Wednesday, March 13, 2013

13 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Obamacare Protest at Supreme CourtObamacare Protest at Supreme Court (Photo credit: southerntabitha)

UK Progressive

  • Ryan the Redistributionist
    by Robert Reich “Who is going to end up making all the money in the end if Obamacare continues to be in place?” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus growled Monday on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. “It’s going to be the big corporations, right? And who gets screwed? The middle cl ...
  • Steve Brill on Healthcare and the Media in America
    by Mike Webb ProPublica When we heard that Steve Brill had written an in-depth, 26,000 word investigation about the high cost of health care in America, we were a little jealous. After all, longform journalism is our bread and butter at ProPublica. As we read through the piece and realized the m ...
  • Voting Rights: Americans Died for It, the Free ...
    by Brent Budowsky Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy recently made an important and wise comment when he said that with gridlock plaguing our political system, “A democracy should not be dependent for its major decisions on what nine unelected people from a narrow legal background have to say ...
  • Ryan’s Regressiveness Redux
    by Robert Reich Republicans lost the election but they still shape what’s debated in Washington — the federal budget deficit and so-called “fiscal responsibility.” The White House’s and the Democrat’s continuing failure to reshape that debate has lead directly and logically to Paul Ryan’s budget ...
  • Digital News is Killing Off the News Biz? Nope.
    They’re doing a pretty darned good job all by themselves of shooting off their own appendages. This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Time, Inc. founder Henry Luce must be spinning in his grave. Time’s magazine division, struggling to make money in a growing digital media world, last week ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • ClimateGate III — the password is out
    FOIA has been in touch with skeptics today. Here is the email below, sorry, without that password. There are 220,000 emails in the file. There may be private information which could cause grief that is not related to taxpayer funded work. Obviously that large file is not in a form that can be re ...
  • Has the world started cooling? Hints from 4 of ...
    I’m not keen on short term trends at all, they have a habit of flicking in and out of statistical significance with each month’s new data, or even switching from cooling to warming. But for what it’s worth, and only time will tell, perhaps the world entered the downswing of the ...
  • East Anglia University are trying to spot hoaxes
    Oh the irony? Three years after the scandal that was ClimateGate, the University of East Anglia has a campus wide poster program to teach staff and students how to protect themselves from pfishing. (Thanks to reader pickabelief). Could this be a plan to protect the university from more embarrass ...
  • Unthreaded weekend
    I’ll be back at the desk later today… Rating: 8.2/10 (9 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/10 (9 votes cast)
  • Monckton on tour — slick oil funded oper ...
    The animated Christopher Monckton   Apologies for the lack of posting, Christopher Monckton is staying with us, he’s in the kitchen right now, and we’ve had an event on, or radio interviews, or high level log-graph must-do calculations every day. It’s been marvelous, and a ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • A River In Antarctica
    The Sahara desert used to be fertile – and that’s in modern history… Meanwhile camels used to live within the Arctic Circle, and hippos swam in English rivers. Not quite on the same scale of time (unless you believe in recent crustal displacements), but down at the South Pole t ...
  • Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
    The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...
  • Novel Coronavirus Human Transmitted?
    The third member of a UK family to contract the new virus, Novel Coronavirus, has died in hospital. It is similar to pneumonia, but substantially more deadly. So far 50% of twelve people infected worldwide have died. A patient diagnosed with the Sars-like coronavirus has died at Queen Elizabeth ...
  • Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory
    Astronomer David Asher (from Armagh University) has agreed with Bill Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe (Cardiff University) that “dark comets” are real and dangerous. The following quotes are from a paper by Napier and Asher published in Astronomy & Geophysics. http://star.arm.ac. ...
  • DNA Evidence of Bigfoot?
    I think that there might really be Yeti in the Himalayas, and there’s a lesser chance that Bigfoot is also real, in North America. So I was really excited to read the following at Red Orbit: A team of scientists has published the results of a five-year study of DNA samples from Sasquatch i ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Arab Spring and Pakistan
    It has become a cliché to describe any society, at any crucial stage, passing through one of the most critical and decisive phases of its history. The irony is that no phase, howsoever critical, proves to be completely decisive in the ultimate; for, societies develop through an evolutionary proc ...
  • UN Peacekeepers Kidnapped in Syria by Terroris ...
    Syrian terrorists from the Martyrs of Yarmouk have kidnapped 21 UN observers near the Golan Heights which is further recognition of outside meddling and the nature of the forces which are opposed to the government of Syria. It is reported that the 21 UN observers are Philippine nationals but big ...
  • Assassinations By Induced Heart Attack And Cancer
    An article published by the VETERANS TODAY one and a half year ago acquires a new sounding after Chavez’ departure… In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to ha ...
  • Venezuela After Chavez
    The leader of Venezuela is gone at 58. He has not had time enough to fulfill even a half of his plans. A man of action, he has set an example for the left-wing forces of the continent. His demise will certainly slow down, perhaps temporarily, the reforms in the Western Hemisphere associated with ...
  • US Plots Conquest of Venezuela in Wake of Chav ...
    US corporate-financier funded think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), declared in its “post-Chávez checklist for US policymakers,” that the US must move quickly to reorganize Venezuela according to US interests. Upon its checklist were “key demands”: The oust ...

BlogHer

  • Does the Paleo Diet Work for Older Women?
    Google "Paleo diet" and you’ll need to sift through more than 5 million hits about how to eat like our Paleolithic ancestors to live longer, healthier and leaner. Since I’m a CrossFit instructor and dietitian, I get asked all the time whether or not Paleo diets work. Results from one of the firs ...
  • Easy Happy Hour Snack: Jalapeño Popper Bread
    Editor’s note: Is there anyone out there who doesn’t like jalapeno poppers? Making them at home can be super-complicated, but Karly from Buns in My Oven came up with an ingenious shortcut to get the same flavors. To make her Jalapeño Popper Bread, she slathers cream cheese and cheddar on Italia ...
  • My Kids Won't Ever Get the Perfect Attendance ...
    Editor's Note: At the end of every nine weeks in school, the teacher would call the kids who had perfect attendance to the front of the classroom so they could get their certificate. I never got one of those certificates. Not once. I was a rather sickly child. Our older son has gotten a few, tho ...
  • Family Road Tripping in Paradise
    Living on a relatively small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I don't get a lot of opportunities to road trip. I mean, where am I going to go? It's an island. All roads LITERALLY lead back home. Some days, I experience pangs of nostalgia for my former road warrior self. I pine for the ...
  • Are Today's Toddlers the Generation iToddler?
    Some question the use of apps in children's daily routine finding it too close to its ancient sibling-the video game, I however embrace it. People say it strays away from parent & child interaction.  This theory, in my opinion, is based on fear-fear of change, fear of a fast-growing tec ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Update on Blacksville coal-mine fire
    There were some scary moments there yesterday, with some conflicting information about whether all of the workers at CONSOL Energy’s Blacksville No. 2 Mine had made it out in an evacuation ordered because of an underground fire. Luckily, the news turned out to be good, and all 121 employee ...
  • Big mining appeal hearings coming up
    Over the next week, there are oral argument hearings scheduled in two key mountaintop removal court cases. First, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear arguments tomorrow over the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of the Spruce ...
  • Don Blankenship: ‘The chief executive of ...
    The development two weeks ago in the Upper Big Branch criminal investigation — in which former Massey Energy official David Hughart implicated longtime Massey CEO Don Blankenship — certainly caused a stir (see here and here). As we reported at the time, Blankenship, through his lawye ...
  • More hard truths about CCS and coal
    There’s a new paper out in the journal Energy Policy, and the title says it all:  Ten times more difficult: Quantifying the carbon capture and storage challenge. The paper is available only by subscription, but here’s the abstract: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is receiving much a ...
  • AP: Former UBB superintendent now in prison
    Gary May, former UBB mine superintendent walks away from the U.S. District Court in Beckley Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 with his attorney, Tim Carrico, after his sentence hearing. May was sentenced to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Judge Irene Berger also ordered that May ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Three Types of Employees | Michael Church
    Typically, organizations tend toward a MacLeod hierarchy with three tiers: the Sociopaths, the Clueless, and the Losers, in that order from top to bottom. Sociopaths, who take an up-or-out strategy and either end up at the top or fired, are strategic and dedicated but not subordinate. They’ll ne ...
  • Four Types of Project | Michael Church
    If we classify projects into four categories by important vs. unimportant, and interesting vs. unpleasant, we can assess what happens under open allocation. Important and interesting projects are never hard to staff. Unimportant but interesting projects are for 20% time; they might succeed, and ...
  • The Concept of Open Allocation
    When open allocation is in play, projects compete for engineers, and the result is better projects. When closed allocation is in force, engineers compete for projects, and the result is worse engineers. via Tech companies: open allocation is your only real option. | Michael O.Church. Defini ...
  • The Peter Principle
    The Peter Principle is a belief that, in an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit, that organization’s members will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability. The principle is commonly phrased, "Employees tend to rise to their level of inco ...
  • Eliminating Psychopaths from Your Organization ...
    The stupid, superficial reliability contests that corporations use to assess character and protect themselves against psychopaths don’t work. In fact, they do the opposite, becoming the psychopath’s favorite tools. Companies that want to avoid being invaded and controlled by such people will hav ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

