Wednesday, March 27, 2013

27 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Aust: Fast-changing climate 'a security threat'
    The report says the Defence Force is poorly equipped to deal with the range of emerging threats - especially the potential need to deal with two major crises at once. During the 2009 Victoria bushfires, Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi the military deployed massive assets, including ships, ...
  • The Shrinking Cameron Project
    I have never been a huge fan of Cameron. The über-modernisation. The disregard for the views of Tory MPs and grassroot members. The incompetent 2010 general election campaign. The rush to coalition, including a badly-negotiated deal on AV. The decision to backload spending cuts and frontload tax ...
  • Satire: Politicos obessed with Public debt
    This is so bloody brilliant it just has to be shared. Australia’s unique comedy team The Chaser takes 90 seconds to make a mockery of politicians who obsess about public debt and don’t even consider private debt. Hey, can someone do this in the USA … and the UK … and Europe … and Japan? I don’t ...
  • The Tsar, the Oligarch, & the New Yorker
    Since 1991 the Russian arts have been the slowest of the country’s institutions to democratize, liberalize, privatize or reform. The reason for that is that the arts, ballet in particular, were more democratically patronized and administered before Yeltsin, more dictatorial after. The oligarchs ...
  • US Intelligence distorted by ‘war on terror’
    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. The classified report was compiled by the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which counsels Barack Obama on int ...

Independent - London

  • Cyprus tries to stem tide of cash leaving the ...
    Cyprus will be detached from the eurozone tomorrow as its government scrambles to stop money flooding out of the country.Related StoriesJust call me Frank: Is Pope Francis the most down-to-earth ever?German football coach Otto Rehhagel will lead 'charm offensive' to restore Berlin's image in Gr ...
  • Cyprus tries to stem tide of cash leaving the ...
    Cyprus will be detached from the eurozone tomorrow as its government scrambles to stop money flooding out of the country.Related StoriesJust call me Frank: Is Pope Francis the most down-to-earth ever?German football coach Otto Rehhagel will lead 'charm offensive' to restore Berlin's image in Gr ...
  • Tearful Carla Bruni rejects claim Nicolas Sark ...
    A tearful Carla Bruni has dismissed as “unthinkable” the accusation that her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, took advantage of the mental frailty of an elderly billionaires to finance his rise to power.Related StoriesJust call me Frank: Is Pope Francis the most down-to-earth ever?German football coac ...
  • US President Barack Obama appoints first femal ...
    President Barack Obama has appointed the first female director of the Secret Service, all at once giving the agency the chance to overcome the perception that it is a boys-only club and deflecting criticism that he has failed in his second term to give enough top jobs to female and minority can ...
  • Russia orders tax police to raid foreign chari ...
    Russian prosecutors and tax inspectors raided anti-corruption and human rights watchdogs in the latest in a clampdown on foreign-funded charities and non-governmental organisations operating in the country.Related StoriesGerman football coach Otto Rehhagel will lead 'charm offensive' to restore ...

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

  • Hidden toxins in vitamins, supplements and hea ...
    I'm absolutely shocked at how many people don't investigate what's really in the products they swallow. When something is sold as an herb, vitamin, superfood or supplement, they think it's automatically safe. And while the natural products industry has a truly remarkable safety record - especial ...
  • First love child of human, Neanderthal found?
    The skeletal remains of an individual living in northern Italy 40,000-30,000 years ago are believed to be that of a human/Neanderthal hybrid, according to a paper in PLoS ONE. If further analysis proves the theory correct, the remains belonged to the first known such hybrid, providing direct ev ...
  • 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - ...
    The FBI records the emails of nearly all US citizens, including members of congress, according to NSA whistleblower William Binney. In an interview with RT, he warned that the government can use this information against anyone. Binney, one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in the hi ...
  • Study finds mothers tell better, more emotiona ...
    The act of talking is not an area where ability is usually considered along gender lines. However, a new study published in Springer's journal Sex Roles has found subtle differences between the sexes in their story-relating ability and specifically the act of reminiscing. The research by Widaad ...
  • Women make better decisions than men
    Women's abilities to make fair decisions when competing interests are at stake make them better corporate leaders, researchers have found. A survey of more than 600 board directors showed that women are more likely to consider the rights of others and to take a cooperative approach to decision- ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Priorities . . .
    STEVIE THINKS PANDAS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE, even those who have walked 1,600  kilometers.
  • Boris out...
    I started blogging here in April 2006 after Dave kindly offered me a space for my voice. Thank you Dave! That's pretty much SEVEN years ago. I'm not sure how that's happened, but there it is. I've had much less energy for blogging over the past while, my posts have gotten shorter and from my ...
  • On a positive note . . .
    INHABITAT reports that clever young people exist, with an article you should read, by Morgana Matus, "17-Year-Old Builds Algae Biofuel Lab in Her Bedroom to Win $100K Intel Science Talent Search Prize". Sara Volz
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Host Refuses To Acknowledge Economic Reality
    Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson pushed the right-wing media's false claim that an increase in government employment made up the bulk of job growth during the economic recovery. The private sector, however, has added millions of jobs since 2009 while the public sector has shed hundreds ...
  • Meet The Speakers Behind The Anti-Equality Sup ...
    The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has organized an anti-equality rally outside the Supreme Court this week as the Court mulls over the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Media outlets should be aware and report the extr ...
  • This American Life Features Error-Riddled Stor ...
    Public radio program This American Life pushed a series of myths about Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI), a Social Security program that supports families that include children with disabilities. The piece ignored that the recent rise in disability benefits is tied to the rece ...
  • O'Reilly Declares Victory In "War On Christmas ...
    Fox News' Bill O'Reilly declared victory in the so-called "War on Christmas," joining Fox's fight to defend Easter from supposed attacks by "secular progressives." Previously, O'Reilly claimed there was no "War on Easter," crediting himself for preventing such a war.O'Reilly Declares Victory In ...
  • 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 ...

Global Research.ca

  • How the Banking System Really Works … And How ...
    To understand the core problem in America today, we have to look back to the very founding of our country. The Founding Fathers fought for liberty and justice. But they also fought for a sound economy and freedom from the…
  • “Prisons are Big Business”: The Pr ...
    Editor’s Note: This was one of the first articles published by Global Research on October 18,  2001 Over 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the United States. This represents the highest per capita incarceration rate in the history…
  • More than 50% of US Government Spending Goes t ...
    [This article was first published by Global Research in April 2010] Recently, Live Science published a chart showing that the US spends about one-fifth of its budget on the military. But this aggregate view hides how Congress prioritizes spending, when…
  • L’impegno di Obama in M.O
    Duplice è l’impegno ribadito da Obama nella visita in Israele. La sempre più forte alleanza degli Usa con lo stato israeliano, confermata dal fatto che «i nostri militari e i nostri servizi di intelligence cooperano più strettamente che mai». Ciò…
  • U.S. Steps up War on Syria: CIA is the Anchor ...
    While pretending to be cautious about its intervention in Syria, the Obama administration has conducted a massive clandestine operation over the past two years to pump guns, heavy military equipment and money to fuel the civil war that is destroying…

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

  • Texas Clean Energy Goals Under Attack
    It wouldn’t be a Texas legislative session without some truly backwards bills.  Today we have House Bill 2026 by freshman Representative Sanford of Collin county that would eliminate our state renewable energy goals. In 1999, the state of Texas made a commitment to renewable energy in the ...
  • Texas House Energy Resources Committee to hear ...
    The House Energy Resources Committee is scheduled to hear Representative Dennis Bonnen’s bill, HB 2166, relating to the continuation, functions, and name of the Railroad Commission of Texas; providing for the imposition of fees, the repeal of provisions for the suspension of the collection ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Physicists create new 'invisibility cloak'
    Scientists have succeeded in creating an invisibility cloak using a type of material called a metascreen. Taking us a step closer to the type of cloak...
  • Mystery 'primate' spotted in UK park
    A student photographed the unidentified creature from her bedroom window as it bounded through a park. The indistinct image shows a dark creature with...
  • Woman 'dies' for 45 minutes
    A woman whose heart stopped for a full 45 minutes stunned doctors by going on to make a full recovery. Terrified relatives phoned an ambulance after 6...
  • Mystery creature image posted on Twitter
    A photograph of a mysterious carnivorous creature has been posted by Jonah King on Twitter. The image shows an unidentified creature with vicious look...
  • Burning snake sets house on fire
    A woman who tried to kill a snake by setting it on fire inadvertently managed to burn her own house down. The unnamed woman from Texas had been cleani...

Grassroots

  • Supporting Women's Rights and Power
    janaina.jpg  “There are thousands upon thousands who weren’t as lucky as I was—I survived hunger....I probably would not have survived had it not been for the support and solidarity of groups like Grassroots International.”  Janai ...
  • Celebrating World Water Day
    water_for_all.jpg Grassroots International celebrates World Water Day and the efforts of small farmers, indigenous peoples and water rights activists worldwide.In light of global water grabs, this year’s theme is quite ironic: water coopera ...
  • 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. ...

Climate

  • France's Electric Car Push Presents Power Grid ...
    (Reuters) France's power grid, already under strain at peak periods, could struggle to cope if growing numbers of electric car owners all recharge their batteries when they sit down for dinner, power sector executives say. Renault lau ...
  • Pacific Nations Urged to Call for Global Shift ...
    (SPREP) A powerful challenge was made to the Small Island Developing States today at the Pacific Energy Summit in Auckland, New Zealand. Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Clim ...
  • Report: Energy Dept. Mismanaged Stimulus-Backe ...
    (The Hill) The Energy Department's (DOE) internal watchdog is attacking DOE management of a $1.5-billion stimulus program to help develop technology that captures industrial carbon dioxide emissions. An Office of Inspector General (IG ...
  • Federal Plan Aims to Help Wildlife Adapt to Cl ...
    (Los Angeles Times) The Obama administration Tuesday announced a nationwide plan to help wildlife adapt to threats from climate change. Developed along with state and tribal authorities, the strategy seeks to preserve species as globa ...
  • Arctic Ice Hits its Annual Max and Its 6th Low ...
    (Climate Central) The skin of sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean has reached its maximum extent for 2013, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Monday, and the annual melt season has begun. As of March 15, ice covered 5.84 ...

