Wednesday, March 27, 2013

27 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

UK Progressive

  • Another Race Case for a Hostile Supreme Court
    by Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Little doubt exists that the Supreme Court’s most conservative justices want to do away with affirmative action and other race-conscious programs. And for months, the public has waited to see if they would do it with one broad decision: The case of a Texas ...
  • The Morality Brigade
    by Robert Reich We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in “Roe v. Wade,” which gave women ...
  • How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple ...
    by Liz Day ProPublica This story was co-produced with NPR. Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes — and for free. You’d open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any needed changes and be done. The miserable annual IRS shuffle, gone. It’s alr ...
  • Op Ed: Why USA Needs a 28th Amendment
    by Sam Sholli The US Congress’ approval rating stands at a resoundingly low 9% amongst American citizens, this according to a survey by Public Policy Polling. It can be assumed the American people have finally become conscious the USA’s political system, or at least those within it, no lon ...
  • Screw Mediate, hulu, Daily Show, CBS… (US Ex-P ...
    This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell For at least five of my ten years in the UK, I was able to watch the entire NCAA Tournament live online. The first year it was offered I joined the premium queue to be able to go on at any time because they had limited [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Upgrade coal power and cut 15% of emissions. W ...
    If the Greens cared about CO2 they’d be very interested in ways to reduce emissions. But their selective interest speaks volumes about their real priorities. Anton Lang shows how newer coal fired powers stations run hotter and at higher pressures, and use 15% less coal to produce the same ...
  • Labor downgrades “climate”. Makes ...
    Dr Craig Emerson, Minister for Science, Weather, Inventions, Factories and Universities. After the leadership farce last week and the resignations of the more-sensible Labor ministers, Gillard has reshuffled again and the DCC (Department of Climate Change) is disappearing into a “super min ...
  • Apollo 11 engines found and recovered from 4km ...
      … Hey, Moon Landing Deniers… here’s an interesting tid-bit and an epic project. The historic engines that propelled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on their trip to the moon (with Michael Collins orbiting above them) have not only been found but recovered. These F-1 engin ...
  • What happened to “Earth Hour”? Cel ...
    … Turn on your lights from 8.30pm-9.30! Remember all the fuss? What happened to Earth Hour 2013? It’s that time-of-year for the hour of Green Darkness. But how times have changed.  On Their-ABC, the only mention I can find is this: “Is Earth Hour dead?“  The Age and The S ...
  • IPCC Lead Author calls Lewandowsky “delu ...
    People across the UK are rolling in the aisles in laughter. Lewandowsky’s latest paper, “Recursive Fury” (which has just reappeared),  categorized a comment by Richard Betts under the heading “Excerpt Espousing Conspiracy Theory” (in the supplemental data). But inst ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • 6 Top Quality Survival Products
    I found this at the Daily Mail, but it looks like they have scanned it from a magazine like Popular Mechanics and didn’t credit it… Anyway, this picture could save you a thousand SHTF hours if you buy them all: Your're reading 6 Top Quality Survival Products by Robert Bast, and orig ...
  • Japanese Methane Extraction Could Trigger Tsunami
    Japan is where the word tsunami originated – because they get more than their fair share. Just over 2 years ago the Tōhoku tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster. You could be forgiven for thinking that is as bad as it can get – but the reality is muc ...
  • Pope Francis: Not Peter, Not Roman…But
    The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn’t his middle name, and he hasn’t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn’t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stu ...
  • A River In Antarctica
    The Sahara desert used to be fertile – and that’s in modern history… Meanwhile camels used to live within the Arctic Circle, and hippos swam in English rivers. Not quite on the same scale of time (unless you believe in recent crustal displacements), but down at the South Pole t ...
  • Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
    The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Cyprus: Rescued and Attacked. Who is Behind it?
    The Eurogroup’s decision on financial aid for Cyprus had been taken just one day before the X- hour, late on March 25. Destined to rescue Cyprus, it may become a delayed action mine capable to undermine the whole edifice of the European Union. Laiki Bank, the second largest in Cyprus, is going t ...
  • Turkish-NATO Trace Of Chemical Attack In Aleppo
    While the US President Barack Obama was visiting Middle East, the Syrian opposition tried to accuse Damascus of applying chemical weapons in order to provoke United States to intervene militarily in the Syrian conflict. The opposition knows well that the United States considers the use of chemic ...
  • The Return of Empires (VII)
    Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Why does the United States need an empire? Historian Niall Ferguson states that the majority of modern-day academics see an entirely appropriate parallel between the “imperial rule” of the USA and the British Empire as it was 100 years ago.[1]   Jos ...
  • Chemical Attack in Syria
    As we wrote in January, the co-producers of Syrian drama were staging a false flag chemical attack in Syria.  We concluded then that a provocation in Syria is the only option left for the war-mongers. Having exhaustive information on the real situation in Syria and being aware of inability of th ...
  • Two Years After Launching Intervention
    March 19 is the date the NATO intervention against Libya was launched two years ago. This day in 2011 NATO started combat actions against the Arab Jamahiriya under the pretext of complying with the United Nations Security Council resolution N 1973. It was illegal for the resolution allowed  “to ...

BlogHer

  • Quick & Easy Closet Spring Cleaning
    It can be dreadful to do, but spring cleaning your closet is a must. It can help you save money, make money, and look your absolute best. Whether your home is big or small, we can all use a little extra closet space to make room for new things. Cleaning your closet doesn’t have to be a big, draw ...
  • 10 Tips to Keep Your Kids in Line When You're ...
    Editor's Note: My kids can be having a perfect behavior day, little halos ringing their angelic little heads. Then my phone will ring and, wouldn't you know it, those angels turn into demonic little beings. Loud little beings! It's really why I hate talking on the phone. I was happy to find Lis ...
  • The Weight of Motherhood: 72 Pounds
    My ears throb. My throat aches. My head swims. A sinus and ear infection has rendered momma weak. I flop onto the couch. Dressed in a t-shirt, my husband's mesh shorts, and an oversize lavender fleece robe, I am a picture of motherly frump. I feel tired. And while my sweet husband cooks a heart ...
  • Home Energy Audit: Incentives and Insulation
    Spring is almost here, and you may be ready to open your windows, turn off your heater, and forget winter. But before you do, consider calling an energy auditor to find out about rebates and incentives for improvements to your home's energy efficiency. That was my first step in my latest project ...
  • Disneyland's New Age Limit Is Ruining My Sprin ...
    I read in the paper recently that Disney will now require children to be accompanied by a chaperone who is at least 14-years-old (Los Angeles Times, 3/19/2013) at their Southern California Disneyland parks.Gasp!This is going to spoil some plans I had for spring break for my 12-year-old daughter ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • More science on mountaintop removal’s he ...
    Well, you certainly can’t fault Kentucky Coal Association President Bill Bissett for not sticking to his story … whether he’s gotten all the facts in or not. When the latest study about mountaintop removal coal-mining’s potential impacts on public health in Appalachia was ...
  • Tuesday roundup, March 26, 2013
    Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. I’m still playing catch up after being out of the office for a week, but thought I would at least run down a few of the more interesting developments while this blog was shut down … ...
  • Friday roundup, March 15, 2013
    In this photo provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a relative of miners waits at the site of the accident in Shuicheng County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. China said 21 coal miners have been killed and four more are missing following an accident ...
  • Patriot Coal: Will industry have to pay its debts?
    Whenever there’s any sort of action by the government or by environmental or citizen groups that might somehow — no matter how remotely — curb any practice of the coal industry, I can almost always count on watching my inbox fill up with statements from coalfield politicians cr ...
  • Report: More work needed on coal-mine rescue
    There’s a new report out today from the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council.  It’s called Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines, and here’s the conclusion: Although recent advances in mining research and practices have improved the safety a ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Albert Camus’ Absurdism
    In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual’s search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe. As beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have three ways of resolving the dilemma. Kierkegaard and Camus des ...
  • Game of Thrones: Observations, Thoughts, and T ...
    First off, if you are not finished with book five, stop reading now: there will be spoilers. – Ok, first I want to summarize a couple of interesting observations and theories that I’ve gathered since getting into this series: The series itself, as we can see from the subtitle: &#8220 ...
  • Programming Atrophy
    It’s stunning to me how stale one can become when they don’t code for a while. I just put together a quick little something in Python for hitting a Google API, collecting results into an array, and then adding in some results from a dictionary query, and man…it took forever. Re ...
  • Music: Purity Ring
    If you’re into clean electronica with female vocals, I humbly suggest Purity Ring.Related Posts:Music: “The Ocean”Music: Lana Del ReyDaring Fireball: ViberiTunes 11 Lets You Redeem Gift Cards By Using Your Camera |…HeyTell | Walkie Talkies for iPhone
  • This Galaxy S4 Promo Video Shows What’s Wrong ...
    Doing way too much, and a lot of it not very well. Clutter. Lack of polish. Fail.Related Posts:On Failure and SuccessBike ParkourThe Onion Obliterates the “Idea Guy”Homebuilt Solar Death RayStellar Dance Routine

