13 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Earthship Solar Community West of Taos, New Mexico (Photo credit: martnpro)

Storm on the Horizon Rays of Hope (Photo credit: University of Maryland Press Releases)

US-based Op/Ed cartoon on the controversy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Ahfaz's weekly column in Daily Express (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cheney notes on Joe Wilson op-ed (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Over 90 "Micro" Earthquakes Overnight at the B ...
  Assumption Parish Police Jury reported that more than 90 "micro earthquakes" had occurred in the Bayou Corne sinkhole area overnight, calling it a "'spasmodic burst' which occurred at 1:34 am" on March 13. The report continued, "In addition, there were several observable long periods (VLP) ev ...
• The New Propaganda Is Liberal -- The New Slave ...
  Today's "message" of grotesque inequality, social injustice and war is the propaganda of liberal democracies. By any measure of human behavior, this is extremism. Whereas a generation ago, dissent and biting satire were allowed in the "mainstream," today their counterfeits are acceptable and a f ...
• The recent Korean President election is a frau ...
  Korean President election is fraud. Choonmong has been fasting ten days even without drinking water in order to awaken the press, the statesmen, and his fellow countrymen that are silent on the election fraud.But the media don't report about him. No congressman of Saenuri has visited him. Presid ...
• Voting is the essence of freedom
  "The Founders knew well from history that a democracy always self-destructs when the people discover they can take from others to give to themselves." This well-worn line, used extensively and exclusively by conservatives, has almost become their mantra. Right-wing extremists are afraid poor ...
• Pick Us a Pope Who WIll Address Over-Population
  this op-ed asks the Catholic Church to change its policy on artificial contraception. It cites Bible verses imploring us to use what we know about scarce water and food, and child health and education to be better stewards of the earth. It was printed in

Switchboard

• Andy Stevenson Guest Blog: Is the Party Over f ...
  Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. Andy Stevenson is a Finance Advisor for NRDC With prices for tar sands oil breaking below $60/barrel for the first time since 2010, the fate of the tar sands oil industry seems more tied ...
• Commuting Car-less: How NRDC's Midwest Office ...
  Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL To the disbelief of my friends who live outside of Chicago, I don’t own a car.  I can go anywhere in the city on a bus or a train or my own two feet.  Though it can be difficult to ...
• REPORT: Federal Law is Recovering Fish Stocks
  Brad Sewell, Senior Attorney, New York A decade and a half after a fisheries crisis led the U.S. Congress to enact landmark requirements for the rebuilding of fish stocks, two-thirds of the stocks subjected to the requirements have been rebuilt or a ...
• Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Needs a Better Accou ...
  Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by Bjorn Lomborg, “Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret,” argues that even though driving on electricity emits half as much pollution as driving on gas ...
• The seven deadly sins of land use
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I have been invited to participate in a program tonight on sloth.  I’m even featured, promoted.  How should I feel about this?  Embarrassed?  Insulte ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Wednesday Linkage
  Some links for your reading pleasure: Watching the inter-agency debate over responsibility for Afghanistan play out should be very interesting. Income inequality and democratic militarism. 155th article on which part of the nuclear triad we should kill. I’m forced to note that as long as y ...
• Why Markets In Health Care Don’t Work
  Since it won this month’s Sidney, I was reminded that I have neglected to link to Steven Brill’s brilliant article about the amount of gouging involved in health care markets. Not only individuals but private insurers simply can’t effectively bargain with suppliers and practiti ...
• Higher Education Shock Doctrine
  The education capitalists have a great plan. We starve the universities by reducing their state funding so much that students can’t easily graduate in 4 years. Then we get our lackeys in the state legislature to pass a law forcing schools to accept online classes as credit. That opens up t ...
• What Ryan’s Budget Would Mean For Women
  Pretty much nothing good. But as any good brogressive will tell you, there’s no real difference between a massive expansion of Medicaid and a plan to destroy Medicaid; it would be perfectly rational for a progressive to prefer that elections result in the latter outcome, because this would ...
• Latest law graduate debt figures
  US News has published the debt figures for the law school graduating classes of 2012. A few notes: (1) These figures are mislabeled “average indebtedness of 2012 graduates who incurred debt.” That’s incorrect. These figures represent the mean amount of federal educational loans ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
  Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
• DRI tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
  This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.
• Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate S ...
  Meet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.
• Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader highli ...
  Senator Reid discusses the success of DRI's GreenPower Program and its K-12 teacher training workshops specifically.
• Antarctic ice core extracted by DRI scientists ...
  A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Dr. Kendrick Taylor, a research professor with the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute, have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past clim ...

Earth Techling

• Carbon Tax Dems Invite You To Help Write A Bill
  Four Democrats release a draft bill to put a price on carbon, and they're seeking input on key questions, including what to do with the money raised.
• Former Texas ‘Ghost Buildings’ Reborn As Mixed ...
  After sitting abandoned since 2004, a failed San Antonio real estate project was revived through adaptive reuse to become a thriving, efficient mixed-use complex.
• Infiniti QX60 Hybrid Takes Charge at New York ...
  The Infiniti JX is a full-size crossover SUV introduced in 2011 as a 2012 model. For 2014, it gets a new name (QX70) and a hybrid version which debuts at the NY Show.
• World’s First LED Concrete Wall Illuminated In ...
  Only recently opened to the public, the display pushes the boundary of technology, design, and architecture in one fell swoop.
• How NY State Can Do All-Green Power (Or Not)
  A study outlining how New York state can run entirely on renewable energy by 2050 might give you hope – or depress you by its daunting nature.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Budget woes claim ADR program in Los Angeles
  To address an "extreme budget shortfall," Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court plans to close its alternative dispute resolution program on June 18 after 20 years in operation.
• Former Husch Blackwell lawyers join 'partnerle ...
  Two partners from Husch Blackwell have jumped to an atypical boutique in the St. Louis area.
• DOJ: T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS merger unlikely to ...
  The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division announced March 12 that the merger between T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS is "unlikely to harm consumers or substantially lessen competition," giving the fourth and fifth-largest mobile wireless providers in the United States the green light to combine.
• Senators question SEC nominee White about pote ...
  Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama's nominee for chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, faced little resistance from senators during her March 12 confirmation hearing.
• Eighth Circuit denies child porn victim's appe ...
  A federal appeals court has denied a mandamus petition by a child pornography victim who sought to collect $952,791 in documented losses from one defendant and was awarded $3,333 in restitution.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Growing Season More Favorable for 2013
  The arrival of rain and snowstorms this winter and ongoing into March has paved the way for a more positive outlook into the early summer from parts of the Plains to the East Coast, where much of the nation's corn is grown.
• Netflix Introduces Netflix Social For Facebook ...
  Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share their favorite shows and movies on Netflix with friends by connecting to Facebook and agreeing to share.
• How Safe Is the Milk Your Drinking?
  Thanks to resistance from angry consumers, most milk no longer contains the synthetic, genetically modified recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) developed by Monsanto.
• US Speaks Out Against Anti-Semitism as Global Ill
  Committed to standing up for fair treatment for the State of Israel, the United States of America today spoke out against intolerance and anti-semitism as global ill.
• Facebook 'Likes' Can Reveal Information About ...
  'Likes' on Facebook can accurately predict personality traits, sexual orientation, and intelligence, according to researchers

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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Not My Tribe

• The head up its own ass Empire USA has well ea ...
  — Let’s see now? The US government ignores threats from a country it has waged war against continuously now for 6 and 1/2 decades and so do the American people themselves??? Are we collectively stupid or what? It is the all brainwashed, head up its own ass Empire USA versus the &#821 ...
• Republican operative and all round rat pays ou ...
  The Republican attack to defund the antipoverty activist organization ACORN was one of the most totally disgraceful actions the American corporate media has ever helped ‘Conservatives’ (read reactionaries) accomplish. But now the truth is unfolding as the thug who carried out the hit ...
• The powerful super rich old farts of the US ne ...
  The following facts show America’s superrich thugs to be absolutely shameless. They all claim to be patriots as they feed off the blood of the country’s youth, too. The $1 trillion student debt should about be written off the books and taken out of the national militarism budget. Sha ...
• Empire says behave or the next Bradley Manning ...
  Indefinite detention, solitary confinement, torture, and assassination are tools America does not hesitate to use to enforce its feudal corporate agenda. That the US didn’t dispatch Bolivarian hero Hugo Chavez like they did Yasser Arafat is belied by their protestation that such accusation ...
• Exterminate!!!!!!!!
  How sad, but the real designer of the Daleks died last month. EXTERMINATE Here is the obituary of Ray Cusick.

Debunking the Debunkers

• The Energetic Red Layer: The FTIR
  Harrit et al. announced in 2009 that the dust from the WTC buildings contains remnants of active thermitic material that must have been used to demolish them in 2001. They state that the red layer of their chips is actually composed of grains of nanothermite embedded within an energetic organic ...
• The most honest three and a half minutes of te ...
  Published on Jun 26, 2012 Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.
• The Mysterious Death of Author Phillip Marshal
  Alex welcomes investigative journalist and author Wayne Madsen to analyze the mysterious murder-suicide of "conspiracy theorist" author Phillip Marshall. We'll also cover other major headlines and take your calls. _______________________________________ We know 911 involved inside help&nb ...
• Petition2Congress: Investigate 9/11 World Trad ...
  Related: A huge collection of other online activism links can be found here. Debunking Joseph Nobles/boloboffin of AE911Truth.INFO
• Taylor Contra Power - Part 2: World Trade Cent ...
  In Part 1 of my response to Myles Power’s YouTube video series, I examined his arguments regarding the collapse of the Twin Towers and the evidence for controlled demolition. Now I will focus on Mr. Power’s videos regarding the destruction of World Trade Center 7, and why the arguments presented ...

