Wednesday, March 13, 2013

13 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • QLD: Douglas & Mareeba vote to de-amalgamate
    BREAKING NEWS: RESIDENTS in Douglas and Mareeba have voted to reclaim their old councils in Saturday's landmark de-amalgamation referendums. The new councils will be resurrected from January 1 next year, when the shires formally break away from the Cairns and Tablelands regional councils they w ...
  • Karzai accuses US of collusion with Taliban
    Strained US-Afghan ties have suffered a fresh blow after newly appointed US defence secretary Chuck Hagel cancelled plans for his first joint news conference with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, the second reminder of serious tensions in a brief visit to Afghanistan. US officials cited se ...
  • Qld Votes for Council De-Amalgamation
    "People just want a different style of government." How-to-vote cards normally consigned to the rubbish bin on election days were instead being kept as a memento of the historic occasion as residents swamped 17 polling booths across the former Noosa Shire area, with "Yes Vote" volunteers out ...
  • Noosa Votes for Council Autonomy
    NOOSA has voted overwhelmingly to break away from the Sunshine Coast local government area in a reversal of Labor's hard-fought council amalgamations five years ago.
  • 'Pervasive' Fraud by Our 'Most Reputable' Banks
    The PSW 2013 study confirmed one form of control fraud and provided suggestive evidence of two other forms that I will discuss in a future column. The definitive evidence of control fraud that PSW2013 identifies is by mortgage lenders who made, or purchased, mortgages and then resold them to "pr ...

Independent - London

  • So what happens next for Pope Francis I?
    Having begun his reign, auspiciously enough, with a self-deprecating joke – “the duty of the cardinals is to elect a Bishop of Rome,” he deadpanned, “and they’ve gone to the end of the world to find one” – Pope Francis I went back inside St Peter’s for the solemn ceremonies that conclude the Co ...
  • What happens next for Pope Francis I
    Having begun his reign, auspiciously enough, with a self-deprecating joke – “the duty of the cardinals is to elect a Bishop of Rome,” he deadpanned, “and they’ve gone to the end of the world to find one” – Pope Francis I went back inside St Peter’s for the solemn ceremonies that conclude the Con ...
  • Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope: White smok ...
    At 7.06pm, a rain-swept but packed St Peter’s Square erupted with a mix of joy and not a little shock as clouds of white smoke told the crowds – and the rest of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics – that a new pontiff had been chosen on just the second day of voting. Related StoriesJorge Mario Be ...
  • Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis I: ...
    At 7.06pm, a rain-swept but packed St Peter’s Square erupted with a mix of joy and not a little shock as clouds of white smoke told the crowds – and the rest of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics – that a new pontiff had been chosen on just the second day of voting. Related StoriesJorge Mario Be ...
  • Conflict in Syria creates wave of British jiha ...
    The bloody uprising against Bashar al-Assad is creating a new wave of jihadists in Britain, with Syria now the main destination for militant Muslims wishing to fight abroad, The Independent has learnt.Related Stories2 million children are Syria's 'forgotten victims'Two million children are Syri ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • ADB: In Asia, wealth buys access to clean water
    Ninety-one percent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world's most populous region. But its richest countries and wealthiest citizens likely have better water supplies and governments better prepared for natural ...
  • Huge blaze erupts after tugboat pushing oil ba ...
    A tug boat pushing an oil barge struck a gas pipeline in a bayou south of New Orleans on Tuesday night, igniting a blaze that burned for hours and left four people injured, one severely. Ensign Tanner Stiehl told The Associated Press the collision occurred at about 6 p.m. Central on Bayou Perot ...
  • Closest Earth-like planet may be half as far a ...
    The closest rocky, Earth-like world could be as close as 6.5 to 7 light years away, according to new research. New Scientist magazine reported Tuesday that Penn State University astronomer Ravi Kopparapu's estimates put these types of potentially life-sustaining worlds half as distant from Earth ...
  • Number of dead pigs in Shanghai river jumps to ...
    The number of dead pigs found in Shanghai's main river doubled in two days to nearly 6,000, the government said, as officials from a nearby area blamed for the porcine deluge sought to deny it was the source. Shanghai had pulled 5,916 dead pigs out of the Huangpu river, which cuts through China ...
  • Saudi Arabia executes seven men despite UN app ...
    Human rights activists say men were executed by firing squad, but country's official news agency says they were beheaded Saudi Arabia has executed seven men for an armed robbery, the interior ministry said, despite an appeal for clemency by United Nations human rights investigators. The seven, ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Airshow...
    ...never ceases to live up to his callsign. "Not my fault" he says over his department's inability to find a replacement for DHC Buffalo SAR aeroplanes. As department head, it is his fault, and the faults of any other ministers of public works and industry involved. It really is embarrassin ...
  • Future perspectives . . .
    THE CRASH AND BURN of the GOP in the US election can be seen as the consequence of the neo-con Dubya regime, which leads me to wonder if future historians will see Dubya as the Mr. Bean of the GOP: the Man Who Made It All Fall Apart. Seriously, post-WW2 American conservatives had ...
  • It's only money . . .
    GAZILLIONS OF BUCKS of world debt, graphically created out of US Benjies for your edification by the folks at DEMONOCRACY. Click on the link for the whole compendium. Ya gotta wonder about the sustainability. Reminds me of Kipling: Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their sm ...
  • The best of times, the worst of times . . .
    MOSCOW, 1937: time of terror. The Atlantic has a fine article/book review by Benjamin Schwarz, "Moscow Under Terror". It's a wonderful description of a surreal environment with real horrors, and worthy of pondering. Genrikh Yagoda Yezhov and Stalin
  • Caution . . .

Media Matters for America

  • What The Media Need To Know About CPAC 2013
    The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bills itself as an event convened to "crystallize the best of the conservative thought in America" that will showcase "all of the leading conservative organizations and speakers." Media covering CPAC 2013 should know that the conference's ...
  • The Nine Worst Claims About Guns From John Lot ...
    Gun researcher John Lott's chapter on firearms in his new book titled, At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over The Edge?, is filled with inaccurate claims about guns and firearm policy. Lott makes a range of misleading or blatantly false statements, including that the wors ...
  • Fox Regurgitates False Talking Points To Defen ...
    Fox News host Bill Hemmer advanced a number of false and dubious claims about Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) new budget plan, including that the plan would lower tax rates for all individuals.Ryan Released GOP Budget Plan NY Times: Ryan Releases Budget Plan. The New ...
  • Fox Revives Health Care Myths To Promote Ryan ...
    Fox News pushed long-debunked myths about health care reform in order to promote Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) reported plans to repeal the law as part of his upcoming budget.Fox Promotes Ryan's Claim That Repealing Health Care Law Will Balance Budget Jim Angle: Ryan Aims To Balance Budget, "And One ...
  • Right-Wing Media Downplay Spending Cuts, Then ...
    After downplaying the effects of the government spending cuts known as sequestration, right-wing media are now claiming that President Obama is trying to maximize sequestration pain.Right-Wing Media Before Sequestration: Cuts Are "Chump Change" Fox's Stuart Varney: "Non ...

Global Research.ca

  • Bipartisan Theatrics and the Obama Budget Cris ...
    Less than two weeks after the start of $1.2 trillion in government spending cuts, under the so-called “sequester,” Republicans and Democrats have unveiled budget proposals that include far deeper cuts in social programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Paul Ryan, the…
  • Neoliberal Economic Austerity Measures in Port ...
    Whenever there is a protest in Portugal you are almost certain to hear the haunting song “Grandola, Vila Morena” (“Grandola, sunburnt town”), with its line “who most rules within you, O city, is the people”. On March 2, at huge…
  • Israel miembro de facto de la OTAN
    El Secretario General de la OTAN, el general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, recibió el 7 de marzo al presidente de Israel, Shimon Peres, en la sede de la OTAN en Bruselas. El orden del día: realzar la cooperación militar entre Israel…
  • The Fracked-up USA Shale Gas Bubble
    The US shale gas boom is revealing itself to have been a gigantic hyped confidence bubble that is already beginning to deflate...
  • Hugo Chávez Frías, Descansa en Poder
    Lo que este hombre significó y significa para todo el hemisferio sur y para todos aquellos que luchan por un mejor camino para la humanidad no puede subestimarse. Siento una tristeza difícil de expresar. Parte de mí quiere simplemente acurrucarse…

