Friday, March 22, 2013

22 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Invisible Opportunity

  • The nothing box – YouTube
    The nothing box – YouTube.
  • it’s time to collapse the system | poorrichard ...
    Submitted by Gordon_Gekko on 03/20/2013 16:32 -0400 For previous articles by the author go to: Gordon Gekko’s Blog First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I ...
  • Cyprus banks may never open again
    “Germany’s finance minister has warned Cyprus that its crisis-stricken banks may never be able to reopen if it rejects the terms of a bailout.”   “There may have been jubilation among many Cypriots at Tuesday night’s parliamentary defeat of the hated banking tax, but now the country faces a ...
  • Police State Raids Family’s Home: “The Fight H ...
    Mac Slavo March 20th, 2013 SHTFplan.com When certified firearms instructor Shawn Moore posted a photo of his 11 year-old son on Facebook the last thing he expected was a SWAT style raid on his home. The picture showed his son, a licensed hunter, holding his new birthday gift, a .22 caliber rifle ...
  • Mark Zuckerberg Is Grandson Of David Rockefell ...
    Ok so this Greenberg / Zuckerberg thing is getting weirder by the second. A Jacob Greenberg was arrested for possession of Marijuana and this mugshot was taken. It was later revealed that this could indeed be the man the world knows as Mark Zuckerberg. His family members include David Rockefelle ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

  • Sony selects Burson as consumer electronics AOR
    SAN DIEGO: Sony Electronics has consolidated more of its PR work under Burson-Marsteller, selecting the firm as PR AOR for its US consumer electronics business.
  • Former Edelman executive debuts blogger venture
    NEW YORK: Former Edelman digital SVP Danielle Wiley is behind a new joint venture called Massive Sway that connects brands and agencies with women bloggers.
  • Y&R launches PPR in North America
    NEW YORK: WPP Group advertising network Young & Rubicam Group has expanded the global footprint of its Asia-Pacific PR firm PPR, opening three offices in the US, including a North American headquarters in New York.
  • SNAP Interactive taps SpecOps as AOR
    NEW YORK: Social dating app creator SNAP Interactive has selected SpecOps Communications as its AOR.
  • Havas net income up 5%
    PETEAUX, FRANCE: Havas Group reported on Thursday a 9.1% increase in income from operations in 2012 to $309.7 million. The holding company's net income was up 5% year-over-year to $162.6 million.

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Job Opportunity: Stakeholder Communications Co ...
    Position:  Stakeholder Communications Coordinator Organization:  Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area ...
  • 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 ...

Stop NATO

  • Georgia: U.S. Marines Lead Live-Fire Exercise
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia March 20, 2013 Live Fire Exercise within “Agile Spirit 2013” Georgian and American military servicemen are undergoing [a live-] fire exercise within the framework of the joint exercise “Agile Spirit 2013”. The training organized by the Georgian MoD and the USA Depa ...
  • U.S. Congress Approves $380 Million For NATO M ...
    Syracuse.com March 21, 2013 Congress approves $380 million for Lockheed Martin’s MEADS anti-missile program The MEADS missile defense project is the single largest radar contract in the history of Lockheed Martin’s plant at Electronics Park in Salina ==== U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N. ...
  • Anatole France: Why should not humanity abolis ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Anatole France: Selections on war ==== Anatole France From A Mummer’s Tale (Histoire Comique) (1903) Translated by Charles E. Roche “Doctor,” inquired Constantin Marc, “are you by chance one of those who do ...
  • NATO Warships, U.S. Strike Group Drill In East ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations March 21, 2013 NATO Group Continues Duties on Operation Active Endeavour ==== Recently members of the force joined up with the U.S. Strike Group consisting of the Aircraft Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and her escorts, one of which ...
  • U.S. Air Force’s Bloody 100th: 100 Sorti ...
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe March 19, 2013 Bloody 100th flies 100th for French By Capt. Jason Smith 100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs March 17: A French fighter aircraft prepares to refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over Africa ==== “Without U.S. Air Force refueling support, the French ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

  • Shooting at US Military Base Leaves 3 Marines ...
    Intellihub | Late last night, just before midnight, a staff member at Quantico military base murdered two other marines and then allegedly turned the gun on himself.
  • Richard Branson Asks Obama For Marijuana At Wh ...
    HBTV | On Wednesday, at a White House state dinner in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron, Richard Branson, billionaire businessman and Virgin Group founder, asked President Obama for a marijuana cigarette.
  • 31% of Americans Have Abandoned News Outlets D ...
    All Gov | News organizations have lost a significant share of their audience due to budget cuts that have impacted the quality and quantity of reporting.
  • NYPD Facing Double-Barreled Challenge to Marij ...
    Phillip Smith | Under the stop-and-frisk program, which the city touts as a crime-fighting effort, more than 531,000 people were stopped last year and nearly five million in the past decade.
  • Russian Leader Warns, “Get All Money Out Of We ...
    Sorcha Faal | A Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) “urgent bulletin” being sent to Embassies around the world today is advising both Russian citizens and companies to begin divesting their assets from Western banking and financial institutions “immediately” as Kremlin fears grow that both th ...

FRS

  • The US War on Iraq: a Criminal Enterprise &#82 ...
    Tuesday, March 19, 2013 A decade after the US attempt to “shock and awe” humanity and usher in its new “American century” more than a million Iraqis are dead, and trillions of dollars have been squandered, while the high ranking architects and enablers of these monstrous crimes are still riding ...
  • Ten Years Later: Remembering the “liber ...
    The Liberal Hawks Who Lead Us into War  Michael Ratner, AlterNet, March 19, 2013 The liberal establishment willfully played along with the preposterous claims that led to the Iraq War. Ten years ago, between January and April 2003, it is estimated that an unprecedented 36 million people around t ...
  • Over 200 arrested in annual Montreal police br ...
    Nelson Wyatt, Canadian Press | March 15, 2013 [THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz - At an anti-police brutality demonstration in Montreal on Friday March 15, 2013. Police used horses, pepper-spray and kettling tactics to clamp down Friday on an annual protest that has a history of "getting row ...
  • Over 200 arrested in annual Montreal police br ...
    Nelson Wyatt, Canadian Press | March 15, 2013 [THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz - At an anti-police brutality demonstration in Montreal on Friday March 15, 2013. Police used horses, pepper-spray and kettling tactics to clamp down Friday on an annual protest that has a history of "getting row ...
  • New Release “Let Your Motto Be Resistanc ...
    [We have received the following message from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, announcing and detailing the release of a new organizing manual for community self-defense.  When many reform activists continue to appeal to oppressive institutions to solve the problems of repression and oppression ...

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

  • Huge Volcano Eruptions May Have Caused The Die ...
    The Triassic die-off is one of 5 mass extinctions on Earth in the past 542 million years. We all know a gigantic asteroid is to blame for wiping out the dinosaurs--but what wiped out the animals that came before them? A changed climate, brought about by devastating volcanic eruptions, may have c ...
  • Buy Your Own Astro-Relics At The Space History ...
  • 11 Relics Of Space History That You Can Buy
    The first auction since Congress passed a law allowing astronauts to sell their mission souvenirs features the Space Magna Carta, a rocket engine and a lot of signed memorabilia. When astronaut James Lovell put his Apollo 13 Lunar Module Activation Checklist up for auction in Dallas last year, ...
  • New Map Shows The Oldest Light In Our Universe
    Also, the universe's age has now been measured at 13.8 billion years old. Blinding when it originated, eons before any eyes would have set upon it, the afterglow of the Big Bang now surrounds us, filling the universe with a cold, faint glimmer. Tiny fluctuations in the temperature of this back ...
  • How It Works: The Most Powerful Space Rocket
    When the firm SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy rocket into space late this year, the craft will become the mightiest rocket in the world. Only NASA’s Saturn V, which sent Americans to the moon, has ever generated more power. In rockets, the most important measure of power is thrust. Falcon Heav ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Have the Youth Ever Had It So Bad? (UK Edition)
    In 1957, then-British Prime Minister made the statement that his compatriots "never had it so good" amid the prosperity and plenty of the postwar years. A half century later, everything seems to have come undone that a recent BBC feature asks of the young people if they ever had it so bad in the ...
  • Enter Big Government, S Korean Welfare State?
    One of the unspoken things many Asians feel has contributed to Western malaise is the ubiquity of extensive welfare states. With the so-called baby boom of those born in the immediate post-WWII era reaching retirement age, these countries are beginning to feel the massive fiscal pressure of prov ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Mass Panic In Cyprus: The Banks Are Collapsing ...
    European officials are openly admitting that the two largest banks in Cyprus are "insolvent", and it is now being reported that Cyprus Popular Bank only has "enough liquidity to cover the next few hours".  Of course all banks in Cyprus are officially closed until Tuesday at the earliest, but the ...
  • Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Fi ...
    Why is the global economy in so much trouble?  How can so many people be so absolutely certain that the world financial system is going to crash?  Well, the truth is that when you take a look at the cold, hard numbers it is not difficult to see why the global financial pyramid scheme is [...]
  • Will The Banking Meltdown In Cyprus Be A &#822 ...
    Cyprus lawmakers may have rejected the bank account tax, but the truth is that the financial crisis in Cyprus is just getting started.  Right now, the two largest banks in Cyprus are dangerously close to a meltdown.  If they fail, depositors could end up losing virtually all of their money.  You ...
  • The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery Shows That No Ba ...
    The global elite have now proven that when the chips are down they are going to go after any big pile of money that they think they can get their hands on.  That means that no bank account, no retirement fund and no stock portfolio on earth is safe.  Up until now, most people assumed [...]
  • After The Banksters Steal Money From Bank Acco ...
    Cyprus is a beta test.  The banksters are trying to commit bank robbery in broad daylight, and they are eager to see if the rest of the world will let them get away with it.  Cyprus was probably chosen because it is very small (therefore nobody will care too much about it) and because there [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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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

  • Reforms to Inter-American System must fully pr ...
    A United Nations senior official today stressed that reforms to the Inter-American System for protection of human rights must not weaken its capacity to protect victims.
  • Caribbean nations participate in UN-backed tsu ...
    Caribbean nations are participating today in a full-scale tsunami alert exercise organized under United Nations auspices to test their reaction capacity.
  • Haiti must break political impasse to achieve ...
    Breaking the political impasse that has plagued Haiti for some 16 months is crucial to achieve progress and consolidate democracy in the country, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country told the Security Council today.
  • UN human rights chief welcomes trial for Guate ...
    The top United Nations human rights official has applauded the beginning of the "historic" trial of Guatemala's former head of State and former head of intelligence who are both accused of crimes committed in the Central American nation over 30 years ago, and urged local authorities to ensure th ...
  • 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.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Fluoridegate: An American Tragety – Wate ...
    These women need to know they're poisoning their babies, and instead, the very people you're paying to educate that woman, are protecting a government policy. That needs to change right now.
  • U.S. Flies Nuclear Bomber Over Korea Peninsula ...
    "This is a stepped-up training effort to demonstrate our resolve to protect South Korea."
  • “You are my sacrifice” an Aspiring ...
    “You are my sacrifice,” Johnson quoted El-Amin as saying before he allegedly fired a shot toward his friend’s head inside a Henrico home that was to become a music studio.
  • Carnegie Mellon University and the NSA are Loo ...
    PITTSBURGH (AP) – Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government’s top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking. Their goal with “Toaster Wars” is to cultivate the nation’s next generation of cyber wa ...
  • Homeowner Raises Organic Chickens in Backyard, ...
    (NaturalNews) An ongoing debate over the rights of homeowners to raise and keep their own chickens may soon gain an audience in the Virgina Supreme Court. Attorneys at the Rutherford Institute have filed a Petition for Appeal on behalf of Virginia Beach resident Tracy Gugal-Okroy, who faces crim ...