Fooducate

• St. Patrick’s Day: Healthy Recipe Ideas
• NYC Soda Ban Struck Down. Paves Way for Eventu ...
• Meatless Monday School Lunches
• Supermarkets Hiring Dietitans to Help Shoppers ...
• Ferrarelle Italian Mineral Water – Old and Goo ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
  Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...
• Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
  Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de Perijá, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...
• Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
  The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
• 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
  Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
• ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
  Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...

Greg Palast

• Fukushima: They Knew
  "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" Two years later, the Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN An excerpt from Vultures' Picnic by Greg Palast I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the n ...
• Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi Amigo
  By Greg Palast For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today. As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, is offering the film, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, as a FREE download. Based on m ...
• How Do You Steal a Dream?Supreme Court hears s ...
  How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” Sign the petition to Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act - here. Jim Crow is alive and well — and he [...]
• Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act: Protect ...
   Sign this petition RIGHT NOW at Care2. Dr. King's Dream Act is under attack. On Wednesday February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the law's requirement that states with a history of Jim Crow voting rules let the Justice Department review new voting procedures. This is the o ...
• Too Fat to Vote Will a Supreme Ku Klux Kourt k ...
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You know why black folk in the south don't vote? According to The New York Times and the experts at the Pew Charitable Trust, they're just too damn fat! Normally I wouldn't care what the Times is passing off as fact, except for that, on February the 27th, the [...]

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: Changing Face of Autism, ...
  By Anne Dachel Mar 11, 2013, Examiner (Philadelphia): Controversy of vaccinations causing autism Mar 11, 2013, Chicago Tribune: The Changing Face of Autism Mar 11, 2013, Vancouver MetroNews: Vaccine summit in Vancouver tries to rekindle settled debate Mar 10, 2013,...
• The Scotsman Reports: Health Warning For Scots ...
  Read the full article at The Scotsman.com. PARENTS have been warned that children’s health will be “risked unnecessarily” by government plans to save money by vaccinating all Scottish youngsters against seasonal flu. As Scottish health chiefs confirmed yesterday that every...
• AAP Backs-up and Detours Away from Responsible ...
  Around the end of the year, the American Academy of Pediatrics gave the children of the world their gift by expressed support for the World Health Organization’s request for an open-ended exemption for the continuing use of mercury-based preservatives in...
• Alex Spourdalakis and The Future
  Managing Editor's Note: This comment from our John Stone is well worth repeating here on the main site. I don't think in the history of AoA any story has struck such a chord as this one. Here we see the...
• Dachel Media Update: Canadian Vaccination Conf ...
  Canadian media in uproar about Vaccine Summit event tomorrow. A vaccine conference from Vancouver, British Columbia is scheduled for TU, Mar 12, 2013. Speakers can be seen here starting at 7 pm Eastern Time. Here is the schedule for the...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Asian Stocks Drop a Second Day as Chinese Deve ...
  Bloomberg – Asian stocks fell for a second day amid concern shares rose too fast in a three-week rally that drove the regional benchmark index to a 19-month high. Chinese developers declined. China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd., the biggest builder traded in Hong Kong, sank 2.7 perce ...
• Maine town of Byron shoot down mandatory gun-o ...
  BBC – A small town in the US state of Maine has unanimously rejected a proposal to require each household to own a gun. About 60 people attending the Byron annual town meeting voted against, including the resident who originally came up with the proposal. It was expected to be unenforceabl ...
• Virtual boy teaches autistic children social s ...
  DW – New research from the UK shows that autistic children can improve their communication skills by interacting with a virtual computer character, which reacts to their movements, touch and voices. Some children on the autistic spectrum find it challenging to communicate with other people ...
• Mali media strike over editor Boukary Daou&#82 ...
  BBC – Mali’s private media have launched a news blackout after an editor was arrested for publishing a letter about poor conditions from soldiers fighting Islamist militants in the north. Read article
• German insolvencies plummet to lowest in a decade
  DW – The number of German companies that went bust fell for the third consecutive year in 2012 to a level last seen in 2000. Nevertheless, a few high-profile bankruptcies drove up the total sum of outstanding debt. Last year, the number of German businesses filing for insolvency protection ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• An exotic killer attacks San Diego County oaks
  For a glimpse of the trail of destruction left by an invasive beetle in some of San Diego County's oak woodlands, take a look at the video prepared by UC Riverside researchers hunting for ways to stop the bug.
• Furry fishers, don't blame the Gold Rush
  The boom in logging and fur trapping triggered by Gold Rush settlement of the Sierra Nevada has long been blamed for the steep decline in California’s population of fishers.
• Cooking up toxic air pollution
  When UC Davis scientists collected air pollution particles in Fresno and then exposed laboratory mice to them, they found that one of the most toxic sources was the backyard grill.
• Some plastics should be classified as hazardou ...
  Less than half of the 280 million metric tons of plastic produced each year ends up in the landfill.  A fair bit of the rest ends up littering the landscape, blown by the wind or washed down streams and rivers into the sea.
• Religious beliefs drive hunting decisions in A ...
  Stanford researchers have discovered that the introduction of Western religions is changing hunting patterns in the Amazon and affecting the region’s biodiversity.

water.org

• Support builds for the Strike
  More and more celebrities are supporting Matt Damon in his toilet strike protesting the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for billions.
• Spring Catchment in Haiti
  A spring is water that reaches the surface from an underground supply, appearing as small water holes or wet spots on hillsides or along river banks. In order to "catch" the water for use, the spring must be capped, allowing the water to pool up into the cement block. In this photo you can see t ...
• A WaterCredit Pilot
  Christine Mbati has three children and was recently widowed. She is a member of the K’Obonyo self-help group and lives at Ulanda village.
• Strike With Me to Raise Awareness
  At a press conference in Los Angeles, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water crisis.
• Learning Through Plays
  Children and adults learn about good hygiene practices through a series of street plays, including hand washing and the importance of using a toilet instead of practicing open defecation. They also learn about the connection between water-related illnesses and prevention.

Cryptogon

• 34 Civil Liberties Groups Speak Out Against CI ...
  Via: EFF: On Monday, EFF and over 30 other Internet rights organizations sent a letter to members of Congress demanding they vote no on the “cybersecurity” bill known as CISPA. The letter starts off a week in which Congress will hold three different hearings about CISPA and computer ...
• Fake Fingers to Fool the Boss at Brazil Hospital
  Via: AFP: Five doctors at a Brazilian hospital have been suspended after they were accused of covering for absentee colleagues by using fake silicone fingers with their prints to fool biometric machines. Globo television showed footage of a doctor touching her finger to the device, then using tw ...
• Doubts About Johns Hopkins Research Have Gone ...
  This one would make a great addition to your Bullshit-As-Science and Academic Grant Swindling file folders. In this situation with Nature and Johns Hopkins, note what happened to the guy who tried to expose it. Via: Washington Post: The numbers didn’t add up. Over and over, Daniel Yuan, a medica ...
• Robobees
  Via: Harvard: Overview of the Micro Air Vehicles Project INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior … we aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power sources; spur innovations in ultra-low-power computing and electronic “smart” ...
• Pentagon Creating Teams to Launch Cyberattacks
  Via: Washington Post: The Pentagon’s Cyber Command will create 40 offensive cyber-teams by the fall of 2015 to help defend the nation against major computer attacks and assist combat commands as they plan offensive capabilities, Gen. Keith Alexander testified to Congress on Tuesday. The new team ...

The Economic Collapse

• Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
  They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...
• Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put B ...
  How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money?  In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very ra ...
• The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
  The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
• Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
  Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...
• Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By T ...
  The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits - so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?  Real household income is the lowest that it has been in a decade, poverty is absolutely soaring, 47 million Americans are on food stamps and the middle [...]