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

  • Report: Kochs Eye Tribune Papers
    (Politico) Conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch are considering an offer to buy the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and other Tribune Company properties, according to a new report in L.A. Weekly. read more
  • FutureGen Alliance Fights Back, Releases CO2 P ...
    (Midwest Energy News) The FutureGen Industrial Alliance is pushing back against utility challengers to its flagship “clean” coal project. In a letter sent to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the alliance said that legal challenges to a 20-y ...
  • OPEC: U.S. Shale Oil to Cut Into Demand
    (Wall Street Journal) The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries cut its forecast of demand for its oil this year, citing growing production from U.S. shale deposits. If the scaled-back forecast proves correct, OPEC could b ...
  • Fracking Groundwater Rules Reflect Legal Ambig ...
    (The Texas Tribune) In Karnes County, at the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale, oil and gas drillers seeking to use water for hydraulic fracturing must get a permit from the local groundwater authority. They can pump only a certain amount ...
  • Ohio’s Resurgent Natural Gas Industry Spends M ...
    (New York Times) The countryside in eastern Ohio is marked by rusting tanks that stand in open fields and along the edges of family timber patches, like graveyard headstones for an era of energy riches that most people here thought had ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Somnambulant Senate Democrats
    Might the Senate Democrats still do something about the filibuster? Senate Democratic leaders have engaged in preliminary discussions about how to address Republican procedural obstruction, according to a senior Democratic aide, reflecting an awareness that key administration and judicial va ...
  • New Pope Elected
    The Cardinals have elected a new pope. They haven't announced who they picked, yet, but the pre-announcement ceremonies have already begun. Now would be a good time to reserve Twitter handles like: John Paul III, Benedict XVII, Clement XV, John XXIV, Urban IX, etc. Update [2013-3-13 15:56 ...
  • Happy Blogoversery
    Man Eegee sent me an email to remind me that this blog began 8 years ago today. It's been a blast. How long have you been around? Discuss
  • Crazy Washington
    I continue to be gobsmacked by events in Washington. The latest is the controversy over the requirement that people making private gun sales perform a background check on the buyer, just like all licensed gun sellers are required to do. This proposed law has the support of over 90% of the popu ...
  • Will George P. Bush Bleed and Die for the Oil ...
    You probably don't care that George P. Bush is running for land commissioner in Texas. But you might look back at this race as critically important. To see why, you need to understand how George P. Bush's grandfather started out in politics. Poppy Bush was elected to the U.S. House of Represe ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 20 Breathtaking Snapshots of Supercell Storms ...
    Supercell storms offer some of the most striking and dramatic cloud formations on Earth. Check out these mind-blowing photos by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead for proof. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Another mix of the badass, scandalous and downright bizarre, with topics ranging from deadly prison gangs and healthcare disasters to strange forms of parapsychology. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Bovine Waterskiing: Kerala's Insane Bull Racin ...
    Every year (when the event isn't banned), teams of bull racers in Kerala gather to pit their mighty animals against one another in a very muddy arena. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Hot Tips For Growing Your Own Veggies in Green ...
    With increasing discontent surrounding the food industry, people are finding their own grassroots solutions. Here are some helpful tips for growing your own vegetables. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Bloodbath of WWII's Battle of Manila
    Fought by Japanese, US and Filipino forces, World War Two's month-long Battle of Manila destroyed a city and saw the massacre of thousands of civilians. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Stay Fly: Holy Smokes
    Oh I dearly hope this is an authentic photo - isn't it easily the greatest news photograph ever? Floating around, see : Something Out of The Godfather... | E L V O M I T A R . C O M etc. Good luck to the Catholics, they need help like all of us. Regardless, there's no swag like Vatican swag. Th ...
  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...
  • Disgusting new FDA rule change would let toxic ...
    Blah this is just worth posting quickly. There is only one public comment on there right now. I have to say the Federal Register website is markedly better than it used to be, good for them. Saw this via: Activist Post: Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy Petitions FDA For Approval. Als ...
  • Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones
    This makes for some amusing Saturday afternoon viewing -- notable independent hiphop artist Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones for about 1hr20min. Getting right at the issues of Latin America, politics, immigration & moar. Format note: I would say that Jones interviews with a pretty wide cr ...
  • The Art of Failing Gracefully: DEA & DOJ need ...
    Hundreds of billions of dollars, between cash flows and valuations, depend upon the ability of American law enforcement structures avidly maintaining their illusionary belief system about laundered drug money, informants, and banking systems. All of this is normal, they say, it's normal to throw ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Revisiting the Velvet Divorce
    Czechoslovakia, though it no longer exists, remains a symbol of courageous resistance and sensible conflict resolution
  • The Two Europes
    Along with the divide between rich and poor in Europe, another has opened between the mobile and the stationary.
  • Interview with Janet Redman, IPS, on the Green ...
    As meetings begin in Berlin, Germany, Redman says that the Green Climate Fund must be focused on meeting the needs of people in developing countries, not maximizing corporate profit.
  • Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty
    Damage from 20 years of NAFTA shows us why latest trade deal must be stopped. Free trade creates rich people, poor communities.
  • Remembering Elsbeth Bothe, 1927-2013
    For close to 20 years, Elsbeth Bothe brought her special brand of insights and living and social justice into IPS, and she contributed generously, and IPS is much the better for it.

IntelNews

  • As many Russian spies in UK today as in Cold W ...
    The Soviet KGB’s former station chief in London, who defected to the United Kingdom in the 1980s, has alleged that Russia operates as many spies in Britain today as it did during the Cold War.
  • Israel wiretapped PLO head office in Tunisia: ...
    Israeli intelligence was able to intercept the conversations of senior Palestinian leaders in Tunisia in the months leading to the 1993 Oslo Accords, according to an article published Monday by a leading Israeli newspaper.
  • Spy claims against diplomat cast shadow over A ...
    Widespread allegations of espionage against Britain’s deputy ambassador to Russia threaten to derail the ongoing diplomatic rapprochement between Russia and the United Kingdom, according to a leading British newspaper.
  • Syrian government accuses Israel of planting s ...
    News media affiliated with the government of Syria accused Israel on Thursday of planting a number of spy devices disguised as rocks, which were found located near “sensitive sites” in the country.
  • News you may have missed #825
    Australian Mossad officer was facing 20 years in prison. MS-13 smuggles missile launchers and teams up with Zetas. Secretive US anti-smuggling program marks one-year anniversary.

War is a Crime.org

  • Talk Nation Radio: Robert Fantina on War and t ...
    Robert Fantina discusses the courage of those who desert the military, including some 20,000 in the United States during the "global war on terra."  Fantina is the author of Desertion and the American Soldier, Look Not Unto the Morrow, and Empire, Racism, and Genocide: A History of U.S. For ...
  • Some European Media Showed Some Guts 10 Years Ago
    An Unheeded Warning on Iraq March 12, 2013 Editor Note: Ten years ago, as the clock was ticking down to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, a campaign of U.S. government lies and exaggerations had convinced many Americans that they were the ones under threat. A few U.S. intelligence vetera ...
  • Don't Frack My Mother
  • Which Members of Congress Are Standing Up for ...
    By Norman Solomon Now we know. Every member of Congress has chosen whether to sign a letter making a crucial commitment: “We will vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits -- including raising the retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments th ...
  • America's Retirement Crisis
      America's Retirement Crisis   by Stephen Lendman   Decades of class war leaves most Americans nearing retirement woefully unprepared.   Since the mid-1970s, real wages haven't kept pace with inflation. Benefits steadily eroded. High-paying jobs disappeared. Improved technol ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    “Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a bles ...
  • Coming Clean in 2013
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari Special Rep ...
  • Just a Taste – Avoiding Singularity (2.2 ...
  • Kuroda Says Bank of Japan Will Consider Buying ...
    By Bloomberg Bank of Japan (8301) governor nominee Haruhiko Kuroda said that the central bank will consider buying derivatives if he’s confirmed as governor and signaled a readiness for a quick expansion in monetary stimulus. “We will carefully consider such a proposal,” Kuroda, the Asian Deve ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Floating Light Park Skyscraper Uses Solar Powe ...
    Read the rest of Floating Light Park Skyscraper Uses Solar Power and Helium to Hover Above Pollution-Choked Beijing Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "clean energy", "skyscraper competition", 2013 evolo competition, evolo 2013 skyscraper competition, floating city, Float ...
  • pH Conditioner: Floating Jellyfish Skyscrapers ...
    Read the rest of pH Conditioner: Floating Jellyfish Skyscrapers Combat Air Pollution While Producing Fresh Water Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "eVolo", "sustainable architecture", 2013 evolo competition, 2013 evolo skyscraper competition, acid rain, acidification, ai ...
  • Sinterhab’s 3D-Printed Space Station on the Mo ...
    Read the rest of Sinterhab’s 3D-Printed Space Station on the Moon Would Be Made from Lunar Soil Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3d Printed space station, Dr. Ondrej Doule, eco design, Foster + Partners, green design, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Katarina Eriksson, ...
  • Michael Charters’ Big Wood Skyscraper is a Sus ...
    Modern skyscrapers are typically made from concrete and steel, but as architect Michael Charters suggests, wood could be a viable construction material for tall buildings that would have a lower environmental impact. Charters recently designed ‘Big Wood,’ a prototype for a large-scal ...
  • Like a Houseboat: LEED Platinum Home Floats Ab ...
    Read the rest of Like a Houseboat: LEED Platinum Home Floats Above a Former Landfill in Texas Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, geothermic wells, green design, LEED platinum, Like a Houseboat, reclaimed wood, Shipley Architects, sustainable design, sustainabl ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • 4 Things Rand Paul Missed in his Drone Filibuster
    One week ago today,  confirmation hearings for John Brennan as Director of the CIA, Senator Rand Paul launched into a filibuster against Brennan, bringing up the United States’ drone program as a reason to oppose the appointment. Paul’s argument focused on the concern that the Obama ...
  • Worldwide Threats Briefing Highlights
    Yesterday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) held its annual open hearing on “National Security Threats to the United States.” First started in 1994, the hearing is the rare instance where the leaders of the Intelligence Community (IC) provide a public overview of the trends in ...
  • Worldwide Threat Assessment (2013)
    Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on March 12, 2013. The “Worldwide Threat Assessment,” which Director of National Intelligence James Clapper presented to the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12, contains some closely-watc ...
  • Top of the Morning: Escalation of Atrocities b ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest UN Reports Escalation of Atrocities by Malian Government Troops Remember: this is the military on whose behalf the international community is intervening. “The recent military intervention in northern Mali has been followed by a serious escalation of retaliatory vio ...
  • Syria’s Lost Generation
    UNICEF has marked the second anniversary of the Syria conflict with a chilling new report detailing the effects of two years of civil conflict on children. The report,Syria’s Children: A Lost Generation is a horrid reminder of the basic fact of most war: children suffer first, and suffer t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • George P. Bush Makes His First Bid for Office
    Gage Skidmore / Flickr The Washington Post reports that George P. Bush—son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush—is running for Texas land commissioner in the 2014 election cycle: George P. Bush, the eldest son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush and nephew of former president George W. ...
  • Toxic Masculinity
    AP Photo/Herald Star, Mark Law Judge Thomas Lipps listens to arguments in Jefferson County Juvenile Court in a case involving two Ohio high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl. Last summer, two young football players in the Ohio town of Steubenville car ...
  • The Motorbike Diaries
    It’s 11 a.m. on a brisk Friday morning. In the middle of a short block of 40th Road, just off Main Street in Queens, where colorful signs stand out against the densely packed four-story buildings, a handful of Chinese delivery workers dismount from their motorbikes. The dry pavement here is a w ...
  • Ringside Seat: Grand Blergain
    The sequester cuts have begun to bite, and if Congress doesn't pass a continuing resolution by the end of the month, the federal government will shut down. With that deadline looming, talk has turned once again to the possibility of a Grand Bargain, in which Republicans and Democrats come toget ...
  • The Dubya Albatross
    When he was performing his Full Jeb of Sunday show interviews over the weekend, Jeb Bush got asked everywhere whether he's running for president, and each time he gave the same practiced answer (not thinking about it yet). He also got asked whether his brother's disastrous presidency, and the f ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Racist Skinhead Sentenced to Life for Oregon H ...
    A member of a racist skinhead gang has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing to his involvement in a 2012 murder carried out during a home-invasion robbery in Oregon. Robert Paul Smith, 35, pleaded guilty Friday in Eugene, Ore., to aggravated murder, robbery, burglary and being a fel ...
  • Famous Seattle Ceramicist Exposed as Holocaust ...
    For decades, iconoclastic Seattle artist Charles Krafft has made references to Nazis in his highly acclaimed, sometimes shocking pieces of art that most critics and art lovers brand as simple, ironic satire pushing the boundaries. He crafted a ceramic Hitler-bust teapot now in a San Francisco ar ...
  • New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movement Swells for ...
    The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups on the American radical right hit an all-time high in 2012, the fourth straight year of explosive growth, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As the new year began, serious talk of gun control, prompted by ...
  • Strange Bedfellows Snuggle Under White Sheets
    Check out the story of the Klansmen and the Crip. A Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard in Alabama and an African-American Crips street gang member in Memphis, Tenn., say they are teaming up to organize a counter-protest against the Klansman’s fellow hooded haters, who vow to hold “one of the biggest K ...
  • Wonkette Viciously Mocks Stormfront Fundraisin ...
    Don Black needs money – bad. It’s gotten to the point that the former Ku Klux Klan leader and founder of Stormfront – the largest neo-Nazi web forum – is begging for pennies. To no avail, though. With February coming to a close, Black hasn’t raised even half of the $7,500 he needs to pay his [...]