Fitwatch

  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Americans see the Higgs boson, too
    ...sort of... Two years ago, I was a staunch defender of the retirement of the Tevatron, the collider near Chicago, Illinois. The reason was that it just wasn't competitive anymore. The lower energy and amount of collisions relatively to the LHC translated to a much smaller probability of a ...
  • Rosatom plans fast reactors based on U-238
    Technet, a Czech sci-tech server, published an interview with Vyacheslav Pershukov today, the deputy CEO and the director of the scientific-technological complex at Rosatom, the state-owned Russian nuclear corporation that is managing all Russian reactors that are in operation. He says many ...
  • Speed of light is variable: only in junk media
    If you open Google Science News at this very moment, the #1 story is saying things like new research shows that the speed of light is variable in real space. The only problem is that the "research" is pure crackpottery. Those stories build upon the following two papers in a journal called Eu ...
  • Reagan's Star Wars: 30 years ago
    Ronald Reagan gave the following 30-minute talk on March 23rd, 1983, i.e. 30 years ago: Most of the talk is about the motivation and the situation. The very SDI comments begin at 25:00 or so. The visionary SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) speech was arguably the most consequent ...
  • Wernher von Braun: 101st birthday
    Today, we celebrate the birthday of three mathematicians who have heavily influenced physics: Pierre-Simon Laplace, Amalie Emmy Noether, and Ludvig Faddeev. But because I posted the biographies four years ago (click at the previous sentence), I won't do so again. Instead, let me mention tha ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Colorado theatre shooter offers to plead guilty
    Lawyers for Colorado theatre shooting suspect James Holmes have offered to have him plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: AURORA FALSE FLAG – Sorcha Faal: Colorado Massacre Linked To Historic Bank Fr ...
  • Border agency cuts questioned as drug busts rise
    Drug busts by the Canada Border Services Agency rose 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, according to agency data, but critics fear a shift in focus and federal budget cuts threaten Canada’s effort to stop drugs from entering the country. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: U.S. ...
  • Viagra turns 15, but has it helped couples’ se ...
    The little blue pill that’s put the bounce back into the step of millions of men is celebrating 15 years since it was approved for sale in the U.S., changing the conversation (sometimes for the worse) about sex and erectile dysfunction. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Viagra ...
  • How to Hide Your Money Where the Bankers Won’t ...
    This article has been generously contributed by The Prepper Journal (via Prepper Website) Unless you have been on vacation the past few days or out of touch with the never ending news media we live in you have seen or heard about the event in Cyprus. For those who haven’t heard, the short story ...
  • Bob Rae to remain as MP, uncertain about runni ...
    Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae says he’ll remain a Liberal MP, but hasn’t decided yet whether he’ll run for re-election in 2015, as he wraps up his time running the party ahead a two-week break. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Critical cybersecurity gaps remain, ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Demand crashed Vinmonopolet site
    Thirsty, holiday-bound Norwegians were so curious about the opening hours at Norway’s state wine and liquor store chain, Vinmonopolet, on Wednesday that their heavy traffic to the monopoly’s website ended up crashing it. Vinmonopolet’s restricted opening hours may be liberalize ...
  • No funeral leave for Breivik
    Norwegian prison authorities have, as expected, turned down a request for funeral leave from convicted terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 persons in a bombing and massacre in the Oslo area 18 months ago. The authorities claim the security risk is too high. Breivik’s mother, We ...
  • Three more caught in an avalanche
    Yet another avalanche thundered down a mountainside on the large island of Senja south of Tromsø late Tuesday afternoon, just as three men were snowmobiling through the area. Two of them were brothers, all are believed to have been killed, and the community of Berg on Senja set up crisis teams w ...
  • Olympic boosters downplay deficit
    The Oslo politicians and sports officials keen to mount a bid for the Winter Olympics in 2022 were fending off a new wave of opposition this week. Critics claim the Olympics will leave Oslo with a huge budget deficit, angry organizers of an earlier Olympic bid in Tromsø are staging an uproar, an ...
  • Olympic boosters downplay deficit
    The Oslo politicians and sports officials keen to mount a bid for the Winter Olympics in 2022 were fending off a new wave of opposition this week. Critics claim the Olympics will leave Oslo with a huge budget deficit, angry organizers of an earlier Olympic bid in Tromsø are staging an uproar, an ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Life at Zaytuna – Another Internship Coming to ...
    Geoff Lawton, above the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm Photos © Craig Mackintosh Some of you may have noticed I’ve been a little intermittant in my (visible) work for you all of late…. I thought I’d better let you know I’m still alive and well, and that the reason for m ...
  • Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
    This is the mid-Summer post for the ongoing research project about perennial plants and self-perpetuating annual plants providing food in temperate climate Australia. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing participant instructions, can be found here. Grow ...
  • Energy Advice: Think Long Term and at the Loca ...
    Interview of Nikos Salingaros by Mumtaz Soogund on Defimedia, Mauritius, 8 March 2013. Dr. Salingaros recently joined the CT (Centrale Thermique) Power debate in Mauritius, and in this light graciously agreed to share his views on the matter with the readers of News on Sunday. MS: A coal-powe ...
  • A Quick Pictorial Look at the PRI Sunshine Coa ...
    The top valley dam, nestled amongst rainforest All photographs © Craig Mackintosh After Geoff’s Urban Permaculture talk at the Noosa Permaculture Group meeting on March 21, 2013 (watch for the video, which I’ll upload in about a month from now), we headed a few kilometres no ...
  • Free Geoff Lawton Permaculture Videos
    We’re rolling out a series of free videos from Geoff Lawton. The first video is about how Geoff Lawton got started in Permaculture and how he used it to transform his burnt out farm to abundance and what a little permaculture knowledge can do for you. This first video has been a terrif ...

Pointman's

  • La, la, la. I can’t hear you, I’m ...
    I’ve been watching the slow and gory deconstruction of the latest attempt to rehabilitate the hockey stick, otherwise known as the Marcott et al paper. It’s a bit voyeuristic, but you just can’t help yourself in the end. Within the context of the skeptic blogosphere, it’s ...
  • Well, at least one of the bastards is behind bars.
    It’s been a very big week in the war against climate alarmism. FOIA revealed the password, which now gives access to all the emails contained in the CG2 release. Given that the archive contains something like 220,000 emails, you can expect a bit of a lull on the blogging front, simply beca ...
  • Climategate, a crisis of conscience.
    Sometimes in a life, you have to look at where you are and what you’ve become a part of, through the very best and the most innocent of intentions, and you hate yourself. It’s not somewhere you ever wanted or intended to be, but it is what it is. That’s where you are. Everyone ...
  • A species facing extinction.
    There are many reasons why a particular species may become extinct; a better adapted one elbows them out of their own ecological niche, the debilitating effect of a new disease they have no resistance against, over-predation or quite simply, their habitat disappearing completely. In general term ...
  • A species facing extinction.
    There are many reasons why a particular species may become extinct; a better adapted one elbows them out of their own ecological niche, the debilitating effect of a new disease they have no resistance against, over-predation or quite simply, their habitat disappearing completely. In general term ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Mayor Landrieu and Ronal Serpas Wage War Again ...
    Mayor Mitch Landrieu ran for office on a promise of reform of the city's police department. He promised a national search for a new police chief as his first major initiative as mayor. Then the members of his search team began quitting, saying the process was rigged. When Landrieu "national sear ...
  • New Orleans Film About James Booker Sets SXSW ...
    Bayou Maharajah Trailer from Lily Keber on Vimeo. New Orleans filmmaker Lily Keber's film Bayou Maharajah, about James Booker, "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced," premiered this week at SXSW film festival in Austin Texas, and has already ...
  • So, You Want to Collaborate in My Community? B ...
    Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: When I started Coastal Women for Change, it wasn't my vision to run a nonprofit. If it had been, I would have done my research and learned how to manage one. I was thrown into this work after a devastation. I was a cosmetologist before Hurricane Ka ...
  • Israeli Propaganda Event at UNO Fails Miserably
    On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli soldier spoke at an event at University of New Orleans to speak in support of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. According to reports from the event, the room was initially full. But, as the photo from the event shows, as soon as the soldier started spea ...
  • Amnesty International Urges State of Louisiana ...
    From an Amnesty International news release: Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty Interna ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Victory! More than 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate more than 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads ...
  • Grins and Fins: Meet the Sociable False Killer ...
    This false killer whale flashes a (real) killer smile. Photo: Doug Perrine/Hotspot Media American photographer Doug Perrine, 60, captured this priceless image of a false killer whale mid-grin off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Less commonly known than the killer whale (or orca), the false killer ...
  • One Woman Stands Up for the Dolphins
    © OCEANA Just a few weeks ago, an international campaign to stop the annual gruesome slaughter of dolphins in Japan was initiated by one Scottish woman hoping to make a difference. Shona Lewendon started a petition to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requesting that Japan be denied t ...
  • Red Tide Takes a Toll on Florida Manatees
    Algae threatens this shapely sirenian. Photo: USGS Over the last two months, 180 manatees have been found dead along the coasts of Florida. The friendly and well-loved creatures of Florida’s waters are currently being threatened by an outbreak of red tide, an algal bloom which has proved to b ...
  • New Seafloor Discoveries off Oregon
    Offshore Oregonian ready for its close-up ©Oceana Today we release our new science report, Important Ecological Areas: Seafloor Habitat Expedition off the Southern Oregon Coast. The report completes our June 2011 expedition aboard the R/V Miss Linda, which set out on the cold Pacific Ocean wa ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: “DOMA is in Trouble,” Analysis, Au ...
    The recap of today’s arguments before the Supreme Court is summarized by Lyle Denniston, at SCOTUS Blog: “DOMA is in trouble.” Read the court transcript here, at Freedom to Marry. Go here, to Mother Jones, for the audio. From Denniston: (emphasis added) If the Supreme Court can find its way thro ...
  • Queer Talk: Sen. Kay Hagan Joins the Pro-Marri ...
    And the list of those expressing support for marriage equality continues to grow. Today, via News Observer and Freedom to Marry, it’s Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC). Yesterday she was on a list of ten Democratic senators who had not done so. Huffington Post described them as those “who have yet to embrac ...
  • Bob McDonnell’s War on Women Takes Virginia Ba ...
    “… We say it is a moral tragedy but that it should not be the government’s role to deny its availability.” – Presiding Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori [Huffington Post] THERE ARE few subjects that are more hypocritical than so-called “conservatives& ...
  • Queer Talk: Marriage Equality Day 2 in Court, ...
    UPDATE III Oral arguments have ended. From Freedom to Marry: Audio from Windsor v. United States will be released later this afternoon. Until then, we heard from Edie and her attorneys immediately after they left the Supreme Court. During the press conference, Edie spoke out about what this case ...
  • Justice Scalia Versus Ted Olson
    “When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage?” Scalia asked Olson. “When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages?” Olson retorted. – Same-sex marriage can’t be stopped by the courts, by Dana Milbank IT WOULD take going thro ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: January, 2013
    The year 2013 began with reports indicating that wherever Christians live side by side with large numbers of Muslims, the Christians are under attack. As one report said, "Africa, where Christianity spread fastest during the past century, now is the
  • Canada, Keystone, and the Palestinians
    As Obama wrapped up his Middle East tour, applauded by AIPAC for reaffirming "unbreakable bonds" and "deep affection" between two key allies; and by Al Jazeera for "normalizing" Israel Turkey ties, Obama's neighbors to the north are left scratching their
  • How Morocco Is Transforming Africa and Why Ame ...
    These developments present special opportunities for the United States to partner with Morocco in achieving its own aspirations on the continent. \"Not enough business executives know that if you want to make a good investment today, you should look to the African continent to do so.\" Johnnie C ...
  • Palestinians Impose Severe Restrictions on For ...
    It's official: the Palestinian Authority does not want foreign journalists to work in territories under its control in the West Bank unless they receive permission in advance from the Palestinian Ministry of Information. The decision was taken earlier
  • Scottish Government Funds Pro-Terror Group
    The Daily Express revealed last week that Islamic Relief Worldwide, a British charity accused of links to terrorism, was presented with £398,000 of the taxpayers' money by the Scottish Government last year, as part of its £9 million International