Desertification

• Debate : “How real is the rise of Africa ...
  Read at : The Economist 2013-03-12 http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/249&sa_campaign=debateseries/debate122/alert/round/opening?fsrc=nlw|dbt|3-12-2013|5265301|36882372| Africa’s rise Motion: “How real is the rise of Africa?” Live dates: March ...
• INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE OR SMALL-SCALE FARMING ...
  WHY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD SWITCH THEIR FINANCIAL AID FROM INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE TO SMALL-SCALE FARMING Based on official 1999 statistics, 92% of Russia’s potatoes, 77% of its vegetables, 87% of fruits, 59.4% of meat, and 49.2% of milk were produced by … Continue reading ...
• Appropriate Technology Vol. 40 No. 1
  Read at : http://news.researchinformation.co.uk/interface/external_view_email.php?C9211814515829646067426396284020&utm_campaign=AT+Mar+2013+TOC&utm_source=emailCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=
• Establishment of cactus plantations to fight e ...
  Read at : http://peoplesdailyng.com/how-not-to-fight-desertification/ How not to fight desertification By Ambrose Inusa Sule, mnes In 2010, the Federal Ministry of Environment placed advertisement in several national newspapers for qualified contractors to apply and bid for the establishment of ...
• Droughts are the most destructive natural haza ...
  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Droughts are the most destructive natural hazard – they cause the deaths and displacement of more people than cyclones, floods and earthquakes combined. Starting today, the High-Level Meeting on National Drought … Continue readi ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• La démolition du logement social ? - Radical I ...
  Pruitt-igoe1.jpg The Radical Islington pamphlet "The demolition of social housing? The state attack on tenants & tenancies" has been translated into French! Here it is.
• A disabled person’s open letter to PCS general ...
  Mark.jpg An open letter to the general secretary of the UK civil servants' union from a disabled activist who was reported to police by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). ...
• Domestic violence, International Women's Day, ...
  RMT.jpg We reproduce below the statement made by RMT member Caroline Leneghan on her personal blog, in solidarity with her and other women speaking out about gender violence. [trigger warning: descrip ...
• Alfie Meadows and Zak King found not guilty - ...
  alfie meadows.jpg After years of uncertainty and two mistrials, Alfie Meadows and Zak King have been found unanimously not guilty of violent disorder on a demonstration against tuition fees and cuts t ...
• No Dash For Gas: We climbed those chimneys to ...
  no-dash-for-gas_tent-up-chimney.png EDF, the power company, has been denounced for attacking the right to protest, after it launched a damages claim for £5 million against 21 activists. Here one of th ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• Iron Dome – HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF USD G ...
  The fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4310/text) gives another $211 million USD to Israel for “Iron Dome”, which is basically a version of SDI – “Star Wars”.    This is happening despite massive & ...
• DHS Gets Fleet of Drones – Now This. INC ...
  Serial Killer Heads CIA by Stephen Lendman   Chalmers Johnson called the CIA the president’s private army. Imperial Rome had its praetorian guard. It served and protected emperors. CIA rogues work the same way. They do lots more than that. Extrajudicial killing is prioritized. Much that goe ...
• DHS Gets Fleet of Drones – Now This. INC ...
  Serial Killer Heads CIA by Stephen Lendman   Chalmers Johnson called the CIA the president’s private army. Imperial Rome had its praetorian guard. It served and protected emperors. CIA rogues work the same way. They do lots more than that. Extrajudicial killing is prioritized. Much that goe ...
• Deep Underground Military Bases – Active ...
  This is to be filed in the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” category of The Story Behind the Story!” Salt Lake City, Utah is not called “The Crossroads of the West” for nothing.  It is the central nexus hub of the Western D.U.M.B. – A.S.S.  according to numero ...
• Deep Underground Military Bases – Active ...
  This is to be filed in the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” category of The Story Behind the Story!” Salt Lake City, Utah is not called “The Crossroads of the West” for nothing.  It is the central nexus hub of the Western D.U.M.B. – A.S.S.  according to numero ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Tom Mulcair, Leader of the Opposition
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with the Leader of the Opposition Tom Mulcair to discuss the major political issues facing Canada today and what Mr. Mulcair's party, the NDP, would do differently in Ottawa.
• Father Thomas Rosica
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Father Thomas Rosica to discuss the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the process of electing a new Pope.
• Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater (Feb 9, 2013
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan as he prepares for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
• Mark Burnett, television producer (Feb 2, 2013)
  Peter talks about television, fame and chasing the American Dream with the king of reality TV.
• Chris Hadfield, astronaut (Jan 26, 2013)
  Peter talks to the Canadian Astronaut from his current home in space aboard the International Space Station.

Scotts Contracting

• Breaking News: Groups say Ameren Missouri prof ...
  "…utility’s own financial data show that it earned millions of dollars more than authorized in 2012. And that was before the Public Service Commission approved a $263 million increase that took effect in January…" On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Fair Energy Rate Action Fund ...
• FREE EBook-Clean Energy-Wind,Solar,GEO Thermal
  If you have ever wanted to learn about Solar, Wind, GEO Thermal, and other clean energy producing systems now is your chance with this free EBOOK offering Green Power Homes – Quick And Easy Guide to Wind, Solar and Geothermal Energy-Kindle Edition- By: William Dollinger Get the Free EBOOK ...
• Scotts Contracting-St Louis Renewable Energy B ...
  Google Map-Local Place Listing Locations and Services for Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy   On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: Warehouse for Rent and Storage North Side St Louis Home Office L ...
• StLouis Residents-CALL This Week-Electric Rate ...
  Call Today: OPPOSE SB 207 and Significant Electric Bill Increases Please Call Key Legislators Today!!! Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Forward to a Friend Follow us on: Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Call Today: OPPOSE SB 207 and Significant Electric Bill Increases Please Call Key ...
• Ameren UE -Dirty Coal Money-Influencing StLoui ...
  Would the $4,609,271.00 Previously Donated $ be better spent for the Infrastructure Improvements instead of the Proposed Electrical Rate Increases? ↑Noteworthy Contributor↑ Years Company or PAC Contributions Subsidiary Contributions Employee Contributions Grand Total *AMEREN Electric Utilities 2 ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pie ...
  Nuke "option" in response to a cyberattack, the UN Temperance League.
• Why Women Must End the Korean War
  The road to peace in Korea runs through Washington, but women must steward it along the way.
• Ability of Nuclear Deterrence to Defuse Crises ...
  During the Cold War, nuclear deterrence failed to thwart crises, which were subsequently solved with good, old politics.
• GM Seeds and the Militarization of Food (And E ...
  Dr. Vandana Shiva talks about GMOs, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation, and the primacy of biodiversity.
• Nuclear Weapons Have Outlived Their Usefulness ...
  Historian Ward Wilson pokes holes in the mythology of nuclear weapons.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
  French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
• زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
  در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
• نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
  ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
• Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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• Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
  The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

• Bitcoins: Good as Gold?
  Bitcoins are a safe decentralized currency that’s  ideal for businesses and consumers alike because it’s controlled by the people who use it, rather than banks. Hate banks? Fed up with Wall Street incompetence and criminality? Concerned the impending economic col ...
• The Woman Who Tried to Stop the War on Iran
    Below is a mind boggling half hour Press TV documentary about former White House adviser Gwynneth Todd. In it she briefly describes the battle she, and others in the Pentagon establishment, waged to fight efforts by AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) to provoke a U ...
• Groups Demand Records of Plans to Assassinate ...
  Within hours of President Hugo Chavez’s untimely death (he was 58), US civil rights groups filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with numerous federal agencies seeking information and documents that “relate to or reference or discuss any information regarding or plan ...
• Syrian Rebels Take UN Peacekeepers Hostage
  Less than a week after the Obama administration pledged to supply non-lethal aid to the Syrian resistance, Syrian rebels have taken twenty UN peacekeeper hostage in the Golan Heights. The latter is disputed territory claimed by both Israel and Syria, following Isreal’s occ ...
• Superhero Helps Block Arctic Drilling
    In February New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless (aka Xena the Warrior Princess) and Greenpeace jubilantly celebrated Shell oil’s announcement that they wouldn’t drill the Arctic in 2013, as previously announced. Coincidentally Lawless was sentenced the same month f ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• James Holmes and the ethics of “truth se ...
  Putting the Aurora shooter through a narcolanalytic interview won't provide truth or prove sanity
• It’s good to be the pope
  Palatial digs, adoring crowds and sensual acrobatics on demand -- proof there ain't no party like a Holy See party
• New York pay phones’ new calling
  Sleek digital kiosks, complete with wifi and weather forecasts, will replace the city's outdated telephone booths
• New pope: Best of the worst reactions
  Conservatives, shrill liberals and other idiots take to Twitter over Francis I, and Erick Erickson takes the cake
• Hello Pope Francis
  UPDATED: Social justice activist Sister Simone Campbell gives the pontiff a Twitter shout out

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

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

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
• Receive up to $50 of personalized Pexagon Tech ...
• This Seasons Biggest Blow-out Sale! 74% off Au ...
• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

• Aaron Swartz to receive posthumous 'Freedom of ...
  Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz is slated to receive posthumous recognition in Washington for his efforts promoting free access to taxpayer-funded research. The James Madison Freedom of Information Award is administered by the American Library Association, and recognizes "i ...
• Aaron Swartz Lawyers Accuse Prosecutor Stephe ...
  Federal prosecutor Stephen Heymann engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by withholding key evidence from the defense team of Aaron Swartz, the late Internet activist's legal team alleged in a letter [PDF] to an internal Justice Department ethics unit.... In the document, Peters argues that Heyman ...
• Browsing Web on iPad stinks, and Apple likes i ...
  The web as we have known it was designed to facilitate the browsing experience - to be a boundlessly linked rhizomatic structure of hypertext. But we have quite willingly begun to fence it off as we have shifted our experience to the iPad and individual apps. Even worse, though, is that most of ...
• ALJ denies motion to stay InterDigital ITC cas ...
  Late yesterday, Administrative Law Judge Robert K. Rogers issued an order denying the motion brought by Huawei and ZTE (later joined by Nokia) to stay ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-868 pending the outcome of a potential FRAND determination in the District of Delaware. As we noted in our initial post on t ...
• Former U.S. prosecutor Stolper starts litigati ...
  High-profile former U.S. federal prosecutor Andrew Stolper said Tuesday he had teamed up with an ex-FBI agent to form a private equity firm specializing in litigation finance, a growing business in the legal industry....A U.S. District Court judge singled out Stolper for criticism when he dismis ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