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

  • Photo Of John Lennon’s Bloody Glasses Tweeted ...
    Yoko Ono frequently shares the late John Lennon’s music, art and musings with the world as a way to keep the singer’s legacy alive. This week, Ono employed one of the saddest images associated with the Beatles icon to promote new gun control legislation. read more
  • ALERT!... Verified - Cash Withdrawal Limits an ...
    Gentlemen... Just received a call from a highly agitated bank manager who stated that within 60 days, banks will be greatly reducing their hours, days of operation, amount of withdrawals and a requirement to fill out "paperwork" if the amount is questioned by bank officials. Unless the form ...
  • John Kerry Commits U.S. To U.N. Arms Trade Tre ...
    U.S. Rights: As the world body meets this week to hammer out an agreement to restrict international arms trade, our Secretary of State commits us to pushing a treaty that may also restrict our Second Amendment rights. read more
  • "You Bought It, You Own It"... Supreme Court V ...
    In a long-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court held today (March 20th) that the first sale doctrine applies to works made outside of the United States. In other words, if you bought it, you own it—no matter where it was manufactured. ~ Corynne McSherry - Parker Higgins read more
  • Seven Marines Killed Near Area 51
    What really happened at the Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada where a mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more? The Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is the largest ammunition depot in the world. It is located near the Homey Airport, otherwise known as Area 51 ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • The Best Route To Bug Out Or Get Back Home
    Have you ever thought about the best way (route) to get back home during a major disaster, or a best route to bug-out from home if you ever needed to leave in a regional crisis? We are all creatures of habit. Have you ever walked in the woods and noticed the trails which are formed [...]
  • English Shortwave Broadcasts to America
    I have assembled two charts from raw data of English broadcasting shortwave stations that target the America region; one for the UTC time span of 0000-1200 and the other for 1200-2400 UTC. The charts graphically illustrate the shortwave radio stations in a time scale which makes it relatively ea ...
  • Run On The Banks
    Cyprus, an island Republic of nearly 1 million people, only represents a very small fraction of the Eurozone financials; but look at the shockwaves that have been sent through the system while the recent 10% Confiscation of private bank account money unfolds… The bankster elite have gotten ...
  • Survival Garden Seed Germination
    Growing your own Survival Garden, similar to the World War II era ‘Victory Garden’, is not only a rewarding experience that builds a key survival skill, but it enables you to be less dependent upon today’s modern food systems, is healthier, and will save you money. The first st ...
  • Skills For An Uncertain Future
    The skill set that you posses for your current job might not be transferable to a post-modern lifestyle, post-collapse society, or post-SHTF world that will require skills more aligned with down-to-earth survival, practicality and self-sufficiency. Learning a broad range of practical skills and ...

Fast Company

  • Your Neighborhood Is Why You’re Fat
    And it’s also why you’re not. Data shows that there is something as important as what you eat to your overall health: how where you live is laid out. Academic literature defines an "obesogenic environment" as "promoting gaining weight and one that is not conducive to weight los ...
  • BBC Commissions Six Original Dramas For Its iP ...
    Once it was all about the online catch-up. Now the Beeb's terrestrial channels will be catching up with online. Promising writers of TV scripts just got a new conduit for their work. The BBC has announced that it is commissioning six new dramas to be shown on its iPlayer streaming service. ...
  • What Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Told Yammer C ...
    When Microsoft was considering acquiring Yammer, Ballmer told Sacks a story that gives insight into how the Microsoft CEO sees the company's future in the enterprise space. Call it a Trojan Horse strategy: The tens of millions of users who take their mobile devices to the office--iPhones, ...
  • HBO Exec Hints At HBO Go Being Available Witho ...
    Richard Plepler told Reuters the company would considering teaming up with broadband internet providers. Some good news for fans of HBO shows who don't want to invest in traditional cable: The company is considering working with broadband internet subscribers to allow people without cable ...
  • Apple To Run Its Data Centers On 100% Renewabl ...
    The company has often been charged with not having a strong enough concern for the environment, but it seems to be switching gears when it comes to its energy policy. Apple has gotten a lot of pushback in recent years for its questionable environmental policies, and rightfully so. But we n ...

Jadaliyya

  • من الثورة على توريث آل مبارك إلى الثورة على تو ...
    التفاعلات السياسية والأحداث التي رافقت إحياء الذكرى الثانية لبدء الثورة المصرية  تؤكد أن الانتخابات في حد ذاتها ليست كفيلة بالانتقال للديمقراطية. فمصر في السنين الأربعين الماضية، لم تخل من انتخابات أو معارضة كهذه، حيث كان لها تمثيل كبير في مجلس الشعب. تراوحت أعدادها، ما بين 70 مقعداً في ا ...
  • بورتريه غير وافٍ عن بسام حجار
    قيل فيه كلام كثير. أصدقاء وشعراء ونقاد وفنانون وزملاء مهنة ودارسون اجتمعوا حول ورق الصحف ليملؤه في اليوم التالي لوفاته. كان رحيل بسام حجار في السابع عشر من شباط 2009، بمثابة فاجعة أدبية. حتى أولئك الذين نبذوه مهنياً، وتناقلوه من قسم ثقافي إلى آخر، حزنوا من أجله، وربما ندموا. ذلك أن رحيل ذلك الرج ...
  • The Most Important Thing: Syrian Refugees
    [Photos by Brian Sokol/UNHCR, text by UNHCR.] What would you bring with you if you had to flee your home and escape to another country? More than 1 million Syrians have been forced to ponder this question before making the dangerous flight to neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq or other c ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (March 21)
    [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 ...
  • Not Enough Water in the West Bank?
    This Friday is World Water Day and an opportune time to highlight the gross misallocation of water resources between Israel and the Palestinians. Water is one of the five permanent status issues in the Oslo Peace Accords, twenty years old this year. Accordingly, its accesss and consumption is re ...

mediagazer

  • Web Fan Base Tips Scale To Fallon (Wall Street ...
    Wall Street Journal: Web Fan Base Tips Scale To Fallon  —  Jimmy Fallon's recent two-minute skit “Evolution of Mom Dancing,” featuring the late-night TV comic and Michelle Obama performing a series of funny dance moves, racked up more than 15 million views on YouTube ...
  • Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How ...
    Phillip Smith / MediaShift Idea Lab: Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How They Can Speed Up  —  I present your winner (or loser?) for slowest loading feature article, the Chicago Tribune, at 16.68 seconds, almost 6 megabytes of data, and with more than 300 requests for ...
  • Sources: Julius Genachowski to step down from ...
    Brooks Boliek / Politico: Sources: Julius Genachowski to step down from top FCC post  —  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to announce on Friday that he will leave the commission, high-ranking sources tell POLITICO.  —  His ...
  • American News Consumers Have Gained the World ...
    Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: American News Consumers Have Gained the World but Lost Their Backyards  —  The Internet affords cheap, easy access to priceless information.  But local news coverage is a casualty of its rise.  —  Is the American new ...
  • How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms traffickin ...
    Matthew Weaver / Guardian: How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room  —  Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups  —  Eliot Higgins has no need for a flak jacket, ...

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

  • How Domino's CEO Ajay Kaul makes sure the ...
    As Steel Authority of India Limited's Rourkela steel plant started cranking up its best ever production numbers in the summer of 2012, a bespectacled Kashmiri executive revisited his hometown and amid memories and memos, inaugurated the firstever Domino's pizza store in the steel city. Eight ...
  • Water: Make it our serious business of to ...
    Paper Edition | Page: 7 Today is UN World Water Day, and it is followed tomorrow by Earth Hour. As someone in the business of water, I hope that business leaders, government planners and infrastructure experts in Indonesia will think about water on Friday, about energy on Saturday and then a ...
  • NZ dollar heads for 1.2% gain on TWI as e ...
    Friday, 22 March 2013, 5:29 pm Article: BusinessDesk NZ dollar heads for 1.2% gain on TWI as economy grows, speculation on Fonterra payout March 22 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 1.2 percent weekly gain on a trade-weighted basis after figures showed the economy grew ...
  • UN to investigate North Korea human right ...
    The UN human rights council has set up an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea for the first time. The council unanimously voted for the probe, which will examine allegations of prison camps, slave labour and food deprivation in the country. North Korea denounced the resolution as ...
  • Amrita Rao dreams of recreating 50s era o ...
    Actress Amrita Rao has expressed her desire to do films that are set in the 50s as she likes the styling, songs and dances of that period. "I think 50s was the golden period. I am a fan of 50s cinema. I wish I...

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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 ...

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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

  • Grins and Fins: Meet the Sociable False Killer ...
    This false killer whale flashes a (real) killer smile. Photo: Doug Perrine/Hotspot Media American photographer Doug Perrine, 60, captured this priceless image of a false killer whale mid-grin off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Less commonly known than the killer whale (or orca), the false killer ...
  • One Woman Stands Up for the Dolphins
    © OCEANA Just a few weeks ago, an international campaign to stop the annual gruesome slaughter of dolphins in Japan was initiated by one Scottish woman hoping to make a difference. Shona Lewendon started a petition to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requesting that Japan be denied t ...
  • Red Tide Takes a Toll on Florida Manatees
    Algae threatens this shapely sirenian. Photo: USGS Over the last two months, 180 manatees have been found dead along the coasts of Florida. The friendly and well-loved creatures of Florida’s waters are currently being threatened by an outbreak of red tide, an algal bloom which has proved to b ...
  • New Seafloor Discoveries off Oregon
    Offshore Oregonian ready for its close-up ©Oceana Today we release our new science report, Important Ecological Areas: Seafloor Habitat Expedition off the Southern Oregon Coast. The report completes our June 2011 expedition aboard the R/V Miss Linda, which set out on the cold Pacific Ocean wa ...
  • Infographic: Seafood Fraud Made Simple
    Earlier this year Oceana made a splash with its National Seafood Fraud Report, a landmark investigation which found that a third of the seafood it tested nationwide had been mislabeled. While we encourage you to read the report in full, for those of you on the go this infographic (click to enl ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Quote-apalooza: “I’m not gay. So I’m not going ...
    “I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.” – Senator Saxby Chambliss COME ONE. Come all. Read ‘em all. Politico, however accidentally, has a compilation of homophobic Republican ignorance spewing out of the mouths of a bunch of white men, with an assist fro ...
  • Queer Talk: OFA Pushing For Marriage Equality ...
    As John Aravosis writes, at AmericaBlogGay, “This is a big deal.” OFA was originally the Obama campaign’s “Obama for America.” As Aravosis recalls, that original OFA created a “DNC-connected offshoot,” Organizing for America, in 2009. In January of this year, that “off-shoot” became “an independ ...
  • “Star Trek Into Darkness” Trailer Lands
    HOW DO you top one of the great science fiction adventure movies? J.J. Abrams and everyone associated with “Star Trek Into Darkness” have epic expectations to meet after the 2009 “Star Trek,” which was one of the most spectacular movies ever made of its genre. Enough supe ...
  • Top Story — Netanyahu and Obama Agree, Israel’ ...
    “Netanyahu has been able to get a bump every time he says no to the president. When he upbraided him in the Oval Office, he got a 10 percent rise in the Israeli public opinion. That is unheard of,” said Martin Indyk, Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Israel, during a roundtable discussion in Washingt ...
  • News Desk — New York Times: Here’s Jimmy… in N ...
    THIS ISN’T just any reporter dropping this, it’s Bill Carter. I’m a huge Jimmy Fallon fan, as you’ve likely noticed. This cannot happen soon enough for me. NBC has settled on two new stars for “The Tonight Show”: Jimmy Fallon and New York City. The network has made a comm ...