Urban Survival

  • Happy Housing Numbers, But…
    Well it seemed really peachy on the surface when I read the top of the Case Shiller/S&P Housing report press release:   “New York, March 26, 2013 – Data through January 2013, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for … Continue reading →
  • Waiting On Housing Data
    Reader Note: Our lead story today is the Housing data from Case Shiller/S&P which will be released at 9 AM Eastern.   So check back at quarter-past the hour for the updated report with the charts and such…   Confiscations Begin, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Ray on the Easter Beaster
    In his weekly rant email, reader Ray is wondering “Why does the devil in ‘The Bible’ look so much like President Obama?”  Seems Ray is not the only one asking. Ray then explains: “Mehdi Ouzaani has been playing Satan for … Continue reading →
  • Confiscations Begin
    The bailout deal in Cyprus is ‘game on’ and although it still involves the partial confiscation (is 40% partial?) of large savings accounts in Cyprus banks, the US media, such as the Washington Post (coverage here) seem careful not to … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Quake Spotting and Timequakes
    I had occasion to speak with Clif this weekend, although we are both in “readying for worst, just in case mode” at the moment.  Curiously, we’re both highly focused on growing food.  As I have told you before, this may … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • PRISONER OF SUCCESS
    It had four walls like every other room I was used to. Except that one of the walls was made of iron bars. There wasn’t much in the room. Just me, my pride and a mattress that was there before I came. I hadn’t always been there. I was told that it was the place [...]
  • PRISONER OF SUCCESS
    It had four walls like every other room I was used to. Except that one of the walls was made of iron bars. There wasn’t much in the room. Just me, my pride and a mattress that was there before I came. I hadn’t always been there. I was told that it was the place [...]
  • YOUR FLY IS DOWN
    “What! Not again….im late; my boss is going to kill me!” I frantically grabbed my stuff from the dresser and raced to the kitchen door. No time to have a shower. What’s the point in getting there even more late? I made it to the office in record time. Record time considering I was late [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ken Cuccinelli's March Madness
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Virginia’s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding tha ...
  • Reduced Reliance on the San Francisco Bay-Delt ...
    Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco A couple weeks ago, the State of California released the first of three installments describing its new draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) for restoring the Bay-Delta estuary.  The second install ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Syrian Opposition Group Takes Seat at Arab League
    To the outrage of Syria’s embattled government, the opposition coalition leader formally took its vacant seat at an Arab League summit meeting on Tuesday and immediately requested broader recognition, including from the United Nations, as part of an effort to further ostracize President Bashar a ...
  • Saving Cyprus Means Nobody Safe as Europe Brea ...
    The devil lies in the detail of Cyprus’s salvation. The island nation’s rescue sets precedents for the euro zone that may stick in the memory of depositors and bondholders alike as investors debate who will next fall victim to the debt crisis. Under the terms of the agreement struck yesterday in ...
  • Cyprus bail-out: savers will be raided to save ...
    Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe’s single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced. The new policy will alarm hundreds of thousands of British expatriates who live and have trans ...
  • N. Korea threatens attacks on US Pacific, main ...
    Pyongyang said its long-range missile and artillery units have entered combat posture and are targeting US military bases in Guam, Hawaii and mainland America. “From this moment, the Supreme Command of the Korean People’s Army will be putting in combat duty posture No. 1 all field ar ...
  • Slovenia’s new Government under pressure to pr ...
    Slovenia’s six-day-old government is being urged to prevent the nation becoming the euro region’s next bailout battleground. Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek’s Cabinet must quickly carry out a plan to revamp the country’s ailing lenders, the central bank said yesterday. The former Yugoslav nation ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • VIC - BZE Film Night - 'White Water, Black Gold'
    After a brief hiatus, Beyond Zero Emissions film nights are back...and we're pretty excited about it! Join us for a screening of the multi-award winning film 'White Water, Black Gold', which follows filmmaker David Lavallee on a three-year journey across Canada to document the environmental and ...
  • Presenter training course in April
    Have you been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to get more involved with the BZE team? Do you want to spread the message of an affordable, achievable zero emissions future but haven't known where to begin? Or do you simply want an opportunity to study BZE's research in more depth?  Well ...
  • Position vacant: Chief Executive Officer
    Beyond Zero Emissions, one of the fastest growing NGOs in Australia, is seeking an experienced, passionate and dynamic CEO who can lead a dedicated team of staff, members and volunteers in demonstrating how Australia can transform to a zero-carbon renewable energy future. Based in BZE’s Head ...
  • NSW should call CSG industry bluff, go to zero gas
    Threats that the NSW government's restrictions on the coal-seam gas industry will cause a price rise are a bluff that NSW residents should call, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “The gas industry has no real commitment to domestic gas supply, and certainly not to ...
  • High speed rail cheaper than Albanese thinks
    Transport minister Anthony Albanese is trying to derail the promising High Speed Rail option before it even leaves the platform, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “Mr Albanese appears to have decided to write off this nation building project before even releasing t ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Common pesticides disrupt brain functioning in ...
    Exposure to commonly used pesticides directly disrupts brain functioning in bees, according to new research in Nature. While the study is the first to record that popular pesticides directly injure bee brain physiology, it adds to a slew of recent studies showing that pesticides, especially neon ...
  • APP suppliers allegedly slashing forests and p ...
    Less than two months after its implementation, two Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) suppliers in Indonesian Borneo have been accused of violating the company’s new sustainability policy, which includes a zero deforestation commitment throughout its entire supply chain.
  • 2 'giant' yet tiny mouse lemurs identified in ...
    Scientists have discovered two new species of mouse lemurs in Madagascar, bringing the total number of diminutive primates known to science to 20.
  • After decades of turning a blind eye, Peru dec ...
    The Peruvian government has declared an environmental state of emergency after finding elevated levels of lead, barium, and chromium in the Pastaza River in the Amazon jungle, reports the Associated Press. Indigenous peoples in the area have been complaining for decades of widespread contaminati ...
  • Cargill to boost investment in Indonesian oil ...
    Cargill plans to 'aggressively' expand its palm oil holdings in Sulawesi, Indonesian Borneo, and Sumatra, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Sierra Express

