Sunday, March 17, 2013

17 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Gen. Manuel Noriega is escorted onto a U.S. Ai...
Gen. Manuel Noriega is escorted onto a U.S. Air Force aircraft by agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The former Panamanian leader will be flown to the United States, where he will be held for trial on drug charges (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Red Ice Creations

  • CIA Must End Silence on Drone Targeted Killing ...
    A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking Central Intelligence Agency documents outlining its drone targeted killing program, ruling Friday that the agency’s refusal to acknowledge the program and whether records exist about it contradicts public statements by top government officials ...
  • Ben Affleck could be hanged for war crimes: US ...
    Is Argo "just a movie?" Or is it a disguised intelligence operation - maybe even a war crime? These questions may soon be answered in court. Well-known French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre has met with Iranian officials planning a lawsuit against the makers and distributors of the controversial ...
  • Top French lawyer Olivier Metzner’s body found ...
    French lawyer Olivier Metzner’s body was found floating near his private island in Brittany. A suicide was reportedly found at his house. Figure nicknamed the ’gangsters’ lawyer’, whose clients included Manuel Noriega, discovered near Brittany island of Boëdic One of the giants of the French leg ...
  • What’s in a papal moniker
    When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio took the name Francis on being elected the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church on Wednesday, the Jesuit from Buenos Aires was only following a papal tradition that began in AD 533 with Mercurius who chose the name John II. Mercurius changed his name as he felt t ...
  • Israel celebrates successful 9/11 operation on ...
    For more than eleven years, Israel has been wildly celebrating the success of its 9/11 operation against the United States of America. The latest example: Israeli children recently dressed up as the burning Twin Towers, complete with impaled exploding airplanes, to celebrate the bizarre Jewish h ...

Russia Today

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Not My Tribe

  • Tofu, Anybody?
    Soy, soy, soy. Unless I grew upon land planted with soy… Argentina’s Bad Seeds The country’s soya industry is booming, but what is the impact on Argentinians and their land?
  • James Steele, Pentagon organizer of Iraqi tort ...
    — Why is the horrible sectarian violence still continuing in Iraq today? A new documentary exposes how the US-Pentagon organizer (James Steele) of Iraq’s death squads post overthrow of Saddam Hussein began his campaign of Pentagon made torture squads in Vietnam, carried it forward in ...
  • How the US better off kill many of the US poor ...
    The military people have socialized medical insurance that the uninsured in the US pay for these so-called ‘heroes’. And the rich have medical insurance for themselves, too. Here’s how the National Security State Right Wing assholes want us all to have actually works though. It ...
  • Yet another Fascist Pope for the Catholics
    … It really is no surprise, but the Vatican has picked yet another Fascist Pope who tries to hide it away in the closet of time. Anybody who was a member of the Argentinian Catholic clergy during the years of Argentina’s military dictatorship knew exactly what was going on and was co ...
  • The head up its own ass Empire USA has well ea ...
    — Let’s see now? The US government ignores threats from a country it has waged war against continuously now for 6 and 1/2 decades and so do the American people themselves??? Are we collectively stupid or what? It is the all brainwashed, head up its own ass Empire USA versus the &#821 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking the Debunkers Poll ...
    Did the attacks of 911 receive inside help? Click at the top of the right side column. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 
  • Remo Conscious - Welcome to the Aftermath - Do ...
    Here is the video made for the track by http://911debunkers.blogspot contributor Adam Taylor. A video of truth and justice. Plain and simple. Clips from Fabled Enemies, Terrorstorm, and Loose Change. Song: Welcome to the Aftermath by Remo Conscious
  • The Energetic Red Layer: The FTIR
    Harrit et al. announced in 2009 that the dust from the WTC buildings contains remnants of active thermitic material that must have been used to demolish them in 2001. They state that the red layer of their chips is actually composed of grains of nanothermite embedded within an energetic organic ...
  • The most honest three and a half minutes of te ...
    Published on Jun 26, 2012 Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.
  • The Mysterious Death of Author Phillip Marshal
    Alex welcomes investigative journalist and author Wayne Madsen to analyze the mysterious murder-suicide of "conspiracy theorist" author Phillip Marshall. We'll also cover other major headlines and take your calls. _______________________________________ We know 911 involved inside help&nb ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
    The abundant resources of their forest home provide the Matsés with a rich and varied diet.© James Vybiral/SurvivalAmazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés In ...
  • Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
    Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...
  • Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
    Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de Perijá, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...
  • Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
    The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...

Greg Palast

  • Hugo Chavez vs "The Network"
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine 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 to see him.” President Who ...
  • Fukushima: They Knew
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" Two years later, the Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN An excerpt from Vultures' Picnic by Greg Palast I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the n ...
  • Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi Amigo
    By Greg Palast For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today. As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, is offering the film, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, as a FREE download. Based on m ...
  • How Do You Steal a Dream?Supreme Court hears s ...
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” Sign the petition to Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act - here. Jim Crow is alive and well — and he [...]
  • Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act: Protect ...
     Sign this petition RIGHT NOW at Care2. Dr. King's Dream Act is under attack. On Wednesday February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the law's requirement that states with a history of Jim Crow voting rules let the Justice Department review new voting procedures. This is the o ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Clue In
    By Cathy Jameson I went to the thrift store yesterday and found a “vintage” Clue game in good shape with all of its pieces. While purchasing the game, I remembered this post I wrote a few years ago. Here it...
  • Happy St. Patrick's Day
    "If God sends you down a stony path, may he give you strong shoes." Here's to strong shoes for all of us as we help our children grow and prosper. Those are my girls, Bella, Gianna and Mia, St. Paddy's...
  • Stumped
    I can't think of a headline for this post. Miss G, my teenaged, gorgeous middle child, is quite a good student. With modifications, she is learning high school science and math and reading pretty darn well. Her Dad and I...
  • Weekly Wrap: Alex and His Mom, Autism and Suic ...
    By Dan Olmsted The drama now playing out at Loyola hospital in Chicago, as detailed in Contributing Editor Lisa Goes' superb reporting for Age of Autism, is a stark case in point of what so many autism families face --...
  • Dachel Media Update: Vaccine Safety, Skepticis ...
    By Anne Dachel National Vaccine Information Center: NVIC Launches National Billboard Vaccine Education Campaign Mar 14, 2013, Augusta (GA) Chronicle: Autism coverage spurned Mar 14, 2013, Calgary Herald: Uninformed skepticism clouds safety of vaccines Mar 14, 2013, UK Daily Mail:...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Food Should Be Made With Love – That’s Real Su ...
    It’s time for a revolution of the personal kind. There is nothing more effective than changing one’s own life by rejecting the artificial and digging in to create a real, honest, down to earth, local living lifestyle. It’s time to put love back on the dinner plate.
  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...
  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    You drench your fields with it in the fall. You kill anything growing. And you drench the fields again in the spring, before you plant. Then, just as you’re going to plant, you hit the fields a third time with the poison. This is in addition to all the sprayings with Roundup, which is toxic, too ...
  • They Want To Tag Us Before They Bag Us
    My advice is to all Americans is to immediately work towards becoming self-sufficient to such a degree that it appears to others that your life depends on it, because it does.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Taxpayer faces £8bn bill for Bank of England&# ...
    This Is Money – Unwinding the £375billion quantitative easing monetary stimulus programme could take an £8billion chunk out of the public finances over two years, the Bank of England has said. It emerged last year that taxpayers are to benefit from a £35billion windfall in the next few yea ...
  • More U.S. drivers texting, chatting than Weste ...
    Reuters – More U.S. drivers chatted on the phone or used email and text messaging while behind the wheel in 2011 than did their counterparts in several Western European countries, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. The data showed 69 percent of Americans ...
  • Are you getting the most out of Open Your Eyes ...
    Open Your Eyes News has been created with two key intentions in mind: - To provide the big picture of world news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; - To be an easy to use repository of news articles for researchers in all fields. Read our simple guide on how to most effectively get the most out of t ...
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for renaissance
    BBC – Its nationalistic tone will reinforce the view that he will pursue a more assertive foreign policy during his decade in power, our correspondent says. President Xi issued a warning to China’s military, saying it should improve its ability to “win battles and… protec ...
  • Canadian police arrest over 250 at anti-brutal ...
    RT – Police have rounded up more than 250 protesters participating in the annual march against police brutality in the francophone Canadian city of Montreal, Quebec. Friday’s march was declared illegal, as participants failed to disclose its itinerary. “We sent a message right at the begin ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • Happiness in Selvi’s House
    Selvi is 37 years old and lives in Karattai Village in Vannur block, in Tamil Nadu. She and her husband work as agricultural laborers and have two daughters in school.
  • Support builds for the Strike
    More and more celebrities are supporting Matt Damon in his toilet strike protesting the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for billions.
  • Spring Catchment in Haiti
    A spring is water that reaches the surface from an underground supply, appearing as small water holes or wet spots on hillsides or along river banks. In order to "catch" the water for use, the spring must be capped, allowing the water to pool up into the cement block. In this photo you can see t ...
  • A WaterCredit Pilot
    Christine Mbati has three children and was recently widowed. She is a member of the K’Obonyo self-help group and lives at Ulanda village.
  • Strike With Me to Raise Awareness
    At a press conference in Los Angeles, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water crisis.