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

  • The Marriage Argument in Court
    A lot of people are laughing at how Justice Elena Kagan made the lawyer defending Prop 8, Charles J. Cooper, look foolish yesterday by summoning an imaginary couple over 55 years of age to make the point that the state doesn't deny marriage licenses to people who can't procreate. In her scenari ...
  • The Answer is No
    I really don't want to go back over this. It's a serious problem that no one has ever been held accountable for the torture that was conducted under the Bush administration. It's also a serious problem that the current interim head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations is guilty of ordering th ...
  • Casual Observation
    The folks over at The Corner seemed mystified about why the Associated Press would report that a new voter ID law in Virginia was passed because "a more modest GOP-sponsored voter identification law failed to prevent President Barack Obama from winning Virginia for the second presidential electi ...
  • Serious Question
    The youngest person on the Supreme Court was born in 1960. The second youngest was born in 1955. Four of them were born in the 1930's. Do you think they are going to be forward-looking on gay marriage? Discuss
  • Religion and Gay Marriage in the Senate
    The ten Democratic senators who have refrained from endorsing gay marriage are all professed Christians. Here they are. 1. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.)- Catholic 2. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)- Catholic 3. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.)- Presbyterian 4. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)- Episcopalian 5. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    From bizarre stamp forgeries and audacious jailbreaks, to soberingly creative public health ads, this selection of links brings together some fascinating nuggets. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rivers Aglow With Ethereal Globes of Color
    In the River of Light art installation, ethereal spheres of light float down rivers, highlighting our need to preserve vital water supplies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

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

  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...
  • 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. ...

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IntelNews

  • Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of running 18-member ...
    The government of Saudi Arabia has publicly accused Iran of setting up an espionage ring consisting of 18 members, in order to spy on “vital sites and installations in the Kingdom”.
  • MI5 chief credited with ‘transforming the agen ...
    The head of MI5, Britain’s primary domestic intelligence agency, is to step down at the end of this month, it has been announced. Sir Jonathan Evans is widely credited with transforming MI5, also known as the Security Service, in one of the agency’s most turbulent periods following 9/11/2001.
  • Israel’s Prisoner X ‘gave Mossad secrets to He ...
    An Australian-born Israeli spy, who killed himself while being held in an Israeli prison in 2010, had been arrested for sharing Israeli secrets with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to a German report.
  • 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.

War is a Crime.org

  • Look who’s shilling for the TSA, by Christophe ...
    Wanna insult a reporter? There’s no easier way than accusing him or her of being a shill for the other side, of churning out propaganda instead of covering a subject. And that’s especially true when it comes to the TSA. Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Washington Escalates War on Syria
      Washington Escalates War on Syria   by Stephen Lendman   Ousting Assad was planned years ago. At issue is replacing him with a pro-Western puppet. After two years of conflict, he hangs on resiliently.    Whether he'll survive is uncertain. Syria's military is strong an ...
  • Cyprus Postmortems
      Cyprus Postmortems   by Stephen Lendman   Solutions worse than problems don't resolve them. Cypriots face protracted hard times. Former IMF chief economist Michael Mussa explained three kinds of crises: liquidity, solvency and stupidity.   read more
  • Why I'm Attending the Dedication of the Bush L ...
    On April 25th the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and General Rehabilitation Project will be dedicated in Dallas, Texas.  It takes up 23 acres at Southern Methodist University, 23 acres that neither humanity nor any other species may ever reclaim for anything decent or good. ...
  • What if they gave a war and nobody paid?
      By David Hartsough Original article at http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/what-if-they-gave-a-war-and-nobody-paid/ “Considering the Tax Shelter.” (Flickr/JD Hancock) As April 15 approaches, make no mistake: The tax money that many of us will be sending to the U.S. government pays ...

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!

  • Cheryl Wills on Her Family's Path from Slavery ...
    In our extended discussion with Cheryl Wills, NY1 anchor and author of Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale, she discusses the legacy of slavery and the impact of Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe on African Americans’ pride in their history. We also play an excerpt of Morgan Freeman readi ...
  • VIDEO: Understanding the Mondragon Worker Coop ...
    Watch a 2012 interview Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman did with Mikel Lezamiz, director of Cooperative Dissemination at the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation in Spain’s Basque Country. He described how the project relies on a participatory model in which the workers are the cooperative&#8 ...
  • Watch Extended Interview with Economist Richar ...
    In this extended interview with Richard Wolff, he discusses how his parents fled Hitler and immigrated to the United States from Germany during World War II, and their influence on his worldview. "I grew up convinced that understanding the political and economic environment I lived in was ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Solari Stories – The Black Budget
  • You Don’t “Own” Your Own Genes
    By Weill Cornell Medical College Humans don’t “own” their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are and what diseases they might be at risk for. Through more than 40,000 patents on DNA molecules, companies have essentially claimed the entire human genome for p ...
  • Alibaba – The World’s Greatest Bazaar
    By The Economist In 1999 Trudy Dai used to spend all night sending e-mails from her friend Jack Ma’s apartment, trying to answer queries from American customers without letting on that she was Chinese. Ms Dai was one of the first dozen employees of Alibaba, an online listings service Mr Ma, [...]
  • BRICS Nations Plan New Bank to Bypass World Ba ...
    Photo Credit:Tomohiro Ohsumi By Mike Cohen & Ilya Arkhipov The biggest emerging markets are uniting to tackle under-development and currency volatility with plans to set up institutions that encroach on the roles of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The leaders of the so-call ...
  • Cyprus – Banks In Europe May Now Seize D ...
    By Henry Blodget Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and economy will completely implode. The 10 billion euro deal requires Cyprus to drastically shrink its banking sector, which has grown to 8Xs the ...

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

  • BMW Unveils Plug-In Hybrid Active Tourer Conce ...
    Read the rest of BMW Unveils Plug-In Hybrid Active Tourer Concept at the 2013 New York Auto Show Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2013 New York Auto Show, BMW, BMW 3 Series, BMW 328d, BMW Concept Active Tourer, BMW diesel, bmw hybrid, electric car, green car, green tran ...
  • Announcing Lighten Up! An LED Lighting Design ...
    Calling all architects, interior designers and lighting designers! Do you have a spectacular architecture or interior project that uses LED lighting? Share it with the world today in our newly launched competition, Lighten Up! An LED Lighting Design Competition. We’re looking for the best ...
  • FarmedHere: The Nation’s Largest Indoor Organi ...
    Read the rest of FarmedHere: The Nation’s Largest Indoor Organic Farm Now Growing in Chicago Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aeroponics, aquaponics, chicago, farmed here, farmedhere, indoor farm, indoor organic farm, Jolanta Hardej, organic farm, sustainable food ...
  • Nissan Unveils First Ever Pathfinder Hybrid fo ...
    Read the rest of Nissan Unveils First Ever Pathfinder Hybrid for 2014 at the New York Auto Show Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2013 New York Auto Show, electric car, electric motor, green car, new york auto show, NISSAN, Nissan hybrid, nissan pathfinder, nissan pathfi ...
  • Menthol Architects’ Plant-Covered Bicycle Park ...
    ‘Cars versus bikes’ is an ongoing saga playing out in cities all over the world as riders and drivers fight for road and parking space. Menthol Architects tackles the problem of parking chaos with their design for a plant-covered bicycle parking pod. The idea creates a piece of moder ...

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • Why We Should Learn to Love the Arms Trade Treaty
    Later today, negotiators at the United Nations are set to finalize a draft Arms Trade Treaty. The draft will be sent to national capitols for final approval and chances are the Arms Trade Treaty will be agreed upon by UN member states by the end of the week. (Obligatory aside for Americans conce ...
  • Obama Visit to Israel Key Link in Redesign of ...
    It would be a mistake to view President Obama's visit to Israel as just a fence-mending exercise. It is in fact part of a planned redesign of U.S. foreign policy that will change the face of American leadership around the world. The redesign began with the appointment of John Kerry as Secretar ...
  • Top of the Morning: BRICS Agree to Fail to Cre ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. BRICS Agree to Fail to Create a Development Bank Though some members were hailing an agreement, key details of a development bank to rival the IMF and World Bank remained elusive. “BRICS nations failed on Tuesday to resolve differences over funding for and the loca ...
  • Nuclear Deterrence, National Security, and Bud ...
    This post is written by Katie McBee, a researcher at NSN The argument for reducing excess nuclear arms often focuses on enhancing the nonproliferation regime. However, while less discussed, the financial benefit of nuclear reductions is significant, especially in the wake of sequestration. Th ...
  • No, Cyberwarfare Isn't as Dangerous as Nuclear War
    America does not face an existential cyberthreat today, despite recent warnings. Our cyber vulnerabilities are undoubtedly grave and the threats we face are severe but far from comparable to nuclear war.   The most recent alarms come in a Defense Science Board report on how to make military cy ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Huckabee Puts on His Dick Morri ...
    Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee—who at the moment is a talk radio host—gave an exclusive interview to Newsmax TV where he warned of doom (and gnashing of teeth, presumably) if Republicans back away from their opposition to same-sex marriage. When asked if he thought the GOP might pivot a ...
  • Oppressed Christians and Second-Class Citizenship
    With all this talk of gay people marrying one another, some people on the right are starting to bleat about how they're being oppressed for their Christian beliefs—so oppressed, in fact, that they're starting to feel like "second-class citizens." Here's CBN's David Brody lamenting the sorrows o ...
  • Government Monopolies Even Liberals Can't Love
    In a post yesterday, I said that it would be absurd for the federal government to produce its own brand of cola, not because doing so would make us all less free, but because there's just no need. Well lo and behold, today I find out that the state of Pennsylvania, where I used to live, has its ...
  • Republicans Still Oppose Abortion and Same-Sex ...
    Here's a contrast: At the same time the Supreme Court held oral arguments on a case that could legalize same-sex marriage, North Dakota lawmakers passed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation. It's a sign, argues Sarah Kliff in The Washington Post, that the two have decoupled a ...
  • Dissecting Donglegate
    Flickr/Chuckumentary When is a dick joke not just a dick joke? That’s the question at the heart of what’s being called “Donglegate,” the latest tech-industry skirmish in the ongoing battle over the sector's rampant sexism. The answer: When it's scientifically proven to impair a woman's ...

