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Scoop - NZ

  • Summers on Gillard and Historical Judgement
    Never has there been a more incompetent and unreliable leader, people say, including many of her own colleagues. Yet this week marked Gillard's 1000 days as Prime Minister. She will soon have served longer than Whitlam. Gillard has been unlucky enough to have stepped up to the job under two u ...
  • Deepest point in the ocean is teeming with life
    Hollywood director James Cameron found little evidence of life when he descended nearly 11,000 metres to the deepest point in the world's oceans last year. If only he had taken a microscope and looked just a few centimetres deeper. Ronnie Glud at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, ...
  • Oil Rush in Burma
    Here in Thayet, a township caked in dust about seven hours north of Rangoon, the oil rush began in 1989 after a farmer found crude near his land. Soon thousands of people had flooded the village, including students whose classes were cut short after the 1988 uprising. Those who have remained her ...
  • The Cardinal Advantages of an Older Pope
    Cardinal Bergoglio, 76, is probably the ninth oldest of the 266 popes at the time of his election, accounting for some uncertainty because the age of many early popes remains unknown. As a matter of actuarial science, Francis is not likely to have an especially long tenure. The nine previous ...
  • EU: youth unemployment risks "lost generation
    The eurozone debt and economic crisis has seen joblessness among youths approach 60 per cent in Greece, top 55 per cent in Spain, and reach nearly 39 per cent in Italy. ...... Andor said that youth unemployment and its related social problems now cost the European Union about 1.2 per cent of g ...

Independent - London

  • China police believe missing tycoon was helpin ...
    Police disclosed today that a Chinese tycoon whose disappearance threatened to disrupt deals with mining companies in the United States and Australia is being held on suspicion he helped hide a brother who is a murder suspect.Related StoriesAt least twelve people killed at Pakistan camp for disp ...
  • Urinating in flower pots, posting mouldy bread ...
    An elderly German gentleman dubbed “Terror-Günter” is due to appear in court accused of a raft of anti-social behaviour offences.Related StoriesNicolas Sarkozy formally accused of exploiting heiressNicolas Sarkozy made formal suspect in L’Oréal heiress fraud inquiryCyprus races to agree details ...
  • Video: Bamboozled! Taiwanese truck driver take ...
    Maybe he was in a hurry or maybe he'd just had enough of his job and wanted to try something different.Related StoriesAt least twelve people killed at Pakistan camp for displaced$20 billion Anglo-Indian trade deal signed to coincide with arrival of first UK minister to visit Gujarat since riots ...
  • Django Unchained is the first Tarantino film r ...
    Everybody in the Western film world wants a bit of China. Hollywood studios are desperate to establish a foothold in the world's biggest-growing movie market. European countries have been clamouring to strike co-production treaties with the Chinese.
  • Canadian man has knife removed from back THREE ...
    A Canadian man has had a knife removed from his back by doctors more than three years after he was stabbed in a fight.Related StoriesPope Francis defended against allegations of collusion with Argentine junta by alleged victimArgentina: Pope 'not responsible for my arrest,' says former Jesuit p ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Controversial interview exposes 5 signs stocks ...
    "After putting $803,436 in Obama's re-election campaign, a media giant attempted to keep Americans from seeing the video by banning it from their sites," stated Aaron DeHoog, the financial publisher who is unapologetic for the release of controversial footage that has gained international attent ...
  • Cyprus shows the euro zone shouldn't plunder t ...
    The parliament of Cyprus was right this week to reject a proposal to confiscate money from modest-sized bank deposits. The idea was a reductio ad absurdum of the euro zone's policy on the sovereign debt of some of its member-countries. It would be better for the government of Cyprus to default ...
  • 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 ther ...
  • Putin: Cyprus bank levy Is 'unjust, unprofessi ...
    The spokesman for Vladimir Putin says the Russian president is strongly critical of a plan to levy a tax on depositors in Cyprus. Russian companies have an estimated $19 billion in Cypriot bank accounts. Russians have for years seen Cyprus as an investor-friendly jurisdiction with lax banking r ...
  • Cyprus ATMs low on cash, credit card payments ...
    So far the market has been largely oblivious of the shattered trust and changed dynamic in European banking dynamics for one simple reason: Cyprus banks have been closed, and likely will be closed indefinitely, preventing the mass media from broadcasting what happens when an entire population, a ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Dimmit . . .
    THE WORLD'S A MUCH brighter place when you're not too bright for it, according to the folks who make MinusIQ | The pill to lower your IQ permanently.
  • “Our military is an armed military.”
    That's DefMin Airhow's Spokesspeaker on the rebrand/naming/emphasizing of the Canadian Forces to Canadian Armed Forces, accent on the armed, just in case the Glorious Canadian People forget the military is armed and also because Jean Chretien. OK. I've long been mildly annoyed at the Canad ...
  • PMsh chat with The Spaceship Commander
    Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like throwing-up a little at the very concept?Plus I also want very badly to make a joke about the PM asking the Spaceman about what the underside of the Earth looks like.
  • Airshow...
    ...never ceases to live up to his callsign. "Not my fault" he says over his department's inability to find a replacement for DHC Buffalo SAR aeroplanes. As department head, it is his fault, and the faults of any other ministers of public works and industry involved. It really is embarrassin ...
  • Future perspectives . . .
    THE CRASH AND BURN of the GOP in the US election can be seen as the consequence of the neo-con Dubya regime, which leads me to wonder if future historians will see Dubya as the Mr. Bean of the GOP: the Man Who Made It All Fall Apart. Seriously, post-WW2 American conservatives had ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: The Washington Post Overwhelmingly Fav ...
    The Washington Post wrote editorials mentioning policies that would cut Social Security benefits more than editorials mentioning Social Security revenue increases by nearly six to one, according to a Nexis search of Post editorials since late 2010. This analysis was performed as Social Security ...
  • Where Are The Media's Iraq War Boosters 10 Yea ...
    On the tenth anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, Media Matters looks back at the work of some of the media's most prominent pro-war voices. Instead of facing consequences for backing the invasion based on information that turned out to be false and criticizing war op ...
  • Myths And Facts About Labor Nominee Tom Perez
    President Obama has nominated Tom Perez as Secretary of Labor. Right-wing media used this announcement to push false attacks about Perez based on his service in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and other civil rights work and advocacy.President Chooses DOJ's Tom Perez As Labor Secr ...
  • What The Media Need To Know About CPAC 2013
    The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bills itself as an event convened to "crystallize the best of the conservative thought in America" that will showcase "all of the leading conservative organizations and speakers." Media covering CPAC 2013 should know that the conference's ...
  • The Nine Worst Claims About Guns From John Lot ...
    Gun researcher John Lott's chapter on firearms in his new book titled, At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over The Edge?, is filled with inaccurate claims about guns and firearm policy. Lott makes a range of misleading or blatantly false statements, including that the wors ...

Global Research.ca

  • Civilians in An Occupied Land: The Iraqi Resis ...
    Civilians in an occupied country have no obligation of loyalty towards the Occupying Power regardless of the motives of the invading forces.
  • ”O Papa de Washington”? Quem é o Papa Francis ...
    O conclave do Vaticano elegeu o Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio como o Papa Francis I Quem é Jorge Mario Bergoglio? Em 1973 ele foi nomeado o “provincial” da Argentina para a Companhia dos Jesuitas. Nessa capacidade Bergoglio foi o mais…
  • Making Connections: From “Shock and Awe& ...
    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)…
  • Breaking the Cycle of War: It’s Time for ...
    Worldwide, March brings about changing seasons, shifting temperatures and unpredictable weather – but the one thing we have come to count on is that March is also the month of choice for militarized intervention, armed conflict and declarations of all-out…
  • The Last Letter: A Message to George W. Bush ...
    To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Public Citzen’s Guide to Amending the PUC Suns ...
    Public Citizen’s positions on the pre-filed amendments to the PUC Sunset bill can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/Guide_to_Amend_PUC_Sunset_bill_HB1600 or in the table below. Support These Amendments to Improve the PUC Sunset Bill Bar code # Sponsor Description Comment 830096 Cook clean up c ...
  • Federal Judge finds TCEQ violated the Endanger ...
    A federal judge has ruled that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was responsible for the deaths of 23 rare whooping cranes in the winter of 2008-2009. Senior U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in Corpus Christi found that TCEQ’s management of rivers feeding San Antonio and A ...
  • Join us for ACT Lobby day at the Texas Capital ...
    Whether you’re concerned about eminent domain and oil & gas regulations, climate change and the effects of drought on our water supplies, or you’re ready to see Texas move toward a 21st century clean energy economy, the 83rd legislative session presents a critical opportunity to speak up for ...
  • Biofuels: A Natural Energy Alternative
    Chlorella sp. is a species of algae that has a significant proportion of fatty acids to its body mass. For humans, this can be a problem. But, in a world needing more clean energy, fatty biomass is considered a promising option by many scientists and engineers. Why algae? Algae can grow in a bod ...
  • Message to Austin City Council: Make Fact-Base ...
    Would you decide who manages your retirement account by closing your eyes and pointing?  Probably not. Yet, Austin City Council is moving forward with a rash plan to hand over the bulk of its power to govern and oversee Austin Energy to an appointed board.  A well thought-out Austin American-Sta ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Has Voyager left the solar system ?
    The debate is on over whether or not the Voyager spacecraft has finally entered interstellar space. Voyager-1 was launched back in 1977, embarking on ...
  • Huge elephant seal causes chaos in Brazil
    Traffic was stopped for more than an hour in Balneario Camboriu after a half-ton seal went for a stroll. The massive elephant seal stunned onlookers a...
  • Dead prawns litter Chile coastline
    Authorities have been left baffled by thousands of dead prawns that have washed up in Chile. So many of the crustaceans have appeared on the beaches o...
  • White rock interior unveiled on Mars
    The Curiosity rover has broken apart a rock on Mars that has an unexpectedly brilliant white interior. The image was returned after the rock was crush...
  • CIA project tried to turn cats into spies
    Operation Acoustic Kitty attempted to turn otherwise ordinary pet cats in to secret listening devices. The experimental project was attempted in the 1...