Cryptogon

  • EU: GOVERNMENT THEFTS FROM BANK ACCOUNTS MAY H ...
    The Washington Post took the words right out of my mouth: The best the rest of the world can hope for is that Cyprus’s case is sufficiently unique that it won’t spark panic in Athens and Madrid (or in Lisbon, Dublin and Rome). Via: New York Times: In a move that could set off new [...]
  • The Internet Is a Surveillance State
    Via: CNN: The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Appl ...
  • Power Out
    Update: Power On Again — We’ve just had the first good rain in months and the power got knocked out. If updates lag, you’ll know why.
  • CYPRUS: GOVERNMENT TAKES UP TO 10% OF INDIVIDU ...
    Via: BBC: People in Cyprus have reacted with shock to news of a one-off levy of up to 10% on savings as part of a 10bn-euro (£8.7bn; $13bn) bailout agreed in Brussels. Savers could be seen queuing at cash machines amid resentment at the charge. The deal reached with euro partners and the IMF mar ...
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Scale CHIMP Robot Has ...
    Via: CMU: A team from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center is building a new class of robot to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Robotics Challenge — a human-size robot that moves, not by walking, but on rubberized tracks on the extre ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression ...
    When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen.  This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning right now, and it is a lesson that the United States will soon learn as well.  It simply is not possible to live way beyond your means forever.  You can ...
  • Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
    They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...
  • Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put B ...
    How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money?  In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very ra ...
  • The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
    The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
  • Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
    Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...

Desertification

  • A new version of my video (Willem Van Cotthem)
    On October 17, 2011 I have uploaded a short video on the way to build bottle towers for food production at home (http://youtu.be/-uDbjZ9roEQ).  My main objective was to show that it is quite easy for every family to produce fresh … Continue reading →
  • Kuwait”s participation in anti-desertifi ...
    Read at : http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2298631&language=en Kuwait”s participation in anti-desertification conf. extolled Kuwait News Adviser to Kuwait’s Permanent delegation to the United Nations, Malik al-Wazzan, said here on Friday that Kuwait’s participa ...
  • Database of Agriculture, Forestry and Land Mit ...
    Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/fao-updates-database-of-agriculture-forestry-and-land-mitigation-projects/ FAO Updates Database of Agriculture, Forestry and Land Mitigation Projects The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has produced an updated assessment of the current stat ...
  • Sustainable Agriculture Efforts in Drylands (L ...
    Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/icarda-newsletter-documents-sustainable-agriculture-efforts-in-drylands/ ICARDA Newsletter Documents Sustainable Agriculture Efforts in Drylands The March Newsletter from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) describes ...
  • Drought Adaptation, Climate Change in Africa ( ...
    Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/undp-gef-progam-tackles-drought-adaptation-climate-change-in-ethiopia-kenya-mozambique-zimbabwe/ UNDP, GEF Progam Tackles Drought Adaptation, Climate Change in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe are addressing drou ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – The House of Commons ...
    By Nathaniel Moher As most of you know, I’m still waiting for my appointment to the Canadian Senate (ever since giving up any hope that I’ll be appointed Governor General). That’s mainly because I want a job that lasts forever (even after I misuse tens of thousands of dollars in housing subsidie ...
  • Steve’s soldierly pantomime
    By Montreal Simon Ever since he came to power Stephen Harper has tried to use the military for crass political purposes. First he wanted to use it to change his image from nerdy policy wonk to Great Warrior Leader. And when that failed miserably, for obvious reasons, he set out to change the mil ...
  • Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and G ...
  • Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company ...
    By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, ”His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and ...
  • Is Google making us less lituritt?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Today is Family Literacy Day in Canada, an initiative organized by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which encourages families to incorporate reading and other literacy-related activities into their daily routines. There’s no question that developing literacy in children i ...