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Dongwon Industries Faces Criminal Charges in A ...
    South Korea's largest tuna brand, Dongwon Industries, is facing criminal charges in Africa for forging government documents as well as penalties for its illegal fishing activities in African waters. In response, Greenpeace is calling on the South Korean government to call the company home, i ...
  • Public Citizen Applauds Congressional Progress ...
    The Congressional Progressive Caucus released its “Back to Work” budget today, and we commend the caucus for including a modest sales tax on Wall Street trading. read more
  • * Korea Armistice “Dead” * Why Military Exercises?
    FRANCIS BOYLE, read more
  • ACLU and NC Residents File Lawsuit to End Unco ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation (ACLU-NCLF) filed a federal lawsuit yesterday on behalf of three Rowan County citizens, demanding that the Rowan County Board of Commissioners stop its unconstitutional practice of opening government meetings with pra ...
  • “Democracy Is For People” Constitutional Amend ...
    Public Citizen praised the new constitutional amendment proposal introduced today by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) to end unlimited and undisclosed corporate financing of American elections. The amendment proposal is titled the “Democracy Is For People& ...

Common Dreams-Views

Newshoggers - AfPak

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Water Wars

  • Water wars resume with Delta tunnels, bond revamp
    New details are expected this week on the controversial Delta tunnels project, as legislators also grapple with downsizing a state water bond.
  • Don't panic, drought relief plans in place: Ma ...
    Days after the Maharashtra Police issued a circular asking the force in drought-hit districts to be on alert as water wars could break out and create a law and order situation, Maharashtra Chief Minis... Related Stories Lawyers in Gujarat to boycott work on Monday Rajasthan Police team to reach ...
  • Thirsty City digs deeper, in vain
    With indiscriminate sinking of borewells having depleted the underground water table in the City beyond distress levels, water wars seem waiting to implode like a dormant volcano in the years to come. Sinking of borewells has become a necessary evil before construction begins at a site. However, ...
  • Water Wars : Everything to Know About the Grea ...
    The infamous Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, but it finally brought water to Los Angeles in 1915, when the City Trunk Line opened for business--the underground pipe ran "rom Sylmar across the Valley (not yet part Los Angeles) through...
  • Forget Peak Oil, We’re At Peak Everything
    The idea that we’re running out of oil may have faded slightly from the list of concerns, but that’s just one of any number of precious natural resources we’re using up far too quickly. Peak oil is the concept that new discoveries of commercially exploitable oil resources do not keep pace with g ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • STUDY: Voter ID Laws Affect Young Minorities Most
    A new study by professors at the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis shows that the strict voter ID laws being pushed by Republican state legislators around the country most impact young people, especially young minorities. And given that the people pushing those measure ...
  • South Carolina Republican Suggests GOP Opposes ...
    On Tuesday, the South Carolina House rejected extra Obamacare funding for the state’s Medicaid program. One Republican legislator offered a novel reason for the Republican majority’s decision: the President’s race. State Rep. Kris Crawford’s comments came during the early ...
  • How ALEC Is Fueling Efforts To Block Paid Sick ...
    Our guest blogger is Rachel Curley, an intern at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has been described as a “collaboration between multinational corporations and conservative state legislators”, is waging a campaign a ...
  • New Pope Elected
    The Catholic cardinals have elected a new pope on Wednesday after just two days of deliberations, selecting 76-year-old Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the fifth vote. He has taken the name of Francis and was not considered to be one of the front runners. He is the first Jesuit pop ...
  • Paul Ryan Learns Nothing from Historic Gender ...
    Our guest blogger is Lindsay Rosenthal, a Research Assistant for Health Policy and Women’s Health and Rights at the Center for American Progress. The 20 point gender gap in the 2012 election was the largest since Gallup poll began tracking in 1952 — the Obama-Biden ticket beat the Romney-R ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • For Real?
     I scrolled past this story at Crooks and Liars the first time. I glanced at it a little longer going past it today. I'd thought that the image in the video still was some sort of joke on bush II. I thought they were making fun of him. That really is the mass-murdering war criminal bush II ...
  • Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against C ...
    It's a new book I'm reading. Got it from the Parliament branch of the Toronto Public Library. Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against Canada's First Peoples by L.J. O'Connor and Morgan O'Neal, with Lloyd Dolha and Jim Ada. I'm about half-way through it. So far it's talked about the betray ...
  • First Nations Leadership
    Link.
  • Bye Jymn
    My blog-roll link: "Let Freedom Rain" no longer works. Jymn has retired from blogging. Jymn was getting depressed about the failure of the enemies of the harpercons to present a united front against them. Then he had a flame-out over the workplace bullying at the hands of female bosses that he u ...
  • Tom Flanagan's career

on Government Oversight

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Contract signed for Arctic patrol ships
    On March 7th, the government signed a $288-million contract with Irving Shipbuilding of Halifax for design work on the long-promised Arctic offshore patrol ships. But construction of the ships is not expected to begin until 2015.
  • Death toll in Syria rises
    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced last month that the death toll in the Syrian uprising is approaching 70,000.
  • Be Heard – No Attack Drones!
    Tell Stephen Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that you do not support the purchase of a fleet of attack drones. Send your letter, right away.
  • On drones, Tutu asks America: “Our lives ...
    South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu challenged the hypocrisy of the U.S. and its citizens for accepting a killer drone program.
  • The political questions about Canada’s d ...
    The political questions about Canada's drones have just begun, reports Paul Weinberg in Now magazine.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Cutting Corporate Welfare Queens Off from the ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCutting Corporate Welfare Queens Off from the Dole Would be the Best Way to Cut the Debt By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Image by William Banzai In previous installments, we’ve noted that we could more than o ...
  • Phallus-shaped worm-like creature sheds light ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Fossilised forms of a phallus-shaped invertebrate have shed light on a dramatic spurt in Earth’s biodiversity that occurred half a billion years ago, Canadian scientists reported on Wednesday. Remains ...
  • Jorge Mario Bergoglio Becomes First Jesuit Pope
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKEVIN RAWLINSON London Independent March 13, 2013 In a shock decision from the Vatican, the new Pope is Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires. The first ever Jesuit Pope and the first ever Latin American to lead the Cath ...
  • Ron Paul on the Sequester and Wasteful Spending
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIn case you missed it, here is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk column on the sequester. Dr. Paul highlights how the budget for the F-35 fighter planeCheck out all the best #altnews at D ...
  • New Automation Process Cuts Post-9/11 GI Bill ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNew Automation Process Cuts Post-9/11 GI Bill Claims Processing Times by More Than Half By Veterans TodayWednesday, March 13th, 2013 View the original about New Automation Process Cuts Post-9/11 GI Bill Claims Processing ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Barack Obama’s Notice: Continuation of t ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 12, 2013 On March 15, 1995, the President issued Executive Order 12957, which declared a national emergency with respect to Iran and, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Power ...
  • Western Media Set Up North Korea For War by Fi ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV March 12, 2013 Western so-called news media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror flick about flesh-eating zombies. I ...
  • Leaked Bradley Manning Audio Recording + Danie ...
    Dandelion Salad freepressfoundation·Mar 12, 2013 Leaked audio recording of Bradley Manning describing his response to the July 12, 2007 Baghdad Apache airstrike video that documented the killing of two Reuters journalists. By Laura Poitras and Jenny Perlin *** Bradley Manning Speaks: In Leaked C ...
  • US: Psychotic Superpower On a Hair-trigger by ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation March 10, 2013 The US has become a psychotic superpower, high on paranoia induced by its own poisonous propaganda. This unstable, lawless rogue state, armed to the teeth and deluded by its own ...
  • I Personally Believe That Hugo Chávez Was Murd ...
    by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org March 11, 2013 Anti-Empire Report Hugo Chávez I once wrote about Chilean president Salvador Allende: Washington knows no heresy in the Third World but genuine independence. In the case of Salvador Allende independence came clothed in an ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Roller Derby Players Swap Skin Microbes
    Whether they're skating shoulder-to-shoulder to block the other team or laying each other out with body checks, roller derby players have a lot of skin-to-skin contact. That contact spreads more than sweat, according to a new study. Researchers have found ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Sharing is Caring
    The large, unnamed crater on Mercury in this image shares part of its wall with the younger, smaller (42 km/26 mi) unnamed crater that formed inside of it. The floor and rim of the smaller crater contains many hollows, which ...
  • Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence That Mars Could ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover has literally hit pay dirt: strong evidence that ancient Mars could have been a great place for organisms to thrive.
  • Tiny Quantum Refrigerator Has Super Cooling Power
    It's tiny, but this quantum refrigerator takes less than a day to cool an object much larger than it to within a fraction of a degree of absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature anything can ever reach.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Two Jeweled Galaxies
    This 27-hour cumulative exposure photograph shows just how strongly these two galaxies are interacting. Shells, plumes, arcs of stars and even shared dust lanes are some of the features that highlight this very deep image. NGC 3169 on the left ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Bradley Book Symposium: Customary Internationa ...
    by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is the co-editor (with David L. Sloss and Michael D. Ramsey) of International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Continuity ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The US Air Force has stopped releasing statistical data on drone strikes in Afghanistan and has erased previoiusly published statistics from its website. The UK warned Argentina that it would always be ready to defend its citizens on the Falkland Islands aft ...
  • A Response to Goodman About the (Supposed) Dut ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller Ken noted last week that Lawfare has been hosting an ongoing debate over Ryan Goodman's fascinating new article "The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants," which is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Law. I contributed a long post criticizing Goodman' ...
  • Philippe Sands Quits the LibDems
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Like many young, lefty international lawyers, one of my intellectual heroes is Philippe Sands. He is a remarkable scholar and an equally gifted advocate, and he puts both to good use no matter how unpopular the position or client — as his represent ...
  • Bradley Book Symposium: Kristina Daugirdas on ...
    by Kristina Daugirdas by Kristina Daugirdas [Kristina Daugirdas is Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law] I’m delighted to have the opportunity to comment on Professor Curt Bradley’s excellent new book. Before getting to the question of how the decisions and orders of internat ...