Grassroots

  • Peasant Families Nourishing the Next Generatio ...
    mcp_school_program_delivery_small.jpg Peasant farmers from Brazil’s central plateau delivered more than three tons of fresh vegetables and homemade cakes, cookies and cheese to local schools last week. This was the first delivery as part of ...
  • Mayan and Garifuna Indigenous in Belize Demand ...
    cs_org_belize_action_photo.jpg Roughly the size of New Jersey, Belize is one of the smallest countries in Central America. The country is also in the epicenter of the Mayan territory. More than half of Belize’s population of 300,000 are May ...
  • Holding Their Ground
    Subheadline:  Mexican Farmers Fight Back Against Biotech Giants Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Claire Gilbert is a Grassroots International volunteer. ...
  • Honduran Peasants Resist Land Grabbing, Occupy ...
    ofranehwomen-small.jpg Last month, Honduras passed legislation to allow the construction of charter cities in the ancestral land of Afro-descendant Garifunas and peasant communities. read more
  • Insights - Winter 2013: Evaluating our Impact ...
    As people interested in making long term and lasting change, we all need to know if we are on the right path. Do our donations, grants and hours of activism make a difference? And could they be doing even more? These core questions drive the evaluation we do at Grassroots International with each ...

Climate

  • Nations Urged to Combine Environmental and Dev ...
    (Guardian) Degradation of the natural world is undermining efforts to reduce poverty, warn scientists, who say the only chance of achieving global prosperity is for all countries to combine poverty and environmental targets. World lea ...
  • Senate Rejects Amendment Gutting Military Biof ...
    (The Hill) An amendment to a $984 billion Senate government funding bill that would have stripped funds from the Defense Department's drop-in biofuels program failed by a 40-59 vote on Wednesday. Sen. Pat Toomey's (R-Pa.) amendment ai ...
  • California Bills Could Delay Fracking
    (San Francisco Chronicle) Fracking for oil and natural gas in California could slam to a halt, at least temporarily, under legislation circulating in Sacramento. One bill calls for a moratorium on the practice until the state conducts ...
  • Both Sides Agree on Tough New Fracking Standards
    (AP) Some of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies have made peace with environmentalists, agreeing to a voluntary set of tough new standards for fracking in the Northeast that could lead to a major expansion of drilling. The pro ...
  • Report: Mining Industry Clout Grows With Lobby ...
    (The Hill) The mining industry has “shored up its influence” in Washington, D.C., through a large increase in lobbying and political contributions by its main trade group, a report released Wednesday alleged. “The upshot: Lobbying and ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • How to Start a War
    If you're concerned about the talk of chemical weapons being used in the Syrian civil war, this piece by Dan Murphy in the Christian Science Monitor is useful for separating known facts from dangerous speculation. With Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) calling for military interven ...
  • Reactions in Israel
    Haaretz: Sometimes it takes someone from the outside, like U.S. President Barack Obama, to show up and tell it like it is to the Israelis: You've got a wonderful country, you're wise and just, you suffered and you deserve a state, and as long as the United States exists you'll never stand alo ...
  • Today in Disarray
    Stu Rothenberg says "the Republican Party continues to fracture more seriously than I expected following last years re-election of President Barack Obama." And Democrats continue to help them out with that, most recently by voting "present" on the Republican Study Committee's (RSC) budget, forc ...
  • Obama on Peace in Israel
    I don't have a link to the speech yet, but I want to post the central part of President Obama's prepared remarks at the Jerusalem Convention Center that he made today. This is the segment that pertains to peace with the Palestinians. The audience was mostly made up of students, and they applau ...
  • Before I Knew They Were Just Evil
    It's hard to even imagine a time before I believed that Dick Chney was evil incarnate, but such a time did exist. Prior to Cheney being named as Bush's running mate, I just didn't have many strong feelings about him. I knew him almost exclusively from a few appearances I saw him make on CNN as ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Old Kashgar: The Historic Silk Road City Being ...
    In this ancient desert oasis city on the Silk Road, traditional mud brick buildings are rapidly disappearing in the name of modernization. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Explosive Power of Flour
    Discover the truth about this seemingly innocuous kitchen ingredient. Flour isn't just about baking cakes; it packs serious explosive power and can wreak havoc in mills. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether it's odd-looking bank notes or dumbass bank robbers, money, money, money is the theme for this week’s compilation of linkage. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Influential Scientists of 2012
    In areas ranging from microbiology and genetics to physics and even filmmaking, these 10 individuals helped push the frontiers of human knowledge in 2012 – and beyond. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Walls Have Eyes: Abandoned Spaces Given Gr ...
    Russian graffiti artist Nikita Nomerz transforms drab and ordinary city structures into wacky works of art... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • NEW VIDEOS: Interviews from Enbridge blockade ...
    Got a batch of videos here from the last week to check out. Glad to have a little chance to bring these interesting projects, including Idle No More MN & the Enbridge Blockade near Leonard MN (also known as the encampment) going strong since late February. All these videos are basically uned ...
  • LOL wow for the House of Cards: Cyprus bank co ...
    Admittedly this is a little bit speculative but it looks pretty big. lol wow I can't believe they are triggering a huge EU bank run in Cyprus by confiscating big slabs of bank accounts to satiate the European Central Bankers - it's blamed on rich Russians who 'deserve' to have their savings jack ...
  • Stay Fly: Holy Smokes
    Oh I dearly hope this is an authentic photo - isn't it easily the greatest news photograph ever? Floating around, see : Something Out of The Godfather... | E L V O M I T A R . C O M etc. Good luck to the Catholics, they need help like all of us. Regardless, there's no swag like Vatican swag. Th ...
  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...
  • Disgusting new FDA rule change would let toxic ...
    Blah this is just worth posting quickly. There is only one public comment on there right now. I have to say the Federal Register website is markedly better than it used to be, good for them. Saw this via: Activist Post: Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy Petitions FDA For Approval. Als ...

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IntelNews

  • Secret report warns US spy mission distorted b ...
    America’s concentration on the ‘war on terrorism’ has distorted the mission and scope of its Intelligence Community, according to a secret report commissioned by the White House.
  • Is al-Qaeda holding French intelligence office ...
    Two French citizens kidnapped last November by an al-Qaeda-linked militant group, while on an alleged business trip in Mali, may have connections with French intelligence.
  • Saudi Arabia arrests 18 on espionage charges
    Authorities in Saudi Arabia announced the arrest yesterday of 18 people accused of conducting “espionage activities for the benefit of a foreign country”.
  • News you may have missed #827
    Analysis: The spies who fooled the world about Iraq. Syrian officer to auction spy files as general defects. Half a million wiretapped in Turkey in last decade.
  • Israel to push U.S. for Pollard’s release as O ...
    As United States President Barack Obama is preparing to visit Israel this week, several public figures are joining the Israeli government in lobbying for the release of a convicted spy, who betrayed American secrets to Israel in the 1980s. The pressure campaign reportedly includes a symbolic hun ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Unbreakable US/Israeli Ties
      Unbreakable US/Israeli Ties   by Stephen Lendman   Longstanding US/Israeli ties remain firm. Obama's visit reinforces them. It does more.    It assures continued support. It endorses hardline extremism. It affirms occupation harshness. It lets Israel do what it pleases ...
  • Washington Supports Venezuelan Opposition
      Washington Supports Venezuelan Opposition   by Stephen Lendman   It's an open secret. Throughout Chavez's tenure, America supported opposition candidates. Quasi-government agencies did so. They're at it again now.   read more
  • Syria News - Mar 22
        Top pro-Assad Sunni cleric killed as suicide bombing hits Damascus mosque killing 42 - RT News VIDEO: Suicide Bombing in Al-Iman Mosque in Damascus - YouTube VIDEO: More on the suicide bombing at Al-Iman mosque in Damascus - YouTube U.N. to launch probe of alleged Syria chemical ar ...
  • Iran War Weekly - March 18, 2013
    Iran War Weekly March 18, 2013   Hello All – As readers may/will recall, we are between negotiating sessions about Iran’s nuclear program.  After an eight-month hiatus, restarting negotiations between the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council) and Iran was signifi ...
  • NABEEL RAJAB: Global Week of Action – March 21-28
      by Witness Bahrain Dont Forget Nabeel Rajab Dear friends, Nabeel Rajab, the co-founder of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, a human rights defender, and a prominent figure in Bahrain’s pro-democracy struggle, remains in prison in Bahrain, serving a two-year sentence for ca ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WATCH: Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young on B ...
    We continue our interview with Iraq War veteran Tomas Young. Citing his overwhelming physical pain from wounds that left him paralyzed in Iraq, Young recently announced he has decided to end his life by discontinuing his medicine and nourishment, which comes in the form of liquid through a feed ...
  • Exclusive: Tomas Young Reads in Full His Lette ...
    Paralyzed in a 2004 attack in Sadr City, Iraq War veteran Tomas Young recently announced that he will stop his medicine and nourishment, which comes in the form of liquid through a feeding tube — a decision which will hasten his death. Joining us from his home in Kansas City, Young reads ...
  • Tomas Young and the End of the Body of War
    Tomas Young was in the fifth day of his first deployment to Iraq when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet in Baghdad’s Sadr City. The single bullet paralyzed him from the chest down, and changed his life forever. Now, nine years later, at the age of 33, Tomas has decided to end his life. He anno ...
  • Part 2: Rashid Khalidi Details How the U.S. Ha ...
    As we continue our conversation with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, he explains the thesis of his latest book, Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East . Click here to see part one of this interview. AM ...
  • Transcript: 2003 Charlie Rose Interview with A ...
    Amy Goodman Interviewed by Charlie Rose Wednesday, March 12, 2003 HOST : CHARLIE ROSE GUESTS : AMY GOODMAN CHARLIE ROSE : Amy Goodman is here. She is a journalist; she is the host of "Democracy Now!" — a radio program broadcasting on the Pacifica Radio net ...