libcom

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Bizarre Disney Film Pulled Quickly From Public ...
    Watch as Disney CEO Edomite Eisner announces the Alien Agenda with a knowing gleam in his eye. Watch as Robert Urich narrates the show and tells many truthful secrets – specifically that UFO activity began in earnest following the Nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Watch as Disney “Im ...
  • The Sum of All Fears: CPS – Is That Chil ...
    “And Jesus called a LITTLE CHILD unto Him, and set him in the midst of them [His Disciples] and said:……… ‘whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in ...
  • WHAT HAS YOUR PASTOR DONE?
    This is a most timely message.   One of the reasons the Mormon “leaders” hated me so badly, and wanted me out of the LDS Church was because, in their own words, I was “giving 110%” .  I kid you not.  My LDS Mormon Leaders literally counseled me in the strongest possible w ...
  • BioPhotons, Light, Life, and 728 Hz
    Click on this for the PDF File titled: BioPhotons BioPhotons, Light, Life, and 728 Hz By A. True Ott, PhD, ©2013, All Rights Reserved “——And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face OF THE WATERS.  And ...
  • Iron Dome – HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF USD G ...
    The fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4310/text) gives another $211 million USD to Israel for “Iron Dome”, which is basically a version of SDI – “Star Wars”.    This is happening despite massive & ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • CAD Design- Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design ...
    Project Notes / Must Haves Additional Room for the Newly Added Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers Create a User Friendly area for the Bartenders with the addition of additional beer coolers under the lower shelf Decor Must Match Existing Finishes Materials Used 2″x20″x14′ White Oak ...
  • Karmic Korner-Grand Opening Invitation
    Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy will be at Karmic Korners Grand Opening today at 3131 Morgan Ford, St Louis MO from 11:00 AM-8:00 PM. Everyone is invited to see the: Solar Cells, Green Building, Natural Products, Home Made Wares, Up-cycled Items, Natural Beauty Supplies, Art and mo ...
  • All American Pledge
    Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy took the All American Pledge have you?   Find Professionals Who Have Taken The 5% Pledge Take The 5% Pledge American-Made Products Directory Manufacturers List Your Products Financial Aid Programs Learn More About Our InitiativeBlog Social Donat ...
  • Breaking News: Groups say Ameren Missouri prof ...
    "…utility’s own financial data show that it earned millions of dollars more than authorized in 2012. And that was before the Public Service Commission approved a $263 million increase that took effect in January…" On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Fair Energy Rate Action Fund ...
  • FREE EBook-Clean Energy-Wind,Solar,GEO Thermal
    If you have ever wanted to learn about Solar, Wind, GEO Thermal, and other clean energy producing systems now is your chance with this free EBOOK offering Green Power Homes – Quick And Easy Guide to Wind, Solar and Geothermal Energy-Kindle Edition- By: William Dollinger Get the Free EBOOK ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Why Bitcoins Have Doubled in Value
    At $43 US, the Bitcoin has more than doubled in the last twelve months.  According to Zero Hedge, this mainly relates to a 55 page report the European Central Bank published in October, expressing concern that the bitcoin’s popularity represents a potential threat to the reputati ...
  • Bitcoins: Good as Gold?
    Bitcoins are a safe decentralized currency that’s  ideal for businesses and consumers alike because it’s controlled by the people who use it, rather than banks. Hate banks? Fed up with Wall Street incompetence and criminality? Concerned the impending economic col ...
  • The Woman Who Tried to Stop the War on Iran
      Below is a mind boggling half hour Press TV documentary about former White House adviser Gwynneth Todd. In it she briefly describes the battle she, and others in the Pentagon establishment, waged to fight efforts by AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) to provoke a U ...
  • Groups Demand Records of Plans to Assassinate ...
    Within hours of President Hugo Chavez’s untimely death (he was 58), US civil rights groups filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with numerous federal agencies seeking information and documents that “relate to or reference or discuss any information regarding or plan ...
  • Syrian Rebels Take UN Peacekeepers Hostage
    Less than a week after the Obama administration pledged to supply non-lethal aid to the Syrian resistance, Syrian rebels have taken twenty UN peacekeeper hostage in the Golan Heights. The latter is disputed territory claimed by both Israel and Syria, following Isreal’s occ ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Hold Your Own 10th Anniversary 'Bowling for Co ...
    Please check this page frequently for updates all week This coming Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine' winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary. To mark the date, Michael is hosting a screening of the film in New York City &nda ...
  • Jeffrey Toobin on Sandra Day O'Connor's 'Regre ...
    From NPR's Fresh Air With Terry Gross, March 6th, 2013: TERRY GROSS: So finally, since I did just talk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday, I want to ask you about something that I asked her, which related to something that you had said. And in one of our previous interviews when you and ...
  • Left on the Cutting Room Floor of 'The Gatekee ...
    On February 28th, 2013, Dror Moreh, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Gatekeepers,' spoke with Dave Davies of NPR's Fresh Air about what he wasn't able to include in the film due to time constraints: DAVE DAVIES: I know that you talked to these gentlemen a long time, and there m ...
  • Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Ta ...
    [View the story "Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Talks About American Consumerism on Twitter" on Storify]
  • Statement of Emad Burnat, Co-Director of '5 Br ...
    Emad Burnat released the following statement in response to a second Buzzfeed story about his detention with his family at Los Angeles International Airport while en route to the 2013 Oscars. When I arrived at LAX with my 8 year old child and wife, excited to attend the Academy Awards, the las ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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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.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • U.S. appeals court will let media argue at App ...
    A coalition of media advocacy groups and news organizations will be allowed to argue at an upcoming federal appeals court hearing over document secrecy in Apple Inc's high-stakes patent litigation against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.... Throughout the Apple/Samsung case, both companies asked U ...
  • Mass. U.S. Attorney Wont Appeal Tewksbury Mote ...
    The Massachusetts U.S. attorney will not appeal a federal judge's January ruling against the seizure of a family owned motel in Tewksbury that the government claimed was facilitating drug crimes. The judge ruled that federal prosecutors did not have enough evidence to seize the motel. ...The U. ...
  • Notes from Register Pallantes The Next Great C ...
    On March 4, 2013, Maria Pallante, the 12th United States Register of Copyrights, delivered "The Next Great Copyright Act" at Columbia Law School. In the lecture, Register Pallante reflected on the history of other major comprehensive revisions to United States copyright law. She argued that the ...
  • Inside The Actors Studio - Billy Joel
    Billy Joel on Inside the Actors Studio hosted by James Lipton. [PJ: Guess how much he made from his fabulously successful album, Piano Man? He netted out $7,000 from an album that went gold. How is that possible? And when the music business execs tell us that sharing music robs from artists, ...
  • Surprise: Register Of Copyrights Expected To C ...
    For a long time now, the idea of an overhaul of copyright law in the US has mostly been seen as a pipedream. However, it appears that the Register of Copyright, Maria Pallante, may actually be angling for a major bit of copyright reform. Coming up next Wednesday, she's going to be testifying bef ...

WideShut

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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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • General debate, March 17, 2013
  • Trade and Human Rights
    I was relieved today that my colleague Kennedy Graham put out a media release challenging our Government to raise human rights concerns with the President of the country formerly known as Burma. I went to that country last year. I was impressed by how many people spoke to me about their hope for ...
  • Putting animal testing out of its misery
    I thought it might be time for a bit of an update on the party pill animal testing issue. Late last year we highlighted the issue of party pills potentially being tested for safety on dogs. This came as part of the Government’s process to regulate party pills, legislation for which has just been ...
  • Japan and Gas Hydrates-Fire in Ice
    In news out this week, it’s clear the new frontline of climate change is deep at the bottom of the ocean.
  • Another state housing sell-off in Sandringham
    Just like it is all around the country, Housing New Zealand is busy demolishing state houses and selling off the land to private developers in Sandringham. It’s a tragedy, not only for those who have now lost their homes in the area, but also a tragic missed opportunity to invest in more o ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How Cells from an Aborted Fetus are Used to Cr ...
    By Dr. Mercola For several years anti-abortion advocates have been warning that a new technology for enhancing flavors such as sweetness and saltiness uses aborted fetal cells in the process. The biotech company using this novel process, Senomyx, has signed contracts with Pepsi, Ajinomoto ...
  • FLOW Documentary Exposes the Worldwide Water C ...
    By Dr. Mercola Water is the most basic requirement for life. If Earth had no water, life as we know it would not exist. You can go only a few days without water if you hope to survive. People in the West often take water for granted. You turn on your tap and out it pours – like mag ...
  • Why are Americans Getting So Little in Return ...
    By Dr. Mercola Americans spend twice as much on health care per capita than any other country in the world; in fact according to a series of studies by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co, the US spends more on health care than the next 10 biggest spenders combined: Japan, ...
  • Blue Light and Sunshine May be the Next Gen We ...
    By Dr. Mercola Skin and soft tissue infections are among the most common bacterial infections encountered in clinical practice. Such infections can be caused by a number of bacteria that gain entrance into your body via cuts, scrapes, bites or open wounds. Even bacteria that normally live ...
  • Will You Continue Allowing the FDA to Dictate ...
    By Pete Kennedy, Esq People’s access to raw milk is determined by state law,1 and there are many differences among the states. Raw milk sales or distribution are legal in a majority of the states, and there has been a trend towards improving access in recent years. Two major holdouts ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
    The abundant resources of their forest home provide the Matsés with a rich and varied diet.© James Vybiral/SurvivalAmazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés In ...
  • Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
    Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...
  • Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
    Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de Perijá, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...
  • Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
    The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Robobees
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Harvard: Overview of the Micro Air Vehicles Project INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior … we aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power sources; spur innovations in ultra-low-power computi ...
  • Why Is the CEO of the Global Anti-Poverty Grou ...
    from civileats.com: In its continuing frenzy to silence potential critics, Coca-Cola issued a press release recently that announced the following: "Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., has been nominated to stand for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at its Annual Meeting of share owners ...
  • Homeless Houston Veteran Ticketed for Dumpster ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: News92FM: A homeless Navy veteran faces up to a $500 fine for dumpster diving in downtown Houston. Veteran James Kelly was cited for “disturbing the contents of a garbage can” on Thursday morning of last week in front of the Hobby Center. Matt Sampsell repo ...
  • 15-Year-Old Invents New Test for Early, Reliab ...
    from mercola.com: Pancreatic cancer is a devastatingly fatal form of cancer, and is typically regarded as the most deadly and universally rapid-killing form of cancer. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute,1 an estimated 45,220 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this ...
  • The great orange juice scam
    from therealfoodchannel.com: "Fresh" and "pure"? One of the great scams of the industrial food cartel is the so-called "fresh" orange juice sold in supermarkets. This one particularly galls me because for years when I was dirt poor and had very few food choices, I thought I was doing a healt ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression ...
    When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen.  This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning right now, and it is a lesson that the United States will soon learn as well.  It simply is not possible to live way beyond your means forever.  You can ...
  • Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
    They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...
  • Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put B ...
    How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money?  In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very ra ...
  • The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
    The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
  • Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
    Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 9 Highest Grossing Smartphone Apps of All Time
    Third-party smartphone apps have been there from the early Symbian days. But the revolution really took off with the arrival of iOS and Android. Android and iOS with their centralized app store concept managed to attract tons of users as well as developers. Apps can be clubbed into 3 differe ...
  • Looks like Lightworks for Linux Beta is Almost ...
    Video editing software are not a rarity in Linux. OpenShot and Kdenlive are two good examples. But when it comes to professional grade video editing software, Linux lacks good alternatives. But according to redshark news, that is all going to end now. Lightworks for Linux is not a distant drea ...
  • 2013 r/Linux Survey Puts Ubuntu on Top Again, ...
    Wait is finally over. The results of second r/Linux survey is out. With nearly twice as much people participating, this year's results are even more significant. But if you look closely, the end results are not much different from the 2012 r/Linux survey. Ubuntu reigns on top still while the c ...
  • Ubuntu GNOME Remix now an Official Ubuntu Deri ...
    If you want the best of GNOME Shell and Ubuntu, there is no competition, Ubuntu GNOME Remix it is. We concluded our earlier review of Ubuntu GNOME Remix with the "best distro for Netbooks" title. It seems like a lot of people do agree with us. Ubuntu GNOME Remix has been renamed to just "Ubunt ...
  • Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ) Release ...
    Another day, another game for Linux. This time, it is an official Valve title, and it is none other than Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ). The beta version of this game had a limited release earlier in February and now it is officially available for Linux via Steam. It is the fifth Valve ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | Talking ’b ...
    By Visible As a result of the novels I write, I have made a serious study of sexual psychopaths and their connections to governments, established religions, law enforcement, mass media and the entertainment world. The connections are there and can be found by anyone taking the trouble to look in ...
  • Witness to Rachel Corrie’s Death Respond ...
    By ROBERT MACKEY On March 16, 2003, after Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, fellow activists from the International Solidarity Movement tried in vain to save her life.International Solidarity Movement/Associated PressOn March 16 ...
  • “Jews” Are Not Descendants of Abraham
    By Texe Marrs “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan.” — (Revelation 2:9) “And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land…” — (Genesis 12:7) Who should possess the land of Israel? Christian evangel ...
  • New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto P ...
    Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times There truly is no rest for the wicked, and Monsanto is at war once again against health conscious consumers with the latest ‘Monsanto Protection Act‘, managing to sneak wording into the latest Senate legislation that would give them blanket immunit ...
  • Study: Iraq War Cost 190K Lives, $2.2 Trillion
    The U.S.-led war in Iraq claimed 190,000 lives and will cost the U.S. government at least $2.2 trillion, according to the findings of a project at Brown University released Thursday. The Costs of War report, released ahead of the 10th anniversary of the war on March 20, said that the financial c ...