Public News Service

  • Buckling Up Best for Moms-To-Be
    Buckling Up Best for Moms-To-Be PHOENIX - Expectant mothers worry that having a seat belt buckled could damage their unborn child in a crash, but a new study finds that not wearing a seat belt actually increases a woman's chances of losing a pregnancy from those if she is restrained. The best ...
  • Advocates of Pre-K Pushing Obama: “Go To ...
    Advocates of Pre-K Pushing Obama: “Go To The Library” PHOENIX - President Obama highlighted support for early learning in his State of the Union address. So he should go to the library, according to advocates for using the public library as a key part of the learning process for to ...
  • March Marks Developmental Disabilities Awarene ...
    March Marks Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month PHOENIX - In 1987, when then-President Ronald Reagan declared March as the first Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, there was little in the way of housing, social help, or employment opportunities for people with developmental disab ...
  • Public Gets Say Today on 5-Year AZ Transportat ...
    Public Gets Say Today on 5-Year AZ Transportation Plan PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Transportation's latest five-year construction plan is up for public comment in Phoenix today. The proposal contains money only for highways and airports. But Serena Unrein, a public interest advoc ...
  • "Fight All Fires" Policy Change for Forest Service
    "Fight All Fires" Policy Change for Forest Service PHOENIX - For decades, the U.S. Forest Service let small fires in remote areas burn naturally in recognition that fire was part of the natural landscape - and that by letting some fires burn, future large fires could be prevented. Last year, how ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Fuel savings of efficient cars undone by more ...
    A new study … has found that from 1970-2010, an increase in vehicle distance traveled in the US, coupled with a decrease in the number of occupants in the vehicles, combined to undercut the impact of advances in vehicle fuel economy during that period.  
  • New York mayoral candidate Christine Quinn pwn ...
    Astonishingly the mock site for Christine Quinn is at quinnfornewyork.org while her real site is quinnfornewyork.com, indicating whoever runs her Internet operations has the brains of a turnip because they didn’t register the .org domain name too. Quinn opposes mandating paid sick days in ...
  • Bitcoin not ready for prime time
    It’s easy to get money into Bitcoin, the anonymous online money transfer system, but hard to get it out. Apparently few Bitcoin sources will cash you out and if they do, it’s just two coins at a time, or about $90. So why is this better than regular money? Sure, it’s completel ...
  • Headlines of the Day
    Six thousand dead pigs in river not affecting Shanghai water, officials insist Papal conclave: anti-mafia police raid offices in diocese of frontrunner  
  • Rootstrikers Conference To Restore The Republi ...
    Rootstrikers wants to end the corrupting influence of money in politics, hence their somewhat odd name which signifies striking at the root of the problem. They are planning a conference on Sat April 20 in San Francisco. Speakers include Rootstrikes founder Lawrence Lessig, David Cobb of the G ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • LA child sex abuse case involving one of the 1 ...
    A child sex abuse case involving one of the 115 cardinals currently voting to elect the next pope has been settled for almost $10 million. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, its former leader Cardinal Roger Mahony and an ex-priest agreed to settle four child sex abuse cases brought a ...
  • Penny Pritzker: Obama’s Likely Commerce ...
          by Stephen Lendman Daily Censored She’s one of America’s most powerful women. For sure she’s one of the richest. Forbes estimates she’s worth $1.85 billion.   She’s also heir to the Hyatt Hotels and Pritzker family fortune. It’s net w ...
  • Wary of Attack With Smallpox, U.S. Buys Up a C ...
    The United States government is buying enough of a new smallpox medicine to treat two million people in the event of a bioterrorism attack, and took delivery of the first shipment of it last week. But the purchase has set off a debate about the lucrative contract, with some experts saying the go ...
  • Guns of Law-Abiding Husband Confiscated After ...
    Just last week, the California Senate approved a $24 million funding bill to expedite the process of collecting guns from owners in the state who legally acquired them but have since become disqualified due to felony convictions or mental illness. Such was recently the case for one woman, who ha ...
  • California seizes guns from owners – and ...
    In California, the government is already coming for the guns. Notwithstanding the Second Amendment, rules and regulations across the United States outline certain restrictions for who can legally possess a firearm. In the state of California, factors such as a felony conviction or a history of m ...

The Air Vent

  • Climategate 3.0
    The password for the remaining emails was sent to me and several other blogs last night.   Anthony Watts has the letter up and it should explain a little about what is going on.
  • Sandwich Board Skeptics
    Steve McIntyre has a nice post up which I missed for 4 days.   He is very good.  Imagine the work it takes to go to AGU, sit through a Mann lecture expecting bad graphs to be used and be ready with a camera. Hell, even if I had the time, I sure as shit wouldn’t [...]
  • Blind Mice
    I am having a hard time generating the will to write as of late.   It didn’t use to be that way.  I used to get really upset when I read some alarmist garbage or other, all pushing the same fake lines of global doom.   Now there is so much progressive propaganda in the global environment, ...
  • The Power of Underpants
    As you can tell, I have been very busy lately.   I still have been lurking the same blogs and reading the comment threads so my time isn’t quite reduced to zero.   Recently, an article came out regarding some Ohio State researchers who claimed to have invented a process to burn coal and em ...
  • Lewandowsky – Strike Two
    Hat tip – Skiphil. – So Dr. Lewandowsky did it again.   He, and his coauthors, falsely used my name in order to support some kind of psychology paper on climate skeptic bloggers titled – “Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook rolls out user Timeline redesign incl ...
    Facebook today announced a wide rollout of a Timeline redesign some users got access to last month. The new layout puts a user’s posts and life events on the right, and their About info and app...
  • Facebook tests redesigned share flow to help u ...
    Facebook is testing a new interface for how users share items on the desktop site, which includes more prominent options for where users can post the story. AllFacebook found that some users are seeing a new...
  • Facebook removes ‘unlike page’ option in new N ...
    Facebook has removed the option to unlike pages after hiding stories in newly designed News Feed, introduced last Thursday. In the old design, if users were to hide a story from a page they Liked, they could then chose...
  • What’s old is new again with Facebook’s latest ...
    Facebook launches News Feed filters — first look. That was a headline on Inside Facebook in 2008, when the social network first enabled users to sort their feed by content type. Facebook rolling out more prominent...
  • Facebook announces Mobile DevCon series coming ...
    Facebook today announced a new technical conference series for mobile developers to learn about incorporating Facebook into their apps and to connect with engineers and product managers from the platform team. Mobile DevCon 2013 will take...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 13 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Think Tanks & Corporate Dominance Through the dominant think tanks, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and other corporations, banks, and powerful dynasties have been able to wield immense influence over policy and strategy among the world’ ...
  • Chavez: An Enemy of Washington’s Hegemony
    “Washington is Not America. Washington is Satan’s Home Town.” On March 5, 2013, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and world leader against imperialism, died. Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed US population. An ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 12 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

Afro Spear

  • Julie Wangombe: A poetic reintroduction to Africa
    Julie Wangombe, 23 years old Nairobian and a student at Duke University, first discovered spoken word poetry at Slam Africa events. …Continue reading »
  • Sunday Inspirations
    A Guinean mathematician solves 270-year-old conjecture Ibrahima Diallo Sambegou is the 1st African mathematician of the modern era to have developed …Continue reading »
  • sat’day riddymz
    My favourite Biggie song ever! R.I.P. Christopher Wallace: May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997
  • Perspective
    Greeting’s Everyone, I have decided to take a step back this week in the hopes of receiving your opinion. Yes, …Continue reading »
  • Byts and Bytes
    President Hugo Chavez and race: The shift from avoidance to inclusion The Good, Racist People Hugo Chavez: New World Rising …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