• DeafView3, WFD and Deaf rights
  Over the weekend I attended the DeafView3 conference in Wellington. This proved to be both interesting and challenging with a wide range of topics covered, ranging from the changing nature of Deaf culture  though to  Māori deaf and  indigenous Deaf  issues. There were a number of speakers from o ...
• The rapid roadshow – is this consultation ?
  Monday saw the start of the Government’s rapid fire roadshow on its proposals to weaken the RMA and allow increased exploitation of our water. I’ve previously covered some of the Minister’s attempt to shut down debate on the proposals. I  just wanted to point out that that the timing of consulta ...
• Key in Brazil wooing Petrobras
  Never one to turn down an opportunity to welcome a foreign oil company to drill in 100% Pure New Zealand’s waters, John Key currently in Brazil, is encouraging the Brazilian company Petrobras to return.
• Trading New Zealand’s credibility in Col ...
  Last week John Key announced his plan to sell Light Armoured Vehicles (LAV’s) to Colombia. In an effort to build trade and sell off redundant military equipment, John Key seems to have chosen to make New Zealand complicit in the further arming of a potentially illegal military force who has been ...
• Climate change – two dirty little words nobody ...
  On Friday Green Party climate spokesperson Kennedy Graham wrote about the droughts hurting our farmers and the connection with climate change so it was interesting  at the weekend to see the Sunday Star Times front page story about the drought. Cool, I thought, now we finally get to have a conve ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• 'Clear Association' That Xanax, Valium, and Ot ...
  By Dr. Mercola Over 100 million people are prescribed drugs known as benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, Ativan, etc.) for anxiety and insomnia each year.1 Despite the fact that these drugs are only meant to be used for short periods, up to a few weeks, many use them for years, and new research s ...
• Big Dairy Petitions FDA to Allow Unlabeled Use ...
  By Dr. Mercola 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. This was done to provide for the use ...
• Strong Flu Season Boosts Vaccine Profits, Desp ...
  By Dr. Mercola Vaccine policymakers routinely ignore the safest and most effective strategies that can naturally strengthen your immunity to help you stay well or move through illness with fewer complications if you do get sick. For example, there are many far more effective ways to preve ...
• Should Factory-Farmed Foods Be Labeled?
  By Ronnie Cummins A growing number of organic consumers, natural health advocates and climate hawks are taking a more comprehensive look at the fundamental causes of global warming. It has led them to this sobering conclusion: Our modern energy-, chemical- and GMO-intensive industrial ...
• Nectar Quest: The ‘Bees and Flowers Mutual Adm ...
  By Dr. Mercola Plants and bees have a symbiotic relationship. Flowering plants depend on an outside source to ‘spread the love’ through pollination, and bees are happy to fill that need, receiving nectar (which they convert into honey) for the service they provide. But how do be ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
  Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...
• Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
  Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de Perijá, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...
• Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
  The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
• 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
  Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
• ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
  Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Common sense prevails in Lachine Ho ...
  Health Minister Réjean Hébert has accepted the view of people in the community who saw in the transfer an upgrade of their health services, not a threat.
• Editorial: Finding hope in the Lisée-Parizeau ...
  The PQ government’s language policy is driven by hardliners, but there is hope for moderation in light of tolerant attitudes in the greater francophone community.
• Hockey deal augurs poorly for rebirth of Nordiques
  With a new collective bargaining agreement in place, National Hockey League play resumed on the weekend. The enthusiastic fan reaction suggests that the four-month lockout will not result in any significant fan blowback in the short term.
• Editorial: A historic moment for Ontario, and ...
  When Kathleen Wynne becomes Ontario’s new premier, Canada will be in the remarkable position of having women as leaders of six of its provinces and territories.
• Editorial: Charbonneau Commission’s mandate mu ...
  The larger problem with the Charbonneau Commission is starting to look conceptual, having to do with what it can and cannot investigate.

Food World Order

• Homeless Houston Veteran Ticketed for Dumpster ...
  from cryptogon.com: Via: News92FM: A homeless Navy veteran faces up to a $500 fine for dumpster diving in downtown Houston. Veteran James Kelly was cited for “disturbing the contents of a garbage can” on Thursday morning of last week in front of the Hobby Center. Matt Sampsell repo ...
• 15-Year-Old Invents New Test for Early, Reliab ...
  from mercola.com: Pancreatic cancer is a devastatingly fatal form of cancer, and is typically regarded as the most deadly and universally rapid-killing form of cancer. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute,1 an estimated 45,220 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this ...
• The great orange juice scam
  from therealfoodchannel.com: "Fresh" and "pure"? One of the great scams of the industrial food cartel is the so-called "fresh" orange juice sold in supermarkets. This one particularly galls me because for years when I was dirt poor and had very few food choices, I thought I was doing a healt ...
• Doctored: New Documentary Shows Big Pharma’s C ...
  from naturalsociety.com: In a new documentary by Jeff Hays, Doctored shows the shortcomings and even the insidious nature of the modern medical and pharmaceutical culture. Central to the film is the story of chiropractics, once considered by the western world quacks at best and cultists at wo ...
• US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
  from jonrappoport.wordpress.com: You’re a farmer. Season after season, you watch your fields being taken over by Monsanto superweeds, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup. What are you going to do? You’re locked in. You’re buying your GMO seeds from Monsanto, and the food crops that g ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
  They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...
• Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put B ...
  How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money?  In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very ra ...
• The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
  The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
• Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
  Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...
• Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By T ...
  The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits - so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?  Real household income is the lowest that it has been in a decade, poverty is absolutely soaring, 47 million Americans are on food stamps and the middle [...]

CASSE

• The Surprising Conclusion to an Important New Book
  It's rare to find a Wall Street Journal columnist (and a Ronald Reagan appointee) calling for a steady-state economy.
• Enough Is Enough (Excerpt)
  If want to feel hopeful about solving the world's most profound environmental and social problems, you can look to the wisdom of "enough."
• What Kind of Economy Says OK to Tar Sands Oil?
  The short answer: an economy that allows corporations to externalize costs and trump the rights of indigenous people.
• Sliding Down the Slippery Slope: A Truth Too B ...
  President Obama has put win-win rhetoric ahead of the truth and become the Cheerleader in Chief for economic growth.
• The Power of Story for Changing the Economy
  Our culture has to change if we're going to build a sustainable economy. To get the changes rolling, we need to harness the power of stories.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 13 March 2013
  All the latest on newscientist.com, including: where supermassive black holes came from, Pi day, Mars water, lucky hammerheads, Frankenstein, and more
• World's largest telescope array opens for business
  ALMA, the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world, officially opens today high in the Chilean Andes
• Japan taps 'fiery ice' fuel from seabed
  A successful drilling test sets the scene for commercial energy production that exploits methane hydrates, an abundant new power source, says Sara Reardon
• Today on New Scientist: 12 March 2013
  All the latest on newscientist.com, including: material magic, the Neil Armstrong of Mars, fiery ice under the sea, Craig Venter's coming synthesis, and more
• Living on the edge of the Snake
  Teetering untidily on the edge of the Snake river canyon, the Idaho town of Jerome captures the continuing tension between human settlement and nature

Tech Drive In

• Looks like Lightworks for Linux Beta is Almost ...
  Video editing software are not a rarity in Linux. OpenShot and Kdenlive are two good examples. But when it comes to professional grade video editing software, Linux lacks good alternatives. But according to redshark news, that is all going to end now. Lightworks for Linux is not a distant drea ...
• 2013 r/Linux Survey Puts Ubuntu on Top Again, ...
  Wait is finally over. The results of second r/Linux survey is out. With nearly twice as much people participating, this year's results are even more significant. But if you look closely, the end results are not much different from the 2012 r/Linux survey. Ubuntu reigns on top still while the c ...
• Ubuntu GNOME Remix now an Official Ubuntu Deri ...
  If you want the best of GNOME Shell and Ubuntu, there is no competition, Ubuntu GNOME Remix it is. We concluded our earlier review of Ubuntu GNOME Remix with the "best distro for Netbooks" title. It seems like a lot of people do agree with us. Ubuntu GNOME Remix has been renamed to just "Ubunt ...
• Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ) Release ...
  Another day, another game for Linux. This time, it is an official Valve title, and it is none other than Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ). The beta version of this game had a limited release earlier in February and now it is officially available for Linux via Steam. It is the fifth Valve ...
• Flipkart, India's Biggest Online Music Retaile ...
  Flipkart is a hugely popular online retailing giant from India. Nearly an year ago, Flipkart launched Flyte music service which enabled its vast Indian user-base to buy and download legit copies of DRM free songs from a wide array of artists and movies at reasonable rates. One thing ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• 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 ...

Veterans Today

• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Marc ...
  There are social workers at all VA medical centers. How do you know if you need a social worker? Read about some of the ways VA social workers can help you or refer you to the right person for help.
• New Automation Process Cuts Post-9/11 GI Bill ...
  As part of its ongoing transformation from paper-based to electronic claims processing, the Department of Veterans Affairs has continued to improve the automated payment of benefits for Veterans participating in the Post-9/11 GI Bill education program.
• Sanders Statement on VA Claims Backlog
  Here is the prepared opening statement by Chairman Bernie Sanders at a Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing today into the claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs...
• Committee Examines VA Staffing Level Impact on ...
  Today, the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs conducted an oversight hearing on the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) productivity standards.
• Israeli Govt. Site Caught Cyber-Spying
  - Israeli Government Cyber Warfare Exposed - But Just the Tip of the Iceberg

electric politics

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

PR News

• Brands ready for marketing guideline revisions
  Social marketing leaders tell PRWeek that updated Federal Trade Commission guidelines will reinforce the importance of transparency and honesty in social media, adding that most firms are ready for the changes.
• DFW seeks firms for b-to-b, consumer-facing work
  DALLAS: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is in the market for multiple firms to promote it to both consumers and businesses.
• AMC names Maiella corp comms SVP
  NEW YORK: AMC Networks has named James Maiella SVP of corporate communications, effective next month.
• Thomson Reuters, Red Robot unveil crisis product
  NEW YORK: Thomson Reuters and video content-distribution company Red Robot have developed a product for crisis communications help.
• Falls Communications launches IR group
  CLEVELAND: Falls Communications has launched an investor relations practice.

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• Allen speaks about the day the Afghanistan cam ...
• The Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, likely to be gr ...
• Panetta reassures Israel; Karzai to the Pentag ...
• Saving Afghanistan
  It can be done, but only if the international community truly invests in democracy.
• The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...
  AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Seedy Sunday
  Edmonton Seedy Sunday 17 Mar 2013 - 11:00 - 16:00 seed swap • ​community organizations • seed vendors • crafts for kids •&n ...
• Government updates "Guide to Preparing Environ ...
  Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Attention EIA wonks, and anyone interested in the environmental assessment and approvals process in Alberta: Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development has updated ...
• New Alberta Energy Regulator Consultations
  Organization:  Alberta Energy Initiative:  Responsible Energy Development Act Regulations ...
• Save Our Lakes: The Health Impacts of Toxic Bl ...
  North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper Alberta Lake Management Society 19 Mar 2013 - 18:00 - 20:30 Come join the North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper an ...
• Call for Delegate: Canadian Environmental Netw ...
  Initiative:  National Council Position:  Alberta Representative ...

