpaying for F ...
    Many people are interested in the study because consumers are being duped by fraudulent fish, but other impacts of mislabeled seafood are far more worrisome. Certain fish carry advisories, especially for pregnant women and young children, to limit or avoid due to contamination of heavy metals or ...
  • Md. Farm Bureau’s stance on pesticide bill see ...
    The Maryland Farm Bureau’s opposition to a pesticide reporting bill in Maryland seems out of step with policy statements made by the national organization with which it is affiliated, the American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • USDA Organic standards for aquaculture under d ...
    Farmed aquatic animals are the only type of food not represented in the marketplace with a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic seal—a highly recognizable label—although that may change soon.

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Left Foot Forward

  • New skills eco-system puts clear water between ...
    A new ‘skills eco system’ now puts clear water between Labour and the Tories policy of ‘pile ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap’ low grade apprenticeships.
  • The money men behind the ‘dinner party p ...
    The Times ran a juicy exclusive on Thursday, revealing a dinner party “plot” by right-wing Tories, including Chris Grayling, David Davis, Liam Fox and John Redwood, to put pressure on the government to hold an EU referendum before the 2015 general election. There was nothing especially surprisin ...
  • The case for Scottish independence is based on ...
    The Scottish nationalists pick the best years for North Sea oil receipts and extrapolate into the future. The pro-UK voices point out that the decision to leave the UK is a long-term one and so we must look beyond short-term and simplistic analysis.
  • What next for Venezuela? Maduro vs Capriles
    With the death of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela is enveloped in national mourning and millions are lining the streets in Caracas to see his coffin. Left Foot Forward has taken a look at those aiming to succeed the charismatic commandante.
  • This week’s most read: Wonga, Chavez and ...
    The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.

Consumerist

  • EA Admits Its Own Stupidity, Will Give Away Fr ...
    After days of being the gaming world’s punching bag for its failure to foresee that it was woefully unprepared for the number of users who would want to begin playing the long-awaited latest edition of SimCity, the folks at EA, the reigning Worst Company In America, are apologizing and adm ...
  • Scammers Have Servicemembers In Their Sights: ...
    Like all consumers, members of the United States can fall under the sway of scammers seeking to take ‘em for all they’ve got. But due to their specific circumstances they’re often the focus of a wide range of fraudulent businesses and other predatory practices. Consumerist spo ...
  • There Is Still Time To Submit Your Worst Compa ...
    Just a reminder that we’re still accepting nominations for this year’s Worst Company In America tournament. You have until 5 p.m. ET on March 12 to e-mail us at wcia@consumerist.com with the names (and reasons, if you feel so inclined) of the consumer-facing businesses you feel are m ...
  • It’s Totally Not Cool That My Fridge Sto ...
    When you spend more than two grand on a refrigerator, you sort of assume that it will keep your food cold. At least, Kim did. The fridge is less than a year and a half old. Whenever the power goes off, even if just for a few seconds, the refrigerator starts slacking off on its keeping-things-col ...
  • Apple, Amazon Looking To Sell Used Digital Content
    When you purchase a digital download, do you actually own it? Some say yes, others say you’re just licensing its use from the copyright holder. This argument is only going to get more heated with news that both Apple and Amazon are looking into how to go about re-selling “used” ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Retroactive Application of the WPEA? Two Membe ...
    A significant test case currently stands before the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) that will determine whether or not cases pending when the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) was passed will be reinforced by rights under the new law. Congress’ intent was made clear in congre ...
  • UN Judges Refer Retaliators to Secretary-Gener ...
    On Feb. 26, the United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) issued a judgment in which the judges referred Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabeseveral retaliators to the Secretary-General for accountability. This case is a major victory for UN whistleblowers as it appears to be the first in which ...
  • Meningitis Drug Whistleblower to Talk this Wee ...
    CBS: Meningitis Whistleblower on 60 Minutes This Sunday, 60 Minutes will explore the controversy surrounding a killer drug produced by the New England Compounding Center and the whistleblower whose warnings about the dangers of the drug were ignored. The Center operated without FDA oversight, ...
  • IRS Claims Sequester Forces Cuts to Whistleblo ...
    Los Angeles Times: IRS Will Pay Whistleblowers Less Because of Budget Cuts The IRS has announced that due to the sequestration that began last Friday, the agency will pay less in rewards to whistleblowers who help expose tax-related waste and fraud inside their corporations. In the past, the I ...
  • Tour Recap: Financial Whistleblowers Featured ...
    Michael Winston and Eric Ben-Artzi (Photo Courtesy of FIU College of Business Administration)For the second time this academic year, GAP's American Whistleblower Tour was invited back to a school for a repeat performance based on the success of last year’s visit. Florida International University ...

UK Progressive

  • Op-Ed: Sequester Ultimate Poker: Only the Rich ...
    by Jeanine Molloff The President loves poker.  In fact his days as an Illinois state senator were filled with backroom…poker games.  Word was that Barack could bluff with the best of them–and never blink.  These dubious talents have served him well during his meteoric rise …all ...
  • Assault Weapons, Mental Illness, and Mass Murd ...
    by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad The events in Newtown, Connecticut, have been horrifying and gut wrenching. Unimaginable as it was, it was a pathology society has come to accept. A toxic mix of accepted (and benign) anti-social behavior, mental illness and guns has taken America by storm, once ag ...
  • Climate Concerns Plummet to New Lows
    by Robert Hunziker “The reason we think climate change is so important now is because it is happening at an historically rapid rate.” Dr.Stephen Harrison, Glaciologist, Exeter University, Documentary on Climatic Change- Global Warming narrated by Tom Brokaw, Discovery Channel, 2006 N ...
  • Obama Must Lead
    by Brent Budowsky With the jobless rate at nearly 8 percent and the real jobless rate nearly double that; with our national GDP between zero percent and 2 percent over the last two quarters; with Europe continuing its painful recession while continuing on a grotesquely ill-advised austerity push ...
  • The Dudes Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks
    by Tina Dupuy In Reykjavik, Iceland, there is the Icelandic Phallological Museum boasting of the world’s largest collection of penises. For around $20 U.S. you can gawk at the members of many different species: some human. Most in jars. Some more jarring than others. In Lima, Peru the Museo de L ...

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JoNova

  • Unthreaded weekend
    I’ll be back at the desk later today… Rating: 8.2/10 (9 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/10 (9 votes cast)
  • Monckton on tour — slick oil funded oper ...
    The animated Christopher Monckton   Apologies for the lack of posting, Christopher Monckton is staying with us, he’s in the kitchen right now, and we’ve had an event on, or radio interviews, or high level log-graph must-do calculations every day. It’s been marvelous, and a ...
  • Tim Flannery: We predicted everything. There i ...
    TIM FLANNERY, CHIEF CLIMATE COMMISSIONER 7-30 Report ABC: “…everything we’re seeing is consistent with what the climate scientists have been telling us now for decades…” Leigh Sales, ABC PRESENTER : “… … …(no comment)…” Steve Hunt ...
  • Mystery black-box method used to make *all new ...
    There were not many long term sites (in black dots) in the centre of Australia in 1930. This summer the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) invented a whole new metric to measure average national heat, which might be all very well except no-one (other than the BOM) seems to know what it is. On January 7 ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    For all the non-hottest-summer in Australia talk. … Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
    The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...
  • Novel Coronavirus Human Transmitted?
    The third member of a UK family to contract the new virus, Novel Coronavirus, has died in hospital. It is similar to pneumonia, but substantially more deadly. So far 50% of twelve people infected worldwide have died. A patient diagnosed with the Sars-like coronavirus has died at Queen Elizabeth ...
  • Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory
    Astronomer David Asher (from Armagh University) has agreed with Bill Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe (Cardiff University) that “dark comets” are real and dangerous. The following quotes are from a paper by Napier and Asher published in Astronomy & Geophysics. http://star.arm.ac. ...
  • DNA Evidence of Bigfoot?
    I think that there might really be Yeti in the Himalayas, and there’s a lesser chance that Bigfoot is also real, in North America. So I was really excited to read the following at Red Orbit: A team of scientists has published the results of a five-year study of DNA samples from Sasquatch i ...
  • Meteors Hurting Humans: Actually Quite Common!
    In my book Survive 2o12, the appendix on the threat of asteroids and comets (follow the link to read it online) lists reports of modern era meteorites that have killed people or animals – it’s not a small list: 588 AD, 10 people, China 1490, supposedly 10,000 people, China 1511, Fra ...

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

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

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Oriental Review

  • UN Peacekeepers Kidnapped in Syria by Terroris ...
    Syrian terrorists from the Martyrs of Yarmouk have kidnapped 21 UN observers near the Golan Heights which is further recognition of outside meddling and the nature of the forces which are opposed to the government of Syria. It is reported that the 21 UN observers are Philippine nationals but big ...
  • Assassinations By Induced Heart Attack And Cancer
    An article published by the VETERANS TODAY one and a half year ago acquires a new sounding after Chavez’ departure… In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to ha ...
  • Venezuela After Chavez
    The leader of Venezuela is gone at 58. He has not had time enough to fulfill even a half of his plans. A man of action, he has set an example for the left-wing forces of the continent. His demise will certainly slow down, perhaps temporarily, the reforms in the Western Hemisphere associated with ...
  • US Plots Conquest of Venezuela in Wake of Chav ...
    US corporate-financier funded think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), declared in its “post-Chávez checklist for US policymakers,” that the US must move quickly to reorganize Venezuela according to US interests. Upon its checklist were “key demands”: The oust ...
  • Remember Libyan Jamahiriya
    Libya was a self-sufficient, prosperous state which collapsed two years ago. It makes remember the dramatic events and what it resulted in. First of all, it was a new type of war, a «virtual revolution» and the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions were based on…editing the stages of a T ...

