Sunday, March 17, 2013

17 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Pope Francis' Junta Past
    "I found documents in the archive of the foreign relations minister in Argentina, which, from my understanding, gave an end to the debate and show the double standard that Bergoglio used. The first document is a note in which Bergoglio asked the ministry to—the renewal of the passport of one of ...
  • "We're being tougher than Thatcher"
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  • Francis I: Critical Analysis
    While Bergoglio previously was a member of different Vatican departments, he never previously worked within the Vatican, in contrast to Ratzinger, who had spent the bulk of his career within the Church’s apparatus in Rome. With the nomination of Pope Francis, the Church’s senior cardinals are ap ...
  • Islamists Rise in Raqqa; Christians Dodge Fire
    Many questions remain unanswered about this incident. If the rumor is true that tribal authorities were ready for a change and facilitated the smooth nature of this takeover, one can’t help but wonder why local tribal leaders supported something like “Jabhat al-Wahdet al-Tahrir al-Islamiyya” as ...
  • Assad: Counterinsurgency to Civil War
    The regime has concentrated conventional forces in Damascus and Homs. The relatively small force deployed to northern and eastern Syria have disrupted rebel advances, but isolated strongpoints have been overrun as the regime struggles to maintain logistical lines of communication. The majority o ...

Independent - London

  • Indian police question 20 men over Swiss touri ...
    Police in India have arrested five men after a Swiss tourist was raped while camping in a forest with her husband, reports suggest.Related StoriesPakistan celebrates first ever full-term for democratically elected governmentSwiss tourist gang-raped in IndiaPakistan celebrates first ever full te ...
  • Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis given lifetim ...
    A young Greek footballer has been banned from all levels of international football after celebrating a goal with what appears to be a fascist salute.Related Stories'An outbreak of modernity': Pope resigns due to of ill healthPope Francis calls for 'a poor Church for the poor'Pope Francis calls ...
  • Pope Francis continues spontaneous style in fi ...
    Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy.Related Stories'An outbreak of modernity': Pope resigns due to of ill healthPope Francis calls for 'a po ...
  • Police question 20 men after Swiss tourist gan ...
    Police detained 20 men today in central India's Madhya Pradesh state after a Swiss woman on a cycling trip was gang-raped.Related StoriesPakistan celebrates first ever full-term for democratically elected governmentSwiss tourist gang-raped in IndiaPakistan celebrates first ever full term for dem ...
  • Pakistan celebrates first ever full term for d ...
    For the first time in Pakistan's nearly 66-year history, a democratically elected government has completed a full, five-year term.Related StoriesThe slow death of justice: Demise of key suspect leaves Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal with only one convictionSuper Power: The Pope and the Chinese ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Fireball seen gliding across the Carolina skie ...
    Cleveland County, N.C. - There are several reports from Saturday night of a meteor gliding across the Carolina skies. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a large bolide meteor that split into several pieces. First Warn Storm Spotter Stuart McDaniel caught it all on his sky camera. McDaniel lives in N ...
  • The "Dirty War" Pope Francis and how the Churc ...
    For over a week, the media has subjected the public to a tidal wave of euphoric banality on the Roman Catholic Church's selection of a new pope. This non-stop celebration of the dogma and ritual of an institution that for centuries has been identified with oppression and backwardness is stamped ...
  • Chinese data reveals 330 million abortions in ...
    Nearly 330 million abortions have been performed in China in the 40 years since it first implemented measures to limit population growth in the world's most populous nation, official data showed. China has announced structural changes to its family planning system which oversees the controversi ...
  • Brainwashed and cut off from her family, Scien ...
    The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader's niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping. In "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology And My Harrowing Escape," Jenna Miscavige-Hill ...
  • Hong Kong police find 'severed heads in freezer'
    The severed heads of a Hong Kong couple were found in a refrigerator at a bloodstained apartment in a gruesome murder for which their 29-year-old son has been arrested, according to reports. Police said in a statement Friday that "some sections of human body" had been found at a flat in Tai Kok ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • “Our military is an armed military.”
    That's DefMin Airhow's Spokesspeaker on the rebrand/naming/emphasizing of the Canadian Forces to Canadian Armed Forces, accent on the armed, just in case the Glorious Canadian People forget the military is armed and also because Jean Chretien. OK. I've long been mildly annoyed at the Canad ...
  • PMsh chat with The Spaceship Commander
    Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like throwing-up a little at the very concept?Plus I also want very badly to make a joke about the PM asking the Spaceman about what the underside of the Earth looks like.
  • Airshow...
    ...never ceases to live up to his callsign. "Not my fault" he says over his department's inability to find a replacement for DHC Buffalo SAR aeroplanes. As department head, it is his fault, and the faults of any other ministers of public works and industry involved. It really is embarrassin ...
  • Future perspectives . . .
    THE CRASH AND BURN of the GOP in the US election can be seen as the consequence of the neo-con Dubya regime, which leads me to wonder if future historians will see Dubya as the Mr. Bean of the GOP: the Man Who Made It All Fall Apart. Seriously, post-WW2 American conservatives had ...
  • It's only money . . .
    GAZILLIONS OF BUCKS of world debt, graphically created out of US Benjies for your edification by the folks at DEMONOCRACY. Click on the link for the whole compendium. Ya gotta wonder about the sustainability. Reminds me of Kipling: Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their sm ...

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

  • GULF WAR DOCUMENTS: Meeting between Saddam Hus ...
    Saddam-Glaspie meeting Transcript of Meeting Between Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. – July 25, 1990 (Eight days before the August 2, 1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait) July 25, 1990 – Presidential Palace – Baghdad…
  • Plagiarism and Iraq’s WMDs: British Inte ...
    A close textual analysis suggests that the UK authors had little access to first-hand intelligence sources and instead based their work on academic papers, which they selectively distorted.
  • The Battle for Oil
    What is ultimately at stake in Iraq is the intention on the part of the U.S. and its indefectible British ally to establish control over one of the world largest, cheapest and most easily accessible oil reserves.
  • Global Research News Hour: The Legacy of Hugo ...
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  • Obama is Worse than Bush
    Even Democratic Party Loyalists Starting to Wake Up to the Fact that Obama Is As Bad As Bush … Or Worse Obama Is Worse than Bush In Favoring the Super-Elite, Bailing Out the Big Banks, Protecting Financial Criminals, Targeting Whistleblowers,…

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Join us for ACT Lobby day at the Texas Capital ...
    Whether you’re concerned about eminent domain and oil & gas regulations, climate change and the effects of drought on our water supplies, or you’re ready to see Texas move toward a 21st century clean energy economy, the 83rd legislative session presents a critical opportunity to speak up for ...
  • Biofuels: A Natural Energy Alternative
    Chlorella sp. is a species of algae that has a significant proportion of fatty acids to its body mass. For humans, this can be a problem. But, in a world needing more clean energy, fatty biomass is considered a promising option by many scientists and engineers. Why algae? Algae can grow in a bod ...
  • Message to Austin City Council: Make Fact-Base ...
    Would you decide who manages your retirement account by closing your eyes and pointing?  Probably not. Yet, Austin City Council is moving forward with a rash plan to hand over the bulk of its power to govern and oversee Austin Energy to an appointed board.  A well thought-out Austin American-Sta ...
  • Environment Texas launches a Save Texas Rivers ...
    San Antonio Kick-Off is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Whole Foods Market Meeting Room, 255 E. Basse Rd. #130, San Antonio, TX, 78209 RSVP here! This past year, Texas experienced one of its worst droughts: Reservoirs dipped to record lows, and as many as 500 million trees across ...
  • Under The Pipe
    The Keystone XL pipeline is embroiled in controversy from coast to coast. Environmentalists are rallied by its giant carbon footprint, the damage caused by spills, and the destruction of Canada’s boreal forests. Meanwhile, landowners are being forced to give up their property rights and co ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Thieves steal entire bridge in Turkey
    Villagers in the country's Kocaeli province were left baffled after a nearby bridge totally disappeared. The 25m, 22-ton bridge provided a safe crossi...
  • Are viruses actual living creatures ?
    A newly discovered virus has reignited the debate over the classification of viruses as living creatures. In order to qualify as a "living creature" t...
  • Doubts cast on Sara Brightmans space trip
    Soprano Sara Brightman may not get a chance to fly to the ISS after all due to a possible change of plan. Brightman was due to become the world's eigh...
  • Woman sees everything upside-down
    Bojana Danilovic sees the world flipped the wrong way around due to an unusual brain disorder. The 28-year-old who lives in Serbia has to turn books, ...
  • Thousands of dead fish wash up in Brazil
    Authorities are working to remove several thousand dead fish from Brazil's Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. A tourist attraction in the region, the lagoon h...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • EPA Likely to Delay Climate Rules for New Powe ...
    (The Washington Post) The Obama administration is leaning toward revising its landmark proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, according to several individuals briefed on the matter, a move that would delay ...
  • California Renewable Power Supply Growing, Cos ...
    (Reuters) The costs to California residents to meet the ambitious goal of using renewable power for one-third of the state's electric needs by 2020 are beginning to come down, according to a state regulatory report. But utility custom ...
  • Obama Revives Green Energy Sales Pitch
    (The Hill) President Obama will revive his green energy sales pitch Friday with a proposal to divert offshore oil-and-gas revenues to fund research into alternative fuel and vehicle technologies. The president will highlight the ...
  • The Sequester Is Going to Devastate U.S. Scien ...
    (The Atlantic) Most of the talk about sequestration has focused on its immediate impacts -- layoffs, furloughs, andcancelled White House tours in the days and weeks ahead. But one severe impact of the automatic spending ...
  • “Muzzling” of Canadian Government Scientists S ...
    (Toronto Star) Federal Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault is being asked to investigate the “muzzling” of Canadian government scientists in a request backed by a 128-page report detailing “systemic efforts” to obstruc ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Ever Hear of Fluoridation, Mandrake?
    Mark Twain said that "history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." I think it's important to keep that in mind as we look at our current political landscape. One difference between the Great Depression and the Great Recession is that Franklin Roosevelt didn't take power until more than th ...
  • Serious Question
    Mashed potatoes, potato chips, or french fries? Discuss
  • Casual Observation
    There is nothing more more boring in the known universe than Glenn Greenwald's twitter feed. Discuss
  • Yes, Nixon Was A Traitor
    If you were uncertain about whether or not Richard Nixon committed treason in 1968 by telling the South Vietnamese government to pull out of peace negotiations until after the election, there is no longer any doubt about it. Declassified recordings of LBJ's phone calls make it clear that that i ...
  • Casual Observation
    It seems to me that CPAC does some cosmetic purging every year, but they really can't keep the racists out because the conference wouldn't have many attendees if they were meticulous about purging racists. Even Donald Trump used his time to complain that we don't have more European immigration. ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

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Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Alleged coup attempt against North Korean lead ...
    A prolonged exchange of gunfire that took place in the North Korean capital last November was part of a failed military coup against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to intelligence sources.
  • News you may have missed #826 (suspicious deat ...
    Key suspect in Russian spy murder refuses to cooperate. Exhumation of Neruda's remains set for April. Venezuela to investigate Chavez murder allegations.
  • As many Russian spies in UK today as in Cold W ...
    The Soviet KGB’s former station chief in London, who defected to the United Kingdom in the 1980s, has alleged that Russia operates as many spies in Britain today as it did during the Cold War.
  • Israel wiretapped PLO head office in Tunisia: ...
    Israeli intelligence was able to intercept the conversations of senior Palestinian leaders in Tunisia in the months leading to the 1993 Oslo Accords, according to an article published Monday by a leading Israeli newspaper.
  • Spy claims against diplomat cast shadow over A ...
    Widespread allegations of espionage against Britain’s deputy ambassador to Russia threaten to derail the ongoing diplomatic rapprochement between Russia and the United Kingdom, according to a leading British newspaper.