  • Retired Football Heroes Trip to Senegal… Doubtful
    Retired National Football Heroes’ trip to Senegal scheduled this week  may be delayed due to lack of financial support. The heroes are to compete in the ECOWAS Football Veteran Competition. Although representing Sierra Leone in ECOWAS competition, the government, Parastatals, business houses and ...
  • Sierra Leone Journalist uses Social Network to ...
    Award winning journalist, Murtala Mohamed Kamara has utilized the popular social network to change the lives of some desperate Sierra Leoneans.   A single post by the renowned journalist on his Facebook page will  bring changes to the lives of few individuals who desperately need help. The young ...
  • UAE’s Vice President Invites President Koroma
    The Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has extended an official invitation to Sierra Leone’s President, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma (in photo) as a Guest of Honour at the Dubai World Cup Races sch ...
  • President Koroma arrives in US for talks with ...
    Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma Tuesday March 26, 2013 arrived at the St. Andrews Air Force Base (AFB) in the commonwealth state of Virginia, on a three day official working visit to the United States of America at the instance of the leader of the most powerful country in the world, ...
  • Travelogue – In the RSLAF Barracks
    Soldiers stationed in Pujehun Town, Southern Sierra Leone, are projecting a very positive image of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, (RSLAF) by displaying admirable decency, dedication and discipline. Very recently, I travelled to Pujehun and out of my usual curiosity, decided to visit ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Profit soars at Fonterra
    Fonterra enjoyed strong earnings in the first half and has raised its payout forecast to farmers for the current year, but executives say the second half will be hit by the drought that is gripping much of the country.The co-operative...
  • Fonterra interim profits surge to $459m - payo ...
    Fonterra said a "robust" performance from its NZ Milk Products division and strong sales in Asia and Latin American helped drive its net profit to $459 million in the first half to December, up 33 per cent on the previous...
  • Drought takes toll on economic confidence
    The onset of drought conditions in the North Island has seen economic confidence plummet in many regions, according to a Westpac McDermott Miller survey.The bank said economic confidence hit multi-year lows in Northland, Waikato,...
  • Big dry pressures being put on farmers
    A West Coast farming expert says he is seeing first-hand the pressures being put on farmers battling to combat the effects of the big dry.CRT technical feed specialist for the West Coast, Tasman and Marlborough, Andrew Mitchell...
  • Fonterra reveals a triple treat
    Dairy giant Fonterra says its new bottle will protect milk from light and keep it fresher and tasting better for longer.The triple-layer bottle technology developed over three years was the first packaging of its kind for fresh...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Justice Kennedy Comes Out Swinging Against DOMA
    Washington, D.C.—The Supreme Court heard oral argument today on Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which forbids the federal government from recognizing state-level same-sex marriages. Judging by what I saw in the courtroom this morning, DOMA could be in serious trouble. ...
  • NY Legislators Introduce Medical Marijuana Bil ...
    New York legislators have introduced a medical marijuana bill despite the fact that Gov. Cuomo has said that he is not in favor of such legislation.  Bitcoin is becoming increasingly popular in Europe as more people seek ways to keep governments away from their money. ...
  • Should this Veteran Be Evicted for Using Medic ...
    U.S. Army veteran Jeff Crawford and his family have been bounced around a lot over the past three years—living out of hotels and sometimes on the streets. When the Veterans Administration (VA) connected him six months ago with the L.A. chapter of Volunteers of America (a non-profit o ...
  • Feds Routinely Track Cell Phones Without Telli ...
    Stingray technology, also referred to by investigators with a confusing array of other names including "WIT" and "Triggerfish," is interesting and creepy stuff. It mimics cell phone towers to get mobile devices to reveal their locations, turning your handy widgets into tracking bea ...
  • A Mass Suspension for Dress Code Violations
    This week in overkill: About 100 students at a Leflore Magnet High School are suspended for not following the dress code. The school's Principal Alvin Dailey said he has had enough telling students to abide by the dress code. "Everyday I'm saying pull your pants up. Get ou ...

Mercury Rising

  • Some Good News On The Labor Front, Greater Min ...
    Unless you live near the city of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, or read Minnesota-based labor union publications, you probably haven’t heard about this bit of good news for workers: After being locked out of their workplace at Snappy Air Distribution Products in Detroit Lakes for eight days, 95 ...
  • Folies State Department, 3/25/13
    For full context on this story, see Dan Beeton at Upside Down World. But for now, simply marvel at the State Department’s response to a question about Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla, a fugitive in 2003, now Honduras’s head of the National Police. Yikes. Patrick Ventrell A ...
  • Tony Lewis passes on
    Via Jesselyn Radack, tireless civil liberties lawyer (who exposed the wrongdoing in the treatment of so-called “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh) and director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project, at DK. Adam Liptak, NYT: Anthony Lewis, ...
  • US media, pay attention
    This is an interview of London Mayor Boris Johnson that shows how an interviewer can be polite, but clear and firm in follow-through. For example: [The BBC's Eddie Mair] With this admission trousered, Mair continued: “Let me ask you about a barefaced lie. When you were in Michael Howard&#8 ...
  • Roger Stone’s Defense Of Daily Caller Ca ...
    The latest turn in the implosion of the Daily Caller‘s months-long effort to smear US Senator Robert Menendez has been the sudden self-injection of none other than Roger Stone into the public debate on this topic, via a series of somewhat desperate-sounding late-Sunday night tweets, all do ...

Reality Sandwich

  • This Week in Psychedelics
    Ken Kesey's family raises money to retore the Merry Pranksters' psychedelic bus, a new translation of Albert Hoffman's "LSD: My Problem Child" is published by Oxford, and the Teafaerie writes an open letter on behalf of the Shulgins in this week's psychedelic news. rea ...
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  • Conservatives Align with Liberal Values After ...
    New research shows that practices like meditation can nudge conservatives' political orientations to the left. Values from both sides of the political spectrum have important roles to play in regard to societal structure. read more
  • How Psychedelics Enhance Cognition, Boost Inte ...
      The following is excerpted from The Psychedelic Future of the Mind, published by Inner Traditions, Bear & Company. Current research offers some tantalizing support for claims that psychedelics can be used to enhance cognition, improve intelligence, and strengthen cognitive studie ...
  • The Risky Music of Psychedelic Spirituality
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Desertification

  • Water Crisis Hitting Food, Energy – And Everyt ...
    How much water does it take to turn on a light? It took 10,000 litres to make your jeans. Another three big bathtubs of water was needed for your two-eggs-toast-coffee breakfast this morning. We are surrounded by an unseen world of water: furniture, houses, cars, roads, buildings – practic ...
  • Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Po ...
    When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation. Now, as the United Nations begins the process of formulating a new set ...
  • Food Policies Failing the World’s Hungry
    The world’s food security remains “vulnerable”, new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington think tank, says such numbers are “unacc ...
  • Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
    Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies a ...
  • Q&A: Water Disputes Get Resolved While Other C ...
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen Interviews UNESCO Director General IRINA BOKOVA

Blogging Canadians

  • Green Party And Liberal Party Have Problems In ...
    Elizabeth May’s plan for electoral cooperation may flop in Labrador: Hebert MONTREAL—Under the guise of a nicely wrapped gift, Green Party leader Elizabeth May handed the Liberals an empty box this weekend. [...] It is possible that May has another more strategic agenda. As Green party leader ...
  • Labrador : les néo-démocrates présentent leur ...
    Le Nouveau Parti démocratique propose Harry Borlase à titre de candidat dans la circonscription fédérale du Labrador en vue de l'élection partielle. Il se mesurera au député conservateur sortant, Peter Penashue, qui a démissionné du caucus fédéral récemment parce que son équipe a accepté ...
  • New Democrat Harry Borlase Will Challenge Pete ...
      The New Democrats have chosen a northern analyst to carry the party banner in the coming Labrador byelection, rejecting a suggestion the party sit this one out. Harry Borlase was picked in an online vote Sunday for the byelection, which has yet to be called. Borlase was raised in Na ...
  • Calling Out Brad Wall's Phony Contrived Outrag ...
    Pipelines have already carried share of hot airBy Bruce Johnstone - Regina Leader-Post Aside from oil and gas, pipelines seem to be useful conduits for transporting another commodity we seem to have a surplus of - hot air.No sooner had Premier Brad Wall returned from his trip to Washingt ...
  • Kitchener Cyclists Don't Want Sparky Bikes!
    http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/902205--cyclist-wants-e-bikes-banned-from-kitchener-trails

Press TV - Middle East

  • Assad urges BRICS help in Syria crisis
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called on the BRICS group of emerging powers to help “stop the violence” in the Arab country.
  • Bahrainis hold funeral for slain protester
    People in Bahrain have held a funeral procession for a 35-year-old protester who was killed by regime forces.
  • Israeli forces kidnap 6 Palestinians
    The military forces of the Israeli regime have abducted six Palestinians including five members of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, in the occupied West Bank.
  • Abu Dhabi slammed for trial of 94 people
    A coalition of international human rights groups has described the trial of 94 people on charges of trying to overthrow the United Arab Emirates’ government as ‘flagrantly unfair.’
  • Iraq slams Arab League over Syria
    Iraq says a decision by the Arab League (AL) to hand the Syrian government's seat to the foreign-backed opposition is the infringement of the organization’s charter.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • 2013 ePortfolio Showcase
    The annual ePortfolio Showcase highlights students who have created ePortfolios for academic, professional, and/or personal use. The showcase aims to demonstrate the many ways our students are stretching definitions and creating full pictures of their learning. This year, in addition to acceptin ...
  • News From The Alumni Advisory Council
    The following post was submitted by Crispin Goytia ‘09, Chair of the Alumni Advisory Council.  The CUNY School of Professional Studies Alumni Advisory Council was formed with the intention of bringing alumni together to make time to dedicate and “give back” to the school that gave us ...
  • SPS Alums Present: The Birds and The Bees&#823 ...
    Maggie Keenan-Bolger (SPS ’10) and Rachel Sullivan (SPS ’10) are co-creators of The Birds and the Bees Unabridged, an original devised theater piece about female sexuality accompanied by a pre/post show art exhibit. Bringing together a diverse ensemble of 25 people, and over 15 visual artists, T ...
  • Distance Learning and Online Relationships
    This article by Wendy Williams originally appeared on the blog Getting Smart on February 21, 2013.  I never get to meet most of my students in person, because I teach asynchronous online courses via Blackboard, for the City University of New York (CUNY). I was part of a cohort of Ph.D. students ...
  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...

Dissident Voice

  • Shooting Down the Phoenix — Takes More ...
    Preface – We like that global aspect of Dissident Voice, but if you have been a reader and fan, like I have, you can see that local politics equals global implications. What one little college in California –  for instance, Sonoma State – bring to us the world in the mighty grips of ADMIN ...
  • Heading For A Different Planet
    The systematic propaganda of the corporate media – its deep-rooted antipathy towards upholding proper journalistic standards in the public interest – extends to its coverage of human-induced climate change. The Independent recently delivered a masterpiece of headline obfuscation with ...
  • Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism
    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. More than 11 years after this penal colony was opened on the American-occupied territory of Cub ...
  • There are Only 1 Million Gun Extremists
    Like William Spengler, the convicted felon who killed firefighters on Christmas Eve in Webster, NY with a weapon bought by a straw purchaser, Kurt Myers also set his home ablaze and began a killing spree this month in Herkimer County, New York. Like Spengler, Myers was a loner who acted strangel ...
  • World Social Forum Opens in Tunisia
    Tunis, Tunisia — Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia and neighboring nations, but there was substantia ...