  • Palestinian Waiter Brutally Assaulted at Tel A ...
    A Palestinian waiter was brutally assaulted by Jewish customers at a Tel Aviv fast food restaurant within the past week. The video shows the waiter retrieving a mayonnaise packet from the table and almost immediately someone from the table rises and confronts him. He looks like he is screaming a ...
  • IDF Soldiers Demand Prosecution of 5 Broken Ca ...
    This post comes under the heading of “Chutzpah.” Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, as anyone who follows the Oscar race knows, had their film, 5 Broken Cameras nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film.  Though they didn’t win, the attention drawn to the project has tu ...
  • Palestinian Attacked by Gang of Settler Women ...
    Wonders never cease when it comes to the Israeli criminal justice system.  It manages to put people in jail, but often the wrong people.  A case in point is Hanna Amtir, a young pregnant Palestinian women who was attacked on Purim by a vicious gang of Jewish settler women at a Jerusalem light ra ...
  • Hanoch Levin’s “How to Spot an Arab Terrorist”
    A friend from Israel sent this quotation from Israel’s most brilliant political satirist, Hanoch Levin.  It was quoted in Uri Blau’s latest Haaretz article about a poor Palestinian family whose land is cut off from its native village by the Separation Wall.  This fact has also caused ...
  • Obama: Yes, We Can…Kill U.S. Citizens
    In 2008, we all whispered or shouted the slogan, “Yes, we can.”  It was a mantra.  It expressed all the hope for change of progressive Americans after eight dismal years of Bush-Cheney horrors.  Now it is five years later and all those hopes and dreams lie shattered in pieces on the ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Defense Edge - The Ghost Fleet of Military Air ...
    When I was a kid obsessed with military aircraft, I loved Chicago's O'Hare airport. If I was lucky and scored a window seat, I might get to see a line of C-130 Hercules transport planes parked on the tarmac in front of the 928th Airlift Wing's hangars. For a precious moment on takeoff or landing ...
  • Business Edge - Corporate CEOs Who are Close t ...
    Corporate fraud dominates financial news, yet few studies have looked at whether chief executive officers who appoint their own top lieutenants are more inclined to act illegally, according to University of Michigan researchers.U-M business professor E. Han Kim and law school professor Vikramadi ...
  • Edge of Obamacare - Physicians Who Use Electro ...
    Physician offices that move to electronic health record systems, but don't make additional changes in the practice to enhance revenue and cut costs for services no longer needed, stand to lose money, a University of Michigan researcher says. And a $44,000 federal incentive to encourage conversio ...
  • Edge of Evolution - Dust Mites Exhibit Evoluti ...
    In evolutionary biology, there is a deeply rooted supposition that you can't go home again: Once an organism has evolved specialized traits, it can't return to the lifestyle of its ancestors.There's even a name for this pervasive idea. Dollo's law states that evolution is unidirectional and irre ...
  • Inside the Catholic Church - Pope Francis I: A ...
    It was a poised Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina who emerged from the second day of voting by the conclave of cardinals as the new successor of St. Peter as Pope of Rome. In a number of firsts, he has taken the name Francis: the name of the beloved patron saint of Italy. He is the fir ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Future Of Our Grandchildren By James Hans ...
    World renowned climate scientist James Hansend in conversation with Subhankar Banerjee
  • 6 Ways The US Supreme Court Has Defiled Our Co ...
    It's well past time to exercise our First Amendment (while we still can) to speak out against the abuses and myopia of our very flawed Supreme Court!
  • Obama’s Evil Empire By Sean Fenley
    Obama should know it will only be for infamy, and for evil that he will ultimately go down! And so therefore his current praxis/strategy is without question; undeniably, one that must be fully, utterly, and entirely rebuked/curtailed
  • A Tale Of Two Women By Rosemarie Jackowski
    Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Prize winner for her work for the elimination of land mines, have been in the news promoting their books. Both women are brilliant, hardworking, dedicated, focused and very accomplished. They have much in common - but it appears that ...
  • Funding And Denouncing Israeli Occupation: Hyp ...
    While Israel should be held responsible for its own behavior, the EU and other countries should not finance the occupation while decrying the settlements. This hypocrisy can no longer be tolerated

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • What is a "FAIR SHARE" Of The Tax Burden Mr. ...
    What a great year 1986 was---the last time my beloved NY Mets won the fall classic.  Even outside the ballpark at  Flushing by the Bay there was a sense of balance in the world. Since then the wealthiest among us have been paying an increasing share of the federal tax burden. ...
  • Big Corps Flee Taxes by Keeping More Cash Outs ...
    This is the part of the tax equations the progressives will never understand, when faced with high taxes those who can afford to will "vote with their feet." No entity does it better than big corporations. Faced with the world's highest corporate tax rate of the leading economic powers, ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama's Economics is Curing Childh ...
    NYC Mayor Michael "The Mommy" Bloomberg should be feeling better about yesterday's court decision stopping his ban on 16 ounce+ portions of sugared drinks. A new scientific study has shown that childhood obesity is way down. According to a special report in today's Newsbusted via Anchor Jod ...
  • Good News! Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Ham ...
    By Barry Rubin Something both positive and revealing has just happened and while it undermines one prediction of mine it reinforces another. I’m delighted to see it. I predicted that since Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a radical, Islamist group that wants to wipe Israel of ...
  • BREAKING! Judge Overturns Bloomberg Soda Ban
    There is hope for freedom in America. A state judge just banned Mommy Bloomberg from implementing his freedom killing ban on the sales of 16 Oz+ sugared drinks. The city is "enjoined and permanently restrained from implementing or enforcing the new regulations," New York Supreme Court Judge ...

The Real Agenda

  • Bee Venom Kills HIV, experiments find
    Discovery could lead to topical gel to prevent HIV transmission By JASON KOEBLER | USNEWS | MARCH 13, 2013 Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells unharmed, which could lead to an anti-H ...
  • Republicans, Democrats and the NRA secretely w ...
    AMMONLAND | MARCH 12, 2013 One of the 250 United States Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, said “I love peace but if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace” and “These are the days that try men’s souls”. Please keep those words in the back of [...]
  • Number of injuries in U.S. sponsored Syrian wa ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 12, 2013 It is not a secret that the U.S. and other Western military forces working for the military industrial complex are aiding terrorists in Syria to create unrest and kill thousands of people. Just yesterday it was confirmed again that the ...
  • Falkland Islands chose to remain British
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 12, 2013 Almost 100% of the Falklanders who voted in the referendum on 10 and 11 March endorsed the idea for the archipelago to remain under UK jurisdiction. The Government of the Falklands carried out a plebiscite in response to the territoria ...
  • What would new Autism diagnosis mean for your ...
    By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | MARCH 12, 2013 Changes in the new DSM 5 for the criteria of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) could mean a high percentage of children currently diagnosed with autism, as per the DSM 4, could lose their diagnosis. Professionals are worried that the change ...

Wind Watch

  • ‘Unprecedented’ plan needed to remove Fa ...
    FALMOUTH — The estimated cost to remove Falmouth’s two wind turbines ranges from $12-15 million, including existing debt, removal fees, legal fees, and consulting work. In addition, special legislation is required to both borrow money to pay removal costs and to potentially refinance tax-exempt ...
  • Duke wind farm tax deal means $800K less for C ...
    A tax settlement between the state and a wind company will cost Converse County more than $800,000 in revenue — cuts that will hit library, hospital and school budgets. After a round of negotiations between the Wyoming Department of Revenue and Duke Energy, owner of the Top of the World wind far ...
  • Civil servants ‘in bid to gag anti-wind ...
    A community councillor who took the UK Government to the United Nations over the building of wind farms has accused civil servants of attempting to gag campaigners. Christine Metcalfe, 69, went to the UN on behalf of Avich-Kilchrenan Community Council in Argyll, after failing with a complaint to ...
  • DTE investigates broken turbine blade
    SIGEL TOWNSHIP — DTE Energy has no idea why a portion of a wind turbine blade broke off early Monday morning during a low-wind period at one of the utility’s sites in the Thumb Wind Park. “This matter certainly is under investigation,” said Scott L. Simons, DTE Energy spokesman. Simons said the ...
  • Bald eagle toll a sticking point for Somerset ...
    WESTOVER — Twenty bald eagles a year could be killed by the spinning blades a company wants to build in Somerset County to harness the power of wind for cheap energy, federal wildlife officials say. That’s too much for Delmarva’s eagle population to bear, said Sarah Nystrom, the Northeast region ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
    So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
    I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
    There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...
  • The future, and journalism education
    My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...
  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Overruling NYC’s Ban on Large Pops
    A judge has overruled this.  I’m not a lawyer, so I won’t comment on the legality, what I will say is that in this case, I actually support Bloomberg.  High doses of sugar and fructose contribute to obesity and the diabetes epidemic: they kill a lot of people.  A lot more people than ...
  • The Cassandra Complex
    The prophet Cassandra was blessed with the ability to foretell the future: but cursed that no one would believe her. Except that this is the way that prophecy works, if people believe a dire prophecy, it generally doesn’t come true.  My friend Stirling Newberry calls this a “self-unf ...
  • Rand Paul’s Filibuster
    Rand Paul, if you haven’t seen the news, is filibustering Brennan’s CIA nomination in order to get clarification from the President that American citizens can’t be killed without due process in the United States. I’m seeing a lot of “liberals” and “progr ...
  • Rand Paul’s Filibuster
    Rand Paul, if you haven’t seen the news, is filibustering Brennan’s CIA nomination in order to get clarification from the President that American citizens can’t be killed without due process in the United States. I’m seeing a lot of “liberals” and “progr ...
  • The Keys to Prosperity
    I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a book on how to create prosperity.   Let’s run through the basics. First, you have to produce enough.  Goods and services.  Everything from food and shelter, to music and philosophy. Second, because prosperity means widespread affluence, ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

Empty newsfeed.

new geography

  • Wall Street's Hollow Boom: With Small Business ...
    On Wall Street, even as layoffs mount, the upper echelons are clinking champagne glasses for good reason. The stock market is hitting new highs, propelled largely by Bernanke dollars and strong corporate profits. Big financial institutions like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan have announced record prof ...
  • Chicago: Outer Suburban and Exurban Growth Leader
    Greg Hinz at Crain's Chicago Business congratulates Chicago for its nation-leading population growth. Heinz also notes that the far suburbs also gained population strongly, but there had been losses in the areas between the two. He asks: "the question now is whether the area can prosper ...
  • The Psychology of the Creative Class: Not as C ...
    "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" –Steve Jobs Behind every sociological movement is a psychology. The ever-growing creative classification of America is no different. The following teases the psychology of the movement apart. Why do this? Because it is needed. The ...
  • Should California Governor Jerry Brown Take a ...
    "Memento Mori" – "Remember your mortality" – was whispered into the ears of Roman generals as they celebrated their great military triumphs. Someone should be whispering something similar in the ear of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has been quick to celebrate his tax and budget ...
  • New York Catholic Schools Take a Beating From ...
    In a heart-breaking scene in the 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, a young mother is crying in her Harlem apartment, which overlooks her daughter’s school. Bianca, her daughter, has been barred from attending graduation. The villain isn’t a union boss or a bureaucrat in Albany – instead, it ...

GM Watch

Empty newsfeed.