Veterans Today

  • An Open Letter to Sarah Palin
    …By Jonas E. Alexis   “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).   Dear Sarah Palin, First of all, you have served as the 9th Governor of Alaska from 2006 until 2009. Thank You. Your service certainly means much to us all. Jus ...
  • Breaking The Spell
    A spell of terror was cast on America by the 911 attack.  After this attack, a pall of fear descended on America that has remained in place until just recently, now starting to diminish thanks to the blatant efforts of gun-grabbers in Congress. The 911 Terror attack elicited massive fear in the ...
  • Zionism going through death throes
    Zionism is dead. As it goes thru its death throes, much is revealed of its nature.
  • This is a letter to Jewish woman who is a long ...
    This is a difficult letter for me to write and for you to read. Actually you are a major author here by way of all that you have taught me.
  • Robbing East Jerusalem
    Robbing East Jerusalem Thou shalt not steal—Exodus 20:15 By www.roitov.com — “Jerusalem of gold, and of copper, and of light… to your songs I am violin” Governments adore lies. No parliament legislates laws forbidding governments to tell them. George W. Bush wasn’t reques ...

electric politics

  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...
  • The Bargain With Hell
    Delegates from the Northern and Southern States didn't do any simple deal over slavery in order to devise a Constitution. No: they consciously created a complex, interlocking system of iron-clad guarantees so that within the Union the institution of slavery would exist forever. These men truly i ...
  • A Question of Rights
    Every American has a basic human right to live without the threat of gun violence. And that right exists prior to all the legal or political barriers that get thrown at sane gun control measures. Paradoxically, perhaps, if the gun culture wants to deny us our human right to live in safety their ...
  • Slavery and the Second Amendment
    High School civics does not provide a sufficient basis for understanding the Constitution. "Exhibit A" being the Second Amendment. Whereas modern American myth treats the Second Amendment as if it were written to guarantee the right of freedom loving men to defend their homes and sacred honor, i ...
  • A Hermeneutic and an Erotic Philology (of Brig ...
    It's not that Brigitte Bardot brings life to the meaning of the word pulchritude, although of course she does, it's that somehow she forces us to cherish our ignorance of her. A truly rare (and great) gift. And if in the superposition of a spacetime vortex she fundamentally altered the history o ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Summer Job Opportunity: Environmental Technici ...
    Position:  Environmental Technician Organization:  Eagle Point – Blue Rapids Parks Council ...
  • Edmonton Water Week
    Edmonton Water Week 18 Mar 2013 (All day) - 22 Mar 2013 (All day) From the Edmonton Water Week website: Edmonton Water Week is a full week of events to mark World Water Da ...
  • Seedy Sunday
    Edmonton Seedy Sunday 17 Mar 2013 - 11:00 - 16:00 seed swap • ​community organizations • seed vendors • crafts for kids •&n ...
  • Government updates "Guide to Preparing Environ ...
    Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Attention EIA wonks, and anyone interested in the environmental assessment and approvals process in Alberta: Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development has updated ...
  • New Alberta Energy Regulator Consultations
    Organization:  Alberta Energy Initiative:  Responsible Energy Development Act Regulations ...

Stop NATO

  • Poland: U.S. Air Force Trains For NATO Wars Abroad
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe March 14, 2013 Screaming Eagle V: U.S.-Polish air forces improve interoperability with NATO exercise By Tech. Sgt. Kenya Shiloh 52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs F-16 Fighting Falcons at the Aviano Air Base in Italy to be permanently transferred to Poland ==== “Bui ...
  • Poland: U.S. Air Force Trains For NATO Wars Abroad
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe March 14, 2013 Screaming Eagle V: U.S.-Polish air forces improve interoperability with NATO exercise By Tech. Sgt. Kenya Shiloh 52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs F-16 Fighting Falcons at the Aviano Air Base in Italy to be permanently transferred to Poland ==== “Bui ...
  • Romain Rolland: Against grasping imperialism a ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From War Literature (1915) Translated by C.K. Ogden The intellectuals on both sides have been much in evidence since the beginning of the war; they have, indeed, brought so much ...
  • Romain Rolland: Against grasping imperialism a ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From War Literature (1915) Translated by C.K. Ogden The intellectuals on both sides have been much in evidence since the beginning of the war; they have, indeed, brought so much ...
  • Georgia: NATO Trains Member, Partner States&#8 ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia March 16, 2013 Basic Winter Training Course Graduation The Basic Winter Training Course has officially accomplished today. The closing ceremony was held at the Sachkhere Mountain Training School. Deputy Defence Minister Tamar Karosanidze, Deputy Chief of JS of GAF ...

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Intel Hub

  • Brooklyn Under Siege – Day 4
    Deborah Dupre | Conventional media reporters remain for the most part absent in the Brooklyn riots Friday, Day 4 of the U.S. “paramilitary” clashing with hundreds of protesters, angry at the Saturday police killing 16-year-old Kimani Gray, shot eleven times.
  • Creating a Surveillance and DNA Database for E ...
    Brandon Turbeville | Coming in combination with such recent announcements as the open desire of agencies like DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to create an Internet server that will house all verbal communications, it can scarcely be debated that the U.S.
  • Zimbweans Find Novel Way of Using Mobiles
    Haru Mutasa | In Zimbabwe people are slowly beginning to pay for goods and services using their mobile phones - part of what's being called a micro-banking revolution.
  • Senior Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) O ...
    Collective Evolution | The “Anchorage” Incident is a well known UFO event involving a veteran Japanese airline pilot who saw three UFOs following his 747 aircraft carrier for over 400 miles.
  • The Deficit and the White House Tour Blues
    Bruce Yandle | A frustrated group of sixth-graders from St. Paul's Lutheran School in Waverly, Iowa, recently sent a message to President Obama: "The White House is our house," the class said in a Facebook video. "Please let us visit."

