Sunday, March 10, 2013

10 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • North Korea cuts off hotline with South Korea
    ShareThisNorth Korea cuts off hotline with South Korea 10 Mar 2013 North Korea has cut off a Red Cross hotline with South Korea as it escalates its war of words against Seoul and Washington in response to a military drill in the South and U.N. sanctions imposed for its recent nuclear test. The N ...
  • U.S. Government State Websites Hacked in Prepa ...
    ShareThisU.S. Government State Websites Hacked in Preparation for #OpBlackSummer 10 Mar 2013 Hacktivist group Tunisian Cyber Army have started preparing for #OpBlackSummer by targeted two state.gov domains. The hacktivists started their operating by exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities in ...
  • Undercover TSA Agent Smuggled Fake Bomb Past S ...
    ShareThisUndercover TSA Agent Smuggled Fake Bomb Past Security Screeners at Newark Airport --Inspector Got Through 2 Checkpoints, And Successfully Navigated a Pat-Down 08 Mar 2013 There is a demand for a top-to-bottom review of security operations at Newark Liberty International Airport after an ...
  • Afghanistan urges coalition to stop 'abusing' ...
    ShareThisAfghanistan urges coalition to stop 'abusing' university students 10 Mar 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government on Sunday accused U.S.-led forces and Afghans working with them of abusing and arresting university students and urged them to stop such acts. The allegations were ...
  • Taliban, US colluding on bombings to create 'n ...
    ShareThisJust as CLG has asserted ('al-CIAduh') from the get-go: Taliban, US colluding on bombings to create 'need' for foreign troops to stay beyond 2014 - Karzai 10 Mar 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • FBR: Kachin Update
    FBR Report: Kachin Update – Photo set two; Attacks Against the Kachin are Sporadic but Displacement is Constant Kachin State, Burma 8 March, 2013 One of five camps for displaced Kachin that was visited on this trip Kachin girl in high mountain hiding place Kachin pastor points to Bur ...
  • White Letter 1-13
    05 March 2013
  • Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL Murdered: Some Thoughts
    04 February 2013 News of Chris Kyle’s shooting has reached around the world.  Many people are asking for my thoughts, and so this morning I write these words in response. Chris was credited with killing about 160 enemy combatants in Iraq. He is called the most deadly sniper in US history. ...
  • FBR: Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State
    Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State Kachin State 29 January 2013 From Free Burma Rangers Despite the Government of Burma declaring a ceasefire, Burma Army troops still continue to launch attacks in Kachin State. In this Report: • Burma Army troops take Hkaya Bum after repeated attack ...
  • Air Force Crashing
    25 January 2013 Team AFMC, The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require us to take prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks. Based on guidance r ...

The Killing Train

  • Hugo Chavez, Presente
    I only started paying attention to Hugo Chavez and Venezuela at the time of the 2002 coup. At the time, I was deeply engaged with the Canada Colombia Solidarity Campaign. Friends I was making were on the run, living underground, trying to work in a context of disappearances and massacres, assass ...
  • My lecture at Jamia on Aid Politics and Foreig ...
    The Jamia Journal did a nice little report and audio recording of my lecture on Feb 25/13 in the Poli Sci Department of Jamia Millia Islamia, here in Delhi. You can see it here.
  • Can 1.7 Billion Dollars Imagine Wrong?
    21 February, 2013 Countercurrents.org A review of Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009) If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? It's a daunting task to critique a book by a billionaire. JK Galbraith once wrote that conventional wisdom has it that wea ...
  • Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Free ...
    Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main poi ...
  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Three Democratic Myths Used To Demean The Paul ...
    Holder's letter begs the question: what do you mean when you accuse someone of being "engaged in combat"? And what are the exact limits of your power to target US citizens for execution without due process? That these questions even need to be asked underscores how urgently needed Paul's filibus ...
  • Turning Chaos Into Opportunity; Facing Adversi ...
    An excerpt from my book, the Happiness Response. adversity is programmed into life--it's part of growing up, of parenting, of aging and dying. For example, when young children die, their parents suffer great pain, desolation and anguish. But the human mind and spirit have the strength to recov ...
  • Somewhere Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
    Now, take your average golden lunchbox millionaire earning around $ 400,000 annually. He or she gets that paycheck every week and glances at their gross weekly earnings of $ 7,692.30; they look quickly at their deductions and are outraged. But what they don't ever have to think about is "Oh, my ...
  • GSE Critics Disavowing The Big Lie?
    Republican witnesses disavowed the "Fannie and Freddie caused the financial crisis" meme at a House hearing.
  • True, He's the First Black President: But Obam ...
    Obama has proven to be the worst president in history as a warmonger, says TCBH! contributor Ron Ridenour from Denmark

Switchboard

  • Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: Not the Jobs P ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. The State Department draft environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline shows how TransCanada, the American Petroleum Institute and other proponents of the pipelin ...
  • Latin America Green News: HidroAysĂ©n decision ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. March 1-8, 2013 Chile Endesa and ColbĂșn, the companies behind ...
  • Colorado takes step in the right direction tow ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. In past blogs, I as well as colleagues at NRDC have expressed our strong support for the authority of local governments to protect their residents from the risks of fracking. I also blogged about my ...
  • The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline; a 21st Cen ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Canada harbors some of the great environmental Arctic treasures of the world, magnificent polar bears, wildlife and fisheries unique to its pristine Arctic shores. But the land of the Mapl ...
  • This is transit-oriented development?
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Yikes.  I literally do not know where to start with today’s article.  But I’ll give it a shot:  at the top, you’re looking at the view northwa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Foreign Entanglements: Israel and Iran Redux
    On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt speaks with Gil Troy about the recent AIPAC conference:
  • Racist Sexist Gun Nut Thuggery
    As a white male, being attacked by the hate-spewing mouthbreathers of the internet gun lobby was horrible. Were I a black woman like Zerlina Maxwell who rejected the ludicrous notion that women should be responsible for preventing their own rapes by carrying a gun, the awfulness would have been ...
  • Good Questions
    I am happy — really — that Rand Paul is trying to bring some attention to the arbitrary executive. But I also wish that he was asking more productive questions. I would add a third question: why the focus on American citizenship?* Why are we asking Obama and Holder to clarify their p ...
  • Time to raise the level of the discourse…
    … by sharing photographs I took at the nerdiest urinal I’ve ever patronized, which only just happens to be down the hall from where I regularly teach. The first coincidence: And the second: I like to think this one’s meant for me, because if someone’s scribbling “BA ...
  • The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, submitted to The Carpenter by John Quinn of Local 714 in Queens, 1915. 1. Thou shalt be a union carpenter, a member of the U.B. (United Brotherhood) 2. Thou shalt not belong to any other organizations. 3. Thou shalt keep whole the Sat ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
    This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.
  • Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate S ...
    Meet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.
  • Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader highli ...
    Senator Reid discusses the success of DRI's GreenPower Program and its K-12 teacher training workshops specifically.
  • Antarctic ice core extracted by DRI scientists ...
    A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Dr. Kendrick Taylor, a research professor with the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute, have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past clim ...
  • DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized ...
    Amelia Gulling, DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized at the annual Women To Watch ceremony for the Las Vegas business magazine, Vegas Inc at the Vdara in City Center on Tuesday Jan. 29th.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • International Women's Day: US Applauds Achieve ...
    In the celebrations of International Women's Day, U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Susan E. Rice says from the announcement that combat positions would be open to the women bravely serving in the US military
  • US Says 'North Korea's Nuke Test Has Costly Co ...
    Combined with the measures in resolutions 1718 and 1874, UNSCR 2087 further constricts North Korea's efforts to procure weapons components, send agents abroad, smuggle dual-use items, and make headway on its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile pr
  • Amazing Kung Fu Master XJ Pushes Car With Spea ...
    Kung Fu Master XJ pushes a parked car with his throat on a spear in this amazing display of bravery and skill found in this video, and detailed in this report.
  • New UN Resolution Imposes Financial Sanctions ...
    North Korean banks will find it much harder to launder money for the DPRK nuclear program, she said.
  • Syrian Crisis: Is US Turning a Deaf Ear?
    According to Secretary Kerry, the President has led an effort together with a number of other countries, but led an effort that Secretary Clinton was very active and moving around, trying to speak with the opposition, identify them, bring them toget

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Phoenicians discovered America 2000 years befo ...
    Columbus, credited with the discovery of Americas, may not have been the first to set foot on the continent, says a British explorer, claiming that Phoenicians actually beat him by 2,000 years. In an ambitious voyage that could challenge maritime history, former Royal Navy officer Philip Beale h ...
  • The Dark Side of Mother Teresa?
    Mother Teresa’s saintly image comes under fire in new study How has the saintly image of Mother Teresa managed to survive largely intact in this age of such intense media scrutiny? Three Canadian academics tackled this thorny question in a new article in the journal Studies in Religion “Everyone ...
  • Yeti Robot Finds Deadly Antarctic Crevasses So ...
    You’re traveling more than 1,000 miles across the barren snowscape of Antarctica. Along the way, many crevasses lie hidden between you and your quest to resupply the hungry scientists at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The good news is you can detect these deathtraps with a radar arm. The ...
  • The Mystery of the Hindenburg Disaster Finally ...
    It’s hard to believe there’s much mystery still surrounding the Hindenburg disaster. After all, the largest airship in history was not only filled with hydrogen — a notoriously combustible gas — but the horrific incident was one of the first disasters to be captured in real time — on film, in ph ...
  • Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smart
    Study shows that intelligence derives from brain cells other than neurons A team of neuroscientists has grafted human brain cells into the brains of mice and found that the rodents’ rate of learning and memory far surpassed that of ordinary mice. Remarkably, the cells transplanted were not neuro ...

Russia Today

Empty newsfeed.

Not My Tribe

  • Republican operative and all round rat pays ou ...
    The Republican attack to defund the antipoverty activist organization ACORN was one of the most totally disgraceful actions the American corporate media has ever helped ‘Conservatives’ (read reactionaries) accomplish. But now the truth is unfolding as the thug who carried out the hit ...
  • The powerful super rich old farts of the US ne ...
    The following facts show America’s superrich thugs to be absolutely shameless. They all claim to be patriots as they feed off the blood of the country’s youth, too. The $1 trillion student debt should about be written off the books and taken out of the national militarism budget. Sha ...
  • Empire says behave or the next Bradley Manning ...
    Indefinite detention, solitary confinement, torture, and assassination are tools America does not hesitate to use to enforce its feudal corporate agenda. That the US didn’t dispatch Bolivarian hero Hugo Chavez like they did Yasser Arafat is belied by their protestation that such accusation ...
  • Exterminate!!!!!!!!
    How sad, but the real designer of the Daleks died last month. EXTERMINATE Here is the obituary of Ray Cusick.
  • Hugo Chavez- A great man who will always be re ...
    He was an honest man who defended and spoke up always for the poor and oppressed, while all the other so called leaders of the capitalist world side ultimately only with the super rich rateros who are looting our planet and making most of us live in destitute misery and without human rights. Hug ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The Mysterious Death of Author Phillip Marshal
    Alex welcomes investigative journalist and author Wayne Madsen to analyze the mysterious murder-suicide of "conspiracy theorist" author Phillip Marshall. We'll also cover other major headlines and take your calls. _______________________________________ We know 911 involved inside help&nb ...
  • Petition2Congress: Investigate 9/11 World Trad ...
    Related: A huge collection of other online activism links can be found here. Debunking Joseph Nobles/boloboffin of AE911Truth.INFO
  • Taylor Contra Power - Part 2: World Trade Cent ...
    In Part 1 of my response to Myles Power’s YouTube video series, I examined his arguments regarding the collapse of the Twin Towers and the evidence for controlled demolition. Now I will focus on Mr. Power’s videos regarding the destruction of World Trade Center 7, and why the arguments presented ...
  • Action Alert: [AE911Trut​h] Sign the FAMILY ME ...
    Sign the AE911Truth FAMILY MEMBER PETITION Help us reach 1 Million Signatures!Looking for a quick, easy way to support the 9/11 family members’ call for a real WTC investigation? The new 9/11 Family Petition, sponsored by AE911Truth, has slashed the time needed to support our vital mission. I ...
  • 7 March 2013 Drone Strikes To Kill U.S. Citize ...
    Related: It’s now clear: Obama intends to use drone strikes to kill American journalists and political enemies Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots? Michael Isikoff To Rachel Maddow: Obama Has 'More Elastic' Concept Of Imminent Threats

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
    Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de PerijĂĄ, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...
  • Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
    The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-KatĂ­o have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-KatĂ­o Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto AndĂĄgueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...