Hudson New York

  • European Jihadists: The Latest Export
    More than 1,000 Muslims from across Europe are currently active as Islamic jihadists, or holy warriors, in Syria, which has replaced Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia as the main destination for militant Islamists seeking to obtain immediate combat
  • Report from China: What Keeps the Muslim World ...
    The Chinese, at behind-the-scenes conferences and discussions during the past few months, kept saying they were perplexed about the Muslim world's – particularly the Arab world's – inability to deal with the modern world. The Chinese and the Muslims,
  • The Media Imperialists
    When the New York Times finally decided in January to report the anti-Semitic comments made by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President, Mohammed Morsi, almost two weeks after the Middle East Media Research Institute [MEMRI] broke the story, the report
  • Dutch Government Fueling Anti-Semitic Feelings
    Last November, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, leader of the Dutch Liberal Party, exchanged his coalition partners, the Christian Democrats and the Freedom Party, for the Labor Party. Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal, a Liberal, was replaced by Labor
  • Confronting Sharia Law in Belgium
    After members of the newly established Islam Party vowed to implement Islamic Sharia law in Belgium, Members of Parliament introduced a bill that would limit the power of Muslim extremists who win elected office at the local or national levels and

Urban Survival

  • A Quick Course in Statistical Revisionism
    With the report out that the Fed is sticking by his forecast of a 6½ percent unemployment rate by 2015, a lot of rational economics reporters, like Ure’s truly already know how they’ll do it.    Simple!  Jigger the denominator … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Spring A.S.S. Watching
    The situation in Cyprus along with the delicate – and I think bubble-like condition of both the Wall St. stock market and the parallel bond market – not to mention the foreign exchange platforms – are leading to a lot … Continue reading →
  • Bracing for the Bond Collapse & Death by Stude ...
    Two important concepts to learn from this morning’s Peoplenomics report.  First and foremost we will talk about timing one’s exit from the bond market.  This is a short lesson in “Getting while the getting’s good.”  A causative subset of global … Continue reading →
  • Idiot Banker Watch
    Yes, they really are out of control and coming to the USA.  After word came out this weekend that small savers in Cyprus were going to have government seizing part of their wealth, the stock market declined, but only modestly.  … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Grow Food Or Die
    Bear with me while I present a minute’s worth of shameless self-promotion.  As you may remember my buddy JB Slear and I did a book a couple of years ago called “MyGroPonics” and that explained a “stacked” system of multiple … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Cancer Cure Breakthrough
    Cancer Cure Breakthrough too bad the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Obama Visit To Israel in The Prophecy
    Obama says 'there is still time' to find... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • The Financial Armageddon Has Started! ~ Alex ...
    Financial Armageddon Has Started! One thing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Infowars Nightly News: Thursday (3-21-13) Bill ...
    On the March 21, 2013 broadcast of The Infowars... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Mike Rivero ~ The Solution For Cyprus is Iceland
    Why is every body so surprised that the banksters... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • 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 [...]

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NRDC Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • California Public Power Leads the way...away f ...
    Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco This week the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the publicly owned electric utility in LA, ...
  • Exxon's Startling Outlook for Our Future
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. There’s something startling about ExxonMobil’s 2013 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 report. Could it be that the company that’s spent many millions of doll ...
  • Capturing the Value of Public Transportation
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. The American Public Transportation Association (APTA, of which NRDC is a member) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) rolled out a valuable addition to the lit on trans ...
  • Cuomo Should Heed Polls That Consistently Show ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Whether in New York or nationwide—poll after poll has been showing that people are worried about fracking. Of course, with the stories we continue to hear about impacts next door in Pennsylvania and ...

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 on brink of financial meltdown as key b ...
    Tax on bank deposits rejected by lawmakers on island tonight Grab would have charged 6.75% on deposits under £86k and 9.9% over that In exchange Cyprus to receive £8.6bn in rescue money from EU, IMF, ECB Defeat brings Mediterranean island to brink of financial meltdown RAF jet carrying 1million ...
  • US B-52s imitate nuclear bombing of North Korea
    To intimidate North Korea and draw attention to the US military’s capabilities, the US is flying B-52 bombers over South Korea, which are capable of carrying out nuclear strikes. The move is in response to rising tensions after North Korea conducted its third successful nuclear test last month. ...
  • North Korea Threatens Japan with Attack
    North Korea has lashed out at Japan for calling for “independent additional sanctions” against Pyongyang. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency carried a statement from the Foreign Ministry Sunday saying that it would be a fatal mistake for Japan if it thinks it will ...
  • Russian Navy to send permanent fleet to Medite ...
    Russia will dispatch a permanent group of five to six combat ships to the Mediterranean Sea, Russian Navy chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov said. Frigates and cruisers will make up the core of the fleet. “Up to five or six ships must be on a permanent basis in the Mediterranean Sea. They should ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Presenter training course in April
    Have you been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to get more involved with the BZE team? Do you want to spread the message of an affordable, achievable zero emissions future but haven't known where to begin? Or do you simply want an opportunity to study BZE's research in more depth?  Well ...
  • 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
    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 by Alinta. The ...
  • 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 ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Recycled paper gets high marks for low eco imp ...
    Using recycled paper instead of virgin fiber for magazine paper offers strong environmental benefits, finds a new study involving National Geographic, Green America, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), World Resources Institute (WRI), and other groups.
  • Ant communities more segregated in palm oil pl ...
    Ants are an important ecological group in both degraded and natural habitats. They interact with many other species and mediate a range of ecological processes. These interactions are often interpreted in the context of ant mosaics, where dominant species form strict territories, keeping other a ...
  • Scientists discover 8 new frogs in one sanctua ...
    Two surveys in the mountainous forests of Sri Lank's Peak Wilderness Sanctuary have uncovered eight new species of frogs, according to a massive new paper in the Journal of Threatened Taxa. While every year over a hundred new amphibians are discovered, eight new discoveries in a single park is e ...
  • Monthly updates to track APP's progress on 'no ...
    The Forest Trust (TFT), the NGO that brokered Asia Pulp & Paper's no deforestation commitment in February 2013, will produce monthly updates on Indonesian forestry giant progress toward avoiding conversion of natural forests and reducing social conflict with communities. The reports aim to b ...
  • Male lions require dense vegetation for succes ...
    For a long time male lions were derided as the lazy ones in the pride, depending on females for the bulk of hunting and not pulling their weight. Much of this was based on field observations—female lions hunt cooperatively, often in open savannah, and therefore are easier to track at night ...

Sierra Express

  • Governments Can Make Water and Sanitation for ...
    LONDON, United-Kingdom, March 21, 2013/ – Today, on the 20th anniversary of World Water Day, WaterAid (http://www.wateraid.org) is calling on international leaders to support an ambitious target of providing access to water, sanitation and hygiene for all Africans by 2030. The call comes a ...
  • Trade and Industry Minister Usu Boie visits Sa ...
    The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara  (in photo) has made his maiden visit as Minister Trade to the Institute of Advance Management and Computer Technology (IAMTECH), Kissy Dockyard, Standard Bureau and Leocem in Cline Town, East of the capital. At IAMTECH the proprietor ...
  • Preview – Tunisia vs Sierra Leone Match
    Both Carthage Eagles of Tunisia and Leone Stars of Sierra Leone are in Group B together with Equatorial Guinea and Cape Verde for the Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifiers.  (Photo: Leone Stars players training at the El-Menza Olympic stadium training ground in Tunis (Photo Credit: Mohamed Fajah Barr ...
  • Residents Commend OGI Operations
    Residents in Kenema City, east of Sierra Leone  on Monday, 18th March, 2013 commended the activities of the Open Government Initiative (OGI).  This commendation came after a radio program held at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) 93.5 FM in Kenema by the Director of OGI, Khadija S ...
  • Information Minister Endorses National Public ...
    Minister of Information and Communications, Alhaji Alpha Kanu has expressed his willingness to support the amendment of the Public Archives Act of 1965 which the Society for Knowledge Management Sierra Leone (SKM-SL) is seeking to replace with the drafted National Public Archives Bill 2012. The ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Big dry pressures being put on farmers
    A West Coast farming expert says he is seeing first-hand the pressures being put on farmers battling to combat the effects of the big dry.CRT technical feed specialist for the West Coast, Tasman and Marlborough, Andrew Mitchell...
  • Fonterra reveals a triple treat
    Dairy giant Fonterra says its new bottle will protect milk from light and keep it fresher and tasting better for longer.The triple-layer bottle technology developed over three years was the first packaging of its kind for fresh...
  • Fonterra launches 'world-first' bottle
    Dairy giant Fonterra has launched a "world-first" bottle that it says will protect milk from light and keep it fresher and tasting better for longer.The triple-layer bottle technology developed over three years was the first packaging...
  • Farmers gain export relief
    The drought gripping most of the country is hitting dairy farmers hard, but soaring export prices will partially offset lost production, economists say.Milk product prices at Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction leaped by...
  • World dairy prices surge 14.8pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products surged to the highest in two years in Fonterra's latest online global dairy auction as drought curtails production in the North Island.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 14.8 per cent compared to the last...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • San Francisco Cops Lean on Nightclubs to Becom ...
    Interesting/horrifying report from San Francisco nightclub DNA Lounge: Officer Chan, the permitting officer for SFPD, called to remind us that we're required to have video surveillance that records everything our customers do, and to give that footage to SFPD any time they ask, wi ...
  • Nick Gillespie Q&A with Hillsdale Collegia ...
    I recently spoke at Michigan's Hillsdale College, where among other things, I gave a talk about how the baby boomer generation is screwing over today's youth. I also gave an interview with the excellent college paper there, in which we discussed everything from gay marriage to Ran ...
  • Kurt Loder Reviews Olympus Has Fallen ...
    When last seen on Hollywood soil, in the 2012 Red Dawn remake, evil North Korean invaders had touched down in Spokane, Washington, where they were quickly butt-kicked by a bunch of teenagers. Having learned nothing from that experience, writes Kurt Loder, the Norks are now back, and ...
  • A.M. Links: Federal Cybersurveillance Expands ...
    An executive order by President Obama expands the federal government’s cybersurveillance program aimed at defense contractors to include private sector employees at big banks, utilities and some transportation companies. The Defense Department is delaying furloughs for some empl ...
  • Friday Funnies: Pop Tart Politics

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
    O HAI! RUB MAI TUMMY PLZKTHX!
  • Michele Bachmann’s Teflon’s Wearin ...
    From Jeff Kolb at the local conservative blog Look True North (hat tip to Dump Bachmann’s Ken Avidor), we hear that Michele Bachmann has a primary challenger — as yet unnamed, but known to be male. Boy howdy. Last year, Bachmann was riding high. Her 2010 outing saw her crush the well ...
  • Communion and Liberation, a detailed look at o ...
    Jamie Manson, NCR: In his 2011 book La Lobby di Dio (God’s Lobby), Ferruccio Pinotti argues CL [Communion and Liberation] is “more powerful than Opus Dei, more well-oiled than freemasonry, and more ‘plugged in’ than Confindustria, Italy’s manufacturer’s associ ...
  • Papal news, 3/18/13
    In my previous post, I posed the following as one of the key questions raised by the elevation of Jorge Bergoglio to Pope. 4. Since past money-laundering by the Church has involved CIA operations to overthrow left-wing governments, is Communion and Liberation part of such an effort to overthrow ...
  • Watch out below, Cyprus edition
    Asian markets look to be headed down 2% (as Hong Kong and Japan are as of ca. midnight Eastern), while S&P futures are down 1.4%. A correction by 8% would get the S&P to the 200 day moving average, while a correction of 12% would bring it to a Fibonacci level. The immediate cause of [...]