Solari

  • Transcript of “The Precious Metals Market Repo ...
    Transcript of The Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Dr. Edwin Vieira is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: As you know, the precious metals markets have been far more than interesting, so we have plenty to cover before Dr Vieira joins us. So Fran ...
  • Infographic: Kickstarter Dominates Indie Innov ...
    By Cliff Kuang Like YouTube, Facebook, or blogging platforms, it’s almost hard to believe there was an Internet without Kickstarter, which may be the greatest testament to its success. In 2009, the site generated about $23 million for its projects–an impressive figure by all accounts&#821 ...
  • Swiss to Vote on Central Bank Gold Reserves
    By Urs Geiser A rightwing group has submitted more than 106,000 signatures to the federal authorities, seeking a vote on stopping the sale of gold reserves held by the Swiss National Bank (SNB). It also wants gold bars stored in the US to be returned. The group, led by members of the [...]
  • Solari Stories – What is Transparency?
  • Q+A Ben Silbermann
    By Tom Simonite In 2012 the startup Pinterest became a peer of more established social sites by offering things that they didn’t—an attractive design, a focus on images rather than text, and a mostly female population of users. On Pinterest, people use virtual “pinboards” to curate collections ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Mole Architects Updates Hawthbush Farmhouse Wi ...
    Read the rest of Mole Architects Updates Hawthbush Farmhouse With Reclaimed Brick Extension Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "natural materials", Eco Architecture, green design, green extension, hawthbush house extension, mole architects, sustainable renovation, traditi ...
  • Jike Idea: Transformable Shipping Container Ta ...
    Read the rest of Jike Idea: Transformable Shipping Container Takes Designers on Tours Across China Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: chinese design, green travel, Jike Idea, Jike Idea travel container, mobile houses, mobile mini house, Mobile Pavilion, natural ventilatio ...
  • Global Warming Might Lead to a Goat Population ...
    Photo via Shutterstock We all know global warming has a huge number of devastating effects on the planet – from the melting of the polar ice caps to increased desertification and the extinction of certain animal species. However, a new study led by Professor Robin Dunbar from the Universit ...
  • 5 Ways To Kick Off Your Green Spring Cleaning ...
    Read the rest of 5 Ways To Kick Off Your Green Spring Cleaning With Feng Shui Principles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: anji cho, Anjie Cho, chinese design, di feng shui, eco interior design, eco space, feng shui, feng shui architecture, feng shui design, feng shui yo ...
  • Mode:Lina’s KontenerArt Project Enlivens a For ...
    Read the rest of Mode:Lina’s KontenerArt Project Enlivens a Forgotten Beach in Poland Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", art project, Beach Bar, Cargotecture, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, kontener art, kon ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • Top of the Morning: UK Hits Aid Target; Food E ...
    UK to Hit 0.7% Aid Target The UN set the target for rich countries to spend 0.7% of their gross national incomes on aid. The UK will become the first G8 country to hit that mark this year, announced George Osborne. “Britain is sticking to the target despite austerity measures elsewhere, which ha ...
  • How We Thought, and Think, About Iraq
    I'll try to work through a number of items on this topic today. Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the start of the ruinous invasion of Iraq. 1. The ongoing effect. A reader in the upper Midwest writes: I still believe that many people, perhaps especially in Washington, don't understand what ...
  • Why Now, Mr. President?
    AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi Some free advice for anyone who lives in Jerusalem and hasn't been invited to meet with Barack Obama: stay out of the city center from Wednesday to Friday. One major artery, King David Street, will be shut throughout the president's visit this week, and parking will b ...
  • US Public Opinion on Drone Strikes
    Although the United States has been killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes in nonbattlefield settings for over ten years, public opinion polling of the controversial tactic began only a year and a half ago. Averaged together, the polls demonstrate that 65 percent of Americans support th ...
  • Top of the Morning: UN Arms Trade Treaty Talks ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest UN Arms Trade Treaty Talks Resume Today The first round of talks fizzled in July, mostly because the US wanted to delay the talks until after the elections. Now, ten days of talks will start again to find a treaty on the conventional arms trade.“Whether the treaty’s ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Bracket Racket
    Let's be honest here: Congressional Republicans really, really dislike Barack Obama. Yes, they disagree with his agenda, and sometimes they engage in some half-sincere posturing against him for effect, but you can be pretty sure that deep down they just can't stand him. Which is fine—lots of us ...
  • How to Fix Entitlements? More Immigrants
    Given Washington’s obsession with spending, this won’t enter the picture, but this figure—from a recent Gallup poll on immigration—is more important to the future of entitlement reform than any policy discussed by President Obama or Congress: As Kevin Drum noted yesterday, the “primary reason ...
  • Have You Heard? Feminism's Over!
    Flickr/James Vaughan Good news, ladies! Feminism has fizzled, and those of us who aren’t suckers are giving up our career dreams to follow our female nature. Our lady brains and lady bodies aren’t cut out for the workplace, you see, and our manly, oafish husbands will never be as good ...
  • Why the Republicans Should Go Ahead and Have T ...
    Watching gleefully while your opponents tear themselves apart is a bipartisan Washington pastime. For many years, Republicans were able to do much more of it than Democrats, for the simple reason that Democrats tend to bicker among themselves more, and nothing produces such bickering like lost ...
  • The New Gay-Rights Frontier
    As the Supreme Court prepares to take its first serious look at the issue of same-sex marriage—with oral arguments set to begin March 26 in back-to-back challenges to California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act—gay-rights activists and their supporters in the New Jersey Legislatu ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Leader Goes on Trial for T ...
    Federal prosecutors opened the trial of one the nation’s most prominent “sovereign citizens” leaders by portraying him as nothing more than a con man who used antigovernment ideology to peddle illegal debt- and tax-relief scams to the financially troubled. But James Timothy Turner, delivering hi ...
  • Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Obama ...
    A black Birmingham, Ala., man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to threatening the life of President Obama in a series of tweets, which were intermingled among hundreds of unrelated musings about women, weed and wanting to die. Jarvis Britton, 25, wrote the Twitter threats last year and now ...
  • White Supremacist Brings Racist Filmmaker to T ...
    In recent years, globetrotting white supremacist financier and organizer Preston Wiginton has appeared at racist skinhead gatherings (he won a “strongest skinhead” contest at Hammerfest in 2005); co-sponsored lectures with hate groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens and the Michigan St ...
  • Man with Militia Ties Accused of Obama Assassi ...
    Federal prosecutors are attempting to block the pre-trial release of a Pennsylvania man with militia ties who faces a charge in Texas that he threatened to kill President Obama before or during the president’s inauguration. William Mose Tucker, 20, was arrested in Oklahoma on Jan. 20, a day befo ...
  • Florida ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Killed After Alleg ...
    An armed “sovereign citizen,” accused of printing his own currency and defying government authority, was shot and killed in Florida last weekend after a four-hour standoff with a police SWAT team. Like so many law enforcement encounters with sovereign citizens, the case involving Jeffrey Allen W ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • D.C. Council Should Ban Campaign Contributions ...
    The District of Columbia should adopt ethics reforms that would prohibit campaign contributions and expenditures by government contractors in D.C. elections without further delay, Public Citizen’s Craig Holman testified today. read more
  • Budget Debate includes Corporate Offshore Loop ...
    As the Budget Resolution debate begins, 100 diverse organizations, including The Presbyterian Church USA, Jubilee USA Network and various Catholic Religious Orders, expressed support to end corporate offshore tax loopholes in a letter to Senators. New estimates put the amount of lost revenue as ...
  • Democrats Agreeing to Cut Social Security and ...
    Robert Reich just wrote the piece “Selling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table,” which states: “Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly suggesting that Medic ...
  • Bush’s Court: How the D.C. Circuit Threatens t ...
    Four years into President Obama’s presidency, he has yet to have a single judge confirmed to the hugely influential Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This lapse, caused initially by a slow start from the administration but perpetuated by a blockade of obstruction in the Senate, threat ...
  • Senate and House Bills Would Require Police to ...
    Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Jason Chaffetz introduced in the Senate and the House today the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, which would require a warrant from a judge based on probable cause before police can track someone using a GPS device or cell phone location data. The American Civil ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Statutes of Limitations Are Expiring on Some B ...
    Elizabeth Holtzman Americans have been facing a number of momentous deadlines, including the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the “sequester” of $1 trillion from federal programs. But another critical deadline is fast approac ...
  • Cyprus: The Mouse that Roared
    Robert Kuttner
  • A Bank Robbery in Cyprus
    Gwynne Dyer Could a failed bank robbery in Cyprus cause the collapse of the euro?read more
  • Men Who Kick Down Doors and the War Against Women
    Ann Jones Picture this.  A man, armored in tattoos, bursts into a living room not his own.  He confronts an enemy.  He barks orders.  He throws that enemy into a chair. Then against a wall.  He plants himself in the ...
  • My Friend the Iraqi
    Joseph Huff-Hannon My friend and I meet early for breakfast, cappuccinos and chocolate croissants at a French bakery in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. My friend – I’ll call him Abraham — shows up in a dark suit and tie, an overco ...