BlogHer

  • What Constitutes a Dream Job?
    What constitutes a dream job? One person's dream job might equate to another person's nightmare. Not to mention what a job looks like from the outside looking in can often look more glamorous and dreamy than it really is. Here's a thoughtful post about the book 168 Hours: You Have More Time th ...
  • How Your Social Media Habits May Affect Your SEO
    You might be surprised to learn that your social signals, or, how effective you are in social media, is playing an increasingly important role in your search engine optimization. Social and SEO images from Cristiano Betta and Laine Griffin Social signals The last couple of rounds of algorithm ...
  • 8 Healthy Ways to Clean Your Home Without Toxi ...
    Many of you have been preparing organic foods, eliminating sugar, simple carbs and fatty foods. You’ve been exercising and getting more sleep. But what about your environment? If you have looked in the cleaning aisles of most upscale grocery stores, you have seen a wide array of all natural clea ...
  • First Lady Michelle Obama Speaks on "Grab and ...
    Earlier this week, in an interview with Nikki Gladd for BlogHer First Lady Michelle Obama talked about her Let's Move initiative, celebrating the healthy changes in school cafeterias, and sharing more we can all do to tackle the obesity epidemic, make better food choices, and get more exercise. ...
  • She Wore Red
    It often lay there, at the bottom of the special little pocket in Her purse, buried beneath the less cheeky colors. She shied away from this particular color, it always made too much of a statement. The other colors dressed her in subtlety - no flash, nothing to draw attention...safe and unseen. ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pr ...
    A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obesity  An ...
  • Kiwi Orange Coconut Flu Busting Smoothie
    There’s little that tastes better than a fresh fruit smoothie in the morning. They do wonders for the immune system and if you pack them with the right ingredients, they can supercharge your ability to not ... Related posts:Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection Acco ...
  • Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
    Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
  • Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
    People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
  • Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
    Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...

Live News Wire

  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]
  • Leadership Commitment 2 of 7 – Create a New Game
    This is your life, and only you ultimately choose each and every step you take in any given direction. You’ve already made up the rules for the life you’re living right now. The question is did you design them consciously or did you allow fear and circumstance to control you? Choose ...
  • 10 Best Arcade Games For Wii
    Some of the most fun and entertaining games available are arcade games. From traditional games like Skee Ball to more advanced pinball games, the entertaining activities created for arcade atmospheres have always been intriguing. Now, with some of the best Wii games for kids and adults ever crea ...
  • Top 10 Best SNES Games Ever
    Creating a list of the top 10 best SNES games ever is definitely something that will be subjective towards the creator’s personal views. Both the games that make the list and the order of the list can be debated. Here is a list of the top 10 best SNES games ever. 10 – Street Fighter ...
  • What to Look For in the Best Online Game Renta ...
    What do you look for when selecting a site to rent games from? Most people want to know that there is a very broad selection. What is the point if you can’t rent everything you want to play right? Another component to consider is availability. You want to know that the game you want will [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, March 8, 2013
    In this Feb. 16, 2013 photo, buildings from the Smith Mine still stand 70 years after 74 miners died in a coal mine explosion at Bear Creek, Mont. It was the biggest coal-mining disaster in state history. (AP Photo/The Billings Gazette, Bob Zellar) There was an important piece on The Daily Yonde ...
  • Coal miner ‘CARE Act’ introduced i ...
    Here’s the announcement just from from Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s office: On the heels of hearing gripping accounts last week in Beckley from retired coal miners who were promised lifetime pension and health care benefits for themselves and their families, Senator Jay Rockefeller today i ...
  • AP reports: Greenhouse gas levels up in 2012
    Here’s the latest, just out from Seth Borenstein at The Associated Press: New federal figures show the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air jumped dramatically in 2012, making it very unlikely that global warming can be limited to another 2 degrees. Many governments set a 2-de ...
  • Coal and the new Obama EPA/Energy team
    President Barack Obama announces in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2013, he will nominate, from left;  MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz for Energy Secretary; Gina McCarthy to head the EPA;  and Walmart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the Bu ...
  • Will facts matter in Legislature’s selen ...
    It’s always interesting to watch as the same old issues keep coming back before the West Virginia Legislature — especially when it’s the same old complaints from the state’s coal industry and the same old response from lawmakers. Take HB 2579 concerning water pollution li ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Embracing the Illusion of Free Will
    from maniacworld.com I am often asked how I square the circle of recognizing that free will doesn’t exist but still embracing the joys of life, celebrating achievements, etc. My usual response is to ask the person to remember what my (our) priority is: improving human happiness and reducin ...
  • Homebuilt Solar Death Ray
    Related Posts:On Failure and SuccessBike ParkourThe Onion Obliterates the “Idea Guy”Stellar Dance RoutineDinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About Obama
  • Funny Then Sad
    Related Posts:Mount Diablo and the MoonMount Diablo and the Moon IIOur Earth’s Timeline, Scaled to One YearNew Cisco Switch For the HouseHow the States Voted by Education
  • The Moral Market Fallacy
    Many conservatives and libertarians are deeply confused about the morality of markets. They view markets as pure and benign forces with the ability to grant moral righteousness to any behavior that comes from them. This is profoundly wrong. Markets, like gravity and inertia–are natura ...
  • Impostor syndrome – Wikipedia, the free ...
    The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not de ...

Fitwatch

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

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reference frame

  • 13 new periodic solutions to the 3-body problem
    The Science Magazine's news arm has noticed an interesting preprint by two physicists, Three Classes of Newtonian Three-Body Planar Periodic Orbits (by Milovan Šuvakov [student], Veljko Dmitrašinović [senior nuclear physicist] of Belgrade) They use topological and numerical methods to find t ...
  • Walter Kohn: 90th birthday
    On March 9th, we commemorate the death anniversary of Hans Christian Ørsted. But there is a happier anniversary today, too. Walter Kohn, a physicist who received the 1998 Nobel prize in chemistry along with John Pople, is turning 90. He gave the density functional theory to the chemists, hi ...
  • Science cannot answer moral questions II
    I wrote about the same topic three years ago and probably at many other places, too. However, Sean Carroll revived the topic again, Science, Morality, Possible Worlds, Scientism, and Ways of Knowing and because I still agree with him, let me review and add some relevant arguments. ...
  • ATLAS: 3-sigma excess of \(420\GeV\) type III ...
    I am carefully following all the new preprints by ATLAS and CMS that are currently being presented at the Moriond 2013 conference so that you don't have to. So far, everything is compatible with the Standard Model including the \(126\GeV\) Higgs boson and the latter beast is still behaving as ob ...
  • Reasons to be grateful to Václav Klaus
    After 10 years in office, Václav Klaus is leaving the Prague Castle, the traditional workplace of Czech kings and presidents, tonight. Tomorrow, the new president Miloš Zeman will be inaugurated. Throughout his presidential years, Klaus often enjoyed as high as 70% approval rate. However, t ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Manning critical of Conservatives who ‘cross t ...
    “Conservative organizations should be prepared to swiftly and publicly disassociate themselves from those individuals who cross the line,” Preston Manning told a group of conservatives gathered in Ottawa. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Conservatives edge NDP as Parlia ...
  • 7 foreign hostages killed in Nigeria
    The Italian foreign ministry says it has confirmed a Nigerian extremists’ claim that seven foreign hostages have been killed in Nigeria. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Algerian gas plant raid sparks confusion over hostages’ fate Islamist militants have told a Mauritan ...
  • Sierra Leone charges 29 officials over Gates F ...
    The head of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission says that 29 government health officials will appear in court on corruption charges for having allegedly defrauded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s vaccine program. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Bill Gates ...
  • 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. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: 1 million refugees have fled Syria, UN says The number of Syrians who have fled ...
  • Atlantis: Secret Star Mappers of A Lost World
    Lost Human History! Submerged Megalithic Sites! Ancient Advanced Technology! Scientists are now discovering at the bottom of the earth’s oceans stunning evidence of Atlantis that pre-dates the last ice age. Submerged megalithic sites have been discovered that may be the remains of the lost ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Acrobats take over Holmenkollen
    The best snowboarders in the world, along with thousands of children, were taking over winter sports areas around Holmenkollen this weekend, just days after the world’s best freestyle skiers moved on to Voss. The annual “Arctic Challenge” would see snowboarders flying off what ...
  • Church music draws crowds
    The churches of Oslo have been alive with the sound of music this week, thanks to the latest Oslo International Church Music Festival in the Norwegian capital. The churches more often are locked up and seem rather dead, in the midst of another registered decline in attendance at church services. ...
  • Röyksopp duo celebrated court victory
    The two musicians making up the electronica duo Röyksopp were celebrating their acquittal in a Bergen court this week on charges they’d neglected to share proper credit and compensation for a song on their best-selling “Melody A.M.” album. Former colleague Rune Lindbæk not only ...
  • More red ink at SAS
    Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), which announced the sale of its ground services division this week as part of a major cost-cutting effort, didn’t manage to head off more heavy losses in its own first quarter. The losses announced Friday, though, weren’t as bad as expected. SAS struck a ...
  • High costs won’t halt good times
    The average hourly wage costs of an industrial worker in Norway are now more than eight times that of a worker in Poland, according to a recent government report, and that’s added to fears that the country’s economic good times will soon stop rolling. Analysts at state statistics bur ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Seeking Support for Worthy African Participant ...
    Editor’s Note: As many of you know, we (the PRI) seek to spread permaculture take-up to all people everywhere, but a main focus, as we are able to finance it, is to help establish and support self-replicating permaculture demonstration/education sites in some of the world’s neediest ...
  • Ron Finley: A Guerilla Gardener in South Centr ...
    In this inspiring TED talk, Ron Finley teaches us all how to be ‘Gangster Gardeners’ and how to let your shovel be the weapon of choice. In his own words, "Growing your own food is like printing your own money". Let that be our new battle cry across the land. Ron and his ...
  • Hand Tools
    The use of small hand tools in farming can be found all over the world, however in the so-called ‘developed‘ world many of these tools, and the skills in how to use, maintain and repair them, have been lost, as people are increasingly ensnared in dependence on fossil fuel powered mac ...
  • PDC in Austria: May 9-20, 2013
    Bliss Permaculture is happy to announce that it is holding a Permaculture Design Certificate Course in the beautiful rolling foothills of the Austrian Alps in May 2013. In this PDC you will learn all the major topics of Bill Mollison’s A Designers’ Manual and you will be equipped wi ...
  • Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge: Report on Piped-W ...
    We are an eco-lodge and Permaculture training centre based in Konso, south Ethiopia. Water Source Our only current water source for potable water and garden irrigation is the Konso Town municipal supply, which is drawn from a bore-hole situated just across the road from our site entrance. The su ...