Greg Palast

  • Vaya con Dios, Hugo ChĂ vez, mi Amigo
    By Greg Palast For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo ChĂ vez, 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 ...
  • How Do You Steal a Dream?Supreme Court hears s ...
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” Sign the petition to Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act - here. Jim Crow is alive and well — and he [...]
  • Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act: Protect ...
     Sign this petition RIGHT NOW at Care2. Dr. King's Dream Act is under attack. On Wednesday February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the law's requirement that states with a history of Jim Crow voting rules let the Justice Department review new voting procedures. This is the o ...
  • Too Fat to Vote Will a Supreme Ku Klux Kourt k ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You know why black folk in the south don't vote? According to The New York Times and the experts at the Pew Charitable Trust, they're just too damn fat! Normally I wouldn't care what the Times is passing off as fact, except for that, on February the 27th, the [...]
  • Thousands demand Obama to Smoke Pipe
    Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline Photos by Zach D Roberts, photojournalist funded by the Palast Investigative Fund, at Sunday's rally in Washington DC, on assignment for Truth-out.  More photos here.

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • From the Editor: Spring Forward!
  • The Autism Parent's Bucket List
    By Cathy Jameson A few weeks ago Metro Parent magazine, a regional publication in Michigan posted a bucket list. Included were 101 exciting activities to be experienced during childhood. With a cheerful graphic and a happily ever after tone, it...
  • Controversial Doctor and Autism Media Channel ...
    March 8, 2013 Austin, TX Two landmark events - a government concession in the US Vaccine Court, and a groundbreaking scientific paper – confirm that physician, scientist, and AMC Director, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and the parents were right all along....
  • Recovery Room on Grandparents – The Unsung Her ...
    Managing Editor's Note: That's my now 90 year old Dad holding onto Bella. My Mom and Dad, like Julie's, have been lifesavers for my husband and me. By Julie Obradovic A recent post on The Thinking Mom’s reminded me about...
  • Day 19: Chicago Hospital Locks Down Autistic P ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Loyola Medicine in Chicago, IL has as its tagline, "We also treat the human spirit." But they forgot the ending, "..like a dog." Email Ann Dillon in Media Relations with the link to this post. Tweet them...

Global BDS Movement

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.”

Open Your Eyes News

  • Kenya election: Uhuru Kenyatta wins presidency
    BBC – Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has been confirmed as the winner of the presidential election, and vowed to work with his rivals. Read article
  • Nearly 1,200 people have starved to death in N ...
    Daily Mail – As many as 1,165 people starved to death in NHS hospitals over the past four years fuelling claims nurses are too busy to feed their patients. The Department of Health branded the figures ‘unacceptable’ and said the number of unannounced inspections by the care wat ...
  • China Maps Out Venezuela’s Valuable Mining Res ...
    IPS – An agreement signed by the government of Venezuela and the Chinese state-owned company Citic Group for prospecting and mapping the country’s mining reserves is being challenged by both the opposition and experts who argue that it will leave valuable natural resources dangerously expo ...
  • Queen to sign equal rights charter
    BBC – The Queen is set to sign a new charter backing equal rights after it received the support of every Commonwealth nation, it has been reported. The monarch will sign the 16-point charter on Monday at an event to mark Commonwealth Day. The Mail on Sunday said the document declares: &#82 ...
  • Diggers accused of killing two Afghan children
    ABC – The Australian Defence Force (ADF) says it is too early to say whether two Australian soldiers are responsible for the shooting deaths of two children during an operation in Afghanistan. The governor of Uruzgan province says Australian troops accidentally shot dead two boys aged seve ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Furry fishers, don't blame the Gold Rush
    The boom in logging and fur trapping triggered by Gold Rush settlement of the Sierra Nevada has long been blamed for the steep decline in California’s population of fishers.
  • Cooking up toxic air pollution
    When UC Davis scientists collected air pollution particles in Fresno and then exposed laboratory mice to them, they found that one of the most toxic sources was the backyard grill.
  • Some plastics should be classified as hazardou ...
    Less than half of the 280 million metric tons of plastic produced each year ends up in the landfill.  A fair bit of the rest ends up littering the landscape, blown by the wind or washed down streams and rivers into the sea.
  • Religious beliefs drive hunting decisions in A ...
    Stanford researchers have discovered that the introduction of Western religions is changing hunting patterns in the Amazon and affecting the region’s biodiversity.
  • Climate change threatens wolverines; protectio ...
    Citing shrinking mountain snowpacks as a result of climate change, federal wildlife officials are proposing to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

water.org

  • Spring Catchment in Haiti
    A spring is water that reaches the surface from an underground supply, appearing as small water holes or wet spots on hillsides or along river banks. In order to "catch" the water for use, the spring must be capped, allowing the water to pool up into the cement block. In this photo you can see t ...
  • A WaterCredit Pilot
    Christine Mbati has three children and was recently widowed. She is a member of the K’Obonyo self-help group and lives at Ulanda village.
  • Strike With Me to Raise Awareness
    At a press conference in Los Angeles, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water crisis.
  • Learning Through Plays
    Children and adults learn about good hygiene practices through a series of street plays, including hand washing and the importance of using a toilet instead of practicing open defecation. They also learn about the connection between water-related illnesses and prevention.
  • A Loan Leads to More
    Mrs. Lalitha Patil lives in Gojaga Village. She took a loan for Rs.10,000/- from Water.org's partner, Grameen Koota (GK), and constructed a toilet in her home. Afterwards, she became highly motivated and decided to work with her village to become completely clean and hygienic.

Cryptogon

  • More Americans Giving Up on Saving for Retirement
    Via: Time: In the wake of the Great Recession, retirement-minded Americans are feeling an unprecedented amount of futility. They are undersaved and — worse — see little reason to do anything about it. That’s the alarming conclusion in a new report from the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, ...
  • New Mexico: County Will Pay $15.5 Million To M ...
    Via: NPR: When he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and other charges in 2005, Stephen Slevin had no way of knowing that an opinion about his mental state would put him on a path to spend more than 22 months of solitary confinement in a New Mexico county jail, despite never ...
  • Greece: Rise of the Golden Dawn Nazis
    Via: Independent: On a recent Thursday night, seven teenage boys in the central Greek city of Larissa decided to have what they described as “fun”. Armed with rocks and wooden batons, the group of 15-year-olds attacked the shop of a Pakistani resident. His son was treated for head injuries. Atta ...
  • 9th Circuit Appeals Court: 4th Amendment Appli ...
    Ok, now they’ll need to make up a reason to take your laptop and copy its contents. Via: TechDirt: Here’s a surprise ruling. For many years we’ve written about how troubling it is that Homeland Security agents are able to search the contents of electronic devices, such as compu ...
  • U.S. Air Force Disappears Drone Strike Statistics
    Scrubbed: Click here to see the original December 2012 and January 2013 statistics and the ones apparently loaded online Feb. 22. Via: Air Force Times: As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a p ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
    The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
  • Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
    Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...
  • Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By T ...
    The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits - so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?  Real household income is the lowest that it has been in a decade, poverty is absolutely soaring, 47 million Americans are on food stamps and the middle [...]
  • The Dow Hits An All-Time High! Translation: A ...
    Reckless money printing by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has pumped up the Dow to a brand new all-time high.  So what comes next?  Will the Dow go even higher?  Hopefully it will.  In fact, it would be great if the Dow was able to hit 15,000 before it finally came crashing down.  That wo ...
  • 30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Wi ...
    The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are being depleted at a very frightening pace, and many of the most important underground aquifers that we depend on to irrigate our crops will soon be gone. At this point, approximately 40 percent ...

Desertification

  • How to green the world’s deserts ? (Googkle / ...
    Read at : http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/08/a-bridge-in-the-climate-debate-how-to-green-the-worlds-deserts-and-reverse-climate-change/ A bridge in the climate debate – How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change People send me stuff. Imagine, shooting 40,000 elephants to prev ...
  • Cooking Stoves for Combating Desertification ...
    Read at : http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/49647/2013/03/10/combating_desertification_through_clean_cooking_stoves.html Combating Desertification Through Clean Cooking Stoves by EVELYN OKORUWA Lack of adequate cooking energy in Nigeria especially in the rural areas saw the locals seeking for al ...
  • ‘Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Af ...
    We are pleased to let you know that we have a free DVD available,  ‘Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa’ These mini-films, of 8 – 10 minutes each, show a series of sustainable land management (SLM) practices that have a … Continue reading →
  • China’s ‘farmscrapers’ are highrises that will ...
    Read at : http://io9.com/5988573/chinas-farmscrapers-will-generate-their-own-food China’s ‘farmscrapers’ are highrises that will generate their own food by George Dvorsky The Chinese city of Shenzhen recently commissioned the French firm Vincent Callebaut Architects to come up with an innovative ...
  • Innovative and High Impact Interventions (Land ...
    International Land Coalition Launches Facility to Support Innovative and High Impact Interventions: Call for Expressions of Interest Contacts: Send your concepts, as well as any questions to Andrea Fiorenza: a.fiorenza@landcoalition.org, with copy to info@landcoalition.org The International Land ...

The Paper Trail

Empty newsfeed.

backofthebook.ca

  • 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:   ...

libcom

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Deep Underground Military Bases – Active ...
    This is to be filed in the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” category of The Story Behind the Story!” Salt Lake City, Utah is not called “The Crossroads of the West” for nothing.  It is the central nexus hub of the Western D.U.M.B. – A.S.S.  according to numero ...
  • THE MESSAGE: to All Who Love Christ Update
    This is an update to my earlier post http://atrueott.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/the-message-for-all-who-love-christ/ Many readers have privately e-mailed me for more information on my own experiences that caused me to declare THE MESSAGE was accurate. I have written my personal history primarily f ...
  • Check Out Jack Andraka – the 15 year-old ...
    This is a true American Dream story – but it’s also a Nightmare. Listen closely to his remarks on this video.  Notice how he doggedly contacted nearly 200 labs before he finally received one consent to allow him lab access in order to test and prove his theory.    Thank goodness for ...
  • HAIL TO THE [Virtual] CHIEF!!!
    This pretty much sums it up! IF ONLY WE HAD TRUE “ELECTIONS”, INSTEAD OF FRAUDULENT STAGE SHOWS, PERHAPS A REAL “PRESIDENT” CAN SOMEDAY GIVE A REAL SPEECH LIKE THIS!!!
  • DHS Running Amok!!!
    Buying 1.6 billion “anti-personnel” expanding “killer” bullets is bad enough.  But now “Homeland Security” is procuring armored tanks and specially equipped DRONES as well?????!!!!!!!   This is SERIOUSLY, OVER-THE-TOP CRAZY!! Don’t forget DHS was formed ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • StLouis Residents-CALL This Week-Electric Rate ...
    Call Today: OPPOSE SB 207 and Significant Electric Bill Increases Please Call Key Legislators Today!!! Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Forward to a Friend Follow us on: Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Call Today: OPPOSE SB 207 and Significant Electric Bill Increases Please Call Key ...
  • Ameren UE -Dirty Coal Money-Influencing StLoui ...
    Would the $4,609,271.00 Previously Donated $ be better spent for the Infrastructure Improvements instead of the Proposed Electrical Rate Increases? ↑Noteworthy Contributor↑ Years Company or PAC Contributions Subsidiary Contributions Employee Contributions Grand Total *AMEREN Electric Utilities 2 ...
  • Ameren UE -Dirty Coal Money-Influencing StLoui ...
    Would the $4,609,271.00 Previously Donated $ be better spent for the Infrastructure Improvements instead of the Proposed Electrical Rate Increases? ↑Noteworthy Contributor↑ Years Company or PAC Contributions Subsidiary Contributions Employee Contributions Grand Total *AMEREN Electric Utilities 2 ...
  • Ameren UE Monetary GREED from the Dirty Coal I ...
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts SB 207: Unprecedented Overreach by Missouri Electric Utilities Missouri electric utilities including Ameren are working to pass legislation to charge a brand new rate increase fee to every business and resident electric bill. Despite the fact that Missouri electri ...
  • Ameren UE Monetary GREED from the Dirty Coal I ...
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts SB 207: Unprecedented Overreach by Missouri Electric Utilities Missouri electric utilities including Ameren are working to pass legislation to charge a brand new rate increase fee to every business and resident electric bill. Despite the fact that Missouri electri ...