Reality Sandwich

  • Extremist Art: A Talk with Nick Zedd
      "Nick Zedd's films are legendary -- he is a truly seminal figure in the New York underground." --Jim Jarmusch read more
  • 7th Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
    Are you in New York City and looking for a great way to celebrate Earth Day? The 7th Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration will be the perfect way to unite with fellow humans and Mother Earth to express love and gratitude. There will be a number of presenters to spread inspirational messages ...
  • Aligning the Condor and Eagle
      The following is excerpted from Into the Wind: My Six-Month Journey Wandering the World for Life's Purpose, published by Waterside Press. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life. --Rob Brezsny San Ma ...
  • Spring Cleaning
      Suzanne Boothby will be hosting a live, interactive web seminar "Coming Clean: How to Create Your Own Food Cleanse" on Tuesday, March 26th, at 8:30pm EST. read more
  • TED Backs Down: People Power Wins the Day Agai ...
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Desertification

  • Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Po ...
    When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation. Now, as the United Nations begins the process of formulating a new set ...
  • Food Policies Failing the World’s Hungry
    The world’s food security remains “vulnerable”, new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington think tank, says such numbers are “unacc ...
  • Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
    Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies a ...
  • Q&A: Water Disputes Get Resolved While Other C ...
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen Interviews UNESCO Director General IRINA BOKOVA
  • Drought Hits Policies
    Drought has dramatically increased as a consequence of climate change. Most countries react to it only after it has occurred, but don’t have national policies to prevent it. The high-level meeting on national drought policies in Geneva this week is trying to match scientific knowledge with polit ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Calling Out Brad Wall's Phony Contrived Outrag ...
    Pipelines have already carried share of hot airBy Bruce Johnstone - Regina Leader-Post Aside from oil and gas, pipelines seem to be useful conduits for transporting another commodity we seem to have a surplus of - hot air.No sooner had Premier Brad Wall returned from his trip to Washingt ...
  • Kitchener Cyclists Don't Want Sparky Bikes!
    http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/902205--cyclist-wants-e-bikes-banned-from-kitchener-trails
  • The Rehabilitation of Paul Rose
    It's always tempting, especially with the passage of time to rehabilitate those who acted barbarously in a cause that we otherwise support. And so on the pages of vigile.net and  l'Autrejournal the memory of Paul Rose is being raised to that of a romantic patriotic warrior, whose involveme ...
  • NRG Research Group Inc. and Former NRG Researc ...
    The following email has been edited in terms of its original formatting. From: Vic Populi < vicpopuli1@gmail.com > Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:10 PM Subject: Re: 3 postings on your site To: Dave Converse < dconverse@nrgresearchgroup.com > Mr. Converse, There is no negative ...
  • "'The United States of America'" and "a State"
    The opposite of America by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog October 17, 2012 First off, I will say that no State is legitimate. Not one. To create one that is can't be done. The very nature of being a State is filled with illegitimacy from the v ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Obama employee of Israel: Hezbollah
    The Lebonese resistance movement of Hezbollah has condemned Barack Obama’s call for listing the group as a terrorist organization, saying the US president is an “employee of Israel.”
  • Jordanians slam Obama visit in Amman
    Jordanians have staged a demonstration in the capital, Amman, to express their discontent with US President Barack Obama’s visit to the region.
  • Obama Ramallah visit irks Palestinians
    Palestinians have staged a large protest rally during a visit by US President Barack Obama to the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Press TV reports.
  • Syria’s Assad condemns mosque attack
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has condemned the recent deadly attack on a mosque in Damascus that killed dozens of people including a top Sunni cleric.
  • Gunfire kills 3, injures 18 in N Lebanon
    Three people have been killed and 18 others injured in clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian government in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • News From The Alumni Advisory Council
    The following post was submitted by Crispin Goytia ‘09, Chair of the Alumni Advisory Council.  The CUNY School of Professional Studies Alumni Advisory Council was formed with the intention of bringing alumni together to make time to dedicate and “give back” to the school that gave us ...
  • SPS Alums Present: The Birds and The Bees&#823 ...
    Maggie Keenan-Bolger (SPS ’10) and Rachel Sullivan (SPS ’10) are co-creators of The Birds and the Bees Unabridged, an original devised theater piece about female sexuality accompanied by a pre/post show art exhibit. Bringing together a diverse ensemble of 25 people, and over 15 visual artists, T ...
  • Distance Learning and Online Relationships
    This article by Wendy Williams originally appeared on the blog Getting Smart on February 21, 2013.  I never get to meet most of my students in person, because I teach asynchronous online courses via Blackboard, for the City University of New York (CUNY). I was part of a cohort of Ph.D. students ...
  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...
  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]

Dissident Voice

  • A Safe and a Shotgun or Public Sector Banks?
    If these worries become really serious, … mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun. – Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on private deposits in Cyprus banks The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making.  US depo ...
  • Solution to Student Debt is to Get the Banks O ...
    Michael Hudson, a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City: Crippling student debt, which is also a drag on the whole economy, developed as governments pushed the burden of higher education costs onto students and pus ...
  • Making Connections: From Shock and Awe to Wall ...
    This week marks the tenth anniversary of the “Shock and Awe” US invasion of Iraq. The ravages of that invasion continue at home and in Iraq, the US is still at war in Afghanistan (troops and contractors remain in Iraq) and unofficially waging war on countries like Pakistan and Yemen, ...
  • Brian Haw and the Right to Protest
    It is sad that well-known peace campaigners should drop below the radar, not just of the politicians who hate them, but of the so-called peace campaigners who idolised them when they were still there.  One such man, who dedicated the last 10 years of his life to confronting the UK Parliament wit ...
  • Israel’s Proconsul to Canada Faces Political D ...
    Though it’s been said, it bears repeating: Stephen Harper owes his political existence not to talent or popularity, but to the political exhaustion and enfeeblement of the opposition Liberal Party. After three majority governments under the strong leadership of Jean Chrétien, the Liberals spiral ...

Nick Turse

  • nickturse:For those of you in and around New ...
    nickturse: For those of you in and around New York City, I’ll be giving a reading and signing copies of my New York Times bestseller Kill Anything that Moves at 192 Books in Chelsea (at 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street) on March 27th at 7pm.  For more information, call 212-255-4022 or click here.
  • wnyc:A chart of doctor responses from the Jo ...
    wnyc: A chart of doctor responses from the Johns Hopkins Precursors Study about end of life choices. via Radiolab
  • “I found myself tearing up, gagging at times, ...
    “I found myself tearing up, gagging at times, as I turned the pages.”  This generally isn’t what you like to read to begin a review of your book.  But I couldn’t be happier, more humbled, or more moved with the review of Kill Anything That Moves by wartime aid worker-turned-reporter Tom Fox in ...
  • motherjones:*$55 billion.*
    motherjones: *$55 billion.*
  • "The visceral horror of what happened at My La ...
    “The visceral horror of what happened at My Lai is undeniable. On the evening of March 15,...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • The World Flocks to its Forum
    In the final countdown to this year’s World Social Forum (WSF), Tunisian civil society and the country’s capital, Tunis, prepares for an influx of over 50,000 visitors. With the dates of the forum set for Mar. 26-30, uncompleted tasks are being fast-tracked while the university campu ...
  • Little Hope for the Children Abducted in Mali’ ...
    One of Amina Diallo’s sons, 14-year-old Salif, has been missing since August last year. She thinks Islamists kidnapped him while he was on his way to the market in their hometown of Gao, in northern Mali, and recruited him as a child soldier. “Wherever he is, he must know that I still pray for h ...
  • Climate Change Now Seen as Security Threat Wor ...
    Defence establishments around the world increasingly see climate change as posing potentially serious threats to national and international security, according to a review of high-level statements by the world’s governments released here Thursday. The review, “The Global Security Defense Index o ...
  • World Bank 2030 Draft Strategy Criticised for ...
    A leaked copy of a major World Bank strategy paper, outlining a new institutional approach to tackling poverty through 2030, has worried some humanitarian groups and anti-poverty advocates, who say the bank has failed to suggest mechanisms that would allow it to adequately track or deal with gro ...
  • OP-ED: Genuine Constitutional Monarchy Is the ...
    As the Bahraini and international media continue to dissect the meaning of Crown Prince Salman’s appointment as first deputy prime minister, powerful factions within the ruling Al-Khalifa family must be pondering the future of their rule. It’s interesting to note that no prominent royals congrat ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Thinking of Halabja Today – 25 Years Later
    Summary: Iran’s own Halabja is called Sardasht, a municipality without much military significance across the border north of Sulaymaniyah. Saddam’s air force hit the town on 28 June 1987, almost nine months before Halabja. Although initial reports of CW victims were low, it soon emerged that ...
  • No Progress in Latest Round of Iran Talks: P5 ...
    Summary: Iranian officials say that little progress was made in yesterday’s P5+1 talks in Istanbul, Turkey, a sort of secondary set of talks in between the big talks in Kazakhstan, the next round of which will be held next month. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Tenth Anniversary of Iraq Invasion: Lessons & ...
    Summary: March 19 is the tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq by the United States, Britain and their allies. George W. Bush declared that the goals of the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi peopl ...
  • IAEA chief Amano is US's puppet over Iran: Ger ...
    Summary: A German lawmaker has described Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano as a “US puppet” in his handling of Iran’s nuclear energy dossier. source: PressTVread more
  • Twisting the Intel to Fit the Politics: The Ne ...
    Summary: Though the recent nuclear talks with Iran ended with an apparent whiff of progress, and though the two sides have agreed to meet for further technical negotiations this month and then for political level talks next month, the U.S. continues to approach Iran with a hostility that can ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Was the Milky Way's Core Once a Quasar?" --As ...
                   The brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, preventing small galaxy formation. University of Colorado-Boulder Professor Michael Shull and Research Associate David Syphe ...
  • Relic Radiation from Big Bang --ESA: "Contradi ...
                      The most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background – the relic radiation from the Big Bang – was released today by the ESO revealing the existence of features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe. When compare ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 250,000!
                   Join the 259,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations ...
  • The Apollo 11 Engine Recovered --From Three Mi ...
                       "What an incredible adventure. We are right now onboard the Seabed Worker headed back to Cape Canaveral after finishing three weeks at sea, working almost 3 miles below the surface. We found so much," says Amazon.com founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos of his expedition ...
  • Voyager 1 Beyond the Solar System --Entering a ...
                      Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have traveled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new study appearing online today. The heliosphere is a region of space dominated by the Sun and its wind of energetic par ...