Empty newsfeed.

reference frame

  • Climategate 2013 is here: FOIA
    Tom Nelson has already leaked the news so I will follow: Mr. FOIA speaks: "It's time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair" The page above became the "story of the day" at ClimateDepot.com (not to mention Donna and Bishop Hill, Delingpole, ...
  • Gustav Kirchhoff: a birthday
    Sad recent event: Donald Glaser, the 1960 Nobel prize winner in physics for his invention of the bubble chamber, died on February 28th. Gustav Kirchhoff was born on March 12th, 1824, in Königsberg, capital of Prussia (now the island of Kaliningrad, Russia: note that it was easy to correct the ...
  • There are 921,497 CICY four-folds
    The constructive part of the "landscape" is finite and under controll James Gray, Alexander S. Haupt, ad Andre Lukas posted a highly impressive yet amusing preprint on maths of string theory, All Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Four-Folds (arXiv) Text with results, Mathematica results, ...
  • Greening the world's deserts with lots of cows
    Since I was a kid, the idea of greening the Sahara desert (and smaller deserts) looked immensely noble to me. Now, Anthony Watts became unusually excited about a particular approach to this goal, one that involves the propagation of cows (and some other, related or unrelated ideas). A bridge i ...
  • 13 new periodic solutions to the 3-body problem
    The Science Magazine's news arm has noticed an interesting preprint by two physicists, Three Classes of Newtonian Three-Body Planar Periodic Orbits (by Milovan Šuvakov [student], Veljko Dmitrašinović [senior nuclear physicist] of Belgrade) They use topological and numerical methods to find t ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Changing focus of this site. Effective immediately
    Today I learned something new about this ‘Great’ country Canada. We think we are a bunch of do-gooders. If you only knew the truth. We are not so great. In fact far from it. If we do not take our country back, we will not have one! This site is now going to focus on [...] Related ...
  • Michael Valpy: Handicapping the papal contenders
    Might the next Bishop of Rome hail from a different part of the world? Michael Valpy looks at the strengths and weaknesses of 15 cardinals with the strongest shot at becoming the next pope. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Michael Valpy: The long odds against a Canadian pope Smart, ...
  • Shaw broke employment law with contract workers
    Two former Shaw Communications employees are blowing the whistle on how the telecommunications giant broke employment law for years by underpaying them as independent contractors when they should have been paid as employees. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Unlimited internet offer ...
  • Japan still cleaning up 2 years after tsunami
    As Japan marks the second anniversary of its earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe, more than 300,000 people are still displaced and virtually no rebuilding has begun. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Tsunami warning issued after major quake in South Pacific A powerful earthq ...
  • Folk singer Rose Cousins wins 3 East Coast Mus ...
    Nova Scotia folk singer Rose Cousins was busy Sunday night as she not only co-hosted the East Coast Music Awards but also won three categories for her latest album We Have Made A Spark. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Canadian film, TV in spotlight for final Screen Awards gala The ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Nathan’s family can stay in Norway
    UPDATED: The family of a little boy born in Bergen to refugees from Ethiopia was back in the national news this week and relieved after winning a court victory allowing them to remain in Norway. Their relief could turn to joy on Wednesday, when Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that immigrat ...
  • Police forced to release violent man
    Police in Haugesund on Norway’s west coast had to release a man from custody on Wednesday even though he’d been charged with rape and wife-beating, and even though a court had ordered him held on fears he’d attack again. The reason: There were no available jail cells in which t ...
  • State steps in with Munch support
    After years of quarreling among city officials over construction of a new Munch Museum, the state is finally stepping in with an offer to share costs. The move by Culture Minister Hadia Tajik may end the conflict and get the project back on track. Newspaper Dagbladet reported Wednesday that the ...
  • Oslo’s main airport beats its rivals
    Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen, OSL, has now emerged as the largest in the Nordic region, with more passenger traffic last month than the airports at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki or Reykjavik. It’s the first time OSL has had more traffic than Copenhagen (CPH). Even though Norwa ...
  • Power returns to Lofoten
    A massive power outage in Lofoten and Vesterålen that left around 50,000 residents of northern Norway without electricity Tuesday night finally ended Wednesday morning. The problem was traced to an explosion and fire at a transformer station at Kilbotn outside Harstad. Statnett, in charge of the ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A Journey of Transition: Becoming a Profession ...
    by Dan French Photo © Craig Mackintosh This time, in Part 3 of this series discussing my journey towards becoming a professional permaculture designer, I will be talking about marketing, knock-backs and my progress since the last article. Part 2 of this series focused on two large issues ...
  • Permaculture and Slavery: A System Analysis
    Something interesting happens to you once given an opportunity to take a well-taught, well-presented, and properly contextualized Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. You are provided with new tools with which to view virtually every conceivable topic through very different eyes – ...
  • Seeking Support for Worthy African Participant ...
    Editor’s Note: As many of you know, we (the PRI) seek to spread permaculture take-up to all people everywhere, but a main focus, as we are able to finance it, is to help establish and support self-replicating permaculture demonstration/education sites in some of the world’s neediest ...
  • Ron Finley: A Guerilla Gardener in South Centr ...
    In this inspiring TED talk, Ron Finley teaches us all how to be ‘Gangster Gardeners’ and how to let your shovel be the weapon of choice. In his own words, "Growing your own food is like printing your own money". Let that be our new battle cry across the land. Ron and his ...
  • Hand Tools
    The use of small hand tools in farming can be found all over the world, however in the so-called ‘developed‘ world many of these tools, and the skills in how to use, maintain and repair them, have been lost, as people are increasingly ensnared in dependence on fossil fuel powered mac ...