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • NASCAR reinstates driver Jeremy Clements
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. - NASCAR has reinstated Jeremy Clements following completion of stipulations set after the driver made insensitive remarks in an interview. Clements is eligible to race this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, but will be on probation until Sept. 13. Clements was sent to a sports ...
  • Djokovic wards off Dimitrov’s challenge
    Novak Djokovic admitted it wasn’t pretty, but the world No. 1 got the job done on Tuesday with a 7-6(4), 6-1 third-round victory over Grigor Dimitrov at the ATP Masters/WTA BNP Paribas Open. Djokovic, unbeaten in a 2013 campaign that so far includes a fourth Australian Open title and an AT ...
  • Hayden Panettiere's Short, But She Looks Even ...
    Hayden Panettiere may be petite, but big things obviously don't scare her off. The 5-foot-2-inch actress posted a photo of herself standing next to a giant SUV on Twitter yesterday, boasting that her "Napoleon syndrome" won't stop her from possibly buying the vehicle. I know I'm small, but COME ...
  • Why Celebrity Kids' Style Is So Much Cooler Th ...
    Charlize Theron was recently photographed running errands around town with her young son, Jackson, perched on her hip. The 37-year-old actress is always stunning, even more so lately with her pixie haircut. Her oversized sunglasses, zebra-emblazoned sweater and skinny jeans were ideal for a busy ...
  • Deion Sanders’ ex ‘flabbergasted' over losing ...
    The contentious divorce between Deion Sanders and his estranged wife Pilar Sanders has finally come to a bit of a resolution – the athlete was awarded full custody of his two sons, ages 11 and 13, and joint custody of his 9-year-old daughter. According to DallasNews.com, Pilar, an aspiring ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • OXYGENgas [Jernigan Healthcare, Inc.]
    Updated Date: Mar 11, 2013 EST
  • Implanting Mechanical Heart Valves In Young Pa ...
    A comparative long-term cost analysis between the On-X® Prosthetic Heart Valve and stented tissue valves shows a potential life-time savings of nearly $60,000 per patient and $1.2 billion for total U.S. Healthcare On-X® Life Technologies, Inc. (On-X LTI) have announced that a cost anal ...
  • Farewell, Mr. Miles
    Last night, our beloved 13 year-old cat Miles died. He wasn’t sick for long, and we were petting him as he died. Miles is the one who taught us how to love cats, and I’m going to miss him very much. As I did with Ella and Otto, some Miles memories: Miles was Joel’s and [...]
  • Physicians Should Not Be Responsible For Presc ...
    Physicians in Canada should not be responsible for prescribing marijuana unless the federal government commits to ensuring that it is a prescription drug, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Health Canada is proposing new regulations that will put the onus on doct ...
  • Pediatric, Family Medicine Practices Unprepare ...
    Primary care practices around the country are being encouraged and even paid to become "medical homes," but small practices might be at a significant disadvantage in this race to improve health care for children, according to a new study by child health experts at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital...

Common Dreams

  • Erased US Data Shows 1 in 4 Missiles in Afghan ...
    Ground crew attend a Reaper in Kandahar, Afghanistan (Photo: David Axe/Creative Commons)Drones are now firing nearly a quarter of all air-launched missiles in Afghanistan, just as the US military deletes its drone figures. read more
  • Report: Over 2 Million Syrian Children Threate ...
    Children inside a classroom at Za’atri refugee camp, host to tens of thousands of Syrians displaced by conflict, near Mafraq, Jordan. (Photo: UN /Mark Garten)A new report is warning Syria’s children are perhaps the greatest victims of their country’s civil war. ...
  • Japanese Farmers Protest 'Drastic Agreement' T ...
    Farmers from across Japan staged a protest in Tokyo Tuesday over signs that the Japanese government will soon sign on to Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations with the U.S., saying the TPP will only result in “a drastic agreement that will change the way the nation deals with f ...
  • Climate Movement Claims 'Victory' After Direct ...
    In what climate justice activists are calling a "huge" victory, the UK energy giant EDF has dropped its controversial multi-million dollar lawsuit against activists who shut down one of the company's gas-fired power plants in 2012 with a dramatic week-long occupation of the plant&# ...
  • Fire in the Bayou: Oil-Carrying Barge, Tugboat ...
    A tug boat pushing an oil barge crashed into a Chevron-owned liquid petroleum gas pipeline Tuesday evening in a bayou south of New Orleans sparking fire on board the two vessels and causing unknown amounts of oil to leak into the marshy area "heavily affected" by the 2010 BP oil disast ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Clean Energy Market Values Set To Nearly Doubl ...
    Despite 2012 troubles, global clean energy markets remain strong and will nearly double within ten years, according to Clean Edge's annual industry report.
  • On Climate Change: U.S. Should Act to Reduce S ...
    Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide is critical to long-term efforts. But curbing greenhouse gases with shorter atmospheric lifetimes will have significant near-term climate benefits.
  • Coal’s True Cost in India: 100,000+ Deaths per ...
    As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal-fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released.
  • Quo Vadis East African Gas?
    Gas majors Anadarko Petroleum, ENI and BG Group have discovered over 100 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas reserves off the coasts of Mozambique and Tanzania. Could these discoveries make East Africa as big of an energy exporter as Nigeria?
  • Faint Praise for Nuclear Energy in New Documen ...
    There is not a single mention of the ‘N’ (nuclear) word; the closest the documentary’s promotional clip comes to acknowledging the existence of nuclear energy is a brief shot of cooling towers.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • McDonaldization: News Media, Hollywood, Televi ...
    America's So-Called Liberal Alternative Media - Some Are MSM Mini-Me's Anyone who started using the Internet in the era of Windows 3.1 or Mac System 7.1.2 (or using Unix) knows that the Mainstream Media Oligarchs Duopolists crooks are indoctrinating (McDonaldizing) the Internet; or in the wo ...
  • Penny Pritzker: Obama's Likely Commerce Secret ...
    by Stephen Lendman >She's one of America's most powerful women. For sure she's one of the richest. Forbes estimates she's worth $1.85 billion. She's also heir to the Hyatt Hotels and Pritzker family fortune. It's net worth exceeds $20 billion. Some think it's much more. No one know ...
  • America's Retirement Crisis
    by Stephen Lendman Decades of class war leaves most Americans nearing retirement woefully unprepared. Since the mid-1970s, real wages haven't kept pace with inflation. Benefits steadily eroded. High-paying jobs disappeared. Improved technology forces wage earners to work harder for less. ...
  • Obama Wants Lynne Stewart Dead
    by Stephen Lendman Lynne's 73. She's gravely ill. Obama killed Chavez. He wants Lynne dead. Unjustifiable longterm imprisonment assures it. She's a breast cancer survivor. It reemerged. It's spreading. She's dying. Vital life-saving treatment is delayed or denied. Expert privat ...
  • Turkey Targets Press Freedom
    by Stephen Lendman No country imprisons more journalists than Turkey. Ragip Zarakolu understands well. He's a prominent human rights activist/publisher. He's a former Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He's been maliciously targeted for years. In 1998, he won the International Publishers Associa ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2013
    Today, the CCPA releases the Alternative Federal Budget 2013: Doing Better Together. This year's AFB shows how growth-killing austerity can be replaced by a plan that strengthens the economy, leads to a better quality of life for all Canadians, and eliminates the deficit by 2016.  Thi ...
  • Great resource for labour researchers and acti ...
    If you haven’t run across the Citizen’s Press website yet, we recommend that you take a look. Citizen's Press is a Canadian online publication for progressive, union-oriented researchers, activists and organizers. There is also valuable information from the US. The site is organized into editor ...
  • Alternative Federal Budget 2013: Coming soon!
    More than ever, Canada needs a budget that allows us to take back our fu­ture and to restore a sense of the public good — a sense that we can do bet­ter together rather than continuing on the dead-end path of austerity and market-driv­en “solutions” that don’t benefit the major­i ...
  • Continuing collaboration for municipal tax reform
    CCPA-NS is continuing its work, in partnership with The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce, to ask that the Province of Nova Scotia undertake a study into the potential for a shift from municipal property taxes to municipal income taxes as the principa ...
  • Collaborating for municipal tax reform
    Collaborating for municipal tax reform. This is a first. We have partnered with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, and the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce to ask that the Province of Nova Scotia undertake a study into the potential for a shift from municipal property taxes to municipal ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • Oil may be seeping from Deepwater Horizon site
    Dec. 13, 2012 CBS News has learned that BP is set to embark Thursday on the fifth day of a little-known subsea mission under Coast Guard supervision to look for any new oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The BP oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending a total estima ...
  • Japan's cleanup lags from tsunami, nuke accident
    March 12, 2013   NARAHA, Japan (AP) — Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs — and perhaps most worrying — radioactive waste due to the cripple ...
  • 'Its the worst weve ever seen': Hauls of shrim ...
    Oct. 18, 2012 Title: About 565,000 pounds of oiled material from Deepwater Horizon stirred up by Hurricane Isaac Source: Times-Picayune Author: Jeff Adelson Date: October 17, 2012 [...] While the uncovered tar has been a problem for the island’s tourism industry, the spill and the remainin ...
  • Feds: Oil in Gulf leaking from BPs containment ...
    Oct. 18, 2012 >> Updated Here: Oil Spill Expert: I remain skeptical they found source of BP crude in Gulf << Title: ROVs investigate possible sheen source Source: US Government Date: October 18, 2012 Remote operated vehicles deployed from the offshore construction vessel Skandi ...
  • Extensive coal ash contamination found in US w ...
    Oct. 22, 2012 Recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that as many as 197 different sites across 37 states registered violations to federal drinking water statutes due to contamination from coal ash produced by power plants nearby. Coal ash impoundment sites, calle ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • How Big Food Is Making You Fat
    What if it's the food—and not you—that's to blame for America's obesity epidemic? The national conversation surrounding this question has heated up with the publication of Michael Moss's new book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. But Moss isn't the first to make the case that the f ...
  • 6 Sneaky Sources of Lead
    If you're eating an organic diet and trying to avoid pesticides and other nasty chemicals in your home, it's unnerving to learn that hidden contaminants, such as lead, could still threaten you with long-term health problems.  A recent study published in the journal Environmental Health Per ...
  • 2013 Allergies: The Worst Year Ever?
    In a trend that may make your eyes water just thinking about it, seasonal allergy experts are confirming that 2013 allergies are going to start sooner—and last longer—in most parts of the country. The 2013 allergy season is expected to occur about 14 days earlier in many parts of the United St ...
  • The Grocery Store That's Changing the Food System
    Big news for people concerned about avoiding genetically modified organisms (GMOs): Whole Foods, the nation's largest natural and organic foods retailer, has just announced that by 2018, all products sold in its stores must indicate whether they contain GMOs. "We’re responding to our custo ...
  • The Infection You Don't Want to Catch
    Summer brings with it a lot of really great things: beach trips, long lazy days, and fresh food from your garden. It also brings with it an increased chance of catching MRSA, according to a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The original intent of the study was to analyze the nu ...