Natural News

  • Cyprus bank insolvency crisis quickly escalati ...
    As you may have suspected, there's far more to the Cyprus bank crisis story than meets the eye. It turns out the shutdown of Cypriot banks has caused a large-scale financial shutdown of the Russian government which uses Cyprus banks for most transactions. On top of...
  • Improve your brain with music
    Most people have their own particular styles of music they enjoy. Music is one of the greatest joys of mankind and it is effective at simulating the brain and enhancing learning. Listening to music stimulates the whole brain through diverse neural circuitry that stimulate...
  • Neo-cynicism: Farting at the dinner table
    I just excavated some gear oil waste I found buried in the soil on my little organic farm. To do so, I used equipment that relies on the same oil that was buried in my soil. I reap what I sow, and I feel like our modern society is stuck in this flammable, smelly spiral...
  • Obama still claims power to murder Americans o ...
    Recently, when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., filibustered the nomination of John Brennan, President Obama's choice to head up the CIA, because he and Attorney General Eric Holder both claimed the administration had the right to use drones to strike perceived U.S. enemies anywhere...
  • Timing of meals influences weight loss as much ...
    Virtually all western cultures are presently fighting an obesity epidemic, as processed convenience foods dominate total calories consumed. Homemade meals that include fresh vegetables, fruits and lean protein sources have become a rare event over the past half century...

Threat Level

  • Logic Bomb Set Off South Korea Cyberattack
    A cyberattack that wiped the hard drives of computers belonging to banks and broadcasting companies in South Korea this week was set off by a logic bomb in the code, according to a security firm in the U.S.
  • File-Sharing Service isoHunt Illegally Fosters ...
    A federal appeals court rules that the popular BitTorrent file-sharing service and its related websites violate U.S. copyright law and are on the hook for hefty monetary damages. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...
  • Microsoft, Too, Says FBI Secretly Surveilling ...
    Microsoft said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is secretly spying on its customers with so-called National Security Letters that don’t require a judge’s approval, a revelation Thursday that mirrors one Google announced two weeks ago.
  • Even With Parental Consent, Privacy for Minors ...
    Privacy is not something to be granted only if we prove we deserve it. On the contrary, there should be a strong reason to violate that privacy at all -- especially in the case of minors or any other vulnerable ...
  • Tone Down the Cyberwarfare Rhetoric, Expert Ur ...
    As the nation ponders the wisdom of its decision to invade Iraq a decade ago, Martin Libicki asks Congress to consider more carefully how the United States will respond to a cyber 9/11 and to weigh carefully the use of ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Boehner, Ryan Undermine GOP's Next Debt Ceilin ...
    This week, House Speaker John Boehner and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan made two important if largely overlooked admissions regarding the U.S. national debt. While Boehner told ABC News that "we have no immediate debt crisis," Ryan similarly acknowledged to CBS News, "We do not have ...
  • The U.S. Government? Catholic Bishops Want to ...
    As Pope Francis starts his papacy, polls show that American Catholics overwhelmingly believe the issue of clergy sex abuse must be his number one priority. As a Pew Research survey two weeks ago showed, while that crisis tops the list for 34 percent, neither abortion (3 percent) or contraceptio ...
  • Nothing Succeeds Like Failure for Iraq War Arc ...
    Ten years later, there is little question that the Iraq war was a disaster for the United States and its people. Over 4,400 Americans died and another 30,000 were wounded in the conflict. While U.S. forces were left to "muddle through" in Afghanistan, America's Mesopotamia misadventure signifi ...
  • How the GOP Gets It All Wrong on Medicare in 5 ...
    On Sunday, GOP House Speaker John Boehner and Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan agreed with President Obama "we do not an immediate debt crisis." But, as both sides similarly acknowledge, the longer term is a different story. In future decades, it is health care spending in general and Medic ...
  • 10 Signs Paul Ryan is Dropping Acid
    Back in the 1990s, the CEO of my former company had a simple way of questioning the wisdom of some of our more dubious business strategies. "Are we," he would ask, "smoking the drapes?" By that standard, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan must be dropping acid. Because as a quick glance a ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Road Traffic Pollution Is Significant Cause Of ...
    Around 14% of all cases of chronic childhood asthma in European cities are from road traffic pollution, new research has found. The research found that traffic pollution near busy roads results in about the same number of chronic asthma cases as passive smoking does. “Until now, traffic po ...
  • Men Who Have Children Later In Life More Likel ...
    It was already known that men who father children later in their life are much more likely to have autistic children than younger men, but new research has found that this effect extends to their grandchildren also. This new research shows that risk factors for autism can accumulate over generat ...
  • Vegan Body Builder and Fitness Trainer Lisa Ko ...
    (This content originally appeared on Healthfooddaily.com.) Lisa Koehn is a vegan bodybuilder and fitness trainer based in Hawaii. She kindly agreed to answer some questions about her training and diet. 1. What did your diet used to be, and what is it now? I was born and raised in the Midwest, so ...
  • New Lizard Species Do Not Look ‘Evil’
    Two new lizard species were discovered in the mountain rainforest habitat of northeastern Peru. Too bad a media outlet already said they look evil: ‘New lizard species look like evil dinosaur hybrids’. Why would a person judge another species and use the word evil, when it has never ...
  • “Brain Waves” Show That Area-Specific Understa ...
    The modern scientific understanding of how brains function has primarily been based around area-specific associations — when you talk the “speech” area of the brain is activated, etc. But now, new research on “brain waves” is shedding further light on how the brain ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Greed Not So Good
    By @TedFrier Ever since he first proposed it in the same year Thomas Jefferson declared all men to be created equal, people have been delighted and beguiled by the hidden workings of Adam Smith's famous "invisible hand." For a millennia or more, humans who marveled at the orderly movements of t ...
  • History Repeats: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
    By @TedFrier History, as Karl Marx famously remarked, repeats itself:  "First as tragedy, then as farce." Nowhere has that been more true than with the troubled history of the American South. Here, the tragic conceit of a Southern planter-class that dragged the nation to war in 1861 to prot ...
  • American Exceptionalism or Why We're Hated Thr ...
    Way back at the beginning of  President Obama's first year in office The Spoof, a parody news site and cheap knockoff of The Onion,ran a story in which he supposedly apologized to Mexico for supposed criminal acts by Mexican drug gangs against American citizens.  Yeah, I know, it does ...
  • Thoughts On Democrats Trying To Cut Social Sec ...
    By @TomBales1 The Republicans used to have a saying during the Bush years when their boy was coming under copious amounts of criticism for being an ignorant dick that was killing our kids for the financial benefit of his daddy's Wall Street cronies. After they made sure we understood what lowlif ...
  • What's That Smell?

Care 2

  • Applaud Funding for Elderly Women Enrolled in ...
    Applaud the World Wildlife Fund for allocating funds and equipment for elderly women participating in the Solar Engineer program. Submitted by Judy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Luckiest Moose In Siberia---Rescue Video
    A pregnant cow moose is rescued from an icy death by a helicopter pilot and two passengers in Siberia. Submitted by Kenneth L. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The David Sheldrick wildlife trust-CITES and i ...
    Last week the 16th Conference of the Parties to CITES came to an end and the question on everyones lips is; what measures did they take to protect elephants? Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The horror in paradise, SIGN PLEASE!
    PLEASE SIGN! It's hard to believe: the Maldives, a 15 year old girl victim of repeated rape has been sentenced to 100 lashes in public. Stop this madness by pressing where it hurts the government Maldives: tourist revenue. Submitted by Sergio Padilla to Society & Culture  |  &nbsp ...
  • *TAKE ACTION* End Overseas Tax Loopholes For U ...
    This petition is written to ask Congress to end overseas tax loopholes for US Corporations in places like the Cayman Islands. Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Syria Chemical Weapons Canard
    The hysteria, especially in Washington, surrounding the alleged use of a chemical weapon in Syria is worrisome. Just as we commemorate the tenth anniversary of invading Iraq over non-existent “weapons of mass destruction,” we are again being prepped to support a military response to ...
  • Iraq, Syria and Deja Vu
    The warmongers clearly believe in irony. What other reason to spread the rumor that chemical weapons had been used in Syria on the very day that the United States started an unnecessary, costly war in Iraq 10 years ago? The Dick Cheney and neo-con crowd continue to insist that going to war in Ir ...
  • Don’t Buy Apple, Stay Away from ICLOUD
    Until today, I considered myself a satisfied, content user of Apple computers, I-Phones and I-Pads. No more. If you have a choice, DO NOT BUY ANYTHING APPLE. The death of Steve Jobs has produced a stupidity level in the company that is breathtaking. APPLE is trying to carve out a new niche with ...
  • Russian Mob Key Player in Cyprus
    Boy, this is a movie “popcorn” moment in Cyprus. Will the Cypriot Government move to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts held in Cyprus? If they do, a lot of the decision makers will probably be killed. The Russian mafia is not keen on letting people live who ste ...
  • What Did Sid Tell Hillary?
    Odd piece of news overnight–longtime friend and advisor of Hillary Clinton, Sid Blumenthal, had his email hacked and messages he sent Hillary about Benghazi are somewhere out in the ether. Why should I care? I may be a mentioned in those emails. See, Sid also is a friend of mine. We do not ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Stop mountaintop removal mining - Columbia Star
    Stop mountaintop removal mining Columbia Star As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too late. Mountaintop removal no ...
  • Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining ...
    Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining Akron Leader Publications As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too la ...
  • Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate ...
    Nashville Scene Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate Businessweek NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sponsors of a measure to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee say they plan to bring the legislation back next year after a Senate panel killed it Wednesday. The proposal sponsored by ...
  • Foes of mountaintop removal say other side sup ...
    Nashville Scene Foes of mountaintop removal say other side supports “Red China” The Tennessean (blog) Legislation to ban mountaintop removal in Tennessee died its expected death in the state legislature Wednesday, but not before advocates tried out a new tactic to gin up public support — playing ...
  • Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate ...
    Mother Jones Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate Knoxville News Sentinel NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sponsors of a measure to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee say they plan to bring the legislation back next year after a Senate panel killed it Wednesday. The proposal spons ...