Pointman's

  • Climategate, a crisis of conscience.
    Sometimes in a life, you have to look at where you are and what you’ve become a part of, through the very best and the most innocent of intentions, and you hate yourself. It’s not somewhere you ever wanted or intended to be, but it is what it is. That’s where you are. Everyone ...
  • A species facing extinction.
    There are many reasons why a particular species may become extinct; a better adapted one elbows them out of their own ecological niche, the debilitating effect of a new disease they have no resistance against, over-predation or quite simply, their habitat disappearing completely. In general term ...
  • Sleeping with the enemy.
    Carbon is the Great Satan of the environmental movement. They all worry about their carbon footprint, want to impose carbon taxes on it and even have schemes to capture the poor thing and imprison it down holes in the ground. Oh the humanity. For such a supposedly caring bunch, they can be so cr ...
  • It’s 2.45 in the am and I’m reflecting on a lo ...
    I’m writing this up in real-time. There won’t be any rewrites, no polishes, no second thoughts. It’s all going to be first draft stream of consciousness stuff, whether either of us like it or not. If you’re sensitive about bad language, walk away right now because my emot ...
  • We’re going to have to do something about peer ...
    Not too many years ago, there were two researchers who discovered that stomach ulcers were not the result of a stressful lifestyle, but simply an infection. The idea that ulcers were related to a high stress lifestyle was so deeply embedded in the medical establishment psyche, they couldn’t get ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

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TVNZ

environment 360

  • New Desalination Process Slashes Costs of Prod ...
    Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest military contractors, has developed a process that company officials say significantly reduces the amount of energy needed to desalinate water, an innovation that could help communities worldwide tackle the growing threat of water scarcity. According t ...
  • Interview: An Advocate for Environmental Justi ...
    Matthew Tejada brings on-the-ground experience to his new job as director of the Office of Environmental Justice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Tejada, 33, took over his EPA post Matthew Tejada this month after leading Air Alliance Houston, where he helped organize communit ...
  • Mass Scale of Renewables Shift Is Evident in ...
    A new study concludes that it would be technically and economically feasible for New York State to meet all of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2030, but researchers say the transition would involve building wind, solar, and other alternative energy sources on a mass scale. Writing in ...
  • Counting Species: What It Says About Human Tol ...
    By analyzing mitochondrial DNA, scientists now can make more accurate estimates of the numbers of individual species that existed centuries ago. What does it tell us about our impact on the natural world and about our own future? BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • New Arctic Survey Shows Major Advances of Vege ...
    Declining snow and ice coverage in the northern latitudes and rising temperatures have triggered a significant increase in vegetationacross large swaths of the Arctic, with some circumpolar regions seeing the Click to enlarge Goddard Space Flight Center Vegetation shift in northern latitut ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • AFB 2013: Doing better together
    Time flies and our Alternative Federal Budget is now in its 19th year.  Year after year it has shown that we can have a Canada where we all do better together. This year the AFB is more inclusive than ever with 27 chapters written by over 90 contributors each laying out progressive policy ideas ...
  • Women On Top, By The Numbers
    On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we ask: Are more women making it to the top in Canada? And what does that mean for the 100 per cent? The 2013 edition, by the numbers. (All data are most recently available statistics.) 1 out of 5: 21 per cent of the people in the top [...] Related ...
  • Why gender equality will make you rich and popular
    Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in–for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world in which you have secure, decent work in an economy that is growing ...
  • Boost the Minimum Wage, Boost the Economy, fro ...
    A version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. (This version includes references to the debate plus charts and graphs from data specially tabulated from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey. The data don’t include the self-employed.) President Obama put the idea ...
  • Parliamentary reform idea: Get out of the House
    By Seth Klein and Shannon Daub [Note: Samara Canada has been gathering ideas for reforming Parliament. All the ideas they have collected are being posted on their blog, which you can find here. What follows is our contribution.] Here’s the big dilemma: Whatever reforms are made to Parliamentary ...

ReDress

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

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • lay body blows on us about
    … not a hot off the press story for America’s corporate media when they can lay body blows on us about Japan’s nuclear reactor devastation while attempting to  scare the bejesus out of us … Radioactive Sludge Leaking at Hanford   John LaForge, Consortium News: Read the Article Nuclea ...
  • hope someone has her back
    … I hope someone has her back … !      Elizabeth Warren: Ms. Smith Goes to Washington and Doesn’t Give an Inch, After Years of Failed Promises From Politicians   Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Read the BuzzFlash Commentary    Usually freshman senators take a back ...
  • damn straight war is profitable
    … damn straight war is profitable … 10 companies profiting the most from war   Samuel Weigley, 24/7 Wall St.6:17p.m. EDT March 10, 2013 … http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-from-war/1970997/#.UT5ITmPNxq4.tumblr The business ...
  • attempted that in 1984 and how did that work out
    … as I recall America attempted that in 1984 and how did that work out … what today we are now back to less than a hand full from the initial proliferation of telecom … what so it will work in Mexico … I don’t think so …   Time to Break Up the Telecom [...]
  • but thanks for blaming the
    … GOTCHA … How the US public was defrauded by the hidden cost of the Iraq war 03-12-2013  •  http://www.guardian.co.uk, Michael Boyle George Bush sold the war as quick and cheap; it was long and costly. Even now, the US is paying billions to private contractors Afghan War Falling Apa ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaug ...
    Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). The numbers are staggering: a single park in Gabon, Minkebe National Park, has seen 11,100 ...
  • Forests under fire: Australia’s imperile ...
    In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and faun ...
  • Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
    Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...
  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...
  • Asiatic cheetahs: on the road to extinction?
    Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are unique among large cats. They have a highly specialized body, a mild temperament, and are the fastest living animals on land. Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, the Asiatic subspecies, is unique among cheetahs and the only member of five currently living subspecies to oc ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Search for second Earth uncovers bizarre planets
    The truth is out there, but when it comes to the search for other planets beyond our Solar System the truth has turned out to be far stranger than science fiction.Scientists looking for habitable "exoplanets" are astounded by the...
  • Mars could have supported life - NASA
    An analysis of a Mars rock sample by the Curiosity rover has unveiled minerals, including hydrogen, carbon and oxygen, that are the building blocks of life, NASA has announced."A fundamental question for this mission is whether...
  • Brit out to put stars in your eyes
    A British-born stargazer has published a world-first guide aimed at acquainting more Kiwis with the visual banquet hanging in our night sky.Astrophotographer Stephen Chadwick, whose images have been published in international magazines...
  • Does food taste different in space?
    Does food taste the same in space? Not at first, says the internet's favourite astronaut.Chris Hadfield is an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency who has been living aboard the International Space Station since December.A...
  • CITES votes to regulate shark trade
    Conservationists at a global wildlife conference have voted to regulate the trade of shark species that have been threatened because their fins are used to make expensive delicacies in Asia.Delegates at the triennial meeting in...

The Bovine

  • Liz Reitzig is a confessed criminal
    From Liz Reitzig, on LewRockwell.com “Not many people would look at me and see a confessed criminal. As a suburban mom with 5 small children, a minivan and a dog, it’s just not people’s first assumption about me. However, I … Continue reading →
  • Ron Paul and “Milk War” movie at M ...
    Here’s wheat they say about US Senator Ron Paul, who is speaking at the MNC conference in Ottawa this week: “Ron Paul was a Republican primary candidate in the last US election, where he built a huge following among young … Continue reading →
  • Where to find more raw milk news
    If you’re looking to keep tabs on what’s going down in the world of raw milk, you need to read more than just The Bovine, where we try to focus on the Canadian scene, and in particular, the Michael Schmidt … Continue reading →
  • Studies show kids who drink raw milk have a hi ...
    From Sarah at the Healthy Home Economist: “The Hygiene Hypothesis states that when children lack early exposure to infectious agents, parasites, and symbiotic microorganisms like normal gut flora such as would naturally occur in a rural or farm environment, they are much more likely &#8230 ...
  • Biodynamic farming, and a new doc on “Th ...
    Although the above film clip is specifically about Biodynamic farming, the 3 hour documentary it’s part of, is about the life and work of Rudolf Steiner as a whole. Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt farms biodynamically. Although Rudolf Steiner never … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Inflation Targeting Revisited; Three Major Fed ...
    A post on deflation in Sweden (which its central bank does not want) got me to thinking about inflation targeting once again. Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, has an inflation target  of  "2 per cent as measured by CPI." Bernanke has a similar target, as do many central ban ...
  • Sweden Officially in Deflation (As Measured by ...
    Reader Kenneth from Stockholm, Sweden informs me that Sweden is Officially in Deflation. Current Inflation Rate In February 2013, CPI inflation (measured as the annual change in the consumer price index) stood at -0.2 per cent (-0.0 per cent in January 2013). The annual per ...
  • Expression of the Day: "Ducks are Fat at the ...
    I was intrigued by a quote in the Financial Times by former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who won a standing ovation when he returned to remind his supporters of their ancient triumphs. Schröder’s message for the party was to persevere in this year’s general election, with a real chanc ...
  • Obama's Promised Transparency: Where the Hell ...
    When president Obama took office he promised transparency and open government. The question at hand is "Where the Hell is It?" I have the answer: Obama's transparency is Where the Sun Don’t Shine. President Obama has failed to deliver on few promises as miserably as his vow to create a ...
  • Spain's Budget Deficit Grew by 35.4% in Januar ...
    Here's a story you can expect to see in the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times tomorrow. You can read it here today. Via Google Translate, El Economista reports Spain's Budget Deficit Grew by 35.4% in January to 1.2% of GDP. The government deficit in terms of national accounts in ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Barge Strike Causes Massive Fireball in Louisi ...
    Update: The fire has reportedly reduced in size by approximately 30 percent, and there are no reports of oil in the water.  The Coast Guard says that potential pockets of [...]
  • Private Equity Billionaire Said to Seek $500 M ...
    By Sabrina Willmer and Devin Banerjee March 13 (Bloomberg) — Wilbur Ross Jr. is seeking $500 million for a new private-equity fund that will buy distressed shipping and other transportation [...]
  • Scorpio’s Eco Appetite Still Whet
    Scorpio Tankers (NYSE: STNG) announced Wednesday yet another equity offering, giving a strong indication that the company will continue its buying spree of ‘eco’ product tankers. Scorpio priced the offering [...]
  • Diplomatic Row Heats Up As India Demands Retur ...
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India summoned the Italian ambassador on Tuesday to protest Rome’s decision not to send two marines charged with killing Indian fishermen while on anti-piracy duty back [...]
  • New Pilot Program Hopes to Provide Some Clarit ...
    MSS Global, as an accredited certification body recognized by the private security industry, has selected the first two Private Maritime Security Companies (PMSCs) to undergo a pilot audit for ISO [...]