big think

  • How Exomoons Could Support Life
    What's the Latest Development? Although they have yet to be identified, scientists believe that at least some of the more than 3,000 possible exoplanets currently discovered by NASA's Kepler telescope have "exomoons" orbiting them. A series of recently published papers by scientists René ...
  • Wanted: One Billion Travelers to Donate Your ' ...
    Here's the best idea you'll hear today that you will also wish you thought of yourself. Just as Internet users contribute their 'cognitive surplus' to build sites like Wikipedia, international travelers can donate their excess luggage allotment as part of a novel delivery system to move millions ...
  • What the Papal Conclave Should Really Be Looki ...
    As the eyes of the Catholic world (and beyond) remain glued to the chimney of the Sistine Chapel (shown above) for the white smoke indicating the election of a new pontiff, there’s a different picture that the Papal Conclave of Cardinals should be taking note of in the Eternal City. Antonio Garu ...
  • More Flowers In The Arctic?
    What's the Latest Development? A study done by university and NASA scientists using historical data about the upper Northern Hemisphere shows that there are now areas of vegetation that resemble those that would have been observed about 700 kilometers south in 1982. The segment of Earth ...
  • Japan's Undersea Gas Extraction Could Be A Gam ...
    What's the Latest Development? On Tuesday Japan announced that it had successfully extracted natural gas from methane hydrate deposits located about 300 meters below the floor of the Pacific Ocean. A drilling ship had been in the location -- 80 kilometers south of the Atsumi Peninsula -- ...

Information Liberation

  • Puerto Rico To Become Epic Tax Haven?: 'The Id ...
    Puerto Rico is working to become one of the most serious threats to the U.S.'s taxation empire in the entire world, all because U.S. citizens per an old taxation agreement become exempt from U.S. income taxes if they become residents of the state. U...
  • Federal Appeals Court Busts Police For Contemp ...
    A motorist who was less than cooperative when police performed a traffic stop on her property was vindicated Friday. A federal appeals court made it clear that taking a longer than expected time to produce identification and "being up to no good," wa...
  • Phoenix Cop Made Famous On YouTube For Tacklin ...
    Via MyFoxPhoenix: PHOENIX - A Phoenix Police officer has been suspended after tackling a 15-year-old girl. The video, posted on YouTube, made national headlines two years ago. Monday, that officer appealed, saying his punishment is too harsh, f...
  • Undercover Cops Ensnare a Special Ed Student, ...
    From the Press-Enterprise: The parents of an autistic student accused of selling marijuana last year to an undercover deputy have prevailed in their effort to have the teen reinstated at the Temecula high school. An administrative law judge who h...
  • School Calls Cops Over Water Pistol; Vows To T ...
    It is now a daily occurrence for school officials somewhere in America to freak out, call the police, and discipline students over anything vaguely resembling a gun. On Monday it was the turn of Malden High School in Massachusetts. A teacher at...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Ante-papal smoke signals
    Philip Ball, writing on the BBC Future site discusses the carcinogens and poisons pumped into the Roman air every time the cardinals vote on a new Pope… But, he also reckons the The Vatican is missing a trick by being unimaginatively monochrome. “Why stop at a mere two-colour signall ...
  • Animated rock art
    Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life. PITOTI is an innovative research project that applies insights from the new technologies of computer graphics to prehistoric pictures, specifically ...
  • World Book Day Confusion
    It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be more than one World Book Day. Apparently (thanks Bob O’Hara) we Brits celebrate and promote literacy on 7th March to get around school holidays, which is why yesterday all the kids trotting up to school were dressed as characters from thei ...
  • Molecular Logic
    I first wrote about the pioneering work of Prasanna de Silva – AP to his friends and colleagues – back in the early 1990s in publications such as New Scientist, Science and others. It really was pioneering, he and his team at Queen’s University Belfast were starting to find way ...
  • Deceived Wisdom World Book Day Offer
    World Book Day Offer: To celebrate WBD – 2013-03-06, I’ve made the e-version of Deceived Wisdom just 99p (about $1.50) for the day. You can buy it in PDF, mobi or ePub format for your computer, device or other e-reader from my publisher E&T through the Sciencebase site. Click the ...

RFF Library

  • Policy Making after Disasters: Helping Regions ...
    OECD (Available for free to RFFers through OECD iLibrary; see library landing page on the left side for the username and password) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/policy-making-after-disasters_9789264189577-en Abruzzo is at a tipping point: despite economic, cul ...
  • US Manufacturing and LNG Exports: Economic Con ...
    Charles River Associates http://www.crai.com/uploadedFiles/Publications/CRA_LNG_Study_Feb2013.pdf [From Press Release] CRA was retained by The Dow Chemical Company to examine the economic trade-offs between LNG exports and manufacturing in the US economy. The report focuses primarily on the anti ...
  • Beyond Nuclear: The Triple Challenge Facing Ja ...
    Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/nuclear/2013/BeyondNuclear.pdf [Executive Summary]  After decades of market dominance, high profitability and the creation of strong shareholder value, Japan’s nuclear utilities saw their fortunes turn in the wa ...
  • [Draft] Summary of Technical Roundtables on EP ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/hfstudy/pdfs/summary-of-technical-roundtables.pdf On November 14 16, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted a series of five technical roundtables focused on each stage of the water cycle, as defined in the study plan for EPA’s Study of the Poten ...
  • Temperature and Vegetation Seasonality Diminis ...
    Original research article and supplementary information available on the authors’ Boston University site below  (Nature Climate Change  published online March 10, 2013; doi:10.1038/nclimate1836) / by L. Xu, et al. http://cybele.bu.edu/greeningearth/ssnltydim/ssnlty-dim.html [Yale Environme ...

Scientific American - News

  • Painkillers Could Prove Helpful in Stem-Cell T ...
    Aspirin-like drugs could improve the success of stem-cell transplants for patients with blood or bone-marrow disorders, a study suggests. The compounds coax stem cells from bone marrow into the bloodstream where they can be harvested for use in transplantation -- and they do so with fewer side e ...
  • Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, Transf ...
    When campus president Wallace Loh walked into Juan Uriagereka's office last August, he got right to the point. “We need courses for this thing -- yesterday!” [More]
  • Will Alternative Energy Growth Tank During New ...
    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The artificial leaf promised to revolutionize the world by bringing reliable modern energy to those mired in poverty. But the company founded to commercialize the research--Sun Catalytix--has found that it needs to concentrate its efforts on something likely to make money ...
  • Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Habitability
    NASA’s Curiosity rover has found what it went to Mars to look for: evidence of an environment that could have once supported life. [More]
  • The Mystery of the Vanishing DDT in the Ocean ...
    LOS ANGELES – A DDT deposit in the ocean off Los Angeles County has rapidly shrunk, shocking experts and casting doubt on the need to mount a controversial $60-million Superfund cleanup, according to new data. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • One Down – Racist Lawyer Doug Christie Dies of ...
     By Comrade Black Hate speech proponent Doug Christie has passed away. Finally. Most of the mainstream media articles refer to Christie as a 'controversial lawyer' and some even refer to him as a  'defender of free sp ...
  • When not to run: Protest advice from a Street ...
    Some of us are familiar with the clack-clack-clack of batons on riot shields and the boot-to-pavement double-step. We have heard the crack of flashbangs overhead and felt the sting of teargas. We all know there can be terrifying moments du ...
  • Idle No More Metrotown Flashmob
    On 09 March 2013, INM took to Metrotown for a flashmob that took shoppers out of their usual experiences.
  • GroundWire News - March 12, 2013 edition
    This edition was produced by Erin Hudson at CKUT in Montreal Quebec. Headlines: The street never forgets and never forgives; March 17 marks the 17th International Day Against Police Brutality Porter Airlines, a small airline operating out of Toronto Island’s Billy Bishop Airport is in ...
  • Hunger Strike Ends on Day 11 - Made In Nova Sc ...
    Chiefs admit faulty communication and sign declaration to work with Idle No More in future. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – An 11-day hunger strike came to an end yesterday at the Ram ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Judicial Confirmations Update: Political Scien ...
    In my previous post, I wrote that Republicans are now blocking not just judicial nominees who are relatively extreme, but anyone who's ever written something that a conservative interest group objects to. Matt Corley tweets that this reminds him of a paper written a few years ago on exactly th ...
  • Maybe We Need a Grand Bargain Over Judges?
    Jeffrey Toobin wrote yesterday about a familiar problem: the all-but-total obstruction of judicial nominees by Senate Republicans. James Joyner comments: There’s an argument to be made for high level scrutiny being applied to federal judges generally—it’s a lifetime app ...
  • Henry Waxman Has Another New Carbon Tax Proposal
    Brad Plumer informs me today that Henry Waxman and a team of fellow Democrats have released a draft proposal to tax carbon emissions. One way to make this go down more easily is to make it revenue neutral: use the money from the carbon tax to lower other taxes, something the authors suggest th ...
  • Presidential Schmoozing Really Isn't the Issue ...
    Over at Politico, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen spend a few hundred words telling us that President Obama blew it by first insisting on a tax increase in the fiscal cliff deal and then provoking Republicans even further by taking to the hustings to talk up a compromise sequester deal that includ ...
  • There's More to the Economy Than Walmart
    Early last month, the blogging world was transfixed by a leaked set of emails from a Walmart executive complaining that the first week of sales in February was terrible. "February MTD sales are a total disaster," said Jerry Murray, Walmart's vice president of finance and logistics. "The worst ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 386: I Don’t Work Here
    Topic: Guest Host: Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips Sith Council Assignments Emails Why we review movies? Weathermen suck Why black people won’t survive the zombie apocalypse? Bag fees New ads about Teen Pregnancy Share with your friends:
  • IC 385: Sith Council
    Topic: Sith Council Forms: Kriss, Kev, Tye Diamond & Rodimus Prime Trolling Trolls When is it okay to talk about people? Tye goes on a date with Ebony from Catfish Calling 9 year olds cunts Epic Facebook Trolling Charlamagne “Gets Real”….stupid Dumb Nigga Logic Video Games ...
  • IC 384: Horrible People
    Topic: Kriss is allergic to the office Nasty ass coworkers Kriss & Kev are horrible people Fantasia has a beef with JET Magazine Iron Man 3 Shailene Woodley as MJ EA says game prices will go up Share with your friends:
  • IC 383: Chicks Can’t Fight
    Topic: UFC 157 First Women’s fight in the UFC The vocal minority of sexist men Dana White is an awesome sports commissioner Kev recaps his NYC trip Kev goes to the Church of Scientology Mass Effect 3 DLC Playstation 4 Share with your friends:
  • IC 382: Life Coaching
    Topic: Phenomblak joins Kriss & Kev for a completely random and off topic show. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