Memeorandum

  • Lululemon Sheer Yoga Pants Undetected Until Be ...
    Sapna Maheshwari / Bloomberg: Lululemon Sheer Yoga Pants Undetected Until Bend-Over Test  —  Wall Street analysts from Robert W. Baird & Co. to Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. peppered Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU) executives today with questions about how the yoga-wear retai ...
  • House Passes Plan to Avert Federal Shutdown (J ...
    Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: House Passes Plan to Avert Federal Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON - The House gave final approval Thursday to legislation to avert a federal shutdown and keep the government funded through September, and passed a Republican budget blueprint that enshr ...
  • Yoko Ono Tweets John Lennon's Bloody Glasses ( ...
    Alisa Wiersema / ABCNEWS: Yoko Ono Tweets John Lennon's Bloody Glasses  —  Yoko Ono joined the U.S. gun debate when she tweeted a picture of the blood-stained glasses her husband, John Lennon, was wearing when he died.  Lennon, one of the Beatles, died in 1980 after being ...
  • Major terror attack on scale of 7/7 foiled eve ...
    Tom Whitehead / Telegraph: Major terror attack on scale of 7/7 foiled every year in UK, police reveal  —  Police and MI5 are foiling a plot as big as the July 7 attacks every year, the country's second most senior terror officer has revealed.  —  Officers also fe ...
  • In Israel, Obama draws race parallel (Josh Ger ...
    Josh Gerstein / Politico: In Israel, Obama draws race parallel  —  JERUSALEM—On his stops in the Holy Land Thursday, President Barack Obama turned again and again to a subject not obviously connected to the current troubles in the mideast: the struggles of African American ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, south of the Fiji Islands
    Thursday, March 21, 2013 05:27:36 UTC Thursday, March 21, 2013 05:27:36 PM at epicenterDepth: 601.70 km (373.88 mi)
  • M 5.3, Reykjanes Ridge
    Wednesday, March 20, 2013 22:28:59 UTC Wednesday, March 20, 2013 08:28:59 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.1, south of the Fiji Islands
    Wednesday, March 20, 2013 14:02:30 UTC Thursday, March 21, 2013 02:02:30 AM at epicenterDepth: 599.10 km (372.26 mi)
  • M 5.4, Samoa Islands region
    Tuesday, March 19, 2013 18:36:56 UTC Tuesday, March 19, 2013 07:36:56 AM at epicenterDepth: 20.10 km (12.49 mi)
  • M 5.3, south of the Fiji Islands
    Tuesday, March 19, 2013 18:22:52 UTC Wednesday, March 20, 2013 06:22:52 AM at epicenterDepth: 19.70 km (12.24 mi)

China Dialogue

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Renowned Science Writer Sandra Steingraber Put ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Watkins Glen, New York made Yahoo! Travel’s top 10 list of America’s coolest small towns. This Finger Lake village is described as having “Award-winning wineries, awe-inspiring gorges and waterfall ...
  • What It Costs the Worst Bank to Be Truly Evil
    $16 billion.That's how much JPMorgan Chase has paid in fines, settlements and other litigation expenses in the last four years alone.More than half of that amount, $8.5 billion, was paid out in fines and settlements as the result of illegal actions taken by bank executives.$8.5 billion is alm ...
  • Do You Want to Avoid the Next Iraq?
    The most powerful argument for a strong, independent media is the Iraq invasion. George W. Bush probably made the worst decision ever made by an American President in invading that country.But Bush had plenty of enablers, and not just in the conservative media.  A "who's who" of establis ...
  • Cannabis Helped Heal My Cancer
    Editor’s note: Michelle Aldrich, 66, has been working for marijuana legalization —which she defines as “the right to grow it for free in your backyard”— for most of her life.  She and her husband Michael live in a comfortable old apartment near the San Fr ...
  • The Public's Hope for Meaningful Gun Reform Cr ...
    Politics is never pretty. But the recent optics by Democrats in the gun control debate have been more than discouraging. On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled a new assault-weapons ban from a package of bills he will introduce next month. And in New York, Democratic Gov. A ...

Threat Level

  • Logic Bomb Set Off South Korea Cyberattack
    A cyberattack that wiped the hard drives of computers belonging to banks and broadcasting companies in South Korea this week was set off by a logic bomb in the code, according to a security firm in the U.S.
  • File-Sharing Service isoHunt Illegally Fosters ...
    A federal appeals court rules that the popular BitTorrent file-sharing service and its related websites violate U.S. copyright law and are on the hook for hefty monetary damages. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...
  • Microsoft, Too, Says FBI Secretly Surveilling ...
    Microsoft said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is secretly spying on its customers with so-called National Security Letters that don’t require a judge’s approval, a revelation Thursday that mirrors one Google announced two weeks ago.
  • Even With Parental Consent, Privacy for Minors ...
    Privacy is not something to be granted only if we prove we deserve it. On the contrary, there should be a strong reason to violate that privacy at all -- especially in the case of minors or any other vulnerable ...
  • Tone Down the Cyberwarfare Rhetoric, Expert Ur ...
    As the nation ponders the wisdom of its decision to invade Iraq a decade ago, Martin Libicki asks Congress to consider more carefully how the United States will respond to a cyber 9/11 and to weigh carefully the use of ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • OrganicLife Salmonella Lawsuit to be filed in ...
    We will be filing a lawsuit (Complaint Attached) Thursday on behalf of a young girl hospitalized with Salmonella after eating lunch at her school in 2012.  Her Salmonella illness was... Continue Reading
  • Sprouts in the Northwest: I have heard this b ...
    This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary... Continue Reading
  • 300 with Cryptosporidium Linked to “Ready to E ...
    According to a Health Protection Agency (HPA) press release, the HPA announced findings of an investigation into an outbreak of Cryptosporidium infection that affected around 300 people in England and... Continue Reading
  • Airplane Food – With a Little too much Shigella
    I travel a lot.  Honestly (knock on wood), I have never been sickened by the food I have eaten on a plane.  But the following case reminds me how easily... Continue Reading
  • Another Likely Employee Based Shigella Outbreak
    The first Shigella illness involving a guest of the Doubletree Hotel was reported to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) on September 9, 2003. Interviews with other... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • The nothing box – YouTube
    The nothing box – YouTube.
  • it’s time to collapse the system | poorrichard ...
    Submitted by Gordon_Gekko on 03/20/2013 16:32 -0400 For previous articles by the author go to: Gordon Gekko’s Blog First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I ...
  • Cyprus banks may never open again
    “Germany’s finance minister has warned Cyprus that its crisis-stricken banks may never be able to reopen if it rejects the terms of a bailout.”   “There may have been jubilation among many Cypriots at Tuesday night’s parliamentary defeat of the hated banking tax, but now the country faces a ...
  • Police State Raids Family’s Home: “The Fight H ...
    Mac Slavo March 20th, 2013 SHTFplan.com When certified firearms instructor Shawn Moore posted a photo of his 11 year-old son on Facebook the last thing he expected was a SWAT style raid on his home. The picture showed his son, a licensed hunter, holding his new birthday gift, a .22 caliber rifle ...
  • Mark Zuckerberg Is Grandson Of David Rockefell ...
    Ok so this Greenberg / Zuckerberg thing is getting weirder by the second. A Jacob Greenberg was arrested for possession of Marijuana and this mugshot was taken. It was later revealed that this could indeed be the man the world knows as Mark Zuckerberg. His family members include David Rockefelle ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Social unrest coming to Europe? If not, why not?
    Summary: Five years of crisis in Europe, yet its streets remain mostly calm. What accounts for this? How long will it continue? “At the heart of the crisis, there is the challenge of redefining the social contract to safeguard the sustainability of Europe’s social model.” &#821 ...
  • The next step of computer evolution: becoming ...
    Summary:  Yesterday we examined the job prospects for journalists when computers do much of their job as well as people. But it might not end there. Computers will become bloggers, either in collaboration with people, or software run by people as a hobby. Here we speculate about what kinds of bl ...
  • Journalists reporting the end of journalism as ...
    Summary: Journalists often have been unsympathetic when reporting past waves of unemployment from automation. Now they have the opportunity to do first person reporting, as computers replace professionals. Like journalists.  This is another chapter in a series about the the robot revolution, soo ...
  • Hype about 3D printing & dreams of American re ...
    Summary:  Judging from the hype, 3-D printing is the next big thing in the ongoing industrial revolution (especially since the biotech revolution has stalled) — and the US has a great lead.  We’re #1! No need for difficult structural reforms! Too bad the story is probably exaggerated ...
  • About China’s real estate bubble
    Summary: Facing a new powerful rival presents a hegemon with choices. We can improve our game, reform, revitalize to meet the challenge. Or take refuge in fantasy, ignoring our weaknesses and exaggerating those of our rival. America has chosen door #2. Here we peer through the propaganda fog, se ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Asteroid Billiards
    This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a comet-like object called P/2010 A2, which was first discovered by the LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program) sky survey on January 6, 2010. The object appears so unusual in ground-based ...
  • New Map Made of First Trillionth of a Trillion ...
    The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has released the most detailed map of the universe ever created, refining estimates of the age of the universe and its composition, as well as showing some interesting anomalies that scientists can't yet explain.
  • When Animals Learn to Control Robots, You Know ...
    The warnings range from sarcastic to nervous to dead serious, but they all describe the same scenario: Robots become sentient, join forces and turn on us en masse. But we've ignored another possibility: Animals learn to control robots and decide ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Supernova an ...
    About 35 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Eridanus (The River), lies the spiral galaxy NGC 1637. Back in 1999 the serene appearance of this galaxy was shattered by the appearance of a very bright supernova. Astronomers studying ...
  • Wait for It: Voyager 1 Has Not Yet Left the So ...
    Despite reports to the contrary, NASA's tiny interplanetary probe Voyager 1 has not really left the solar system yet.

PakAlert

  • Revealed: the tiny Bluetooth weapon in the fig ...
    Updates on vital health information like proteins, sugar and organic acids in the blood can be displayed on doctor's mobile phone
  • Woman’s tea addiction led to loss of teeth, bo ...
    Here's a cautionary tale about the value of moderation. A case study reported in the March 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows how habitually drinking an extreme form of highly concentrated tea over almost 20 years created a hard-to-diagnose case of severe bone damage in a 4 ...
  • Obama’s limo breaks down in Israel: Eight amaz ...
    Barack Obama's $1 million armed Cadillac limousine, nicknamed 'the Beast', has broken down in Israel, where it was specially flown in for the President's visit. Here are eight amazing facts about the car that thinks it's a tank
  • India Tests Submarine-Launched Supersonic Missile
    India successfully test fired a submarine-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on Wednesday, the BrahMos Aerospace Russian-Indian company said. The missile was launched vertically from a submerged platform in the Bay of Bengal and flew its complete range of over 290 kilom ...
  • Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Fi ...
    Why is the global economy in so much trouble? How can so many people be so absolutely certain that the world financial system is going to crash? Well, the truth is that when you take a look at the cold, hard numbers it is not difficult to see why the global financial pyramid scheme is destined ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantána ...
    For the last fortnight I have been writing about, and discussing the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo, in my articles “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo” and “How Long Can the Government Pretend that the Massive Hunger Strike at Guantánamo Doesn’t Exist?” and in a ...
  • Intimations of Mortality Revisited; or Why I W ...
    Two years ago — at noon on March 18, 2011 — I gave up smoking after chain-smoking for 29 years. It was one of the best things I ever did in my life, along with giving up drinking (nearly five years ago), and meeting my wife and having a child. When I gave up smoking, [...]
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, the Hun ...
    Please sign the e-petition calling for the British government to secure the return to the UK from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, who has been cleared for release since 2007. 100,000 signatures are needed by April 20. With a huge hunger strike taking place at ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Last Call for Donations ...
    Please support my work! Last week was my quarterly fundraiser, in which, as I do every three months, I ask you, my friends and supporters, to donate if you can to support my work, primarily as an independent journalist, researcher and activist on Guantánamo and related issues, but also as a jour ...
  • More Photos from “Born in Lewisham,&#822 ...
    More Photos from “Born in Lewisham,” the Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital, March 16, 2013, a set on Flickr. On Saturday, another high-profile event took place in the campaign to “Save Lewisham Hospital” from destruction by senior NHS managers and the government, with an ...