Nick Turse

  • futurejournalismproject:Public Radio Bracket ...
    futurejournalismproject: Public Radio Bracket Madness: Down to the Elite Eight Who you got? All Things Considered v Radiolab; Fresh Air v Talk of the Nation; The Moth Radio Hour v Wait Wait; BBC Newshour v This American Life.  Going to be tight. Voting’s here. If I were a betting man, I’d go R ...
  • nickturse:As South vietnamese troops pass by ...
    nickturse: As South vietnamese troops pass by in the Ca Mau peninsula, a mother grieves over her daughter, who was badly wounded by machine gun fire from a U.S. helicopter, the week of Sept. 15, 1963. The soldiers had landed by helicopter in response to an attack by Viet Cong guerrillas on a S ...
  • killanythingthatmoves:Americans in Vietnam ...
    killanythingthatmoves: Americans in Vietnam never seemed to run out of ways to burn things down, whether it be flame tanks, flame boats, napalm canisters dropped from planes, helicopters armed with white phosphorus rockets, or simply ground troops with zippo cigarette lighters.  The means wer ...
  • For those of you in and around New York City, ...
    For those of you in and around New York City, I’ll be giving a reading and signing copies of my New York Times bestseller Kill Anything that Moves at 192 Books in Chelsea (at 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street) on March 27th at 7pm.  For more information, call 212-255-4022 or click here.
  • killanythingthatmoves:Troops in the field re ...
    killanythingthatmoves: Troops in the field regularly carved their unit’s initials or numbers into corpses, adorned bodies with their unit’s patch, or left a “death card”— generally either an ace of spades or a custom- printed business card claiming credit for the kill. Company A, 1st Battalion ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • “Merchants of Death” Fly Under the Radar of U. ...
    Viktor Bout earned a few monikers in his heyday: “Merchant of Death”, “Sanctions Buster” and “Lord of War”. He’s the poster boy for illicit arms brokers – a guild of shadowy intermediaries who link arms suppliers to their end users. While Bout sits in a jail in the southern U.S. state of Illinoi ...
  • U.S. High Court in Hot Seat over Same-Sex Marriage
    On the second day of oral arguments in two different cases involving the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed serious doubts about the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which codifies the non-recognition of same-sex marriage for f ...
  • Argentina vs Holdouts Could Set Precedent for ...
    The fate of countries with major debt problems is at stake in federal courts in New York, which are to decide in April whether or not they accept Argentina’s proposal to the bondholders who rejected two restructurings of sovereign debt. Since Argentina defaulted on nearly 100 billion dollars in ...
  • Subsidies Play “Significant Role” in Climate C ...
    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging national governments around the world to roll back or eliminate subsidies on petroleum-based energy sources, estimating that this alone could result in a 13-percent decline in global carbon dioxide emissions. In an unusual new paper marking its ful ...
  • Cyprus Readies for Reopening of Banks
    Cyprus is finalising capital control measures to prevent a run on the banks by depositors anxious about their savings after the country agreed a painful rescue package with international lenders. With banks due to reopen on Thursday, Finance Minister Michael Sarris said he expected the control m ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Responding to the New York Times About Going t ...
    Summary: To encourage constructive debate, we will address two of the larger issues raised in — and by — Laura Secor’s review of our book “Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms With the Islamic Republic of Iran” (March 3). source: NY Timesread more
  • NATO Commissioned Research: U.S.-Israeli cybe ...
    Summary: Washington Post has reported that the 2009 cyberattack by the U.S. and Israel that crippled Iran’s nuclear program by sabotaging industrial equipment constituted “an act of force” and was likely illegal under international law, according to a manual commissioned by NATO’s cyber defe ...
  • Obama won't decide on Iran's nuclear program
    Summary: By now it is obvious that Obama does not have the balls to take on AIPAC, and yet the US is in no position to start another war either ... So Obama will most likely make all the right noises to keep the Israelis satisfied and yet will kick the ball down the road. source: Iran Affa ...
  • Obama's choice: Real diplomacy (or war) with Iran
    Summary: Contrary to conventional wishful thinking in American policy circles, developments in the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 and the Iran-related messages coming out of President Obama's trip to Israel strongly suggest that the risk of a US-initiated military confrontation with ...
  • Explaining Going to Tehran
    Summary: We are pleased to share a couple of extended radio interviews we’ve done recently regarding our book, Going to Tehran. source: Going to Tehranread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Saturn's Rings --Artifacts from the Origin of ...
                     "Observing the rings and moons with Cassini gives us an amazing bird's-eye view of the intricate processes at work in the Saturn system, and perhaps in the evolution of planetary systems as well," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at JPL. "What an o ...
  • A Colossal Star --One of the Largest Known Dis ...
                     VY Canis Majoris, an irregular pulsating variable, A red hypergiant star that is one of the largest and most luminous known stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, lies about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. VY Can is about half a million times as lumin ...
  • The Most Distant Molecules of Water in the Uni ...
                     Astronomers are having to rewrite a major part of the history of the Universe.The most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought. The most intense bursts of starbirth are thought to have taken place in the early Univer ...
  • A Spectacular Scene of Stellar Birth & Death
                       Thisamazing  image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light years from Earth, shows X-rays from the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Tele ...
  • Image of the Day: Rare Monster Galaxy 10-Times ...
                   This past fall, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy, with a core bigger than any seen before. Spanning a little over one million light-years, the galaxy is about ten times the diamete ...

Natural News

  • USDA agricultural census program is a covert s ...
    The USDA "census of agriculture" is a government-run farm surveillance program designed to register and inventory detailed private data on farm assets, operations and personnel. A census form is mailed to each farmer in the United States, accompanied by threats of compliance...
  • Inflammatory bowel disease linked to higher ra ...
    A growing number of studies are implicating high dietary intake of meat and omega-6 fatty acids as a significant risk factor in the development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, while also suggesting that higher vitamin...
  • The art of living and communicating with inten ...
    The greatest obstacle to living freely and intentionally that you face may be a simple lack of good choices. From the moment you gain consciousness each day, you have the potential to make choices in how you think and act. Without a doubt these choices will determine...
  • People who eat processed junk food are angry, ...
    The things you eat have a direct effect on your state of mind, and even have the power to drastically alter your behavioral patterns. These are the findings of a new study out of Oxford University in the U.K., which revealed that processed junk food consumption can lead...
  • Study: Breast milk kills cancer cells
    The health benefits of human breast milk are vast, and researchers from Sweden have uncovered the presence of yet another substance in breast milk with incredible cancer-fighting abilities. As reported in a study published in the journal PLoS One, the substance, known...

Threat Level

  • Half-Ownership Claim of Facebook Is a ‘Fabrica ...
    Declaring the case fraudulent, a magistrate judge on Tuesday urged a federal court to dismiss claims by a New York man whose lawsuit asserts he owns half of the social-networking service Facebook.
  • Aiming Laser Pointer at Airplane Gets Man 2.5 ...
    A 19-year-old North Hollywood man is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for aiming a laser pointer at a commercial aircraft -- a steep punishment that goes well beyond what federal prosecutors were seeking.
  • Divided Supreme Court Hinders Cops’ Use of Dru ...
    A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday gave notice to the nation's law enforcement officials that they generally need search warrants to employ drug-sniffing dogs outside a home to detect whether drugs are inside.
  • MMS Is Not an Illicit File-Sharing Service, Ap ...
    The Multimedia Messaging Service is not an illicit file-sharing protocol, a federal appeals court ruled, setting aside Monday a complaint from an MMS-greeting-card supplier that claimed the nation's largest telecoms helped consumers infringe via MMS texting.
  • NATO Researchers: Stuxnet Attack on Iran Was I ...
    A cyberattack that sabotaged Iran's uranium enrichment program was an "act of force" and was likely illegal, according to research commissioned by NATO's cyber warfare center.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Iraq, Iran and the Folly of Preventive War
    America's soul-searching to mark the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq went pretty much according to script. While many of its liberal supporters offered their mea culpas for having been so catastrophically mistaken, the Bush administration's architects of the war doubled-down on t ...
  • Bush Advisor Hadley: Iraq Like 9/11 a "Failure ...
    This week's tenth anniversary of the catastrophic U.S. invasion of Iraq produced perhaps the most bizarre post-mortem in in recent history. While liberal supporters of the war like Ezra Klein and Jonathan Chait lined up to apologize for their error, right-wing cheerleaders like Peggy Noonan and ...
  • Ryan's Killer Budget Gets 95 Percent of GOP Vo ...
    Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann marked the third anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act by urging her colleagues to repeal Obamacare "before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens." Of course, as the likes of Rep. Virginia Foxx (who similarly de ...
  • Boehner, Ryan Undermine GOP's Next Debt Ceilin ...
    This week, House Speaker John Boehner and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan made two important if largely overlooked admissions regarding the U.S. national debt. While Boehner told ABC News that "we have no immediate debt crisis," Ryan similarly acknowledged to CBS News, "We do not have ...
  • The U.S. Government? Catholic Bishops Want to ...
    As Pope Francis starts his papacy, polls show that American Catholics overwhelmingly believe the issue of clergy sex abuse must be his number one priority. As a Pew Research survey two weeks ago showed, while that crisis tops the list for 34 percent, neither abortion (3 percent) or contraceptio ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Coriander Contained High Levels Of Toxin
    (This article originally appeared on Healthfooddaily.) A study of ten families found that the ones who ate organic, catered meals had higher levels of chemicals in their bodies. It wasn’t because the food they were eating is organic, the high levels of phthalates were traced to imported co ...
  • New Study Confirms Water Injection Caused Okla ...
    The linkage between wastewater injection and earthquakes seems to have been covered ad nauseum over the past few years, especially in relation to the Oklahoma earthquakes on November 6, 2011, when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Prague (in Oklahoma, not in Europe) was preceded by a 5.0 shock and ...
  • MSHA Approves Coal Slurry Impoundment Taller T ...
    Alpha Natural Resources has received approval from federal regulators to expand the Brushy Fork coal slurry impound, one of the biggest coal slurry impoundments in the nation, to a height  taller than the Hoover Dam. The impoundment is located near Whitesville, West Virginia, and will increase i ...
  • Australian Energy Minister No Longer A Climate ...
    Reposted from RenewEconomy: Australia’s newly appointed Minister for Energy and Resources, Gary Gray, admitted he was once a fierce climate sceptic, but now says he is embarrassed by his former position on climate science. Asked on ABC TV’s Lateline program, Gray admitted that he had once brande ...
  • Carbon Tax! (Cartoon)
    Oy — unfortunately, this is the situation today: h/t Climate Progress Related Stories: 4.47 To 1 — Ratio Of U.S. Voters Who Would Prefer Carbon Tax To Cut In Spending US Senators Propose Carbon Tax China Announces Introduction Of Carbon Tax $20/Ton Carbon Tax Could Reduce US Deficit by $1. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): even more trolls
    Previously: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): for marriage equality (March 24, 2013) Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): cue the trolls (March 25, 2013) Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [file photo] Even more anti marriage equality troll excess on Senator Claire McCaskill's facebook page: ...."Dear Claire, Your of ...
  • The Libertarian Lesson
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): for marriage equality
    Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [file photo] Today, a post on Senator Claire McCaskill's (D) non-government web site: And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13 The question of marriage equality is a great American debate. Many people, some wit ...
  • Right Wing Sees In Israel a Kindred Spirit
    By @TedFrier No man is an island, and no nation either - at least not politically. For even countries surrounded on four sides by water, like Great Britain, must also reconcile themselves to the reality they are surrounded by other peoples with whom they must learn to live. That was the message ...
  • A Republican Split? Don't Hold Your Breath
    There's been much ado in the MSM lately about change in the Republican Party. Last month, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, became the first major Republican politician to come out in favor of gay marriage, and said his son is gay. On immigration overhauls, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has endorsed a pa ...