Stop NATO

• Italy: NATO Response Force Trains For Next Lib ...
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Joint Force Command Naples March 13, 2013 Augmentees from across NATO arrived to Support Naples Vision Exercise NATO Response Force in action ==== [T]hese initial NRF forces are required to be ready to move on 48 hours to 30 days notice, and sustain them ...
• Italy: NATO, U.S. Flags Fly Over Expanded Vice ...
  United States European Command March 13, 2013 Allied Flags raised over Del Din marks historic step Anna Ciccotti, IMCOM ==== The $307 million design-build contract for the Del Din multi-facility complex was awarded in 2008. The first of 31 buildings that make up the installation was turned over ...
• Mark Twain: Only dead men dare tell the whole ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war *** Mark Twain: Grotesque self-deception of war Mark Twain: The War Prayer Mark Twain: To the Person Sitting in Darkness Mark Twain on Western military threat to China: I am a Boxer ==== Va ...
• U.S. Welcomes NATO’s Absorption of Cyprus
  Cyprus Mail March 13, 2013 US welcomes stronger ties with NATO By Stefanos Evripidou Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterranean Through NATO The United States welcomes Cyprus’ commitment to strengthen ties with the transatlantic security organisation NATO, US ambassador to Nicosia John K ...
• Standardization: NATO Representatives Inspect ...
  Ministry of Defence of Georgia March 12, 2013 NATO Member Counties Representatives visit “Delta” ==== “The goal of today’s visit was to achieve standardization and synchronization of Georgian armaments according to NATO requirements, which, in logistical terms, will ease the Georgian army’s enga ...

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Intel Hub

• Refuse to Buy or Sell with the Federal Government
  James Hall | If only, there was an easy and uncomplicated method for boycotting any business with the federal government.
• One-Child Policy: Law Still in Effect, But Pol ...
  WSJ | China’s government told reporters Monday that it will maintain its family planning regime and hold steadfast to the one-child policy because the country faces mounting resource pressures from the high demands of its 1.34 billion citizens.
• “Wikiweapon” Creator Aims to End S ...
  JG Vibes | What if you had the ability to print out any sort of object using a 3D printer for the same cost and effort that it takes to rip a song off of the internet?
• “Anti-Mafia Police” Raid Office of ...
  JG Vibes | Anti-mafia detectives swooped on homes, offices, clinics and hospitals in Lombardy, the region around Milan, and elsewhere. A statement said the dawn raids were part of an investigation into "corruption linked to tenders by, and supplies to, hospitals".
• Egypt: Diesel Shortage Revives Black Market in ...
  All Africa | Drivers of mass transportation cars in Cairo said on Sunday that the Diesel crisis in Egypt has been going through for around three months has revived the black market.

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• Rand Paul Stands Tall in 13-Hour Fillibuster
  It was like something out of a movie when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky took to the floor of the Senate and conducted a 13 hour filibuster, holding up the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director, demanding the answer to one question.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 07, 2013
• Death of Chavez Provides Opportunities for Ven ...
  Now that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan tyrant, has shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving Hollywood, Cuba, and Iran in severe mourning, the people of the country his misruled have a chance to begin to take their destiny into their own hands.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 06, 2013
• How Opponents Failed to Beat Chuck Hagel
  A week ago, Hagel’s nomination was effectively stalled. This week, Hagel cleared the filibuster easily, and the GOP declared victory. How did that happen? It came when they unwisely questioned Hagel’s military service.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Feb 27, 2013
• Hacking an Act of War? China Hacking Report Ra ...
  A new reports blames China for extensive hacking into U.S. companies and organizations, claiming that People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 is a government/military corps of hackers dangerously proficient in gaining access to American servers.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Feb 19, 2013
• SOTU: Obama was Right to Call for Nuclear Arms ...
  The U.S. has more than enough nuclear weapons to defend itself, and it has no moral high ground to call on countries like North Korea and Iran to not create any while we hoard and/or build more nuclear weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Feb 13, 2013

Popsci - Science

• Minority Scientists Are Less Likely To Find Jobs
  And more disturbing stats from a biennial report on women and minorities in science and engineering. Though it's not all bad! You probably already know that women and certain minorities are underrepresented in science and engineering in the U.S. But a recent report from the the National Scienc ...
• Their Big Eyes May Have Caused Neanderthals' D ...
  The species may have gone extinct because their eyes demanded too many neural resources. Anyone stuck with glasses knows the envy of those with killer eyesight. But visual acuity apparently came at a price, at least for Neanderthals. According to a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal S ...
• 9 Reasons To Avoid Sugar As If Your Life Depen ...
  Because, well, it does! The harmful effects of sugar go way beyond empty calories. Added sugar is so unhealthy that it is probably the single worst ingredient in the modern diet. Here are the top 9 reasons to avoid sugar as if your life depended on it (it does). 1. Added Sugar Supplies a Large ...
• ALMA, The World's Largest Radio Telescope, Is ...
• The Science Of Soda Sizes
  Some fun reading about how, psychologically, New York's proposed soda ban was supposed to work As we either celebrate or mourn the New York Supreme Court's striking down of the soda size limit in New York City, let's take a moment to look at the psychology of portion sizes, which is truly weird ...

Veterans Today

• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Marc ...
  There are social workers at all VA medical centers. How do you know if you need a social worker? Read about some of the ways VA social workers can help you or refer you to the right person for help.
• New Automation Process Cuts Post-9/11 GI Bill ...
  As part of its ongoing transformation from paper-based to electronic claims processing, the Department of Veterans Affairs has continued to improve the automated payment of benefits for Veterans participating in the Post-9/11 GI Bill education program.
• Sanders Statement on VA Claims Backlog
  Here is the prepared opening statement by Chairman Bernie Sanders at a Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing today into the claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs...
• Committee Examines VA Staffing Level Impact on ...
  Today, the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs conducted an oversight hearing on the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) productivity standards.
• Israeli Govt. Site Caught Cyber-Spying
  - Israeli Government Cyber Warfare Exposed - But Just the Tip of the Iceberg

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
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• In the big freeze - but for how long?
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• January 2nd warmest globally on record
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• 'Near average' January masks extremes
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• Global warming: The missing energy
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Internat'l Political Economy

• USA v the World: Political Economy of Accounting
  One of the more arcane debates in international political economy I am aware of from taking lots of accounting courses over the years is that which concerns adoption of accounting standards. Basel III capital adequacy standards notwithstanding, this subject matter is admittedly dull but quite im ...
• A Bit Less Lame Than US-EU FTA: Japan in TPP
  After the "who cares" of the US-EU FTA, here's something marginally more significant. There is no doubt that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is seeking American favour in a very big way. The postwar US-Japan relationship has been characterized by lopsided deals to the former's advantage. Think of limitin ...
• Americans Who Hate America: Latino Sports Fans
  One of the more interesting aspects of the increasingly Hispanic population of the United States is their dislike of American national teams when they face those of Mexico. This phenomenon has been going on for years when football's (soccer's) Team USA faces--or, more accurately, get its butt wh ...
• Neymar! Reducing Brazil's Football 'Trade Surplus'
  It's time for another sporting feature since we haven't had one for quite some time now. Fortunately, there's interesting stuff courtesy of TIME Magazine about the changing complexion of "the beautiful game." Even if the Brazilian economy has cooled off markedly in recent times, it has had a str ...
• The World According to Lee Kuan Yew, Aged 89
  There is a vast difference between an electioneer and a statesman. Barack Obama is in many ways a master electioneer--very good at winning elections but very poor at running a country. A vapid and superficial character, he unfailingly exemplifies the "free lunch with extra sidings" American soci ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
  They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...
• Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put B ...
  How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money?  In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very ra ...
• The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
  The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
• Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
  Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...
• Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By T ...
  The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits - so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?  Real household income is the lowest that it has been in a decade, poverty is absolutely soaring, 47 million Americans are on food stamps and the middle [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

• New Zine: Food Not Bombs Around the World, 201 ...
  Food Not Bombs Around the World is a new zine created to demonstrate the diversity and strength of the idea and the movement known as Food Not B...
• Upping the Anti 15: Call For Submissions
  UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION is a radical journal published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective of activists and organi...
• What's new with Little Black Cart - Winter 2013
  From LBC Blog Anarchist publishing thrives ...
• Fifth Estate, Winter 2013 issue, now available
  After much toil the Winter 2013 "Education" issue of Fifth Estate is now available! Anarchist Violence or State Violence? Propaganda ...
• The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...
  We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• Independent UN expert urges national action pl ...
  Haiti needs to develop a coordinated plan of action on human rights and a framework on the rule of law, an independent United Nations expert has said, noting that while positive changes are coming very slowly, there is a strong expectation from Haitians to see improvements.
• UN welcomes new Bolivian law broadening protec ...
  The United Nations human rights office today welcomed a new law in Bolivia which broadens the protection of women against various forms of violence.
• Haiti: UN humanitarian official concerned abou ...
  The top United Nations humanitarian official in Haiti has expressed grave concern about recent incidents of forced evictions of internally displaced persons (IDPs), following his visit to a site in the capital, Port-au-Prince, from which thousands of people were forced to leave.
• Haiti: UN expert calls for strengthening state ...
  An independent United Nations human rights expert today wrapped up a visit to Haiti by calling for the strengthening of State institutions so they can play their key role in the running of the country and in the functioning of democracy.
• UN chief saddened by death of Venezuelan Presi ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was saddened by the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died yesterday after struggling with cancer for almost two years.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Japan and TPP
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Abe government gives America's trade pact a boost
• Philippines Joins Medical Tourism Parade
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The Doctor will see you now
• Aid for Trade - does it help the poor?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) It's too early to tell
• China Goes for Luxury Cars
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Recession, corruption investigations slowing sales only slightly
• The grounding of India's middle class
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The party's over for India's low-cost budget airlines