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Mice given human cells get brain boost
    Mice given grafts of human brain cells showed enhanced cognitive abilities that could explain what underpins the evolution of human intelligence. What's surprising about this study is that the cell...
  • Flame retardant DNA
    A new type of flame-retardant coating for textiles has been developed from a most unlikely source. Researchers from Italy have used DNA, extracted from herring sperm, to fireproof samples of cotton, a...
  • Crowdsourcing Side Effects
    Researchers at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia Universities have developed software that can trawl web searches to find evidence of prescription drug side effectsThe team looked at searches from 2010...
  • Global Temperature Hitting New Heights
    Some of the clearest evidence we have of climate change is the dramatic rise in global atmospheric temperature in recent decades. Reliable temperature records go back to around 1850, but to assess whe...
  • Bees get buzz from plant caffeine
    Coffee and citrus plants lace their nectar with caffeine to boost bee pollination rates, new research has revealed. Plants make alkaloid chemicals like caffeine as a means of chemical defense, becau...

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • New IAEA DG report on Iran Still Incorrect on ...
    Summary: The February 21, 2013 IAEA Director General’s report on implementation of safeguards in Iran provides a good opportunity to revisit one of the points I made in a blog post last year, which has been fairly widely discussed and which was the subject of an ISIS report (read hatchet job) ...
  • 10 years later, Blix warns against repeating ...
    Summary: DUBAI: Ten years after the US-led invasion on Iraq, ex-UN inspector Hans Blix has urged world powers to avoid committing the same error by going to war against Iran based on fears it is developing nuclear weapons. source: Daily Starread more
  • Iran and the United States—What Really Matters ...
    Summary: Addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference in Washington on Monday, Vice President Biden claimed that Iran is on the defensive in its own neighborhood: "When we came to office...Iran was on the ascendancy in the region. It is no longer on the ascendan ...
  • Iranian president will attend Chavez funeral c ...
    Summary: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected in Caracas early Friday on time to pay tribute to his late Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, who died earlier this week after a two-year battle with cancer. Ahmadinejad left Tehran for Caracas on Thursday. source: Merco Pressrea ...
  • UN Official Hans Blix: Iran Nuke Threat is Ove ...
    Summary: The threat from Iran is overhyped and there is no evidence to suggest the Islamic Republic is even interested in developing nuclear weapons, according to UN official Hans Blix. source: Antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Could Life on Mars Have Existed Earlier than ...
                     “We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it,” said John P. Grotzinger, the California Institute of Technology geology profes ...
  • ALMA --Earth's Largest Space Observatory Begin ...
                     "What is so very special about this place is that, right here above our heads, there is virtually no water vapor. There is just so little that whatever light is emitted from a heavenly body, galaxy or star, it gets here with no interference" explained Gianni Marconi, ...
  • News Alert: NASA's Finds "New 'Gray Mars' Wher ...
                      An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder ...
  • 1st Reconnaissance of an Alien Star System Con ...
                     Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant solar system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars. Using a suite of high-tech instrumentation and software called Project 1640, the scientists collected the f ...
  • A Rare Trinity of Quasars Discovered
                     For only the second time in history, a team of scientists have discovered an extremely rare triple quasar system. Quasars are extremely bright and powerful sources of energy that sit in the center of a galaxy, surrounding a black hole. In systems with multiple quasar ...

Natural News

  • Government ammunition stockpiling story breaks ...
    In yet another stunning victory for the alternative media (InfoWars, Drudge Report, Natural News, WND, etc.), the story of the U.S. government stockpiling huge quantities of ammunition (1.6 billion rounds and counting) has finally broken through media censorship and...
  • Flow: The key to happiness
    Proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph D - Professor of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, the concept of flow has been widely referenced in the field positive psychology where researchers measure things like states of happiness, values, strengths, virtues...
  • Medical students interact regularly with Big P ...
    In spite of new policies designed to limit the interaction that medical students have with pharmaceutical industry representatives, such contact remains widespread, according to a study conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital...
  • Bloomberg hits the jackpot: NYC students can't ...
    (NaturalNews)Is this a ploy to supply more workers for McDonald's? Mayor Bloomberg, so focused on the social engineering of New York City, seems to have added a forceful item to his list: a staggering 80% of high school grads entering the City's community co ...
  • John McCain defends NDAA, calls Rand Paul 'wac ...
    In a recent interview, longtime Arizona Republican Senator John McCain called Rand Paul's stance against drone assassinations on American citizens as "ludicrous," "inappropriate" and a waste of time. "We spent 13 hours talking about a scenario that won't happen and...