Pointman's

  • A species facing extinction.
    There are many reasons why a particular species may become extinct; a better adapted one elbows them out of their own ecological niche, the debilitating effect of a new disease they have no resistance against, over-predation or quite simply, their habitat disappearing completely. In general term ...
  • Sleeping with the enemy.
    Carbon is the Great Satan of the environmental movement. They all worry about their carbon footprint, want to impose carbon taxes on it and even have schemes to capture the poor thing and imprison it down holes in the ground. Oh the humanity. For such a supposedly caring bunch, they can be so cr ...
  • It’s 2.45 in the am and I’m reflecting on a lo ...
    I’m writing this up in real-time. There won’t be any rewrites, no polishes, no second thoughts. It’s all going to be first draft stream of consciousness stuff, whether either of us like it or not. If you’re sensitive about bad language, walk away right now because my emot ...
  • We’re going to have to do something about peer ...
    Not too many years ago, there were two researchers who discovered that stomach ulcers were not the result of a stressful lifestyle, but simply an infection. The idea that ulcers were related to a high stress lifestyle was so deeply embedded in the medical establishment psyche, they couldn’t get ...
  • The Breaking Point.
    If you play team sports, or even just watch them, there’s very often a moment in the struggle between the opposing teams, when one of them breaks. Sometimes it’s sparked by a single incident but more usually, it’s an acceptance by the whole group that they’re going to lose. The opposition are si ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Israeli Propaganda Event at UNO Fails Miserably
    On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli soldier spoke at an event at University of New Orleans to speak in support of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. According to reports from the event, the room was initially full. But, as the photo from the event shows, as soon as the soldier started spea ...
  • Amnesty International Urges State of Louisiana ...
    From an Amnesty International news release: Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty Interna ...
  • Angola Three Member Albert Woodfox Has Convict ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Today, February 26, District Court Judge Brady released a 34-page ruling that granted habeas to Albert Woodfox on the issue of racial discrimination in the selection of the grand jury foreperson for his 1998 retrial. This decision now overturns Albert’s convic ...
  • A Child On Death Row - The Story of Shareef Cousin
    From Resurrection After Exoneration: “I was a child. Death row didn’t affect me like it would now. Today, I’d go crazy!” On July 3, 1996, when Shareef Cousin was only seventeen years old, he became the youngest inmate on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As a matter of fa ...
  • What Do We Have Left?, By Oliver M.Thomas Jr.
     Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Mardi Gras are over.  Today we celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of  Lent where sinners take at least 40 days off to discipline their lives, give up worldly lusts and desires that control them most of the year, and make a pact with God ...

Information Underground

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TVNZ

environment 360

  • Largest U.S. Dam Removal Releases Huge Amount ...
    Scientists tracking the aftermath of the largest dam removal in U.S. history say the dismantling of a dam in northwestern Washington state has unleashed about 34 million cubic yards of sediment and debris that built up View gallery Tom Roorda A plume of sediment at the mouth of the Elwha Rive ...
  • Shale Gas Boom Drives Surge in Propane-Fueled ...
    The U.S. satellite TV provider DISH Network Corporation has announced it will introduce 200 propane-fueled vans to its fleet in 2013, another sign that propane, like natural gas, is offering an increasingly cost-effective transportation fuel alternative to gasoline and diesel. While there are al ...
  • Biodiversity in Logged Forests Far Higher Than ...
    New research shows that scientists have significantly overestimated the damage that logging in tropical forests has done to biodiversity, a finding that could change the way conservationists think about how best to preserve species in areas disturbed by humans. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Show Second-Lar ...
    The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by 2.67 parts per million in 2012, marking the second-biggest jump since levels were first recorded in 1959 and decreasing the chances that the planet will Wikimedia Commons avoid a dangerous temperature increase of 3.6 degrees F (2 C) or ...
  • Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Show Second-Lar ...
    The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by 2.67 parts per million in 2012, marking the second-biggest jump since levels were first recorded in 1959 and decreasing the chances that the planet will Wikimedia Commons avoid a dangerous temperature increase of 3.6 degrees F (2 C) or ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and G ...
  • Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company ...
    By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, ”His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and ...
  • Is Google making us less lituritt?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Today is Family Literacy Day in Canada, an initiative organized by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which encourages families to incorporate reading and other literacy-related activities into their daily routines. There’s no question that developing literacy in children i ...
  • Robocalls: Mr. Sona goes to Ottawa
    By Alison@Creekside Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph robocalls election fraud. Sona: “I contacted a few p ...
  • Argo: We’ve written ourselves out of history
    By Paul Mather Okay I never do this, but everybody else in the house is occupied and it’s too icy to jog (or at least that’s what I’m telling myself). So, I’ve poured a cup of coffee, and here’s a long post. I was reading today about Argo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a [...] Tags:   ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Women On Top, By The Numbers
    On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we ask: Are more women making it to the top in Canada? And what does that mean for the 100 per cent? The 2013 edition, by the numbers. (All data are most recently available statistics.) 1 out of 5: 21 per cent of the people in the top [...] Related ...
  • Why gender equality will make you rich and popular
    Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in–for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world in which you have secure, decent work in an economy that is growing ...
  • Boost the Minimum Wage, Boost the Economy, fro ...
    A version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. (This version includes references to the debate plus charts and graphs from data specially tabulated from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey. The data don’t include the self-employed.) President Obama put the idea ...
  • Parliamentary reform idea: Get out of the House
    By Seth Klein and Shannon Daub [Note: Samara Canada has been gathering ideas for reforming Parliament. All the ideas they have collected are being posted on their blog, which you can find here. What follows is our contribution.] Here’s the big dilemma: Whatever reforms are made to Parliamentary ...
  • Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 20 ...
    I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim of increasing tuition fees in Québec. I believe it was crucial when the proposal to hike fees was formally submitted in Raymond Bachand’s first budget, the Liberal ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Will Plans for Massive Tunnels to Pipe Norther ...
    “The oil industry, represented by Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and former Chair of the Marine Life Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Task Force for the South Coast, is pushing for increased “fracking” in California. Fra ...
  • Construction of Disputed Turkish Dam Continues
    “About 1,450 workers are laboring around the clock to complete the Ilisu Dam, one of the most controversial public works projects in recent history, by the middle of next year. That would be exactly five years after European lenders pulled out of the €1.1 billion, or $1.5 billion, project ...
  • Activism and the Nexus: Shaping Policy
    Retrieved from GRIID.org Activism & the Nexus: Shaping Policy by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbri ...
  • New Maps Provide Crucial Information For Water ...
    “For the first time, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have mapped long-term average evapotranspiration rates across the continental United States – a crucial tool for water managers and planners because of the huge role evapotranspiration plays in water availability. “Why are evapot ...
  • Parting the Radioactive Water: Can the Nexus G ...
      Parting the Radioactive Water: Can the Nexus Guide Us Through Our Nuclear Legacy? by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the Universit ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • GOING TO WAR OVER WATER
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  • You mean you are not able for yourself to con ...
    You mean you are not able for yourself to connect the dot$ Robert Reich | Why There’s a Bull Market for Stocks and Bear Market for Workers Read the Article at Robert Reich’s Blog ….http://robertreich.org/post/44639598939 Filed under: Blogroll
  • “The jaws of power are always open to devour, ...
    … If you choose to adhere to a belief of command and control … do as I/we say, not as we do … then likely you find comfort in the attached letter to the editor … … Should your expectation about religious leadership follow other persuasions likely the tone of this at ...
  • NOT THE WORST OF TIMES
    … NOT THE WORST OF TIMES ... U.S. Added 236,000 Jobs in February; Unemployment Falls to 7.7% The American economy added 236,000 jobs in February as the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest level in more than four years, the Labor Department reported Friday. Economists had been ...
  • Could it be … that was how America’s fr ...
    … Could it be … that was how America’s freely owned corporate press chose to disclose him to Americans …   If Hugo Chavez Was a Dictator, Why Was He Loved by Millions of People? Read the article at BuzzFlash   When millions of Venezuelans and South Americans sadly pay homa ...