We Know the Lies

• Signs In the Heavens... The Final Conclave... ...
  The Final Conclave coincides with Nisan 1, the Ecclesiastical Year of 2013. This Hebrew year is a leap year, and has 13 months. Pan-Starrs Comet becomes visible to all the earth the exact same day which coincides with the Gregorian date: 3-12-13. ~ Related article - Video read more
• SB653... First State in U.S. to Label GMO Food ...
  PA Senator Daylin Leach The increasing use of GMO in the food supply around the world has led 61 countries to at least require labeling of GMO products so that consumers can make an educated decision for themselves. 15 countries have taken a further step to ban GMO altogether, especially ...
• Plum Island... Bioterrorism Made in the USA...
  With all the talk and concern about terrorism, including labeling law abiding citizens “domestic terrorists” because they are troubled about the course the USA is taking, one has to stop and wonder about what’s going on regarding bioterrorism and bioweapons by our government and Homeland Sec ...
• New Pope Francisco... Cardinal Jorge Mario Ber ...
  Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ (born December 17, 1936) is an Argentine cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires since 1998. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. He was elected Pope on March 13, 2 ...
• White Smoke!... New Pope Named From Argentina ...
  White smoke has appeared at the Vatican. The cardinals have selected a new Pope.  His name has not yet been revealed. The crowds awaiting the announcement in St. Peter's Square broke into cheering on seeing the white smoke. Later bells were rung confirming that a new Pope had been selec ...

Tarpley

• Mass Mobilization for 1% Wall Street Sales Tax ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 11, 2013 Austerity psychosis grips this capital, as the US government lurches from fiscal cliff to sequester and soon from budget resolution to debt ceiling. Lost in the chaos is the dearly bought lesson of the last world depression: austerity cuts never ...
• Bonesman Kerry Hits Snags in Effort to Boost S ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 8, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• Momentum Grows for 1% Wall Street Sales Tax as ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com March 6, 2013 [download audio]
• Skull and Bones Blueblood John Forbes Kerry Se ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 4, 2013 John Forbes Kerry, the current United States Secretary of State, is a blue-blooded patrician oligarch and member of the infamous Yale Skull and Bones secret society. Kerry has already signaled that he will be more aggressive and ruthless than his ...
• Roll Back the Sequester and the Entire Satan S ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio March 3, 2013 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• FOOD STORAGE 101, Inventory
  Maintaining a food storage inventory will help optimize your emergency preparedness planning of food preps. An inventory may sound simple enough, but it takes some considerable work in the beginning followed by the diligence to maintain the system. If you have already stored away a quantity of f ...
• COMSEC
  COMSEC (Communications Security) The discipline of preventing unauthorized interceptors from accessing telecommunications in an intelligible form, while still delivering content to the intended recipients. The protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons informati ...
• North Korea Super-EMP Weapon
  North Korea may possess, or may be in the advanced stages of developing a Super EMP weapon. As the U.S., pundits and media continue to downplay every threat made by Kim Jong Un and North Korea, there is little doubt by some experts that they are working feverishly towards furthering their nuclea ...
• Make a killing with Precious Metals
  by: TripodXL I apologize for the title now. The point is that at the level of the common ordinary person there is no way to make a killing in precious metals. The real opportunities for doing so are few and far in between. The point of this is to demonstrate the need for precious metals [...]
• Prepping When You’re Poor
  I recently received an email asking how to become better prepared when you are poor. This person is interested to do more to be better prepared, but apparently has no funds to do so. Admittedly, this is difficult, but the situation can be turned around by going about preparedness in a different ...

Fast Company

• An Explanation Of DNA, Straight From A 1970s S ...
  For this quick explainer, DNA goes retro. When our science class videos were replaced by Science Channel programming, we gained a lot of 3-D animations and really big explosions, but we lost a bit of that old-school charm--the simple illustrations of all those concepts we couldn’t se ...
• An Interactive Map Of British Casualties In Af ...
  This data visualization tells the story of the U.K. fight in Afghanistan visually, rather than mathematically. Ever noticed how news of one death can cause more emotions than news of a hundred deaths? Chalk it up to the brain’s ability to shield us from strong feelings, or simply an ...
• What’s The Web Worth?
  Several new studies attempt to put a price tag on the Internet. It’s likely that the web has had an impact on your financial life (if not, well, enjoy the view from that cave). But is it possible to quantify that impact with numbers? Sure, there are standards like GDP that measure tr ...
• Carl’s Jr. Adds to Conclave Cacophony With Flu ...
  With everyone tuning in to Twitter to find out who the new pope was, Carl’s Jr. decided it was a promotional occasion not to be squandered. By distributing a blackout-themed ad during the Super Bowl, Oreo nearly dominated the advertising conversation the next day. Since then, Oreo&rs ...
• Would You Bail Out A Friend At 3 a.m.? Elabora ...
  In Duval Guillaume Modem’s latest stunt for Carlsberg, men and women are called upon to rescue their friends from a tight spot in the middle of the night. What would you do to help a friend in dire need? That question lies at the heart of the latest campaign for Carlsberg beer. In or ...

Jadaliyya

• New Texts Out Now: Paul Aarts and Francesco Ca ...
  Paul Aarts and Francesco Cavatorta, editors, Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this book? Paul Aarts and Francesco Cavatorta (PA & FC): We started collaborating in early 2009 on a ...
• New Texts Out Now: Amr Adly, State Reform and ...
  Amr Adly, State Reform and Development in the Middle East: Turkey and Egypt in the Post-Liberalization Era. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Amr Adly (AA): The book is based on my PhD dissertation that I completed in September 2010 at the ...
• Mainstream Taboo on Criticizing Israel Suffers ...
   For those of us in the United States who have been advocating for Palestinian rights for many years, our impact can seem dismal by looking only at the unshakable bias of US foreign policy on the issue. However,  since real political change happens from the ground up, and the political ...
• حيادية نسويّة في الغالب أو درس الممنوع
  أطلعت مصادفة، في أحد المواقع الثقافيّة على مجموعة نصوص كتبها مثليون من فلسطينيي الداخل. النصوص كانت حول تمجيد التلذّذ البصريّ والحسيّ بالذكر والجسد الذكوريّ ووصفهما. وبالطبع سيكون علينا كقراء للأدب، ويا للاسف! أن نتغاضى عن المتعة المباشرة التي يوفرها لنا مثل هذا الأدب المكشوف الصادم. وسيكون علين ...
• Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 12)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...

mediagazer

• CBS Expands Digital Deals with 'Good Wife' Syn ...
  Cynthia Littleton / Variety: CBS Expands Digital Deals with ‘Good Wife’ Syndie Pact … CBS is diving deeper into the digital licensing arena with syndie pacts for “The Good Wife” with Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus.  Pact marks the first time the Eye has made epis ...
• Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitru ...
  Nate Raymond / Reuters: Apple CEO Cook must testify in e-books antitrust case: judge  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook must sit for a deposition in the U.S. government's lawsuit against the company over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market, a judge ruled on ...
• Twitter Is Getting Into The Music Business (Me ...
  Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: Twitter Is Getting Into The Music Business  —  Twitter is entering the music business, CNET's Casey Newton reports.  —  Twitter quietly acquired music-discovery startup We Are Hunted last year, according to CNET.  &mdash ...
• O'Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul (Stephen Few/ ...
  Stephen Few / Perceptual Edge: O'Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul  —  Several years ago I was courted by O'Reilly Media.  After the success of my first book, Show Me the Numbers, the folks at O'Reilly were interested in publishing my second.  I responded cautiously at fi ...
• SXSW: TV Everywhere Is Too Confusing, Says Lau ...
  Jennie Punter / Variety: SXSW: TV Everywhere Is Too Confusing, Says Lauren Zalaznick … Austin - In her first public chat since shifting last month to her new digital-focused post as exec veep of NBCUniversal, Lauren Zalaznick gave Tuesday's conference crowd at South By Southwest Interac ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

• New Climategate Development
  The password protecting the remaining Climategate material has been released to blogger Tom Nelson.
• Papering Over the Sappy Bill McKibben
  A new, 73-page paper about America's "most visible environmental activist" doesn't mention that he's an emotional basketcase.
• Being Green Isn’t Harmless
  We all care about the environment. But now we're going to foolish extremes. And real people are getting hurt.
• Earth Hour, Smog & Kim Jong Il
  For Earth Hour's eco-campaigners, barbaric oppression in North Korea is merely a talking point, something to casually make use of.
• It’s Always Something (the 1924 edition)
  Drama queen scientists have been around for at least 89 years.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Drift Gillnets Kept at Bay . . . For Now
  A frequent victim of drift gillnets © Jose Alejandro Alvarez/Marine Photobank We can breathe a momentary sigh of relief. This Monday, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously to maintain protections off California and Oregon for the critically endangered population of Pacific ...
• Close Encounters with Pinnipeds
  Generally you should keep your distance from wild animals, especially in the case of marine mammals, as the failure to do so can result in a hefty fine. But there are those rare times when wild animals won't leave you be. In that case, having a camera rolling can make for some amazing scenes, li ...
• Seals Sleep with Only Half of Their Brain at a ...
  Hey sleepyhead. Photo: Wikimedia Commons If you've ever seen a clip of a seal being ambushed by a great white you might understand why they only sleep with one half of their brain at a time. With enemies like The Man in the Gray Suit it's always advisable to maintain at least a marginal degre ...
• Oceana Talks about the Wonders of the Ocean on ...
  Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. In a preview of the National Geographic series Kingdom of the Oceans airing on March 10, ABC News spoke with Oceana senior vice president for North America and chief scientist Mike Hirshfield about, well, everything. In this whirlwind video, ...
• So Far, Fantastic News for Sharks and Mantas a ...
  The Scalloped Hammerhead nears protection. Photo: wikimedia commons History was made today in Bangkok, when Parties to CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) voted to protect five species of sharks and two species of manta rays. The seve ...