FRS

  • Indian state attacking villages, homes, school ...
    [Note:  The "Janatana Sarkars" are collective forms of political and economic organization of the adivasis (India's indigenous peoples) who have organized themselves under the leadership of the Maoists. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————&#82 ...
  • India: Brutal state’s war on the people ...
    We will defeat Maoists design through development: Jairam Ramesh PTI Mar 3, 2013 (“In the name of forest dwellers,…) BHAWANIPATNA (ODISHA): The Centre would “fight” Naxals through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, unio ...
  • India: Brutal state’s war on the people ...
    We will defeat Maoists design through development: Jairam Ramesh PTI Mar 3, 2013 (“In the name of forest dwellers,…) BHAWANIPATNA (ODISHA): The Centre would “fight” Naxals through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, unio ...
  • Forced labor in India — 37 bonded labore ...
    The Times of India,  February 24, 2013 BHOPAL: The Morena district administration with the help on an NGO rescued 37 bonded labourers including women and children from a brick kiln in Joura tehsil.Sources in the district administration said, of these 21 labourers hail from Hathras district in Ut ...
  • Forced labor in India — 37 bonded labore ...
    The Times of India,  February 24, 2013 BHOPAL: The Morena district administration with the help on an NGO rescued 37 bonded labourers including women and children from a brick kiln in Joura tehsil.Sources in the district administration said, of these 21 labourers hail from Hathras district in Ut ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • No Cheers for Rob Portman's Same-Sex Marriage ...
    Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio came out in favor of same-sex marriage. So why aren't I applauding him?Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Mar 15, 2013
  • Rand Paul Stands Tall in 13-Hour Fillibuster
    It was like something out of a movie when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky took to the floor of the Senate and conducted a 13 hour filibuster, holding up the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director, demanding the answer to one question.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 07, 2013
  • Death of Chavez Provides Opportunities for Ven ...
    Now that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan tyrant, has shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving Hollywood, Cuba, and Iran in severe mourning, the people of the country his misruled have a chance to begin to take their destiny into their own hands.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 06, 2013
  • How Opponents Failed to Beat Chuck Hagel
    A week ago, Hagel’s nomination was effectively stalled. This week, Hagel cleared the filibuster easily, and the GOP declared victory. How did that happen? It came when they unwisely questioned Hagel’s military service.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Feb 27, 2013
  • Hacking an Act of War? China Hacking Report Ra ...
    A new reports blames China for extensive hacking into U.S. companies and organizations, claiming that People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 is a government/military corps of hackers dangerously proficient in gaining access to American servers.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Feb 19, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Scientists Resurrect Bonkers Extinct Frog That ...
    It's been gone since 1983, but the Lazarus Project has brought it back to life. In 1983, the world lost one of its weirdest frogs. The gastric-brooding frog, native to tiny portions of Queensland, Australia, gave birth through its mouth, the only frog to do so (in fact, very few other animals i ...
  • Megapixels: Monkeys Take A Ride On The World's ...
    Wheeeeeeee! In the rainforests of South America, squirrel monkeys and capybaras would never meet. While squirrel monkeys live in trees up to 60 feet high, capybaras—the world’s largest rodents—dwell along river banks. But at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park in the Netherlands, the two species hav ...
  • BeerSci: Are Hops Addictive?
    It certainly looks that way if you hang around beer people. Modern-day hopheads--the beer drinkers who gleefully, obsessively seek out hoppier and hoppier brews--don't usually start out that way. Most people have a natural aversion to bitter compounds--useful for avoiding eating lethal doses of ...
  • A New Plan For A 3-D Printed House That's Actu ...
    We've got a few contenders now. Who's going to print a house first? We've already covered two plans for a 3-D printed house, and they couldn't be more different. The first is a Mobius-strip-style building without a beginning or an ending. The second design would be made of plastic, and it look ...
  • A Solid-Gold Miniature Replica Of Apollo 11, B ...
    Part of an exhibition of jewelry inspired by space happening at the Forbes Galleries. Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age, an exhibition opening this weekend at the Forbes Galleries, is showing off jewelry, precious and otherwise, that's inspired by space, crafted from meteorites, and ...

Veterans Today

  • An Open Letter to Sarah Palin
    …By Jonas E. Alexis   “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).   Dear Sarah Palin, First of all, you have served as the 9th Governor of Alaska from 2006 until 2009. Thank You. Your service certainly means much to us all. Jus ...
  • Breaking The Spell
    A spell of terror was cast on America by the 911 attack.  After this attack, a pall of fear descended on America that has remained in place until just recently, now starting to diminish thanks to the blatant efforts of gun-grabbers in Congress. The 911 Terror attack elicited massive fear in the ...
  • Zionism going through death throes
    Zionism is dead. As it goes thru its death throes, much is revealed of its nature.
  • This is a letter to Jewish woman who is a long ...
    This is a difficult letter for me to write and for you to read. Actually you are a major author here by way of all that you have taught me.
  • Robbing East Jerusalem
    Robbing East Jerusalem Thou shalt not steal—Exodus 20:15 By www.roitov.com — “Jerusalem of gold, and of copper, and of light… to your songs I am violin” Governments adore lies. No parliament legislates laws forbidding governments to tell them. George W. Bush wasn’t reques ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Baseball's Team USA: Symbol of American Decline
    Puerto Rico celebrates annihilating the US in the USYou kind of expected this result but it's worth mentioning anyway as a fine metaphor for American decline: For the third straight World Baseball Classic (WBC)--held in the United States for the third consecutive time, no less--Team USA has been ...
  • Pope Francis & Liberation Theology's Latin Shadow
    Well, well, I suppose this is a halfway decent result: Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is someone from the third world even if he is a child of (white) Italian immigrants. As I suggested, it's partly a concession to the still-strong Italian contingent. Supposedly the runner-up from l ...
  • USA v the World: Political Economy of Accounting
    One of the more arcane debates in international political economy I am aware of from taking lots of accounting courses over the years is that which concerns adoption of accounting standards. Basel III capital adequacy standards notwithstanding, this subject matter is admittedly dull but quite im ...
  • A Bit Less Lame Than US-EU FTA: Japan in TPP
    After the "who cares" of the US-EU FTA, here's something marginally more significant. There is no doubt that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is seeking American favour in a very big way. The postwar US-Japan relationship has been characterized by lopsided deals to the former's advantage. Think of limitin ...
  • Americans Who Hate America: Latino Sports Fans
    One of the more interesting aspects of the increasingly Hispanic population of the United States is their dislike of American national teams when they face those of Mexico. This phenomenon has been going on for years when football's (soccer's) Team USA faces--or, more accurately, get its butt wh ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression ...
    When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen.  This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning right now, and it is a lesson that the United States will soon learn as well.  It simply is not possible to live way beyond your means forever.  You can ...
  • Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
    They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...
  • Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put B ...
    How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money?  In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very ra ...
  • The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Medi ...
    The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent.  But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?  After all, you would think that it should be.  The Obama administration has "borrowed" more than 6 trillion dollars f ...
  • Should You Move To Another Country To Escape T ...
    Why are so many people leaving the United States right now?  Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America.  According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more th ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN tourism agency welcomes Jamaica's relaxatio ...
    The United Nations tourism agency today welcomed the decision by the Government of Jamaica to relax visa regulations for tourists originating in a number of Eastern European countries, while also extending its current visa waiver system for some Latin American nationals.
  • US recreational cannabis use would violate int ...
    Implementing the decisions of popular votes held in the United States in Colorado and Washington to allow for the recreational use of cannabis would be a violation of international laws, the United Nations body tasked with monitoring the production and consumption of narcotics worldwide said today.
  • UN expert warns against abuse of solitary conf ...
    The United Nations expert on torture has called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the practise of solitary confinement and its harmful effects in the Americas, particularly in Latin America, and urged stronger regulation of its use.
  • At General Assembly, UN officials laud Hugo Ch ...
    United Nations officials today lauded the commitment of Hugo Chávez to the cause of social justice, as the General Assembly paid tribute to the memory of the late President of Venezuela.
  • Independent UN expert urges national action pl ...
    Haiti needs to develop a coordinated plan of action on human rights and a framework on the rule of law, an independent United Nations expert has said, noting that while positive changes are coming very slowly, there is a strong expectation from Haitians to see improvements.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • John Davis featured in video about TrekWest
     TrekWest’s John Davis hikes solo through Arizona’s longest single mountain range His 35-mile trek through Chiricahua Mountains includes big peaks, lots of snow, and a premier wildlife corridor  Portal, AZ — TrekWest conservationist and adventurer, John Davis, says he’s “looking forward to exper ...
  • Mexican Wolves 15th Anniversary Celebration!
    Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Return of Mexican Gray Wolves to the Southwest Friday, April 5th 6 – 10 p.m. O’Niell’s 4310 Central SE in Albuquerque Almost 15 years after they were first reintroduced to the wild, there are only 75 Mexican wolves in the wild. Please join us to celebrate th ...
  • Dave Foreman Speaking in Michigan March 21st
      Dave will give a lecture, open to the public, titled “Rewilding North America,” from 2 – 3:30 PM in Room 1030, the CB (CASL) Auditorium. Q&A time is included. For more information, please contact David Skrbina, skrbina@umd.umich.edu The CB Auditorium is located at 49 ...
  • Dave Foreman Speaking in Michigan March 21st
      Dave will give a lecture, open to the public, titled “Rewilding North America,” from 2 – 3:30 PM in Room 1030, the CB (CASL) Auditorium. Q&A time is included. For more information, please contact David Skrbina, skrbina@umd.umich.edu The CB Auditorium is located at 49 ...
  • Lucky Bobcat!
    This situation doesn’t always work out this way for the wildlife caught in illegal traps.  Great story as told by one of the rescuers.