Popular Technology

  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • 2016: Obama's America
    2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Forests under fire: Australia’s imperile ...
    In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and faun ...
  • Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
    Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...
  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...
  • Asiatic cheetahs: on the road to extinction?
    Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are unique among large cats. They have a highly specialized body, a mild temperament, and are the fastest living animals on land. Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, the Asiatic subspecies, is unique among cheetahs and the only member of five currently living subspecies to oc ...
  • Warlords, sorcery, and wildlife: an environmen ...
    Last year, Roger Peet, an American artist, traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to visit one of the world's most remote and wild forests. Peet spent three months in a region that is largely unknown to the outside world, but where a group of conservationists, headed by Terese and Jo ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Researchers: Stonehenge started as huge graveyard
    British researchers have proposed a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge: It may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families around 3,000 BC.New studies of cremated human remains excavated from the site suggest...
  • Dung beetles to be released in NZ to eat cow pats
    At a secret location just north of Auckland, an experiment has started which might alter the face of New Zealand's $12 billion dairy industry.In a collection of blue plastic containers, imported insects are chewing their way through...
  • Fears new beetles will spread diseases
    The planned release of vast numbers of imported dung beetles could spread nasty gut diseases, Auckland's top public health doctor has warned.Dr Denise Barnfather made her views known in confidential advice sent last year to Landcare,...
  • Bees get a buzz of caffeine too
    Turns out that bees, too, get a buzz off caffeine.It boosts their memory and makes them better pollinators, according to a study published in the journal, Science .Honeybees fed a sugar solution containing caffeine, which exists...
  • Physicists on Higgs hunt: Nearly there but not yet
    Physicists in Italy said Wednesday they are achingly close to concluding that what they found last year was the Higgs boson, the elusive "God particle." They need to eliminate one last remote possibility that it's something else.The...

The Bovine

  • Ron Paul and “Milk War” movie at M ...
    Here’s wheat they say about US Senator Ron Paul, who is speaking at the MNC conference in Ottawa this week: “Ron Paul was a Republican primary candidate in the last US election, where he built a huge following among young … Continue reading →
  • Where to find more raw milk news
    If you’re looking to keep tabs on what’s going down in the world of raw milk, you need to read more than just The Bovine, where we try to focus on the Canadian scene, and in particular, the Michael Schmidt … Continue reading →
  • Studies show kids who drink raw milk have a hi ...
    From Sarah at the Healthy Home Economist: “The Hygiene Hypothesis states that when children lack early exposure to infectious agents, parasites, and symbiotic microorganisms like normal gut flora such as would naturally occur in a rural or farm environment, they are much more likely &#8230 ...
  • Biodynamic farming, and a new doc on “Th ...
    Although the above film clip is specifically about Biodynamic farming, the 3 hour documentary it’s part of, is about the life and work of Rudolf Steiner as a whole. Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt farms biodynamically. Although Rudolf Steiner never … Continue reading →
  • CFIA changes the status of a reportable diseas ...
    From Karen Selick, on The Justice Report: “Montana Jones today brought to my attention an interesting article (“CFIA to give up on wiping out anaplasmosis”) published at Grainews.ca, a website that provides daily news on agriculture topics to Canadians.  Here’s the … Continue r ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • France Postpones Austerity and Deficit Targets ...
    The following Eurostat chart shows that government spending in France accounting for close to 56% of GDP. click on chart for sharper image The above chart shows it's silly to propose France has been involved in any sort of genuine austerity program, yet that is precisely what th ...
  • Investigating Obama's Claim That Sequester Cut ...
    Check out this interesting video that dispels Obama hype that sequester cuts will reduce the number of vaccinations for kids. The Blaze has a transcript in its report GOP Congressman Makes CDC Director Squirm After Confronting Him on Children’s Vaccine Cuts. Mike "Mish" Shedlock ...
  • Not Enough Fingers to Contain the Leak in the Dyke
    As I have repeatedly stated "Eventually, Will Come a Time When .... "a populist office-seeker will stand before the voters, hold up a copy of the EU treaty and (correctly) declare all the "bail out" debt foisted on their country to be null and void. That person will be elected." Predicting ...
  • 15 Year Old Kid Develops Foolproof Test for Pa ...
    Here's an inspiring story for the weekend. Jack Andraka, a fifteen year old freshman in high school, developed a paper sensor that could detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer in five minutes for as little as 3 cents. He conducted his research at John Hopkins University. Jack got the i ...
  • Spoiling the "Great Employment News"
    This article originally appeared on MarketWatch under the title Jobs numbers are far worse than they look. I selected my title from a humorous comment on MarketWatch by reader "Homer Price" who writes "Mike, What are you doing ? Trying to spoil the GREAT EMPLOYMENT news. Just wait until ne ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Guardian Exposes West-Jordan-Syria Axis … But ...
    Syria and Censorship a la Mainstream-Quasi Alternative Media The following headline news was reported by Guardian-UK on Friday, and has been picked up and circulated by other mainstream and alternatives alike since: West training Syrian rebels in Jordan Western training of Syrian rebels is under ...
  • 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 ...
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    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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Tension persists in Egypt
    Situation in Egypt remains tense after violent clashes between police and protesters over a controversial court ruling on 2012 soccer riot in the North African country.
  • ‘India gang-rape main accused kills self’
    The main accused in India’s gang-rape case has committed suicide in jail, state media reports.
  • Teen shot to death by NYC officers
    Two New York City officers in plain clothes have shot to death a teenager in Brooklyn, saying they took the action after the boy acted suspiciously.
  • ‘Aafia supporters hold protest march’
    Hundreds of people held a protest march in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to demand the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is imprisoned in the United States, Press TV reports.
  • Strong quake hits Papua New Guinea
    A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea, but there have been no immediate reports of damage or casualties and no tsunami warning has been issued.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Mice given human cells get brain boost
    Mice given grafts of human brain cells showed enhanced cognitive abilities that could explain what underpins the evolution of human intelligence. What's surprising about this study is that the cell...
  • Flame retardant DNA
    A new type of flame-retardant coating for textiles has been developed from a most unlikely source. Researchers from Italy have used DNA, extracted from herring sperm, to fireproof samples of cotton, a...
  • Global Temperature Hitting New Heights
    Some of the clearest evidence we have of climate change is the dramatic rise in global atmospheric temperature in recent decades. Reliable temperature records go back to around 1850, but to assess whe...
  • Bees get buzz from plant caffeine
    Coffee and citrus plants lace their nectar with caffeine to boost bee pollination rates, new research has revealed. Plants make alkaloid chemicals like caffeine as a means of chemical defense, becau...
  • Deep Brain Stimulation in Anorexia
    Anorexia Nervosa is a very serious condition that leads people to refuse to eat, or to binge and purge. They are unable to maintain a healthy weight, and this can lead to severe complications, and eve...

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 10 years later, Blix warns against repeating ...
    Summary: DUBAI: Ten years after the US-led invasion on Iraq, ex-UN inspector Hans Blix has urged world powers to avoid committing the same error by going to war against Iran based on fears it is developing nuclear weapons. source: Daily Starread more
  • Iran and the United States—What Really Matters ...
    Summary: Addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference in Washington on Monday, Vice President Biden claimed that Iran is on the defensive in its own neighborhood: "When we came to office...Iran was on the ascendancy in the region. It is no longer on the ascendan ...
  • Iranian president will attend Chavez funeral c ...
    Summary: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected in Caracas early Friday on time to pay tribute to his late Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, who died earlier this week after a two-year battle with cancer. Ahmadinejad left Tehran for Caracas on Thursday. source: Merco Pressrea ...
  • UN Official Hans Blix: Iran Nuke Threat is Ove ...
    Summary: The threat from Iran is overhyped and there is no evidence to suggest the Islamic Republic is even interested in developing nuclear weapons, according to UN official Hans Blix. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • World powers must cut a deal with Iran before ...
    Summary: Having hobbled Iran’s economy, the P5+1 believe they are negotiating from a position of power. But this attitude could be dangerously delusional and may backfire. A deal is needed to address the top concerns on both sides. source: Christian Science Monitorread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Methuselah Star" --New Hubble Data Says I ...
                     "We have found that this is the oldest known star with a well-determined age," said Howard Bond of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa., and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. The star could be as old as 14.5 billion years (plus o ...
  • Image of the Day: A Cosmic Waterfall
                   The image above is a three-color composite of the young object Herbig-Haro 34 (HH-34) in the protostar stage of evolution. This object has a remarkable, very complicated appearance that includes two opposite jets that ram into the surrounding interstellar matter. This str ...
  • Elliptical Galaxy Harbors a Mystery Supernova ...
                     The football-shaped elliptical galaxy near the center of this image hosted a surprising supernova last year. PS1-12sk, the yellow dot at image center, is classified as a very rare Type Ibn supernova - only the sixth such example found out of thousands of supernovae. A ...
  • Last Close Cassini Flyby of Saturn's Moon Rhea
                     NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's heavily-cratered moon, Rhea, on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea to probe the internal structure of the moon by measuring the gravitational pull of Rhea against the spacecraft's steady radio l ...
  • "Unidentified Bacterial Life Discovered in Ant ...
                 Antarctica's vast Lake Vostok has been discovered to contain life at least one form of life not found elsewhere on Earth, Russian scientists announced this week. Preliminary analysis of water samples collected from the lake revealed a species of bacteria not belonging to an ...