Care 2

  • Help Save Canadian Wildlife ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Global Warming is reducing the amount of pack ice in the Arctic, which polar bears and other Canadian wildlife depend on for survival. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Wanton deforestation threatens anti malaria tr ...
    Increased deforestation and over exploitation of trees species that have anti-malarial qualities has put them at risk of extinction. Submitted by JL A. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Dog Finds Hiker Trapped Between Rocks (Video!)
    A man who may have been trapped under a pile of rocks for as long as 4 days was rescued by firefighter on Monday. Ramon Llamas told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that he was hiking with his dog, Mole, shortly before 8:30 a.m. when the German shepherd-cho Submitted by BarbCat SunshineLady to Off ...
  • AR: Prevent Quorum Courts from Regulating Anim ...
    SB 910 is a bad bill. It would allow for quorum courts (a small legislative body in certain counties) to regulate animal matters in private communities without limit. Under SB 910 a private community would mean a community outside the corporate Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  &nb ...
  • Shut Down the Adoption and Sale of Pets on Cra ...
    Craigslist, the popular classified advertisement website, allows people to sell furniture, cars, apartments, and other personal items through online interactions. For animal welfare reasons, Craigslist does not allow the sale of any pets or animals, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Why Did Obama Put a Fat Girl in Charge of Secr ...
    Ah, the media is all a twitter over the appointment of the first female director of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson. Good God!! Our political correctness, equal opportunity nonsense is running amuck. I have no problem with naming a woman to run the Secret Service, but this pudgy porker ain&#82 ...
  • Zero Dark Thirty–A Festering Turd of a Movie
    I succumbed last night to my wife’s request and watched the wretched movie, ZERO DARK THIRTY. Fortunately, I did not have to spend a cent to do so. We were visiting friends who had a copy and I agreed to watch. My original refusal to spend any money to watch this film was predicated on [...]
  • The Cyprus Fallout Is Coming
    The pathetic excuse for journalism is on display with the shallow, tabloidish coverage of the watershed economic event unfolding in Cyprus. In case you have been hiding in a cave: Cyprus reached an 11th-hour €10bn bailout deal with international lenders on Monday morning that avoids a controvers ...
  • Has The Homosexual Agenda Gone Wild?
    With the Supreme Court set to hear two cases related to the issue of homosexual marriage, the so-called Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Sexually Confused community is mounting a full court press to sway public opinion. The Constitution via the Tenth Amendment, makes it pretty clear about the power of ...
  • Choices
    The following reportedly was written by a retired Delta Force operator who writes under the name, “Dalton Fury.” This is circulating among the SpecOps community. I received it from a good friend who was a Delta sniper. I have not been able to independently verify that Fury wrote this ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop remo ...
    LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop removal York Dispatch Here's a better idea: Let's demand Congress pass the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act, H.R. 526. The Act will place a moratorium on new mountaintop removal "mines" until the science demonstrates th ...
  • Stop mountaintop removal mining - Columbia Star
    Stop mountaintop removal mining Columbia Star As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too late. Mountaintop removal no ...
  • Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining ...
    Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining Akron Leader Publications As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too la ...
  • Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate ...
    Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate Beaumont Enterprise NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sponsors of a measure to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee say they plan to bring the legislation back next year after a Senate panel killed it Wednesday. The proposal sponsored by Sen. Lowe ...
  • Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate ...
    Mountaintop removal ban killed in Tenn. Senate TriCities.com Sponsors of a measure to ban mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee say they plan to bring the legislation back next year after a Senate panel killed it Wednesday. The proposal sponsored by Sen. Lowe Finney of Jackson and Rep. Gl ...

Memeorandum

  • Alabama lawmaker sends shocking RACIST rant to ...
    David Martosko / Daily Mail: Alabama lawmaker sends shocking RACIST rant to gun-rights constituent, and copies every member of the state legislature  —  A black member of the Alabama legislature uncorked a racist tirade in an email this week to a constituent who urged him not to ...
  • Bennett: Erdogan making Israel regret its apol ...
    Jerusalem Post: Bennett: Erdogan making Israel regret its apology  —  Trade Minister lashes out at Turkish PM for his actions since Netanyahu's apology to Turkey over May 2010 IDF raid on flotilla.  —  New Minister of Economy and Trade Naftali Bennett lashed out ...
  • The SCOTUS ruling the GOP really wants (Alexan ...
    Alexander Burns / Politico: The SCOTUS ruling the GOP really wants  —  Conservatives watching this week's gay marriage arguments at the Supreme Court are wondering if it will happen again: Unelected justices ignoring the will of legislatures and high-handedly imposing their own ...
  • DOJ Emails Show Feds Were Less Than "Explicit" ...
    Linda Lye / ACLU: DOJ Emails Show Feds Were Less Than “Explicit” With Judges On Cell Phone Tracking Tool  —  A Justice Department document obtained by the ACLU of Northern California shows that federal investigators were routinely using a sophisticated cell phone tra ...
  • Biden: Country is 'on the verge' of universal ...
    Reid J. Epstein / Politico: Biden: Country is ‘on the verge’ of universal background checks  —  Vice President Biden said the country is “on the verge” of requring universal background checks for gun purchases.  —  Speaking to supporters o ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.5, South Sandwich Islands region
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 06:42:46 UTC Wednesday, March 27, 2013 04:42:46 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.6, South Sandwich Islands region
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 05:59:41 UTC Wednesday, March 27, 2013 03:59:41 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 6.0, Taiwan
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 02:03:20 UTC Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:03:20 AM at epicenterDepth: 20.70 km (12.86 mi)
  • M 5.0, Hokkaido, Japan region
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 01:25:45 UTC Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:25:45 AM at epicenterDepth: 280.10 km (174.05 mi)
  • M 5.1, Caucasus region, Russia
    Tuesday, March 26, 2013 23:35:24 UTC Wednesday, March 27, 2013 02:35:24 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 雾霾背后的&#3246 ...
    持续多日的大规模雾霾，在中国掀起了一场关于机动车油品质量如何升级，以及由谁 ...
  • 大坝建设加&#2109 ...
    中国在缅甸萨尔温江上修建的大坝导致地方紧张形势加剧，但企业没有吸取过去的惨 ...
  • 猪祸黄浦江
    万头死猪浮出黄浦江水面，沉在底下的，是上海周边的水系污染、河道管理的政出多 ...
  • 猪祸黄浦江
    万头死猪浮出黄浦江水面，沉在底下的，是上海周边的水系污染、河道管理的政出多 ...
  • 中国采矿助&#3827 ...
    贫穷的西非国家几内亚被禁止买卖濒危物种，但购买黑猩猩的中国并未承担任何责任 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Conservative Morality: Free Pass for Criminal ...
    We're still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America.In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which gave women the right to hav ...
  • Watch: Colbert Shreds Georgia Senator on Same ...
     On his show last night, Stephen Colbert took on absurd conservative arguments against same sex marriage.“The gay swarm has descended on the Supreme court,” Colbert said, in reference to demonstrations supporting two hearings on marriage equality, “And folks, I shudder ...
  • Why Are Stores Charging Customers to Browse?
     In case you needed another reason to just stay home and order everything off the Internet – how about two news reports in one day of retailers charging customers merely to come in and browse?Over the weekend, sharp-eyed posters on Reddit pointed out a sign in the window ...
  • Right-Wing Anti-Marriage Rally Sparsely Attended
     For weeks, the National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown has been touting the “historic” March for Marriage, telling supporters “this is our time” to "change history." A month ago he wrote excitedly about a “game-changer,” a $500,000 mat ...
  • 5 Religious Leaders Who Gave Up the Faith and ...
    The percentage of Americans who have abandoned religious faith has been growing rapidly in recent years, with one in five Americans citing “none” as their religious affiliation. Most of these people have little to fear when it comes to admitting they have no religion, but for ...