Water Privatization

  • Film probes water issues
    Water falls from the sky in Nanaimo in bucket loads during the spring. But accessing that water isn’t always simple. There are issues that impact watersheds on Vancouver Island and these issues are examined in Nanaimo filmmaker Paul Manly’s newest documentary Troubled Water .
  • Non-profit cautions Allendale on privatizing i ...
    ALLENDALE €” Activitists spoke at the borough's meeting on selling its water operations.
  • A chat with a 9-year-old water liberation activist
    I recently caught a video of Sekera-Flanders at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, where he was testifying against the proposed contract between Fryeburg Water Company and Nestle for corporate large-scale water extraction from the aquifer.
  • A chat with a 9-year-old water liberation activist
    I recently caught a video of Sekera-Flanders at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, where he was testifying against the proposed contract between Fryeburg Water Company and Nestle for corporate large-scale water extraction from the aquifer.
  • Groups gear for March 20 protest vs price hike ...
    On March 20, various sectoral organizations will once again take to the streets as they protest the continuing price hikes, privatization of public hospitals and the government’s handling of the Sabah issue. “We are calling on the public to vent out their anger at rising prices, privatization , ...

Guardian

  • Cyprus bailout crisis: 'the next few hours wil ...
    Government spokesman says difficult choices must be taken, as insiders suggest that a savings tax could yet be imposedGraeme Wearden
  • Our parenting regrets
    We asked you for your biggest regret as a parent. Here is a selection of readers' tales of sorrow, embarrassment, time wasted and love left unexpressed. Also, a psychologist who works with families reveals the top five regrets cited by parentsThe spaghetti incidentOut of all the hundreds and tho ...
  • UK weather: flooding and spring snow - live
    • Live coverage as Britain expected to face heavy snow, blizzard conditions, and flooding • Woman unaccounted for after flat collapse in Cornwall • Send your stories, pictures and videos to paul.owen@guardian.co.uk or @paultowen • You can also upload your pictures to our Flickr group herePaul Owen
  • Assad vows to 'purge' Syria of extremists afte ...
    Follow live updates on the aftermath of the assassination of the pro-Assad Sunni cleric Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-ButiMatthew Weaver
  • Iain Duncan Smith denies jobcentres have targe ...
    Minister says reminder will be sent to jobcentre staff after leaked email suggested existence of league tablesThe work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has responded to allegations that jobcentres are operating sanctions targets to drive claimants off the dole queue by saying: "There a ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • UPDATE 1-Beechcraft seeks to halt work on cont ...
    Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:21pm EDT * U.S. Air Force vows to continue work on program * Sierra Nevada, Embraer building 20 planes for Afghanistan WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Beechcraft Corp said on Thursday it was suing the U.S. Air Force to halt work on a contested aircraft contract won by Brazili ...
  • Six of seven killed in mortar mishap were Afgh ...
    1 of 8. Lance Cpl. David P. Fenn II, 20, of Polk City, Florida is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of U.S. Marines. Fenn was killed in the Monday night blast that killed seven Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and injured eight other service members at the Hawthorne Army ...
  • Afghanistan inks deal for three nation railway
    Presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan and Emomali Rakhmon of Tajikistan inked the preliminary agreement yesterday (Wednesday) in the Turkmen capital. The 400-kilometre (250-mile) railroad would link landlocked Afghanistan to a regional transport netw ...
  • NATO to leave security of Afghan province to g ...
    The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will transfer the security charges of eastern Wardak province to Afghan government forces, an ISAF spokesman said on Monday, days after the Afghan leader called on U. S. Special Forces to evict the province. "There are plans to de ...
  • Afghanistan Progress being made despite formid ...
    The international mission in Afghanistan is making progress but still faces "formidable challenges", William Hague has said. The foreign secretary told MPs Afghan forces were now leading 80% of security missions and would take responsibility for all combat operations this summer. He pr ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Major Victory for SOX Whistleblowers
    Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a major precedential decision in the case of Wiest v. Tyco Electronics Corp., establishing the standards for protecting corporate whistleblowers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In a 2-1 split ruling, the Court held that corporat ...
  • IRS Tries to Duck Whistleblowers
    Late Friday, the Department of Treasury posted a notice in the Federal Register regarding the IRS's proposed rules for its whistleblower office (26 CFR Part 301 [Reg-141066-09]. The notice announces a public hearing on the proposed rules for the IRS Whistleblower Program. I previously ...
  • MSPB Urged to Retroactively Apply WEPA
    Today the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. At issue is whether the new definition of a protected disclosure set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act w ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final Rules, indiv ...
  • January 2013 Decisions of the Administrative R ...
    The USDOL/OALJ Reporter has published case summaries and case links for cases decided in January 2013 by the Administrative Review Board.  The decisions are found at http://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/REFERENCES/Caselists/01_2013.HTM

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Dell Strategically Reminding Everyone How Horr ...
    Cross-posted from There’s been a lot of fun stuff in the news about Dell recently, in the run-up to tomorrow’s end of the go-shop period on its LBO by Silver Lake and CEO Michael Dell. The Journal today kind of explained why: People working on potential challenges to the D ...
  • DailyDirt: Life On Other Worlds
    The origin of life is a pretty enormous mystery. There are several theories for how life might have come about, but it's difficult to design experiments to narrow down these options. In the meantime, researchers continue to look for clues and evidence for life that didn't originate on our planet ...
  • Not Connecting: Miami Marlins Threatens Season ...
    Way back in ancient 2009, Mike wrote a piece highlighting one spectacularly awful example of a business going out of their way to alienate their fans. We talk a great deal about connecting with customers here, but when we saw the Washington Redskins suing season ticket holders, who weren't able ...
  • Sorry Fair Use, Court Says News Clipping Servi ...
    We were surprised last year when the Associated Press decided to sue Meltwater News -- an online press clipping/news aggregator service. The issue is that Meltwater does index various news articles, just like Google, allowing you to search on them. But it does not deliver the full articles to ...
  • Digital Camera Review Taken Down By A Botched ...
    We've seen the DMCA takedown process abused to stifle criticism or remove unflattering content from the web. Knowing that, the first reaction to reading about a website being forced to remove a product review after being hit by a DMCA notice is to assume some overzealous representative of the af ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Rethinking Israel-Palestine: Beyond bantustans ...
    Noura Erakat writes: Due to the insistence upon maintaining a Jewish demographic majority, Israel’s establishment and maintenance has necessitated the ongoing forced displacement of Muslim and Christian Palestinians. Well before Israel’s establishment, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s chief architect ...
  • Homes found and homes lost
    As President Obama correctly noted in his speech in Jerusalem, Zionism and America’s founding myth spring from a common quest: the yearning for a homeland. But this human search is not universal — even if modernity has produced an ever expanding sense of rootlessness in populations m ...
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    Stay up to date with War in Context: subscribe by email. Once a day you will receive an email summary including links to all the posts from the previous 24 hours. I will never share or sell your email address. Give it a try! After signing up, look out for a confirmation email with the [...]
  • Weapons experts raise doubts about Israel’s Ir ...
    The New York Times reports: After President Obama arrived in Israel, his first stop on Wednesday was to inspect an installation of Iron Dome, the antimissile system hailed as a resounding success in the Gaza conflict in November. The photo op, celebrating a technological wonder built with the he ...
  • Obama whispers sweet nothings while heading fo ...
    In Haaretz, Aluf Benn writes: U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday his visit to Israel was meant to be a reassuring one. He is here to make it clear to Israelis that America stands behind them and will ensure their security, even though the neighborhood has become tougher. What President S ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Greenland ice melt overestimated due to satell ...
    This is an interesting admission: The melt extent algorithm used by Greenland Ice Sheet Today has been overestimating the melt extent, and as a result, daily images posted on this site in February and March may have indicated melt where … Continue reading →
  • Mann ‘Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars& ...
    Live stream URL follows. BOONE—Climate scientist Michael E. Mann will speak March 21 at Appalachian State University. His address is a collaboration of the 24th anniversary of Appalachian’s Morgan Lecture Series in the Sciences, and cosponsored by the College of … Continue reading →
  • Don’t Turn Off the Lights
    Earth Hour This Saturday Is a Colossal Waste of Time and Energy. Bjorn Lomborg -No Lights to Turn Off- On the evening of March 23, 1.3 billion people will go without light for the rest of the night—just like every … Continue reading →
  • Nitrogen as pollutant and lifegiver
    From Kansas State University, dueling statements, which I’ve highlighted in bold. Its the same sort of nonsense argument we here fro Carbon Dioxide, that while essential for all life on the planet, it is also a pollutant. I see a … Continue reading →
  • On Dana1981’s Meaningless ENSO Exercise at Ske ...
    Dana Nuccitelli (Dana1981) of SkepticalScience has redefined El Niño and La Niña years in a meaningless exercise to show that the warming trends of El Niño, La Niña and ENSO-neutral years are comparable. It confirms his limited understanding of El … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Brain Researchers Can Detect Who We Are Thinki ...
    Scientists scanning the human brain can now tell whom a person is thinking of, the first time researchers have been able to identify what people are imagining from imaging technologies. Work to visualize thought is starting to pile up successes. Recently, scientists have used brain scans to deco ...
  • Eating Too Much Salt May Trigger MS Or Another ...
    High salt intake isn’t just a concern for those with high blood pressure or heart disease anymore. Three new studies, published together in the journal Nature, are raising the alarm that eating too much salt may put you at risk for a host of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis and ...
  • 3D printing breakthrough with human embryonic ...
    A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time. It is hoped that this breakthrough, which has been published today, 5 February, in the journal Biofabrication, will allow three-dimensional tissues an ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Raise Mens Death Risk ...
    Men taking calcium supplements may be running a nearly 20 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests.Both men and women take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss. In this study of calcium intake, the risk of dying from heart disease was higher for men b ...
  • Researchers unveil first artificial enzyme cre ...
    There’s a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig’s lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years ago, when life on earth began to evolve – long before they became ingredients for new and improved products, from detergents to foods a ...