Natural News

  • TSA confession describes security screenings a ...
    Last week, an undercover TSA inspector managed to quite easily sneak a mock explosive device through airport security and onto an airplane. He simply stuffed the fake bomb down his pants and went right through the screenings, including a pat-down. Out of several covert...
  • Know what's In your food (opinion)
    For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking, that maybe I'm not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So, I've put together what might be a one-stop shopping guide to understanding...
  • EU approves funding to build a robotic brain
    The European Union has approved funding for a project designed to build a robotic brain, the first stepping stone toward constructing robotic humans (androids). "Robots will challenge the way we feel about machines in general," said robotics researcher Danica Kragic...
  • Is folic acid or folate a key element to avoid ...
    A new study, called the Autism Birth Cohort Study, that followed 85,176 babies born in the six years between 2002 and 2008, sought to determine if folic acid intake made a difference in risk factors relating to the development of autism spectrum disorders. The study...
  • CoQ-10 treats diabetic neuropathy
    The marvels of CoQ-10 continue to be discovered by actual mainstream medical research. Of course, this type of research doesn't get the media hype that Big Pharma's "miracle medicines" do. Thank goodness for the internet. Two separate, recent studies on CoQ-10 were...

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Nullifies Border Agents’ Carte B ...
    federal appeals court for the first time ruled U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche power to inspect gadgets of travelers entering the country, a "watershed" decision in the court's own terms and one at odds with the ...
  • TSA OKs Hockey Sticks Aboard Flights, Bats Rem ...
    Apparently, John S. Pistole, the Transportation Security Administration administrator, has never been to a hockey game. How else to explain the move, beginning April 25, to allow U.S. airline passengers to carry on hockey sticks in their bags? Or, maybe ...
  • Feds Demand Dismissal of Dragnet-Surveillance ...
    Citing week-old Supreme Court precedent, the President Barack Obama administration told a federal judge Wednesday that it should quash a federal lawsuit accusing the government of secretly siphoning Americans' electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants.
  • Attorney General: Aaron Swartz Case Was a ‘Goo ...
    Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the suicide death of internet activist Aaron Swartz was a "tragedy" but the hacking case against the 26-year-old was "a good use of prosecutorial discretion."
  • Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some ...
    The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant's customers. That's why it is unlawful for any record-keeper to ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • John Cornyn Becomes Rand Paul's Strangest Bedf ...
    Republican Senator Rand Paul's 13 hour filibuster this week produced no shortage of spectacle--and irony. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, one of the few Democratic voices questioning the secrecy and legal basis surrounding President Obama's policy of drone strikes against U.S. citizens engaged in te ...
  • Will Republicans Finally Support a War Tax?
    Now that the March 1 sequester deadline has come and gone, some Republicans are getting squeamish about the $43 billion in cuts to the Pentagon budget this fiscal year. In the House, GOP leaders have proposed a new spending plan restoring some of the defense spending. Meanwhile in the Senate, ...
  • Boehner Claims He Doesn't Know if Sequester Wi ...
    As the deadline for the March 1 budget sequester approached, John Boehner made a surprising admission. Asked if he had "a sense of how many jobs will be lost as a result of the sequester," the Speaker of the House said, "I do not." On Sunday, Boehner once again proclaimed his ignorance in an i ...
  • Romney Was AWOL on Sequester Deal He Now Criti ...
    History will record that Mitt Romney was a pimple on the ass of American politics: painful while here and forgotten once gone. Now the pustule has resurfaced. As part of his brief "Thank You Tour," Romney is using appearance on Fox News Sunday to attack President Obama for "berating Republican ...
  • Bipartisan Resolution Calls for U.S. to Suppor ...
    Among the ideas most thoroughly discredited by the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the notion of "preventive war" to avert supposed future threats. Now, as the nation approaches the 10th anniversary of that disaster, a bipartisan group of legislators isn't just seeking to commit the United States to ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Researchers Propose New Quantum Computation Mo ...
    Quantum computing (QC) — though mostly theoretical at present — is widely held to be the future of computing. A viable quantum computer would enable not just more and faster calculations, it would also make possible new types of calculations that current, binary bit-based computers a ...
  • Industrial Chemicals Present In Many Foods Wit ...
    Notable levels of phthalates and other industrial chemicals are present in many foods commonly eaten within the United States, new research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has found. Phthalates are synthetic compounds that are used as plasticizers, to mak ...
  • Dust Mite Ancestors Evolved From Free-Living A ...
    It has been a popular assumption in evolutionary biology that when an organism develops very highly specialized traits that it cannot return to the lifestyle that its predeccessors lived. But newly released research on the evolutionary path of dust mites is offering a strong argument against tha ...
  • Huge Solar Flare And CME Eruption, Mars Rover ...
    A large solar flare erupted from the Sun on March 5th, accompanied by a large CME. As a result NASA decided to temporarily power down their Mars rover Curiosity, in order to help protect it from the blast. Curiosity has already been dealing with a computer glitch and subsequent switch to a backu ...
  • Mass Extinction Of Lizards In The Near Future ...
    A mass extinction of lizard species is a real possibility in coming decades as a result of climate change, new research from the University of Lincoln has found. Certain lizard species have taken a one-directional evolutionary path that involves them giving live birth rather than laying eggs, th ...

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Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Regaining House Key to Obama Second Term
    By @TedFrier The die for the past five years of confounding stalemates with Republicans over debt ceilings and budget sequesters may have been cast five days before President Obama even took office when then President-elect Obama announced he would sponsor a "White House Fiscal Responsibility Su ...
  • Inside the Christian Fundamentalist Bubble
    By @TedFrier A recent debate at the University of Idaho between Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan (who is gay) and Christian fundamentalist Douglas Wilson over the question of whether civil marriage equality was good or bad for society as a whole, illustrates my claim that the real "clash of ...
  • We Didn't Win The House So Now We Have To Kiss ...
    By @TomBales1 Last night I heard something that quite frankly I find amazing and it's been a while since anything political could amaze me.  For a while now I've been wondering why one of the shining lights of the Progressive movement on Twitter was so hell bent on selling his followers on ...
  • Hartzler's Deception
  • MSM's "Warped Prism" on Bipartisanship
    By @TedFrier Thank you Eric Boehlert. The Media Matters for America Senior Fellow today provides a short history today on "how the 'liberal media' keep blaming Obama For Republican behavior." It is interesting that Boehlert's story begins early, in February 2009, just a few weeks after President ...

Care 2

  • CITES: Elephant Discussions
    This is a brief overview, and translated for CITES WATCH by Jude Price from www.elephantectivsm.org for the original document from which this information was prepared go to: http://www.iisd.ca/vol21/enb2178e.html Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!   ...
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Department About to Deci ...
    The walrus is one of hundreds of animal genre that have been waiting for as long as two decades to be officially added, even though scientists have generally agreed that their numbers are dwindling and that they should be on the list. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |  & ...
  • Knife In Walmart Cake: Cayden Bibeau, 2, Finds ...
    Cayden Bibeau, 2, was either shocked or psyched when he found a paring knife embedded in his Elmo-themed birthday cake over the weekend, but his father was not pleased. Nathan Bibeau told Submitted by Agnes N. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Whole Foods GMO Labeling To Be Mandatory By 2018
    Whole Foods has announced that by 2018, all products in U.S. and Canada stores must be labeled if they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This is the first national grocery store to set a deadline from GMO labeling. Submitted by Diane K. to Green Lifestyle  |  &n ...
  • Japanese scientists create 581 copies of the s ...
    Scientists in Japan have created nearly 600 exact genetic copies of one mouse after 25 rounds of cloning. The perfectly cloned mice could pave the way for milk and meat from 'super' animals created in the lab, scientists say. Submitted by Agnes N. to Science & Tech  |   N ...

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Do You Know Margaret Sanger?
    Do you get misty eyed while touting the benefits of Planned Parenthood? Have you met or read some of the ravings of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger? Let me introduce you. She wrote a “interesting” piece almost 100 years ago-Birth Control and Racial Betterment. Why ...
  • Crash Test Dummy on the Third Amendment
    Great piece. Take time to listen. It is worth your while. This is consistent with my prior postings here. The Second Amendment is not about recreational shooting. It is a reminder that power, which comes from the end of the gun as Mao correctly observed, remains in the hands of the citizens of t ...
  • Rand Paul Draws Blood and Scares the Shit Out ...
    The warmongering chicken hawks that led us into an unnecessary war in Iraq are nervous as a long tailed cat in a room of rocking chairs filled with five year old boys. Their tails are getting squashed and Rand Paul is doing the damage. My proof? Consider the following. The Washington Post editor ...
  • John McCain, Go To Hell
    McCain, in a period of 24 hours, has eroded whatever goodwill and benefit of the doubt most Americans felt for the former prisoner of war. I even supported the crank for President back in 2008 and am now quite happy that he got his ass kicked. McCain’s failure to grasp the basic, simple po ...
  • Lindsey Graham and John McCain, Come Out of th ...
    And to think I once imagined that Lindsey Graham was straight, at least when it came to being a conservative who believes in limited Government. Nope. He is a closet authoritarian dressed in drag as a “conservative.” Confronted with the choice of defending the Constitution, which sti ...