Threat Level

  • Half-Ownership Claim of Facebook Is a ‘Fabrica ...
    Declaring the case fraudulent, a magistrate judge on Tuesday urged a federal court to dismiss claims by a New York man whose lawsuit asserts he owns half of the social-networking service Facebook.
  • Aiming Laser Pointer at Airplane Gets Man 2.5 ...
    A 19-year-old North Hollywood man is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for aiming a laser pointer at a commercial aircraft -- a steep punishment that goes well beyond what federal prosecutors were seeking.
  • Divided Supreme Court Hinders Cops’ Use of Dru ...
    A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday gave notice to the nation's law enforcement officials that they generally need search warrants to employ drug-sniffing dogs outside a home to detect whether drugs are inside.
  • MMS Is Not an Illicit File-Sharing Service, Ap ...
    The Multimedia Messaging Service is not an illicit file-sharing protocol, a federal appeals court ruled, setting aside Monday a complaint from an MMS-greeting-card supplier that claimed the nation's largest telecoms helped consumers infringe via MMS texting.
  • NATO Researchers: Stuxnet Attack on Iran Was I ...
    A cyberattack that sabotaged Iran's uranium enrichment program was an "act of force" and was likely illegal, according to research commissioned by NATO's cyber warfare center.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Linked to Joun ...
    In January 2013 local, state and federal officials announced an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to consumption of ground beef produced by Jouni Meats, Inc. and Gab Halal Foods.  Public... Continue Reading
  • Thanksgiving Turkey Gone Very Wrong
    On Sunday, May 22, 2005, the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) was alerted to a possible outbreak of foodborne illness centered at Old South restaurant in Camden, South... Continue Reading
  • Mike Taylor and the myth of Monsanto’s Man
    I have known of Mike Taylor since shortly after September 29, 1994. As Food Safety News reported in “Looking Back: The Story Behind Banning E. Coli O157:H7,” Taylor took the... Continue Reading
  • OMB Struck Product and Environmental Testing, ...
    Food Chemical News reports that the preventive controls proposal that FDA sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget in November 2011 would have required food companies to... Continue Reading
  • Atlantic Salmon Recalled in Canada for Listeria
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Central-Epicure Food Products Ltd. are warning the public not to consume Central-Epicure brand Smoked Atlantic Salmon because it may be contaminated with Listeria... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...
  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...
  • Geneva: Mitsubishi debuts Concept CA-MiEV, a n ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi is stretching the electric jellybean. For years, the i-MiEV was regular presence at Mitsubishi's auto show booths around the world, and the car rightfully earned its nickname because of its rounded shape. ...
  • Video: Toyota sizzle reel gives better look at ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Toyota, Design/Style, Electric Toyota is taking the tiny tandem Tango to Tron town. In a teaser video for the new i-Road, debuting at the Geneva Motor Show next week, we catch a light-bike-like glimpse of Toyota's quirky tandem-seat concept. We still don't know much ...

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Invisible Opportunity

  • Too big to fail or ignore: How the US went fro ...
    by mybudget360 Remember when too big to fail brought our economy to a grinding halt? Of course you do because this is a recent financial event with dramatic ramifications. In the time since the buffet of bailouts was rolled out you might be surprised that the too big to fail banks have only grow ...
  • Israel to “Wipe Lebanon off the Map”
    Al Akhbar | July 6, 2012 A senior Israeli general threatened Lebanon with destruction on Thursday, saying the military was prepared for a “very violent” war should conflict spark on the border. Brigardier-General Hertzi Halevy, commander of the IDF’s 91st Division, told local Israeli media ...
  • Testing the Limits of Freedom of Speech: Ernst ...
    By Kourosh Ziabari | Foreign Policy Journal | April 30, 2010 Ernst Zundel is a German author and historian who has spent seven years of his life behind bars as a result of expressing his controversial viewpoints and opinions. He is a revisionist who has denied the Holocaust as describe ...
  • Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporati ...
    By Michael, on October 4th, 2010 Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths co ...
  • CIA Targeted Assassinations by Induced Heart A ...
    by Press Core In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to have an immediate heart attack. This poison could be frozen into the shape of a dart and then fired at high speed fr ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The future calls the Marine Corps, but they re ...
    Summary:  An organization’s destiny rides on its leaders’ decisions on those rare occasions when the future call. Their response puts the organization on the path to success, or decay. Sometimes that happens on the field in battle.  Sometimes it’s a call to action, to serve by ...
  • Social unrest coming to Europe? If not, why not?
    Summary: Five years of crisis in Europe, yet its streets remain mostly calm. What accounts for this? How long will it continue? “At the heart of the crisis, there is the challenge of redefining the social contract to safeguard the sustainability of Europe’s social model.” &#821 ...
  • The next step of computer evolution: becoming ...
    Summary:  Yesterday we examined the job prospects for journalists when computers do much of their job as well as people. But it might not end there. Computers will become bloggers, either in collaboration with people, or software run by people as a hobby. Here we speculate about what kinds of bl ...
  • Journalists reporting the end of journalism as ...
    Summary: Journalists often have been unsympathetic when reporting past waves of unemployment from automation. Now they have the opportunity to do first person reporting, as computers replace professionals. Like journalists.  This is another chapter in a series about the the robot revolution, soo ...
  • Hype about 3D printing & dreams of American re ...
    Summary:  Judging from the hype, 3-D printing is the next big thing in the ongoing industrial revolution (especially since the biotech revolution has stalled) — and the US has a great lead.  We’re #1! No need for difficult structural reforms! Too bad the story is probably exaggerated ...

WIRED Magazine | 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.

PakAlert

  • Homeland Security To Military: We Will Absorb You
    Homeland Security sees the role of the military as a subset of its own mission. A right wing position paper from a think tank noted how the Army has taken critical steps to broaden its mission to include homeland security tasks. But the thinking was that the Army needs to redirect its focus and ...
  • CIA Targeted Assassinations by Induced Heart A ...
    In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to have an immediate heart attack. This poison could be frozen into the shape of a dart and then fired at high speed from a pistol. T ...
  • Yes, Hitler really did take the guns from Jews ...
    They say those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it, but then again, sometimes repeating history is exactly the point, as longtime anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein's new "assault weapons ban" planned legislation for early next year proves. Feinstein, a California Democrat, was ...
  • “Hee-Haw”: Jim Carrey Mocks Gun Lovers & Charl ...
    Jim Carrey pokes fun at late NRA president Charlton Heston, gun owners in musical 'Funny or Die' spoof. What would the late actor and former NRA president Charlton Heston say
  • Obama Front Group Labels Big Sis Bullet Buys ‘ ...
    The George Soros-funded Obama campaign front group Think Progress has responded to concerns about a DHS arms build-up by claiming the whole issue is a ‘debunked conspiracy theory’

Andy Worthington

  • Save the NHS: Photos and Report from the Lobby ...
    Save the NHS: The Lobby of Parliament on March 26 to Scrap the New Regulations Enforcing NHS Privatisation, a set on Flickr. Yesterday, in the Houses of Parliament, a passionate and packed-out meeting took place in one of the House of Commons committee rooms, attended by well over a hundred camp ...
  • Free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo: Photos and ...
    Please sign the e-petition calling for the British government to secure the return to the UK from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, who has been cleared for release since 2007 but is still held. 100,000 signatures are needed by April 20. This is for UK citizens ...
  • “No Indefinite Detention at Guantánamo,& ...
    We live in surreal times. President Obama, who promised “hope and change,” has, instead, proven to be a worthy successor to George W. Bush as a warmonger and a defender of those in positions of power and authority who authorized the use of torture. In addition, when it comes to anoth ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo w ...
    As the world’s media marked the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on Tuesday, I was honoured to be asked to speak to Dennis Bernstein, the veteran progressive radio host at KPFA in Berkeley. Dennis and I have spoken before, and it’s always a pleasure to talk with him, but I wa ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantána ...
    For the last fortnight I have been writing about, and discussing the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo, in my articles “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo” and “How Long Can the Government Pretend that the Massive Hunger Strike at Guantánamo Doesn’t Exist?” and in a ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Trial Against Lt. Dan Choi for ‘Don’t Ask, Don ...
    With much press devoted to the Supreme Court arguments on California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, not everyone may be aware that LGBTQ rights are on trial in a third case this week: United States v. Daniel Choi. ...
  • SCOTUS Update: It Doesn't Look Good for DOMA
    Analysts assessing today's oral arguments at the US Supreme Court tend to agree that the seventeen-year-old law barring recognition of legally married same-sex couples, called the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is in deep trouble. rea ...
  • Chicago Public Schools Barricades Offices as T ...
    In anticipation of a teacher-led protest expected to attract thousands of students, parents and community members, the Chicago Public School showed its nervousness ahead of the late afternoon rally by surrounding its downtown offices with metal barricades on Wednesday. ...
  • Brennan Considering CIA Agent Who Destroyed To ...
    A yet to be named woman within the CIA, who signed off on a 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of prisoners being subjected to torture, has recently been placed in charge of the CIA’s clandestine services, according to the Washington Post, leaving new CIA Chief John Brennan with the decis ...
  • Now Gaza’s Ark Prepares to Dare Israel
    Palestinian fishers are hit hard by the Israeli blockade on Gaza. (Credit: Emad Badwan/IPS)GAZA CITY - “An ark is literally a large floating vessel designed to keep its passengers and cargo safe,” say the group preparing ‘Gaza’s Ark’. ...