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Is It PossibleThe Ten Commandments Stone Table ...
    The above inscription is very unique for several reasons. First, it is written in an ancient Hebrew script. Second it is located near the small town of Los Lunas in the State of New Mexico, USA. ~ Ste Webb - Photos read more
  • The CIA has Attempted to Assassinate 50 Foreig ...
    The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was warned by Fidel Castro to be careful of a very specific attack, namely a quick jab from an infected needle. Such a warning coming from a leader who has reportedly been the target of CIA assassination plots more than 600 times in over 50 years, wa ...
  • Venezuela Unable to Proceed with Embalming Hug ...
    The Venezuelan government announced that it has now ruled out embalming the body of Hugo Chavez after receiving a report from a Russian medical commission, which said that carrying out the procedure would mean removing the late leader’s remains to Russia for at least seven months. ~ Related a ...
  • 12 Tips... 'Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do ...
    During the Great Depression, frugality was considered a virtue and the phrase “use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without. ” was the guiding principal in most households. ~ Gaye Levy read more
  • One Hundred Reasons to Abandon Public Educati ...
    In a recent article, I noted in passing that "there are a hundred compelling reasons for removing your children and grandchildren from the public schools, regardless of any practical or financial inconveniences this may cause you." My choice of the round figure one hundred was purely a rhet ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Hiding In Plain Sight
    For whatever the reason, you may need to hide in plain sight while moving through an area. You don’t want to be seen or noticed by someone (or in general). The situation may be such that you cannot stop and hide because you need to get out of there or pass through the area without [...]
  • New DOW Highs, A BULL($#!T) Market
    The stock market DOW has been hitting high after high, day after day during this past week… so the economy must be fixed, right? Happy days are here again? WRONG. Watching the main stream media day after day on the new highs of the stock market, and there’s no mention of the ENORMOUS ...
  • WATER Sources and Treatment
    Water as you probably know, is a survival priority that comes before food. In fact, it is an often reported fact that we cannot survive much longer than 3 days without it being replenished in our bodies. A very small number of people have been known to survive for up to a week without water [...]
  • FOOD STORAGE 101, Inventory
    Maintaining a food storage inventory will help optimize your emergency preparedness planning of food preps. An inventory may sound simple enough, but it takes some considerable work in the beginning followed by the diligence to maintain the system. If you have already stored away a quantity of f ...
  • COMSEC
    COMSEC (Communications Security) The discipline of preventing unauthorized interceptors from accessing telecommunications in an intelligible form, while still delivering content to the intended recipients. The protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons informati ...

Fast Company

  • Facebook Names New CTO: Report
    Mike Schroepfer has spent five years at Facebook working on its mobile efforts. Facebook has named veteran Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer as its new CTO, TechCrunch reported Friday afternoon. According to the report, Schroepfer has led most of the social network's mobile eff ...
  • Making Art From Other Art, Using Microsoft Pow ...
    PowerPoint, a solo show of German artist Michael Riedel, takes the 23-year-old program as a jumping off point. Michael Riedel copies. He copies the work of others, he copies his own work, and he invites others to do the same. In his hometown of Frankfurt, he is infamous for staging copycat ...
  • Can We Get From New York To Boston On One Gall ...
    If Volkswagen’s new super-efficient XL1 has anything to say about it. For the world’s automakers, there is a new race. There is no track, and no finish line except to drive as far as mechanically possible on one gallon of gas (or its electrical equivalent). The latest champion, ...
  • How Your Chair Changes Your Mindset
    Where and how we sit has a lot to do with our psychological state of mind when interacting with other people. Here, Continuum’s Mike Arney and Craig LaRosa delve into the nuances of seating. Think of how many common expressions we use to talk about the significance of simply sitting ...
  • Kremlin Under Siege By Steven Seagal
    Steven Seagal left America to go teach those Russians a thing or two. About physical fitness. Seriously, this actually happened. When Steven Seagal said recently that he was leaving to go whip some Russian kids into shape, for once it wasn’t a ready-made tough-guy line for one of his ...

Jadaliyya

  • Maghreb Media Roundup (March 15)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • The Sad Potential End of Beheadings in Saudi A ...
    What is the world coming to? First stone-throwing is banned (primarily officially) and now this. What’s next? Prosecuting “honor crimes” as regular ones? In a fast-paced world, and a faster-paced Saudi Arabia (KSA), anything seems possible. According to an AhramOnline report, Saudi Arabia may s ...
  • Tunisia and the IMF: A Beggar State and an Imp ...
    In November 2012, Tunisia signed a loan with the World Bank for a total value of five hundred million dollars. This was on top of other loans received in November from various lenders that totaled seven hundred million dollars. Following an interview with Reuters last month, Riadh Bettaieb, the ...
  • Bedoon Children Arbitrarily Arrested (Video)
    On 4 October 2012, Kuwaiti security forces arbitrarily detained five Bedoon [stateless] children in or around their homes in Timaa’ hours after a peaceful protest there had come to an end. In this short documentary, "Without (Bedoon) Guilt," Group 29 records the forgotten story of thes ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (March 14)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...