The View From Abroad

Empty newsfeed.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • ŰČÙ‡Ű± Ù…Ű§Ű± Ű§ÛŒŰ±Ű§Ù†ÛŒ ŰšŰ±Ű§ÛŒ Ù†ŰŹŰ§ŰȘ ۳۱ۚۧŰČŰ§Ù† ŰąÙ…Ű±ÛŒÚ©Ű§ÛŒÛŒ
    ۯ۱ Ű±Ű§Ù‡Ù†Ù…Ű§ÛŒ ÙŸŰČŰŽÚ©ÛŒ ÙŰ±Ù…Ű§Ù†ŰŻÙ‡ÛŒ Ù…Ű±Ú©ŰČی Ù†ÛŒŰ±ÙˆÙ‡Ű§ÛŒ ŰąÙ…Ű±ÛŒÚ©Ű§ ۯ۱ Ű§ÙŰșŰ§Ù†ŰłŰȘŰ§Ù† ŰȘŰ§Ú©ÛŒŰŻ ŰŽŰŻÙ‡ ۧ۳ŰȘ که ÙŸŰ§ŰŻŰČÙ‡Ű± ŰȘÙˆÙ„ÛŒŰŻ ŰŽŰŻÙ‡ ۯ۱ Ű§Ù†ŰłŰȘیŰȘو ۱ۧŰČی ŰȘÙ‡Ű±Ű§Ù†، ŰšÙ‡ŰȘŰ±ÛŒÙ† ŰŻŰ§Ű±Ùˆ ŰšŰ±Ű§ÛŒ Ù…Ù‚Ű§ŰšÙ„Ù‡ ۚۧ Ù†ÛŒŰŽ Ù…Ű§Ű±Ù‡Ű§ÛŒ کۚ۱ۧ و Ű§Ù†ÙˆŰ§Űč ŰŻÛŒÚŻŰ± Ù…Ű§Ű±Ù‡Ű§ÛŒ ŰłÙ…ÛŒ و ŰźŰ·Ű±Ù†Ű§Ú© ŰąŰłÛŒŰ§ÛŒ Ù…ÛŒŰ§Ù†Ù‡ ۧ۳ŰȘ که ۯ۱ Ű§ÙŰșŰ§Ù†ŰłŰȘŰ§Ù† ŰšÙ‡ ÙŰ±Ű§ÙˆŰ§Ù†ÛŒ ÙˆŰŹÙˆŰŻ ŰŻŰ§Ű±Ù†ŰŻ.
  • Ù†ŰłŰ±ÛŒÙ† ŰłŰȘÙˆŰŻÙ‡ ۧŰčŰȘ۔ۧۚ ŰșŰ°Ű§ÛŒ ŰźÙˆŰŻ ۱ۧ ŰŽÚ©ŰłŰȘ
    ه ÚŻŰČۧ۱ێ Ű±ŰłÛŒŰŻÙ‡ ŰšÙ‡ کلمه، مŰȘŰčŰ§Ù‚Űš ŰŻÛŒŰŻŰ§Ű± ۱۶ۧ ŰźÙ†ŰŻŰ§Ù† Ù‡Ù…ŰłŰ± Ű§ÛŒÙ† ŰČÙ†ŰŻŰ§Ù†ÛŒ ŰłÛŒŰ§ŰłÛŒ و ÚŻŰ±ÙˆÙ‡ÛŒ ۧŰČ ÙŰčŰ§Ù„Ű§Ù† ŰČÙ†Ű§Ù† ۚۧ ŰšŰ±ŰźÛŒ ۧŰČ Ù†Ù…Ű§ÛŒÙ†ŰŻÚŻŰ§Ù† و ÙŸÛŒÚŻÛŒŰ±ÛŒ Ù‡Ű§ÛŒ Ù…Ű­Ù…ŰŻŰ±Ű¶Ű§ ŰȘۧۚێ و Ű§ŰšÙˆŰȘŰ±Ű§ŰšÛŒ ÙŰ±ŰŻ و Ù…Ű°Ű§Ú©Ű±Ù‡ ŰąÙ†Ù‡Ű§ ۚۧ Ű±ÛŒÛŒŰł Ù…ŰŹÙ„Űł و قوه Ù‚Ű¶Ű§ÛŒÛŒÙ‡ و ۚۧ ۚ۱ۯۧێŰȘن Ù…Ű­ŰŻÙˆŰŻÛŒŰȘ Ù‡Ű§ÛŒ Ù‚Ű¶Ű§ÛŒÛŒ ۧŰČ Ù…Ù‡Ű±Ű§ÙˆÙ‡ ŰźÙ†ŰŻŰ§Ù†، ŰŻŰźŰȘ۱ Ù†ŰłŰ±ÛŒÙ† ŰłŰȘÙˆŰŻÙ‡، وی ŰšÙ‡ ۧŰčŰȘ۔ۧۚ ŰșŰ°Ű§ÛŒ ŰźÙˆŰŻ ÙŸŰ§ÛŒŰ§Ù† ۯۧۯ.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
    read more
  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Groups Demand Records of Plans to Assassinate ...
    Within hours of President Hugo Chavez’s untimely death (he was 58), US civil rights groups filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with numerous federal agencies seeking information and documents that “relate to or reference or discuss any information regarding or plan ...
  • Syrian Rebels Take UN Peacekeepers Hostage
    Less than a week after the Obama administration pledged to supply non-lethal aid to the Syrian resistance, Syrian rebels have taken twenty UN peacekeeper hostage in the Golan Heights. The latter is disputed territory claimed by both Israel and Syria, following Isreal’s occ ...
  • Superhero Helps Block Arctic Drilling
      In February New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless (aka Xena the Warrior Princess) and Greenpeace jubilantly celebrated Shell oil’s announcement that they wouldn’t drill the Arctic in 2013, as previously announced. Coincidentally Lawless was sentenced the same month f ...
  • Swiss Pass CEO Pay Initiative
    According to the BBC, 68% of Swiss voters have backed a “fat cat” referendum to impose strict controls on CEO pay. The new law gives shareholders a veto on CEO compensation and bans “golden handshakes,” i.e. big payouts for new and departing managers. DW reports th ...
  • The Hypodermic Needle Theory of Propaganda
    This is Part II of a two part guest post by Dr Danny Weil. It’s a repost of an article Cornell University to Offer the “Hypodermic Needle Theory” of Education in an Attempt to Colonize Consciousness and Groom Future Elites originally published  at Daily Censored Cornell ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Jeffrey Toobin on Sandra Day O'Connor's 'Regre ...
    From NPR's Fresh Air With Terry Gross, March 6th, 2013: TERRY GROSS: So finally, since I did just talk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday, I want to ask you about something that I asked her, which related to something that you had said. And in one of our previous interviews when you and ...
  • Left on the Cutting Room Floor of 'The Gatekee ...
    On February 28th, 2013, Dror Moreh, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Gatekeepers,' spoke with Dave Davies of NPR's Fresh Air about what he wasn't able to include in the film due to time constraints: DAVE DAVIES: I know that you talked to these gentlemen a long time, and there m ...
  • Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Ta ...
    [View the story "Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Talks About American Consumerism on Twitter" on Storify]
  • Statement of Emad Burnat, Co-Director of '5 Br ...
    Emad Burnat released the following statement in response to a second Buzzfeed story about his detention with his family at Los Angeles International Airport while en route to the 2013 Oscars. When I arrived at LAX with my 8 year old child and wife, excited to attend the Academy Awards, the las ...
  • From 'Epilogue: The Execution of Michael Moore'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore It was the night of March 23, 2003. Four nights earlier, George W. Bush had invaded Iraq, a sovereign country that not only had not attacked us, but was, in fact, the past recipient of military aid from the United States. ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Empty newsfeed.

Energy Collective

EU Times

Empty newsfeed.

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

Empty newsfeed.

Groklaw

  • Multitasking with Chrome OS and Linux on the C ...
    Google's Chromebook Pixel is quite versatile after all. I can run Chrome OS and Linux at the same time, and switch between the two, allowing me to use Skype and other third party apps! - GigaOM
  • Copyright Trolls to Judge: Nope! Were Not Comi ...
    The copyright trolls of Prenda Law have kicked back against a judge who ordered them to appear before a Los Angeles court this coming Monday. The hearing has the potential to lead to prison for some of those involved but not if Prenda have their way. In a letter sent to the court, Prenda argues ...
  • New Phone Unlocking Bill
    Senator Klobuchar's bill to legalize phone unlocking would require the Federal Communications Commission to direct wireless providers to unlock mobile devices. The bill is available here. - Jennifer Granick, CIS
  • WordPress to fight legally deficient and objec ...
    Others preferred to make the subpoena look more absurd by simply adding their IP addresses to the list of those Prenda is seeking: Commenter "sorrykb" wrote "Is it too late to get my IP address in here? I'm feeling left out," and "Bill Price" wrote "Nothing to say. I just wanted to get my IP add ...
  • Apple finally fixes App Store flaw by turning ...
    Apple has finally fixed a security flaw in its application store that for years has allowed attackers to steal passwords and install unwanted or extremely expensive applications. The flaw arose because Apple neglected to use encryption when an iPhone or other mobile device tries to connect to t ...

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Cheap cable and cord control
    For this effective if a bit kludgy way to control cables and cords you will need: 1. Binder clips 2. Magnets (fridge magnets will do and the magnets to not interrupt the current) More at the always useful Cool Tools
  • Tories to consider leaving European Convention ...
    Human rights are just so tedious, last century, and get in the way of capitalist expansion.
  • Clay Claiborne banned from Daily Kos for speak ...
    Further proof that faux progressive sites like Daily Kos are just Democratic Party shills and relentlessly opposed to any real criticism of the party or of Obama. Thus, they aren’t progressive or even liberal at all, by rather just party hacks who like and support the existing power arran ...
  • Make it stop. School confiscates cupcakes with ...
    Nanny state derangement continues unabated. A Michigan elentary school confiscates cupcakes with toy soldiers on top on the specious and unconstitutional grounds that some parents don’t like guns so therefore all children at the school should not suffer the traumatic indignity of seeing a ...
  • Wilko Johnson. Brit R&B and pre-punk legend on ...
    Former Dr Feelgood and Blockheads guitarist Wilko Johnson was diagnosed recently with terminal cancer and his response is to do a triumphant farewell tour with no tears and no sadness, just blistering guitar riffs and jubilation. Wow. Wiki Johnson and Dr Feelgood have been credited as one of th ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Empty newsfeed.

Just World News

Empty newsfeed.