War is a Crime.org

  • Former Newark TSA screener: “a lot of what we ...
    A former TSA screener at Newark International Airport concurs with other screeners and with rational observers and actual security experts: “A lot of what we do is make-believe.” Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Chavez Laid to Rest
      Chavez Laid to Rest   by Stephen Lendman   He died on March 5. Smart money says Obama killed him. His death was very suspicious. A previous article discussed it.    Hopefully forensic evidence will prove what many people believe.    read more
  • Obama Heads to Israel
      Obama Heads to Israel   by Stephen Lendman   As now scheduled, he'll arrive March 20. He'll remain until March 23. It's his first presidential visit. He made several trips before. He's only the fifth US president to go. Others included Nixon, Carter, Clinton, and GW Bush.   ...
  • The Washington Post “addresses” a few TSA matt ...
    In a post today by the normally clear-eyed Jonathan Capehart — and in The Washington Post, no less — you will see plenty of admiration for the way the TSA handles children and the elderly (they get to keep their shoes and jackets on!) as well as cheery support for the some-animals-are- ...
  • Our Hope, Still Dissenting and Resisting: 10 Y ...
    By Malachy Kilbride Traffic had come to a complete standstill on March 19, 2003 at the intersection of 16th H Streets, NW by Lafayette Park across from The White House as a couple of hundred protesters gathered on the sidewalk. Around 21 people or so lay on the ground in the street blocking midd ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: "Pandora's Lunchbox" and the Truth Abo ...
    Watch part two of our interview with with author Melanie Warner, longtime food reporter and author of the newly published book, Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal . In our extended conversation, she examines a very common ingredient in processed food: so ...
  • Pink Smoke Over the Vatican: Women Demand Grea ...
    While the world waited for white smoke to flow from the Sistine Chapel chimney to indicate a new pope had been chosen, smoke of a different color began billowing into the sky over the Vatican. It was released by protesters demanding a greater role for women in the Catholic Church. On Wednesday, ...
  • Starving for Justice at Guantanamo
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Reports are emerging from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay that a majority of the prisoners are on a hunger strike. One hundred sixty-six remain locked up, although more than half of them have been cleared by the Obama administration for release ...
  • Rand Paul’s Filibuster of John Brennan
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan You could say that a filibuster occurs when a senator drones on and on. The problem with the U.S. Senate was that there were too few senators speaking about drones this week. President Barack Obama’s controversial nomination of John Brennan as director ...
  • Breaking News: Hugo Chavez Dies
    After a two-year battle with cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died at the age of 58. The news was delivered by Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who said, "It’s a moment of deep pain." Democracy Now! will host a roundtable discussion Wednesday on Chavez’s legac ...

Solari

  • Starting a Solari Circle Investment Club with ...
    “Let’s do a deal.” ~Albert Sullivan By Catherine Austin Fitts Want to team up to learn how the economy works? Want to go past the headlines to see how the money really works? There is no better way than to join with friends and family to start to research and invest together. ...
  • March SolariToon!
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  • Bob Dylan – “Times They are a-Chan ...
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  • Landlord Blackstone Rushes To Capitalize On Ho ...
    By Tyler Durden In addition to the phenomenon of “foreclosure stuffing” described here extensively before, one of the main reasons for the artificial drop in housing supply has been the ongoing government-subsidized, GSE/FHFA endorsed REO-to-Rent initiative, through which large asset ...
  • Juice On!
    Step One: Rinse and prepare your fruits and vegetables for juicing. Step Two: Juice all fruits and vegetables and combine in one container. Step Three: Share and enjoy! Recipe: 8 green apples 2 lemons 1 purple cabbage head 1 cauliflower head 4 red bell peppers [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Polar Umbrella: Ice Sheet Regenerating Skyscra ...
    Read the rest of Polar Umbrella: Ice Sheet Regenerating Skyscraper Wins the 2013 eVolo Skyscraper Competition! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: evolo 2013 skyscraper competition, evolo skyscraper competition, global warming, ice caps melting, ice sheets, osmotic technol ...
  • Istanbul Promote Energy Conservation by Knitti ...
    Istanbul’s Bayrampasa municipality has claimed the world record for knitting the world’s largest sweater. Inspired by National Sweater Day, which is celebrated in Canada every February 9, the 151-foot-long striped sweater is part of a campaign by the Turkish government to encourage its people to ...
  • 7 New and Eco-Friendly Ways to Decorate Easter ...
    If you are anything like us, you are sick of buying boring old Easter egg-dyeing kits from the store that are full of artificial colors. If so, don’t fret because there are many ways to decorate an egg. From rubber bands and book and leaf printing techniques, we have compiled a list of sev ...
  • Google and Adidas Team up to Produce a Sneaker ...
    Google is getting into the footwear business now. At the SXSW conference in Austin last week, tech giant, along with Adidas, unveiled its “Talking Shoe” concept, a smart sneaker designed to get people off the couch and exercising. The sneaker has a personality of its own that cheers and jeers it ...
  • Michael Charters’ Big Wood Skyscraper is a Sus ...
    Modern skyscrapers are typically made from concrete and steel, but as architect Michael Charters suggests, wood could be a viable construction material for tall buildings that would have a lower environmental impact. Charters recently designed ‘Big Wood,’ a prototype for a large-scal ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • Washington “Cancels” Fourth Stage of European ...
    Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel de facto announced on Friday that the US will scrap deployment of ground-based ballistic-missile interceptors in Poland and Romania. At a Pentagon press conference today, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that the planned deployment of the high-speed SM- ...
  • Cold War: Old or New?
    In the aftermath of a long war, a new degree of suspicion ensues between two powerful countries that were nominally on the same side…one rattles its sabre, threatening small countries on its borders…the other shores up relations with the very same countries… a tit-for-tat arms race begins, waged ...
  • What Does DoD’s Missile Defense Announcement Mean?
    (Image Source: Missile Defense Agency – FTM-16 E2a Flight Test) Today, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced adjustments to U.S. missile defense plans designed to counter a potential limited attack involving a small number of unsophisticated long-range ballistic missiles that could, at ...
  • Power, Prejudice and Paranoia
    “The ides of March have come” says Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Standing in the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square Tuesday, watching on a big, incongruous screen the princes of the Roman Universal Church file into mass I was struck by the power of this moment when a new pope is chosen to lead the wo ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Cybersecurity a ...
    Christopher P. Cavas, “Stennis’ Long Haul,” Navy Times, March 18, 2013. REAR ADM. MIKE SHOEMAKER: We pay very close attention to Iran. In the gulf it is almost a daily interaction with the Iranian forces. Over the time I’ve been here, they have depressurized a little, or have given us a bit more ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Live from CPAC
    For 2013, the American Conservative Union tagged their annual CPAC conference with the slogan "America's Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives." Presumably the organizers realized that the GOP's demographic troubles from 2012 spelled future trouble for the conservative movement. But Frid ...
  • Grover Norquist’s Last Laugh
    When President Obama got Republicans to raise taxes on the top one percent of income earners as part of the January deal that ended the threat of the fiscal cliff, some Democrats gloated that Republicans had been made to go back on the famous Grover Norquist pledge never to raise taxes. It appe ...
  • Jamie Dimon's Whale Fail
    Last night, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a searing 300-page report on JP Morgan Chase’s London Whale episode. The bank lost at least $6.2 billion through trading credit derivatives in a business unit tasked with reducing firm-wide risk, the Chief Investment Offic ...
  • The Contest Over the Real Economic Problem
    “Our biggest problems over the next ten years are not deficits,” the president told House Republicans Wednesday, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly. The biggest problems we face are unemployment, stagnan ...
  • The Women Behind the Wheel
    This is the last story in a three-part series on the life of immigrant workers in New York CIty. Here is Part One, on Chinese delivery workers, and Part Two on Latino construction workers. Dozens of taxi drivers are waiting to be issued their cabs at a taxi-leasing garage in Queensbridge, New Y ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Man with Militia Ties Accused of Obama Assassi ...
    Federal prosecutors are attempting to block the pre-trial release of a Pennsylvania man with militia ties who faces a charge in Texas that he threatened to kill President Obama before or during the president’s inauguration. William Mose Tucker, 20, was arrested in Oklahoma on Jan. 20, a day befo ...
  • Florida ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Killed After Alleg ...
    An armed “sovereign citizen,” accused of printing his own currency and defying government authority, was shot and killed in Florida last weekend after a four-hour standoff with a police SWAT team. Like so many law enforcement encounters with sovereign citizens, the case involving Jeffrey Allen W ...
  • Racist Skinhead Sentenced to Life for Oregon H ...
    A member of a racist skinhead gang has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing to his involvement in a 2012 murder carried out during a home-invasion robbery in Oregon. Robert Paul Smith, 35, pleaded guilty Friday in Eugene, Ore., to aggravated murder, robbery, burglary and being a fel ...
  • Famous Seattle Ceramicist Exposed as Holocaust ...
    For decades, iconoclastic Seattle artist Charles Krafft has made references to Nazis in his highly acclaimed, sometimes shocking pieces of art that most critics and art lovers brand as simple, ironic satire pushing the boundaries. He crafted a ceramic Hitler-bust teapot now in a San Francisco ar ...
  • New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movement Swells for ...
    The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups on the American radical right hit an all-time high in 2012, the fourth straight year of explosive growth, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As the new year began, serious talk of gun control, prompted by ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • The War in Iraq; 10 Years and Counting
    The US/UK-led invasion of March 2003 has brought a decade of high and low intensity armed conflict to Iraq. But this conflict is not yet history. It remains entrenched and pervasive, with a clear beginning but no foreseeable end, and very much a part of the present in Iraq. In major regions of t ...
  • Maryland Set to Repeal Its Death Penalty
    The American Civil Liberties Union said Maryland's repeal of its death penalty today is the latest sign of momentum in favor of ending the use of capital punishment nationwide. The Maryland Legislature today gave final approval to a bill that would make Maryland the sixth state in six years ...
  • Maryland Set to Repeal Its Death Penalty
    The American Civil Liberties Union said Maryland's repeal of its death penalty today is the latest sign of momentum in favor of ending the use of capital punishment nationwide. The Maryland Legislature today gave final approval to a bill that would make Maryland the sixth state in six years ...
  • NAACP Celebrates Passage of Death Penalty Repe ...
    The NAACP released the following statement in response to the passage of a bill repealing the death penalty by the Maryland House of Delegates. From Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP:read more
  • NAACP Celebrates Passage of Death Penalty Repe ...
    The NAACP released the following statement in response to the passage of a bill repealing the death penalty by the Maryland House of Delegates. From Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP:read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Dangerous Myth That Climate Change Is Reve ...
    Joe Romm The CMO (Chief Misinformation Officer) of the climate ignorati, Joe Nocera, has a new piece, “A Real Carbon Solution.” The biggest of its many errors comes in this line:read more
  • Capitalism, Steven Pearlstein, and Morality
    Dean Baker The Washington Post had a major column by Steve Pearlstein on the front page of its Outlook section headlined, "Is Capitalism Moral?" The piece notes the sharp upward redistribution of income over the last three decades ...
  • On Kimani Gray, and on Not Walking Away
    Yotam Marom On Saturday, March 9, New York City police officers shot and killed 16-year-old Kimani Gray in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. After those seven bullets hit him, he lay on the ground and cried Vigil for Kimani Gray in East Flatbush, Br ...
  • Bureaucracy v. Bradley Manning
    Lawrence Davidson The institutions of modern society — including governments, large economic structures and military forces – are organized in bureaucratic fashion, that is, a form of organization that operates by means of a wid ...
  • Oh no! It’s Climategate Three
    Paul Brown In 2009, shortly before the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, hackers published a haul of climate scientists’ emails. That was Climategate One. Two years on came another batch, and a few days ago a third. Do they tell us anyt ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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Water Wars

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

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Portman’s Support For Same-Sex Marriage And Wh ...
    Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) evolution on the issue of marriage equality—from opponent to advocate—followed a deeply personal conversation he had with his son two years ago. It’s a conversation countless families must grapple with and a conversation that now underscores the disconnect between ...
  • The Shaky Science Behind George Will’s Column ...
    The Washington Post published an opinion piece Friday by conservative pundit George Will called “The shaky science behind same-sex marriage.” Though Will has admitted there is an “emerging consensus” for same-sex marriage and predicted that the issue will prevail in the C ...
  • Sarah Palin Drinks Big Gulp During CPAC Speech ...
    During a dynamic and lively speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, Sarah Palin poked fun at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign to reduce obesity by limiting the availability of large sugary drinks. Halfway through her speech, while describi ...
  • Boehner Says He Would Oppose Marriage Equality ...
    House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) — who is spending millions of taxpayer dollars opposing marriage equality — told ABC’s This Week that he could never see himself supporting same-sex unions, despite the growing evolution towards marriage for all within the Republican Party. Res ...
  • Slamming Portman, GOP Rep Says He Would Still ...
    NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) attacked Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) for supporting marriage equality at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday. Speaking in a sideroom, Huelskamp blasted Portman’s announcement this week that he has evolved to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • March 15th Reading n' Shit
    So, today I'm reading a book recommended by a friend. (He's fucking weird in that he's able to go buy these awesome second-hand books and then, when he's done reading them, gets rid of them when there's no more room on his shelf for new ones.) Anyhow, it's by Alex Butterworth and it's called Th ...
  • As Good a Survey of Iraq's Historical Sufferin ...
    "Unmitigated Disaster" by Sami Ramadani. You know, years ago on this blog, I wrote an observation about Mark Steyn's book I forget the stupid title. I hadn't read the book then and I never will. Because Steyn is a cretin. But a really smart "conservative" (or "right-winger" or whatever) took me ...
  • For Real?
     I scrolled past this story at Crooks and Liars the first time. I glanced at it a little longer going past it today. I'd thought that the image in the video still was some sort of joke on bush II. I thought they were making fun of him. That really is the mass-murdering war criminal bush II ...
  • Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against C ...
    It's a new book I'm reading. Got it from the Parliament branch of the Toronto Public Library. Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against Canada's First Peoples by L.J. O'Connor and Morgan O'Neal, with Lloyd Dolha and Jim Ada. I'm about half-way through it. So far it's talked about the betray ...
  • First Nations Leadership
    Link.