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

  • DOJ Study: More Than 250,000 Hate Crimes a Yea ...
    More than 250,000 Americans over the age of 12 are victimized every year by hate criminals, according to a new government study that puts the number some 50,000 higher than the best earlier analyses. At the same time, the study found that in recent years only about one in three hate crimes are e ...
  • National Organization for Marriage has a rough ...
    Thousands of conservative culture warriors are gathering in Washington this morning for the “March for Marriage,” timed to coincide with today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, the 2008 voter referendum that banned same-sex marriage. Th ...
  • ‘Conservatives’ Who Gathered in Colorado a Dif ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — You might have thought that a conference with the title “Conservative Call to Action” (CCTA) would feature lots of talk of small government, of Ronald Reagan, of the need to defend traditional values and a capitalist economy. But that would be yesterday’s conservatives. ...
  • President of ‘Sovereign Citizens’ Group Convic ...
    A federal jury on Friday convicted James Timothy Turner, one of the nation’s most prominent antigovernment “sovereign citizens,” on 10 tax fraud charges stemming from seminars he held between 2007 and 2009 that purported to teach people how to tap into “secret” government accounts to pay their t ...
  • Slain White Supremacist Investigated in Murder ...
    Colorado officials this morning are investigating the possibility that a white supremacist reportedly killed by police after a Thursday shootout and chase in Texas murdered the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections earlier in the week, The Denver Post reports. Tom Clements, executive di ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Debate on Gay Marriage
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  • Sanders Bill Would Break Up Big Banks
    U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today he will introduce legislation to break up banks that have grown so big that the Justice Department has not pursued prosecutions for fear an indictment would harm the financial system.read more
  • Aaron Swartz’s Partner and Demand Progress Enc ...
    Digital activists nationwide are lining up in opposition to the new draft proposal of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) being discussed by the House Judiciary Committee. In just a few hours, more than 20,000 people have taken to Demand Progress’ website below to pledge their oppositi ...
  • Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Widow's Chall ...
    Attorneys for Edith "Edie" Windsor told the U.S. Supreme Court today that the Defense of Marriage Act unfairly forced Windsor to pay more than $363,000 in federal estate taxes after the death of her spouse, Thea Spyer, in violation of the equal protection principles guaranteed by the U ...
  • Activist Climbs Flagpole Outside LyondellBasel ...
    An activist with Tar Sands Blockade climbed a 50 foot flagpole in front of LyondellBasell's downtown Houston office this morning and hung a banner denouncing the corporation's plans to nearly triple its tar sands processing capacity at its Houston Refining facility in the Hispanic neighb ...

Common Dreams-Views

Water Privatization

  • Water concerns and privatization discussed
    About 60 concerned residents packed a small room at the Sierra Senior Center in Oakhurst last week to discuss the future of water in Eastern Madera County -- a meeting… Click to Continue »
  • Port privatization dead in the water
    Virginia Port Authority board votes down privatization The Virginia Port Authority board voted unanimously Tuesday to end negotiations that would have privatized the state's ocean terminals.
  • UPDATED: Board votes against privatization of ...
    Former Delegate William Fralin is at the center of the debate as Chairman of the Virginia Port Authority The Virginia Port Authority will not privatize most of its port operations.
  • Mayor renews call for water district privatization
    ILOILO City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog is reiterating the call for privatization of the city's sole water distributor Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) amid the current issue of severe water shortage in the city.
  • EYDAP to discuss reduction of water rates
    Athens Water Company (EYDAP) chief Stelios Stavridis will recommend slashing the commodity’s rates by 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent at an EYDAP board meeting this Thursday, as the man who has also been appointed to lead the state privatization fund (TAIPED) said on Friday.

Guardian

  • David Miliband 'feared being a distraction'
    Tony Blair says departure is 'time out, not time over' as Labour leader's brother spells out reasons for rejecting frontbench jobDavid Miliband quit British politics admitting he had wrestled long and very hard about an offer of a frontbench post, but sensed such a return would be so distracting ...
  • Russia raids human rights groups in crackdown ...
    Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are among foreign NGOs targetedGermany and France summoned Russian diplomats in Berlin and Paris on Wednesday, after Russia launched a series of raids on international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the country amid a wider crackdown on ...
  • Man who killed parents for £230,000 estate was ...
    Stephen Seddon is found guilty of murder after earlier trying to kill mother and father by driving car into canalA year ago, Stephen Seddon was hailed as a hero. The 46-year-old's face was splashed all over the media when he "saved" his parents after driving his car into a canal with them in the ...
  • Rolling Stones will headline Glastonbury 2013, ...
    Emily Eavis hails 'dream booking – about as big a coup as we ever thought possible' as other headline acts are announced Glastonbury lineup: find out who is playing this year Poll: who are you most looking forward to seeing?After months of rampant rumour and febrile speculation the organisers o ...
  • Cold weather to continue for a month, say fore ...
    UK braces for freezing Easter weekend, with temperatures expected to stay below average until end of AprilThe big chill gripping the UK will guarantee an uncharacteristically freezing Easter weekend and could last until the end of April, weather forecasters have warned.Temperatures are unlikely ...

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

  • Pakistan Says Afghanistan Overreacts to Cross- ...
    ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Wednesday criticized as an "overreactionrdquo; Afghanistan's decision to cancel a military trip over alleged cross-border shelling by Pakistani troops. Officials have also dismissed Kabul's allegations that Islamabad is not helping in efforts aimed at advancing the Afghan ...
  • Taliban shooting survivor Malala strikes publi ...
    Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old who survived being shot after standing up to the Taliban, is to tell her story "and the story of 61 million children who can't get education" in a ...
  • MoD names Afghan death soldier
    A British soldier from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment who died in Afghanistan on Tuesday has been named as L/Cpl Jamie Webb. He was serving in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand Province when he was injured in an attack by insurgents on Monday. In a statement the MoD said he had been flown to ...
  • Russia Seeks to Underpin Afghan Security After ...
    Russia wants to play a role in keeping Afghanistan stable after the withdrawal of most NATO combat troops by maintaining government military hardware on Afghan soil, a senior military official said Wednesday. In a meeting with foreign military attaches in Moscow, Sergei Koshelev underscored tha ...
  • Four children killed in Afghan-coalition opera ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and international special forces staged a night raid in the country's restive east, with police on Wednesday saying five civilians died in the operation, four of them children. While the defense ministry said there had been no civilian deaths in the overnight operat ...

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.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Thank you, Kevin Page
    March 22 was Kevin Page's last day as Parliamentary Budget Officer, and Ceasefire.ca would like to thank him for consistently demanding transparency from the Harper Government.
  • Drone strikes in Pakistan visualized
    Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a stunning interactive graphic by Pitch Interactive, shows all known drone strikes in Pakistan, beginning with the first strike recorded in 2004.
  • Missile defence 30 years after “Star War ...
    March 23rd marked the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's infamous "Star Wars" speech, which launched the United States on a new round of the long effort to build a unilateral technological defence against the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Thirty years and some $200 billion later, that dream ...
  • Canada should reject armed drones
    Is Mali the next opportunity to pitch an armed drone program as a contribution to both the French campaign there and the US-led war against al Qaeda in Western Africa?
  • Canada and the Iraq War: 10 years on
    Ten years ago the United States and its “Coalition of the Willing” invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, eliminate Iraq’s (non-existent) weapons of mass destruction, and remake the Middle East in the U.S. image. Canada declined to formally join the Coalition, but the Chrétien government's de ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Cop testifies during stop-and-frisk trial he t ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCop testifies during stop-and-frisk trial he taunted black teen: Stop crying like a little girl Raw StoryBy Stephen C. Webster   A New York police officer testified Wednesday that he taunted a 13-year-old African-Am ...
  • Law would fire sheriffs for defying gun contro ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPaul Bedard Washington Examiner March 27, 2013 Supporters of the 380 sheriffs in 15 states who so far have vowed to defy new state and federal gun control laws claim that legislation is starting to pop up around the nati ...
  • Iraq Executes 18; Nine More Killed in Attacks
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIraq Executes 18; Nine More Killed in Attacks – Wednesday: 9 Killed, 18 Executed, 37 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis Attacks left nine dead and 37 wounded. The Iraqi government announced that 18 men were execut ...
  • 21 Goals of the Illuminati and The Committee o ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com March 27, 2013 Public Enemy’s Professor Griff, Wednesday’s guest on the Alex Jones Show, reminded us of an excellent work by author and intelligence community historian Dr. John Coleman. An ...
  • Rep. Louis Gohmert ‘rude and irate’ in late-ni ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRep. Louis Gohmert rude and irate in late-night parking ticket squabble with police Raw StoryBy David Ferguson   Outspoken Tea Party Republican Rep. Louis Gohmert (TX) got into a late-night altercation with U.S. Par ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism by Fi ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV March 26, 2013 They are essentially dead men who just happen to breathe. That is the grim assessment of the legal representative for the inmates in the American concentration camp, otherwise known as Guantanamo Bay ...
  • What Jesus Said About Resurrection (reposted)
    Dandelion Salad Repost from May 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012 Day of Discovery Travel to Israel with Mart De Haan and hear from scholars and authorities in the field of New Testament studies as they explore Jesus’ claims and examine the evidence for his resurrection. In this 2-part DVD, you’ll see ...
  • Chris Hedges: Fascism USA–The Lie of Omi ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad March 26, 2013 RTAmerica·Mar 26, 2013 According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, MSNBC’s programming is nearly 85 percent opinion – and they might not be alone when it comes to this trend. According to author Chris Hedges, the mains ...
  • Ralph Nader: Income Inequality and The Minimum ...
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader MOXNEWSd0tC0M·Mar 25, 2013 March 25, 2013 C-SPAN see It’s time for a raise to $10.50 now! + Getting Congress to End Wage Slavery by Ralph Nader Unlivable Wages by Ralph Nader Chris Hedges: NDAA: All These Laws Are Being Put Through By Design Breaking the Chains o ...
  • Jerry Mander Connects the Dots Between Corpora ...
    Dandelion Salad kokotan·Mar 18, 2006 Jerry Mander, executive director of the International Forum on Globalization talks about the centralization of media and effect of advertisement. see The Day That TV News Died by Chris Hedges Exclusive: The Dangers of Technological Singularity by Rocket Kirch ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: One Star, Two St ...
    This pretty sprinkling of bright blue stars is the cluster NGC 2547, a group of recently formed stars in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This image was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope ...
  • Washington’s Exploding Manholes Explained?
    Researchers who mapped methane concentrations on the streets of the nation's capital found natural gas leaks everywhere, at concentrations of up to 50 times the normal background levels, they reported here last week at a meeting of the American Physical ...
  • Can the Ice Wall in Game of Thrones Survive Sc ...
    A massive wall of ice protects the Seven Kingdoms from the dangers of the wintry north in HBO's hit series Game of Thrones. But in the real world, an ice structure standing at half the height of the Empire State ...
  • Strange Biology Inspires the Best New Materials
    From the shiny, strong nacre that gives abalone shells an unbreakable, opaline sheen, to the goopy mix of proteins fired by a velvet worm that solidify and snare prey upon impact, nature is packed with inspiration for scientists designing new ...
  • Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are Most L ...
    Brain scans of convicted felons can predict which ones are most likely to get arrested after they get out of prison, scientists have found in a study of 96 male offenders.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Moshé Machover: Remembering Akiva (Aki) Orr
    Moshé Machover remembers his friend and comrade, Matzpen co-founder Akiva (Aki) Orr (19 June 1931 – 7 February 2013). The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Noam Chomsky: Violence and dignity – reflectio ...
    Professor Noam Chomsky, delivering the 2013 Edward W Said Lecture: Violence and Dignity - Reflections on the Middle East at Friends House in London on 18 March 2013. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...
  • Moshé Machover: Anti-war anniversary – party w ...
    We should never support a war undertaken by our own ruling classes. Often they are undertaken for domestic reasons. Kissinger said of Israel: it has no foreign policy, only domestic policy; and this... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • End the charitable status of JNF UK
    Since 1901 KKL-JNF, known as Jewish National Fund (JNF) in the UK, has worked successfully for the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine and their project has not been completed... Today sees a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Obama comes to bless Israel’s g ...
    The unspoken message of Obama’s visit is that the Netanyahu government is free to pursue its hardline agenda with little danger of anything more than symbolic protest from Washington. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its f ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Help Lead In ...
    Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, including Center Director Thomas A. Sellers, Ph.D., M.P.H., and 17 other co-authors, have discovered four new regions of the genome that influence the risk for developing ovarian cancer, according to two Moffitt-led studies published in the March 27 issue o ...
  • SU Expert Available on Proposition 8
  • Childhood Asthma Tied to Combination of Genes ...
    About 90% of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life developed asthma by age 6. They were nearly four times as likely to develop asthma as those who lacked the genetic variation and did not wheeze. The two risk factors are inte ...
  • GW School of Public Health and Health Services ...
    The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) will host a forum on April 5 to discuss the epidemic of gun violence, which now claims an estimated 30,000 people in the United States every year. SPHHS has assembled an interdisciplinary panel of experts on gun ...
  • ASU, Tribal and State Environmental Agencies A ...
    An extensive joint research project among two American Indian tribes in Arizona, the American Indian Policy Institute, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University and state environmental agencies to examine air toxics in the Phoenix Metropolitan area has received a natio ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Posner and Sykes Book Symposium: Comments by S ...
    by Steve Charnovitz by Steve Charnovitz [Steve Charnovitz is Associate Professor of Law at GW Law] Economic Foundations of International Law is an introduction to and reference work on the economic approach to analyzing and understanding international law. The book seeks to summarize and highl ...
  • Summary Conclusions of the Roundtable on the F ...
    by James Hathaway by James Hathaway [James Hathaway is the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and the Director, Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan Law School] Finally, a break-through on the conundrum of Refugee Convention supervision!  The UN Refugee Con ...
  • Cybersecurity at the WTO
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Stewart Baker over at Volokh has a couple of interesting posts here and here on the new cybersecurity legislation that bars federal government purchases of IT equipment “produced, manufactured or assembled” by entities “owned, directed, or subsidized by the Peop ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey At the Arab League summit yesterday, a member of the opposition to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad took his vacant seat, a move that was met with applause from Arab heads of state.  The BRICS have reached a deal approving a development bank that woul ...
  • Game On! ITLoS President Appoints Second Arbit ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Just in case there was any doubt, the Philippines-China arbitration over the South China Sea will go forward.  International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea President Shunji Yanai has appointed a second arbitrator. The [Philippines] Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ...