Futurismic

  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Report: Ashley Judd set to run against Mitch M ...
    U.S. News & World Report Report: Ashley Judd set to run against Mitch McConnell MSNBC Judd has also lobbied against coal mountain-top removal, a major industry in the state that employs thousands of residents. Analysts said Judd's background will make it easy for McConnell to paint her as a ...
  • WVU Sierra Student Coalition Hosts 'Eco-Summit ...
    WVU Sierra Student Coalition Hosts 'Eco-Summit 2013' WBOY-TV Guests discussed everything from mountain top removal to shifting campus food purchases to be more local and sustainable. "I think it's just really neat to find out all of these different issues and more about them,&qu ...
  • Ashley Judd Senate Run: Actress, Activist Plan ...
    U.S. News & World Report Ashley Judd Senate Run: Actress, Activist Planning To Declare Candidacy ... Huffington Post Being an “environmentalist” in Kentucky is a tricky matter. Among other things, Judd is a foe of “mountain-top removal” in strip mining, a hideous practice but nevertheless one th ...
  • Fantasyland, West Virginia - Martinsburg Journal
    WCHS-TV8 Fantasyland, West Virginia Martinsburg Journal Meanwhile, there is abundant data showing that massive miner job losses have resulted from automation, the increased use of strip mining and mountaintop removal, and, most recently, the emergence of inexpensive natural gas as a competitor t ...
  • Walker to sign mining bill Monday - Leader-Tel ...
    Walker to sign mining bill Monday Leader-Telegram As proposed, this mine would be the largest mountain-top removal taconite mine in the world. It would require the "removal" of millions of tons of waste rock overlying the "ore body." Think in terms of megatons of dynamite bla ...

Memeorandum

  • The five biggest lies about entitlement progra ...
    Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times: The five biggest lies about entitlement programs  —  Social Security and Medicare are big issues, and not everyone is telling the truth about them.  —  Social Security foes are lying when they say a significant portion of bene ...
  • Afghan president accuses U.S., Taliban of coll ...
    Associated Press: Afghan president accuses U.S., Taliban of collusion  —  Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave — an allegation the top Ameri ...
  • TIMELINE: How Jeb Bush Pulled A 360 On Immigra ...
    Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo: TIMELINE: How Jeb Bush Pulled A 360 On Immigration Reform  —  Jeb Bush completed a whirlwind one-week journey on immigration on Sunday, praising a Senate proposal to grant eventual citizenship for undocumented immigrants after attacking the id ...
  • Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the jo ...
    New York Post: Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe  —  It is perhaps America's most unsafe airport.  Despite being the launching point for one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — ...
  • 'Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act' proposed in M ...
    Eric Owens / The Daily Caller: ‘Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act’ proposed in Maryland  —  A Maryland state senator has crafted a bill to curb the zeal of public school officials who are tempted to suspend students as young as kindergarten for having things — or ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • 中国环保十&#2418 ...
    马上要换届的中央政府过去10年在环保方面的作为，可分为两个阶段：前五年狂飚突&#3682 ...
  • 中国加快西&#3425 ...
    气候变化和过度放牧正损害着西藏的自然环境，科学家和政府官员们都在努力保护地 ...
  • 中国加快西&#3425 ...
    气候变化和过度放牧正损害着西藏的自然环境，科学家和政府官员们都在努力保护地 ...
  • 中加石油交&#2613 ...
    中国数十亿美元的尼克森能源公司收购案遭遇了加拿大国内边缘排外主义的反对。然 ...
  • 中国：十年&#2844 ...
    十多年来，中国科学界对地下水污染防治的呼吁从未停止，但最终成为政策的有效行 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Disturbing History of One of the Pentagon' ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.When I was a kid obsessed with military aircraft, I loved Chicago's O'Hare airport.  If I was lucky and scored a window seat, I might get to see a line of C-130 Herc ...
  • Can Men Be Taught Not to Rape?
    If you want to know why we need to educate men not to be sexually aggressive, look no further than what happened when Zerlina Maxwell went on television to say that we need to educate men how not to be sexually aggressive.Maxwell was on Fox’s “Hannity” this week to discuss ...
  • America Is Plagued by Zombie “Experts” Who Are ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.We don’t get it.  We really don’t.  We may not, in military terms, know how to win any more, but as a society we don’t get losing either.&# ...
  • Booty Call in China, Made Easy
    At a panel on mobile gaming in China, the panelists were asked near the end of the session their suggestions for the most popular non-game apps. Much mention was made of WeChat, a superpowered chat platform that apparently can do everything except slice bread.Henry Fong, the exceedingly well- ...
  • Famed Watergate Reporter Is Losing His Marbles ...
    Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work.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 ...

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Nullifies Border Agents’ Carte B ...
    federal appeals court for the first time ruled U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche power to inspect gadgets of travelers entering the country, a "watershed" decision in the court's own terms and one at odds with the ...
  • TSA OKs Hockey Sticks Aboard Flights, Bats Rem ...
    Apparently, John S. Pistole, the Transportation Security Administration administrator, has never been to a hockey game. How else to explain the move, beginning April 25, to allow U.S. airline passengers to carry on hockey sticks in their bags? Or, maybe ...
  • Feds Demand Dismissal of Dragnet-Surveillance ...
    Citing week-old Supreme Court precedent, the President Barack Obama administration told a federal judge Wednesday that it should quash a federal lawsuit accusing the government of secretly siphoning Americans' electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants.
  • Attorney General: Aaron Swartz Case Was a ‘Goo ...
    Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the suicide death of internet activist Aaron Swartz was a "tragedy" but the hacking case against the 26-year-old was "a good use of prosecutorial discretion."
  • Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some ...
    The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant's customers. That's why it is unlawful for any record-keeper to ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Why is food still making us sick in the 21st c ...
    I’m off to Boston the week to the Association of Health Care Journalists Conference.  I will be on a panel with the following exploring – Why is food still making... Continue Reading
  • Ambassel Shuttered After Being Linked to Seatt ...
    Ambassel, an Ethiopian restaurant in Seattle on Jefferson and Twelfth,  has been shut down by the Seattle King County Department of Health for these violations: • Foods not protected from... Continue Reading
  • Foster Farms Chicken Positive for Salmonella H ...
    Oregon and Washington have identified Foster Farms brand chicken as the most likely source of the infections in their states.  Testing conducted by the Washington State Public Health Laboratories identified... Continue Reading
  • 24 with Campylobacter from Raw Milk in Alaska
    Matthew Smith of KTVA 11 News reports that Alaska State health officials report a total of 24 people have fallen ill, two of whom were hospitalized, after drinking tainted raw... Continue Reading
  • Secondary E. coli Cases Can Kill
    In early May 2009, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) identified a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections.  See Email re: Cuyahoga County E. coli, PulseNet Cluster 0905HE…, Attachment No. 1. ... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...
  • Geneva: Mitsubishi debuts Concept CA-MiEV, a n ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi is stretching the electric jellybean. For years, the i-MiEV was regular presence at Mitsubishi's auto show booths around the world, and the car rightfully earned its nickname because of its rounded shape. ...
  • Video: Toyota sizzle reel gives better look at ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Toyota, Design/Style, Electric Toyota is taking the tiny tandem Tango to Tron town. In a teaser video for the new i-Road, debuting at the Geneva Motor Show next week, we catch a light-bike-like glimpse of Toyota's quirky tandem-seat concept. We still don't know much ...
  • Official: Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing de ...
    Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Take the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, stretch it and take off the wheels then make it float and you've basically got the just-unveiled Cigarette AMG Electric Drive Concept. Powered by an all-electric powertrain that offers 2,2 ...

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Invisible Opportunity

  • Russian Leader Demands Investigation of Chavez ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 6, 2013 Russian Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov today demanded an international investigation into the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, claiming it was “far from a coincidence” that six leaders of Latin-American countries who had criticized the U.S. s ...
  • PressTV – Chavez: Another CIA assassinat ...
    by Kevin Barrett The Venezuelan president himself, before he died yesterday, wondered aloud whether the US government – or the banksters who own it – gave him, and its other leading Latin American enemies, cancer. A little over a year ago, Chavez went on Venezuelan national radio and ...
  • who killed hugo chavez – and why?
    By Greg Palast For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today. As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, is offering the film, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, as a FREE download. Based on m ...
  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | Looking out for ...
    By Visible This is a time of great trial and turbulence. Dark doings are percolating beneath the false front of the unreal that overlays what is actually taking place. The unmitigated greed that permeates every level of our society and infrastructure, is a rank testimony to the schweinhunden and ...
  • TEDxYYC – Kirk Sorensen – Thorium ...
    TEDxYYC – Kirk Sorensen – Thorium – YouTube.

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Look at the jobs report to see how America has ...
    Summary: The news media coverage has expanded during the past 20 years, but probably only giving more heat than light. Hence the frequent assertions during 2010-2011 (eg, seen in the comments on the FM website) that we were in a recession — or even a depression. On the other end of the daf ...
  • Orson Scott Card and the Dark Side of “E ...
    Orson Scott Card has become the latest icon in the culture war.  DC hired Card to write Superman comics. The Left protested Card’s right-wing views (especially his anti-gay stance). DC fired Card. Conservatives protest this economic sanction due to non-job-related personal opinions (like S ...
  • Did the US fall into recession during 2012? Ar ...
    Summary:  In September 2011 the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) made a bold forecast of a recession in 2012 for the US economy, unlike the late 2012 boom expected by most economists. The boom never arrived, but perhaps neither did the recession. Today ECRI updates their forecast. Much d ...
  • Look at America’s grand strategy. Why do ...
    Summary: A nation’s grand strategy can make the difference between victory and defeat, prosperity and poverty. Two recent articles about grand strategy have gotten attention, written by an expert in a major periodical — on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, on the eve of our ...
  • Realism about the prospects for reform in America
    Summary: Yesterday we looked at the evolution of American, and what’s coming. Today we consider what that means for those working to reform America: abandon vain hopes, regroup, lay the foundation for later victories. A bleak prospect, but important to understand. The “Correlation of ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Cosmic Fire
    Located 9,000 light-years away, NGC 3576 is a gigantic region of glowing gas about 100 light-years across, where stars are currently forming. The intense radiation and winds from the massive stars are shredding the clouds from which they form, creating ...
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Obama’s ‘Kill List’ Grows
    We are now witnessing the expansion of Obama’s “kill list.” The list began under the Bush regime as a rationale for murdering suspect citizens of countries with which the United States was not at war. The Obama regime expanded the scope of the list to include the execution, without due process o ...
  • Video: Intel Analyst Describes NWO Takeover Of ...
    EX INTELLIGENCE AGENT TELLS OF NWO PLAN ETC. PEOPLE STILL WHO DONT THINK THIS IS REALLY ABOUT TO HAPPEN PLEASE WATCH IT!!!!!. WHEN PEOPLE LIKE THIS COME OUT AT GREAT RISK TO THEMSELVES, ITS TIME TO PLAN FOR IT THE NWO AND THE FIGHT TO TAKE THIS WORLD BACK, EVEN IF ITS JUST
  • The calm before the solar storm? NASA warns ‘s ...
    'Something unexpected' is happening on the Sun, Nasa has warned. This year was supposed to be the year of 'solar maximum,' the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But as this image reveals, solar activity is relatively low. 'Sunspot numbers are well below their values from 2011, and str ...
  • Bee Venom Kills HIV: Nanoparticles Carrying To ...
    A new study has shown that bee venom can kill the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have demonstrated that a toxin called melittin found in bee venom can destroy HIV by poking holes in the envelope surrounding the virus, a ...
  • Only two papal candidates ‘clean’ of sex abuse ...
    Only two of the dozen cardinals in the running to become the next Pope are "clean" in terms of their handling of scandals involving sexually abusive priests, a prominent association of victims of clergy sex abuse said on Thursday. The damning indictment came as it was claimed that there were ...