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Digital Journal

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada and a nuclear weapons ban
    The disastrous consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, discussed at two recent conferences in Oslo, underline the need for a Nuclear Weapons Convention banning the weapons. Cesar Jaramillo argues that Canada should lead the call for such a ban.
  • Contract signed for Arctic patrol ships
    On March 7th, the government signed a $288-million contract with Irving Shipbuilding of Halifax for design work on the long-promised Arctic offshore patrol ships. But construction of the ships is not expected to begin until 2015.
  • Death toll in Syria rises
    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced last month that the death toll in the Syrian uprising is approaching 70,000.
  • Be Heard – No Attack Drones!
    Tell Stephen Harper, other party leaders, and your own MP that you do not support the purchase of a fleet of attack drones. Send your letter, right away.
  • On drones, Tutu asks America: “Our lives ...
    South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu challenged the hypocrisy of the U.S. and its citizens for accepting a killer drone program.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Thousands of Venezuelans flock to Chavez’s new ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Thousands of emotional supporters waited and wept after making a pilgrimage to the new tomb of former president Hugo Chavez, the face and leader of Latin America’s left for over a decade. More than ...
  • Panicked Europeans Rush ATMs as Leaders Seize ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMac Slavo SHTFplan.com March 17, 2013 Over the last few years political and financial leaders in Europe and the United States have implemented policies, regulations and bailouts costing global taxpayers trillions of doll ...
  • NRA opposes U.N. small-arms treaty
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPeter Finn The Washington Post March 17, 2013 The National Rifle Association, which is battling a raft of gun control measures on Capitol Hill, also has an international fight on its hand as it gears up to oppose a U.N. ...
  • Rand Paul wins The Washington Times-CPAC 2013 ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStephen Dinan and David Sherfinski The Washington Times March 17, 2013 Sen. Rand Paul won the 2013 Washington Times-CPAC presidential preference straw poll Saturday, and Sen. Marco Rubio was a close second, easily outdis ...
  • No Time to Panic: Strategic Survival Expert Jo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMac Slavo SHTFplan.com March 17, 2013 Former Marine fighter pilot and well known strategic relocation survival expert Joel Skousen (WorldAffairsBrief.com) was flying home from Las Vegas this week when his experimental Gl ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Government Debt and Deficits Are Not the Probl ...
    by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com March 14, 2013 There are two quite different perspectives in the set of speeches at this conference. Many on our morning panels – Steve Keen, William Greider, and earlier Yves Smith and Robert Kuttner – have warned about the economy be ...
  • Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian ...
    Dandelion Salad Warning These videos may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. TheRealNews·Mar 15, 2013 Maggie O’Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. J ...
  • Dandelion Salad’s Blog Posts Are Not Spa ...
    by Lo Editor, Dandelion Salad March 17, 2013 Apparently a few days ago someone posted a link to a blog post from Dandelion Salad onto their Facebook Wall and one (or more) of their friends marked it as “Spam”. When that happens anyone who now posts a link to a blog post from Dandelio ...
  • The New Propaganda Is Liberal. The New Slavery ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger http://johnpilger.com 14 March 2013 What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, sh ...
  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Amendments to ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 15, 2013 FACT SHEET: President Obama’s Blueprint for a Clean and Secure Energy Future The United States is on the path to a cleaner and more secure energy future. Since President Obama too ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: 15,000-Pixel-Wid ...
    This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in raw color as recorded by the camera (see below for full image). Raw color shows the scene's colors as they would look ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hubble Spies Bea ...
    Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds - known as "globules" - are silhouetted against nearby bright stars in the busy star-forming region, IC ...
  • Extinct Species We Wish Science Would Bring Ba ...
    Twelve-foot-tall birds, carnivorous kangaroos, 20-foot-long predatory reptiles and giant ground sloths used to roam the world. What if they could again? Here's our list of amazing extinct animals we'd like to see science bring back to life.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Window Into Jupi ...
    The dark hot spot in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. All around it are layers of higher clouds, with colors indicating which layer of the atmosphere the clouds are in. The ...
  • Hundreds of Starving Baby Sea Lions Wash Ashor ...
    Since January, hundreds of starving, dehydrated sea lion pups have stranded themselves on Southern California beaches. Rescue centers in the area are inundated. Scientists have no idea what's going on.

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Loyola Medical Student Overcomes Loss of Fathe ...
    On April 1, 2010, Ali Hausfeld waited at a Chicago airport for her father to pick her up in a private plane that would take her home for Easter weekend. Her sister decided to tag along on the flight at the last-minute to surprise Hausfeld. Moments after takeoff in Dayton, Ohio, the plane engine ...
  • Columbia University Medical Center and NewYo ...
    The following research from Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is being presented at the 65th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), March 16-23, 2013, in San Diego.
  • Children and the Mexican-American Obesity Dilemma
  • Eating for Eye Health Can Be Beneficial
    Carrots get all the attention for eye health, but there are several other foods and nutrients that can help.
  • Cancer Matters Blog: The Hope Project
    On November 30th, the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center community convened a large audience for Grand Rounds to hear the first presentation of The Hope Project. This project, led by a multi-diciplinary team from our Cancer Center, seeks to elevate the concept of hope beyond its association wi ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Events and Announcements: March 17, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The Jersey Legal Information Board presents Law Via the Internet: Free Access to Law in a Changing World on September 26-27, 2013. The conference will address the impact of online publishing on e-democracy, access to law and the rule of law, ...
  • Weekend Roundup: March 9-15, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Our main event this week was a book symposium on Curtis Bradley’s new book “International Law in the US Legal System“. On the first day, the symposium focused on treaties with comments by David Moore and Jean Galbraith.  Attention turned to inter ...
  • Yep, Libya Is Stalling Concerning the Document ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of weeks ago, I noted that the Pre-Trial Chamber had ordered Libya to return the documents it wrongfully seized from Melinda Taylor during her privileged meeting with Saif Gaddafi. I also predicted that Libya would try to avoid complying with th ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, March 15, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey French President Hollande has joined the UK’s David Cameron in calling on the EU to lift the arms embargo on Syria, to enable them to arm the rebels. Israel’s military intelligence chief has warned against arming the rebels and has claimed that I ...
  • Israeli Law Firm Wants the ICC to Investigate ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to a bizarre — and bizarrely inaccurate — article in the Jerusalem Post. How many errors can you find? An Israeli law firm on Thursday formally announced its request to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou ...

Public News Service

  • Internet Medical Info Can be Sketchy for Expec ...
    Internet Medical Info Can be Sketchy for Expectant Moms PHOENIX – These days, medical information is as close as a click away for Arizonans wanting to do online research about symptoms of illnesses and medications. But a word of caution from Dr. Erik Bedia, an obstetrician-gynecologist i ...
  • Renewable Energy Bill: Something for Everyone ...
    Renewable Energy Bill: Something for Everyone on Public Lands? PHOENIX - A bill being considered by a pair of Congressional committees would require wind and solar developers to compete for public land leases, bidding on the places they want to site their projects. Once those projects were up a ...
  • Buckling Up Best for Moms-To-Be
    Buckling Up Best for Moms-To-Be PHOENIX - Expectant mothers worry that having a seat belt buckled could damage their unborn child in a crash, but a new study finds that not wearing a seat belt actually increases a woman's chances of losing a pregnancy from those if she is restrained. The best ...
  • Advocates of Pre-K Pushing Obama: “Go To ...
    Advocates of Pre-K Pushing Obama: “Go To The Library” PHOENIX - President Obama highlighted support for early learning in his State of the Union address. So he should go to the library, according to advocates for using the public library as a key part of the learning process for to ...
  • March Marks Developmental Disabilities Awarene ...
    March Marks Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month PHOENIX - In 1987, when then-President Ronald Reagan declared March as the first Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, there was little in the way of housing, social help, or employment opportunities for people with developmental disab ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Biofuel now largest power source in Sweden
    Sweden extracts pyrolysis oil from wood to create synthetic fuel that now powers much of the country. Amazing, Sweden’s forest stock has increased despite the use of wood for biofuel. Forest residue is the leading bioenergy source in Sweden, and bioenergy is the nation’s leading energy so ...
  • Dilbert creator. Expect stock market manipulat ...
    Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams says Wall Street has just about pulled in all the rubes now so it’s time for them to tank the market through stock market manipulation, presumably after shorting it first. After all, given the pretend enforcement that the Obama Administration does, their ris ...
  • The Overly Attached Girlfriend’s Guide to Look ...
  • Eurozone “bails out” Cyprus by imposing bank a ...
    Credit: Google Maps Those not responsible for the dire economic condition of Cyprus get to bail out the banksters and the mafias once again. Eurozone leaders and the IMF on Saturday announced an unprecedented levy on all deposits in Cypriot banks as the sting in the tail of a 10-billion-euro bai ...
  • Exceptional Americans don’t kill exceptional A ...
    Down the Rabbit Hole With Jabberwock and Drone Strikes When it came to the Senate filibuster on drone killings, the stupid party held the floor, the craven party mostly kept quiet, and the victims had no voice – just another exceptional day in the contemporary clown show of American democracy ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • FASCISM RISING; USA, Detroit’s Installed ...
    “We should also remember, when Fascism came to Europe, between the two world wars, it starts locally and regionally…” – Webster Tarpley   Just as “Emergency Powers” and “War Powers” are used by the Federal government to keep the US in a contin ...
  • Was (Alleged) Connecticut Shooter, Adam Lanza, ...
      Click image to read the official toxicology records request to Connecticut Medical Examiner, H. Wayne Carver II, M.D. Via CCHR International While state and federal lawmakers frantically push for massive mental health reform and sweeping gun control  laws, two Connecticut mothers recently ...
  • Former Agent Blasts Obama Administration For & ...
    So … Is this setting the stage for an SS Stand Down? (Cough) Here is Agent Dan Bongino for a pro gun rally (we aired it last month)
  • Hugo Chavez vs “The Network”
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Thursday, March 14, 2013 London, February 2002. A tiny, dark and intense woman waited at the end of a lecture until I was alone, brought her face strangely close to mine and whispered, “President Chavez needs you. Right now. To Caracas. Right now. You must come t ...
  • 3.14.13 – JACK BLOOD RUNS DOWN THE NEW P ...
    Jack Throws down on the new papal selection. The 1st Jesuit pope? The Pope’s collusion with right wing death squad dictator Pinochet? Money laundering at the Vatican? Who are Opus Dei? How do the Rothschilds fit in? The ADL supports Pope Francis 1? South America and regional Rockefeller Go ...