frogblog

  • General debate, March 10, 2013
  • Minister brooks no dissent on RMA changes
    Hard on the heels of  its 2012 “RMA Reform Bill” and the 2009 changes, National wants to overturn other core aspects of the Resource Management Act (RMA) as a key plank in its pro development, anti-environment agenda. EDS described the proposals as “deeply troubling” and ...
  • International Women’s Day
    Today while I was sad to see fewer women in well-paid jobs I was very lucky to be able to celebrate, in brilliant sunshine, International Women’s Day with a wonderful and diverse group of women on the walk for peace. “This Peace Walk for Women was organised to raise awareness of our interconnect ...
  • Fonterra: stick to dairying, not mining
    On Thursday night, the local community at Mangatawhiri on the Hauraki Plains hosted a public meeting about the Fonterra coal mine proposal in their back yard. Fonterra own the farm where the coal is to be mined in an open cast pit for use in the milk powder processing factories on the plains. No ...
  • Mourning local democracy in Canterbury
    National’s distaste for democracy and intolerance of dissenting views is increasing. Pre ‘quakes Cathedral Square was the heart of Christchurch. Two years later the public are still fenced out and kept behind the cordon. The Government’s Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) decides wh ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Ketogenic Diet May Be Key to Cancer Recovery
    By Dr. Mercola To some, a ketogenic diet amounts to nothing less than a drug-free cancer treatment. The diet calls for eliminating carbohydrates, replacing them with healthy fats and protein. The premise is that since cancer cells need glucose to thrive, and carbohydrates turn into glucos ...
  • Lowering Your Blood Pressure Using Drugs May I ...
    By Dr. Mercola Hypertension is dangerous if uncontrolled, increasing your risk for heart attack and stroke. But using drugs to lower your blood pressure may shorten your lifespan instead of extending it, according to the results of a University of Florida study. The study, published in th ...
  • Common Household Chemicals Linked to Human Dis ...
    By Dr. Mercola Air pollution and chemicals found in common household and personal care goods are major sources of exposure that can lead to an accumulation of toxins in your body. Forbes Magazine1 recently listed the 20 most polluted cities in the US. Topping the list is Fresno, California, ...
  • Study Shows Daylight Savings Time Change Incre ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comBy Dr. Mercola A number of studies indicate that springing ahead to Daylight Savings Time (DST) may be hazardous to your health. Although the one-hour time change may seem minor, when it comes to your body’s internal clock, it actually is a ...
  • How Inflammation Affects Every Aspect of Your ...
    Dr. David M. Marquis, DC, DACBN Inflammation controls our lives. Have you or a loved one dealt with pain, obesity, ADD/ADHD, peripheral neuropathy, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, migraines, thyroid issues, dental issues, or cancer? If you answered yes to any of these disorders you are deal ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
    Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de PerijĂĄ, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...
  • Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
    The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-KatĂ­o have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-KatĂ­o Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto AndĂĄgueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • 15-Year-Old Invents New Test for Early, Reliab ...
    from mercola.com: Pancreatic cancer is a devastatingly fatal form of cancer, and is typically regarded as the most deadly and universally rapid-killing form of cancer. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute,1 an estimated 45,220 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this ...
  • The great orange juice scam
    from therealfoodchannel.com: "Fresh" and "pure"? One of the great scams of the industrial food cartel is the so-called "fresh" orange juice sold in supermarkets. This one particularly galls me because for years when I was dirt poor and had very few food choices, I thought I was doing a healt ...
  • Doctored: New Documentary Shows Big Pharma’s C ...
    from naturalsociety.com: In a new documentary by Jeff Hays, Doctored shows the shortcomings and even the insidious nature of the modern medical and pharmaceutical culture. Central to the film is the story of chiropractics, once considered by the western world quacks at best and cultists at wo ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    from jonrappoport.wordpress.com: You’re a farmer. Season after season, you watch your fields being taken over by Monsanto superweeds, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup. What are you going to do? You’re locked in. You’re buying your GMO seeds from Monsanto, and the food crops that g ...
  • Farm Theme Boosts Enrollment in Rural Kansas S ...
    from cryptogon.com: The first clue is a sign “Fresh Eggs for Sale” in front of the school. There is a sheep pen on the baseball field and the sounds of farm animals greet pupils every morning. This is not your ordinary elementary school. It is the Walton Rural Life Center, a kindergarten-th ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
    The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
  • Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
    Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...
  • Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By T ...
    The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits - so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?  Real household income is the lowest that it has been in a decade, poverty is absolutely soaring, 47 million Americans are on food stamps and the middle [...]
  • The Dow Hits An All-Time High! Translation: A ...
    Reckless money printing by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has pumped up the Dow to a brand new all-time high.  So what comes next?  Will the Dow go even higher?  Hopefully it will.  In fact, it would be great if the Dow was able to hit 15,000 before it finally came crashing down.  That wo ...
  • 30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Wi ...
    The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are being depleted at a very frightening pace, and many of the most important underground aquifers that we depend on to irrigate our crops will soon be gone. At this point, approximately 40 percent ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ) Release ...
    Another day, another game for Linux. This time, it is an official Valve title, and it is none other than Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ). The beta version of this game had a limited release earlier in February and now it is officially available for Linux via Steam. It is the fifth Valve ...
  • Flipkart, India's Biggest Online Music Retaile ...
    Flipkart is a hugely popular online retailing giant from India. Nearly an year ago, Flipkart launched Flyte music service which enabled its vast Indian user-base to buy and download legit copies of DRM free songs from a wide array of artists and movies at reasonable rates. One thing ...
  • Steam for Linux Adoption Spiking, Closes in on ...
    Exactly a month ago, we published Steam's hardware and software survey results for January with a lot of excitement. Many considered it as a one off event and predicted that Ubuntu and Linux won't be able to sustain that kind of momentum. Well, February's survey results are out and the percent ...
  • Ubuntu Speech Recognition App Enters Invite-On ...
    Just a day ago, we introduced you to an upcoming Ubuntu speech recognition app, which looked pretty amazing in the featured demo video. Its author, James McClain, had promised the imminent release of the app to the public with an open source license. Ubuntu voice recognition app has now e ...
  • Shank 2, Waking Mars Arrives on Steam for Linux
    Highly acclaimed 2D brawler, Shank 2, finally arrives on Steam for Linux. After the official release of Steam client last year, Valve created waves by finally making the Steam client available in Ubuntu Software Center for free download just a few days ago. Barrage of games went on SALE for a ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ChĂ vez, 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.

Veterans Today

  • Haredi Draft: “Glad to go to prison”
    Haredi Draft: “Glad to go to prison” …are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness — By www.roitov.com — For today, I was planning an update on Israel’s coalitional negotiations; ...
  • Belt-Way Whoppers
      THE USG IS BASED ON LIES, VERY, VERY BIG LIES. Even before WW1 and afterwards, the USG has a sordid history of BIG LIES.  And many of them are absurd, ridiculous lies the public just seems to accept despite all the evidence showing otherwise. ALMOST EVERYTHING THE USG STATES OFFICIALLY IS ...
  • Chavez: Visionary Leader Extraordinaire
    He and Castro matter most. They don't come any better. They transformed their countries responsibly. Doing so made the impossible possible. They did it against long odds. They won over hearts and minds.
  • Serial Killer Heads CIA
    Chalmers Johnson called the CIA the president's private army. Imperial Rome had its praetorian guard. It served and protected emperors.
  • Death of A Lion – Hugo Chavez 1955 &#821 ...
    The lion may be lying in state but the truth still lives, the revolution will continue on and there will be other lions who will carry the banner of nonviolent progressive social change and South America's regional integration

electric politics

  • The Bargain With Hell
    Delegates from the Northern and Southern States didn't do any simple deal over slavery in order to devise a Constitution. No: they consciously created a complex, interlocking system of iron-clad guarantees so that within the Union the institution of slavery would exist forever. These men truly i ...
  • A Question of Rights
    Every American has a basic human right to live without the threat of gun violence. And that right exists prior to all the legal or political barriers that get thrown at sane gun control measures. Paradoxically, perhaps, if the gun culture wants to deny us our human right to live in safety their ...
  • Slavery and the Second Amendment
    High School civics does not provide a sufficient basis for understanding the Constitution. "Exhibit A" being the Second Amendment. Whereas modern American myth treats the Second Amendment as if it were written to guarantee the right of freedom loving men to defend their homes and sacred honor, i ...
  • A Hermeneutic and an Erotic Philology (of Brig ...
    It's not that Brigitte Bardot brings life to the meaning of the word pulchritude, although of course she does, it's that somehow she forces us to cherish our ignorance of her. A truly rare (and great) gift. And if in the superposition of a spacetime vortex she fundamentally altered the history o ...
  • Wrangling the Facts
    From the earliest times diplomacy has been a balance between honest interlocution and soothing ephemera. The art, some say, of allowing another person to have things your way. And always — always — with an iron requirement for accurate factual appraisal. Ambassador Dan Simpson is one ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Mediterranean: NATO Must Hold Malta As It Grab ...
    Xinhua News Agency March 10, 2013 Malta’s Labour Party wins election: media ==== Malta: Case Study In NATO Subversion And Coercion Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterranean Through NATO ==== Standing NATO Maritime Group 2, which visited Malta last autumn VALLETTA: Malta’s op ...
  • Aldous Huxley: Science, technology harnessed t ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Aldous Huxley: Selections on war ==== Aldous Huxley From Science, Liberty and Peace (1946) In the course of the past two or three generations science and technology have equipped the political bosses who control the various nationa ...
  • NATO Holds Multinational Mountain Training Cou ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia March 9, 2013 Mountain Training Basic Winter Course in Bakuriani International mountain training course in the framework of the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) Program is underway at the Sachkhere Mountain Training School. 21 military servicemen from NATO member a ...
  • New Pentagon Chief: 96,000 U.S., NATO Troops S ...
    Trend News Agency March 9, 2013 US, coalition “still at war,” Hagel says in first foreign trip US and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan are “still at war,” said newly-appointed US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, who according to spokesman for the US military Jamie Graybeal ar ...
  • Romain Rolland: The abominable war crimes of i ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From On Behalf of the International of the Mind (1918) Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul If there are any to-day for whom modesty is befitting, it is the intellectuals. The part ...

Before It's News

Empty newsfeed.

Intel Hub

FRS

  • India: Brutal state’s war on the people ...
    We will defeat Maoists design through development: Jairam Ramesh PTI Mar 3, 2013 (“In the name of forest dwellers,…) BHAWANIPATNA (ODISHA): The Centre would “fight” Naxals through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, unio ...
  • India: Brutal state’s war on the people ...
    We will defeat Maoists design through development: Jairam Ramesh PTI Mar 3, 2013 (“In the name of forest dwellers,…) BHAWANIPATNA (ODISHA): The Centre would “fight” Naxals through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, unio ...
  • Forced labor in India — 37 bonded labore ...
    The Times of India,  February 24, 2013 BHOPAL: The Morena district administration with the help on an NGO rescued 37 bonded labourers including women and children from a brick kiln in Joura tehsil.Sources in the district administration said, of these 21 labourers hail from Hathras district in Ut ...
  • Forced labor in India — 37 bonded labore ...
    The Times of India,  February 24, 2013 BHOPAL: The Morena district administration with the help on an NGO rescued 37 bonded labourers including women and children from a brick kiln in Joura tehsil.Sources in the district administration said, of these 21 labourers hail from Hathras district in Ut ...
  • Revealed: Pentagon’s link to Iraqi tortu ...
    Exclusive: General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse Mona Mahmood, Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Teresa Smith The Guardian, Wednesday 6 March 2013 The Guardian investigation was spurred by the 2010 Wikileaks release. ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Rand Paul Stands Tall in 13-Hour Fillibuster
    It was like something out of a movie when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky took to the floor of the Senate and conducted a 13 hour filibuster, holding up the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director, demanding the answer to one question.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 07, 2013
  • Death of Chavez Provides Opportunities for Ven ...
    Now that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan tyrant, has shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving Hollywood, Cuba, and Iran in severe mourning, the people of the country his misruled have a chance to begin to take their destiny into their own hands.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 06, 2013
  • Hacking an Act of War? China Hacking Report Ra ...
    A new reports blames China for extensive hacking into U.S. companies and organizations, claiming that People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 is a government/military corps of hackers dangerously proficient in gaining access to American servers.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Feb 19, 2013
  • SOTU: Obama was Right to Call for Nuclear Arms ...
    The U.S. has more than enough nuclear weapons to defend itself, and it has no moral high ground to call on countries like North Korea and Iran to not create any while we hoard and/or build more nuclear weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Feb 13, 2013
  • Dorner Case Tests the LAPD
    It seems an inappropriate time to review the firing of fugitive Christopher Dorner--yet that's what LAPD chief Charlie Beck ordered.Contributor: Anthony Ventre Published: Feb 11, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • SXSW 2013: Al Gore On The Future [Live]
    WSJ reporter Walter Mossberg interviews Al Gore at SXSW. Live broadcast by Ustream
  • SXSW 2013: Watch Elon Musk's Keynote Speech Live
    SpaceX's Elon Musk is giving the keynote speech at SXSW this year. Watch it here. Live Video app for Facebook by Ustream
  • How Inkjet Printers Are Helping Scientists Dis ...
    Hewlett Packard has spent the past 25 years in the printing business, enabling legions of businesses to print documents and photos. But that hasn’t been the company’s only endeavor. Over the past 10 years, HP’s research and development teams have been working on ways to transfer standard inkje ...
  • Are Functional MRI Scans Not Functioning Right?
    A new study says results from some fMRI scans are unintentionally distorted and inaccurate, enough that some papers based around the process could be seriously questionable. fMRI is one of the most popular ways to scan the human brain. A lot of those light-up brain photos you see? fMRIs. fMRIs ...
  • FYI: How Do You Keep A Dead Political Leader F ...
    The corpse of Hugo Chavez is on display for a week. The death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has been met with mixed feelings here in the US. But he was adored in his country, at least by those who didn't despise him, so after his death, his vice-president, Nicolas Maduro, stated that his ...