Public News Service

  • Land Lines – Endangered Phone Species?
    Land Lines – Endangered Phone Species? PHOENIX - Millions of consumers have canceled their old land-line telephone service and replaced it with wireless phones. But many seniors and people who live in rural areas still depend on land lines. Consumer watchdogs are making sure they don't los ...
  • Arizona’s Government Transparency Grade ...
    Arizona’s Government Transparency Grade Slips Slightly PHOENIX - Arizona's state government transparency grade has dropped from an "A-minus" last year to a "B" this year, according to the latest "Following the Money" report from the Arizona PIRG Education Fund. Byron Schlomach of the Phoe ...
  • Report Finds New Kinds of Tobacco Lure AZ Kids
    Report Finds New Kinds of Tobacco Lure AZ Kids PHOENIX, Ariz. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than one in six Arizona teens either smoke or chew tobacco products. A new report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids shows how new products are reaching young peopl ...
  • Babies at Work? More Moms on the Job With Thei ...
    Babies at Work? More Moms on the Job With Their Newborns PHOENIX - The face of the workplace in America has been evolving for decades, and so have employers' policies around families, but some say they don't go far enough. Joan Blades, co-founder and president of "Momsrising,"' said her organiz ...
  • Ruling Expected Soon on Latest AZ Effort to Re ...
    Ruling Expected Soon on Latest AZ Effort to Restrict Abortions PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona is expected to find out soon if a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy will be upheld by a federal appeals court. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the law enacted last year from taking effect ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Putin says Russia could restructure Cyprus loan
    Putin says Russia could restructure Cyprus loan (via AFP)
  • Cyprus parliament investigates capital flight. ...
    Billions left Cyprus banks in the week before the Eurothugs swooped down to grab all that tasty Russian money. But instead, they discovered much of it was gone. Much of the money was withdrawn from overseas, where Cyprus had no authority. Branches of Cypriot banks in non-euro-zone countries suc ...
  • Autonomous maneuvers by drones; perching, flyi ...
    Keep in mind when viewing the video that the drones are flying independent of outside control. More at ’3 videos of drone research that may freak you out‘ The videos are from The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. The ...
  • Data portability – web castles made of sand go ...
    What happens when a Google Reader or Posterous shut down, stranding users who have have enormous amounts of time as well as much time invested in them? Techcrunch explores this, saying we need to insure data portability for our cloud-based data. Users who fawned over an app’s creation, contribu ...
  • Water wars – Georgia vs Tennessee
    The water wars aren’t just in the American West. Georgia is trying to grab water from Tennessee by changing their border so it would include a tiny sliver of the Tennessee River. The Georgia Senate has passed a resolution that would move the state’s border with Tennessee in order to ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Government Should Get Out of the Marriage Business
    On August 4, 2011, by Daniel Brackins Bastiat Institute There has been continued talk over same sex marriage that has sparked debate from both sides of the aisle. One side insists that marriage is an institution that must be protected by the government, while the other believes that same sex cou ...
  • Microsoft, Too, Says FBI Secretly Surveilling ...
      WIRED A breakdown of the number of National Security Letters the FBI has issued to Microsoft targeted accounts (“identifiers”) for user data. Source: Microsoft Microsoft said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is secretly spying on its customers with so-called National Security Letters t ...
  • ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ slips si ...
    RT The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week – including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks. The rider, which is officially known as the Farmer ...
  • TSA Airport Screening Lawsuit Nears Court Date ...
    NEW YORK — A lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration over its airport security procedures is heading to a court hearing next week, following a Friday order in the case that could give the government extra headaches. Two Harvard law students brought the suit in 2010, argu ...
  • Developer tears down further stretch of Berlin ...
    AFP – A property developer removed more of the Berlin Wall Wednesday, police said, in a surprise dawn move amid a bitter running protest over the dismantling of the once-detested Cold War division. Four segments were removed from around 5:00 am local time (0400 GMT) from the Wall’s l ...

The Air Vent

  • Cryosphere at the Air Vent
    All data provided by NSIDC gridded satellite. Compilation by me so errors are mine.  All Y axis units Km^2. The Antarctic had the second highest sea ice area minimum summer level in 35 years while the Arctic set a record lowest sea ice area minimum this year. Arctic Minimum Arctic Maximium Antar ...
  • Priceless Entertainment from SKS
    John Cook continued his path of self destruction at “Skeptical Science”.   I’ve often wondered if the blog title was meant as a sarcasm.  Today, we know neither word can apply accurately to their work in any other sense.  When others noticed that Richard Betts of the met office ...
  • Lewandowsky – Strike Three!! What a riot!
    H/T Reader Skiphil again… Update: Barry Woods or Geoff Chambers seem to have found the quote. So the good docktor finally got his contribution to scientific understanding past the rigorous peer review of Frontiers of Psychology.   I have to say, I’m actually pleased with his improved ...
  • Real Dangers of Dissent
    Well folks, some of you were wondering why nobody touched the publication of that CG3 password, I have been contacted by a UEA law firm regarding the recently released Climategate password.  Some even asked for FOIA to come clean as to their identity.   I have pointed out repeatedly that an angr ...
  • Loser of the Month — That’s all ...
    I have been enjoying climate blogs recently again.   Joe Romm provided a bit of entertainment on March 8 with his delightfully uncritical eye to the new Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix hockeystick.   The paper, which unfortunately was the wishful extension of a thesis (some pun intended), that wa ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook advertisers can now reach users in Ne ...
    Facebook has given advertisers new opportunities to run more relevant ads and test their creative in News Feed by allowing them to create “unpublished posts” that intentionally do not appear to all fans of their page....
  • Facebook reveals new growth stats; 20 percent ...
    This is a crosspost from sister site InsideSocialGames. Today at the Game Developers Conference, Facebook revealed new statistics, features and a Game Center for developers. According to Facebook, more than 250 million people are playing games on the...
  • Facebook Exchange ads being tested in desktop ...
    Facebook has launched a small test to introduce Facebook Exchange Ads in its News Feed on desktop. The company has announced this through its Facebook Studio blog. The company will be working with a small group of...
  • Facebook shares new documentation for local cu ...
    Facebook today provided updates regarding its transition from Credits to local currency pricing. The company offered new documentation for game developers and announced that migration will occur in Q3 this year. Facebook decided to phase out Credits...
  • Publishers can now see Graph Search keywords t ...
    Facebook has begun passing keyword data to websites that receive referral traffic from search queries that originate on the social network, allowing sites to more accurately track where visitors are coming from. With the launch of...

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

  • Gas Industry Report Calls Anti-Fracking Moveme ...
    Communities working to stop a controversial gas drilling process are getting what sounds like encouragement from an unlikely source: a report prepared for the oil and gas industry on the risks posed by those communities themselves. Even more bizarre than a risk assessment about grassroots activi ...
  • Our Declining Patriotism
    We need to keep out ideals to remain the world leader and secure the patriotism of our citizens
  • Bradley Manning's Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
    No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness of militarism" than Bradley Manning. The United States is the leading exporter of weapons and itself spends as much preparing for more wars as the rest of the world combined. Manning is the leading a ...
  • Concerning Approval Ratings, Who's worse, Demo ...
    What's really behind their facade? Money, that's what hides the real people we vote for or against.
  • Syria Peace Process: The Ten Year (Shock and A ...
    In early March the proverbial "US official" leaked that the CIA has been training "rebels" in Jordan since 2012. The notion that the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department are successfully "vetting" militias in Jordan and Turkey and only supporting "friendly" incarnations of "freedom fighter ...