The Air Vent

  • Parsing Emails
    So I spent several hours today writing scripts which parse the emails.   I was hoping for continuations of some of the more interesting conversations we are familiar with but so far have found little more than a group of advocates for catastrophic climate change, doing what they do.  They fully ...
  • Climategate 3.0
    The password for the remaining emails was sent to me and several other blogs last night.   Anthony Watts has the letter up and it should explain a little about what is going on.
  • Sandwich Board Skeptics
    Steve McIntyre has a nice post up which I missed for 4 days.   He is very good.  Imagine the work it takes to go to AGU, sit through a Mann lecture expecting bad graphs to be used and be ready with a camera. Hell, even if I had the time, I sure as shit wouldn’t [...]
  • Blind Mice
    I am having a hard time generating the will to write as of late.   It didn’t use to be that way.  I used to get really upset when I read some alarmist garbage or other, all pushing the same fake lines of global doom.   Now there is so much progressive propaganda in the global environment, ...
  • The Power of Underpants
    As you can tell, I have been very busy lately.   I still have been lurking the same blogs and reading the comment threads so my time isn’t quite reduced to zero.   Recently, an article came out regarding some Ohio State researchers who claimed to have invented a process to burn coal and em ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between March 11 and March. 15. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, March 11 Publish your own...
  • Facebook roundup: Zuckerberg, Open Graph, laws ...
    Zuckerberg tops list of highest rated CEOs - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the No. 1 highest rated CEO, according to employee reviews on the career community site Glassdoor. Employees are asked, “Do you approve or disapprove of...
  • Facebook promotes Engineering VP to CTO
    Facebook today named its Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer to the role of chief technology officer, a position left vacant after Bret Taylor departed in summer 2012. The announcement was made internally by CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
  • Facebook careers: mobile partnerships, data an ...
    Facebook added 38 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the strategic partnerships, infrastructure, communications, account management  and recruiting teams. A new listing for a Data Editor is interesting considering reports...
  • Facebook hires: FBX partner manager, data visu ...
    Facebook removed 26 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after filling roles in engineering, recruiting, product marketing, sales and other areas. It seems the company has found another partner manager to work with DSPs involved with the...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – Sing, Sing, Sing This week the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick moves into the land of the big bands with Sing, Sing Sing by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra. The song was written and first played in 1936 by Louis Prima. This performance by Benny ...
  • Corbett Video Report Gladio Series: Who’s at t ...
    In this sixth part of the ongoing Sibel Edmonds Gladio B conversation, we ask the question: Who is at the top of the pyramid. We look beyond the usual suspects and follow the money back to the industries and lobbies whose existence depends on the perpetuation of boogeymen enemies. See Previous G ...
  • Podcast Show #107: Our Uphill Battle to Restor ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Rocky Anderson Rocky Anderson, 2012 presidential candidate of the Justice Party, joins us to discuss our failed 2-party system and the battle to restore the Constitution. Anderson, a former two-term mayor of Salt Lake City and the founder of High Road for Human Ri ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 14 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 20
    “The New Asia: Power and the Pivot” with Nile Bowie This week, Eric chats with independent journalist and photographer Nile Bowie about some of the major issues and conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region. Eric and Nile discuss the unrest and violence in the Sabah province of Malaysia and the polit ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Naftali Bennet as The Joker
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  • Knesset Plans to Raise Election Threshhold, Ou ...
    In the past few days, Haaretz reported that all the major coalition partners in the incoming government have agreed that one of their orders of business will be to raise the threshold (related Hebrew article by a different reporter) necessary for a political party to enter the Knesset.  The curr ...
  • Israel’s New Settler Government–Formed Just in ...
    The new Israeli cabinet announced today is a government of the settlers, by the settlers and for the settlers.  Of course, in the past government the settlers maintained dominance over all issues that concerned them.  But the new coalition will solidify such control.  Not only will there not now ...
  • Deputy Shin Bet, WMD Chiefs Named (and Their F ...
    Out of a mundane, even silly development like the airing of an Israeli TV news report on the favored beverages for IDF and intelligence top brass on the 14th floor of the Kirya (Israel’s Pentagon), the identity of the deputy chief of the Shabak and the IDF general in charge of Israeli WMD ...
  • Palestinian Waiter Brutally Assaulted at Tel A ...
    A Palestinian waiter was brutally assaulted by Jewish customers at a Tel Aviv fast food restaurant within the past week. The video shows the waiter retrieving a mayonnaise packet from the table and almost immediately someone from the table rises and confronts him. He looks like he is screaming a ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Reducing the Fear of Innovation (and Failure) ...
    Sam Jacoby, a master's student in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, contributed to this report. "Our job is to get government used to the idea of failing." Nigel Jacobs' New Urban Mechanics team at Boston's City Hall has piloted several successful projects since it ...
  • Lessons Learned From My Three-Day Social Media ...
    I realized recently that I had become way too attached to looking at social media on my phone and on my computer -- basically all the time. This is a phenomenon that we talk about a lot at the Reese News Lab. We know that there are spikes in activity on social media from desktops during l ...
  • Public Lab's 'Spectral Challenge' Promotes Ope ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Chris Fastie. During the BP oil spill in 2010, as aerial mappers walked coastlines and boated waterways to document environmental impacts, we encountered tarry clumps in the sand or reddish clayey masses floating around the boat. We often weren ...
  • Pop Up Archive and PRX Launch Audio Archiving ...
    This post was co-written by Bailey Smith, co-creator of Pop Up Archive, with help from Jake Shapiro, CEO of Public Radio Exchange. We believe that archiving can be so easy it doesn't even feel like archiving -- and that an entire new generation of meaningful content is waiting to be created, ...
  • Spending Stories, Open Spending Are Moving Bey ...
    2013 is going to be a big year for the spending stories project. In 2012, as we explained in more detail on our blog, we improved usability of our platform for spending data and developed stronger community ties around the world. Now we're primed to roll out some really empowering resources for ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Benghazigate - Lawmakers Say Benghazi Survivor ...
    GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has told news organizations that wounded survivors of the bloody Benghazi terrorist attack were told by the Obama minions "to be quiet" about the details of the attack. According to Graham, the survivors, who have never spoken about their experiences in ...
  • Iran Nuclear Cheats Caught - Covert Iranian Nu ...
    An investigation conducted by the federal prosecutor's office of Germany has revealed that Iranian front companies based in İstanbul transported 941 items with nuclear applications through Turkey, the Bugün daily reported on Tuesday.According to the report, in 2012 German police detected that ...
  • Broken Government - Scalia: Recuse or Resign
    Nothing is more important to “equal justice under law� than an unelected, life-tenured judiciary respecting the fact and appearance of impartiality in a system of separation of powers, checks and balances, and one person, one vote. With important electoral decisions involving repeat offender ...
  • Obama's Second Term - Empty Charm Offensive
    Last week, it was bipartisan fine dining, optimism and hope for change. This week, forget about it. Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are swooping into town for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), President Obama’s top donors have assembled for a high-priced meeting to learn ...
  • Oil Addiction - House to Vote Before Memorial ...
    House GOP leaders will bring legislation to the floor before Memorial Day to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and have assigned it the number H.R. 3, signifying the importance of the measure, a top Republican said Friday.“H.R. 3 is really about one thing. It is about energy independence for No ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance M ...
    President Hugo Chavez was unique in multiple areas of political, social and economic life. He made significant contributions to the advancement of humanity. The depth, scope and popularity of his accomplishments mark President Chavez as the ‘Renaissance President of the 21st Century’
  • Letter From The Mother Of A Sexually Abused Ch ...
    Full text of a letter by the mother of a sexually abused child sent to 57th session of the UN commission on the Status of Women which met at at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 March 2013
  • Harare: Is It Really The Worst City On Earth? ...
    ‘The world’s least livable city on earth’, ‘The worst city on earth’. There were expat surveys, surveys by The Economist, and at some point surveys that ‘leniently’ depicted Harare as the 4th worst city on earth, not the worst, in 2012. Andre Vltchek finds out is it really the case
  • Why The Peace Movement Will Continue To Fail ...
    There is no light at the end of the war tunnel. Peace will not come until the people want it. Maybe US citizens need to have it explained in simpler terms - maybe in pictures drawn with crayons. Maybe set to music with scantily clad women dancing in the background. Maybe we are waiting for the n ...
  • Justice On Leave By Ravi Nitesh
    When you know the list of holidays in our courts and the purpose of it, probably you cannot justify the same. Our judicial system is very old and many of its working structure and system that were made during British reign still continue. British were quite fond of leisure and thus they found it ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Ted Cruz Serves Substance to CPAC With Keynote ...
    Near the end of Ted Cruz's keynote speech at CPAC this afternoon a blogging buddy Warner Todd Huston (Publius Forum among other sites) leaned over to me and said, " you know ---this is the first CPAC speech with substance."  Warner was absolutely correct, in fact the words I ha ...
  • Sarah Palin at CPAC: Funny Attacks--No Vision- ...
    It started with a tease.  Sarah Palin was introduced and announced but Senator Ted Cruz came out. Cruz who is the final Keynote Speaker of CPAC (later this afternoon), entered to cheers beginning by pointing how the former VP candidate drives the media Batcrap crazy, how she supp ...
  • Hail The Conquering Hero! Scott Walker Speaks ...
    Hail the conquering Hero! Scott Walker returned to CPAC today for the first time since winning his recall election last June.  Some pundits believe that Walker's appearance is the beginning of his 2016 Presidential Campaign--if that's what he intended it was a GREAT Start. W ...
  • FINALLY-Mitt Romney Explains Why He Spoke at CPAC
     2012 GOP Standard bearer Mitt Romney just left the CPAC stage and a major question was finally answered...why the heck was he speaking? Pundits have been asking this question incessantly over the past few weeks.  He lost! Why would he want to speak?   ...
  • The Secret Document That Set Obama's Policy In ...
    By Barry Rubin “We have to confront violent extremism in all of its forms.… America is not — and never will be — at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security — because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths ...

The Real Agenda

  • Número de heridos en la guerra en Siria supera ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARZO 16, 2013 No es ningún secreto que EE.UU. y otras fuerzas militares occidentales que trabajan para el complejo militar-industrial está ayudando a los terroristas en Siria para crear inestabilidad y matar a miles de personas. Ayer, se confirmó u ...
  • Número de feridos na guerra da Síria ultrapass ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCO 16, 2013 Não é um segredo que os EUA e outras forças militares ocidentais que trabalham para o complexo militar-industrial estão ajudando os terroristas na Síria para criar instabilidade e matar milhares de pessoas. Ainda ontem, foi confirmado ...
  • Mais de 200 milhões de crianças são vítimas de ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCO 16, 2013 Mais de 200 milhões de crianças, principalmente as meninas, têm sido vítimas de violência sexual no mundo, de acordo com um relatório da Plan International, uma organização não governamental (ONG) que propõe um aumento do papel dos go ...
  • Más de 200 millones de niños son víctimas de v ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARZO 16, 2013 Más de 200 millones de niños, en su mayoría niñas, han sido víctimas de violencia sexual en el mundo, según un informe elaborado por Plan Internacional, una organización no gubernamental (ONG) que propone una mayor intervención de los ...
  • U.S. Drones violate Pakistan’s Sovereignty
    By SEBASTIAN ABBOT | AP | MARCH 15, 2013 The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan’s sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human r ...