Veterans Today

  • Haredi Draft: “Glad to go to prison”
    Haredi Draft: “Glad to go to prison” …are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness — By www.roitov.com — For today, I was planning an update on Israel’s coalitional negotiations; ...
  • Belt-Way Whoppers
      THE USG IS BASED ON LIES, VERY, VERY BIG LIES. Even before WW1 and afterwards, the USG has a sordid history of BIG LIES.  And many of them are absurd, ridiculous lies the public just seems to accept despite all the evidence showing otherwise. ALMOST EVERYTHING THE USG STATES OFFICIALLY IS ...
  • Chavez: Visionary Leader Extraordinaire
    He and Castro matter most. They don't come any better. They transformed their countries responsibly. Doing so made the impossible possible. They did it against long odds. They won over hearts and minds.
  • Serial Killer Heads CIA
    Chalmers Johnson called the CIA the president's private army. Imperial Rome had its praetorian guard. It served and protected emperors.
  • Death of A Lion – Hugo Chavez 1955 &#821 ...
    The lion may be lying in state but the truth still lives, the revolution will continue on and there will be other lions who will carry the banner of nonviolent progressive social change and South America's regional integration

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • A Bit Less Lame Than US-EU FTA: Japan in TPP
    After the "who cares" of the US-EU FTA, here's something marginally more significant. There is no doubt that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is seeking American favour in a very big way. The postwar US-Japan relationship has been characterized by lopsided deals to the former's advantage. Think of limitin ...
  • Americans Who Hate America: Latino Sports Fans
    One of the more interesting aspects of the increasingly Hispanic population of the United States is their dislike of American national teams when they face those of Mexico. This phenomenon has been going on for years when football's (soccer's) Team USA faces--or, more accurately, get its butt wh ...
  • Neymar! Reducing Brazil's Football 'Trade Surplus'
    It's time for another sporting feature since we haven't had one for quite some time now. Fortunately, there's interesting stuff courtesy of TIME Magazine about the changing complexion of "the beautiful game." Even if the Brazilian economy has cooled off markedly in recent times, it has had a str ...
  • The World According to Lee Kuan Yew, Aged 89
    There is a vast difference between an electioneer and a statesman. Barack Obama is in many ways a master electioneer--very good at winning elections but very poor at running a country. A vapid and superficial character, he unfailingly exemplifies the "free lunch with extra sidings" American soci ...
  • I [Heart] Sequester Even if US is Still Screwed
    Once upon a time, the great American soul singer James Brown styled himself as Soul Brother #1. In these days of America being flushed down the toilet of history [whooosh], they alas have replaced this great entertainer of the past with a great appeaser of the present who caters to every infanti ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
    The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
  • Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
    Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...
  • Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By T ...
    The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits - so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?  Real household income is the lowest that it has been in a decade, poverty is absolutely soaring, 47 million Americans are on food stamps and the middle [...]
  • The Dow Hits An All-Time High! Translation: A ...
    Reckless money printing by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has pumped up the Dow to a brand new all-time high.  So what comes next?  Will the Dow go even higher?  Hopefully it will.  In fact, it would be great if the Dow was able to hit 15,000 before it finally came crashing down.  That wo ...
  • 30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Wi ...
    The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are being depleted at a very frightening pace, and many of the most important underground aquifers that we depend on to irrigate our crops will soon be gone. At this point, approximately 40 percent ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

Empty newsfeed.

Voiceless Victim

  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Haiti: UN expert calls for strengthening state ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today wrapped up a visit to Haiti by calling for the strengthening of State institutions so they can play their key role in the running of the country and in the functioning of democracy.
  • UN chief saddened by death of Venezuelan Presi ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was saddened by the death of Venezuelan President Hugo ChĂĄvez, who died yesterday after struggling with cancer for almost two years.
  • UN welcomes news of HIV baby who appears to be ...
    The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today welcomed the news that a baby treated in the United States with antiretroviral drugs during the first months of her life appears to be functionally cured of the disease.
  • UN human rights experts urge greater oversight ...
    A group of United Nations independent experts back from Honduras today urged that Government to tighten oversight of the increasing number of private security companies, as well as to strengthen the judicial system to properly investigate and prosecute potential human rights violations stemm ...
  • Haiti: fight against cholera continues, but cl ...
    The United Nations has ramped up its efforts to eliminate cholera in Haiti. At the same time, claims against the Organization on that matter are "not receivable," a spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, after officials in the Caribbean nation were informed of the decision.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Lucky Bobcat!
    This situation doesn’t always work out this way for the wildlife caught in illegal traps.  Great story as told by one of the rescuers.
  • Dave on Santa Fe Public Radio
    A reminder that Dave Foreman’s program in Cerrillos, NM is fast approaching. We’ll begin at 2pm in the Cerrillos Hills State Park Visitor Center in beautiful ‘down-town’ Cerrillos, allowing time for a Q&A session as well as a book signing. Please contact Cindy Roper (505-466-3536 ...
  • LOOKING FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR NEW MEXICO ...
    Dear Wildlovers, Sorry for the wide broadcast of this announcement, but I helped launch NMWA in 1997 in the hopes it could be a model for a new-style wilderness outfit that embraced rewilding principles.  NMWA is now looking for a new ED and I am on the search committee.  I would like to find ca ...
  • Sea Shepherd Australia block a third attempt t ...
    MEDIA UPDATE ON CLASH IN ANTARCTIC WHALE SANCTUARY - JAPAN SENDS IN MILITARY SUPPORT TO PROTECT ILLEGAL WHALING FLEET More PICTURES Feb. 25, 2013 – MELBOURNE, Australia  — Sea Shepherd Australia has successfully blocked a third attempt to refuel the Japanese whaling fleet, which is illegally ope ...
  • Crosshairs on Yellowstone: Decaying Management ...
    A new paper by Dr. Brian L. Horejsi, ecologist and wildlife scientist There are five sections in this paper: For Whose benefit? Beware the Legacy Builders. A Monster at Mammoth Cumulative Effects are Massing but impact analysis is AWOL. Closed doors shield transactions worth hundreds of millions ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Senator Rand Paul Issues a Warning...
    "The Senate has the power to restrain the executive branch, and my filibuster was the beginning of the fight to restore a healthy balance of powers."  read more
  • It's a Done Deal... Brennan Takes Oath on DRAF ...
    “There’s one piece of this that I wanted to note for you,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. “Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution that had George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it, dating from ...
  • The Constitution For Dummies ~ Judge Andrew Na ...
    Judge Andrew Napolitano on the history of the federal government's neglect, disdain, and continual erosion of the Constitution from John Adams to George W. Bush. Learn about the "Alien and Sedition Act", FISA, and the Patriot Act and what we must do to get back to Constitutional fidelity at ...
  • Protecting the Constitution... Sheriff Boldly ...
    Recent comments on gun control by Milwaukee Police Chief Flynn highlight, for me, a problem with law enforcement in this country. Too often, law enforcement leaders confuse all citizens with criminals, and see themselves as “kings” of their jurisdiction instead of employees of the people. ~ ...
  • Goodbye to Animal Ownership...
    As astounding as it may seem, laws and regulations have been or are now being put into place to remove the right for Americans to own animals. This is being done under many pretexts, all of them bogus, all camouflaged  as beneficial for either the animals or public. ~ Taylor Whitney read ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Make a killing with Precious Metals
    by: TripodXL I apologize for the title now. The point is that at the level of the common ordinary person there is no way to make a killing in precious metals. The real opportunities for doing so are few and far in between. The point of this is to demonstrate the need for precious metals [...]
  • Prepping When You’re Poor
    I recently received an email asking how to become better prepared when you are poor. This person is interested to do more to be better prepared, but apparently has no funds to do so. Admittedly, this is difficult, but the situation can be turned around by going about preparedness in a different ...
  • Why ‘Modern Survival Blog’?
    I wrote this article not long after I started this blog in January 2010. I thought that some of you may be interested in what inspired me to do so back then, which is still valid today.   Modern Survival Blog is just one of many survival preparedness related blogs on the web today, and [...]
  • Purify Water With Sunlight (Glass or Plastic?)
    Here’s a survival tip… Did you know that you can purify water with sunlight? The article “How to Purify Water with Sunlight” describes the process in more detail (it’s surprisingly simple). In short, it’s a matter of utilizing UV (ultraviolet) light from the s ...
  • 10 Considerations For Survival Bike Features
    Submitted by: Minnesota Nate I’m a young bike nerd, only partially interested in survivalism, but interested none the less. I skimmed/read a little over half of the comments to the article, The Best Survival Bicycle, so hopefully I won’t be redundant, but here are my very thorough considerations ...

Fast Company

  • Louis CK Goes Meta In a Promo That Mocks Most ...
    During an ad for his upcoming HBO stand-up special, Louis CK explains how ads for HBO stand-up specials work. The promotional part of being a celebrity seems to make Louis CK’s skin crawl. The widely respected comic recently turned a standard questionnaire in Vanity Fair into an evis ...
  • SpaceX Founder Elon Musk Considered Buying Rus ...
    "I went to Russia three times to try to buy a couple of their biggest ICBMs," the SpaceX and Tesla founder Musk told the audience at SXSW interactive. He decided against trying to buy weapons of mass destruction. What was the motivation for Elon Musk to start SpaceX, his aerospace company? ...
  • Google, Adidas Partner For Shoes That Talk [Sl ...
    Google and Apple aren't the only ones with wearable tech. And Nike isn't the only company with smart shoes that connect with your social network. Adidas new Google-powered shoe has an accelerometer, gyro, and pressure sensor embedded in the sole. And it talks. When it comes to wearable com ...
  • Tesla's Elon Musk Accuses New York Times Repor ...
    Asked on stage at SXSW about the back-and-forth over the paper's review of the electric car, Musk said, "I would call it a low-grade violation … not of the Jayson Blair crazy fabrication variety." Elon Musk, the ever-busy CEO behind SpaceX and SolarCity, couldn't hold his tongue whe ...
  • Google Close To Settling Street View Investigation
    The tech giant could pay $7 million to settle the privacy claims, Bloomberg News is reporting. As of Friday afternoon, Google is reportedly about to pay $7 million to settle claims that it improperly collected personal data for Street View, Bloomberg News reported. The case dates back to 2 ...