Switchboard

  • Smart Advice: President's Science Advisors Det ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has released a six-point plan in a letter to President Obama responding to his request for input on h ...
  • Gone Fishin'
    Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California I love to fish. I caught my first trout on the Housatonic River in Connecticut, where my grandmother used to live. My father took me to Alaska for the Coho salmon run when ...
  • New EPA Survey Underscores Need to Release Cle ...
    Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago EPA released the results of a comprehensive survey yesterday that shows that more than half – 55 percent – of our nation’s streams and rivers are in poor condition.   More than ...
  • NRDC reveals failed safeguards for pesticides ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. The public may think pesticides are only allowed onto store shelves and for use in agriculture if they have been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a transparent and scient ...
  • FERC Affirms Role of Environmental Policies in ...
    Allison Clements, Senior Attorney, Project for Sustainable FERC Energy Policy, New York By Allison Clements and John Moore, Sustainable FERC Project Last Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued three big orders on regional Or ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Digital Sharecropping
    Jonathan Rees on how MOOCs allow egocentric professors to drive others out of business while producing lower quality education and the corporate profits that drive the whole thing. In other words, while a few already well-paid superprofessors get their egos stroked conducting experiments that ar ...
  • A Rare Victory Against the War (On Some Classe ...
    It obviously won’t get as much attention as yesterday’s oral argument, but as I note at the Prospect there was a major Fourth Amendment ruling yesterday. The fact that it involved marijuana generally makes one fear the worst, but since it involved a property trespass Scalia and Thoma ...
  • The Prop 8 Arguments
    I don’t have much to add to the consensus of Pierce, Denniston, Millhiser, Liptak and Serwer.  On  the merits, the case for upholding Prop 8 looked as stunningly weak as it is.   In terms of the Politburo watching, Kennedy seems unlikely to vote for a national right of same-sex marriage bu ...
  • On Rand Paul And Diversity
    I had a couple of points I wanted to make in response to this. First, with respect to the narrow issue at hand, there’s not a great deal to say because I don’t think there’s any engagement with my argument, and our disagreement is much more narrow than Glenn seems to assume. Fo ...
  • It’s as if millions of debate coaches su ...
    I’m just a teacher of argument, not a lawyer, so I’m only going to address the merits of these arguments on their merits, not their legal standing. To begin: JUSTICE KAGAN: Mr. Cooper, could I just understand your argument. In reading the briefs, it seems as though your principal arg ...

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.

  • Fee award overturned in infringement case
    A federal appeals court reversed a $6.6 million attorney fee award for two companies sued by anti-shoplifting tag maker Checkpoint Systems Inc.
  • Federal Circuit threatens sanctions over V.A.' ...
    Citing "broken promises" and calling the government's conduct not an "isolated mistake," a federal appeals court in Washington has threatened to sanction the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in a dispute over a rule change that limited veterans' rights.
  • Ex-Nixon Peabody partner's co-defendant draws ...
    The sentencing of a Beverly Hills, Calif., businessman who admitted his role in a $20 million Ponzi scheme might bode ill for his alleged co-conspirator, former Nixon Peabody securities partner David Tamman.
  • Appeal court rejects would-be law professor's ...
    An intermediate appellate court has affirmed dismissal of an age discrimination suit against the University of Baltimore School of Law, marking the latest legal loss for Michigan immigration attorney Donald Dobkin.
  • Snow fails to deter marriage argument hopefuls
    A snowy Monday morning failed to deter nearly 200 hopefuls in line for seats at the U.S. Supreme Court's historic arguments on same-sex marriage.

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

  • Natural Gas Extraction Triggering More Earthqu ...
    Extraction of natural gas from the deep soil in a region of the Netherlands has triggered an increase in minor earthquakes, similar to seismic effects that have raised concerns about drilling operations, including hydraulic fracturing, in other countries. While the extraction of gas has occurred ...
  • China’s Utility Giants Vulnerable to Water Sca ...
    China’s five largest power utilities, which depend on water-intensive, coal-fired stations to generate electricity, are vulnerable to water supply disruptions because they are centered in the country’s water-scarce northern regions, a new report says. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, t ...
  • Peach Genome Offers Hints for Better Biofuel P ...
    A long-term genomic analysis of the common peach has revealed important insights into how scientists can improve the biofuel potential of other plant species, including the fast-growing poplar tree, a new study says. Wikimedia Commons Three years after a team of scientists first released a draf ...
  • The Scientist as Guardian: A Tool for Protecti ...
    An expanding body of evidence shows that the presence of field biologists and their assistants is playing an important part in deterring poaching, illegal logging, and other destructive activities in the world’s parks and wildlife reserves. BY WILLIAM LAURANCE
  • Expansion of City in Western China Poses Envir ...
    An ambitious plan to expand the western Chinese city of Lanzhou into a regional industrial hub is raising concerns over what critics call lax government oversight of the environmental and safety impacts, including worries that it will siphon huge amounts of water from an already parched region a ...

Red Ice Creations

  • What Caused Russian Asteroid To Disintigrate B ...
    If you are incredulous that a 10,000 ton asteroid could be rendered to dust before impact with the ground, you are not alone. David Talbott of The Thunderbolts Project delivers a scholarly narration on the huge meteor that entered Earth’s atmosphere over Cherlyabinsk, Russia on 2/15/2013. Origin ...
  • The EU’s ’Community Method’ is the Modern Face ...
    What’s the difference between Fascism, Communism and the ’Community Method’? Godfrey Bloom MEP Tune into Red Ice Radio: Niki Raapana - The Anti Communitarian League G. Edward Griffin - The Collectivist Conspiracy Alan Watt - Future Studies & Collectivism Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - The Ven ...
  • A run on the Federal Reserve (Texas wants its ...
    We are seeing a slow motion run on the Federal Reserve. Around the world faith in the dollar is on the wain and sovereign governments are becoming more concerned with the whereabouts of their ultimate store of wealth, gold. During the cold war many governments sought the perceived safety of of s ...
  • Scientists reprogram body’s own cells to kill ...
    In a pair of papers published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, researchers from two separate Japanese universities have successfully used a new technique to reprogram the body’s own immune cells to seek out and destroy cancer cells and HIV. The researchers hope that this technique can be developed ...
  • Emails link Tony Blair to top-secret Bohemian ...
    Attending the elusive Bohemian Grove retreat should be a priority for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, News Corp executive Andrew Knight allegedly writes in an email to US Gen. Colin Powell obtained by RT. The mysterious computer hacker known only as Guccifer has once again supplied RT with ...

Wind Watch

  • Huge wind turbine blown down near Ardara
    A technical examination is to resume this morning (Monday) after a huge 245-foot high wind turbine came crashing down during heavy winds near Ardara at the weekend. Dramatic pictures taken in the aftermath of Thursday evening’s incident on the windfarm at Loughderryduff, near Mass, Portnoo show ...
  • Residents seek ironclad guarantee; Illinois mo ...
    The moment of high drama at Wednesday’s wind farm showdown in Tipton County came in the form of a question. “Can you tell all of these people,” Tipton County Board of Zoning Appeals member Neil Planalp demanded, “that their property values will not decrease?” When the representative for juwi Win ...
  • Farmers fear ill wind in expansion of turbine plan
    An explosion of proposed wind farms near Canberra and their divisive nature have turned communities against them, the Liberal candidate for Hume claims. Angus Taylor said neighbouring farmers were terrified their land values will plunge 30 per cent. Hume, which covers from Cowra in the north, ac ...
  • Renewed push at State House for a moratorium o ...
    In both the House and the Senate, legislators are making a new push for a statewide moratorium on wind farms – including one proposal that would also block projects like the Northern Pass. “All of the people in the Legislature have realized their constituents, especially north of Concord, are co ...
  • Group opposing Cherokee County wind farms gath ...
    LEESBURG, Alabama — Shannon Mackey says if Cherokee County gets wind farms, as is anticipated, he will see them from his property. “They’re just huge monstrosities,” Mackey said. “There’s a lot of good reasons to oppose them.” Mackey is a member of Save ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • South's rivers and streams in poor condition, ...
    The first comprehensive assessment of the health of the nation's rivers and streams finds that many in the Southern Appalachians and Coastal Plain are unable to sustain life. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The South's long resistance t ...
    Should the Supreme Court strike down bans on same-sex marriage, it would bring big changes across the South, where all states limit marriage rights to heterosexual couples -- and it wouldn't be the first time it took a high court ruling to change the region's marriage laws. read more
  • Will North Carolina strike illegal voter liter ...
    A provision of the North Carolina constitution designed to suppress the black vote is no longer enforceable under the Voting Rights Act, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to give voters a second chance to remove it. read more
  • Drilling deeper: The wealth of business connec ...
    MIT physicist Ernest Moniz is an academic who has also served on boards or advisory councils of large energy companies, including BP. read more
  • VOICES: Competing federal budget plans offer a ...
    The U.S. House and Senate are advancing very different plans for the 2014 federal budget. One represents a balanced approach that includes new revenues, while the other gives tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and cuts public investments that help the most vulnerable. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
    1) Almost everything you have more than someone else is because of where you were born, and who your parents were, including your genetic endowment and your life experiences.  Whether you believe in nature, nurture, or both, you don’t “deserve” squat. 2) Justification for havin ...
  • Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
    1) Almost everything you have more than someone else is because of where you were born, and who your parents were, including your genetic endowment and your life experiences.  Whether you believe in nature, nurture, or both, you don’t “deserve” squat. 2) Justification for havin ...
  • Overruling NYC’s Ban on Large Sodas
    A judge has overruled this.  I’m not a lawyer, so I won’t comment on the legality, what I will say is that in this case, I actually support Bloomberg.  High doses of sugar and fructose contribute to obesity and the diabetes epidemic: they kill a lot of people.  A lot more people than ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Supreme Court wary of broad gay marriage ruling
    Reuters – The Supreme Court signaled reluctance on Tuesday to rule broadly on the question of the right to marriage for gays and lesbians as the justices heard arguments on same-sex marriage for the first time. As thousands of demonstrators on both sides of America’s long-standing ga ...
  • Man gets 30 months in prison for shining laser ...
    BBC – A 19-year-old California man has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for shining a laser pointer at two aircraft. In March 2012 Adam Gardenhire aimed a green laser pen at a business jet and then shone it at a Pasadena police helicopter sent to find the source. He is the ...
  • U disputes claim of ‘rubber-stamping&#82 ...
    Star Tribune – University of Minnesota officials have investigated a concern raised by a bioethics professor — that U psychiatrists might have “rubber-stamped” vulnerable schizophrenic patients into drug studies — and concluded it is “completely false.” In a blog last month, professor Carl ...
  • EU backs Croatia to join in July as 28th membe ...
    BBC – The European Commission has given Croatia the green light to join the EU on 1 July as the 28th member state. Read article
  • TV time ‘does not breed badly behaved ch ...
    BBC – Spending hours watching TV or playing computer games each day does not harm young children’s social development, say experts. The Medical Research Council (MRC) team who studied more than 11,000 primary school pupils says it is wrong to link bad behaviour to TV viewing. Althoug ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Abu Dhabi solar plant key to energy security
    Shams 1 uses 258,048 parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and concentrate it onto oil that flows through a tubing at the center of the curved mirrors. This heated oil makes its way into a h ...
  • Social Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders, & Emer ...
    If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need disruptive innovations that fundamentally alter the broken systems that continue to build out inequitable, fossil fueled so ...
  • New crowdsourcing platform gives hope to small ...
    Less than 24 hours after launching its online marketplace, Mosaic raised $313,000 to power read more
  • “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
    Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...
  • India’s solar mission, phase 2
    An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...