Wind Watch

  • Kyoto wind farm turbine falls after pylon snaps
    A 38-ton wind turbine crashed 50 meters to the ground in Kyoto Prefecture after the steel column supporting it snapped, according to officials. The massive Dutch-made turbine, which sat atop a Japanese-made steel column, was part of a mountain wind farm. It was put up in 2001 with an expected li ...
  • Newfound voters reject wind farms
    It’s town meeting season. Around Newfound Lake Several towns are contemplating non-binding resolutions to take the pulse of voters on the question of wind-farms. Grafton, Alexandria, and Groton – all towns that wind developers are courting – have warrant articles asking the town to support of op ...
  • The price of green energy: is Germany killing ...
    The German government is carrying out a rapid expansion of renewable energies like wind, solar and biogas, yet the process is taking a toll on nature conservation. The issue is causing a rift in the environmental movement, pitting “green energy” supporters against ecologists. The Bag ...
  • ‘Unprecedented’ plan needed to remove Fa ...
    FALMOUTH — The estimated cost to remove Falmouth’s two wind turbines ranges from $12-15 million, including existing debt, removal fees, legal fees, and consulting work. In addition, special legislation is required to both borrow money to pay removal costs and to potentially refinance tax-exempt ...
  • Duke wind farm tax deal means $800K less for C ...
    A tax settlement between the state and a wind company will cost Converse County more than $800,000 in revenue — cuts that will hit library, hospital and school budgets. After a round of negotiations between the Wyoming Department of Revenue and Duke Energy, owner of the Top of the World wind far ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
    This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
    So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
    I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
    There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...
  • The future, and journalism education
    My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Is Hawaii the Bellwether for California?
    California used to consider itself the leading state and the bellwether for the entire country. Now that the entrepreneurial initiative has mostly switched to Texas and other such places, and Texas’s infrastructure has pulled ahead of California’s in its quality (I lived in Texas ...
  • The Value of a Liberal Arts Education in Landi ...
    North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory made waves last week when he said on syndicated radio that he wants to encourage the funding of four-year programs that align with the job market — not those, like gender studies, that do little to help a graduate’s employment prospects. This was co ...
  • Wall Street's Hollow Boom: With Small Business ...
    On Wall Street, even as layoffs mount, the upper echelons are clinking champagne glasses for good reason. The stock market is hitting new highs, propelled largely by Bernanke dollars and strong corporate profits. Big financial institutions like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan have announced record prof ...
  • Chicago: Outer Suburban and Exurban Growth Leader
    Greg Hinz at Crain's Chicago Business congratulates Chicago for its nation-leading population growth. Heinz also notes that the far suburbs also gained population strongly, but there had been losses in the areas between the two. He asks: "the question now is whether the area can prosper ...
  • The Psychology of the Creative Class: Not as C ...
    "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" –Steve Jobs Behind every sociological movement is a psychology. The ever-growing creative classification of America is no different. The following teases the psychology of the movement apart. Why do this? Because it is needed. The ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • New York Knicks (38-25) at Los Angeles Cl ...
    The undermanned New York Knicks will try to stem a three- game losing streak on Sunday, but will have to do it against one of the NBA's best teams in the Los Angeles Clippers. Carmelo Anthony left Wednesday's loss against the Denver Nuggets with a knee injury. He returned to New York to have ...
  • Teixeira rejoins Yankees, to start drills ...
    TAMPA, Fla. - New York first baseman Mark Teixeira has rejoined the Yankees at spring training after hurting his right wrist earlier this month and plans to start limited baseball drills in about a week. Teixeira said on Sunday at George M. Steinbrenner Field that he's hopefully of playing a ...
  • Miami Heat (50-14) at Toronto Raptors (26 ...
    The Miami Heat have won 21 straight games and will go for 22 when they visit the Toronto Raptors Sunday afternoon at the Air Canada Centre. The Heat now own the third-longest winning streak in NBA history. With a win on Sunday, Miami would match the 2007-08 Houston Rockets for the second- lo ...
  • Fifth French Soldier Killed in Mali
    [RFI]Officials said earlier today that...
  • Chidambaram to meet heads of PSU banks on ...
    New Delhi, March 17: Finance Minister P Chidambaram will meet heads of public sector banks on Monday to take stock of their concern amid moderating growth and slowdown in investment. The broad agenda of the meeting is likely to include direct benefit transfer, deteriorating asset quality and ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Judge: US can't make Monaghan offer contraceptives
    A judge on Thursday blocked the federal government from requiring the founder of Domino's Pizza to provide mandatory contraception coverage to his employees under the health care law.
  • Home Health Community Commends MedPAC and Comm ...
    - MedPAC data underscores the need for home health community reform proposal to strengthen Medicare program integrity - WASHINGTON, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare today reiterated its support for program integrity reforms...
  • U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for March 16
    WASHINGTON, March 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) SATURDAY, MARCH 16: HEALTH CARE PIONEERS Profile America — Saturday, March...
  • Washington Could Wind up Running More Health E ...
    The U.S. government could have to run more state health insurance exchanges than expected under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, if U.S. states pursuing their own marketplaces cannot complete them on time Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
  • Binge Drinking Sticks Wisconsin With A Hefty Tab
    Wisconsin has the highest number of binge drinkers in the nation, and they cost the state $6.8 billion in 2012. Most of that economic burden is from lost productivity — missing work, premature mortality, incarceration, and absenteeism.

Common Dreams

  • Early Season Wildfires Signal "Bad Omen" for D ...
    Two wildfires that erupted in northern Colorado on Friday continue to blaze in the region, signaling an early start to the wildfire season in the drought-stricken western United States. Burning about 75 miles northwest of Denver, the fires have been stoked by strong, erratic winds and "unse ...
  • Steubenville Teens Pronounced Guilty of Sexual ...
    A judge announced Sunday that two Steubenville, Ohio high school football players have been found guilty of sexual assault in a highly-publicized trial that drew questions of a community's complicity in this criminal act. 17-year-old Trent Mays and 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond were pron ...
  • Record Radiation Found in Fukushima Fish
    The port of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant where the highly radioactive fish was caught. (Photo: Asahi Shimbun)A fish with record levels of radioactive cesium was caught in the waters outside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, officials announced Friday. ...
  • US Government Seeks to Dictate Global Rules fo ...
    As other countries race to build up drone warfare programs ending the 'monopoly' that the Obama administration has held over the highly controversial method of targeted killing, the US government is reportedly dictating how the international community will run their own covert and illega ...
  • Parents of British man killed by US drone blam ...
    The parents of a British-born man killed by a US drone strike after being stripped of his UK citizenship have spoken out for the first time – to say they will never forgive the British Government for his death. Mohamed Sakr was born and brought up in London before he was targeted and kille ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Innovation: The Future of Tires
    Tire manufacturers are searching for alternative ingredients for tires as the demand for rubber and eco-friendly products increases. Engineering innovation and organic ingredients are ushering in the next era of tires.
  • Arctic Ice Loss Amplified Superstorm Sandy
    A new report states the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice, attributed to greenhouse warming, appears to increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one that steered Hurricane Sandy into the New York City area.
  • Fuel Efficiency Continues to Rise: EPA Report
    New cars and trucks are poised to set new records in fuel efficiency according to the latest Fuel Economy Trends report from the EPA. carbon pollution has also been reduced from new autos, dropping 13 percent.
  • Pope Francis: The Poor and Climate Change
    The new pontiff’s role in assisting the world’s disadvantaged will be inextricably linked to the ravages of climate change, the fast-growing global crisis that will hit the global impoverished populations hard.
  • Energy Efficiency Financing Takes a Giant Leap ...
    Last week, Pennsylvania sold nearly 4,700 loans for a projected total of $31.3 million in a transaction that advances nationwide efforts to develop a secondary market for energy efficiency lending products.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • America's Dirty War in Iraq
    by Stephen Lendman America wages wars dirty. They're all unprincipled and lawless. It's official policy. Exceptions don't exist. No-holds-barred barbarism is longstanding. Rule of law principles don't matter. They never did. Modern technologies make today's wars worse than ever. All forms of ...
  • Paul Ryan's At It Again
    by Stephen Lendman He represents Wisconsin's first congressional district. He was Romney's vice presidential running mate. He's House Budget Committee chairman. Wall Street Journal editors love him. On March 12, they headlined "A Ryan Reboot," saying: His FY 2014 proposal is "an important doc ...
  • Challenging Israel's Right to Exist Responsibly
    by Stephen Lendman Israel's a rogue terror state. It's been so from inception. Its leaders' hands are blood-drenched. They're responsible for decades of high crimes. A rare New York Times Opinionator piece challenged Israel's right to exist. It did so responsibly. Joseph Levine wrote it. ...
  • The Free Ride of George W. Bush - Elective Amnesia
    Michael Collins Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana George Bush lost the 2000 election by half a million votes. When the state of Florida wanted to recount votes, Bush operatives disrupted the disreputable Florida elections commissions that held the ...
  • DEATH OF A LION / HUGO CHAVEZ 1954 - 2013
    Allen L Roland Larger than life and now larger than death ~ Hugo Chavez will not be forgotten. His permanently displayed embalmed body will be a constant reminder of his righteous indignation of the imperialistic West and our illegal wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as his e ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • Obama Ignores Huge Dangers In Approving Arctic ...
    Sept. 1, 2012 The Obama administration today gave Shell Oil the initial approval to begin controversial and dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, despite the fact that a critical oil-spill containment vessel is still awaiting certification in Bellingham, Wash. Until now, the Arc ...
  • Chinas Yangtze River 'Turns Blood Red': Reside ...
    Sept. 10, 2012 It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see. But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday. The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast ...
  • SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS FACE 6 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ...
    nOV. 13, 2012 San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality. Although residents of the city are forced to drink toxic wast ...
  • BEIJING'S POLLUTION ALARMS NEIGHBORS
  • Fracking Our Food Supply
    Dec. 1, 2012 Many fracking operations take place on food producing farms. (photo: Onearth) n a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams of upstate New York. The diners are here, with their checkbooks, to supp ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • New Attempts Made to Kick Antibiotics Out of F ...
    In an attempt to save modern-day medicine, a microbiologist who serves in Congress is reintroducing an updated version of her Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA). The legislation is a mouthful, but in essence it aims to curb the use of antibiotics in factory farm set ...
  • How Big Food Is Making You Fat
    What if it's the food—and not you—that's to blame for America's obesity epidemic? The national conversation surrounding this question has heated up with the publication of Michael Moss's new book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. But Moss isn't the first to make the case that the f ...
  • 6 Sneaky Sources of Lead
    If you're eating an organic diet and trying to avoid pesticides and other nasty chemicals in your home, it's unnerving to learn that hidden contaminants, such as lead, could still threaten you with long-term health problems.  A recent study published in the journal Environmental Health Per ...
  • 2013 Allergies: The Worst Year Ever?
    In a trend that may make your eyes water just thinking about it, seasonal allergy experts are confirming that 2013 allergies are going to start sooner—and last longer—in most parts of the country. The 2013 allergy season is expected to occur about 14 days earlier in many parts of the United St ...
  • The Grocery Store That's Changing the Food System
    Big news for people concerned about avoiding genetically modified organisms (GMOs): Whole Foods, the nation's largest natural and organic foods retailer, has just announced that by 2018, all products sold in its stores must indicate whether they contain GMOs. "We’re responding to our custo ...

big think

  • The Brain Scan Image and the Dangers of Brain Porn
    What's the Latest Development? The brain scan may be the iconic scientific image of the early 21st century. Not only does the image represent our growing understanding of the physical processes in the brain, it represents our willingness to accept neuroscientific explanations for just ab ...
  • Where Science Fails to Explain Consciousness
    What's the Latest Development? If consciousness is a result of physical processes in the brain, then it seems likely that every experience can be reduced to the interplay of physical elements. But not so fast, say some philosophers. Our experience of certain things, such as color, may be ...
  • Innovation: Still More Frustration than Inspir ...
    What's the Latest Development? British inventor James Dyson is on a world tour, promoting his new creation: A water faucet with a built-in hand-dryer. Dyson is the billionaire designer of the famous bagless vacuum cleaner and an example of how perspiration in the pursuit of a long-term g ...
  • Enjoying Civilization? Thank Beer.
    What's the Latest Development? An important addendum to the fact that humans are social animals is that we are socially constrained animals. Constraint, says Jeffrey Kahn, associate professor of psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, is the glue that fastens the bonds of civilizati ...
  • Resisting "Folk Neuroscience"
    One of the best things I read this week was a piece by Vaughan Bell in the Guardian entitled, "Our Brains, and How They're Not as Simple as We Think."  Bell, a neuropsychologist and science writer, talks about how neuroscience is penetrating every day life.  That we are now framing the . ...