Jadaliyya

  • ملف من Ű§Ù„ŰŁŰ±ŰŽÙŠÙ: ÙŰŻÙˆÙ‰ Ű·ÙˆÙ‚Ű§Ù†
    [”ملف من Ű§Ù„ŰŁŰ±ŰŽÙŠÙ“ Ù‡ÙŠ ŰłÙ„ŰłŰ© ŰȘقوم ”ŰŹŰŻÙ„ÙŠŰ©“ ŰšÙ†ŰŽŰ±Ù‡Ű§ ŰšŰ§Ù„ŰčŰ±ŰšÙŠŰ© ÙˆŰ§Ù„Ű„Ù†ŰŹÙ„ÙŠŰČÙŠŰ© ŰšŰ§Ù„ŰȘŰčŰ§ÙˆÙ† مŰč ŰŹŰ±ÙŠŰŻŰ© ”Ű§Ù„ŰłÙÙŠŰ±“ Ű§Ù„Ù„ŰšÙ†Ű§Ù†ÙŠŰ©. Ű§Ù„Ù…Ù„ÙŰ§ŰȘ Ù„ŰŽŰźŰ”ÙŠŰ§ŰȘ ŰŁÙŠÙ‚ÙˆÙ†ÙŠŰ© ŰȘŰ±ÙƒŰȘ ۣ۫۱ًۧ ŰčÙ…ÙŠÙ‚Ű§ً في Ű§Ù„Ű­Ù‚Ù„ Ű§Ù„ŰłÙŠŰ§ŰłÙŠ ÙˆŰ§Ù„Ű«Ù‚Ű§ÙÙŠ في Ű§Ù„ŰčŰ§Ù„Ù… Ű§Ù„ŰčŰ±ŰšÙŠ.] Ű§Ù„Ű§ŰłÙ…: ÙŰŻÙˆÙ‰ Ű§Ù„ŰŽÙ‡Ű±Ű©: Ű·ÙˆÙ‚Ű§Ù† Ű§ŰłÙ… Ű§Ù„ŰŁŰš: Űčۚۯ Ű§Ù„ÙŰȘۭۧ ŰąŰșۧ Ű·ÙˆÙ‚Ű§Ù† Ű§ŰłÙ… Ű§Ù„ŰŁÙ…: ÙÙˆŰČ ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (March 8)
     [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@ ...
  • Ű§Ù„Ű«ÙˆŰ±Ű© ŰŁÙ†Ű«Ù‰
    ŰŽŰ§Ű±ÙƒŰȘ Ű§Ù„Ù…Ű±ŰŁŰ© Ű§Ù„ŰčŰ±ŰšÙŠŰ© في Ű§Ù„Ű«ÙˆŰ±Ű§ŰȘ Ű§Ù„ŰčŰ±ŰšÙŠŰ© Űčلى Ù…ŰŻÙ‰ Ű§Ù„ŰłÙ†ŰȘين Ű§Ù„Ù…Ű§Ű¶ÙŠŰȘين ŰšŰ§ŰŽÙƒŰ§Ù„ ÙˆŰ§ŰŻÙˆŰ§Ű± Ù…ŰźŰȘÙ„ÙŰ©. ومŰč Ű°Ù„Ùƒ، ÙŠŰ·Ù„ ŰčÙŠŰŻÙ‡Ű§ ÙˆŰłŰ· Ù…Ű­Ű§ÙˆÙ„Ű§ŰȘ Ű­Ű«ÙŠŰ«Ű© Ù„Ű§ŰčۧۯŰȘÙ‡Ű§ Ű„Ù„Ù‰ Ű§Ù„ŰšÙŠŰȘ ÙˆŰ„Ù„Ù‰ «ŰšÙŠŰȘ Ű§Ù„Ű·Ű§ŰčŰ©» مŰčÙ…Ű§ ÙŠŰ±Ű§ÙÙ‚ Ű°Ù„Ùƒ من ۧ۳ŰȘŰźŰŻŰ§Ù… للŰȘŰŽŰ±ÙŠŰčۧŰȘ  ÙˆÙ„Ù„Ù…Ù…Ű§Ű±ŰłŰ§ŰȘ Ű§Ù„Ű§ŰŹŰȘÙ…Ű§ŰčÙŠŰ© Ű¶ŰŻÙ‡Ű§. كل Ù…Ű§ ÙŠŰ±Ù…ÙŠ Ű„Ù„Ù‰ Ű§Ù„Ű§Ű±ŰȘۯۧۯ Űčلى Ű§Ù„ŰŻÙˆÙ„Ű© Ű§Ù„Ù…ŰŻÙ†ÙŠŰ© ÙŠŰ”ÙŠŰš Ű§Ù„Ù…Ű±ŰŁŰ©. ÙˆÙ‡Ű°Ű§ Ű§Ù„ ...
  • Űčن Ű«ÙˆŰ±Ű© Ű§Ù„Ù…ÙˆŰłÙŠÙ‚Ù‰ Ű§Ù„ÙƒÙ„Ű§ŰłÙŠÙƒÙŠŰ© ÙˆÙ‚Ű§ŰčۧŰȘ Ű§Ù„ŰłÙ„Ű·Ű© ÙˆŰŁÙ…Ùˆ ...
    Ű§Ù†ŰȘهŰČŰȘ ÙŰ±Ű”Ű© ŰčŰ·Ù„Ű© Ù†Ù‡Ű§ÙŠŰ© Ű§Ù„ŰŁŰłŰšÙˆŰč Ù„Ù„ŰźŰ±ÙˆŰŹ Ù‚Ù„ÙŠÙ„Ű§ً ÙˆŰ§Ù„ŰȘŰźÙÙŠÙ من Ű§Ù„Ű¶ŰșÙˆŰ·. ŰŻŰźÙ„ŰȘ وŰČÙˆŰŹŰȘي Ù…Ű·Űčم Busboys في ێۧ۱Űč Ù‚Ű±ÙŠŰš من ێۧ۱Űč U Ű°ÙŠ Ű§Ù„ŰȘŰ§Ű±ÙŠŰź Ű§Ù„Ù…Ű±ŰȘۚ۷ ŰšÙ†Ű¶Ű§Ù„ Ű§Ù„ŰłÙˆŰŻ من ŰŁŰŹÙ„ Ű­Ù‚ÙˆÙ‚Ù‡Ù… Ű§Ù„Ù…ŰŻÙ†ÙŠŰ©. ÙƒŰ§Ù† Ù†Ű”ÙŠŰšÙ†Ű§ في Ű§Ù„ŰŹÙ„ÙˆŰł ŰšÙ‚Ű§ŰčŰ© Ű§Ù„ŰčŰ±ÙˆŰ¶ Ű§Ù„ÙƒÙ„Ű§ŰłÙŠÙƒÙŠŰ©، Ű­ÙŠŰ« ŰȘÙ†Ű§ÙˆÙ„Ù†Ű§ Ű§Ù„Ű·ŰčŰ§Ù… Űčلى ŰŁÙ„Ű­Ű§Ù† Ù…ÙˆŰłÙŠÙ‚Ù‰ ÙƒÙ„Ű§ŰłÙŠÙƒÙŠŰ© ŰčŰČÙÙ‡Ű§ ŰšŰč۶ ŰŁŰč۶ۧۥ Ű­Ű±ÙƒŰ© Classical Revolut ...
  • في ŰȘلك Ű§Ù„Ù…ŰłŰȘŰčÙ…Ű±Ű© Ű§Ù„ŰłŰčÙŠŰŻŰ© Ù„ÙŠŰł Ù„Ù†Ű§ من Ű§Ù„ŰŁŰŽÙŠŰ§ŰĄ Ű„Ù„ ...
    ŰȘŰŹŰ±ÙŠ Ű§Ù„Űčۚۧ۱۩ Ű§Ù„ŰŁŰźÙŠŰ±Ű© في Ű±ÙˆŰ§ÙŠŰ© "Ű±Ű§Ù… Ű§Ù„Ù„Ù‡ Ű§Ù„ŰŽÙ‚Ű±Ű§ŰĄ" (ŰčŰšّۧۯ ÙŠŰ­ÙŠÙ‰، ۯۧ۱ Ű§Ù„ÙÙŠÙ„ 2013) Ù‡ÙƒŰ°Ű§: " في Ű±Ű§Ù… Ű§Ù„Ù„Ù‡ نكŰȘفي من Ű§Ù„ŰŁŰŽÙŠŰ§ŰĄ ŰšŰŁŰłÙ…Ű§ŰŠÙ‡Ű§ .. Ù‡Ű°Ű§ Ù‚ŰŻŰ± Ù…Ű­ŰȘوم يفŰȘك ŰšÙƒÙ„ من ÙŠŰŻŰźÙ„Ù‡Ű§ ". Ű„ÙŠŰŹŰ§ŰČٌ ŰšÙ„ÙŠŰș Ű„Ù„Ù‰ Ű­ŰŻ Ű§Ù„ÙŠŰŁŰł لŰčŰ§Ù„Ù…ٍ يŰȘكون من ŰŽŰžŰ§ÙŠŰ§ ŰŁÙŠÙ†Ù…Ű§ Ű§Ù„ŰȘفŰȘَ؛ Ű„Ù„Ù‰ Ű§Ù„ŰŽÙˆŰ§Ű±Űč ÙˆŰ§Ù„ŰšŰ§Ű±Ű§ŰȘ ÙˆŰ§Ù„Ù…Ű·Ű§Űčم ÙˆŰ§Ù„Ù…Ű±Ű§ÙƒŰČ Ű§Ù„Ű«Ù‚Ű§ÙÙŠŰ© ÙˆŰ§Ù„Ù… ...

mediagazer

  • The Danger of Suppressing the Leaks (Margaret ...
    Margaret Sullivan / New York Times: The Danger of Suppressing the Leaks  —  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 sit ...
  • Revenge of the sources - I understand why a pr ...
    Ezra Klein / Wonkblog: Revenge of the sources  —  I understand why a professional journalist like Nate Thayer would be frustrated at being asked to work for “exposure” rather than work for pay, though I think it's unprofessional to vent that frustration by publishing ...
  • The Weather Channel's Secret Plan (David Freed ...
    David Freedlander / The Daily Beast: The Weather Channel's Secret Plan  —  And that's just the start of the forecasting behemoth's plans for global domination.  Say goodbye to your local weatherman. … As a late-winter snowstorm barreled down from the Midwest, threate ...
  • Content Subscription Site NSFW Corp. Expanding ...
    Bill Mickey / Folio: Content Subscription Site NSFW Corp. Expanding into Print  —  Initial print run capped at 5,000 copies.  —  Paul Carr, a former TechCrunch writer, is prepping a relaunch of his NSFW Corp., a subscription-based content site featuring a comedic ...
  • How the fastest-growing media site could help ...
    Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: How the fastest-growing media site could help Democrats win the next election  —  Upworthy, a viral media site, is less than a year old but already has more than 9 million monthly viewers.  That outpaces the early days of other viral sites l ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Indie pop place to shop for new talent: A ...
    Tweet New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Singer-composer Adnan Sami feels that new independent singers and musicians should be encouraged and says Bollywood can find new talent in the Indie pop genre. "The face of today's Bollywood music is result of independent musicians who were allowed to come in ...
  • Delhi among 5 hotspots of illegal trade o ...
    New Delhi: Delhi, Sunderbans and the Western Ghats are among the hotspots of illegal trade of tigers, their parts and products, says a new global report. The joint report by the global wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC and WWF Tigers Alive Initiative, titled "Reduced to Skin and Bone ...
  • Boston Celtics (34-27) at Oklahoma City T ...
    It appears it will be a three-team race for the NBA's top record and the Oklahoma City Thunder are right in the mix. The Thunder are battling both Miami and San Antonio for the league's best mark and are back home Sunday for a matinee affair versus the Boston Celtics. Oklahoma City just got ...
  • Cleveland Cavaliers (21-41) at Toronto Ra ...
    Third-quarter woes have plagued the Cleveland Cavaliers the last few games, prompting All-Star guard Kyrie Irving to say the team needs to find a rhythm coming out at halftime. Irving will have a chance to see if his words set in with his teammates when the Cavaliers visit the Toronto Raptor ...
  • Jose de Jesus Gallegos Alvarez Dead: Jali ...
    GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- The recently appointed tourism minister in western Jalisco state was shot to death Saturday while driving in a suburb of Guadalajara in an attack that may have been related to his business dealings, authorities said. Jose de Jesus Gallegos Alvarez was shot with a 9-mm ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/7/13 - 11 States with Pending Legislation to ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org  - UPDATED: 11 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - New bills to legalize medical marijuana were introduced in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, and West Virginia. Bills in Oklahoma and South Dakota have died.
  • 3/5/13 - Critical Thinking Video Series #3: El ...
    votingmachines.procon.org – Critical Thinking Video Series #3: Electronic Voting Machines – Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process by using modern technology to our advantage, reducing lost votes, and expanding access for blind voters and non-English speakers? Or do they increa ...
  • 2/21/13 - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medi ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Defeated - The House Rules Committee gave HB84 an "unfavorable report," which killed the bill on Feb. 20, 2013. Eight states currently have pending legislation that would legalize medical marijuana if passed.
  • 2/21/13 - Incarcerated Felon Population by Typ ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Incarcerated Felon Population by Type of Crime Committed, 1974-2010 - As of 2010, US state and federal prisons housed a total of 1,552,600 inmates. In state prisons, 53.2% of the prisoners are in for violent crimes, while in federal prisons 52.1% are in for drug-relate ...
  • 2/21/13 - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medi ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Defeated - The House Rules Committee gave HB84 an "unfavorable report," which killed the bill on Feb. 20, 2013. Eight states currently have pending legislation that would legalize medical marijuana if passed.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match… just ...
    I don’t imagine I will go back there often, but I found myself at the Carlton Club last night. I...
  • Brian Cox does some heavy lifting for UK science
    A personable presentation and a skilled Q&A given by Brian Cox last night, on receipt of the 27th Royal Society Michael Faraday award and lecture. Cox shared a story, his own personal timeline – a scientific journey littered by moments and personalities (Apollo, Benoski, Sagan, Feynman, the ...
  • Ashes to Ashes
    “Ashes to ashes” is how Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) John Beddington’s term in office has been coined, as he started with the crisis around the volcanic eruption of ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano and is coming to a close with the issues around Ash die-back disease affe ...
  • Memorable metaphors and the Two-Row Wampum
    There are a few big ideas – or metaphors for them – that tend to resurface time and time again in my mind. Admittedly, these are usually provided by the likes of Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett or Bob Dylan. But more frequently than you might think, the world of science policy offers up ...
  • Cymrodyr Cymru: Carlton House Terrace hits Cardiff
    The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences. This national remit can sometimes be overlooked given how much of our activity takes place at Carlton House Terrace in London. This week I have been reminding myself that the rest of the UK exists by visiting Manchester and Cardif ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Round table discussion with studio guests Damo ...
    In today's show we take a look at some of the challenges to unconstutional laws which have been rolled out in Australia, with a close look at speeding fines. I am joined in studio for the discussion by Damon Crowe and Chris Tolland. In part 2 of the show we play you some highlights from a re ...
  • Malcolm Roberts exposes deceptions of the IPCC ...
    Malcolm Roberts is an indefatigable warrior for truth, reason and science, rationally opposing the evolving feudal super state which is now being formed around the world from the broken remnants of western (former) democracies. In today's show Malcolm shares some of his new research into the C ...
  • Child abuse in foster care and orphanages is a ...
    Forgotten Australians National Day of Action - 6 Feb 2013 With all the news we have heard over the years about the abuse of children in various Church organisations you may have drawn the conclusion that everything is now out in the open and, the worst is behind us and the wheels of justice ar ...
  • Fracked to death: how gas companies and their ...
    Explaining coal seam gas and its extraction (Source) Today's show reveals the shocking truth about the toxic, and one might say, genocidal effects of Coal Seam Gas, which is now spreading like a cancer throughout the country in both rural and urban environments. My guest in the second hour i ...
  • Count me out of the Sandy Hook truther movement!
    You know what worries me even more than the predatory agenda of the ruling elites? It's the tendency of truthers to fall into line like lemmings on any given conspiracy, to engage in mass group think and, even worse, the readiness to leap to defammatory accusations about people whom they know ...