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Taylor Marsh

• It’s the 21st Century, But New Pope Francis An ...
  “Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.” – Cardinal Jorge Mari ...
• CPAC Goes Full Wingnut: Trump and Palin In, Ch ...
  WITH THE headliners starting with Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, there will be plenty of red meat for the wingnuts this weekend. Whatever seriousness CPAC once signified, back when I used to actually cover the event, is no longer important, now considered “RINO”. For Republicans who w ...
• Steubenville Rape Trial: “How Do You Feel On A ...
  “How do you feel on a dead girl?” – Guy in leaked rape video AS FAR as I can tell, it’s very doubtful that anything would have come of the rape if tenacious crime blogger Alexandria Goddard hadn’t blown the story wide, which got the attention of the New York Times. ...
• Obama, the Grand Bargainer in Chief, Paul Ryan ...
  “We’re not gonna balance the budget in ten years because if you look at what Paul Ryan does to balance the budget, it means that you have to voucher-ize Medicare, you have to slash deeply into programs like Medicaid, you’ve essentially got to — either tax — middle class families a lot higher tha ...
• News Desk: Keith Olbermann Reportedly Settles ...
  THE REPORT comes from the Hollywood Reporter: Keith Olbermann has resolved the $50 million legal dispute with Current TV over his firing from the network, a well-placed source tells The Hollywood Reporter. A settlement is said to have been reached during a private mediation session in San Franci ...

Hudson New York

• Of course Hamas killed the baby
  The recent disclosure that Omar Misharawi, the baby son of BBC reporter Jihad Misharawi, was actually killed by an errant Hamas rocket rather than by an Israeli missile, should have absolutely no moral implications. Of course the baby was killed by Hamas
• Courage? The State Department?
  America has been pursuing a policy ever since 9/11 to honor what it perceives as moderate Muslims. This policy, at present failed, would make sense if such moderate Muslims were pro-Western freedoms, pro-peace with Israel, anti-Sharia, or would stand up
• "Euro-Islam" and Its Problems
  Benjamin Idriz, an imam who leads the Islamic Community Penzberg (Islamische Gemeinde Penzberg or IGP) in a town south of Munich, has achieved prominence in Germany as an exponent of a rational, modern understanding of Islam. Yet aspects of Idriz's
• Britain's Comic Relief Charity Event Provides ...
  Every year since 1985, the British charity Comic Relief has held a high-profile fundraising telethon called Red Nose Day. Since its creation, Comic Relief has raised £800 million from mass public donations and corporate sponsors, which has gone to over
• Who Are These Moralists?
  Syria's civil war has now entered its third calendar year. With worse still to come, in recent days it has been estimated that the number of people killed in Syria since the uprising began now stands at more than 90,000. Any death is a tragedy for

Urban Survival

• Smokey & the Pundits
  How many ways are there to write “black smoke” or “white smoke”?   There are already predictions that a new pope will be named by Thursday.  I read the story very closely, however, and didn’t notice which week.   So in … Continue reading &# ...
• Coping: With the Mogambo Guru & Ure’s Pa ...
  Not very often I will volunteer to do something free, or even nearly, but on Monday I found myself counseling a troubled young man who has put together a website to collect the wit and wisdom of the Magambo Guru. … Continue reading →
• North Korea Calls Legal
  One of those old axioms in business goes to the idea that lawyers (and legalese) cause more problems than they solve.  Whether that’s true, or not, may become apparent in a month (or less) since North Korea has apparently gone … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Tuning-Up Our Solar
  Know what a “Kearny Bolt” is?  Well, in the electrician’s trade it’s what a split bolt connector is, and this weekend I was up to my elbows in them. As you may know, UrbanSurvival and Peoplenomics are run (and yes, … Continue reading →
• Jobs to Become Extinct in 159-Years!
  Fri: 10:10 AM Update: Corrected link in belt buckle story…   We have a couple of biggies on the plate for breakfast.  One is the Federal Reserve’s Consumer Debt Report, which shows basically no credit card use increase, but an … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Breaking California Starts Gun confiscation st ...
  Breaking California Start's Gun confiscation... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• BREAKING: New York Shooting 6 Shot, 4 Dead
  (CBS/AP) HERKIMER, N.Y. - Police in upstate New... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• The War on the Second Amendment Has Only Just ...
  Cam Edwards talks to John Hinderaker Corrupt... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• America accuses China of Cyber Security Attacks
  China has been doing this for a very very long... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Gun Control -- No matter what your opinion, yo ...
  governments have in the past grown out of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

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NRDC Switchboard

• Commuting Car-less: How NRDC's Midwest Office ...
  Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL To the disbelief of my friends who live outside of Chicago, I don’t own a car.  I can go anywhere in the city on a bus or a train or my own two feet.  Though it can be difficult to ...
• REPORT: Federal Law is Recovering Fish Stocks
  Brad Sewell, Senior Attorney, New York A decade and a half after a fisheries crisis led the U.S. Congress to enact landmark requirements for the rebuilding of fish stocks, two-thirds of the stocks subjected to the requirements have been rebuilt or a ...
• Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Needs a Better Accou ...
  Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by Bjorn Lomborg, “Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret,” argues that even though driving on electricity emits half as much pollution as driving on gas ...
• The seven deadly sins of land use
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I have been invited to participate in a program tonight on sloth.  I’m even featured, promoted.  How should I feel about this?  Embarrassed?  Insulte ...
• Creating A Low-Carbon Empire State: A thought- ...
  Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New Yorkers have risen to the challenge of rebuilding damaged homes, communities and infrastructure. Still, almost six months after the storm, there’s much ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• Russian Navy to receive 24 submarines, 54 wars ...
  Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has announced that the Russian Navy will receive 24 submarines and 54 warships of various classes by the year 2020. “As a result of the government rearmament program, the Navy will receive eight nuclear-powered strategic submarines, 16 multi-purpose submari ...
• N. Korea says S. Korea, U.S. will be held acco ...
  Continuing weeks of threats to strike back against its enemies, North Korea said Tuesday that South Korea and the United States will be held accountable for the “catastrophic consequences” of their ongoing joint military drills. “The U.S. and south Korean puppet forces are whol ...
• Second Korean War Is Unavoidable says DPRK
  The Korean Peninsula is now on the brink of war due to the tightened political, economic and military pressure of the U.S. and its allied forces on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Upset by the fact that the DPRK has smoothly been building a thriving socialist nation despite the ...
• US warships with nukes on board to remain in S ...
  The US warships with nuclear weapons on board will remain in South Korea waters after the Foal Eagle and Key Resolve joint military exercises, currently under way off South Korea’s coast, have drawn to a close. Experts feel that the warships that will stay will be US nuclear submarines, accordin ...
• Tyrant Kim Jong-un declares ‘all-out war’ agai ...
  Kim Jong-Un declared “all-out war” on his enemies today after the United Nations imposed tough new sanctions on nuclear-armed North Korea. Last night North Korea has scrapped all peace pacts with South Korea and severed its HOTLINE to the country in retaliation to the latest round of ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• Improving community healthcare helps protect r ...
  Providing high quality healthcare to communities around a rainforest park in Indonesian Borneo may be helping reduce chronic illegal logging, suggests a new assessment published by a conservation group. The five-year impact assessment published by Indonesia-based Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) is bas ...
• Burning coal may be killing over 100,000 peopl ...
  India's dependence on coal-fired power plants for energy may be leading directly to the deaths of 80,000 to 115,000 of its citizens every year, according to the first ever report on the health impacts of coal in the country. The report, commissioned by the Conservation Action Trust and Greenpeac ...
• U.S. Admiral: climate change, not North Korea, ...
  This week, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear II, the head of U.S. military forces in the Pacific, told The Boston Globe that climate change was the gravest threat in the region. While such an assessment may be surprising, given North Korea's recent nuclear tests, the U.S. military has long viewed clima ...
• Strong ‘no deforestation’ commitme ...
  As a global community, we have so far failed to answer this most pressing question; we have yet to build our cloud. Deforestation rates are down in some places, but overall, our forests continue to disappear much as they have for the past 50 years, driven principally by increasing global demand ...
• Dozens of tropical trees awarded new protectio ...
  Numerous species of rosewood and ebony from Madagascar, Latin America, and Southeast Asia were granted protection today at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, Thailand. The ruling comes one day after CITES granted the first protections ever to sharks a ...