Information Liberation

  • VIDEO: Aussie Cops Assault Youth for Filming, ...
    Police in Parramatta, Australia do not like being filmed. When a young man happened upon a group of cops searching a black youth in what he believed was a random search, he took his camera out and started to film the police. Filming police in...
  • Man Charged With Disorderly Conduct For Tellin ...
    A Gonzales, Texas police officer arrested Peaceful Streets Project activist Antonio Buehler for exercising his free speech rights and telling the cop, who was intent on harassing him and even laid his hands on him, to go f**k himself. The cop ...
  • Man Faces Five Years in Prison for Releasing B ...
    We've seen it in the movies and perhaps even witnessed it in person, but most of us never realized it was an offense punishable with lots of prison time. When Anthony Brasfield released a dozen heart-shaped balloons into the sky over Dania Beach,...
  • Only an Incipient 'Terrorist' Denounces State ...
    According to the SPLC, the people in the burning building were the "terrorists." *There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat," warns an unusually strident house edito...
  • Doug Casey: If I Were President
    L: Hola Doug; what's on your mind this week? Doug: Well, it occurs to me that for all the times we've criticized the counterproductive, foolish, or just plain wrong ideas of others and have sometimes offered sounder alternatives, I've nev...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Can drinking green tea or coffee cut stroke risk?
    Probably not. A recent study from Japan was much hyped in the media earlier this week but as NHS Choices points out, the researchers themselves offered a number of limitations to their study: The information on illness, green tea and coffee consumption was all self-reported, which introduces the ...
  • Whatever happened to acid rain?
    There’s a cute video montage currently doing the rounds in which a re-working of the Billy Joel song “We didn’t start the fire” reminisces about growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s and cites the countless games, toys, TV shows and other cultural references we had during ...
  • Ante-papal smoke signals
    Philip Ball, writing on the BBC Future site discusses the carcinogens and poisons pumped into the Roman air every time the cardinals vote on a new Pope… But, he also reckons the The Vatican is missing a trick by being unimaginatively monochrome. “Why stop at a mere two-colour signall ...
  • Animated rock art
    Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life. PITOTI is an innovative research project that applies insights from the new technologies of computer graphics to prehistoric pictures, specifically ...
  • World Book Day Confusion
    It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be more than one World Book Day. Apparently (thanks Bob O’Hara) we Brits celebrate and promote literacy on 7th March to get around school holidays, which is why yesterday all the kids trotting up to school were dressed as characters from thei ...

RFF Library

  • Department of Energy: Status of Loan Programs
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-331R As of January 29, 2013, Department of Energy (DOE) was considering using $15.1 billion of the $34.8 billion in remaining loan guarantee authority for loan guarantees requested by 13 active Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) ap ...
  • Light-Duty Automotive Technology, Carbon Dioxi ...
    US EPA www.epa.gov/otaq/fetrends.htm [From an InsideEPA.com article, sub. req'd]  EPA is touting significant greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from the transportation sector in a new report, finding that stricter agency fuel economy and GHG rules for mobile sources helped contribute to a 13 percen ...
  • Alternatives for Managing the Nation’s C ...
    National Research Council (free download with registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14668 [Description] Across the United States, thousands of hazardous waste sites are contaminated with chemicals that prevent the underlying groundwater from meeting drinking water standards. The ...
  • Water Infrastructure: Approaches and Issues fo ...
    Government Accountability Office http://gao.gov/products/GAO-13-451T …GAO reviewed three of the approaches proposed to pay for the nation’s drinking water and wastewater needs, each of which offers a different means to fund and finance projects. To understand these approaches as they ...
  • Renewable Energy: Agencies Have Taken Steps Ai ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-189 [From an E&E Daily article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd] Permitting times for wind and solar projects on public lands were cut by more than half from 2006 to 2009 as the Obama administration bolstered staff and funding for ...

Scientific American - News

  • Famous 'HeLa' Human Cell Line Gets Its DNA Seq ...
    The research world’s most famous human cell has had its genome decoded, and it’s a mess. German researchers this week report the genome sequence of the HeLa cell line, which originates from a deadly cervical tumor taken from a patient named Henrietta Lacks. [More]
  • Quantum Teleportation in Space Explored as Mes ...
    This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service . [More]
  • Wildlife Trade Meeting Endorses DNA Testing of ...
    If you go into a bar in Bangkok tonight, don’t be surprised if you find it full of celebrating conservationists. [More]
  • Life Found Deep Inside Earth's Oceanic Crust
    For the first time, scientists have discovered microbes living deep inside Earth’s oceanic crust -- the dark volcanic rock at the bottom of the sea. This crust is several kilometers thick and covers 60% of the planet’s surface, making it the largest habitat on Earth. [More] ...
  • Massive Resistance: Bed Bugs' Genetic Armor Sh ...
    One of humankind's most intimate blood-sucking roommates, the bed bug, is notoriously resistant to the pesticides used against it. Now researchers have pinpointed the genes responsible for this resistance. The finding highlights how ineffective our current chemical arsenal has become, and ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Gatineau : La journée internationale contre la ...
    Gatineau: Annual International Day against Police Brutality ...
  • PiDGiN Picket Ends Week Six
    There is no normal at PiDGiN picket. Anything can happen, and much has, over the past six weeks. Police seem to like this new restaurant. Over the space of two hours on March 16 they kept on coming and going. (See how many you can count.) With the glass all frosted now, you couldn't tell whether ...
  • Journée Internationale Contre La Brutalité Pol ...
    Montréal 15 mars 2013 - #manifencours Journée Internationale Contre La Brutalité Policière http://blogocram.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/montreal-15-mars-2013-manifenc... http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogocram/sets/72157633008912695/ ...
  • MEC Board Election: The Media Co-op Interview
    Candidates weigh in on MEC board moves, ethical sourcing, cooperation, democracy and greenwashing With 3 million member-owners, Mountain Equipment Co-op is one of Canada's larg ...
  • Fredericton postal worker’s trip to Palestine ...
    Fredericton – Conservative MP Mark Adler for the Toronto riding of York Centre accused Fredericton postal worker Ruth Breen and her union, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), of using public funds to pay for her trip to the ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What is the new Pope about?
    David Seaton's News Links His Holiness Pope FrancisFrancis is no liberal. He had no truck with liberation theology, the popular movement in Latin America and elsewhere which links the church’s work to radical social change, even though many of its supporters have been Jesuits. Not Francis: he ...
  • Whither post-Chávez Venezuela
    To put the entire subject of Venezuela into perspective from a yanqui point of view, I suggest reading the following snippet by Matthew Yglesias.The late Hugo Chavez is controversial because of American aspirations to global military hegemony. People who vocally oppose those aspirations find t ...
  • On the death of Hugo Chávez
    A little old lady interviewed by El País in a mourning crowd of Venezuelans gave the most insightful analysis of Hugo Chávez and his probable legacy: "He gave us an identity!". Latin America is filled with people like that old lady, they are the overwhelming majority: poor, brown, left ...
  • Italy's elections and the Five Star Movement
    David Seaton's News LinksThe "Grillini": this time the revolution won't be televisedThe election that made Beppe Grillo, an anti-establishment blogger-comedian, leader of the largest parliamentary force in terms of votes cast was an election that passed a damning verdict on Italy’s corruption-in ...
  • Capitalism: is we is or is we aint?
    David Seaton's News Links Read carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending is not only the key to economic re ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • How Irish Are You?
    Sarah Kliff on St. Patrick's Day: St. Patrick's Day is, perhaps, the only holiday replete with false claims of national ancestry. Everyone is Irish, if just for a day. Well, just for the record, I am seven-sixteenths Irish. Canters and Gunsons from Tipperary, Morans from Galway, Moo ...
  • Liberals Are Annoying
    Jared Bernstein was on Bill Maher's show yesterday, trying to convince him that a tax on soda was a good idea. After all, he says, soda contributes to obesity, and obesity contributes to chronic diseases that cost all of us a lot of money: But Bill’s point, which I ultimately found ...
  • National Security Letters Have Their Day in Co ...
    You remember National Security Letters, don't you? Those of us who are a first name basis just call them NSLs. They've been around for a while, but they only became famous after the PATRIOT Act vastly expanded their scope, with the FBI now issuing upwards of 25,000 NSLs a year. The key thing t ...
  • The NFL Hits Yet Another Roadblock in LA
    Phil Anschutz, the billionaire owner of AEG, recently announced that he had decided not to sell his company after all and instead planned to take back control into his own hands. This matters in Los Angeles because Anschutz has always been sort of lukewarm about the idea of AEG building a down ...
  • The Slow Death of the Driver's License
    It's pretty common knowledge by now that teenagers don't drive cars nearly as much as they did back when I was growing up. Partly that's because getting a license is more onerous, partly it's because parents are more willing to be chauffeurs, and partly it's because social media has made it mo ...

Insanity Report

  • Best of the Insanity Check: The Co-Hosts
    The first “Best of the Insanity Check”. This focuses on the 3 co-hosts that have been a part of making the Insanity Check so funny & Ratchet: Ryce Juanton: Nothin But Pho, The Great Frosted Flakes Conspiracy of 86, Giant Stone Penises Dylan: Chicken Foot Soup, The Strawberry Let ...
  • IC 386: I Don’t Work Here
    Topic: Guest Host: Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips Sith Council Assignments Emails Why we review movies? Weathermen suck Why black people won’t survive the zombie apocalypse? Bag fees New ads about Teen Pregnancy Share with your friends:
  • IC 385: Sith Council
    Topic: Sith Council Forms: Kriss, Kev, Tye Diamond & Rodimus Prime Trolling Trolls When is it okay to talk about people? Tye goes on a date with Ebony from Catfish Calling 9 year olds cunts Epic Facebook Trolling Charlamagne “Gets Real”….stupid Dumb Nigga Logic Video Games ...
  • IC 384: Horrible People
    Topic: Kriss is allergic to the office Nasty ass coworkers Kriss & Kev are horrible people Fantasia has a beef with JET Magazine Iron Man 3 Shailene Woodley as MJ EA says game prices will go up Share with your friends:
  • IC 383: Chicks Can’t Fight
    Topic: UFC 157 First Women’s fight in the UFC The vocal minority of sexist men Dana White is an awesome sports commissioner Kev recaps his NYC trip Kev goes to the Church of Scientology Mass Effect 3 DLC Playstation 4 Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
    In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.
  • Projected warming set to exceed civilisation’s ...
    11,000 years during which human civilisation has emerged have not seen temperatures ‘even close’ to what model forecasts predict, a record built by Shaun Marcott from Oregon State University and his teammates shows.
  • Evidence rethink puts CO2 and ancient warming ...
    A rise in temperatures that caused the last major global defrost has now been placed in the same 150-year window as an accompanying CO2 increase by Frédéric Parrenin from the French National Centre for Scientific Research and his teammates, rather than happening 800 years before the CO2 change a ...
  • Cave deposits reveal permafrost concern
    Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a 500,000 year record collected by Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues.
  • Extra stations bolster warming-extreme rainfal ...
    A study calling on 8326 weather stations has confirmed that annual precipitation highs are intensifying by around 7% per 1°C warming, explains University of Adelaide’s Seth West

e!Science News

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

unEarthed

  • Stacking the Halls of Justice
    Politics have kept key federal court judgeships vacant Four of the D.C. Circuit Court's 11 seats have been left vacant due to congressional obstruction. (DOJ) ...
  • Fracking Safeguard Bills Introduced
    House of Representatives legislation would protect air and water Over the past few decades—with the help of Congress—Big Oil and Gas successfully chi ...
  • Rough Water Ahead for the Colorado River
    Drought highlights need for smart solutions to water demand in West Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. The white bathtub ring will get bigger as water levels drop. (Photo: BuRec) ...
  • Bigger Threat: Asteroids or Climate Change?
    House “science” committee sorts it out (Don Davis) The news that a meteorite exploded over Russia in February has captured the attention of U.S. lawmakers on ...
  • Scope of Science: The Dark Side of Soot
    Be green: get rid of black Black soot easily seen on ice formations in the Arctic. Soot is melting the Arctic. Even scientists are alarmed with the disappeara ...