Beacon

  • Removing Walls of Death: Saving Sea Turtles fr ...
    The leatherback, a common victim of drift gillnets. Photo: NOAA An endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle swims through the cold, nutrient-rich waters off California where it has made an impressive journey from its nesting beaches in Indonesia to feed on jellyfish. But, it encounters an un ...
  • Competing Pressures for the Arctic
    The Arctic is a fragile ecosystem sitting alone at the top of the world. Well, it used to be alone.  Now, countries and corporations are competing for a share of its economic potential—its rich natural resources, untapped energy sources, and emerging trade routes. On March 12 The Econom ...
  • Congress Acts to Stop Seafood Fraud After Ocea ...
    Uncle Sam is on to you, fake white tuna © Oceana On the heels of a sweeping Oceana investigation that found that 33 percent of 1,215 seafood samples tested nationwide were mislabeled, Congress has taken action. On Wednesday Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced the Safety and Fraud E ...
  • Mystery of the Corkscrew Seals: Fatal Attraction
    Artist's depiction of corkscrew wounds Between June 2008 and December 2010, more than 76 seals washed up dead on the shores of the UK: harbor and grey seals, male and female, juvenile and adult, with one similarity - an identical curvilinear skin laceration spiraling along the length of the b ...
  • New Report: 100 Million Sharks Are Killed Each ...
    Shark fins at a Hong Kong market. Photo: Wikimedia Commons There’s a new estimate for how many sharks are killed each year by fishermen worldwide and the news is grim. Despite growing awareness of the threat sharks face and legislative efforts around the globe to stem the unsustainable harves ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Empty newsfeed.

Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: Gay Candidate’s Murder Being Inves ...
    Marco McMillian, 34, was running as an openly gay, African American mayoral candidate in Clarksdale, Mississippi. From Queerty: McMillian was initially reported missing after Lawrence Reed, 22, crashed his SUV (on March 28) … . Reed was airlifted to Memphis where he was treated for his inj ...
  • Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on Women and Succes ...
    Sandberg claims Lean In is “sort of” a feminist manifesto. For me, it was simply a powerful woman’s tale of getting to the top. My amoebic blob of a career, very much in its infancy, appreciated the nuggets of wisdom shared. Finishing the last page, I thought: This is a book ev ...
  • The Dinner of Dinners: The Obamas and The Clintons
    IT HAD to have been one of the most interesting dinners inside the White House walls in history. There hasn’t been two power couples like the Obamas and Clintons in modern time. From Politico: On March 1st, the president, First Lady Michelle, former President Bill Clinton and outgoing Secr ...
  • Whole Foods Takes Stand on GMO Labeling, Fight ...
    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. [...] Genetically modified organism have been manipulated through ge ...
  • Let’s Spring Forward and Never Fall Back
    Hawaii, most of Arizona and U.S. territories don’t follow daylight saving time. But in addition to Florida, a handful of other states have also recently discussed the issue this year, including New Mexico. [Politico] IT’S TIME to end the outdated notion of falling back into darkness. Flori ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians Plan "Warm" Welcome for Obama
    US President Barack Obama is coming to the Middle East later this month to explore the possibility of resuming peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. But while Obama is thinking of ways to revive the stalled peace talks, Palestinian
  • The Current Limits of U.S.-Israel Security Coo ...
    Shared values and democratic systems count for a lot in the political world -- and they can advance military cooperation -- but national security interests can evolve without them. No one would mistake Saudi Arabia or Bahrain for a country that shares
  • Europe Rolls Over for Hezbollah Blackmail
    The main objective of Israeli President Shimon Peres's week-long state visit to Brussels, Paris and Strasbourg March 5-12 is apparently to persuade reluctant European leaders to designate Lebanon's Hezbollah movement a terrorist organization.
  • "Moderate" Turkey
    A crisis began in the southeast Turkish province of Malatya last summer, 2012. In the town of Surgu, more than 50 people gathered in front of the home of a mixed family of Alevi and Sunni Muslims; they were yelling, "Death to Alevis! Death to Kurds!"
  • Palestinians' Double-Standards Exposed Again
    Six days after Arafat Jaradat was found dead in Israel's Megiddo Prison, another detainee died in a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho. Jaradat's death triggered widespread condemnations not only from Palestinians but also from international human

Urban Survival

  • Jobs to Become Extinct in 159-Years!
    Fri: 10:10 AM Update: Corrected link in belt buckle story…   We have a couple of biggies on the plate for breakfast.  One is the Federal Reserve’s Consumer Debt Report, which shows basically no credit card use increase, but an … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Rip-off Writers & Part-Time Honesty
    As you know, I do a lot of reading and writing – and have for about 15-years with the UrbanSurvival site and, since 2001 the www.peoplenomics.com site.  Peoplenomics has been especially fun because a) it pays for the overhead – … Continue reading →
  • The Sequestration Rally
    Once again the stock market (by the Dow) is pointing to a higher open, at least it was ahead of the morning roll of economic press releases.  So what does it mean?  Near as I can figure, it means that … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Shop, the Prepper, and the Go-Kart
    Spending money on whimsical things for my home workshop (and personal amusement) is not a bad thing.  Every so often it pays off in strange ways.   One example is my recent acquisition of a set of “Clecos”.  There are … Continue reading →
  • Market Record On Tap
    Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…  Our proprietary trading indicator over on the Peoplenomics website has really paid off:  market is about to hit a new all-time closing high today.  The market by the Dow closed yesterday at 14,127.82, and … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • PRISONER OF SUCCESS
    It had four walls like every other room I was used to. Except that one of the walls was made of iron bars. There wasn’t much in the room. Just me, my pride and a mattress that was there before I came. I hadn’t always been there. I was told that it was the place [...]
  • YOUR FLY IS DOWN
    “What! Not again….im late; my boss is going to kill me!” I frantically grabbed my stuff from the dresser and raced to the kitchen door. No time to have a shower. What’s the point in getting there even more late? I made it to the office in record time. Record time considering I was late [...]
  • ONE WEIRD NAIJA FANTASY
    He had a beard and two short whiskers that peeked innocently from his nostrils. He twirled them gently as he stared directly at me, wondering what I had to offer. He had a long stick in his hand, presumably to keep himself from falling over. He was old you see. Old enough to see the [...]
  • FLASH FICTION: Best Laid Plans – By: Tol ...
    “Thanks for a lovely evening darling.” Yomi said, as they walked through the door of their home. “It’s been a while since you treated me to dinner and a show at the theatre.” “It was nothing.” Sade said brightly. “I had a great time too. Would you like a cup of tea before we go [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

Empty newsfeed.

NRDC Switchboard

  • Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: Not the Jobs P ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. The State Department draft environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline shows how TransCanada, the American Petroleum Institute and other proponents of the pipelin ...
  • Latin America Green News: HidroAysĂ©n decision ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. March 1-8, 2013 Chile Endesa and ColbĂșn, the companies behind ...
  • Colorado takes step in the right direction tow ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. In past blogs, I as well as colleagues at NRDC have expressed our strong support for the authority of local governments to protect their residents from the risks of fracking. I also blogged about my ...
  • The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline; a 21st Cen ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Canada harbors some of the great environmental Arctic treasures of the world, magnificent polar bears, wildlife and fisheries unique to its pristine Arctic shores. But the land of the Mapl ...
  • This is transit-oriented development?
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Yikes.  I literally do not know where to start with today’s article.  But I’ll give it a shot:  at the top, you’re looking at the view northwa ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, March 7, 2013: Mcallen, Texas: A federal grand jury indicted three more law enforcement officers on drug conspiracy charges. The indictment charges them with conspiring to possess with intent … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job
    More here.CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • ACLU Looks into Militarization Trend in Police ...
    From Huffington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Update: Denver, Colorado: A police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping. He was in uniform when he came … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
  • Worst of the Month – February 2013
    This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner.   There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than his/her use of deadly force.  If they get … Continue reading →Worst of ...

Total Collapse

  • North Korea Forces Await ‘Final Strike Order’ ...
    North Korea’s forces which include the military, the navy and the air force are reported to be awaiting “final order” from the country’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un to plunge into action. Ahead of a ten-day joint computer-simulated drill to be conducted by the US and South ...
  • North Korea demands apology from South Korea f ...
    Recent statements by Seoul have angered Pyongyang to the extent that the latter considers them a cry for war. This follows North Korea’s nullifying all non-aggression pacts and cutting the hotline with its southern neighbor. According to North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, Pyongyang’s senio ...
  • Chavez: Another CIA Assassination Victim?
    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 said: “I don’t k ...
  • North Korean Atomic Bomb Subs Cause Global Panic
    A grim Ministry of Defense (MOD) “URGENT ACTION” bulletin to all Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) is warning these nuclear units to prepare for “Dead Hand” operations over growing fears that at least 5 atomic-bomb equipped North Korean submarines have “successfully evaded” US Naval Forces and are ...
  • Russia carries out its ‘biggest nuclear army d ...
    Although specific details of what took place are classified, officials say that a large number of nuclear weapons were taken from munitions depots to storage sites. It is not known whether the Russians notified other forces of their strategic exercises or how the weapons were moved. But accordin ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook design tests, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Facebook design tests in New Zealand, porn blocking in China and Google Books for India. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Calendar, Insta ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, a new Google search test, Instacart keeps up the yuppie pressure, and North Korea gets tinted. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, Angry ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, The Flixies, music making money and Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mobile World Congress ...
    Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona. Listen to today’s Daily Dose for a roundup of news from the first 24 hours of the event. Check our full... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Glass details, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google Glass pricing and availability, North Korea’s 3G plans and tech words in the dictionary and more. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • NSW should call CSG industry bluff, go to zero gas
    Threats that the NSW government's restrictions on the coal-seam gas industry will cause a price rise are a bluff that NSW residents should call, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “The gas industry has no real commitment to domestic gas supply, and certainly not to ...
  • High speed rail cheaper than Albanese thinks
    Transport minister Anthony Albanese is trying to derail the promising High Speed Rail option before it even leaves the platform, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “Mr Albanese appears to have decided to write off this nation building project before even releasing t ...
  • Don't waste solar energy on coal
    Matthew Wright Port Augusta is the ideal location in South Australia for a solar thermal power plant, due to its very good direct annual solar radiation and its proximity to a strong piece of grid infrastructure that services the old lignite burning power plants that are located there, owned ...
  • Greens push 100pct renewables plan for W.A.
    By Giles Parkinson The Greens Party has unveiled an ambitious new document that outlines possible pathways to turn Western Australia – one of the most energy-intensive states in the world – into one where its stationary energy needs are powered 100 per cent by renewable energy sources in les ...
  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Rainforests may be more resilient to global wa ...
    Tropical forests may be less sensitive to global warming than previously thought, argues a new study published in Nature Geoscience.
  • New plantation concessions threaten Borneo pyg ...
    Borneo pygmy elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis) are under threat in Indonesia’s new North Kalimantan province, where their habitat is set to be converted for rubber, jabon and sengon plantations. Experts worry that if the planned conversion goes ahead, the entire elephant population in ...
  • Human activity driving unprecedented temperatu ...
    Average global temperatures are now higher than any point during the past 4,000 years despite being in the midst of what should be a cooling interval, reports a new study published in the journal Science.
  • Increasing number of Americans believe climate ...
    An increasing number of Americans believe there is evidence for climate change, reveals a new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan.
  • Turtles win greater protection at CITES meeting
    Dozens of freshwater turtle and tortoise species won greater protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), reports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Sierra Express