CFACT

  • Plastic bag bans increase food-borne illnesses
    Several state and local governments have recently banned or taxed plastic grocery bags, but are these reusable bags making us sick? Ph.D. economist Jonathan Klick, says yes. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5088.mp3]
  • Fitting the science to the theory on climate c ...
    Although “climate” is generally associated with periods of at least three decades, less than one and one-half decades following mid-1970s “scientific” predictions that the next Ice Age was rapidly approaching, the media trumpeted a new and opposite alarm…a man-made global warming crisis.
  • Of mice and men
    When you hear of mice and men, you probably think of the John Steinbeck novel. But when scientists hear these words, they no doubt think of rodent studies used to examine human diseases. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5087.mp3]
  • Wind turbines kill up to 39 million birds a year!
    Not only has the wind industry never solved its environmental problem, it has been hiding at least 90% of this slaughter for decades. In fact, the universal problem of hiding bird (and bat) mortality goes from bad to intolerable beyond the Altamont Pass boundaries, because studies in other areas ...
  • The polar bear invasion
    While many people believe that polar bears are in danger because of global warming, it might surprise them to learn that polar bear numbers have actually quadrupled in recent decades... [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5086.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...
  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • A Heartbreaking Defeat. An Urgent Opportunity.
    Click here to read this article
  • The Whole Truth about Whole Foods Labeling Policy
    Whole Foods Market (WFM) is being praised in the media for announcing that it will become the first U.S. grocery chain to require that genetically engineered (GE) foods in its stores be labeled, by 2018. This is a victory for consumers and the GE labeling movement. And it’s a major setback for M ...
  • Salt, Sugar, and Fat: Why We Can't Quit Junk F ...
    Veteran New York Times journalist Michael Moss entered the world of food reporting when he covered a salmonella outbreak in a Georgia peanut factory, a story he came to see as being about "loss of control by the food industry." He followed up on that theme with an investigation of E. coli-tainte ...
  • Stopping a CAFO Factory Farm: The Biggest Vict ...
    Anyone who has struggled to protect a community from the damage caused by an industrial livestock operation can attest that the task is exceptionally difficult, requiring courage, fortitude, and substantial investment of time, money, energy and effort. It's an uphill battle, a lopsided fight in ...
  • California Bills Could Delay Fracking
    Fracking for oil and natural gas in California could slam to a halt, at least temporarily, under legislation circulating in Sacramento.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Further Rebuttals to GE Salmon
    On a hopeful note, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and Aldi have pledged not to sell genetically engineered salmon.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Rotting Pigs, Airport F ...
    Do ads cause obesity? Here’s a well-written critique of cross-sectional studies of factors associated with obesity that are interpreted to imply causation. To quote, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.” The author correctly warns ...
  • Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Public Health
    A group of industrial food animal production and processing companies have formed “The Food Manufacturers Immigration Coalition” to encourage comprehensive immigration reform.
  • Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
    Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
  • The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
    Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The Second Iran Hostage Crisis
    Undeniably delusional logic emanates from leadership in Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the alleged threat posed by Irans nuclear program. It is common knowledge whatever nuclear weapons program Iran once had was dismantled . Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |&nb ...
  • CS in Vietnam
    Neil Fraser from Google visits Vietnam - and is stunned by the computer teaching programs Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Deadly Bacteria Found in Gulf Coast Tar Balls
    new study, conducted by scientists at Auburn University, confirmed the presence of a bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus. in concentrations 100x that in surrounding waters ( see comments ) blogged oldephartte.blogspot.com/2013/03/15-march-igoogle.html Submitted by John Farnham to Environment &nbs ...
  • NORML: Looking Back at 40-Year Crusade to End ...
    As long as any government can arbitrarily decide which drugs are legal and which aren't, then anyone behind bars for a nonviolent drug offense is a political prisoner. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cholesterol : Friend, not Enemy
    how fake science pushes drugs to treat a non-existent problem and perverts healthcare Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • The Last Heirloom Seed
    I am the last of my kind. That last of the truly pure here on earth. I have struggled long and hard to maintain my integrity, as did all of my brothers and sisters in a war we did not start, but were force into. In this war, we have been systematically overtaken by hostile genetically engineered ...
  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...
  • Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
    Whole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing – selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.
  • Food Should Be Made With Love – That’s Real Su ...
    It’s time for a revolution of the personal kind. There is nothing more effective than changing one’s own life by rejecting the artificial and digging in to create a real, honest, down to earth, local living lifestyle. It’s time to put love back on the dinner plate.
  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Guantanamo Bay has become money pit - former p ...
    ShareThisNo sequester for Guantanamo Bay: Guantanamo Bay has become money pit - former prison official 22 Mar 2013 Former Guantanamo prison official Ret. Col. Morris Davis has discussed with RT how the once 'temporary' facility has become a money pit as repair costs and yearly maintenance bill ...
  • 3 dead, including gunman, after shooting at Ma ...
    ShareThis3 dead, including gunman, after shooting at Marine Base Quantico 22 Mar 2013 Three people are dead, including a gunman who opened fire at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia after shooting one person dead Thursday night. A base spokesman said the suspected shooter was found dead of ...
  • Virginia authorities in standoff with shooter ...
    ShareThisVirginia authorities in standoff with shooter at Marine Corps Base Quantico --1 dead in shooting at Quantico 22 Mar 2013 A base spokesman says one person is dead after a shooting at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and authorities are in a standoff with a suspect who's barricade ...
  • State Dept. Hid Contractor's Ties to Keystone ...
    ShareThisState Dept. Hid Contractor's Ties to Keystone XL Pipeline Company 21 Mar 2013 Late on a Friday afternoon [when the Obama Administration typically dumps its deleterious environmental news] in early March, the State Department released a 2,000-page draft report downplaying the environment ...
  • Texas suspect's link to Colorado slaying is in ...
    ShareThisTexas suspect's link to Colorado slaying is investigated 21 Mar 2013 A man suspected of trading gunfire with North Texas authorities Thursday and who could be linked to the slaying of Colorado's prisons chief is likely to die, Texas officials said. Wise County Sheriff David Walker sai ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Seven Myths About “Women in Combat"
    17 March 2013 Published here with permission from the author. Written By: G.S. Newbold, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.) Marine photo / Cpl. Jennifer Pirante Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michelle Berglin trains for an upcoming deployment at Camp Pendleton in January. Myth #1 – “It’s about women in ...
  • Under Attack
    13 March 2013 Our website sustains repeated attacks and is frequently offline. We must upgrade the website which requires direct reader support. Please see this, and dig deep! We need it. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-michaelyon-online-com-alive
  • Senate Investigation - Pat Tillman
    12 March 2013
  • FBR: Kachin Update
    FBR Report: Kachin Update – Photo set two; Attacks Against the Kachin are Sporadic but Displacement is Constant Kachin State, Burma 8 March, 2013 One of five camps for displaced Kachin that was visited on this trip Kachin girl in high mountain hiding place Kachin pastor points to Bur ...
  • White Letter 1-13
    05 March 2013

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Houses burn in Meikhtila riots
    Footage from Wednesday evening shows houses being burned to the ground as sectarian riots rocked central Burma's Meikhtila township.
  • More than 10 killed as rioting rocks Meikhtila ...
    At least 13 people have been killed as sectarian riots kicked off for the second day in central Burma’s Meikhtila township
  • Dinner time in Pakahtawng camp
    A time lapse of Maijayang’s Pakahtawng camp in Kachin state. There are 2457 people living in the camp - the children are from northern Shan state and were sent to the camp to escape the fighting. Their parents are dead or couldn’t make the trip with them. Footage by Ryan Libre
  • Parliament agrees to form committee to review ...
    Burma’s union parliament unanimously approved a proposal on Wednesday allowing for the formation a committee to review the military-backed 2008 constitution
  • Two dead, mosques destroyed following row in c ...
    Two people died and several mosques were destroyed in central Burma, police said Thursday, in the worst riots since Buddhist-Muslim clashes rocked western Arakan state last year

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • We Need a New Political Party
    This article is my argument for establishing a new major political party of working people to replace--or at least to seriously compete with--the two existing major parties. I argue that the Democratic and Republican parties have outlived their usefulness
  • CIA and FBI Counter-Terrorism Officials: Chene ...
    Cheney Caught In Another Major Lie
  • The Price of Evil at JPMorgan Chase
    The bank executives who committed those crimes haven't paid a penny in restitution, nor have they been charged with crimes. Those fines have been paid by the bank's shareholders, who in some cases were the victims of the very crimes that led to the fine in the first place! In banking, the victim ...
  • Newtown's Hidden Crime-Scene Photos
    Each time, these "gun rights" enthusiasts shout out their truncated version of the Second Amendment -- leaving out the parts about "a well-regulated militia" and the "security of a free state" -- they could have these images of mangled children flash through their minds.
  • 20 Years of Femicide in Mexico, Call for Justi ...
    It was 1993 when family members of victims and activists first began to ring the alarm bells of femicide in Ciudad Ju--rez. Now 20 years on, the crisis has spread virally throughout the country.