Andy Worthington

  • A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
    When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government says it doesn’t exist. At Guantánamo, reports first began to emerge on February 23 about a camp-wide hunger strike, of a scale not seen since before Barack Obama became President. On the “Free Fayiz and Fawz ...
  • Night Lights: Photos of a Journey from Camberw ...
    Night Lights: Camberwell to New Cross at Night, a set on Flickr. This photo set is the 83rd in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, and after my recent publication of a series of photo sets from last July, featuring a journey through the East [...]
  • Government Climbdown Over Plans for Enforced N ...
    Life under the Tories is so miserable, and the assaults on the very fabric of British life so unrelenting, that it’s rare for a ray of sunlight to shine through. Yesterday, however, NHS campaigners secured victory in a campaign to prevent the stealthy passage of legislation designed to enf ...
  • Photos of Poplar Dock, Canary Wharf and Greenw ...
    Poplar Dock, Canary Wharf and Greenwich on the Eve of the Olympics, a set on Flickr. This photo set is the 82nd in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, and is the last of five sets taken on July 25 last year, a wonderful sunny [...]
  • Save Lewisham Hospital: Legal Challenge Goes A ...
    Please support the “Born in Lewisham Hospital” event on Saturday March 16, and, if you can, contribute to Lewisham Council’s Legal Challenge Fund to pay for the Judicial Review that has just been launched, to prove that the plans to close Lewisham Hospital’s A&E Depar ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Thousands Protest in 60 Cities Across Spain fo ...
    A man holds a poster depicting a picture of Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy , March 10, 201 in Barcelona (AFP Photo / Lluis Gene)Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to streets across Spain on Sunday, marching in roughly 60 cities to protest unemployment rates, which continue to break re ...
  • Hagel Off to Rocky Start in War-Torn Afghanistan
    Recently confirmed US defense secretary Chuck Hagel got off to a rocky start this weekend with his first trip to Afghanistan since his nomination. read more
  • Rights Groups: New York Times Exposé a 'One-Si ...
    A Sunday edition New York Times article which traces the origins of drone strikes on three U.S. citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan, and al-Awlaki's sixteen year old son Abdulrahman, presents itself as a fair and balanced narrative, but actually serves as an overall "one-sided, select ...
  • ‘Every Day Is a Fukushima Memorial’
    Japan prepares to mark the second anniversary of the Mar. 11 triple disaster – an earthquake, tsunami and a critical nuclear reactor accident – with much soul searching across the country. For Yukiko Takada from Otsuki-cho, a scenic fishing town in Iwate prefecture that was turned in ...
  • 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. ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • PUC gets up-close look at water treatment plan ...
    WOONSOCKET – As the cascade of frothy water gushed through a concrete sluice en-route to the Blackstone River, it looked as pristine as a waterfall in the Rocky Mountains.
  • Allentown City Council rejects another attempt ...
    Another attempt to empower Allentown voters to decide the city’s planned 50-year lease of its water and sewer systems went nowhere at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting. City resident William Hoffman asked council to pass an ordinance that would require any lease of the water /sewer faciliti ...
  • Baciwa union scores privatization
    MEMBERS and officers of the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) labor union are demanding from the board that they revoke a resolution giving way to privatization of the repair of the water pipelines and Non-Revenue Water through a new loan pegged at P400 million.
  • Whitehall to again consider opposing Allentown ...
    The Whitehall Township Commissioners plan to again consider a resolution opposing the proposed lease of the Allentown water and sewer operations, one month after rejecting the idea because it didn't want to tell the city how to run its business.
  • Baciwa union scores privatization
    MEMBERS and officers of the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) labor union are demanding from the board that they revoke a resolution giving way to privatization of the repair of the water pipelines and Non-Revenue Water through a new loan pegged at P400 million. Union president Claudio Salmo ...

Guardian

  • Venezuela's opposition leader joins presidenti ...
    Henrique Capriles, who lost to Hugo Chávez in October, confirms he will face acting president Nicolás MaduroVenezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Sunday that he will challenge the late Hugo Chávez's preferred successor for the presidency next month, setting the stage for a bitte ...
  • Ashes of Charlotte Gray heroine scattered in F ...
    Village honours Nancy Wake, Australian woman who worked with French resistance to attack NazisThe ashes of an Australian second world war spy who was the inspiration for the book and film, Charlotte Gray, have been scattered at a ceremony in France.Nancy Wake requested that her ashes be scattere ...
  • New wave of 'superbugs' poses dire threat, say ...
    Warning over rising death toll as antibiotics fail to tackle rising incidence of 'gram negative' bacterial diseasesAntibiotic-resistant bacteria with the potential to cause untreatable infections pose "a catastrophic threat" to the population, the chief medical officer warns in a report calling ...
  • Indian coal power plants 'kill 120,000 people ...
    Environmental group's report on pollution in the country warns emissions may cause 20m new asthma cases a yearIndia's breakneck pace of industrialisation is causing a public health crisis with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20m new asthma cases a year due to air pollution from coal power plants ...
  • Papal candidates woo Rome's worshippers before ...
    Jokes and prayers from cardinals at city churches as Vatican installs chimney on Sistine chapel roofIt was a mass with a difference. For one thing, there were more worshippers in the Santa Maria della Vittoria church than usual. ("Come back!" begged the excited local priest.) For another, the li ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Hagel Karzai Press Conference in Kabul Cancelled
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, meets with Afghanistan's Defense Minister Bismallah Khan Mohammadi, second right, at the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) headquarters ...
  • Karzai rebuked over Taliban comments
    The top US general in Afghanistan has expressed dismay at remarks by President Hamid Karzai, who suggested that Washington benefited from Taliban attacks on his country. Mr Karzai's remarks ...
  • Security threats political fractures plague US ...
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, meets with Afghanistan's Interior Minister Ghulam Mujtaba Patang at the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) headquarters in Kabul, Sunday, ...
  • Afghan President Karzai Claims Taliban U.S. Co ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in a nationally televised speech on Sunday that the U.S. and the Taliban are holding ...
  • US working with Taliban says Karza
    10 March 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused the Taliban and the United States of working together to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave as planned ...

Futurismic

  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • MSPB Urged to Retroactively Apply WEPA
    Today the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. At issue is whether the new definition of a protected disclosure set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act w ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final Rules, indiv ...
  • January 2013 Decisions of the Administrative R ...
    The USDOL/OALJ Reporter has published case summaries and case links for cases decided in January 2013 by the Administrative Review Board.  The decisions are found at http://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/REFERENCES/Caselists/01_2013.HTM
  • OSHA Announces Interim Rule on Whistleblower P ...
    Last Friday, OSHA published an interim final rule, and invited public comment on whistleblower protections for reporting violations of Affordable Care Act's health insurance reforms.  The Affordable Care Act contains various provisions to make health insurance more affordabl ...
  • IRS On Verge Of Crippling Whistleblower Program
    Whistleblower Advocates Submit Extensive Comment  in Response to Proposed IRS Regulations Yesterday, the National Whistleblower Center ("NWC"), the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund ("Fund"), Bradley Birkenfeld, Scott Rosen, and Gene Ross jointly ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Zac Shaw's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    What's it like to be in the crosshairs of a troll? Surely it's a familiar feeling for many in the Techdirt community. I know I spent my week (as I often do) fighting back disgruntled defenders of dying business models in the music industry. Wherever I voiced my support for the inspiring mes ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Rethinking The Mouse (Finally!)
    So folks seemed to enjoy last week's crowdfunding picks post, and the Saturday morning time slot seemed to work, so we'll stick with it. Still not sure on a name, but someone suggested "awesome stuff," and it's hard to argue with that. I reserve the right to change it at some point, but at lea ...
  • As Expected, Team Prenda Trying Desperately To ...
    All week I've been checking the docket on the Prenda case where the showdown is supposed to be happening on Monday, fulling expecting to see John Steele, Paul Duffy, Paul Hansmeier and others desperately trying to get out of appearing, and it's finally showed up -- but not via their own filing, ...
  • Is The 'Innovator's Dilemma' About To Get Disr ...
    As some of you know, I'm a big believer in the concepts behind Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma, which explain how disruptive innovation almost always takes incumbents by surprise. A few years ago, I even did a two minute video in which I tried to succinctly explain the innovator's dil ...
  • Bev Stayart Loses Yet Another Battle Against L ...
    Bev Stayart, tireless bringer of lawsuits against various search engines for their supposed besmirchment of her good name by placing it next to words like "Levitra," "Cialis," and various porn-related ads, has batted a solid .000 thus far in her legal career. In 2009, she sued Yahoo! for vi ...