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

unEarthed

  • Scope of Science: The Dark Side of Soot
    Be green: get rid of black Black soot easily seen on ice formations in the Arctic. Soot is melting the Arctic. Even scientists are alarmed with the disappeara ...
  • Film: "A Fierce Green Fire" Opens
    Documentary outlines modern environmental history A stunning, inspiring new documentary film, A Fierce Green Fire, The Battle for a Living Planet, had its theatr ...
  • Unplugged: Clothes Dryers Need Labels, Too
    Your dryer is burning holes in your pockets The average dryer costs more than $1,500 to run over its lifetime.  (DOE) Few household appliances use as muc ...
  • Michigan State U Must Be Greener Than Spartan Deep
    University has a historic coal ash contamination problem “Simply moving dangerous coal ash from one site to another contaminated site on campus is not being ‘Spartan Green.'" ...
  • Florida's Water Is Looking Ashen
    Tons of toxic, mostly unregulated coal ash, threaten state's lifeblood Coal ash landfill at Florida's Stanton Energy Center, February 2012. (Angelique Giraud / CWA) ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Tzipi Livni throws cold water on prospects for ...
    With Israel and Palestine no closer to a peaceful two-state resolution 20 years after the start of Oslo, the burden of proof is on its believers, not its detractors, settler leader Dany Dayan says. Even the women set to be in charge of any future peace process, Tzipi Livni, is speaking about the ...
  • Are Israel’s refusers modern day heroes?
    All facets of refusal may be instrumental in changing the conscription process and refusal to serve in the Israeli military is not always the outcome of opposing the Occupation. It takes courage and demands fortitude and wide support. By Ruth L. Hiller Different people refuse to enlist in Israel ...
  • Don’t blame settlers for violence against Pale ...
    Israeli soldiers are the ones who make the prolonged dispossession of the Palestinians possible. If the army wasn’t there, violent settler attacks could not take place. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz One morning in late February of this year, J., a resident of a village in the Nablus dist ...
  • WATCH: Immigrants from former USSR struggle to ...
    Due to bureaucratic failures, many immigrants from the former Soviet Union are not getting the pensions they accrued while working in their home countries, and thus are forced to continue working and saving in order to grow old with dignity. A significant percentage of immigrant pensioners live ...
  • Bibi and Lapid: Rise of the metrosexuals
    Netanyahu used to be in a class by himself as a vainly handsome Israeli political leader obsessed with his appearance. Now he’s got company, and competition.  Oh God — Netanyahu and Lapid in the same cabinet meetings. I don’t know if so much preening, posing and mugging can be ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • FLORIDA FORECLOSURE FIASCO, HENRY TRAWICK WEIG ...
    The analysis is in….in it sure ain’t good. Now, that surely isn’t going to stop Florida’s Out of Control Republicans from pushing it through though….. Bill SB 1666 Trawicks opinion Scridb filter
  • Florida’s Fascist Republican Party In Th ...
    Let see where we are today in the State of Florida…The extremist wings of the Republican Party…and at this point in time, that seems to be about the entire Republican Party of Florida…are aggressively pursuing legislation, Senate Bill 1666 and House Bill 87, that target Florida ...
  • Florida Senator Darren Soto- FLORIDA’S F ...
    Calling Florida’s No. 1 ranking on foreclosures “shameful,” some lawmakers are pushing for reforms to the foreclosure law, hoping to help homeowners keep their properties. At a Tuesday press conference, some Democrats in the Florida Legislature pushed for new changes to laws governing Florida’s ...
  • House Bill 87 and Senate Bill 1666- UNCONSTITU ...
    GREAT JOB TO THE SOUTH FLORIDA CREW FOR STANDING UP FOR CONSUMER RIGHTS…. PLEASE REACH OUT TO EVAN ROSEN AND TELL HIM THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP FOR ALL FLORIDIANS! Government will make it easier for the banks to take your property! Threaten your due process and property rights! USRead the ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Hear Audio of Bradley Manning Speak ...
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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Public Health
    A group of industrial food animal production and processing companies have formed “The Food Manufacturers Immigration Coalition” to encourage comprehensive immigration reform.
  • Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
    Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
  • The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
    Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.
  • Mislabeled Seafood: More than Overpaying for F ...
    Many people are interested in the study because consumers are being duped by fraudulent fish, but other impacts of mislabeled seafood are far more worrisome. Certain fish carry advisories, especially for pregnant women and young children, to limit or avoid due to contamination of heavy metals or ...
  • Md. Farm Bureau’s stance on pesticide bill see ...
    The Maryland Farm Bureau’s opposition to a pesticide reporting bill in Maryland seems out of step with policy statements made by the national organization with which it is affiliated, the American Farm Bureau Federation.

k2p blog

  • Pope Francis (first of that name)
    Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a a 76 year old Jesuit from Argentina has been elected Pope and will take the name Pope Francis 1.
  • Japanese test confirms successsful extraction ...
    Jogmec has successfully extracted gas in flow tests from deep-sea methane clathrate deposits in the Nankai trough.
  • Neanderthals died out because they could see b ...
    A novel theory but a little far-fetched!. The only data is the measurement of eye sockets in 13 Neanderthal skulls compared to those in 32 human skulls from the same time. All the rest is just conjecture - and then further conjecture based on the original speculation. A little light on data and ...
  • Surprise! 99.8% of Britishers on the Falklands ...
    Currently the entire Argentinian claim to Antarctica falls within the British Antarctic Territory and it must be terribly frustrating for Argentina to find the UK leveraging its ownership of the Falklands all the way to the South Pole.
  • Surprise! 99.8% of Britishers on the Falklands ...
    Currently the entire Argentinian claim to Antarctica falls within the British Antarctic Territory and it must be terribly frustrating for Argentina to find the UK leveraging its ownership of the Falklands all the way to the South Pole.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • It’s Scary How Easy It Was To Perform Th ...
    Yesterday someone released the private information of more than a dozen celebrities online, posting their phone numbers, mortgages, and Social Security numbers. Although the word “hack” has been used, it’s a surprisingly very easy process to go from a city’s mortgage regi ...
  • Beating Up The ATM That Ate Your Card Will Get ...
    We’ve seen all kinds of seemingly minor acts turn into what’s termed “a pretty freaking big deal” just by a simple twist of events. Like admitting to past crimes, taking out too much anger on an ATM can earn you a felony. Police in New Hampshire say it wasn’t a simp ...
  • Let’s Resolve The Twist-Ties Vs. Plastic ...
    There’s been a major battle brewing among those of us who like to close plastic bags. Are you gonna go with a twist-tie, which can be repurposed into a cat toy, or a plastic clip of the kind often seen to close bread bags, which can be bedazzled and sold online? Your answer matters to thos ...
  • Yes, It’s Really Happening: McDonald&#82 ...
    We heard whispers of this and now it’s true, it’s really true: McDonald’s will be rolling out their Egg White Delight McMuffin in certain locations on April 22. It’s like the Egg McMuffin, see, but without the yolk. The breakfast sandwich will run you 250 calories (fewer than t ...
  • There’s Finally A Tablet Made Just For W ...
    Now that womenfolk have gotten a handle on that whole “writing with pretty pens” thing, it’s time we catch up with technology! But those iThingies, screen books and Galactic whaddyacallits are so confusing. Thank goodness the makers of the ePad Femme are here to save the day wi ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • 'American Whistleblower Tour' Coming to UDC
    On Friday, March 22, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) will bring the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). The Tour stop will feature prominent whistleblowers Thomas Drake (NSA waste and mismanagement), Ri ...
  • GAP's Food Integrity Campaign Launches Ag-Gag ...
    FIC Launches New Video Series "Ag Gag Undercover" to Fight Anti-Whistleblower Bills This week, GAP's Food Integrity Campaign released the first of several short videos in a new campaign series, "Ag Gag Undercover," to raise awareness about the controversial anti-whistleblower bills. Stay tuned ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Drake to Speak at NPC Luncheon
    This coming Friday, March 15, Government Accountability Project (GAP) client and National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Tom Drake will speak at a luncheon at the National Press Club (NPC). This event is part of the NPC's involvement in Sunshine Week, a national initiative promoting open g ...
  • Meningitis Drug Whistleblower Speaks Out: Dail ...
    60 Minutes: Lethal Medicine Linked to Meningitis Outbreak Last year the New England Compounding Center (NECC) manufactured a steroid – designed to relieve chronic pain but which caused a meningitis outbreak – that killed 48 people and sickened 720 others. Generally, compounding pharmacies are ...
  • NYT is Government Mouthpiece on Droning al-Awlaki
    I was just on DEMOCRACY NOW! with Scott Shane, one of the journalists who wrote yesterday's New York Times front-page, top-of-the-fold, 3600-word article echoing the government's recent narrative about how the Muslim cleric we droned, Anwar al-Awlaki, is an al Qaeda "operative," not a propagan ...
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