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Fighting Climate Effects: The Media Boosts Hea ...
    Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York This week, I’m in the western Indian City of Ahmedabad on a long-awaited trip. It’s over 100⁰F here today, about 70⁰F degrees warmer than it was as I left home in New York.  As part of our on ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Sink Hole
    When you let a mining company do whatever it wants with limited regulations, it turns out that horrible things can happen, like gigantic sinkholes that destroy people’s homes and make large amounts of land unlivable. What’s hilarious is Bobby Jindal’s fake outrage and demands t ...
  • More Iraq Links
    Our readers have reminded me of a lot of good stuff in addition to the open tabs I already had, so: David Rees had two great posts on the uniquely irritating Michael Ignatieff.  (“The narrative tension is: Can the hero be wrong about everything, survive, and still convince people he’ ...
  • Dynamic bass player available
    Is “Big Bottom” in G?
  • Are Corporations Amoral?
    It’s rare that I disagree with Rob Neyer. But I have to push back on his column about Major League Baseball owners deciding to eliminate the pensions of their non-player employees, despite being quadzillionaires who could obviously afford it. One thing I like about covering labor issues in ...
  • NRA Logic
    This is a weird story, but it totally makes sense that a doctor handing out illegal prescriptions would use this argument: Dr. Gracia Mayard, 61, is accused of distributing oxycodone between Jan. 1, 2012 and March 15, 2013. In exchange for cash, Mayard sold 2,953 prescriptions for nearly 400,000 ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    A new joint contract between the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Development and IBM will support innovation and economic development.
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
    This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.
  • Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate S ...
    Meet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Storied plaintiffs lawyer disbarred over exces ...
    Plaintiffs attorney Stanley Chesley has been disbarred from practicing law in Kentucky, and the move may crimp his ability to practice in Ohio, where his firm, Waite Schneider Bayless & Chesley, is based.
  • Walgreens lawyer argues DEA violated policy in ...
    Federal drug authorities violated policy when they suspended a Walgreens drug distribution center from shipping certain controlled substances, a lawyer for the national pharmacy retailer told a federal appeals court in Washington.
  • Senators aim to scrap mandatory minimum sentences
    Two senators want to give federal judges the ability to impose prison sentences shorter than the mandatory minimums they're required to impose, an option long requested by defense attorneys and judges who feel restricted by sentencing laws.
  • Attorney schools Chinese-owned businesses on U ...
    Attorney Evie Jeang, founder of Ideal Legal Group, talks to NLJ about her practice and how cultural differences can play a role in creating labor disputes.
  • GAO rejects Postal Service plan to stop delive ...
    The U.S. Government Accountability Office concluded on March 21 that the Postal Service's plan to cut mail service is against the law, violating the continuing resolution now funding government operations.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • U.S.-Spain Energy Companies Plan World’s Large ...
    A U.S.-based company that will soon finish construction of one of the world’s largest solar thermal power plants in the Mojave Desert, is now looking to build an even larger plant in Southern California. BrightSource Click to enlarge BrightSource EnergyThe Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Des ...
  • Giant Sequoias Face Looming Threat from Shifti ...
    The world’s largest living species, native to California’s Sierra Nevada, faces a two-pronged risk from declining snowpack and rising temperatures. The threat to sequoias mirrors a growing danger to trees worldwide, with some scientists saying rapid warming this century could wipe out many of th ...
  • High-Speed Trains Provide Broad Environmental, ...
    Bullet trains fuel real-estate booms, improve quality of life, reduce air pollution and traffic congestion, and provide a “safety valve” for crowded cities, especially in the developing world, according to a study by Chinese and U.S. economists. The study was based on China’s rapidly expanding h ...
  • Interview: A Marine Biologist Works to Create ...
    Even as populations of sharks, bluefin tuna, and other large fish are being severely over-exploited, scientists still know surprisingly little about when and where the ocean’s biggest predators congregate to feed and spawn, Barbara Block making it difficult to protect biological hotspots. S ...
  • New Carbon Storage Method Reduces Earthquake R ...
    A team of researchers says it has demonstrated a method of underground carbon storage that reduces the risk of triggering earthquakes, a safety concern cited by some scientists about the emerging field of carbon capture and sequestration. While often cited as a potentially key option in reducing ...

Red Ice Creations

  • TED: Some ideas TOO fascinating - Hancock, She ...
    TED, globally known as a showcase of ideas, hosts “fascinating thinkers and doers” who occupy a stage for 18 minutes or less to share their ideas with a global audience. Recently, controversy raged when TEDx attempted to slight and smear cutting edge alternative researchers. This has backfired o ...
  • Rapper Attempts To Sacrifice Friend To Join Th ...
    Popular musicians, such as Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Rihanna, are often spoken in the same breath as the Illuminati – there are some people that believe the secret society is at the center of their prosperous careers. However, the rumors and alleged connection between the Illuminati and the entertainm ...
  • "They Took Our Babies": Australia Prime Minist ...
    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has issued an apology to people affected by Australia’s forced adoption policy between the 1950s and 1970s. Tens of thousands of babies of unmarried, mostly teenage mothers, were thought to have been taken by the state and given to childless married couples. Many wom ...
  • 14,000 pig corpses in Chinese rivers
    The number of dead pigs discovered in Chinese rivers around Shanghai has risen to almost 14,000, officials say. There is no word from the authorities about the cause of the deaths. Last week, officials retrieved nearly 6,000 pig carcasses from the Huangpu River network. They insisted that water ...
  • Chinese Eugenics Factory Collects “Genius” DNA ...
    According to a leading evolutionary biologist, the Chinese are engaging in a massive breeding operation with the aim of ultimately creating a breed of cognitively enhanced individuals. And what’s more, the China-based eugenics factory recently bought up a large genome research institute in the U ...

Russia Today

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Not My Tribe

  • The unrepentant pro-terrorist and pro imperial ...
    — One of the saddest happenings of my lifetime has been to observe the complete Far Rightward slide of much of the ex-American Trotskyist Movement, that during my youth had been the strongest builders of the Antiwar Movement during the Vietnam War era. None more epitomizes that Rightward s ...
  • The epidemic of ‘prediabetes’ in M ...
    Did you know that 79 MILLION Americans are classified as having ‘prediabetes’ (early stage Type 2 diabetes)? And most of those are between the ages of 45 to 60, making it more common than not to have early stage diabetes for this age category. And 90% are unaware of their oncoming me ...
  • Rand Paul and the US political myth about the ...
    Rand Paul, like his dad, Ron Paul, has built his stature up with the constant myth amongst so many US gullibles, that he is supposedly somehow Mr. Antiwar! But it is all skin deep this picture of what Hard Right Rand is really about. This Business Insider report Inside Rand Paul’s Overnigh ...
  • Conservative Hero
    “I’m a rodeo clown. It takes great skill.” Glenn Beck Yes, Glenn… and it takes a really stupid cluck like yourself to today still entertain the hordes of conservative dittoheads as well as Rush once did it with his mean and asinine commentaries way back during the ’ ...
  • Prime Minister issues apology for allowing the ...
    With a new fascist Pope (Bergoglio/ ‘Pope Francis’) just put into the Vatican by way of his work covering up for the horrible crimes of the brutal Argentinian military dictatorship of the past, here comes news from Australia of what this hideous church (The Catholic) has been up to i ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Luke's Change: an Inside Job
    Published on Mar 16, 2013 An examination of some questionable events and circumstances leading up to the destruction of the Death Star, through the eyes of an amateur investigative journalist within the Star Wars galaxy. The focus is mainly on the connections between the people who created an ...
  • New White House WTC 7 Petition
    REINVESTIGATE THE COLLAPSE OF WTC BUILDING 7 ON 9/11. NEVER HAS A STEEL FRAME BUILDING COLLAPSED DUE TO OFFICE FIRES. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reinvestigate-collapse-wtc-building-7-911-never-has-steel-frame-building-collapsed-due-office-fires/K3Yfqnph Related: A huge collecti ...
  • Jon Gold’s Official 9/11 Justice Start Up Kit
    Thursday, July 26, 2012 Here is the 9/11 Report. I suggest you read it, and ask others to read it to understand the “official account.” Then I suggest you ask people to watch the companion DVD “In Their Own Words: The Untold Stories Of The 9/11 Families“… Then I suggest you ask people t ...
  • R.I.P Jane Pollicino, 1953 -- 2013: 9/11 Widow ...
    Published on Mar 15, 2013YouTube.com 9/11 widow Jane Pollicino, a passionate supporter of AE911Truth, passed away on February 21 after suffering a stroke, according to Newsday. Her husband, Steve Pollicino, died in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Her husban ...
  • http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2013/03/debunking-debunkers-i-have-created-this.html
    DEBUNKING THE DEBUNKERS I have created this note as a way to quickly look back at debunker claims and how they don't hold water. This is one of the best sites that debunks the debunkers..... DEBUNKING THE DEBUNKERShttp://911debunkers.blogspot.nl/ DAVID RAY GRIFFIN Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An A ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Kalahari Bushmen launch new legal battle
    The Bushmen are taking the Botswana government to court for the third time in their struggle to live in peace on their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.© SurvivalBushmen in Botswana are taking the government to court for illegally refusing them access to their ancestral land in the Cent ...
  • Grupo San José investors lobbied over 'hiding ...
    Guiejna, an Ayoreo woman forced to flee her house as bulldozers started clearing her forest home.© Survival InternationalShareholders in Spanish construction giant Grupo San José have been urged to withdraw from the company after satellite images revealed the involvement of its subsidiary in the ...
  • Guarani anger over teenager's death
    Guarani Indians have traveled to Brasília to warn of the violence they are forced to endure. © MPFGuarani Indians have traveled to Brazil’s capital, Brasília, to warn of the ‘complete disrespect’ and ‘permanent human rights violations’ they are suffering as a wave of death and violence has swept ...
  • Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
    The abundant resources of their forest home provide the Matsés with a rich and varied diet.© James Vybiral/SurvivalAmazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés In ...
  • Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
    Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...