  • President Koroma Launches National Minerals Ag ...
    His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has reiterated government’s determination to use the mineral resources of the country to continue to improve the standards of living and employment prospects for all Sierra Leoneans. “My administration is determined to make our mineral resources a strong force ...
  • Statement by Kandeh Yumkela on International W ...
    Statement by Mr. Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director-General of UNIDO President Koroma, Ministers, Excellencies , Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, It is a true pleasure for me to join you today to celebrate International Women’s Day! As a man surrounded and inspired by strong women from the day I was bor ...
  • This Week In: English Football – Bale Keeps Sc ...
    Prior to last weekend’s North-London derby, Tottenham fans expected the game to go one of three ways: either Spurs would dominate the match and overcome their bitter rivals; would be the better team but fail to take their chances and end up dropping points; or Arsenal would take out a season’s w ...
  • Zuma calls for more involvement of Women in de ...
    Addis Ababa, 8 March 2013 – “The emancipation of women is a responsibility for all humanity”, says Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC). She was speaking during the commemoration of the International Women’s Day at the African Union Headquarters, while ad ...
  • RFM/Black Leo peace treaty under threat in Sie ...
    They boast the biggest fan base in the emergent Sierra Leone music industry.  Rapper Alhaji Bankaria Bah aka LAJ of Red Flag Movement (RFM), and Amara Turay aka Kao Denero of Black Leo, are bitter rivals. Their years of rivalry have even resulted into loss of lives and properties. There have bee ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Key out to woo Iron Lady of Brazil
    Prime Minister John Key will meet Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff for the first time tomorrow and is hoping to establish enough of a relationship to push for greater access for New Zealand businesses to the growing market.He said...
  • PM's Chilean guard of honour - cows
    It doesn't say much for Prime Minister John Key's working knowledge of the dairy industry that he had to go to Chile to learn it takes seven minutes to milk a cow - and how to wrangle an electric fenceMr Key visited Fonterra's farm...
  • New Zealand Dairy farming techniques famous in ...
    A Chilean farmer has given those on the Prime Minister's tour of Latin America an entertaining insight into farming in the country, saying when he first got involved with a New Zealand company, his father warned him "they will take...
  • 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...
  • Farm profit expected to fall 54pc
    Sheep and beef farmers may be in for a tough time with profits predicted to halve this season as the full impact of lower lamb prices and widespread drought starts to hit home.

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Catherine Sevcenko on Academic Freedom
    Marjorie Heins' Priests of Our Democracy chronicles New York City's efforts to root out Communist Party members and sympathizers from the public schools in the 1940s and '50s. As Heins notes in her book—and as Catherine Sevcenko stresses in her review—restrictions on ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Cutting Government to Boost ...
    Budget sequestration is as modest a step toward cutting Leviathan as one can imagine. Further progress will be difficult as long as people believe that slashing the size of government conflicts with reviving the economy. But as Sheldon Richman explains, nothing could be further from ...
  • Video: How to Build Infrastructure During an A ...
    "How to Build Infrastructure During an Age of Sequester: Reason Foundation's Robert W. Poole" is the latest offering from Reason TV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. View this ...
  • Watch Matt Welch Talk Rand Paul on MSNBC at 4: ...
    Beginning at 4:30 pm ET, I will be appearing on MSNBC's "brain trust" segment hosted by Craig Melvin, talking about the ships-passing-in-the-nightness of this weeks senatorial duel between Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.). We'll also be discussing Bill Clinton's change of ...
  • Do Republicans Need a Conservative Version of ...
    My friend Matthew Continetti has an interesting piece in the Weekly Standard explicating the “double bind” that Republicans face in trying to become electorally competitive again. He explains: The domestic proposals that have the greatest chance of making the Republican party att ...

Mercury Rising

  • Venezuelans On Today’s ‘Al Punto&# ...
    The listing of guests scheduled for today’s program on Univision’s Al Punto show has piqued my interest: UNIVISION’S AL PUNTO:  Nelson Bocaranda, Venezuelan Investigative Journalist; MarĂ­a Corina Machado, Venezuelan Assemblywoman; Jeb Bush, Former Florida Go ...
  • Catfood 2.0: The Simpson-Bowles Plan To Destro ...
    From FDL: As Jon Walker recently pointed out, April 1 is the newest manufactured crisis deadline facing Washington. That’s when most of the pain from the sequester will actually be felt. Additionally, without a new government-funding bill before March 27, the federal government will shut down. W ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Who needs reading, writing, and ‘rithmet ...
    Jon Marcus, Huffington Post: The amount being spent per student by public colleges and universities has fallen to its lowest level in at least 25 years, a result of state budget cuts a new report warns are rapidly eroding the nation’s educational edge over its international competitors. I think ...
  • US State Department: Incompetence wrapped with ...
    The State Department did a special briefing on Venezuela today. This is how it opened. Background Briefing on the Situation in Venezuela Special Briefing Senior State Department Officials Via Teleconference March 6, 2013 ——————————&#821 ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Neurons to Networks: A Talk with Tiffany Shlain
      Groundbreaking filmmaker and Internet pioneer Tiffany Shlain recently released a short film and TED book "Brain Power: from Neurons to Networks." The ten-minute film explores the parallels between the development of a child's brain and the development of the global brain o ...
  • Herbal Healing
    Join herbal expert Guido Mase for the live, interactive webinar, "Healing with Medicinal Plants: The Health Advantages of an Herbal Kitchen." He will be joined by insightful experts in the field of herbal health David Winston, Larken Bunce, Frank Giglio, and Betzy Bancroft.  5 Se ...
  • Sex in the News
    Why anal sex can make men more thoughtful lovers, the NFL and sexism (again), defining infidelity, and more in this week's update.read more
  • Toxic-Free Fire Safety
    [Action Alert] • If you’re like 90% of Americans, every day you sit on a couch that contains a pound or more of toxic flame-retardant chemicals. These flame retardants have been linked with devastating health problems including cancer, reduced IQ, fertility, obesity, and more. And to make mat ...
  • RS Podcast, Episode 3: "Spreading Awareness Aw ...
    On this edition of the Reality Sandwich Podcast, hosted by OddEdges:read more

Desertification

  • U.S. Abstains on Controversial World Bank Mong ...
    The United States has refused to vote for involvement by the World Bank Group in a massive but controversial mining project in Mongolia. In abstaining, the U.S. representative cited concerns over the potential environmental consequences and an inadequate impact study of the mine plan. The Oyu To ...
  • Killer Heat Waves and Floods Linked to Climate ...
    Killer heat waves, floods and storms are increasingly caused by climate change, new research reveals. Scientists in Germany say they have found how greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels are helping to trap the jet stream, resulting in extraordinary weather such as the 2010 Pakistan flood an ...
  • Biofuels Converting U.S. Prairielands at Dust ...
    The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States’ prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – rates not seen here since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. A new study finds that, between 2006 and ...
  • In Conservatives’ Canada, It’s Not ...
    Canada’s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal. The RCMP, the national police force, and Canada’s spy agency CSIS are increasingly conflating terrorism and extrem ...
  • Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of ...
    In Africa’s Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as “fertiliser trees” to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations, are offering new solutions to both food and human security. Such approaches were nearly lost in r ...

Blogging Canadians

  • NRG Research Group Inc. and Former NRG Researc ...
    The following email has been edited in terms of its original formatting. From: Vic Populi < vicpopuli1@gmail.com > Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:10 PM Subject: Re: 3 postings on your site To: Dave Converse < dconverse@nrgresearchgroup.com > Mr. Converse, There is no negative ...
  • NRG Research Group Inc. and "the Person"
    The following email has been edited in terms of its original formatting. From: Dave Converse < dconverse@nrgresearchgroup.com > Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:31 PM Subject: 3 postings on your site To: "vicpopuli1@gmail.com" < vicpopuli1@gmail.com > Hello, I have noted that th ...
  • "This Nation" and "Government"
    The Tyranny-Liberty Cycle of Government by Alfred Adask As originally posted on: Adask's law February 27, 2013 Cycles like this one have been recognized for centuries. Such “cycles” aren’t necessarily true, but they can all be useful in terms or recognizing predominant social attitud ...
  • At the End of Capitalism’s Rope – BENJAMIN J. ...
    I suggest you go to Counterpunch and read the whole article, but here we see the benefit of Marx’s analysis of capitalism. “In Stack’s “manifesto”, he quotes Karl Marx.  Ironically, Marx is useful here.  Explaining how human labor-power is objectified in commodities, which then becom ...
  • "Some Unelected, Unaccountable, Politically-Co ...
    No More Waiting. Nullify Now! by Michael Boldin As originally posted: Tenth Amendment Center November 7, 2012 “Wait till the next one is done.” I’ve heard that from so-called conservative activists for years now. Some of you said you were supporting the Tea Party candidates in 2010. And ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Syria forces kill militants, seize arms
    The Syrian Army says it has killed more foreign-backed militants and seized their weapons during an ongoing operation across the country.
  • Syrian oppositionists postpone key meet
    For the second time in weeks, Syria’s opposition groups have failed to agree on the timing of a meeting to discuss the formation of an interim government.
  • Syrian groups, individuals sue Ankara
    A group of Syrian groups and individuals have filed a lawsuit against the Turkish government in a European court for backing militants, who stole Syrian assets and smuggled them into Turkey.
  • Displaced Syrians may triple this year: UN
    The UN High Commissioner for refugees has warned that the number of displaced Syrian may double or even triple by end of this year if the unrest does not end.
  • Palestinians, militants clash in Syria
    Fresh clashes have erupted between Palestinians and foreign-backed militants at Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Distance Learning and Online Relationships
    This article by Wendy Williams originally appeared on the blog Getting Smart on February 21, 2013.  I never get to meet most of my students in person, because I teach asynchronous online courses via Blackboard, for the City University of New York (CUNY). I was part of a cohort of Ph.D. students ...
  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...
  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...

Dissident Voice

  • American Overkill
    A frequent target of antiwar protests when I lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany was the local Amerika Haus. These buildings existed in several European cities and were essentially outposts of the United States Information Agency, which was part of the propaganda wing of the United States govern ...
  • Let Me Bequeath
    Box me on a warm bright day — youthful, though not, not ever again, useful –  hands  crossed neatly over shirt and tie.  Let young things on grass plan parties, raves, getaways with only ethical narcotics and strong beer. Indulge them in coquetry and intrigue, tasty gossip, bawdy, th ...
  • Enemy of the Revolution: Monopoly Media
    At this key juncture, I hope the people of Venezuela can now build for themselves a better, brighter future based on the principles of freedom, democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights. – excerpt from the statement of Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper on the death of Hu ...
  • “Cowardly Bastards” and the NFL’s Washin ...
    Yesterday, I indulged an un-common working-man habit, and looked into a typical American day’s burning news-issue. In the Year of our Lords’ Robert Griffin III and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, and in the name of attack-Apache helicopters, I decided to research the roots of NFL Franchise ...
  • When It Is More than a Game: Football Violence ...
    It is frenzied and continuing, but the riots in Egypt have become so regular as to suggest that the Arab Spring never stopped. The country, even post-Mubarak, is seething with insurrection.  And the outlets of dissatisfaction, expressed via social media and the more physical aspect of sport, are ...

Nick Turse

  • Dey Street between West and Washington Streets ...
    Dey Street between West and Washington Streets, Manhattan. (April 08, 1936)
  • pulitzercenter:From Pulitzer Center grantee ...
    pulitzercenter: From Pulitzer Center grantee Sean Gallagher’s Tumblr gallagher-photo: Good morning from Tianjin. I seem to be waking up at a slight angle today. Heading for the sea this morning… 30th Nov, 2012. See more of Sean’s photos here http://bit.ly/TibetNomads.
  • Photo
  • blankonblankorg:Let Your Interviews Be Heard ...
    blankonblankorg: Let Your Interviews Be Heard… And Seen Old tapes. New unheard stories. We bring journalists’ lost interviews back to life via podcast, radio and YouTube. The future of journalism? Remixing the past. What do you have on tape? Tell us what’s in your archives.
  • tamturse:Sunrise on Flickr.Even if it is sn ...
    tamturse: Sunrise on Flickr. Even if it is snowing outside your window - just a reminder that spring is on the way.

    * Is Karzai an omen ? Imagine keeping dictators compliant when betrayal looms large
Related articles
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)