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BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • When the victor belongs to the spoils of war
    Andrew J. Bacevich writes: Judgments rendered by history tend to be tentative, incomplete and reversible. More than occasionally, they arrive seasoned with irony. This is especially true when it comes to war, where battlefield outcomes thought to be conclusive often prove anything but. Rather th ...
  • The danger of suppressing the leaks
    Margaret Sullivan writes: Imagine if American citizens never learned about the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Imagine not knowing about the brutal treatment of terror suspects at United States government “black sites.” Or about the drone program that is expanding under President Obama, or the ...
  • How Hugo Chavez helped liberate South America ...
    In the Toronto Star, Tony Burman writes: When Chavez was elected in 1998, his government replaced decades of corrupt and greedy rule by political and business elites — openly supported by the United States — who squandered the nation’s wealth. During his years as president, millions of Venezuela ...
  • Jeremiah Goulka: C-130 math and a cargo of pork
    Bipartisanship in Washington is a rare thing these days.  However, no beltway battle in recent memory has been quite as partisan as the one over sequestration and its $85 billion in across-the-board government spending cuts.  Yet, for all the rancor between Democrats and Republicans ov ...
  • A forgotten anniversary: Iran’s first revoluti ...
    Amir-Hussein Firouz Radjy writes: With the New Year came and passed the forgotten anniversary of a seminal event in Iranian and Asian history: the anniversary of Iran’s first revolution and Asia’s oldest parliament, whose centenary came and passed some years ago without a murmur. Remembering tha ...

Watts Up With That?

  • It has come down to this – climate scien ...
    I have to chuckle at the battle going on with stick graphs this weekend. Choose your weapon, flat or vertical blade, real data, or proxy data with an arbitrary extension added by the special effects department. First, Christoper Booker’s flat … Continue reading →
  • Science, Surfing, Stratification, Overturning, ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Surfing When I was a kid, swimming in the ocean was a rarity. We kids spent summers with my Dad, and once, maybe twice over the summer we’d go to Stinson Beach. I loved the … Continue reading →
  • A review of Craig Rosebraugh’s documenta ...
    Michael Moore for Dummies Guest post by Rod McLaughlin Unlike many readers of this site, I have environmentalist sympathies. I think green anarchist turned film-maker Craig Rosebraugh once did some good. When he organized the “Liberation Collective” in old town … Continue reading →
  • Open thread weekend
    Traveling this weekend, posting will be light. Discuss any topics per our policy page.  
  • Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook – maki ...
    Fabricated quotes and gross distortions are used to paint skeptics as conspiracy nuts.  The question is, is it a conspiracy, or is it just incompetence? Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger Many people have shown interest and scorn for a recently … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

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

CFACT

  • A new jolt for electric cars?
    Electric cars are known to save on gas, but can they also be used to power electrical appliances during a blackout? Well strange as that may sound, that is precisely what electric car owners living in Japan did. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5080.mp3]
  • Fossil fuels: Helping mankind “Live long and p ...
    Do fossil fuels like coal and oil harm your health? Well many environmentalists would have you believe so, but Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, offers a different perspective... [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5079.mp3]
  • CNN warming debate scratched again. We’ ...
    First Chavez, now a lion! CNN warming debate scratched again. Like you, we tuned into CNN looking for Round 3 of the global warming debate, but didn't find it. We then found a message from Marc Morano that CNN called at the last minute and felt compelled to switch to a lion attack story. We'll ...
  • U.S. energy policy: satisfy the Green lobby!
    The Santa Fe New Mexican’s headline for Hansen’s visit was: “A steep energy tax to curb global warming.” Perhaps Hansen was tipping his hand, confirming the rumor that Obama will approve the long-delayed, but much-needed Keystone pipeline if Congress will approve a carbon tax. Tit for tat.
  • Eagle lawsuit ruffles wind industry feathers
    Many consider wind power to be among the most environmentally friendly forms of generating electricity. So it might surprise them to learn that growing numbers of wind farm projects are being opposed precisely because of their detrimental environmental impact – particularly on our feathered frie ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Two Asteroids to Pass Near Earth on Saturday
    Two asteroids, one of them bigger in size than the celestial body that burst over Russia last month, will fly by the Earth on Saturday, though not as close as to threaten collision.
  • Space Station to Forecast Natural Disasters
    The crew of a new expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) will install special equipment to monitor Earth’s atmosphere and forecast natural disasters, ISS-36 Crew Commander Pavel Vinogradov said on Thursday.
  • ‘Unclassified’ Life Found in Antarctic Lake – ...
    A preliminary examination of water samples from the ancient subglacial Lake Vostok near the South Pole indicated that its inhabitants are not to be found anywhere else on Earth, a member of the research team told RIA Novosti.
  • 33,000-Year-Old Dog ‘Not Wolf’ – Genetic Study
    The alliance between man and his best friend may be at least 19,000 years older than previously confirmed, according to a new study of the DNA of an ancient canid fossil from the Altai Mountains in Russia.
  • Deadly, Drug-Resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Sp ...
    Deadly infections from bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics are on the rise in the United States, and hospitals and health care workers must take immediate action to protect patients, doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced this week.

Pruning Shears

  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...
  • Nook & Cranny - 'The Bird With the Broken Wing ...
    Nook & Cranny took the top spot on my best music of 2012 post, so it’s safe to say I’m a fan. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and here’s a live take of one of the tracks - The Bird With the Broken Wing.Pretty sweet, eh?
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2013 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2013 selections:Systemic DisorderThe Titanic sails at dawnMario Piperni dot ComAlternate BrainThe Mills River Progressivep ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Consumers Assoc. Responds to Whole Foo ...
    Food Retailer's Plan to Label GMOs a Victory for Grassroots Food Activists and Consumers, but Five-year Timetable not Comprehensive or Aggressive Enough Click here to read this article
  • Tilling the Soil with Pesticides
    The ministry of agriculture had organised a conference on Doubling Food Production from February 1-3. The "eminent speakers" invited were not members of International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) or top Indian scientists. Rather they were spin master ...
  • Indian Farmers Produce Record Amounts of Crops ...
    For years, much of the news to come from India's farming regions was dismal. The country was facing an agrarian crisis, and thousands of farmers were committing suicide in the face of dwindling economic prospects. Now it seems the farmers' luck has turned.Click here to read this article
  • Your Clothes Are Making Indian Cotton Farmers ...
    In the same month that 125 Bangladeshi fabric workers died in a factory fire, a film aiming to expose the tragedy of unrestricted globalized fashion calledDirty White Gold reached its Sponsume target of 18,000 (about $27,000). The film begins by examining the hundreds of thousands of Indian cot ...
  • Vandana Shiva on Int'l Women's Day
    We end our International Women's Day broadcast with the Indian feminist, activist and thinker Dr. Vandana Shiva. The author of many books, most recently "Making Peace with the Earth," Dr. Shiva discusses the impact on women by what she calls the world's "violent economic order," and the women-le ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
    Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
  • The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
    Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.
  • Mislabeled Seafood: More than Overpaying for F ...
    Many people are interested in the study because consumers are being duped by fraudulent fish, but other impacts of mislabeled seafood are far more worrisome. Certain fish carry advisories, especially for pregnant women and young children, to limit or avoid due to contamination of heavy metals or ...
  • Md. Farm Bureau’s stance on pesticide bill see ...
    The Maryland Farm Bureau’s opposition to a pesticide reporting bill in Maryland seems out of step with policy statements made by the national organization with which it is affiliated, the American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • USDA Organic standards for aquaculture under d ...
    Farmed aquatic animals are the only type of food not represented in the marketplace with a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic seal—a highly recognizable label—although that may change soon.

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My Care2 Picks

  • NORML: Looking Back at 40-Year Crusade to End ...
    As long as any government can arbitrarily decide which drugs are legal and which aren't, then anyone behind bars for a nonviolent drug offense is a political prisoner. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • CIA evidence exposes greatest climate change error
    Climate modeling changes its basics Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cholesterol : Friend, not Enemy
    how fake science pushes drugs to treat a non-existent problem and perverts healthcare Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Genes from GMO Food Do Wind Up in People
    He may have been disappointed with vegan response to his lifestyle at Care2, but CowBoss still has valuable intel Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Interview with Ivor van Heerden on Settlement ...
    emails revealed an apparent early plan to muzzle Dr. Ivor van Heerden when he rightly blamed the Army Corps of Engineers for most of the New Orleans area flooding during Katrina Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...
  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    You drench your fields with it in the fall. You kill anything growing. And you drench the fields again in the spring, before you plant. Then, just as you’re going to plant, you hit the fields a third time with the poison. This is in addition to all the sprayings with Roundup, which is toxic, too ...
  • They Want To Tag Us Before They Bag Us
    My advice is to all Americans is to immediately work towards becoming self-sufficient to such a degree that it appears to others that your life depends on it, because it does.
  • The hideous BAM in Obama: map your brain for y ...
    This is the technocrats’ wet dream: “We can now power up an artificial brain of such power and intelligence that it can make all crucial decisions for the human race from Central Planning.”
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