Threat Level

  • Spy Chief Says Little Danger of Cyber ‘Pearl H ...
    Contrary to much of the fear-mongering that has been spreading through the nation's capital on cybersecurity matters lately, the director of national intelligence bucked that trend on Tuesday when he told a senate committee that there was little chance of ...
  • Secret Courtroom Audio Gives WikiLeaker Bradle ...
    It turns out one of the journalists or activists attending Bradley Manning’s guilty plea last month was wearing a wire. Despite onerous Army rules prohibiting recording of the Manning hearings at Ft. Meade, Maryland, the recently formed Freedom of the ...
  • Retailer Sues Visa Over $13 Million ‘Fine’ for ...
    A sports apparel retailer is fighting back against the arbitrary multi-million-dollar penalties that credit card companies impose on banks and merchants for data breaches by filing a first-of-its-kind $13 million lawsuit against Visa.
  • Appeals Court Nullifies Border Agents’ Carte B ...
    federal appeals court for the first time ruled U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche power to inspect gadgets of travelers entering the country, a "watershed" decision in the court's own terms and one at odds with the ...
  • TSA OKs Hockey Sticks Aboard Flights, Bats Rem ...
    Apparently, John S. Pistole, the Transportation Security Administration administrator, has never been to a hockey game. How else to explain the move, beginning April 25, to allow U.S. airline passengers to carry on hockey sticks in their bags? Or, maybe ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • New Budget, New Name, Same Old Ryan Medicare R ...
    When Congressman Paul Ryan first rolled out his plan three years ago to replace Medicare with a voucher system, he acknowledged the inescapable conclusion that his massive cost-shifting to seniors constituted rationing. "Rationing happens today!" Ryan protested, "The question is who will do it? ...
  • Will Ryan's New GOP Budget Still Save Trillion ...
    This week, former GOP vice presidential nominee and current House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will present the 2013 Republican budget proposal. Unlike his last plan which didn't balance the budget until 2038, this time Ryan insists he will hit break even in just 10 ten years. As Ezra K ...
  • GOP Abortion Foes Violate the Doctor-Patient R ...
    "The doctor-patient relationship." For two decades, Republicans have wielded that four-word talking point as a cudgel to bludgeon health care reform. In 1994, GOP strategist Bill Kristol warned that "the Clinton Plan is damaging to the quality of American medicine and to the relationship betwe ...
  • John Cornyn Becomes Rand Paul's Strangest Bedf ...
    Republican Senator Rand Paul's 13 hour filibuster this week produced no shortage of spectacle--and irony. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, one of the few Democratic voices questioning the secrecy and legal basis surrounding President Obama's policy of drone strikes against U.S. citizens engaged in te ...
  • Will Republicans Finally Support a War Tax?
    Now that the March 1 sequester deadline has come and gone, some Republicans are getting squeamish about the $43 billion in cuts to the Pentagon budget this fiscal year. In the House, GOP leaders have proposed a new spending plan restoring some of the defense spending. Meanwhile in the Senate, ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Slender Loris Threatened By Photographers
    Indian researchers from Conservation Research Group in Kerala and the Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society have found the slender loris is being threatened by unethical photographers and local people that disrupt the tiny animal’s behavior and damage its habit to allow these ph ...
  • Are Tropical Forests Resistant To Global Warming?
    Understanding the planet’s reaction to global warming is an important step in predicting what we might expect to face in the coming decades, and a new recently published study has found that tropical forests are more resilient to global warming than previously understood. The study, publis ...
  • Explaining The 2011 Arctic Ozone Hole
    The loss of ozone over Antarctica in the southern hemisphere is relatively well documented and popularly known, especially within Australia where for residents of southern states (like the island state of Tasmania) venturing out into the sun during summer is downright dangerous. Simply put, cond ...
  • El Niño And La Niña Unlikely To Appear During ...
    The World Meteorological Association (WMO) announced on Monday that the El Niño and La Niña climate patterns are unlikely to show themselves during the first half of 2013. Currently, neutral conditions continue in the tropical Pacific, and model forecasts and expert opinions currently predict th ...
  • Mazda3 i Grand Touring – Zoom Zoom + Skyactiv ...
    Hi, I'm Charis Michelsen. I write about cars (among other important things). This week I've got a Mazda3 i Grand Touring to play with. It's a happy car.Mazda3 i Grand Touring – Zoom Zoom + Skyactiv = Fun: Final Impressions + Gallery was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from CleanT ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • There's No Such Animal As An "Unimportant" SS ...
    By @TomBales1 Seniors in America might as well wake up to the fact that Democrats, while possibly more well intentioned than their right wing counterparts, are not any more likely to oppose all these niggling little "adjustments" that are supposedly designed to "strengthen the operation by maki ...
  • Regaining House Key to Obama Second Term
    By @TedFrier The die for the past five years of confounding stalemates with Republicans over debt ceilings and budget sequesters may have been cast five days before President Obama even took office when then President-elect Obama announced he would sponsor a "White House Fiscal Responsibility Su ...
  • Inside the Christian Fundamentalist Bubble
    By @TedFrier A recent debate at the University of Idaho between Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan (who is gay) and Christian fundamentalist Douglas Wilson over the question of whether civil marriage equality was good or bad for society as a whole, illustrates my claim that the real "clash of ...
  • We Didn't Win The House So Now We Have To Kiss ...
    By @TomBales1 Last night I heard something that quite frankly I find amazing and it's been a while since anything political could amaze me.  For a while now I've been wondering why one of the shining lights of the Progressive movement on Twitter was so hell bent on selling his followers on ...
  • Hartzler's Deception

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No Quarter

  • The Pathetic Lies of Barack Obama
    How do we know the man is delusional? You need only watch his interview with George Stephanopolous on ABC yesterday. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. So he don’t know nuthin’ about shutting down White House tours? Bull: The White House has canceled tours until fur ...
  • Bloomberg’s Sugar Jihad
    I suppose you have heard the news–a State Judge blocked Mayor Bloomberg from imposing a new law that would prohibit selling “sugary” drinks larger than 16 ounces in New York City. Mind you, as an advocate of Wheat Belly, I am sympathetic with Michael Bloomberg’s intent. W ...
  • Do You Know Margaret Sanger?
    Do you get misty eyed while touting the benefits of Planned Parenthood? Have you met or read some of the ravings of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger? Let me introduce you. She wrote a “interesting” piece almost 100 years ago-Birth Control and Racial Betterment. Why ...
  • Crash Test Dummy on the Third Amendment
    Great piece. Take time to listen. It is worth your while. This is consistent with my prior postings here. The Second Amendment is not about recreational shooting. It is a reminder that power, which comes from the end of the gun as Mao correctly observed, remains in the hands of the citizens of t ...
  • Rand Paul Draws Blood and Scares the Shit Out ...
    The warmongering chicken hawks that led us into an unnecessary war in Iraq are nervous as a long tailed cat in a room of rocking chairs filled with five year old boys. Their tails are getting squashed and Rand Paul is doing the damage. My proof? Consider the following. The Washington Post editor ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • 57 charged in Florida gambling scandal - WVNS-TV
    57 charged in Florida gambling scandal WVNS-TV Spruce Mine case Thursday. An appeals court will hear oral arguments Thursday on the Environmental Protection Agency's veto of water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mines. An appeals court will hear o ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Poisons Appala ...
    Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Poisons Appalachia's Waterways Huffington Post I remember the first time I saw a mountaintop-removal coal mining site - Kayford Mountain in southern West Virginia. Those images have never left my mind - a barren landscape where there was once lush forest. And ...
  • Appeal panel hears W.Va. Spruce Mine case Thur ...
    Appeal panel hears W.Va. Spruce Mine case Thursday Seattle Post Intelligencer (AP) — A federal appellate panel is set to hear oral arguments Thursday on the Environmental Protection Agency's retroactive veto of water-pollution permits for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop remova ...
  • Divest to save the planet - Socialist Worker O ...
    Socialist Worker Online Divest to save the planet Socialist Worker Online The divestment struggle is part of a broader climate movement that has been growing in response to the superstorms like Hurricane Irene and Sandy, droughts, wildfires, oil spills and the devastation of mountaintop removal. ...
  • College Students Flock to Doddridge County, Le ...
    College Students Flock to Doddridge County, Learning About Resource Extraction WDTV Over 100 students are there to learn about hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal and general coal mining. They're holding workshops and checking out well sites first hand. These students are all concerned ...

Memeorandum

  • New Zealand gay marriage bill passes critical ...
    Nick Perry / Associated Press: New Zealand gay marriage bill passes critical test  —  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill allowing same-sex marriage Wednesday, all but assuring that it will soon become law.  &md ...
  • Why I'm more worried than Paul Krugman about t ...
    James Hamilton / Econbrowser: Why I'm more worried than Paul Krugman about the U.S. debt burden  —  I have been writing recently ([1], [2]) about my paper Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy, co-authored with David Greenlaw (Managing Director and Chief U.S ...
  • 47 Percent Filmmaker Had No Health Insurance ( ...
    Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post: 47 Percent Filmmaker Had No Health Insurance  —  WASHINGTON — After secretly filming Mitt Romney's now-infamous 47 percent remarks, a Florida bartender worried how releasing the tape would affect his personal life.  He did nothing ...
  • Consider the Lobster Claw: Why a Twist on an A ...
    Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: Consider the Lobster Claw: Why a Twist on an Arcade Classic Delights and Disturbs Us  —  The joystick is seized.  The claw is positioned within the lobster tank.  It descends on your command.  Are you sure you want to clai ...
  • NJ MOTHER PRESSURED TO TURN OVER HER GUNS, CHA ...
    Erica Ritz / TheBlaze.com: NJ MOTHER PRESSURED TO TURN OVER HER GUNS, CHARGED WITH ‘TERRORISTIC THREATS’ AFTER READING THE CONSTITUTION AT TAX DISPUTE ASSEMBLY  —  Key Points:  — Eileen Hart objected to a mandatory re-evaluation of her property value that ...