Brave New Climate

  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
  • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
    In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...
  • Two decades and counting…
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...
  • Energy Policy – substance wins over style
    There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve touchy subjects, including ways to reduce poverty while improving or maintaining high standards of living el ...
  • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Ariel students call for Obama protest – ...
    As I reported a few days ago, students from the recently-accredited Ariel University in the occupied West Bank are angry they were not invited to attend U.S. President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem this coming Thursday. The U.S. Embassy denies claims Obama is boycotting the students, and sta ...
  • President Obama: When in the Middle East, walk ...
    If President Obama plans on trying to kickstart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process during his visit this week, he should reframe the process. Tackling the toughest issues first, such as Jerusalem, has proven to only prolong the stalemate. Why not start with water? By Oded Eran and Gidon Bromb ...
  • ‘NY Times Magazine’ article shows ...
    Ben Ehrenreich’s report from Nabi Saleh is a rare feature in a media world that has grown accustomed to telling the story of the occupation through Israeli eyes. Of all media the Hebrew-language media outlets, it was the liberal Haaretz that ladled Ben Ehrenreich’s excellent feature on the prote ...
  • Settler leader calls new Israeli government &# ...
    The new Netanyahu coalition will give settlers and their supporters more executive power than any previous government in Israel has until now.  With the Housing and Industry ministries in their hand, and political ally Moshe Ya’alon as the new defense minister, the settlers are very pleased by t ...
  • Waiting for Obama: Hebron youth take cue from ...
    If it had happened anywhere other than Hebron, one would have been justified in assuming that the scene unfolding was coordinated for a not-too-sophisticated film about “the conflict”. Surely somewhere out of sight there is an entire movie crew ready for the director to yell “c ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Koongarra protected at last
    Legislation to protect Koongarra - now part of Kakadu National Park - passed Federal Parliament today.
  • Marine Park Management Plans finalised
    The Gillard Government today tabled the management plans for the world's largest marine reserve network that will protect more than 2.7 million square kilometres of our precious ocean environment.
  • 60,000 crown-of-thorns starfish culled to prot ...
    More than 60,000 crown-of-thorns starfish have been culled in a Gillard Government project to protect precious coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Great Keppel Island tourism and marina develop ...
    Federal environment minister Tony Burke today approved the Great Keppel Island tourism and marina development, subject to 96 strict conditions to minimise its potential environmental impact.
  • World Indigenous Network Conference kicks off
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya as the keynote speaker for the World Indigenous Network Conference in Darwin from 26 to 31 May 2013.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Message To Florida Republicans: Clean Your Own ...
    Another day, another scandal for the Republican party.  The high profile case that featured serious charges against the former head of the party Jim Greer mysteriously closed a few weeks ago and now the general public will never know for certain whether the girls on the golfcarts were really pro ...
  • US SENATE HEARINGS LIVE: JP MORGAN LIED AND DE ...
    Why is Jamie Dimon not in jail?  Why are there not a few bankers hanging from lamp posts somewhere? Another crash is going to happen again and then it will be much work…. CSPAN LIVE   Scridb filter
  • WELLS FARGO V. GIGLIO
    Appellant, Wells Fargo Bank, NA (“Wells Fargo”), the Plaintiff in this foreclosure action, seeks reversal of the trial court’s order denying its requests to: (a) approve a dismissal of the case; (b) set aside the previously entered final judgment; (c) cancel the notice of lis pendens; and (d) di ...
  • FORECLOSURE TRIALS IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY&#823 ...
    The foreclosure crisis is placing incredible strains on our state’s underfunded court system and while there are challenges in many circuits, I am very pleased and proud to report that (in large part) the circuit court system in Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit is rising to the challe ...
  • Poll: The Majority of Americans Are Threatened ...
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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: Rotting Pigs, Airport F ...
    Do ads cause obesity? Here’s a well-written critique of cross-sectional studies of factors associated with obesity that are interpreted to imply causation. To quote, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.” The author correctly warns ...
  • Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Public Health
    A group of industrial food animal production and processing companies have formed “The Food Manufacturers Immigration Coalition” to encourage comprehensive immigration reform.
  • Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
    Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
  • The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
    Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.
  • Mislabeled Seafood: More than Overpaying for F ...
    Many people are interested in the study because consumers are being duped by fraudulent fish, but other impacts of mislabeled seafood are far more worrisome. Certain fish carry advisories, especially for pregnant women and young children, to limit or avoid due to contamination of heavy metals or ...

k2p blog

  • The McIntyre – The Bane of Climate Dogma ...
    A less generous but more likely interpretation is that this is just fraud instigated by the global warming pundits who were the reviewers of the Science paper.
  • Boeing’s PR upsets Japanese Civil Aviati ...
    Boeing's upbeat announcement that the Dreamliner could be flying in a matter of weeks has upset the Japanese Civil Aviation Board. It would seem that Boeing did not clear their PR blitz in Tokyo in advance with the CAB. Their optimistic statements about the Dreamliner flying again "in a matter o ...
  • Boeing’s PR upsets Japanese Civil Aviati ...
    Boeing's upbeat announcement that the Dreamliner could be flying in a matter of weeks has upset the Japanese Civil Aviation Board. It would seem that Boeing did not clear their PR blitz in Tokyo in advance with the CAB. Their optimistic statements about the Dreamliner flying again "in a matter o ...
  • Boeing’s three-layered fix for the Dream ...
    Boeing's planned fix for the Dreamliner's lithium-ion battery has been approved by the FAA and while this is only approval of the plan it at least represents the start of the process to get the Dreamliner back into the air.
  • Boeing’s three-layered fix for the Dream ...
    Boeing's planned fix for the Dreamliner's lithium-ion battery has been approved by the FAA and while this is only approval of the plan it at least represents the start of the process to get the Dreamliner back into the air.

Left Foot Forward

  • Granting the Sri Lankan government legitimacy ...
    In November a British delegation including the Queen is set to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, hosted and chaired by the accused government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. If Britain wants to live up to its self-proclaimed commitment to human rights, the ...
  • Leveson: Labour has allowed itself to be cast ...
    Among a large part of the population, ‘Labour’ still means ‘authoritarian’. Over Leveson, it has once again revealed its authoritarian streak.
  • This week’s most read: Israel, the Falkl ...
    The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
  • Syria is bleeding: the UK must step up and help
    The international community has so far failed to fulfill its full duties towards the Syrian people. This must change. We will be presenting a petition calling upon the government to support the Syrian people using all possible political, diplomatic and economic means.
  • Budget 2013: What to look out for
    Left Foot Forward has looked at a few things we already know will be in next week's Budget as well as at those things which stand half a chance of making it.

Consumerist

  • EA Says It Rejected Offline Play For SimCity B ...
    The brouhaha over Electronic Arts’ decision to require an Internet connection in order to play its highly anticipated SimCity 5 game continues, and the latest words from the company executive at the center of this mess probably won’t do much to calm matters. As we’ve mentioned ...
  • Kmart Admits It’s Pretty Bummed Out Abou ...
    We were so sad yesterday about the white-tipped shark that died after being shipped across the country to star in a Kmart commercial shoot that we weren’t even able to make any jokes about the company jumping the shark. And when we skip obvious puns, the sadness is real. Plenty of our read ...
  • State’s Residents Unsurprised That Wisco ...
    Of all the things Wisconsinites are proud to claim as their own (the Green Bay Packers, Harley-Davidson, Laverne & Shirley, Mark Ruffalo) perhaps the one nearest and dearest to our hearts is our intense love of cheese. So of course, it’s only fitting that a Wisconsin cheesemaker’ ...
  • Caribou Decides It Doesn’t Want JCPenney ...
    In some ways, we feel kinda bad for JCPenney; the department store is quickly becoming the kid on the playground no one wants to play with despite all its best efforts. The latest setback in its quest to find new best friends comes as Caribou declares it doesn’t want to pursue a partnershi ...
  • Target, Where You’ll Pay Just A Little M ...
    Consumerist reader Christopher was strolling through the video game section of his local Target in Connecticut when he noticed something strange about the price tag for an Xbox accessory that was labeled as “Repackaged” with a big red sticker. Usually, that means the price would be l ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Urging Support for Government Watchdogs: Daily ...
    Chronicle of Philanthropy: Foundations Must Step Up Giving to Government Watchdogs This op-ed piece examines the lack of foundational and political support being given to government watchdog agencies and other nonprofit grassroots organizations that have been holding our government accountabl ...
  • Veteran Affairs Accused of Medical Cover-Up: D ...
    The Washington Post: Researcher Alleges VA Covered Up Adverse Consequences to Toxic Exposures A former senior researcher for the Department of Veterans Affairs told a congressional committee that he resigned from the Office of Public Health because of ethical concerns about the agency’s conduc ...
  • 'American Whistleblower Tour' Coming to UDC
    On Friday, March 22, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) will bring the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). The Tour stop will feature prominent whistleblowers Thomas Drake (NSA waste and mismanagement), Ri ...
  • GAP's Food Integrity Campaign Launches Ag-Gag ...
    FIC Launches New Video Series "Ag Gag Undercover" to Fight Anti-Whistleblower Bills This week, GAP's Food Integrity Campaign released the first of several short videos in a new campaign series, "Ag Gag Undercover," to raise awareness about the controversial anti-whistleblower bills. Stay tuned ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Drake to Speak at NPC Luncheon
    This coming Friday, March 15, Government Accountability Project (GAP) client and National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Tom Drake will speak at a luncheon at the National Press Club (NPC). This event is part of the NPC's involvement in Sunshine Week, a national initiative promoting open g ...

UK Progressive

  • Inside Game: Creating PACs and then Spending T ...
    by Kim Barker ProPublica In August 2008, as the right wing of the Republican Party grew increasingly disenchanted with the party’s direction, the men from Russo, Marsh and Associates sensed opportunity: They created a political action committee, Our Country Deserves Better, and in time launched ...
  • CPAC and the Conservative Crack-Up
    by Brent Budowsky The ubiquitous opiner Justice Antonin Scalia now insults Hispanics and blacks, as he recently insulted gays while voting rights and gay rights are pending before the court. Then the ubiquitous Dick Morris, sounding like Fredo Corleone, offers a plan to “take down” President Oba ...
  • Black Comedians, Dresses and Kevin Hart on SNL ...
    by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad The latest episode in the perpetual discussion about black male emasculation occurred this past week when the latest rising star in comedy (not just black comedy), Kevin Hart, hosted Saturday Night Live (SNL). Kevin Hart’s career is peaking right now. After two suc ...
  • A Conspiracy Fact
    by Tina Dupuy I’ve been assured my in-laws don’t read my column. However, because of their mix of shame, guilt and blame, I’ll be vague on some details. They’ve fallen on hard times. No one wants to talk about it, let alone have it written about and syndicated. But I think their story is illustr ...
  • The Contest Over the Real Economic Problem
    by Robert Reich “Our biggest problems over the next ten years are not deficits,” the President told House Republicans Wednesday, according to those who attended the meeting. The President needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly. The biggest problems we face are unempl ...

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JoNova

  • Hottest summer record in Australia? Not so, sa ...
    There are probably only ten people in Australia who haven’t heard it was the Hottest Ever, Record Summer Downunder. And they were probably born yesterday. Summer here was so scorchingly awful it was Angry. But a funny thing happened on the orbit overhead. Check out the UAH satellite data o ...
  • Unthreaded Weekend
    Who knows what might have turned up… Rating: 7.5/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 7.5/10 (6 votes cast)
  • The Marcott Hockey-stick: smoothing the past a ...
    The message to the world is unequivocal: “We are heading for somewhere that is far off from anything we have seen in the past 10,000 years – it’s through the roof. In my mind, we are heading for a different planet to the one that we have been used to,” said Jeremy Shakun of Harvard University, a ...
  • ClimateGate III — the password is out
    FOIA has been in touch with skeptics today. Here is the email below, sorry, without that password. There are 220,000 emails in the file. There may be private information which could cause grief that is not related to taxpayer funded work. Obviously that large file is not in a form that can be re ...
  • Has the world started cooling? Hints from 4 of ...
    I’m not keen on short term trends at all, they have a habit of flicking in and out of statistical significance with each month’s new data, or even switching from cooling to warming. But for what it’s worth, and only time will tell, perhaps the world entered the downswing of the ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Pope Francis: Not Peter, Not Roman…But
    The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn’t his middle name, and he hasn’t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn’t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stu ...
  • A River In Antarctica
    The Sahara desert used to be fertile – and that’s in modern history… Meanwhile camels used to live within the Arctic Circle, and hippos swam in English rivers. Not quite on the same scale of time (unless you believe in recent crustal displacements), but down at the South Pole t ...
  • Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
    The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...
  • Novel Coronavirus Human Transmitted?
    The third member of a UK family to contract the new virus, Novel Coronavirus, has died in hospital. It is similar to pneumonia, but substantially more deadly. So far 50% of twelve people infected worldwide have died. A patient diagnosed with the Sars-like coronavirus has died at Queen Elizabeth ...
  • Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory
    Astronomer David Asher (from Armagh University) has agreed with Bill Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe (Cardiff University) that “dark comets” are real and dangerous. The following quotes are from a paper by Napier and Asher published in Astronomy & Geophysics. http://star.arm.ac. ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Return of Empires (VI)
    Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Modern-day empires in the West The rebirth of the imperial spirit in the West is moving along two sometimes converging, but in recent times increasingly diverging, lines. Looking at Europe’s relations with its neighbours, one can see that the European ...
  • BRICS Take a Step Away From Dollar
    An invisible plot is being hatched on the geo-political front. The BRICS countries plan to establish their own development bank to give loans for infrastructure projects, bypassing the middleman in the form of the U.S. dollar. If we consider that the BRIC countries account for 14.6% of the world ...
  • Back to the Rule of Force at Sea?
    Exactly one year and one month after committing the murder of two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala state, India, the buddy-pair of Italian marines has finally dodged the Indian judiciary to remain home in Rome. The collusion between the Indians and Italians to prevent the murderers from ...
  • The Return of Empires (V)
    Part I Part II Part III Part IV Modern-day empires in the East A peculiarity of the formation of «larger spaces», or modern-day empires in the East, is that some of them were themselves, until quite recently, objects of colonial ambition. Other imperial projects, meanwhile, are part of even larg ...
  • Looking for Way Out of Syrian Crisis
    On March 11 a delegation of the Syrian National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change led by its Coordinator Heisam al-Manaa, visited Moscow to hold talks with top officials of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the negotiations and while meeting Russian experts and media, Mr. Manaa ...