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libcom

  • National demo against privatisation - Universi ...
    Sussex House.jpg Monday March 25th is the national demonstration against privatisation being held at the University of Sussex. We'll edit this post with updates throughout the day. Also keep an e ...
  • Appeal for boycotting World Social Forum 2013 ...
    http://appelsm.wordpress.com/call/english/ Quote: Call World Social The people want the fall of the system Download the call here / pdf Revolutionaries of the world, read more
  • 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. ...

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

  • Apotheosis – Man Becoming God – Th ...
    Apotheosis is a Greek word literally meaning man becoming a God THROUGH HIS WORKS.   This is the ultimate end goal of the Gnostic secret societies since the days of Adam.   Gnosticism literally means secret knowledge.  Why has this knowledge been so “secret” and hidden for thousands ...
  • Why Mormonism (LDS Inc.) is a Satanic Masquera ...
    I had to laugh at today’s Salt Lake Tribune front-page story.  The entire article pointed an accusatory, holier-than-thou  finger at the FLDS (Fundamentalist LDS) “Big Brethren” spycams positioned pretty much everywhere in the twin FLDS enclave towns of Hilldale and Colorado Ci ...
  • The God of This World – (The God of Morm ...
    The author’s name is John Bertrand (J.B.) Phillips, and his seminal book is titled: “Your God is Too Small”.   It was written and first published in the year 1953 – but Phillips’ words and message are never more relevant and meaningful than they are today.   TRUTH i ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Son of Casino Jack Runs for Pres at Santa Moni ...
      Kevin Spacey as Casino Jack Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 1 about a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa Monica College. While this might seem incredibly trivial, this is precisely how his father Jack Abra ...
  • Is Obama Preparing for Martial Law?
    Is Obama preparing for martial law? All the signs say yes. Many prominent market analysts predict the US economy will collapse some time in 2013. They fully believe Americans will wake up one morning and learn the government has closed all the banks, as they have in Cyprus. When this happ ...
  • Passive Revolution: the Technical Term for Min ...
    Guest post by Dr George Wright (This is Part 3 of a 3-part three part on the systematic privatization of community colleges, paralleling efforts by Bush, Obama and Wall Street neoliberals to privatize US elementary and high schools.) Why the ACCJC (Accrediting Commission for ...
  • Privatizing California's Community Colleges - ...
    Guest post by Dr George Wright (This is Part 2 of a 3-part three part on the systematic privatization of community colleges, paralleling efforts by Bush, Obama and Wall Street neoliberals to privatize US elementary and high schools.) Background to the ACCJC’s  (Accredi ...
  • 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. ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...
  • Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun V ...
    These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Pane ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Protesting Keystone XL While Rome Burns
    I started to go with “Fiddling While Rome Burns” in the title, but I know many people who would take great exception to the notion the Keystone XL protesters are fiddling. Indeed, they do not believe they are fiddling. They believe they are standing up for the most important cause of ...
  • First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in U ...
    It will continue to be true that as long as the US government incentivizes these ventures, companies will continue to pursue them. But it is also true, says Robert Rapier, that every gallon of production they make will be produced at a significant per gallon loss.
  • Why Environmentalists are Wrong on Keystone XL
    Bill McKibben and and other protestors are being naive in choosing this particular battle. They won't make any meaningful impact on climate change even if they manage to stop Keystone XL. The reason that is important is that they could be channeling their energy into things that could potentiall ...
  • How Oil Can Improve Our Long Term Energy Situation
    Environmentalists are generally opposed to opening up areas to additional drilling, while on the other side are people who believe that underneath U.S. territory lies an ocean of oil, waiting to be tapped -- if environmentalists would only get out of the way.
  • Exclusive: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress B ...
    A member of the Department of Strategy at the USAF Air War College takes on the Navy's biofuels program and the Great Green Fleet with a scathing report being sent to Congress and the nation's top military leaders.

Discovery Educator Network

  • Education Futures | The Education Futures time ...
    Comments:The Education Futures timeline of education 1657 - 2045 - Jackie GersteinTags: educationby: Jackie Gerstein
  • QRPhoria.com - Home
    Comments:Make unique looking QR Codes - Dennis GriceTags: QR, qr codes, generatorby: Dennis Grice
  • This Exquisite Forest
    Comments:An online art project developed by Google, this site is a place for digital storytelling through pictures, not words. Students can work collaboratively to create a short animated story, with each animation building off the previous branches. Students can create their own seeds & invite ...
  • Silk
    Comments:Have students to create visual works of art online. Silk is an interactive site where students can drag their mouse around on the page to create beautiful weaving & whirling designs. Drawing lines on the screen will add color to the moving art, & by speeding up or slowing down their mov ...
  • Stormboard - Online Brainstorming and Planning ...
    Tags: brainstorming, collaboration, mindmappingby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Antibiotics on Apples? Really?
    If you saw a sign for antibiotic-free apples at your grocery store, you’d probably do a double take, right? The fact is, though, that the antibiotics tetracycline and streptomycin are used in both conventional and organic apple and pear orchards to control a devastating infection called fire bl ...
  • Avoid This Dangerous Household Chemical Combo
    Humans don't live in a vacuum. We encounter dozens of chemicals every day, and even though there's a ton of new research coming out about what those individual chemicals are doing to us, there's very little known about how those chemicals are interacting with each other—and what those combinati ...
  • 5 Signs of a Baby-Friendly Hotel
    Congratulations, new parents, on your bundle of joy. Your life has completely changed, you’ve never been as tired in your life—and you definitely could use some R & R. What might surprise you is that these first few months before your baby starts to crawl is a magical window for your first ...
  • Relearn How to Walk
    If the longer days and spring air have you itching to walk to work or just to get outside more, here are two things that will undoubtedly make your walks more enjoyable: Look both ways before you cross the street, and please—put the phone in your pocket when you cross a busy intersection! The ...
  • Who's Protecting You from Unhealthy Fish?
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appears poised to approve genetically engineered salmon, the first man-made animal sold for human consumption, any day now. The fish has already passed the approval of President Obama's Office of Management and Budget and is undergoing one last public ...

big think

  • The Red Equal Sign: How The Modern Family is E ...
    If you went on Facebook yesterday, it may have appeared that everyone's profile had suddenly gotten hacked. Your timeline was probably awash in a sea of red equal signs or some variation thereof. What was this wildly viral meme? It was a powerful social media charge organized by the Human Rights ...
  • Will Drones Over Manhattan Lead to Privacy Spe ...
    In a radio interview last week, controversial New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg all but conceded that unmanned NYPD spy drones would one day be flying overhead in Manhattan. It's a "scary" concept, he said, but part of a broader societal and technological shift from "privacy" to "visibility" ...
  • It's 2050. Do You Know Where Your Wine Comes From?
    What's the Latest Development? With the predicted 1-2 degree rise in global temperatures and a corresponding increase in extreme weather events, climatologists are working with experts in the wine industry to figure out what will happen in the next few decades and what kinds of adjustmen ...
  • Koons on the Freeway: What's Wrong with this P ...
    We spend 80 million hours a day watching videos on YouTube, and we would certainly like to have a few of those hours back. That is, of course, if we are using YouTube purely as a distraction, as opposed to a powerful way to share ideas.  "The reason online video is so significant is that ...
  • Mind Memes for March 27: A Computational Heart ...
    1. The Bill Gates Condom The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will award a $100,000 grant to the person who invents a next-generation condom that "significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use." Read more here.  2. A Computation ...

Information Liberation

  • Riding Dirt Bike Without Helmet Or Plates Lead ...
    Awful police story out of New York, reported by CBS New York on Friday: The trial of a*man involved in a deadly police chase in the Bronx last August*will get underway Monday. Police said Adalberto Gonzalez*was driving a dirt bike the wrong way...
  • US Supreme Court Limits Front Door Drug Dog Sniffs
    The US Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a drug dog's sniff of a residence's front door is search under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment and that police must therefore obtain a search warrant before unleashing the hounds. The case was Florida v. Ja...
  • Invest in Gold or Your Bank Account Could Be ' ...
    Stocks continued mostly going up last week. Gold bounced up and down* but held above $1,600. Most people would much rather have stocks than gold. Most of the time, they are probably right. Gold pays no dividends. Nor does it invent new things or o...
  • Why the Awlakis Were Killed
    While President Obama, the Pentagon, and the CIA have steadfastly refused to say why they assassinated American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, one thing remains beyond dispute: It wasn't because Awlaki was trying to take away the freedom of the American pe...
  • Repeal the "War on Terror"
    When Congress approved the post-911 *Authorization for Use of Military Force* on September 14, 2001, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California was the only member of the House to vote against it. In her address on the House floor explaining ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →
  • The Thirty-Second Version
    That’s all the time I’ve got to compose this post… Sorry about the absence, but you all know why. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this with you, courtesy of Zero Hedge and the blogger known as Gannicus. Learned … Continue reading →
  • Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
    Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 38 things you might not know about the Moon
    #18 It may seem obvious, but art does not always capture the true appearance of the Moon: where it is in the sky always tells you where the Sun is. You will never see a crescent Moon looking like an open parachute: if the crescent is on its side, the "horns" will point upwards, indicatin ...
  • Can drinking green tea or coffee cut stroke risk?
    Probably not. A recent study from Japan was much hyped in the media earlier this week but as NHS Choices points out, the researchers themselves offered a number of limitations to their study: The information on illness, green tea and coffee consumption was all self-reported, which introduces the ...
  • Whatever happened to acid rain?
    There’s a cute video montage currently doing the rounds in which a re-working of the Billy Joel song “We didn’t start the fire” reminisces about growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s and cites the countless games, toys, TV shows and other cultural references we had during ...
  • Ante-papal smoke signals
    Philip Ball, writing on the BBC Future site discusses the carcinogens and poisons pumped into the Roman air every time the cardinals vote on a new Pope… But, he also reckons the The Vatican is missing a trick by being unimaginatively monochrome. “Why stop at a mere two-colour signall ...
  • Animated rock art
    Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life. PITOTI is an innovative research project that applies insights from the new technologies of computer graphics to prehistoric pictures, specifically ...