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China Dialogue

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    一个国际律师网络希望各国提供资金，帮助那些因气候变化被迫背井离乡的人。荒凉 ...
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    刚刚召开的中国两会会场内外，无处不见雾霾治理的热议。此前各地召开地方两会时 ...
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    陕西北部地区近期在试开采的过程中就遇到了麻烦，致使当地不得不暂时中断附近城 ...
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    马上要换届的中央政府过去10年在环保方面的作为，可分为两个阶段：前五年狂飚突&#3682 ...
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    气候变化和过度放牧正损害着西藏的自然环境，科学家和政府官员们都在努力保护地 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • New Pope Chosen: Argentine Jorge Bergoglio Ele ...
    The 115 voting members of the College of Cardinals moved with great alacrity to send a signal that they meant to shake up the church. And with the the election, in a speedy two-day conclave, of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, they've done ju ...
  • 4 Killed in Back-to-Back Shootings in NY State
    NEW YORK — Four people were killed and two others wounded Wednesday when a gunman opened fire at two locations in the US state of New York, local media reported, citing police.Four people were shot at a hair salon in the town of Mohawk, two of whom were killed, and two others were shot ...
  • Michelle Obama, Beyonce and Donald Trump Targe ...
    The FBI, Secret Service and LAPD are investigating a security breach that potentially compromised the financial and personal information of Michelle Obama and 23 other political figures, government officials and celebrities, Reuters reports.First reported by TMZ, the addresses, credit reports ...
  • If Corporations Dodge Taxes, Why Shouldn't You?
    Go offshore young man and avoid paying taxes. Plunder at will in those foreign lands, and if you get in trouble, Uncle Sam will come rushing to your assistance, diplomatically, financially and militarily, even if you have managed to avoid paying for those government services. Just pretend you ...
  • Maddow Mercilessly Mocks Paul Ryan's Political ...
    On last night’s Rachel Maddow Show, the MSNBC host took on Paul Ryan’s eerily familiar budget plan, released earlier in the day. Maddow mused that the former vice presidential candidate seems to be suffering from a severe case of political amnesia.She played clips from the elect ...

Threat Level

  • Spy Chief Says Little Danger of Cyber ‘Pearl H ...
    Contrary to much of the fear-mongering that has been spreading through the nation's capital on cybersecurity matters lately, the director of national intelligence bucked that trend on Tuesday when he told a senate committee that there was little chance of ...
  • Secret Courtroom Audio Gives WikiLeaker Bradle ...
    It turns out one of the journalists or activists attending Bradley Manning’s guilty plea last month was wearing a wire. Despite onerous Army rules prohibiting recording of the Manning hearings at Ft. Meade, Maryland, the recently formed Freedom of the ...
  • Retailer Sues Visa Over $13 Million ‘Fine’ for ...
    A sports apparel retailer is fighting back against the arbitrary multi-million-dollar penalties that credit card companies impose on banks and merchants for data breaches by filing a first-of-its-kind $13 million lawsuit against Visa.
  • Appeals Court Nullifies Border Agents’ Carte B ...
    federal appeals court for the first time ruled U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche power to inspect gadgets of travelers entering the country, a "watershed" decision in the court's own terms and one at odds with the ...
  • TSA OKs Hockey Sticks Aboard Flights, Bats Rem ...
    Apparently, John S. Pistole, the Transportation Security Administration administrator, has never been to a hockey game. How else to explain the move, beginning April 25, to allow U.S. airline passengers to carry on hockey sticks in their bags? Or, maybe ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Marler Clark Retained by Seattle E. coli Victims
    According to Food Safety News, the number confirmed ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to a Seattle Ethiopian restaurant has risen to three. The health agency forced the closure... Continue Reading
  • Chicken Polish Sausage and Chicken Breakfast L ...
    Hot Springs Packing Co., Inc., a Hot Springs, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 6,120 pounds of chicken polish sausage and chicken breakfast link products due to possible contamination with Listeria... Continue Reading
  • Marler April Food Safety Speeches
    April is a busy month. Iowa Governor’s Conference on Public Health April 9-10, 2013 Jack in the Box and E. coli O157:H7: The Outbreak, the Investigation and Improvements in Food... Continue Reading
  • Meat Inspections are on the Chopping Block
    I’m an avid reader of the Hagstrom Report.  You should too.  And, if you did not think the Sequester would have an impact in food safety – think again! FSIS... Continue Reading
  • $17,800 Fine Levied Against Seattle Tofu Maker
    FDA Warning Letter issued in 2012. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) has revoked the food-processing license of Chu Minh Corp., which produces tofu and other soy products, after... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Killing America | Veterans Today
    by Preston James THERE IS A SECRET WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST AMERICA THE REPUBLIC BY THE LONDON BANKSTERS Its Purpose is to destroy America and Fold its remains into a NWO Globalist One-World Government System. But it’s not over yet and things are not going so well for the Banksters. They are abou ...
  • Iceland Saves Economy, Jails Bankers – Y ...
    Iceland Saves Economy, Jails Bankers | Tired of Wars & Being Lied To – YouTube.
  • US Homicide Rate A.D. 1885-2012 | Adask’ ...
    I received a copy of the following graph by email.  I don’t know who prepared the graph nor can I verify the numbers presented.  However, the evidence “rings true” with me so I assume it’s correct. The implications are fairly obvious and significant: 1) The “wild west”–when virtually everyone ha ...
  • THE CLINTON SAGA…..
    Food for Thought Just a quick refresher course ‘lest we forget’ what has happened to many “friends” of the Clintons. 1- James McDougal – Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ke ...
  • Climate Change without Catastrophe: Interview ...
    By James Stafford | Mon, 11 March 2013 22:51 We couldn’t pin down global warming, exactly, so now it’s re-labelled as climate change, which is an incredibly vague loaded term that no-one fully understands. The difficulty of pinning down this “wicked problem” has produced more uncertainty th ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Profits in the New America: lobbyists drill fo ...
    Summary:  One common element between the old and new America is the fantastic return to lobbying. Nothing pays like buying a congressman. Drilling for profits into the US Treasury! The difference is scale: in the New America the opportunities for great profit are less than before — while t ...
  • Why are we surprised that we supported militia ...
    Summary:  The recent story about militia in Iraq is rich in lessons for us. Not about the futile lost war. But about us and our ability to see and understand the world. A hot story from The Guardian, 6 March 2013 — based on an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic: After the Pentago ...
  • Cacophony about Social Security shows our real ...
    Summary: Here we have a wonderful example of the cacophony that takes the place of political debate in the New America, in this case about Social Security. It’s one of the simpler issues facing us: a moderately predictable and fully controllable stream of benefits vs. government revenue &# ...
  • Look at the jobs report to see how America has ...
    Summary: The news media coverage has expanded during the past 20 years, but probably only giving more heat than light. Hence the frequent assertions during 2010-2011 (eg, seen in the comments on the FM website) that we were in a recession — or even a depression. On the other end of the daf ...
  • Orson Scott Card and the Dark Side of “E ...
    Orson Scott Card has become the latest icon in the culture war.  DC hired Card to write Superman comics. The Left protested Card’s right-wing views (especially his anti-gay stance). DC fired Card. Conservatives protest this economic sanction due to non-job-related personal opinions (like S ...