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Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Chicago Public Schools Expected to Announce 'L ...
    The Chicago Public Schools is set to announce the closure of around 50 public schools on Thursday, what the Chicago Sun-Times has described as "the largest number ever closed in one place at one time in the country." While the full list and names are expected to be announced by CPS at ...
  • As Occupations Go On, Peace Vigils Continue St ...
    Weekly antiwar protest, Montpelier, VT, October 28, 2005 (Photo: druojajay via Flickr / Creative Commons License)More than a decade after the starts of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, pockets of protest continue regularly across the U.S., signaling persistent outrage at those who started a war ba ...
  • US General Downplays Scope and Significance of ...
    The general overseeing the Guantánamo military prison is reportedly downplaying the scope and significance of an ongoing hunger strike undertaken by detainees at the infamous detention center in an effort to highlight the "desperation and hopelessness of indefinite detention" an ...
  • Obama Speaks Loftily, but Betrays Palestinian ...
    In a televised press conference from the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, President Obama sparred with PA President Mahmoud Abbas over Israeli settlements and dismayed many Palestinians by denying the central role that the continued illegal construction has on the ability ...
  • Group of Grocery Retailers Pledges to Reject ' ...
    As the FDA edges closer to approving genetically engineered salmon, dubbed "frankenfish" by some critics, a group of national grocery retailers has pledged to reject it from their stores, heeding strong consumer opposition. A coalition of groups led by Friends of the Earth made the ann ...

Lifehacker

  • Intab Opens Links Side-by-Side with Your Curre ...
    Chrome: Sometimes you don't really need to open up a new tab when you want to check out a link, you just want to get a quick look at where a link goes. Intab is an extension that essentially adds a "quick look" option to links you come across. More »
  • Cyueue Adds Quick Song Queuing to the iOS Musi ...
    iOS (Jailbroken): One of the key missing features on the default Apple Music app is song queuing. If you want to pick the next song that plays, you have to wait for the current song to end. Cyueue is a tweak that adds a simple "play next" button to music player. More »
  • Have a Friend Help You Weed Out Bad References ...
    When you're applying for a job and they ask you for a list of references it's easy to just throw on a couple old bosses or co-workers and call it a day. However, as Redditor Deactivation notes, you might want to have a friend call those references up to see what they really think about you ...
  • Sprout It Guides You Through the Best Time to ...
    With spring here for half of us, it's time to start thinking about planting a garden. It's never as easy as it sounds, but Sprout It is a webapp that guides you through the best time to plant those vegetables depending on where you are. More »
  • Now Play Us Takes the Hassle Out of Organizing ...
    Dozens of matchmaking services have come and gone, and most of them kind of suck. Now Play Us is a new contender that wants to simplify the process of finding people to play your favorite games with, whether you know them or not, and whether you want to play right now or later. More  ...

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The Wonk Room

  • How Sequester Cuts Are Undermining Tribal Heal ...
    The New York Times editorial board published a column Thursday slamming Congress for the disproportionate impact that sequestration will have on native tribes’ access to health care services, asserting that the “federal government cannot use its budget nihilism to avoid its moral and ...
  • Ohio Governor Flip Flops On Civil Unions Suppo ...
    Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) briefly wavered on his staunch opposition to all forms of same-sex unions in an interview on Thursday morning. When pressed about fellow Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s recent embrace of gay marriage, Kasich claimed he supported civil unions but not marriag ...
  • Leaked Video Of Captain Pepper-Spraying Restra ...
    Over the weekend the Portland Press Herald reported on and released a video of Capt. Shawn Welch at the Maine Correction Center pepper-spraying a restrained inmate in the face and leaving him in distress for more than twenty minutes while he repeatedly pleaded that he could not breath. The inmat ...
  • The Myth Of ‘Dependency’: Almost All Household ...
    One of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) favorite ways of defending the House Republicans’ budget is to claim the social safety net represents a moral threat to Americans’ character, as well as a fiscal threat to their country’s budget. He’s incessa ...
  • Theda Skocpol Doubles Down With Self-Contradic ...
    Theda Skocpol is a leading sociologist and political scientist at Harvard University who has entered the fray of the climate bill debate. Because Skocpol’s academic credentials are in areas largely unrelated to climate and energy politics/policy, her views on those subjects must stand or f ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Resisting the State" ... More
    So, yeah, more about Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State. In Chapter 2, Neigh talks about the transplanted Trinidadian, Toronto lawyer Charles Roach. Neigh begins with an in-depth explanation of how the cultures of other lands filter into a locale via the process of immigration ...
  • Scott Neigh's "Talking Radical: Resisting the ...
    So, my friend Scott Neigh has asked me to review his book Talking Radical: Resisting the State - Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists. So here's the review!! First off, I finally think that I understand Scott's antipathy to working through official channels to achieve lasting gains ...
  • Invasion of Iraq - 10th Anniversary Reflections
    What do I take away from this abomination? The reaffirmation that our opponents are dangerous. They are cretinous, deluded, hypocritical, murderous, greedy, cowardly vermin. Everyone who was sold on the unelected bush II's case for the war was an ignoramus or a complete idiot. Every media outlet ...
  • March 15th Reading n' Shit
    So, today I'm reading a book recommended by a friend. (He's fucking weird in that he's able to go buy these awesome second-hand books and then, when he's done reading them, gets rid of them when there's no more room on his shelf for new ones.) Anyhow, it's by Alex Butterworth and it's called Th ...
  • As Good a Survey of Iraq's Historical Sufferin ...
    "Unmitigated Disaster" by Sami Ramadani. You know, years ago on this blog, I wrote an observation about Mark Steyn's book I forget the stupid title. I hadn't read the book then and I never will. Because Steyn is a cretin. But a really smart "conservative" (or "right-winger" or whatever) took me ...

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada should reject armed drones
    Is Mali the next opportunity to pitch an armed drone program as a contribution to both the French campaign there and the US-led war against al Qaeda in Western Africa?
  • Canada and the Iraq War: 10 years on
    Ten years ago the United States and its “Coalition of the Willing” invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, eliminate Iraq’s (non-existent) weapons of mass destruction, and remake the Middle East in the U.S. image. Canada declined to formally join the Coalition, but the Chrétien government's de ...
  • “Arming” the Canadian Forces
    The Harper government has decided to refer to Canada's military as the "Canadian Armed Forces" instead of the "Canadian Forces".
  • Canada and a nuclear weapons ban
    The disastrous consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, discussed at two recent conferences in Oslo, underline the need for a Nuclear Weapons Convention banning the weapons. Cesar Jaramillo argues that Canada should lead the call for such a ban.
  • Contract signed for Arctic patrol ships
    On March 7th, the government signed a $288-million contract with Irving Shipbuilding of Halifax for design work on the long-promised Arctic offshore patrol ships. But construction of the ships is not expected to begin until 2015.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Watch: Same-sex couples rejoice as Colorado go ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Colorado’s governor on Thursday signed into law a bill that allows same-sex couples in the state to enter into civil unions. Supporters of the bill packed into the History Colorado Museum to celebr ...
  • ‘Homeland’ To Scan Emails, Monitor Web Traffic
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJoseph Menn and Deborah Charles Reuters March 21, 2013 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic head ...
  • Bernanke Fails to Answer Concerns about a Cypr ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBernanke Fails to Answer Concerns about a Cyprus-Style Seizure of American Bank Deposits By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Bernanke Entirely Fails to Answer Question The government of Cyprus wants to grab bank deposi ...
  • Selling Iran & Syria Wars | Weapons of Mass Di ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAbby Martinyoutube.com Abby Martin takes a look at how 10 years after the US invasion of Iraq; the same war drums are beating for new military engagements in Iran and Syria.   Follow Breaking the Set on Facebook at ...
  • Making Connections: From Shock and Awe to Wall ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers This week marks the tenth anniversary of the “Shock and Awe” US invasion of Iraq. The ravages of that invasion continue at home an ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Dahr Jamail Returns to Iraq to Find Rampant To ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow·Mar 20, 2013 www.democracynow.org/ - Investigative journalist Dahr Jamail reported for Democracy Now! throughout the early stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq 10 years ago. Now with Al Jazeera, Jamail has just returned from Iraq once again, finding what he calls a &# ...
  • Exclusive: The Dangers of Technological Singul ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) March 20, 2013 Sherlock Holmes said, “When one tries to rise above nature, one is liable to fall below it.” Utopian thought has always been dangerous, and just in case you didn’t ...
  • Tariq Ali: US, UK Never Faced Justice for Iraq ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday·Mar 19, 2013 At least 56 people have been killed in a series of attacks across Baghdad. The deadly assaults come as Iraq marks ten years since the coalition, led by the US and Britain, invaded the country with their ‘freedom and democracy’ mission. Histori ...
  • Every Building in Baghdad that Falls, Crushed ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England March 17, 2013 I wrote this article as the bombs fell on Baghdad on the 20th of March 2003, with tears streaming down my face. I had come back from Iraq just days before. In another sparkling pink and azure dawn on the day I left Bagh ...
  • The Shame of America’s Gulag by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig March 18, 2013 If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Our vast network of federal and state prisons, with some 2.3 million inmates, rivals ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Asteroid Billiards
    This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a comet-like object called P/2010 A2, which was first discovered by the LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program) sky survey on January 6, 2010. The object appears so unusual in ground-based ...
  • New Map Made of First Trillionth of a Trillion ...
    The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has released the most detailed map of the universe ever created, refining estimates of the age of the universe and its composition, as well as showing some interesting anomalies that scientists can't yet explain.
  • When Animals Learn to Control Robots, You Know ...
    The warnings range from sarcastic to nervous to dead serious, but they all describe the same scenario: Robots become sentient, join forces and turn on us en masse. But we've ignored another possibility: Animals learn to control robots and decide ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Supernova an ...
    About 35 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Eridanus (The River), lies the spiral galaxy NGC 1637. Back in 1999 the serene appearance of this galaxy was shattered by the appearance of a very bright supernova. Astronomers studying ...
  • Wait for It: Voyager 1 Has Not Yet Left the So ...
    Despite reports to the contrary, NASA's tiny interplanetary probe Voyager 1 has not really left the solar system yet.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • End the charitable status of JNF UK
    Since 1901 KKL-JNF, known as Jewish National Fund (JNF) in the UK, has worked successfully for the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine and their project has not been completed... Today sees a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Obama comes to bless Israel’s g ...
    The unspoken message of Obama’s visit is that the Netanyahu government is free to pursue its hardline agenda with little danger of anything more than symbolic protest from Washington. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its f ...
  • Adalah: Discriminatory-laws database
    On the occasion of the swearing in of the new Israeli government and the 19th Knesset (18 March 2013) and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (22 March 2013), Adalah is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinians are unenthusia ...
    Mustafa Barghouthi: "The main goal of Obama’s visit ... is to listen... We Palestinians have been listening for too long. This passivity on Obama’s part is unacceptable and dangerous at a time when... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Ya’alon – forever tainted by cancer
    Ya’alon spent a year working for the AIPAC-created Washington Institute for Near East Policy and also spent time at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies of the infamous Shalem Center. If you... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Study Finds Long Nerve Grafts Restore Function ...
    A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery challenges a widely held belief that long nerve grafts do poorly in adults with an axillary nerve injury. Investigators found that the outcomes of long nerve grafts were comparable to those of modern nerve transfers.
  • Healthy Lifestyle Linked with Longer Survival ...
    * Among individuals with chronic kidney disease, adherence to a healthy lifestyle was associated with a greater likelihood of surviving over a 13-year period. * The greatest survival benefits were related to nonsmoking. 60 million people globally have chronic kidney disease.
  • Education for Kidney Failure Patients May Impr ...
    * In an analysis of 695 patients with kidney failure, Blacks had received less transplant education, were less knowledgeable about transplantation, and were less willing to pursue deceased or living donor transplantation than Whites. * Patients who began a transplant evaluation process with a g ...
  • Poor Kidney Response to Hormone May Increase R ...
    * Suboptimal kidney response to the hormone FGF-23 may put chronic kidney disease patients at increased risk of premature death and cardiovascular events. * Resistance to the hormonal actions of FGF-23 in the kidney may identify novel aspects of kidney dysfunction. 60 million people globally ...
  • Researchers Alter Mosquito Genome with Goal of ...
    With a technique called TALENS, Virginia Tech scientists used a pair of engineered proteins to disrupt a targeted gene in the mosquito genome, changing the eye color of ensuing generations of the insect. The method might help scientists find ways control disease transmission.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • How To Declare War (Anno Domini, 1429)
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Jhesus-Maria, King of England, and you, Duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the Kingdom of France, you, Guillaume de la Poule, count of Suffort, Jean, sire of Talbot, and you, Thomas, sire of Scales, who call yourselves lieutenants of the Duke o ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, March 21, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey NATO and the Afghan government have reached an agreement on the phased withdrawal of US special forces from Wardak province, near Kabul. A Zimbabwean court has denied bail to a high profile human rights lawyer arrested over the weekend on charges of obstruct ...
  • Getting the CIA Out of the Drone Business
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein From Dan Klaidman of the publication formerly known as Newsweek, here’s what I’d call good news: “Three senior U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast that the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the ...
  • Google Rankings of the Most-Cited Internationa ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford For those of you who are trying to decide where to publish your article during this submission cycle, my friend and former colleague Rob Anderson has identified an interesting Google metric for measuring the most-cited international law journals. As he notes: &# ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey For more on M23 leader Bosco Ntaganda’s surrender to the US Embassy in Rwanda Monday, the Armed Groups and International Law blog has a background piece here, Justice in Conflict talks about it at length here, the BBC coverage of the ICC’s welcom ...