Greg Palast

  • Hugo Chavez vs "The Network"
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine London, February 2002. A tiny, dark and intense woman waited at the end of a lecture until I was alone, brought her face strangely close to mine and whispered, “President Chavez needs you. Right now. To Caracas. Right now. You must come to see him.” President Who ...
  • Fukushima: They Knew
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" Two years later, the Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN An excerpt from Vultures' Picnic by Greg Palast I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the n ...
  • Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi Amigo
    By Greg Palast For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today. As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, is offering the film, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, as a FREE download. Based on m ...
  • How Do You Steal a Dream?Supreme Court hears s ...
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” Sign the petition to Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act - here. Jim Crow is alive and well — and he [...]
  • Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act: Protect ...
     Sign this petition RIGHT NOW at Care2. Dr. King's Dream Act is under attack. On Wednesday February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the law's requirement that states with a history of Jim Crow voting rules let the Justice Department review new voting procedures. This is the o ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Update: Autism Mom Aghast at 1 in ...
    By Anne Dachel Mar 21, 2013, New England Cable News: Parent of autistic child: New CDC statistic shows autism is a crisis "Autism is a crisis. That's according to our guest Alison MacNeil, who is a parent of a child...
  • 1 in 3 Seniors Die with Alzheimer's. 1 in 50 S ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Teresa Conrick reports below on the confluence of brain disorders in America as a report showed that a third of our seniors have Alzheimers at time of death and another report stated that 1 in 50 American...
  • Dachel Media Update: Autism Climbs to 1 in 50 Kids
    By Anne Dachel The only story for today---NEW NUMBERS---HIGHER THAN EVER!! In the wonderful world of autism news, the numbers just keep going up. Now it's one in 50. The whole country shares the official Utah rate. We're cautioned that...
  • President Obama: 1 in 50 American Kids with Au ...
    From the Autism Action Network. Email The White House (scroll down the link to easily send an email to your representatives and the President) and call the White House Comments Line 202-456-1111 to tell the President that autism is a...
  • Why did Robert Ethan Saylor Die: Op-Ed by Jame ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you Jim Mulvaney for taking an active role in protecting not only your son, but all of our children. Jim is married to author, journalist and HuffPo blogger Barbara Fischkin. I consider Barbara my writing Godmother...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The Last Heirloom Seed
    I am the last of my kind. That last of the truly pure here on earth. I have struggled long and hard to maintain my integrity, as did all of my brothers and sisters in a war we did not start, but were force into. In this war, we have been systematically overtaken by hostile genetically engineered ...
  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...
  • Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
    Whole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing – selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.
  • Food Should Be Made With Love – That’s Real Su ...
    It’s time for a revolution of the personal kind. There is nothing more effective than changing one’s own life by rejecting the artificial and digging in to create a real, honest, down to earth, local living lifestyle. It’s time to put love back on the dinner plate.
  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • 5 Psych Disorders Have Common Genetics
    MedPage Today – Autism, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia share common genetic underpinnings — despite differences in symptoms and course of disease, researchers discovered. In particular, single nucleotide ...
  • Turkey Kurds: PKK chief Ocalan calls for ceasefire
    BBC – The jailed leader of Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan, has called for a truce after years of war. Ocalan also urged the fighters of his PKK organisation to withdraw from Turkey, in a message read out to cheers during Kurdish New Year celebrations in the city of Diyarba ...
  • The Iraq War Could Cost More Than $6 Trillion
    Business Insider – The Iraq war has cost the U.S. more than $2 trillion so far and with interest could swell to more than $6 trillion, according to a study released Thursday. The study, part of the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, ...
  • Cyprus banks face bankruptcy, Central Bank thr ...
    DW – Cyprus has just four days to agree on a new plan to raise much needed funds to avoid bankruptcy. The European Central Bank warned Thursday it would stop propping up the country’s banks if no solution was found. Scrambling to devise a “Plan B” that would secure the mu ...
  • Fitch cuts Puerto Rico GO debt to near junk BB ...
    Reuters – Fitch Ratings on Wednesday cut its rating on $10.6 billion of Puerto Rico general obligation bonds to BBB-minus from BBB-plus, saying the U.S. commonwealth was facing a large budget imbalance caused by a weak economy and revenues. Fitch was the third major ratings group to cut th ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

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

Cryptogon

  • Dylan Ratigan Quits MSNBC, Help Vets Create Ne ...
    Via: Dylan Ratigan: If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America ...
  • Elizabeth Warren: ‘How Many Billions Hav ...
    Via: Daily Bail: During Senate testimony Liz Warren asks how much drug-laundered money it takes before banking regulators consider shutting down a bank. Hilarity ensues. And no one ever answers the question. Witnesses were: David Cohen, Sec. for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Treasur ...
  • Google Glass Might Control Real World Objects
    Via: Cnet: You may eventually be able to operate your TV, refrigerator, or garage door through Google Glass. Published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a Google patent application called “Wearable Computer with Superimposed Controls and Instructions for External Device” ...
  • Homeland Security Will Scan More Private Web T ...
    Via: Reuters: The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country’s private, civilian-run infrastructure. As a result, more private sector employees than ever before, including th ...
  • CIA CTO: ‘We Fundamentally Try To Collec ...
    Via: Huffington Post: The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira “Gus” Hunt said that ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 [...]

Desertification

  • Chinese national desert-control plan (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-03/21/content_16326136.htm Desert land set to be reclaimed By Cheng Yingqi (China Daily) China’s forestry authority plans to reclaim large areas of land over the next decade under a national desert-cont ...
  • Food security by combatting desertification (G ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=27932&tirsan=3 Somalia: the EU enhances food security by combatting desertification in Puntland Mareeg.com-Today, the European Union and its partners, Adeso and CARE, have signed two contracts allowing them ...
  • Threat of Water Scarcity (Worldwatch Institute)
    Read at : http://www.worldwatch.org/looming-threat-water-scarcity?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+worldwatch%2Fall+%28Worldwatch+Institute%29 The Looming Threat of Water Scarcity Some 1.2 billion people—almost a fifth of the world—live in areas of physical wate ...
  • The MonQI Toolbox for monitoring small-scale a ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List The MonQI Toolbox for monitoring small-scale agricultural enterprises: Basic Course Are you involved in natural resource management or farming system research? We would like to draw your attention to an upcoming course & ...
  • ‘Nano-tablet’ purifies water (SciD ...
    Read at : http://www.scidev.net/en/sub-suharan-africa/news/cheap-nano-tablet-purifies-water-for-up-to-six-months.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_news Cheap ‘nano-tablet’ purifies water for up to six months by Munyaradzi Makoni Researchers have developed a ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • Penashue, and Harper’s growing kleptocracy
    By David@Sixthestate.net If I had a shred of real optimism left, I’d say the wheels are starting to fall off of the Harper bus. But I have no such shred left. Instead all I have is a sinking suspicion that yet another wave of pro-government editorials will soon sweep the free press, everyone wil ...
  • A Modest Opinion – The House of Commons ...
    By Nathaniel Moher As most of you know, I’m still waiting for my appointment to the Canadian Senate (ever since giving up any hope that I’ll be appointed Governor General). That’s mainly because I want a job that lasts forever (even after I misuse tens of thousands of dollars in housing subsidie ...
  • Steve’s soldierly pantomime
    By Montreal Simon Ever since he came to power Stephen Harper has tried to use the military for crass political purposes. First he wanted to use it to change his image from nerdy policy wonk to Great Warrior Leader. And when that failed miserably, for obvious reasons, he set out to change the mil ...
  • Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and G ...
  • Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company ...
    By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, ”His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and ...

libcom

  • Write to Finnish anarchist total objector
    Anarchist total objector Topi Lauko began his prison sentence 18th of December in a low-security prison. He was transferred to a half-way house, maintained by Siltavalmennus NGO, in second half of February. Although in half-way house the conditions of de ...
  • Write to Finnish anarchist total objector
    Anarchist total objector Topi Lauko began his prison sentence 18th of December in a low-security prison. He was transferred to a half-way house, maintained by Siltavalmennus NGO, in second half of February. Although in half-way house the conditions of de ...
  • Sussex University anti-outsourcing struggle es ...
    577133_317810778340970_1394684567_n[1].jpg The anti-privatisation campaign at the University of Sussex is gathering strength - and there are signs university management are feeling the pressure. ...
  • On rape, cages, and the Steubenville verdict - ...
    CNN.jpg Mia McKenzie from Black Girl Dangerous on the Steubenville rape verdict, and CNN news lamenting the "ruined lives" of the rapists, with no mention of the survivor at all. Trigger war ...
  • Hodgson, Keith, 1962-2013
    An obituary for Liverpool-based anarchist and antifascist Keith Hodgson, who sadly died on 23 February 2013. Keith Hodgson, long time activist in the Liverpool anarchist scene, died on Saturday 23rd February 2013, aged 50. Keith, like ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Update on the Satanic “6″ Frequenc ...
    Please understand that it is not my wish to attack or denigrate others who may have an OPINION contrary to mine. However, when a deeply SATANIC AGENDA is falsely promoted under the disguise of Christ-like “peace and love” – I have the moral obligation to take a stand.  Nay, I h ...
  • The Anti-Christ Enters Jerusalem??
    The satanic minions always mimic the holy and the divine.  They do this in order to deceive. Today, Wednesday, March 20, 2013 – Barak Obama enters Jerusalem.   It is the spring equinox – the beginning of the “passion week” of Christianity.  Is it just coincidence that Jes ...
  • CBS in Arizona is Not Ignoring the “Big ...
    Its amazing how the media shapes and molds public opinion.   They are skilled at spin doctoring truth and hard facts away from public scrutiny. The FACTS about Obama are: 1. He literally came out of nowhere to the garner the international celebrity status of the POTUS. 2.  His meteoric rise can ...
  • A Complete Outrage – We Give Israel Enri ...
    Check out this story. Nuclear waste from Israel is most likely being stored here in Utah at Energy Solutions. So let me get this straight. The US gives Israel roughly $30 billion per year, which includes enriched uranium and plutonium as well as the “Iron Dome” missile system, and in ...
  • The Jesuit Pope From Argentina – His Sec ...
      TIME Magazine’s declaration is 100% accurate – the NEW WORLD [Order] Pope indeed. Notice the Jesuit logo featuring the pagan SUN GOD and the three nails.  The Hebrew symbol for NAIL is also the number SIX.  Three nails in Hebrew literally means SIX, SIX, SIX. Keep in mind that ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Privatizing California's Community Colleges - ...
    Guest post by Dr George Wright (This is Part 1 of a 3-part post on the systematic privatization of community colleges, paralleling efforts by Bush, Obama and Wall Street neoliberals to privatize US elementary and high schools.) UPWA Action Alert!!! United Public Workers for Action (www.upwa. ...
  • Blatant Censorship at OpEd News
    Guest post by Joan Mootry Below is a comment Joan Mootry had censored when she attempted to post it at the “alternative” news site OpEdNews.  As she notes below, only Part 1 was printed. Part 2 was deleted. Be sure to check out the articles and links at the end. ...
  • Farrakan's Political Evolution
    Below is a fascinating excerpt from Part 8 of Louis Farrakhan’s lecture series The Time and What Must Be Done. Farrahkan is the present leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), best known for its most famous member Malcolm X. It’s been more than ten years since I heard Farrakhan speak ...
  • Why Bitcoins Have Doubled in Value
    At $43 US, the Bitcoin has more than doubled in the last twelve months.  According to Zero Hedge, this mainly relates to a 55 page report the European Central Bank published in October, expressing concern that the bitcoin’s popularity represents a potential threat to the reputati ...
  • Bitcoins: Good as Gold?
    Bitcoins are a safe decentralized currency that’s  ideal for businesses and consumers alike because it’s controlled by the people who use it, rather than banks. Hate banks? Fed up with Wall Street incompetence and criminality? Concerned the impending economic col ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