RFF Library

  • Lowering the Price of Russian Gas: A Challenge ...
    The Atlantic Council / by Adnan Vatansever and David Koranyi http://www.acus.org/files/publication_pdfs/403/eef130326russiangasprice.pdf [Oil and Gas Journal] Changing global natural gas markets may compel Russia’s state gas company Gazprom to dramatically change, two Washington observers sugges ...
  • Renewable Energies in the Middle East and Nort ...
    OECD (This report is available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary; if prompted for a password, look on the library’s landing page, upper left side — for others, it is available for sale here: http://www.oecd.org/daf/psd/renewable-energies-mena-2013.htm) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/cont ...
  • The Price of Oil – Will it Start Rising Again?
    OECD / by Jean-Marc Fournier, Isabell Koske, Isabelle Wanner, Vera Zipperer http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/the-price-of-oil-will-it-start-rising-again_5k49q186vxnp-en Following a sharp drop amidst the global economic crisis and a subsequent recovery, the spot price of crude oil has been ...
  • National Rivers and Streams Assessment: a Coll ...
    US EPA http://1.usa.gov/YG8IQT National Aquatic Resource Survey site: http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/monitoring/aquaticsurvey_index.cfm [EPA Press Release email] Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the results of the first comprehensive survey looking at the health of ...
  • New Trans-Arctic Shipping Routes Navigable by ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 26, 2013 v110 n13 pE1191-E1195; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1214212110) / by Laurence C. Smith and Scott R. Stephenson http://www.pnas.org/content/110/13/E1191.short Recent historic observed lows in Arctic sea ice extent, together with climate model p ...

Scientific American - News

  • An Arbitrary Number of Years Since Mathematici ...
    I take issue with the celebration of Paul Erd s’ 100 th birthday. [More]
  • Efforts to Resuscitate Extinct Species May Spa ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C.--A bird that once darkened the skies of the 19th-century U.S. no longer exists, except as well-preserved museum specimens bearing bits of DNA. An ambitious new effort aims to use the latest techniques of genetic manipulation to bring the passenger pigeon back , as North Dakotan ...
  • How the Higgs Boson Might Spell Doom for the U ...
    Physicists confirmed last week that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva, had indeed found a Higgs boson last July, marking a culmination of one of the longest and most expensive searches in science. The finding also means that our universe could be ...
  • Getting the Big Picture: BMC Ecology Image Com ...
    Bright green doesn’t seem like the best choice for camouflage. But the image of a vibrant green stick insect, Timema poppensis, perched almost invisibly atop the matching leaves of its host, a coast redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens ), provides visual support to the idea that color is a key ...
  • Quick-Change Planet: Do Global Climate Tipping ...
    Is there a chance that human intervention --rising temperatures, massive land-use changes, biodiversity loss and so on--could “tip” the entire world into a new climatic state? And if so, does that change what we should do about it? [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Ligne 9 : Les sables bitumineux arrivent en On ...
    Média Recherche Action a présenté lors du Cabaret anticolonialiste du 16 mars 2013, dans le cadre du Festival HORS-CADRE, la traduction du film "Line 9: The Tar Sands Come to Ontario" de Rachel Deutsch. La Ligne 9 a été co ...
  • Barrick Gold CEO Jamie Sokalsky gets called ou ...
    Once a year, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) throws the world's largest mining convention in downtown Toronto. This year, the convention fe ...
  • Halifax Police Crack Down On Medical Marijuana ...
    Licensed members unsure where to turn for legal cannabis ...
  • Reality tv immigration raid: interview with Ma ...
    Analysis on the distorted reality There is detailed background before the interview.  Here are a few summary notes: On Wednesday, March 13th Canada Border Services Agency – Canada's armed immigration / border police – ...
  • Defending the Brand
    A Case Study in Counterspin   Introduction This case study is rife with contradictions. The upfront contradiction is the inadvisability of doing anything to call any more atten ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Obama's triumphal entry into Jerusalem... yada ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe US is hoping that Obama's positive first trip will reinvigorate peace efforts, though most settlers are not worried. They see the composition of the new Israeli cabinet as a reassurance that Israeli policy will move away from peace negotiations. Christian Science Mon ...
  • America's central question
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking on ...
  • What is the new Pope about?
    David Seaton's News Links His Holiness Pope FrancisFrancis is no liberal. He had no truck with liberation theology, the popular movement in Latin America and elsewhere which links the church’s work to radical social change, even though many of its supporters have been Jesuits. Not Francis: he ...
  • Whither post-Chávez Venezuela
    To put the entire subject of Venezuela into perspective from a yanqui point of view, I suggest reading the following snippet by Matthew Yglesias.The late Hugo Chavez is controversial because of American aspirations to global military hegemony. People who vocally oppose those aspirations find t ...
  • On the death of Hugo Chávez
    A little old lady interviewed by El País in a mourning crowd of Venezuelans gave the most insightful analysis of Hugo Chávez and his probable legacy: "He gave us an identity!". Latin America is filled with people like that old lady, they are the overwhelming majority: poor, brown, left ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Housekeeping Note
    I'm a little under the weather this morning. Sorry. Back later.
  • The Iraq War and American Politics, Take 2
    A couple of days ago, Ross Douthat wrote a column arguing that the Iraq War had a transformational effect on American politics. I argued back that in the Obama Era, our foreign policy has changed little, while our domestic policy has changed a lot: To believe that Iraq was responsible fo ...
  • I Am Stumped By This Music Review
    In the LA Times today, classical music critic Mark Swed reviewed Yuja Wang's performance of Scriabin's Sixth Sonata. He says Wang played it for "beauty and thrills": But she also raced through the sonata, treating it as something to be so fully mastered that it might lose its power to co ...
  • New Adventures in Book Blurbing
    Via Twitter, William Kramer points out something funny. Here's a review of Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig's The Bankers' New Clothes excerpted by Amazon: Maybe regulators will finally listen to Admati and Hellwig after the next financial crisis. (Kevin Drum MotherJones.com) I'm perf ...
  • Even Republicans Now Support Gay Marriage (Exc ...
    Greg Sargent reads the latest polls on same-sex marriage: There is a sharp generational divide among Republicans on the issue. Overall, 56 percent of Republicans oppose legal gay marriage. But I asked the CBS polling team for a breakdown by age, and the result was that among Republicans ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 388: Religious Rapers
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment Great sith council assignment in real life Religious rapers don’t know “No Means No” Door-to-Door Salesmen Savages Part 2 Ford makes a really bad decision with an Ad Teaser for Riddick Upcoming movies Upcoming Video Games BioWare says goodbye ...
  • IC 387: Savages
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment St. Patrick’s Day = White People Get Drunk Day Kriss & Kev don’t like the way GSP fights Greek Soccer Player gets what he deserves The Steubenville rape trial We’re too easy on rapists Men don’t need to be taught not to rape, those ...
  • Best of the Insanity Check: The Co-Hosts
    The first “Best of the Insanity Check”. This focuses on the 3 co-hosts that have been a part of making the Insanity Check so funny & Ratchet: Ryce Juanton: Nothin But Pho, The Great Frosted Flakes Conspiracy of 86, Giant Stone Penises Dylan: Chicken Foot Soup, The Strawberry Let ...
  • IC 386: I Don’t Work Here
    Topic: Guest Host: Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips Sith Council Assignments Emails Why we review movies? Weathermen suck Why black people won’t survive the zombie apocalypse? Bag fees New ads about Teen Pregnancy Share with your friends:
  • IC 385: Sith Council
    Topic: Sith Council Forms: Kriss, Kev, Tye Diamond & Rodimus Prime Trolling Trolls When is it okay to talk about people? Tye goes on a date with Ebony from Catfish Calling 9 year olds cunts Epic Facebook Trolling Charlamagne “Gets Real”….stupid Dumb Nigga Logic Video Games ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
    In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.
  • Projected warming set to exceed civilisation’s ...
    11,000 years during which human civilisation has emerged have not seen temperatures ‘even close’ to what model forecasts predict, a record built by Shaun Marcott from Oregon State University and his teammates shows.
  • Evidence rethink puts CO2 and ancient warming ...
    A rise in temperatures that caused the last major global defrost has now been placed in the same 150-year window as an accompanying CO2 increase by Frédéric Parrenin from the French National Centre for Scientific Research and his teammates, rather than happening 800 years before the CO2 change a ...
  • Cave deposits reveal permafrost concern
    Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a 500,000 year record collected by Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Diverse bacteria on fresh fruits, vegetables v ...
    Fresh fruit and vegetables carry an abundance of bacteria on their surfaces, not all of which cause disease. In the first study to assess the variety of these non-pathogenic bacteria, scientists report that these surface bacteria vary depending on the type of produce and cultivation practices. ...
  • Insect pests more plentiful in hotter parts of ...
    Higher temperatures in cities can be a key driver of insect pest outbreaks on trees in urban areas, according to research published March 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emily Meineke from North Carolina State University and colleagues from other institutions. read more
  • Cancer biologists find DNA-damaging toxins in ...
    In a laboratory study pairing food chemistry and cancer biology, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center tested the potentially harmful effect of foods and flavorings on the DNA of cells. They found that liquid smoke flavoring, black and green teas and coffee activated the highest l ...
  • How does innovation take hold in a community? ...
    Mathematical models can be used to study the spread of technological innovations among individuals connected to each other by a network of peer-to-peer influences, such as in a physical community or neighborhood. One such model was introduced in a paper published yesterday in the SIAM Journal on ...
  • New bone survey method could aid long-term sur ...
    A study co-authored by a University of Florida scientist adds critical new data for understanding caribou calving grounds in an area under consideration for oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. read more

unEarthed

  • It's Game Over for Foes of National Forests
    Roadless Rule—and 50+ million forested acres—survive test of time Spring blooms of fireweed in the Reservation Divide roadless area in Montana’s Coeur D’Alene Mountains. (© Terry ...
  • Friday Finds: Kraft’s Blue Box Chemical Blues
    Plus: Buzzing over bee deaths and clean energy power up Photo courtesy of @cdharrison (Flickr) Bloggers think chemicals in macaroni are cheesy Two food blog ...
  • Arctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs
    And ConocoPhillips eager to drill in the Arctic Ocean Earthjustice received some superb video today from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, of Shell’s beat up Arctic drilling rig, the Kulluk, as it was lifted onto a huge dry haul ship to ...
  • Esperanza Spalding In Tune With Earthjustice
    Grammy Award-winning singer shares proceeds for endangered species The Grammy-winning Radio Music Society is Esperanza's latest album. (Courtesy of Esperanza Spalding) ...
  • Webcast Event to Address D.C. Circuit's Vacanc ...
    Earthjustice's David Baron to present on court's environmental influence Update: On March 22, 2013, President Obama accepted Caitlin Halligan’s r ...