Public News Service

  • Babies at Work? More Moms on the Job With Thei ...
    Babies at Work? More Moms on the Job With Their Newborns PHOENIX - The face of the workplace in America has been evolving for decades, and so have employers' policies around families, but some say they don't go far enough. Joan Blades, co-founder and president of "Momsrising,"' said her organiz ...
  • Ruling Expected Soon on Latest AZ Effort to Re ...
    Ruling Expected Soon on Latest AZ Effort to Restrict Abortions PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona is expected to find out soon if a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy will be upheld by a federal appeals court. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the law enacted last year from taking effect ...
  • AZ Lawmakers Take First Look at Medicaid Expansion
    AZ Lawmakers Take First Look at Medicaid Expansion PHOENIX - State lawmakers will hear the first testimony this afternoon on Gov. Jan Brewer's plan to expand Arizona's version of Medicaid by around 300,000 people. The state's share of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS or " ...
  • National Symposium on Child Abuse: New Researc ...
    National Symposium on Child Abuse: New Research, More Teamwork PHOENIX - Professionals in child abuse investigation and treatment, including some from Arizona, are meeting this week in Huntsville, Alabama. At the National Symposium on Child Abuse, they are getting the latest research on topics s ...
  • Defining Immigration Reform
    Defining Immigration Reform PHOENIX, Ariz. - The so-called "Gang of Eight" senators, including Arizona's John McCain and Jeff Flake, are planning to unveil a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the next few weeks. However, one national activist said, the bill's success will depend on how vario ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • California teachers pension fund reports $64 b ...
    The California teachers pension fund, CalSTRS, is effectively insolvent. However, under grossly unfair and delusional California law, state pension funds can simply order the state to make up any shortfalls they have. So there’s really no reason for the public pension funds to try very ha ...
  • Cyp-riots begin
    Zero Hedge has photos and a live feed. “Babylon’s burning / but there’s no water / fire, fire / but there’s no water”
  • Drones can live off the land for years
    John Robb has the unsettling details about how drones can stay powered for years by jacking electricity from power lines by induction. With robust software, it could stay aloft for years, sending info to the mothership and receiving new commands.
  • Eurozone finance minister to Cyprus. Shut up s ...
    Credit: Adam Voorhes photo blog. voorhes.com/wordpress Eurozone banksters have no patience with that foolish Cyprus, which is balking at forcing their innocent citizens to pay for the greed of the criminal class by allowing private bank accounts to be looted. “It’s probably inevitabl ...
  • Need drugs, fake ID, hacking tools, sex? Buy o ...
    The Dark Web has whatever you want, even assassination services apparently. Sites like Silk Road that sell drugs, sex, fake ID, and dirty deeds done dirt cheap are only accessible by using the Tor browser. And then you need to know the semi-secret URLs. Tor is free software from the Electronic ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Obama heckled today in Jerusalem, the heckler ...
  • Judge: Louisiana law banning felons from ownin ...
    A judge ruled Thursday that a Louisiana law prohibiting felons from carrying firearms was in violation of a recently ratified constitutional amendment, according to The Times-Pacayune. “The courts cannot question the wisdom of fundamental law and frustrate the will of the people; their function ...
  • Cyprus risks euro exit after EU bailout ultimatum
    (Reuters) – The European Union gave Cyprus till Monday to raise the billions of euros it needs to secure an international bailout or face a collapse of its financial system that could push it out of the euro currency zone. In a sign it was at least preparing for the worst, the Cypriot gove ...
  • Pope Francis did not denounce me to Argentinia ...
    Accusations that Pope Francis denounced two priests to Argentina’s military junta during the 1970s have been denied by one of the survivors in a boost to the reputation of the new pontiff. Francisco Jalics, who now lives in a German monastery, issued an online statement on Wednesday to cle ...
  • Pat Robertson warns of ‘scamsters in religious ...
    Just two days after Pat Robertson encouraged bankrupt families to give him “just $20 a month,” the televangelist is now alerting viewers to beware of “scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible.” Robertson offered the warning on Tuesday after a 700 Club report about the Profitable Sunrise pyr ...

The Air Vent

  • Lewandowsky – Strike Three!! What a riot!
    H/T Reader Skiphil again… Update: Barry Woods or Geoff Chambers seem to have found the quote. So the good docktor finally got his contribution to scientific understanding past the rigorous peer review of Frontiers of Psychology.   I have to say, I’m actually pleased with his improved ...
  • Real Dangers of Dissent
    Well folks, some of you were wondering why nobody touched the publication of that CG3 password, I have been contacted by a UEA law firm regarding the recently released Climategate password.  Some even asked for FOIA to come clean as to their identity.   I have pointed out repeatedly that an angr ...
  • Loser of the Month — That’s all ...
    I have been enjoying climate blogs recently again.   Joe Romm provided a bit of entertainment on March 8 with his delightfully uncritical eye to the new Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix hockeystick.   The paper, which unfortunately was the wishful extension of a thesis (some pun intended), that wa ...
  • Parsing Emails
    So I spent several hours today writing scripts which parse the emails.   I was hoping for continuations of some of the more interesting conversations we are familiar with but so far have found little more than a group of advocates for catastrophic climate change, doing what they do.  They fully ...
  • Climategate 3.0
    The password for the remaining emails was sent to me and several other blogs last night.   Anthony Watts has the letter up and it should explain a little about what is going on.

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook to drop mobile bookmarks for all apps ...
    Facebook will no longer display mobile bookmarks for apps unless they are games that function on both mobile devices and the desktop canvas, according to a post on the company’s developer blog. Bookmarks were likely not...
  • Facebook adds weather info to event pages and ...
    Facebook today began adding weather forecasts to upcoming events and current weather conditions to place pages such as parks, cities and neighborhoods, a spokesperson tells us. Events that have a designated location, and which will occur...
  • Facebook tests another Timeline layout with el ...
    Although Facebook publicly announced a new Timeline layout last week with posts in a single column on the right and customizable modules to the left, some users are seeing another design, which is more of a...
  • Facebook to roll out threaded, ranked comments ...
    Facebook will further roll out a commenting system that it has been testing, which includes threaded conversations and a ranking algorithm meant to put the most relevant and high quality comments first, a spokesperson tells us....
  • Safe Call Now, WSPA, Human Rights Campaign and ...
    Safe Call Now is this week’s top gaining non-profit page in the People Talking About This Metric. The page only has 36.5 thousand likes, but earned over 1.4 million engagements for the week. We compile this list...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Meet Your Oligarchs! This podcast provides listeners with an exclusive sneak-peak at (as yet) unpublished research on the networks of influence wielded by the big six American banks: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley. Of 253 individuals stu ...
  • The Second Iran Hostage Crisis
    “The Upside-Down Logic of Washington Policy-Makers”From talk of “red lines” and cartoon bombs to having “all options on the table”, an undeniably delusional logic emanates from leadership in Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the alleged threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program. When Israeli Prime ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 19 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The EyeOpener- Putting the “B” in Brics: Brazi ...
    Oh what a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, few had any inkling of the economic marvel that was about to befall Brazil. Since 2003, nearly 40 million Brazilians were lifted out of poverty, joining the ranks of the middle class and buying consumer items like televisions and cars for the f ...
  • When Truth Is Suppressed Countries Die
    “The corrupt corporations, the corrupt media, and the corrupt US government have insulated the country from truth” Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Obama to Palestine: “Drop Dead”
    Way back in the 1970s, New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy and its leaders appealed to the Republican president, Gerald Ford, for help.  His answer was a curt, No.  From this the New York Daily News originated one of the most memorable headlines in newspaper history: “Ford to City ...
  • Israel to Obama: Be Gentle With Me
    Jodi Rudoren’s survey piece about Israeli public opinion as the backdrop to Barack Obama’s arrival in Israel is a total bunch of mush, from the sources she chose to offer as a representative sampling of Israelis, to the substance of what they say. The first troubling bit is the very ...
  • Social TV Video on Exposure of Israeli Securty ...
    I just recorded a new video for Israel’s Social TV about the exposure of the secret identities of Nadav Argaman, deputy Shin Bet chief and Brig. Gen. Ori Oron, IAF commander of Israel’s nuclear arsenal. Because of Israeli censorship my editors preferred that I not name the officials. ...
  • Israel’s New Government of Figureheads and Set ...
    Today brings the astonishing news that Likud MK Danny Danon as been appointed deputy defense minister.  This is something akin to appointing Sarah Palin assistant secretary of defense.  Not only do neither have any military experience (except for Danon’s IDF service), the only thing they b ...
  • Naftali Bennet as The Joker
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