BlogHer

  • 11 Tools to Help You with Photo Organization
    Editor's Note: You'll find the right tools for your photo organization needs at Easy as ABC in this post by Caitlin. Edit, organize, share – she has the answers.-Virginia I'm not that good at it by any means, but I take a lot of pictures. And what do I do with them all? Picasa 3.5 by Ceslava ...
  • Not Having a Black Pope Is Not a Bad Thing
    Some people were disappointed that the Conclave of Cardinals did not select Cardinal Peter Turkson to be the first Black Pope of the Catholic church. But would having an African pope have generated significant change in the Catholic church's official policies? Renee at Womanist Musings thinks no ...
  • Food Isn’t Sinful, Decadent, or a Guilty Pleas ...
    Editor's note: We've all seen ads for "sinfully delicious" 
chocolate cake, and for healthy snacks where you can "ditch the guilt."
 All of which portrays our food choices as a moral issue: "Good" people
 make good food choices; "bad" people bad ones. Only Ashley astutely points
 out that this s ...
  • How to to Get Attention for Your Resume
    If you think you are just going to apply for jobs and effortlessly get the interview (and then the job), you are wrong. In today's climate it takes that extra effort to get seen. Hannah Morgan tells you why you need to do the "two-step" so you increase the odds your resume rises to the top of th ...
  • Do You Work for a Sick Organization?
    Ever have a lousy work experience? Perhaps you've had a string of them peppered with some crazy-making co-workers, bosses, and other madness. You may have wondered: Is it me? Is it them? In this post, Crystal Spraggins shares an experience she had and how it just might be the organization that ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]
  • Leadership Commitment 2 of 7 – Create a New Game
    This is your life, and only you ultimately choose each and every step you take in any given direction. You’ve already made up the rules for the life you’re living right now. The question is did you design them consciously or did you allow fear and circumstance to control you? Choose ...
  • 10 Best Arcade Games For Wii
    Some of the most fun and entertaining games available are arcade games. From traditional games like Skee Ball to more advanced pinball games, the entertaining activities created for arcade atmospheres have always been intriguing. Now, with some of the best Wii games for kids and adults ever crea ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, March 15, 2013
    In this photo provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a relative of miners waits at the site of the accident in Shuicheng County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. China said 21 coal miners have been killed and four more are missing following an accident ...
  • Patriot Coal: Will industry have to pay its debts?
    Whenever there’s any sort of action by the government or by environmental or citizen groups that might somehow — no matter how remotely — curb any practice of the coal industry, I can almost always count on watching my inbox fill up with statements from coalfield politicians cr ...
  • Report: More work needed on coal-mine rescue
    There’s a new report out today from the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council.  It’s called Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines, and here’s the conclusion: Although recent advances in mining research and practices have improved the safety a ...
  • Another West Virginia coal miner dies on the job
    The bad news came in late last evening, as we reported in this morning’s Gazette: A miner was killed Wednesday evening at a Boone County coal operation, the fifth death in West Virginia’s coal industry in as many weeks. Details were sketchy, but a spokeswoman for the state Office of ...
  • Update on Blacksville coal-mine fire
    There were some scary moments there yesterday, with some conflicting information about whether all of the workers at CONSOL Energy’s Blacksville No. 2 Mine had made it out in an evacuation ordered because of an underground fire. Luckily, the news turned out to be good, and all 121 employee ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Christian Doppler: an anniversary
    Irène Joliot-Curie died on March 17th, 1956. She was a member of a high-brow physics family who got her Nobel prize for artificial (alpha-radiation-induced) radioactivity. Christian Andreas Doppler was born in Salzburg in 1803 and died in Venice 160 years ago, on March 17th, 1853, aged 49. ...
  • Georg Ohm: birthday
    Albert Einstein (born in Ulm on March 14th, 1879) is such a formidable personality that I gave up the idea to write a biography. The problem is that I know too many things about him and other people know even more things about Einstein etc. Ohm is an easier task. George Simon Ohm was born i ...
  • Paul Krugman, climate, and inconceivable sins
    Many folks have sent me quotes from a crazy new article by Paul Krugman (who recently waged a violent war against those EU politicians who insist on austerity): Everyday Externalities As a typical big government liberal, he wants to build lots of new railway lines, send many more trains ever ...
  • God particle's humility on display
    ...as it turns on two light bulbs less often than expected... OK, I was inspired by this title of an article about Pope Francis. But you should have no doubts about it: the Higgs boson is even more humble and obedient than the Indian-born Argentinian chemist and the son of a railway worker ...
  • Pentagon transitions: tools to solve planar \( ...
    Benjamin Basso, Amit Sever, and Pedro Vieira have released an interesting preprint: Space-time S-matrix and Flux-tube S-matrix at Finite Coupling (PDF) Note that if you download it in other formats by clicking at "Download Source" which you may open in WinRAR etc., you will acquire an additi ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Sun finally shone on sporty weekend
    Norwegian sports fans were torn during the weekend among the annual Birkebeiner ski race in Lillehammer, World Cup competition at Holmenkollen in Oslo and even the launch of the football season. After a surprising snowfall that began Friday, the sun finally came out and so did thousands of fans ...
  • Telenor reports industrial espionage
    Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor has, for the the first time, reported a case of serious industrial espionage to the national police unit Kripos. Newspaper Aftenposten reported Sunday that high tech-spies managed to infiltrate Telenor’s extensive security network and empty the contents of t ...
  • Power cut forced platform shutdown
    Norwegian oil company Statoil was moving personnel off its Oseberg platform in the North Sea to land on Friday and taking them to the mainland, following a power failure on board the platform Thursday afternoon. The power failure in turn led to a gas leak, but it has been stopped. Statoil offici ...
  • Many children injured in bus crash
    More than 20 children were among 33 persons injured in a major chain collision on the E18 highway just north of Tønsberg Friday afternoon. Seven more motorists were injured and taken to emergency rooms in Follo after another chain collision on the E6 highway south of Oslo. Both accidents, along ...
  • Terror survivors tell their stories
    Three Statoil employees who survived a terrorist attack on an Algerian gas plant in January finally told their dramatic stories this week, on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) and in other media. Many questions remain, as Statoil’s own investigation into the attack continues. Bjarne Våge of San ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Excerpts from the Sixth International Permacul ...
    In 1996 the 6th International Permaculture Conference & Convergence (IPC6) was held in Perth, Western Australia. Approximately 300 delegates from around the world attended over a period of approximately 10 days and much information was exchanged and many friendships were made. The event ...
  • Integrating University Degrees with Permacultu ...
    Putting in a Papaya Circle at Nyumbani Village In an innovative PDC program, following the PRI ‘Master Plan’ template, University students from University of Wisconsin Stevens Point (UWSP) learn permaculture alongside Kenyan students, project managers and small-holder farmers at di ...
  • Iowa and South Dakota Approach 25 Percent Elec ...
    by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute Defying conventional wisdom about the limits of wind power, in 2012 both Iowa and South Dakota generated close to one quarter of their electricity from wind farms. Wind power accounted for at least 10 percent of electricity generation in seven other st ...
  • A Journey of Transition: Becoming a Profession ...
    by Dan French Photo © Craig Mackintosh This time, in Part 3 of this series discussing my journey towards becoming a professional permaculture designer, I will be talking about marketing, knock-backs and my progress since the last article. Part 2 of this series focused on two large issues ...
  • Permaculture and Slavery: A System Analysis
    Something interesting happens to you once given an opportunity to take a well-taught, well-presented, and properly contextualized Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. You are provided with new tools with which to view virtually every conceivable topic through very different eyes – ...

Pointman's

  • Well, at least one of the bastards is behind bars.
    It’s been a very big week in the war against climate alarmism. FOIA revealed the password, which now gives access to all the emails contained in the CG2 release. Given that the archive contains something like 220,000 emails, you can expect a bit of a lull on the blogging front, simply beca ...
  • Climategate, a crisis of conscience.
    Sometimes in a life, you have to look at where you are and what you’ve become a part of, through the very best and the most innocent of intentions, and you hate yourself. It’s not somewhere you ever wanted or intended to be, but it is what it is. That’s where you are. Everyone ...
  • A species facing extinction.
    There are many reasons why a particular species may become extinct; a better adapted one elbows them out of their own ecological niche, the debilitating effect of a new disease they have no resistance against, over-predation or quite simply, their habitat disappearing completely. In general term ...
  • Sleeping with the enemy.
    Carbon is the Great Satan of the environmental movement. They all worry about their carbon footprint, want to impose carbon taxes on it and even have schemes to capture the poor thing and imprison it down holes in the ground. Oh the humanity. For such a supposedly caring bunch, they can be so cr ...
  • It’s 2.45 in the am and I’m reflecting on a lo ...
    I’m writing this up in real-time. There won’t be any rewrites, no polishes, no second thoughts. It’s all going to be first draft stream of consciousness stuff, whether either of us like it or not. If you’re sensitive about bad language, walk away right now because my emot ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • So, You Want to Collaborate in My Community? B ...
    Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: When I started Coastal Women for Change, it wasn't my vision to run a nonprofit. If it had been, I would have done my research and learned how to manage one. I was thrown into this work after a devastation. I was a cosmetologist before Hurricane Ka ...
  • Israeli Propaganda Event at UNO Fails Miserably
    On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli soldier spoke at an event at University of New Orleans to speak in support of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. According to reports from the event, the room was initially full. But, as the photo from the event shows, as soon as the soldier started spea ...
  • Amnesty International Urges State of Louisiana ...
    From an Amnesty International news release: Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty Interna ...
  • Angola Three Member Albert Woodfox Has Convict ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Today, February 26, District Court Judge Brady released a 34-page ruling that granted habeas to Albert Woodfox on the issue of racial discrimination in the selection of the grand jury foreperson for his 1998 retrial. This decision now overturns Albert’s convic ...
  • A Child On Death Row - The Story of Shareef Cousin
    From Resurrection After Exoneration: “I was a child. Death row didn’t affect me like it would now. Today, I’d go crazy!” On July 3, 1996, when Shareef Cousin was only seventeen years old, he became the youngest inmate on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As a matter of fa ...

Information Underground

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TVNZ

environment 360

  • Obama Unveils New Actions To Combat Climate Ch ...
    Making good on his promise to fight climate change more aggressively in his second term, President Obama is unveiling two major initiatives to reduce the U.S.’s reliance on fossil fuels, including a new $2 billion Energy Security Trust to fund the next generation of green vehicles, as well as n ...
  • U.S. Grants Will Promote Small-Scale, Modular ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week announced a new series of cost-sharing grants to promote the development of small-scale, factory-made nuclear reactors, an emerging energy source that Obama administration officials say could help replace the coal-fired plants expected to cease opera ...
  • Into the Heart of Ecuador’s Yasuni
    Few places on earth harbor as much biodiversity as Ecuador’s Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, which sits atop vast deposits of oil and now faces intense development pressure. In a Yale Environment 360 video, filmmaker Ryan Killackey travels to the heart of Yasuni with scientists inventorying its stunni ...
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