mediagazer

  • Bribery Allegations Surfaced Against WSJ in Ch ...
    Wall Street Journal: Bribery Allegations Surfaced Against WSJ in China  —  The Justice Department last year opened an investigation into allegations that employees at The Wall Street Journal's China news bureau bribed Chinese officials for information for news articles.  &m ...
  • Newspapering Is a Business: The Death of the L ...
    Camille Dodero / Gawker: Newspapering Is a Business: The Death of the Legendary Boston Phoenix  —  Yesterday, the Boston Phoenix announced that the alternative-newsweekly would stop publishing after 47 years.  I learned this by phone, from someone who'd been a colleague of ...
  • How CNN gathered the views of 20K Africans by ...
    Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk: How CNN gathered the views of 20K Africans by SMS  —  CNN partnered with a start-up called Jana which rewards people with mobile phone credit for answering surveys  —  Respondents fill in surveys via feature phones, receiving mo ...
  • With Pulse Following Zite's Lead, Mark Johnson ...
    Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: With Pulse Following Zite's Lead, Mark Johnson Talks About News Reading App Landscape  —  Earlier this week, I reported that LinkedIn was readying a purchase of Pulse, one of the more popular of the many news reader apps, for upward of $50 million.&nbs ...
  • Publishers Branch Out - Publishers are getting ...
    Josh Sternberg / Digiday: Publishers Branch Out  —  Publishers are getting smarter about data.  They're using their own to find their audience elsewhere.  —  With banner click through rates hovering around .09 percent, it's not surprising that publishers fro ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/14/13 - State with Highest Obesity Rate Pass ...
    obesity.procon.org - State with Highest Obesity Rate Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill
  • 3/13/13 - Does the death penalty deter crime?
    deathpenalty.procon.org - Does the death penalty deter crime? - Read pro and con arguments from former New York Governor George E. Pataki (pro), former US District Court and US Court of Appeals Judge H. Lee Sarokin (con), Emory University Professor of Economics Paul H. Rubin (pro), Stanford ...
  • 3/7/13 - 11 States with Pending Legislation to ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org  - UPDATED: 11 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - New bills to legalize medical marijuana were introduced in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, and West Virginia. Bills in Oklahoma and South Dakota have died.
  • 3/5/13 - Critical Thinking Video Series #3: El ...
    votingmachines.procon.org – Critical Thinking Video Series #3: Electronic Voting Machines – Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process by using modern technology to our advantage, reducing lost votes, and expanding access for blind voters and non-English speakers? Or do they increa ...
  • 2/21/13 - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medi ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Defeated - The House Rules Committee gave HB84 an "unfavorable report," which killed the bill on Feb. 20, 2013. Eight states currently have pending legislation that would legalize medical marijuana if passed.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Greener, Green or Sufficiently Green: Inside t ...
    Last month I attended a Chatham House event on ‘Green Growth: Transforming economies for competitiveness and resilience?’. The concept of...
  • Living within the Boundaries – the ultimate ec ...
      Listening to Jeffrey Sachs’ clarity of speech and eloquent use of the English language, you would be forgiven for...
  • Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match… just ...
    I don’t imagine I will go back there often, but I found myself at the Carlton Club last night. I...
  • Brian Cox does some heavy lifting for UK science
    A personable presentation and a skilled Q&A given by Brian Cox last night, on receipt of the 27th Royal Society Michael Faraday award and lecture. Cox shared a story, his own personal timeline – a scientific journey littered by moments and personalities (Apollo, Benoski, Sagan, Feynman, the ...
  • Ashes to Ashes
    “Ashes to ashes” is how Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) John Beddington’s term in office has been coined, as he started with the crisis around the volcanic eruption of ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano and is coming to a close with the issues around Ash die-back disease affe ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Goverment Admits Shell Wasn't Ready for Arctic ...
    Wind, waves, fog and unpredictable ice floes pose dangers to drillers in the Arctic. Photo: NOAA After a 60-day review of what could charitably be described as a disastrous Arctic drilling season, the Department of the Interior has released a critical assessment of Shell's offshore activities ...
  • The Mystery of the Mangled Mola
    Somehow this video escaped our notice a few months back, but it's never too late to share with you the Mystery of the Mangled Mola, which comes to us courtesy of the precocious students of Mrs. Osorio's second grade class at Carmel River school in Carmel, California. In the video above, thes ...
  • Great Shark News from Delaware and Abroad
    Oceanic whitetip stands to benefit from new regulations. Photo: Wikimedia Commons This week brought great news for shark populations that are dwindling both in U.S. waters and worldwide. Today, the Delaware House of Representatives introduced a bill prohibiting the possession, trade, sale and ...
  • What Pollution Looks Like
    March 13th fish kill in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon. Photo REUTERS/Sergio Moraes Rowers take your mark! This lagoon will be the site of the rowing competition at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics, but yesterday this was the scene, as thousands of fish died and had to be removed after ...
  • The Death of a Queen
    A pod of orcas Photo: Wikimedia commons On January 10, a recreational boater reported spotting the remains of an orca (killer whale) stranded on the shore.  Three days later, scientists from the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture and Land and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks arrived to c ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • It’s St. Paddy’s Day, So Drink! We Always Do.
    WE SCOTS-IRISH will use any day as an excuse to celebrate. This one is for Marjorie Marie Cloughley McKain Marshall, otherwise known as my mother and the heroine of my life. Familiar with the Irish language and culture, Patrick chose to incorporate traditional ritual into his lessons of Christia ...
  • Showtime’s Dick Cheney Doc Reveals What Obama ...
    “If you’re a man of principle, compromise is a bit of a dirty word. The President made the decision that he wanted to avoid major controversy. It was his call, so that’s what we did.” – Dick Cheney on George W. Bush’s decision to reverse himself on warrantless ...
  • Obama Pledges in Private Meeting with Republic ...
    OH, BUT that’s not all, folks. President Obama also tells Republicans he’s not trying to push a deficit deal that might help Democrats win back the House. From The Hill: President Obama pledged in a private meeting with Senate Republicans on Thursday to challenge his own party on ent ...
  • Music Tonight: JT and Jimmy Fallon… Pink, with ...
    ENJOY your weekend. What an incredible week JT had on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”
  • Queer Talk: LifeWay Southern Baptist Poll Find ...
    LifeWay Christian Resources provides the Southern Baptist Convention with “Christian products and services.” LifeWay has a research division, and a recent national poll produced findings that really aren’t surprising, and add another confirmation to the changes in how the nation understands LGBT ...

Hudson New York

  • Germany vs. Radical Islamists
    Germany has banned three ultra-conservative Salafist Muslim groups which the Interior Ministry says want to overturn democracy and install a system based on Islamic Sharia law. The ban, which took effect in the western German states of Hessen and North
  • Pope Francis I: Friend of Inclusiveness
    The College of Cardinals has elected its new Pope, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio, -- the the first non-European Pope in a thousand years; the first Jesuit; the first from the Americas and the first Pope Francis named after St. Francis
  • The Palestinians: Ten Points The U.S. Needs To ...
    It is hard to find one Palestinian who believes that US President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to the region will lead to a breakthrough in the Middle East "peace process." Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah said they too are not pinning any
  • Extreme Islamist Group Denies "Hate Preaching"
    The Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) has threatened the Gatestone Institute with legal action over an article detailing its speakers' expressed support for terror and hatred towards Jews, homosexuals and women. The iERA claims it is neither
  • Of course Hamas killed the baby
    The recent disclosure that Omar Misharawi, the baby son of BBC reporter Jihad Misharawi, was actually killed by an errant Hamas rocket rather than by an Israeli missile, should have absolutely no moral implications. Of course the baby was killed by Hamas

Urban Survival

  • Decepticons & Consumer Prices
    I trust you’re not so old as to have thrown off all your childish toys, like those peachy Transformer toys that will shortly be worth more paper than you can shake a stick at?   I don’t know why, but … Continue reading →
  • Beware the Ides of 2013
    Since almost as early as human civilization has be around, people have held to “end of the world” mythologies.  Many of them go with the popular religiosity idea that “In the End of Times men will know everything…” Since about … Continue reading →
  • The World Can’t End – OR Can it?
    Honestly, I was a little bit disappointed by the papal enclave’s quick pick of the pope on Wednesday.  I’ve had longer periods of excitement working scratch-off pull-tabs.   End-of-the-worlders can almost be heard wailing this morning.  Wasn’t this fellow suppose ...
  • Coping: High Marx for the USA at Tax Time
    Not necessarily in the MainStreamMedia (MSM) we caught the GuardianMedia report out of Trinidad and Tobago (the country)  about how San Fernando businessmen seem to prefer a “police state” to a “criminal state.” Why would Ures truly point out an … Continue read ...
  • Smokey & the Pundits
    How many ways are there to write “black smoke” or “white smoke”?   There are already predictions that a new pope will be named by Thursday.  I read the story very closely, however, and didn’t notice which week.   So in … Continue reading &# ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