  • EU Alternative Fuel Strategy
    EU policy makers propose a mandatory roll-out of alternative fuel infrastructure, including numerical targets for Member States in terms of electric car charging stations, and obligatory natural gas refuelling points for ships.
  • LA Off Coal by 2025 at the Latest
    Today the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Board unanimously approved its plan to get off of coal by 2025 and replace it with cleaner energy.
  • Energy Storage Study Predicts Boom Through 2022
    Newer and emerging technologies are changing the energy storage field. These innovations will help enable grid operators to optimize assets and integrate renewable energy sources.
  • China Wind Energy Production Exceeds Coal For ...
    According to new statistics from the China Electricity Council, in 2012 China’s wind energy production actually increased more than coal power production for the first time ever.
  • Dirtier Side of Obama Administration Energy Bl ...
    Obama's new energy plan is needed, but the focus should be on efficiency and renewables so we can have a clean energy future, with clean air and clean water. America doesn't want the oil and gas industry's dirty energy future.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Google is no good at being evil
    It would have been so easy to ease the pain of Reader withdrawal by putting some effort into creating a scapegoat. Someone to blame for the trouble users are having. "At least Google did xxx," their supporters might say. But their withdrawal has all the care and sensitivity of DuPont refusing to ...
  • In India, Google's Eric Schmidt Explains Why H ...
    What had made Schmidt decide on going to North Korea? After first making a joke about playing basketball-a reference to the strange visit by Dennis Rodman a few weeks after Schmidt's trip-the Google executive explained he went to Pyongyang on a mission to spread the good news about the power of ...
  • IAmA Federal Criminal Defense Attorney And For ...
    Hiya, Reddit. I'm Ken White. For about 12 years I've been a federal criminal defense attorney. For about six years before that, I was a federal prosecutor here in Los Angeles, where eventually I worked in the office's Government Fraud and Public Corruption unit. I'm doing this AMA because, with ...
  • Vp8 IPR (video)
    RTCWEB II WG meeting - THURSDAY, March 14, 2013. [PJ: Watch how the MPEG LA H.264 people rudely interrupt Google's presentation until the moderator intervenes and tells them to wait to the end. They are rude at the end too. Same thing happened, the rudeness, with the first slide talk, VP8-MTI. ...
  • Fixing the Worst Law in Technology
    The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the most outrageous criminal law you've never heard of. It bans "unauthorized access" of computers, but no one really knows what those words mean. Orin Kerr, a former Justice Department attorney and a leading scholar on computer-crime law, argues persuasively ...

WideShut

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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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Handling of OIAs under investigation
    The NZ Herald reported yesterday that the Office of the Ombudsman is planning an investigation into the way that the public service is responding to requests under the Official Information Act (OIA). This came after the Ombudsman’s investigation into the Ministry of Education’s handling of OIA r ...
  • Govt outsourcing arts funding
    Pledgeme, a very cool crowdfunding platform for creative projects in New Zealand, is about to reach a pretty great milestone – raising a total of $1million for creative projects in New Zealand in just over a year. Crowdfunding is a collaborative way to fund something, and Pledgeme have set ...
  • Looking forward to passage of the Natural Heal ...
    Today the Natural Health Products bill passed it second reading in the house so I thought it would be a great opportunity to reflect on what we have managed to achieve, and what the bill does and doesn’t cover. One of the best outcomes of this bill is that it ensures that New Zealand retains [...]
  • Government versus Mayor again.
    It’s only a week since Auckland Mayor Len Brown officially launched the Auckland Unitary Plan and even before its official unveiling government ministers have been rattling their sabres and threatening to have another go at dismantling democracy in Auckland.   As Brian Rudman explained earlier t ...
  • “Not a very complicated job” – the new R ...
    OK so it is day one for Susan Devoy but what about the Government? Why did they appoint a person to the role with no background in Te Tiriti issues or diversity politics? Why did they choose someone who is on the public record doubting the relevance and value of Waitangi to New Zealanders? What ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why Is a Child’s Health Often Damaged at Conce ...
    By Dr. Mercola Children's health and full potential are being limited before their lives have begun, starting in the womb and continuing through birth and the early years. A number of abuses to their developing bodies and minds come from their mothers' diets, standard childbirth practices, ...
  • The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
    By Dr. Mercola I believe many of our country's chronic health problems would simply disappear if greater attention was paid to the root problem — the food you eat. Americans’ reliance on processed foods is a major factor that drives the rampant disease increases in the US, such ...
  • Are Nightmare Bacteria Coming to a Hospital Ne ...
    By Dr. Mercola Infections associated with antibiotic resistant “super germs” are increasing in hospitals across the United States. First it was MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), once rare but now far too commonplace in medical settings. Although mortality r ...
  • TV Ads for Statins Drive Overdiagnosis and Ove ...
    By Dr. Mercola The United States is one of only two countries, the other being New Zealand, that allows drugs to be advertised on TV, and it’s not difficult to understand why nearly every other country has given such ads the boot. As with all commercials, the ads are intended to infl ...
  • Whole Foods Vows to Label GMO’s by 2018
    By Dr. Mercola Whole Foods recently announced the health food giant will make labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients mandatory in its American and Canadian stores by 2018. (Whole Foods stores in Great Britain already require GE foods to be labeled.) Many expect other retailer ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Kalahari Bushmen launch new legal battle
    The Bushmen are taking the Botswana government to court for the third time in their struggle to live in peace on their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.© SurvivalBushmen in Botswana are taking the government to court for illegally refusing them access to their ancestral land in the Cent ...
  • Grupo San José investors lobbied over 'hiding ...
    Guiejna, an Ayoreo woman forced to flee her house as bulldozers started clearing her forest home.© Survival InternationalShareholders in Spanish construction giant Grupo San José have been urged to withdraw from the company after satellite images revealed the involvement of its subsidiary in the ...
  • Guarani anger over teenager's death
    Guarani Indians have traveled to Brasília to warn of the violence they are forced to endure. © MPFGuarani Indians have traveled to Brazil’s capital, Brasília, to warn of the ‘complete disrespect’ and ‘permanent human rights violations’ they are suffering as a wave of death and violence has swept ...
  • Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
    The abundant resources of their forest home provide the Matsés with a rich and varied diet.© James Vybiral/SurvivalAmazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés In ...
  • Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
    Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • New Zealand: Possible GM Outbreak at Lincoln U ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: New Zealand Herald: The Government is investigating a potential outbreak of genetically modified fungus at Lincoln University. Two secured laboratories and a greenhouse have been locked down as the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) checks the biological scare ...
  • It’s Time to Change American Disease-Managemen ...
    from mercola.com: I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large. Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other ...
  • Robobees
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Harvard: Overview of the Micro Air Vehicles Project INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior … we aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power sources; spur innovations in ultra-low-power computi ...
  • Why Is the CEO of the Global Anti-Poverty Grou ...
    from civileats.com: In its continuing frenzy to silence potential critics, Coca-Cola issued a press release recently that announced the following: "Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., has been nominated to stand for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at its Annual Meeting of share owners ...
  • Homeless Houston Veteran Ticketed for Dumpster ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: News92FM: A homeless Navy veteran faces up to a $500 fine for dumpster diving in downtown Houston. Veteran James Kelly was cited for “disturbing the contents of a garbage can” on Thursday morning of last week in front of the Hobby Center. Matt Sampsell repo ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 [...]

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

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    USA TODAY
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    After a vigorous campaign by Greenpeace to highlight the carbon-spewing computer halls of the cloud giants, Apple has announced it is feeding its data centers entirely with renewable energy. Apple's flagship Maiden, North Caroline data center is now ...
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    Ecology in action photo competition winners
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    NBCNews.com (blog)
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    Are land grabs really water grabs?
    CNN International
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    World Water Day 2013: How Shortages Affect Women, Kids, Hunger (And What ...
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