Lifehacker

  • Everything You Need to Prepare for a Long Road ...
    I love road trips. Just saying or writing the words sends shivers of excitement down my spine. If you think I'm crazy, it's probably because you grew up in a country where road trips are taken for granted, and the number of places you can drive to and go to are endless. To me, road trips a ...
  • “Working Hard Is a Skill You Have to Nurture”
    Getting comfortable is unavoidable if there's any sort of routine in your life. As such, it's easy to become content or lazy, and as web craftsman Chris Shiflett points out, it takes a conscious effort to keep that from happening. More »
  • Air Sealing Is the Simplest and Most Efficient ...
    We've looked at several ways to save on your energy bill, but among them all nothing does the job better than air sealing. Utility bill comparison site MyEnergy explains: More »
  • What Kind of Speaker Setup Do You Have on Your ...
    Having good audio on your computer can make all the difference in the world, but the form that audio takes really depends on your preferences and what types of things you do. More »
  • We are Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna, Found ...
    With Birchbox, Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna have tapped into a few things consumers really love: physical mail, the element of surprise, and the ability to try stuff out before committing. Birchbox subscribers complete a personal profile and receive a curated package of five or so samp ...

Water Wars

  • MLC warns of Maharashtra water wars
    BJP MLC Ashish Shelar at the Legislative Council meeting on Monday said that a circular was issued by the additional director general of police, Ahmed Javed, stating that with the ongoing water crisis across the state, the likelihood of an impending water war is high.
  • Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by H ...
    The snow is falling in Helsinki as the Tiger tries to escape his past in this short story from Hassan Blasim He woke, and before the last traces of the nightmare had faded he made up his mind: he'd take him out to the forest and finish it. Fifteen years ago, before he shot him, the man said, "Do ...
  • Can Ghana avoid the coming water wars ? IMANI
    Have any one of you urban dwellers ever joined a queue all day to fetch water from a well just because your state-managed water system had not been flowing for days?
  • Has Ghana enough Water to Share with Citizens ...
    *IMANI Alert: Has Ghana enough Water to Share with Citizens on World Water Day? Can Ghana Avoid the Coming Water Wars and Seek Cooperation?*
  • Blue Peace: New Solution for Averting Water Wa ...
    MUMBAI, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --With the spectre of war looming over Egypt and Ethiopia due to discord on the Nile River Comprehensive Framework Agreement, a new report, Blue Peace for the Nile, ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Chief Justice: Gays And Lesbians Must Be ‘Poli ...
    During oral arguments this morning, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appeared to at least entertain the argument by House Republicans that gays and lesbians are too politically powerful for constitutional protection. Roberts suggested that gays and lesbians must be “politically powe ...
  • Intermission
    The bridge is yours. -Captain America 2 sounds like it could be getting delightfully bonkers. -Game of Thrones actors in and out of costume. -Also, have a map of Westeros in Minecraft. -All of Woody Allen’s on-screen stammers. -I’m not a huge Michael Bay fan, but I am weirdly excited ...
  • Video: Hunters And Anglers See First-Hand The ...
    People who spend a lot of their time outdoors are more likely to see the obvious — the climate is changing and invasive species like the bark beetle are ravaging the West.  That’s a key reason hunters and anglers rallied for the climate bill back in 2009. Last year Todd Tanner, the founder of Co ...
  • Junot Diaz Talks Superman As An Undocumented I ...
    The meme that Superman, having arrived as a child from Krypton through the machinations of his parents, is in fact an undocumented immigrant has percolated a bit during this round of the immigration reform debate. But it took novelist Junot Diaz, who appeared on The Colbert Report earlier in the ...
  • Background Checks Are One Step Closer To Reali ...
    Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) announced his support for universal background checks, a key proposal in the Senate’s gun violence prevention package. After initially remaining vague about his position, Donnelly stressed the importance of keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals or mentally ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Boris, Alison and Moi
     A little while ago, in the comments section of one of her posts, Alison at Creekside was asked why she isn't blogging so much anymore. She replied that there didn't seem to be much point to blogging in the face of official sanction for an illegitimate government.(I don't remember which pos ...
  • A Break
    I'll resume my look at Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State tomorrow (maybe). For now, yeez kin watch a video. A terrible video I watched with my 5-year old last night. The guy who wrote that script probably got $150 (in today's money) for it. Threw it at his bosses and said "If yo ...
  • "Resisitng the State: Urban Colonization and R ...
    Chapter Three of Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State is based on interviews with Roger Obonsawin and Kathy Mallet, two First Nations people who worked to build friendly spaces and services for their fellow FN people in Canada's urban centres. Roger Obonsawin Kathy Mallet Neigh ...
  • "Resisting the State" ... More
    So, yeah, more about Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State. In Chapter 2, Neigh talks about the transplanted Trinidadian, Toronto lawyer Charles Roach. Neigh begins with an in-depth explanation of how the cultures of other lands filter into a locale via the process of immigration ...
  • Scott Neigh's "Talking Radical: Resisting the ...
    So, my friend Scott Neigh has asked me to review his book Talking Radical: Resisting the State - Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists. So here's the review!! First off, I finally think that I understand Scott's antipathy to working through official channels to achieve lasting gains ...

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TechDirt

  • Orin Kerr And Members Of The EFF Representing ...
    Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer is appealing his 41 month prison sentence (and its accompanying fine of $73,000). Many members of the security community have expressed concern with this ruling, especially in light of other CFAA cases. Auernheimer's exposure of AT&T's security hole doesn't really ...
  • Shockingly Unshocking: 'Cybersecurity' FUD Has ...
    Back when this hype about "cybersecurity" and "cyberwar" first started to hit the mainstream (early on, "cyberwar" was more common, but lately people focus on "cybersecurity"), we had an article which suggested that much of this really seemed to be about scaring up a panic for the sake of throwi ...
  • Arrested Development Documentary Has To Hit Up ...
    Just a few weeks ago, we had a story about how an awesome looking documentary about comic artists needed to hit up Kickstarter to raise more money solely to purchase licenses to some of the artwork & video clips in the film. Most of the copyright holders let them use the work for free, but ...
  • The Power Of International Trade Agreements To ...
    Back when the US was negotiating ACTA, we were among those who raised the alarm about just how troubling this trade agreement was -- negotiated in back rooms by the USTR, with details that were kept in secret until they were locked in. In response, many of our critics said that we were overreac ...
  • Whatever You Think Of The Google WiFi Settleme ...
    We're still a bit confused about why so many people freaked out a few years back when Google's Street View cars gobbled up some open WiFi data -- since anyone can do that on an open WiFi network. Various investigations did show that Google was a bit disorganized and had some poor controls in pl ...

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BroadSnark

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

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War in Context

  • Dystopian fiction not far from becoming securi ...
    Nature: In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decisio ...
  • Corporate theft: Your DNA isn’t yours — it’s b ...
    Medical Express: 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 profit, report two ...
  • Only a creator culture can save us
    Damien Walter writes: Between the years of 1914 and 1930 the psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology Carl Gustav Jung undertook what he later termed a ‘voluntary confrontation with his unconscious’. Employing certain techniques of active imagination that became part of his theory of hu ...
  • Music: Zagreb Guitar Quartet — Bach’s ‘Little’ ...
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Watts Up With That?

  • In where I get targeted by the Climate Science ...
    Readers may recall that I became a target of Al Gore for getting some press. From Al Gore’s “Reality Drop” project, the GoreBots were given the orders. Read the entire interview by James Stafford here to see what got them … Continue reading →
  • Asteroid likely caused global fires, which led ...
    From the AGU: Global fires after the asteroid impact probably caused the K-Pg extinction About 66 million years ago a mountain-sized asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan in Mexico at exactly the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction. … Continue reading →
  • ENSO Myth Number 4 – The Variations in t ...
    OVERVIEW This is the fourth post in a series that presents myths and failed arguments created by proponents of manmade global warming about the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A list of the earlier (with links) and future posts follows the … Continue reading →
  • Enivronmentalists worst nightmare? GMO’d ...
    From the University of Georgia: UGA discovery may allow scientists to make fuel from CO2 in the atmosphere Athens, Ga. – Excess carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere created by the widespread burning of fossil fuels is the major driving … Continue reading →
  • Where’s the hockey stick? The ‘Mar ...
    More on the Marcott et al “hockey stick”. All of the ‘Marcott 9′ had altered dates. Guest post by John Kehr While it took me a while to get the time together to write an article about the Marcott paper, … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Social isolation increases death risk in older ...
    Social isolation is associated with a higher risk of death in older people regardless of whether they consider themselves lonely, research suggests.A study of 6,500 UK men and women aged over 52 found that being isolated from family and friends was linked with a 26% higher death risk over seven ...
  • Brain Researchers Can Detect Who We Are Thinki ...
    Scientists scanning the human brain can now tell whom a person is thinking of, the first time researchers have been able to identify what people are imagining from imaging technologies. Work to visualize thought is starting to pile up successes. Recently, scientists have used brain scans to deco ...
  • Eating Too Much Salt May Trigger MS Or Another ...
    High salt intake isn’t just a concern for those with high blood pressure or heart disease anymore. Three new studies, published together in the journal Nature, are raising the alarm that eating too much salt may put you at risk for a host of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis and ...
  • 3D printing breakthrough with human embryonic ...
    A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time. It is hoped that this breakthrough, which has been published today, 5 February, in the journal Biofabrication, will allow three-dimensional tissues an ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Raise Mens Death Risk ...
    Men taking calcium supplements may be running a nearly 20 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests.Both men and women take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss. In this study of calcium intake, the risk of dying from heart disease was higher for men b ...

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