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NRDC Switchboard

  • India Green News: Budgeting for Energy Needs, ...
    Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York March 1-15, 2013  India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. Energy Government mulling club of nations to pro ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile studies solar ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. March 8-15, 2013 Chile The Chilean Solar Energy Research Center&mdash ...
  • Pope Francis and Climate Change; Si Se Puede!
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC With a puff of white smoke, the world was greeted this week with the announcement of a new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine Cardinal now known as Pope Francis, named after the patron ...
  • Global Nuclear Reactor Database Developed by NRDC
    Jordan Weaver, Project Scientist and Science Center Fellow, Washington, D.C. Today NRDC’s Nuclear Program is releasing their web-based nuclear energy analysis tool: the Global Nuclear Reactor Database. We developed this reactor database as mea ...
  • Fuel Economy Continues to Rise: EPA Report
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City New cars and trucks are poised to set new records in fuel efficiency according to the latest Fuel Economy Trends report from the EPA. When all the data is crunched, EPA expects the model year 2012 avera ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Cyprus Parliament To Delay “Rescue” Vote Due T ...
    The painfully shortsighted Cyprus bail-out, pardon bail-in (also known as wealth tax to those who are actually doing the in-bailing), plan is going from bad to worse. Because in addition to all the previously discussed macro-implications, all of which are adverse and have the full potential of d ...
  • Cyprus Bailout, Bank Run and Eurozone Financia ...
    George Osborne vowed today that those serving in Britain’s military or government in Cyprus will be protected after European finance chiefs ordered an unprecedented raid on personal bank accounts. Up to 60,000 British savers are to lose thousands of pounds each as expats in Cyprus have the ...
  • Global Financial Collapse is now at our Doorstep
    The Golden Jackass Jim Willie sat down with The Doc this weekend for the second part of an extraordinary interview regarding gold, silver, and what Willie believes will soon be a massive European banking collapse. Willie states that a global financial collapse is now at our doorstep, and that th ...
  • Contagion-Begging Actions; Expect Bank Runs Fo ...
    In Cyprus, a decision was made to screw savers with a 6.75% to 9.9% “Tax” on deposits. Supposedly this move was made to “avoid unsettling investors in larger countries and sparking a new round of market contagion.” In reality, the action was mandated theft, imposed by EU ...
  • 99.9% probablility of total and utter collapse ...
    Max Keiser predicts CIVIL WAR in America before April 2013, due to global fiat money collapse. He suggests that China pulling out of the propping up of American Debt will be the trigger. That and the upward move in interest rates. China are buying GOLD and investing in their own gold-backed curr ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Facing extinction, conservationists call emerg ...
    With the number of Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) now under 200 and declining rapidly, a group of conservationists have organized an emergency summit to discuss courses of action to save the world's smallest remaining rhino from extinction.
  • China's 80 billion-a-year chopstick habit impa ...
    China's surging demand for disposable chopsticks is taking an increasing toll on the country's forests, reports Chinese state media.
  • Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare b ...
    Ringed with forested mountains forming the borders with Laos and Vietnam, the northeast corner of Cambodia has been an intriguing blank spot among my extensive travels through the country. Nestled up against this frontier is Virachey National Park, created in 1993. I began searching for a way to ...
  • Elephant woes: conservationists mixed on eleph ...
    Conservations couldn't agree if the glass was half-full or half-empty on action to protect elephants at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, Thailand. Elephants, especially in Africa, have faced a massive rise in poaching over the last decade with tens- ...
  • Tribe rejects payment from electricity company ...
    Leaders of more than two dozen Kayapó indigenous communities have rejected a $9 million offer from Brazilian state energy company Eletrobras to fund development projects in their region due to the the firm's involvement in the construction of the Belo Monte dam, reports Amazon Watch, an act ...

Sierra Express

  • FDID Sierra Leone shifts its drug advocacy to ...
    The condition/situation of youths is becoming serious by the day in this country as drugs or illegal substances are seen as an alternative source of seeking solace, as the vast majority of the youths in the country are uneducated, unskilled, and unemployed.  (Photo: The Director of FDID Hindowa ...
  • Moijueh Kaikai, the Hajj Mission and 2013 Hajj
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Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Drought takes deadly toll on farms
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  • Brazil could support NZ's Security Council bid
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  • PM's Chilean guard of honour - cows
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Hit & Run | Reason

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  • Merle Haggard Is An Inflation Hawk
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  • Watch Matt Welch on MSNBC Talk About CPAC, Gay ...
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Mercury Rising

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    Of course, Consortium readers knew about this well over a year ago, and Anna Chan Chennault ‘fessed up to it. (See here and here for example.) But now the tapes are out, and it’s no longer deniable, even though the Atlantic writer Connor Simpson tries to soft-pedal it: Richard M. Nix ...
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    In a previous thread, there has been fascinating discussion on Pope Francis, with our commenters bringing in terrific links. As I see it, there are five strands to the thread: 1. Did Father Bergoglio collaborate with the Argentine Junta during the Dirty War? * Journalist Horacio Verbitzky has a ...
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Reality Sandwich

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Desertification

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Blogging Canadians

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  • "'The United States of America'" and "a State"
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  • "The Player"
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  • "Those who Have Stolen Them" and "Another Man ...
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  • NRG Research Group Inc. and "the Person"
    The following email has been edited in terms of its original formatting. From: Dave Converse < dconverse@nrgresearchgroup.com > Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:31 PM Subject: 3 postings on your site To: "vicpopuli1@gmail.com" < vicpopuli1@gmail.com > Hello, I have noted that th ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Ten killed in Basra car bomb explosion
    At least ten people have been killed and many others injured in a car bombing near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, local sources say.
  • Saudi regime razes holy sites in Mecca
    New photos taken by Saudi activists show that the Riyadh regime has demolished many holy sites at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca under the cloak of a development plan implemented by Osama bin Laden’s family business.
  • 'Saudi meddling in Bahrain, war crime'
    Spokesman for Bahrain's February 14 revolutionaries, Abdul Raouf al-Shayeb, says Saudi Arabia’s interference in Manama’s internal affairs is a war crime against humanity.
  • Bahrainis want Saudi troops out
    Bahraini protesters have held a demonstration in the northeastern island of Sitra demanding the withdrawal of Saudi forces from the country.
  • Palestinians held in Israel write to UN
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CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Fiction Posing as Fact?
    I was invited to review Portuguese writer João Cerqueira’s novel The Tragedy of Fidel Castro. The title intrigued me because of my interest in the Cuban Revolution. Right off the book warns that the names and characters are fictitious. Even, “God does not represent God.” I wondered who God does ...
  • Technology for Socialist Civilization
    Increased social mixing through globalization can be welcomed for its positive impact on global society and its erosion of the many communication barriers corresponding with huge power inequalities among nations. This article posits important links between the potentials of emerging technologies ...
  • The Emergency Financial Manager
    It is not every day, though it is increasingly more common, that an “election” in the People’s Republic of China is more democratic than a political event in the United States.  The appointment of Kevyn Orr as the Emergency Financial Manager (EFM) of Detroit is one such moment.  Orr becomes the ...
  • Indigenous Amazonians Unite against Canadian O ...
    Indigenous Amazonians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés gathered on the border of Peru and Brazil last Saturday and called on their governments to stop the exploration ...
  • The War against Iraq Fiasco, Ten Years Later
    International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn’t bring that up to me. – George W. Bush, U.S. president (2001-2009), (December 12, 2003) I told George Bush as early as August 2002, during a meeting in Detroit, that we would support him if he receives the authorization from the UN ...

Nick Turse

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    killanythingthatmoves: Troops in the field regularly carved their unit’s initials or numbers into corpses, adorned bodies with their unit’s patch, or left a “death card”— generally either an ace of spades or a custom- printed business card claiming credit for the kill. Company A, 1st Batta ...
  • "We have an abundance of rape and violence aga ...
    “We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth,...
  • nickturse:Forty-five years ago today, March ...
    nickturse: Forty-five years ago today, March 16th, roughly 100 U.S. troops were flown by helicopter to the outskirts of a small Vietnamese hamlet called My Lai in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam. Over a period of four hours, the Americans methodically slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese ci ...
  • npr:These cards, collected by Langston Hugh ...
    npr: These cards, collected by Langston Hughes and held with his papers in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, advertised “rent parties” to be held in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s. Hosts of these gatherings opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to guests in r ...
  • motherjones:Surprise, surprise: members of C ...
    motherjones: Surprise, surprise: members of Congress with daughters vote better on women’s issues.


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