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Colorado Sheriffs Refused Pay Unless Support S ...
    Sheriff Terry Maketa from El Paso County, Colorado has been informed by the County Sheriffs of Colorado that salaries will be halted or slashed should sheriffs not support new Colorado gun control legislation. Maketa explained that the email “basically said, Dem. leadership is very upset with ...
  • SPLC Letter To DOJ & DHS: Patriot Groups Pose ...
    The Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC), an organization that claims to teach tolerance while attacking certain groups and people with whom they disagree, has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging them to investigate alleged domestic ...
  • 4th Amendment? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ 4th A ...
    Police may solemnly swear to support the Constitution of the United States, but this is increasingly a meaningless formality for many of them. For instance, a couple cops in Dallas County, Texas, arrived at Jon Locke’s home to serve an arrest warrant on his brother, who wasn’t there. Mr. Lock ...
  • Papal conclave resumes Sistine Chapel voting
    Cardinals will begin the process of choosing a new pope in earnest, holding their first full day of voting for a leader to face a major crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. The 115 cardinal electors return to the frescoed Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, where they are scheduled to hold two votes ...
  • They Are Blocking The Sun, Period
    There is a lot of clear evidence, documented science, as well as factually backed so-called theories and seeming speculation regarding the chemtrail program. It is horrifically monstrous and Orwellian at the least. No scientific explanation can possibly justify such an earth and life destroying ...

Andy Worthington

  • Why Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Should Be Tried in Fed ...
    If you have the time, please look at “Abu Ghaith and All Terror Suspects Should Be Tried in Federal Courts,” an article I wrote that was published yesterday as part of US News & World Report’s “Debate Club.” In the article, I support the decision to prosecute al ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: Seeking $2000 to S ...
    Please support my work! Every three months, I ask you, my friends and supporters, to help me to carry on being an independent investigative journalist, commentator and activist — primarily on Guantánamo and the so-called “war on terror” — by donating to support my work. T ...
  • Curious Insomnia: Photos of a Journey through ...
    Curious Insomnia: A Journey through Deptford and Millwall to Canary Wharf at Night, a set on Flickr. At 1 am on November 14, 2012, I decided to take a late night bike ride to Canary Wharf, the modern mutant offspring of the City of London. The City is an ancient lawless zone, but it is [...]
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Please Help Me Raise $25 ...
    Please support my work! Dear friends and supporters, It’s that time of year again, when I ask you, if you can, to help to support my ongoing work on Guantánamo and the 166 men still held there, with a donation. Although I do receive some income from the “Close Guantánamo” campa ...
  • A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
    When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government says it doesn’t exist. At Guantánamo, reports first began to emerge on February 23 about a camp-wide hunger strike, of a scale not seen since before Barack Obama became President. On the “Free Fayiz and Fawz ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • Google Reader Is Shutting Down; Here Are the B ...
    Google announced today that it'll be closing Google Reader's doors on July 1st of this year, meaning you'll need to find a new way to get your news fix. Here's how to export all your feeds and put them into a new reader. More »
  • Remains of the Day: White House Petition to St ...
    A CISPA-stopping petition receives enough signatures to warrant a response, the Kindle Fire HD gets a price drop, a Twitter Music app is rumored to be on the way, and Adobe plans to stop selling physical copies of its Creative Suite. More »
  • Facebook Updates Timeline, Makes it Single-Col ...
    Facebook updated their news feed last week with a much simpler design, and now they've updated individual timelines as well. The new look is an easy-to-read single-column layout, with boxes on the side for all your liked pages. More »
  • Do you have any tips for maintaining focus at ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even ...
  • Know the Difference Between "To" and "CC" in a ...
    You'd think email is old enough to be considered common sense by now, but it has a lot of basic etiquette rules that people just don't follow. Productivity weblog GTD Times points out a simple one: knowing the difference between "To" and "CC." More »

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio becomes 266th pontiff ...
    Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio takes name of Francis after accepting his election as 266th head of Roman Catholic church • Live reaction to Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio's election as Pope FrancisThe cardinals of the Roman Catholic church chose as their new pope a man from almost "the end of the world" – ...
  • Tories turn fire on Theresa May for challenge ...
    Home secretary accused of 'over-reaching herself' on hints that David Cameron could be unseated as prime ministerDowning Street is at war with Theresa May after the Tory high command turned its fire on the home secretary for moving to position herself ahead of a possible leadership contest.Amid ...
  • Leveson reform discussions to continue
    Leaders of all the main parties will meet again after PM's aides admit 'significant differences remain' over press regulationDavid Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband are to meet again in an attempt to settle continuing differences over the Leveson report following a day of backstage drama in wh ...
  • Russia warns UK against arming Syrian rebels
    Any attempt by British government to arm Syrian opposition would breach international law, claims Russian foreign ministerThe UK and Russia remain at odds over the supply of arms to Syria's opposition, with Moscow suggesting that any move by the British government to give the rebels military equ ...
  • Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce sentences 'unduly ...
    Conservative MP David Burrowes has written to the attorney general asking him to review the eight-month sentencesThe Tory MP David Burrowes has written to the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC, asking him to review the eight-month sentences imposed on Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce on the grounds ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. Troops Advise Afghan Forces as Drawdown P ...
    By Amaani LyleAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 Brigade advisory teams will continue to train and advise their Afghan counterparts as American forces drawdown as part of ...
  • U.S. Commander Praises Afghan Forces Progress
    By Amaani LyleAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 Afghanistan's national security forces are better-equipped, better-trained and better-led than ever before, the ...
  • Lawyer says US soldier charged in Afghanistan ...
    SEATTLE - A U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians is expected to undergo a review of his sanity beginning this weekend. John Henry Browne, an attorney for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, ...
  • Scotland push Intercontinental Cup cricket mat ...
    Afghanistan's Mohammad Nabi, centre, bats during an Intercontinental Cup match against Scotland on Wednesday at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Ravindranath K / The ...
  • Ten killed at Afghan dead goat polo game
    A suicide bomber has blown himself up during a traditional Afghan game of buzkashi, a game of horse polo played with a dead goat, killing at least ten spectators in the northern province of Kunduz. ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Nielsen Finally Realizes That TV Viewers Are C ...
    For many years we've written stories about the TV industry being in complete denial over cord cutting (i.e., getting rid of pay TV). The industry has denied that anyone was doing this, claimed that it was just a minor blip during a recession, suggested that when kids "grew up" they'd go back to ...
  • Maxis Insider: EA Lying About Needing Servers ...
    Throughout Simcity's massive public flameout last week, questions were raised (repeatedly) about EA's claims that an offline, single-player mode would be a massive undertaking because of the amount of calculations being done server-side. As many people pointed out, this seemed to be a choice EA ...
  • NYT Former Exec Editor Misrepresents Bradley M ...
    A few days ago, the former executive editor of the NY Times, Bill Keller wrote about the Bradley Manning situation, in which he discusses Manning's revelation that he originally tried to go directly to the NY Times and the Washington Post, but was ignored, leading to the decision to approach Wik ...
  • White House Petition Against CISPA Gets Over T ...
    Yet another White House petition has made it over the 100,000 signature mark, which is necessary to get a response. This one is asking the White House not to support CISPA, arguing that the terms are too broad, and the possibility of abuse is simply too high. To date, the White House has actua ...
  • Startups And Innovators Speak Out In Favor Of ...
    The good folks over at the EFF have posted a letter from a group of startups and innovators to Congress seeking reform of the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act), which has been abused for years, most notably and recently, in the case against Aaron Swartz (full disclosure: I helped review the in ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Please support this site
    “War in Context is an indispensable resource, both for its posting of valuable comment and analysis from around the web and for Paul Woodward’s progressive voice which, rather than constraining itself in an ideological straitjacket, is always attentive to facts and the perspectives o ...
  • Pope Francis
    The Guardian reports: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has become the Catholic church’s 266th pope, is the choice of humility, a Jesuit intellectual who travels by bus and has a practical approach to poverty: when he was appointed a cardinal, Bergoglio persuaded hundreds of Argentinians ...
  • Deadlock in Cairo
    Hazem Kandil writes: The Egyptian revolt is trapped in a balance of weakness. None of the key actors has the power to consolidate a new regime, or even to resurrect the old one. Alliances are necessary, but nobody knows which will last. Every combination seems equally plausible, but each would l ...
  • Is any hope left for Mideast peace?
    Rashid Khalidi writes: What should Barack Obama, who is to visit Israel next Wednesday for the first time in his presidency, do about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? First, he must abandon the stale conventional wisdom offered by the New York-Washington foreign-policy establishment, which clin ...
  • American Jews investing their tax dollars in I ...
    Rabbi Jill Jacobs writes that a group of North American rabbis, cantors, rabbinical and cantorial students from all denominations of Judaism, who in January were petitioning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cease plans for construction of a new settlement, did not get the hearing the ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climategate 3.0 has occurred – the passw ...
    This post will be a top “sticky” post for some time, new essays will appear below this one – Anthony A number of climate skeptic bloggers (myself included) have received this message yesterday. While I had planned to defer announcing … Continue reading →
  • Maryland’s “Wind Powered Welfare&# ...
    Guest Post by David Middleton Going Green Offshore Wind Passes in Senate, Gov. O’Malley’s Signature Next The construction of a wind power farm off the coast of Ocean City could begin as early at 2017 By Jessica Wilde, Capital News … Continue reading →
  • Warmist epic ‘Greedy Lying Bastards&#821 ...
    Earns just $45,000.00 nationwide on opening weekend – film cost $1.5 million to make GLB earned forty five thousand dollars nationwide, wow. Maybe it had to do with the situation described in this review by Alana Goodman from a showing … Continue reading →
  • Solar proton event seen in paleo records
    From the AGU weekly highlights: Large solar proton event explains 774-775 CE carbon-14 increase Tree ring records indicate that in 774-775 CE, atmospheric carbon-14 levels increased substantially. Researchers suggest that a solar proton event may have been the cause. In … Continue reading ...
  • I’m on Al Gore’s radar – for ...
    Heh. Apparently, I must be destroyed for having an opinion. From Al Gore’s “Reality Drop” project, the GoreBots have been given the orders. What’s all the hullabaloo about? An interview I gave with a website that covers energy issues.  I’m … Continue reading & ...