Brave New Climate

  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...
  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
  • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
    In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...
  • Two decades and counting…
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...
  • Energy Policy – substance wins over style
    There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve touchy subjects, including ways to reduce poverty while improving or maintaining high standards of living el ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • From Lincoln Tunnel to Rabin Square: Legacies ...
    Perhaps the greatest similarity between Abraham Lincoln and Yitzhak Rabin is that both men’s assassins succeeded in altering history. Following Lincoln’s death the reconstruction of the American south was abandoned and the Supreme Court accepted the notion of ‘separate yet equal.’ Fo ...
  • WATCH: Attempts to redefine Jewish-Arab refugees
    For several months now, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has been promoting an initiative calling for the recognition of Jews from Arab countries as refugees. Is this historical justice, or just another attempt to achieve a political goal through the cynical use of immigrants from Arab countries? Is ...
  • The Israeli negotiator who thinks the two-stat ...
    Veteran Israeli negotiator Shaul Arieli discusses the failure of the Oslo Accords, various Israeli prime ministers’ commitment (or lack thereof) to ending the occupation, and the only solution he believes both sides could live with, however unsatisfied they might be with it.  Shaul Arieli ...
  • The lie of ‘state lands’: Whitewas ...
    The outpost of Derekh Avot, sitting on stolen Palestinian land, will soon be whitewashed and its lands will magically turn into “state lands” which will be delivered to the settlers. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz A letter from the Officer of the Legal Advisor of the Commander ...
  • How a letter from NYT’s Anthony Lewis ch ...
    New York Times reporter and columnist Anthony Lewis died today at the age of 85. Although we never met, he changed my life. Well, that may be an exaggeration, but still… If there’s one thing I hate, it’s a long blog post. I just have no patience for them. So, bearing that in mind, I’ll [...]

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Senator Calls For Investigation of Florida&#82 ...
    The State of Florida is running a budget surplus….but they still refuse to help Floridians…. Sen. Bill Nelson is calling for a federal investigation of Florida’s Hardest Hit Fund, a $1 billion mortgage assistance program that has denied aid to thousands of desperate homeowners ...
  • URGENT ACTION ALERT- TELL FLORIDA REPRESENTATI ...
    The Florida House Judiciary Committee will next vote on House Bill 87… Take the time TONIGHT….RIGHT NOW AND EMAIL THEM….URGE THEM TO VOTE NO ON HOUSE BILL 87! READ THE BILL HERE AND KNOW WHAT YOU ARE URGING THEM TO REJECT Baxley, Dennis K. [R]   Chair  (352) 732-1313 (850) 717- ...
  • The Florida Legislature Raids Attorney General ...
    First, a little sarcasm…. Next, the sick reality of what we all knew was going to come: TALLAHASSEE — Attorney General Pam Bondi praised Florida House Republicans last week after they unveiled a plan to spend $200 million from a national mortgage settlement on a variety of affordable housi ...
  • 2013- The New Global Financial Crisis….( ...
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  • MIAMI HERALD- Foreclosure Legislation Invites ...
    There will be next to ZERO voters who will support this nonsense….and still, it continues on…that’s not democracy….that’s corporate corruption of our government… Corporations are pushing this.  Special interests are pushing this.  They don’t care what yo ...

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Soda, Chicken Waste, Bills ...
    The support from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association for campaigns against the Mayor’s program and sugar taxes proposed around the country is reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s disinformation campaign during the long struggle to expose the lethal effects of cigarette s ...
  • 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.

k2p blog

  • Icleand lifts Hekla alert to yellow
    For the first time in two years the Iceland Meteorological Office has raised the aviation warning code for Mount Hekla from green to yellow due to unusual seismic activity around the volcano.
  • Cyprus could be the straw that breaks the Euro ...
    A Cypriot Euro (Κ€) is now worth less than a "normal" Euro (€). What that value is is a little difficult to judge but it lies somewhere between 60% and 90% of a normal Euro. The Cyprus solution now ensures that savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if neede ...
  • Mammoth tusks are — mammoth!
    Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks.
  • Apartheid is still alive and well – in S ...
    The days of segregating bus passengers by skin colour and their appearance are not just something from the bad old days of the American South or from the days of apartheid in S. Africa. It would seem to be alive and well and practised in Sweden even today. For some it brings back memories of Bo ...
  • Apartheid is still alive and well – in S ...
    The days of segregating bus passengers by skin colour and their appearance are not just something from the bad old days of the American South or from the days of apartheid in S. Africa. It would seem to be alive and well and practised in Sweden even today. For some it brings back memories of Bo ...

Left Foot Forward

  • Five party leaders who never were
    With David Miliband, the man once tipped to lead the Labour Party, resigning from frontline politics to take up a job in America, Left Foot Forward has looked at five leaders who came close but never quite made it to the top.
  • Cameron’s corporation tax cop out
    Businesses and politicians across Northern Ireland have united in condemning David Cameron’s decision to delay an announcement on devolving powers over corporation tax to Stormont.
  • ‘Peace’ to Xi Jinping may be the a ...
    Since his inaugural address as President of China, analysts and interested parties have been decoding the message that Xi Jinping brings and what change, if any, can be expected in China.
  • Video: How has marriage equality affected your ...
    Think Progress, our sister site in the US, has made a short video in which they ask anti-gay National Organize for Marriage protesters how same sex marriage has affected their own marriage.
  • “Social justice is what gets me up in the morn ...
    David Miliband has stepped down as MP for South Shields to work for an international aid charity, ending a twenty year career in politics.

Consumerist

  • Meet Your Worst Company In America No-So-Sweet 16!
    Last week, 32 terrible titans of industry stepped on to the blood-stained mat of WCIA Death-and-Dismemberment Arena, but only 16 remain in this bestial battle royale to take home the treasured Golden Poo. CLOSE CALLS The first round of WCIA competition is usually littered with innards and sinew ...
  • Customer Who Posted Olive Garden Receipt Says ...
    Earlier today, we told you about a receipt posted by an Olive Garden diner whose meal was comped, and about all the doubters that came out of the woodwork to claim it was a fake. We weren’t sure — we certainly wouldn’t put it past a clever marketing department — so we ask ...
  • Panera Expanding Pay-What-You-Want Model To Al ...
    It’s been three years since sandwich chain Panera opened its first pay-what-you-want eatery, where customers can disregard the listed menu price and pay what they can afford or what they feel the meal is worth. The company soon added others in a handful in other cities. Now the eatery says ...
  • 4 Ways Retail Stores Are Monitoring Your Every ...
    From the second you pull into a store’s parking lot, you can be relatively certain there are electronic eyes on you. But we’re way past the days of black-and-white monitors to discourage vandalism and shoplifting. Today’s retailers follow you everywhere and know lots about you. ...
  • Intuit (TurboTax) Spends Millions To Keep Us F ...
    Here’s something to keep in mind as you wait in line at 11:30 PM on April 15th: filing your taxes could be so, so much easier. Bills have been put before Congress that would let taxpayers choose to have the Internal Revenue Service calculate their taxes due for them, and send them a bill o ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • The Story of the 'NSA Four'; Whistleblower Tou ...
    The Nation: Obama’s Crackdown on WhistleblowersTom Drake at the National Press Club This article details the story of the ‘NSA Four’ – including GAP clients Tom Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe and William Binney – featuring insight from their attorney, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Je ...
  • 2013 Ridenhour Prize Winners Announced
    The 2013 Ridenhour Prize winners were announced last week in anticipation of the annual ceremony which seeks to honor those who speak truth to power. Every year, the Prizes highlight acts of truth-telling taken for the protection of the public interest and a more just vision of society. This yea ...
  • AEJMC Urges Government to Rethink Espionage Ac ...
    AEJMC President Releases a Statement on Leak Prosecutions The President of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) issued a statement criticizing the ferocity with which the Obama administration has been prosecuting intelligence whistleblowers under the Espi ...
  • Latest "Ag Gag Undercover" Video Released!: Da ...
    Ag-Gag Undercover #3: Nightmare on Ag Street Today GAP's Food Integrity Campaign released the third video in its Ag Gag Undercover campaign series. The series aims to raise awareness of anti-whistleblower legislation (centered on farm facilities) around the country. The Guardian: World Bank ...
  • New York Times Understand Historical Import of ...
    In a welcome but belated piece by David Carr, the New York Times criticized the tremendous lack of transparency of the court martial proceedings in the case against Bradley Manning. The secrecy, redactions and delays in release of information mean that the public does not have contemporaneous ...

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    Renewable energy providers to help bear cost of new UK nuclear reactors
    The Guardian
    The row over subsidies for the UK's new nuclear power stations has deepened after it emerged that the £160m-a-year cost of accommodating the giant reactors on the national electricity grid will be borne by all generators, including renewable energy ...
    EU Sees Risks to Meeting 2020 Renewable Energy Target
    Wall Street Journal
    BRUSSELS--European countries must do more if they are to succeed in meeting their targets to increase the use of renewable energy by 2020, the European Union's executive body said Wednesday, warning that failure to meet the targets would have "major ...
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    Learning From The German Transition To Renewable Energy
    ThinkProgress
    Germany is moving forward to replace fossil fuels with renewables faster than most countries. But there is always pushback, most recently in the form of much media discourse about rising electricity prices spearheaded by the Federal Minister of ...
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    Innergex Renewable Energy Shares Cross 6% Yield Mark
    Forbes
    In trading on Wednesday, shares of Innergex Renewable Energy, Inc. (Toronto: INE) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.58), with the stock changing hands as low as $9.36 on the day. Dividends are ...
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    Ecology Dept. seeks public comment on Moses Lake site
    Columbia Basin Herald
    MOSES LAKE - The state Department of Ecology is seeking public comment before it removes a natural gas meter station on Wheeler Road from Washington's hazardous sites list. Mercury was found in soil and gravel at Northwest Pipeline's Moses Lake ...
    Camp Ecology
    Arkansas Online (subscription)
    Camp Ecology. By JERRY BUTLER SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE. Sometimes it's good to be up a creek, especially when you are 11 or 12 years old and it's Walnut Creek in western Garland County. photo.caption|escapejs ...
    USA: Ecology Approves Fife's Shoreline Master Program
    Dredging Today
    Fife's shoreline program will result in significant improvements in the protection, use, development and restoration of approximately five miles of shorelines and the water quality of the Puyallup River and Hylebos Creek in the city and its urban ...
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    Silent auction to fund ecology school for fifth-graders
    The Daily News of Newburyport
    In the fall, the fifth-grade students at Pine Grove School will attend the Ferry Beach Ecology School in Saco, Maine. FBES is a five-day program that teaches children about many different habitats, the wildlife that lives in them and about human impact ...
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    Texas House takes step toward $2 billion water infrastructure plan
    Reuters
    The proposal is based on a 2012 state water plan that said that "in serious drought conditions, Texas does not and will not have enough water to meet the needs of its people, its businesses, and its agricultural enterprises." The plan identified ...
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    Beverage industry boasts benefits of bottled water
    San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
    It probably won't come as a surprise that the American Beverage Association isn't thrilled about the campaign that began Wednesday to convince the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Yosemite National Park to ban the sale of water in plastic bottles.
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    Striking Guantanamo Prisoners Say Water Denied
    ABC News
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