Sierra Express

• Sierra Leone tourism achieves another level
  There is no doubt that tourism like all other sectors makes a significant impact to a country’s socio-economic growth.  This is why Sierra Leone’s tourism industry is accelerating efforts to ensure that the country remains a booming tourist destination, thanks to the dynamic leadership of Dr. Er ...
• Cape Verde Foreign Minister to Visit Sierra Leone
  The Ambassador of Cape Verde to Senegal H.E. Francisco Pereira da Veiga has during a courtesy call on his counterpart  the Sierra Leone Ambassador to Senegal H.E. Ambassador Khadijatu Bassir (in photo), informed of a proposed visit of his country’s Foreign Affairs Minister  Mr Jorge Borges ...
• Residents Commend Koidu City Council
  Residents in Kono District have lavished praise on the Koidu New Sembehun City Council and the newly elected Mayor Emerson Lamina for the outstanding performance and contribution in developing the city within a short time since the outgoing Mayor left the council.  (Photo: Mayor Sahr Emmerson La ...
• Masethele Village in important land renegotiat ...
  Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 13, 2013— As the country celebrated International Women’s Day on 8 March with a public holiday and speeches, a small village in the north of Sierra Leone was taking matters into its hands and re-defining its relationship with its most valuable resource – land. ...
• Vacancy – Procurement Supervisor
  WE ARE HIRING TALENTED PEOPLE TO JOIN OUR TEAM  Position & Vacancy #:  Procurement Supervisor Department:   Procurement Location:        Lunsar Key Areas of Responsibility: The primary purpose of this position is to secure the product as requested by the end user for the best value for money ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Drought takes deadly toll on farms
  Slaughterman Kent Sambells' workload was "hectic" last week as Waikato farmers called him in to destroy ailing cattle and take them away for processing into pet food.He said twice as many farmers as usual were calling."I had about...
• Brazil could support NZ's Security Council bid
  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has taken the surprising step of indicating Brazil could support New Zealand's bid for a Security Council seat in 2015 after meeting with Prime Minister John Key today.The pair met for the first...
• Key out to woo Iron Lady of Brazil
  Prime Minister John Key will meet Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff for the first time tomorrow and is hoping to establish enough of a relationship to push for greater access for New Zealand businesses to the growing market.He said...
• PM's Chilean guard of honour - cows
  It doesn't say much for Prime Minister John Key's working knowledge of the dairy industry that he had to go to Chile to learn it takes seven minutes to milk a cow - and how to wrangle an electric fenceMr Key visited Fonterra's farm...
• New Zealand Dairy farming techniques famous in ...
  A Chilean farmer has given those on the Prime Minister's tour of Latin America an entertaining insight into farming in the country, saying when he first got involved with a New Zealand company, his father warned him "they will take...

Hit & Run | Reason

• J.D. Tuccille Debates Thom Hartmann Over Inter ...
  Yesterday, I appeared on Thom Hartmann's show to discuss the wisdom of Internet sales taxes and how they should or shouldn't be applied. Hartmann seemed firmly fixed on the idea that sales taxes are not just a good thing, but that they must necessarily apply where the consumer lives ...
• Covered at Reason 24/7: Pope Francis I May Be ...
  As it turns out, the new pope, Francis I, has a bit of baggage from his days as plain ol' Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. It seems that he hit his career stride during the days when a rather unpleasant military junta ruled the country (as opposed to Argentina's other unp ...
• Watch Senior Editor Peter Suderman Talk Democr ...
  Reason Senior Editor Peter Suderman will appear on Cavuto on the Fox Business Network tonight as part of a panel of guests. Topics to include: new Democratic budget plans, good tax hikes vs. bad tax hikes, and the phantom threat of budget austerity. Tune in tonight at 8 p.m. ET.&#16 ...
• Communism Killed 94M in 20th Century, Feels Ne ...
  According to a disturbingly pleasant graphic from Information is Beautiful entitled simply 20th Century Death, communism was the leading ideological cause of death between 1900 and 2000. The 94 million that perished in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Eastern ...
• Brian Doherty on 3 Problems Rand Paul Must Fac ...
  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) catapulted out of his 13-hour filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination for CIA chief a world-changing politician, the new conscience of his party, and a Republican that nonpartisan progressives should love for his defense of our Fif ...

Mercury Rising

• Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?
  From a Wikileaked cable from 2005: Based on these initial showings, the cardinals in subsequent votes are expected to shift to other candidates who reflect the Ratzinger or Martini views, but who offer better hope of garnering support from other groups. Italian Cardinals Ruini or Scola, and Arge ...
• Dollar amount to follow
  (Image from Dominic Patten, Deadline Hollywood)
• Hoocoodanode? Vatican edition of C&L
  I’ll abbreviate Communion and Liberation as C&L for reasons abundantly obvious below. John Allen, Jr., National Catholic Reporter, from May 2012: For a long time it was Opus Dei, and then, even before massive sex scandals exploded around their founder, it was the Legionaries of Christ. ...
• New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson Caught Lyi ...
  The blind spots caused by fealty to disaster capitalism and the Washington Consensus are wide, deep, and show up even in highbrow — or, as is often the case, middlebrow pretending to be highbrow — publications. Oftentimes the forces of oligarchy, in an effort to win over socially lib ...
• Venezuelans On Today’s ‘Al Punto&# ...
  The listing of guests scheduled for today’s program on Univision’s Al Punto show has piqued my interest: UNIVISION’S AL PUNTO:  Nelson Bocaranda, Venezuelan Investigative Journalist; María Corina Machado, Venezuelan Assemblywoman; Jeb Bush, Former Florida Go ...

Reality Sandwich

• Art as an Instrument of Social Change
  In this TEDx talk, "Art as an Instrument of Social Change," Daniel Pinchbeck explores the purpose of art and the role and responsibility of the artist within the process of global transformation. read more
• Psi in the News
  Gene Semel investigates the history of Sony’s Psi experiments, The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals seeks to save America’s Spiritualist history, Osirian Dawn discusses telepathic romance, and Rupert Sheldrake shakes up TED in this edition of ...
• Unbroken Wholeness: The Emerging View of Human ...
  The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts. --David Bohm and Basil J. Hile, The Undivided Universe. ...
• Crossroads: Literature and Healing in the Clas ...
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• Neurobliss: Sex & Meditation
  Up until eight years ago, neuroscience didn’t have much to say in regards to orgasmic pleasure, seeing it as too subjective a field for objective data collection to take place. Times have changed though. According to recent studies, the brain’s right hemisphere appears to be inextricably corre ...

Desertification

• Drought Hits Policies
  Drought has dramatically increased as a consequence of climate change. Most countries react to it only after it has occurred, but don’t have national policies to prevent it. The high-level meeting on national drought policies in Geneva this week is trying to match scientific knowledge with polit ...
• U.S. Abstains on Controversial World Bank Mong ...
  The United States has refused to vote for involvement by the World Bank Group in a massive but controversial mining project in Mongolia. In abstaining, the U.S. representative cited concerns over the potential environmental consequences and an inadequate impact study of the mine plan. The Oyu To ...
• Killer Heat Waves and Floods Linked to Climate ...
  Killer heat waves, floods and storms are increasingly caused by climate change, new research reveals. Scientists in Germany say they have found how greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels are helping to trap the jet stream, resulting in extraordinary weather such as the 2010 Pakistan flood an ...
• Biofuels Converting U.S. Prairielands at Dust ...
  The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States’ prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – rates not seen here since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. A new study finds that, between 2006 and ...
• In Conservatives’ Canada, It’s Not ...
  Canada’s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal. The RCMP, the national police force, and Canada’s spy agency CSIS are increasingly conflating terrorism and extrem ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• Funeral held for man shot by Israel
  People have held a funeral for a Palestinian who was shot dead by Israeli forces in a clash in the occupied West Bank.
• Protesters hold demo in eastern Bahrain
  People have taken to streets in eastern Bahrain to protest against the ruling Al Khalifa and Al Saud regimes.
• Arming Syria militants breaks intl. law
  Russia says arming foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government is in violation of international law.
• KSA executes seven despite intl appeals
  The Al Saud regime has executed seven people convicted of armed robbery despite appeals for clemency by the United Nations and rights groups.
• Bahrain detains six for insulting king
  Bahrain’s public prosecutor says six people have been arrested for allegedly insulting the country’s ruler Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on Twitter.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

• Spinning Out Of Control
  Being born ‘with a silver spoon in your mouth’ means that you start with an advantage that others don’t have: parents with money, property, influence, business connections and so on, connections that can last for generations.  A silver spoon that appeared recently was the exceedingly generous co ...
• Western Media set up North Korea for War
  Western so-called news media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror flick about flesh-eating zombies. It would be funny if the danger of war was not so serious and imminent. The disturbing direction o ...
• Six Ways Our Supreme Court Has Defiled Our Con ...
  O tenderest of mercies!  The right to speak one’s mind freely, the right to question and challenge—upon which all other rights are hinged! 1. “Corporate Personhood” The first attack came almost two hundred years ago in 1819, as the Industrial Revolution was beginning to spin serious wheels in th ...
• Death of a Bogeyman: The Corporate Media Bury ...
  Following the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on March 5, the BBC reported from the funeral: More than 30 world leaders attended the ceremony, including Cuban President Raul Castro, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. A message was read out from Syrian ...
• Funding and Denouncing Israeli Occupation
  More bad news emerged from Israel in recent weeks. Indeed, good news is seldom associated with Israel and its military occupation and institutionalized discrimination and mistreatment of Palestinians. But now even those international organizations that are often supportive of Israel’s mili ...

Nick Turse

• doctorswithoutborders:Afghanistan: Treating ...
  doctorswithoutborders: Afghanistan: Treating Child Malnutrition in Helmand “She was vomiting and had diarrhea, and she kept losing weight,” says Mariam of her five-month-old granddaughter Nazia. “Her mother just didn’t have enough milk to feed her. We went to a private clinic but they could ...
• "“Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins ...
  ““Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either...
• motherjones:While working on an assignment ...
  motherjones: While working on an assignment to capture how people made use of the streets in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena discovered an unusual perspective on commuting. We love this photo essay. (Photo by Alejandro Cartagena)
• claytoncubitt:Graffiti van, Brooklyn   (3711)
  claytoncubitt: Graffiti van, Brooklyn   (3711)
• Demonstration of Protest and Mourning for Tria ...
  Demonstration of Protest and Mourning for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of March 25, 1911: 04/05/1911 (NARA)

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