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Biosingularity

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

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

CFACT

  • Obama’s misguided carbon tax plans
    The only thing that will happen if carbon taxes are inflicted on our economy is that American jobs, economic growth, living standards, health, welfare, dreams and lives will be sacrificed for nothing.
  • Greens work to still wind, darken solar power ...
    Absolutely no energy options are immune from environmental challenges.... A 2011 U.S. Chamber of Commerce report titled “Project/No Project” found 140 renewable projects that had stalled, stopped, or been outright killed due to “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) environmental activism and a system t ...
  • Questions for Obama’s Interior, Energy and EPA ...
    The President’s outgoing Energy and Interior Secretaries and EPA Administrator were all highly controversial, divisive figures.. The nominees to replace them have all been called “team players,” in an administration that has been decidedly anti-hydrocarbon and pro-renewable energy. They all hav ...
  • World’s first Green trade war over Chinese sol ...
    Ready for the world’s first Green trade war? Well that may soon be coming, as China is now considering new tariffs on U.S. chemicals used to make solar panels. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5081.mp3]
  • A new jolt for electric cars?
    Electric cars are known to save on gas, but can they also be used to power electrical appliances during a blackout? Well strange as that may sound, that is precisely what electric car owners living in Japan did. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5080.mp3]

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Connecticut Passes GE Labeling Bill for Baby F ...
    Hartford CT – The labeling of genetically engineered foods is one step closer to being a reality in Connecticut. Today the Committee on Children voted 11 to 1 in favor of House Bill 6527, An Act Concerning Genetically Engineered Baby Food, that would require the labeling of foods fed to infant ...
  • Urgent Action Alert: USDA Begins Deregulation ...
    The goal of the STOP GE Trees Campaign is to work with forest dependent communities to protect native forests from the uncontrollable and irreversible threats posed by the release of genetically engineered trees (GE trees or GM trees) into the environment. Click here to read this article
  • Vermont May Become First State with Mandatory ...
    The state of Vermont is poised to become the first in the nation to mandate the labeling of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), following the recent passage of H.112 by the Vermont House Committee on Agriculture and Forest Products (HCAFP). In an historic eight to three vote, HCAFP voted in f ...
  • FDA to Allow Unlabeled Use of Aspartame in Dai ...
    The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition with the FDA1 requesting the agency "amend the standard of identity" for milk and 17 other dairy products.Click here to read this article
  • This Man Wants You To Believe That BPA-Laced P ...
    Bisphenol-A (BPA) is an industrial chemical found in everything from food-can linings to cigarette filters to retail receipts. Nationwide testing by the Center for Disease Control found it in "nearly all" of its subjects. A growing body of research has established BPA as an endocrine-disrupting ...

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Argentina's Pope Bergoglio a moderate focused ...
    ShareThisArgentina's Pope Bergoglio a moderate focused on the poor 13 Mar 2013 The first Latin American pope, Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio is a moderate known for his strong negotiating skills as well as a readiness to challenge powerful interests. He is a modest man from a middle class family wh ...
  • Pope Francis elected as 266th Roman Catholic p ...
    ShareThisPope Francis elected as 266th Roman Catholic pontiff --Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio takes name of Francis after accepting his election as 266th head of Roman Catholic church 13 Mar 2013 The Roman Catholic church has a new pope: Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio from Buenos Aires in Argentina, the f ...
  • Pentagon creating 13 offensive teams to launch ...
    ShareThisPentagon creating 13 offensive teams to launch cyberattacks 12 Mar 2013 The Pentagon's Cyber Command will create 13 offensive teams by the fall of 2015 to help defend the nation against major computer attacks from abroad, Gen. Keith Alexander testified to Congress on Tuesday, a rare a ...
  • Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina ...
    ShareThisCardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina elected Pope Francis I --Francis I is first Jesuit pontiff --Cardinal was known as vocal advocate for poor --Argentine Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope Wednesday and chose the papal name Francis, becoming first pontiff from the Americas and ...
  • White Smoke! Pope has been elected
    ShareThisWhite Smoke! Pope has been elected 13 Mar 2013 The famous 'Habemus Papam' will be heard around the world in just a few moments. The white smoke means that a cardinal received at least two thirds of the vote, meaning 77 ballots. The so called 'fumata' began to emerge at around 19.06 Ro ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Under Attack
    13 March 2013 Our website sustains repeated attacks and is frequently offline. We must upgrade the website which requires direct reader support. Please see this, and dig deep! We need it. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-michaelyon-online-com-alive
  • Senate Investigation - Pat Tillman
    12 March 2013
  • FBR: Kachin Update
    FBR Report: Kachin Update – Photo set two; Attacks Against the Kachin are Sporadic but Displacement is Constant Kachin State, Burma 8 March, 2013 One of five camps for displaced Kachin that was visited on this trip Kachin girl in high mountain hiding place Kachin pastor points to Bur ...
  • White Letter 1-13
    05 March 2013
  • Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL Murdered: Some Thoughts
    04 February 2013 News of Chris Kyle’s shooting has reached around the world.  Many people are asking for my thoughts, and so this morning I write these words in response. Chris was credited with killing about 160 enemy combatants in Iraq. He is called the most deadly sniper in US history. ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Suu Kyi stands by commission’s report during M ...
    Opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi has stood by her commission’s findings on a trip to Monywa today amid growing criticisms over her failure to call for the closure of a controversial copper mine
  • With no ceasefire, Kachin rebels, govt to incr ...
    The KIO and government negotiators agreed to coordinate troop movements in conflict areas to quell further violence after holding a second round of talks in China this week
  • Thailand denies shooting Rohingya boat people
    Thailand on Wednesday denied accusations its sailors shot Rohingya boat people fleeing sectarian strife in Burma, after a rights group urged a probe into the alleged deaths of at least two migrants
  • Locals decry Latpadaung commission’s report
    Locals living near a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine have blasted Aung San Suu Kyi’s highly anticipated report into the police crackdown on protestors last November for not ordering a complete halt to the project
  • Art: A form of protest in Rangoon
    Exhibitions are now showing political art openly in Burma. As the old censorship laws are being relaxed, protest groups are using art to spread their message. An exhibition to fundraise for a copper mine protest in northern Burma was held in Rangoon.

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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