Sunday, March 31, 2013

31 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Opit's LinkFest!

Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Hollywood ploy to insert DRM into HTML5
    Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML5 — in other words, into the very fabric of the Web. Millions of Internet users came together to defeat SOPA/PIPA, but ...
  • Animal Intelligence Badly Underestimated.
    Octopuses had hundreds of suckers, each with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. Those "mini-brains" were interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system, which was why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food. Similarly, when an octopus changed ...
  • The attack on public education in Chicago
    The announcement of plans in Chicago, Illinois to shut down 61 elementary and middle schools marks a new stage in the assault on public education and the social counterrevolution in America. It is the largest single school closure announcement in US history. In the latest phase of school shut ...
  • Pilger: The New Slavery is Digital
    What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, she produced a documentary form that mesmerized Germans; her 'Triumph ...
  • Francis: Questions That Won’t Vanish
    In August 1976, a few months after the dictatorship had begun its systematic campaign of exterminating its opponents, a group of priests sent a letter to the Argentine Episcopal Conference, demanding a public pronunciation on what many knew was happening but few dared talk about. The reply of th ...

Independent - London

  • Afghan President Hamid Karzai hopes to open pe ...
    The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, was in Qatar today for talks with Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in an attempt to reach a peace deal with the Taliban, as the West prepares to leave Afghanistan.Related StoriesNorth Korea crisis: Kim Jong-un threatens 'all-out nuclear war'Nucl ...
  • Top British general warns of dangerous troop c ...
    Cutting the numbers of British troops this summer in Afghanistan would be “unforgivable” and “endanger” hard-won progress at a highly critical time, the most senior UK commander in the country, Lieutenant-General Nick Carter, has stressed.Related StoriesNorth Korea crisis: Kim Jong-un threatens ...
  • Zumba dance teacher admits prostitution charge ...
    A zumba instructor has admitted using her dance studio as a front for a prostitution ring that involved scores of men. The plea means that Alexis Wright will avoid a trial, as will her clients who might have been called as witnesses.Related StoriesHas The Deep South Changed? The American town t ...
  • A joke too far - top satirist Bassem Youssef a ...
    He is one of Egypt’s most famous television stars – a wildly popular satirist whose Friday night shows are eagerly awaited by tens of millions of viewers.Related StoriesBritish aid worker sisters 'raped and kidnapped' crossing LibyaNelson Mandela breathing without difficultyUhuru Kenyatta confi ...
  • WikiLeaks set to unveil 'Project K'
    The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks could be set to release another batch of classified government information, it was suggested today.Related StoriesHas The Deep South Changed? The American town the civil rights movement missedSpecial report: Martin Luther King is today revered in death as he ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Obama's Genetically Modified food bill is bad ...
    President Barack Obama signed a spending bill, HR 933, into law, the "Monsanto Protection Act," that strips federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting and sale of genetically modified (GMO) seed crop regardless of any consumer health concerns. "The provision would strip fe ...
  • What's behind spike in Gulf Coast dolphin attacks?
    Dead - and sometimes mutilated - dolphins have been turning up recently. When Louisiana Fisheries and Wildlife personnel discovered a dead bottlenose dolphin near Elmer's Island late last year, they figured it was another victim of the 2010 BP oil spill. So they were shocked when an onsite nec ...
  • New film explores mysterious Puget Sound 1947 ...
    The mysteries behind many UFO sightings may never be explained, but what happened over Puget Sound on June 21, 1947 is a mystery that's getting new life in a film. It's a complex story with many facets, but it that can be summarized like this: At 2 p.m., Harold Dahl was on a fishing boat salvag ...
  • Study shows Shakespeare as ruthless businessman
    London - Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger - it's not how we usually think of William Shakespeare. But we should, according to a group of academics who say the Bard was a ruthless businessman who grew wealthy dealing in grain during a time of famine. Researchers from Aberystwyth University in W ...
  • All but 23 of 10,000 bats in Durham bat mine h ...
    Bucks County's largest bat population has met a grim fate. Scientists have confirmed that nearly all of the 10,000 bats that have hibernated in an abandoned iron ore mine in Upper Bucks for generations have died. When Pennsylvania Game Commission Biologist Greg Turner recently visited the Durh ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Posturing . . .
    STEVIE LOVES UNIFORMS. Maybe he should visit and stay there, and take Airshow with him, too, come to think of it.
  • Priorities . . .
    STEVIE THINKS PANDAS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE, even those who have walked 1,600  kilometers.
  • Boris out...
    I started blogging here in April 2006 after Dave kindly offered me a space for my voice. Thank you Dave! That's pretty much SEVEN years ago. I'm not sure how that's happened, but there it is. I've had much less energy for blogging over the past while, my posts have gotten shorter and from my ...
  • On a positive note . . .
    INHABITAT reports that clever young people exist, with an article you should read, by Morgana Matus, "17-Year-Old Builds Algae Biofuel Lab in Her Bedroom to Win $100K Intel Science Talent Search Prize". Sara Volz
  • Dimmit . . .
    THE WORLD'S A MUCH brighter place when you're not too bright for it, according to the folks who make MinusIQ | The pill to lower your IQ permanently.

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

  • The Confiscation of Savings in Canada? Cyprus- ...
    The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In fact, Cyprus-style “bail-ins” are actually proposed in the new Canadian government budget. When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked…
  • NATO Triggers Destruction, Insecurity and Pove ...
    [Image above: Mahdi D. Nazemroaya at Montreal airport upon his return from war-torn Libya in September 2011] Appreciated for the rigor and the accuracy of his analysis, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, age 30, has emerged as one of the best scholars…
  • Climate of Fear: Global Warming Alarmists Inti ...
    To understand the misconceptions perpetuated about climate science and the climate of intimidation, one needs to grasp some of the complex underlying scientific issues.
  • War with a Human Face: Britain’s “ ...
    Having kept a low profile on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the British government launched two ‘humanitarian’ campaigns in an effort to disguise its genocidal wars in the Middle East and Africa. On the day Britain deployed…
  • Week in Review: CIA Assassinations and the Ban ...
      CIA Targeted Assassinations by Induced Heart Attack and Cancer By Global Research News, March 21 , 2013 Rumors of Bashar Al Assad’s Assassination are Greatly Exaggerated By Michael Collins, March 25 , 2013 Dangerous Crossroads: The Threat of a…

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Clean Energy Goals Under Attack
    It wouldn’t be a Texas legislative session without some truly backwards bills.  Today we have House Bill 2026 by freshman Representative Sanford of Collin county that would eliminate our state renewable energy goals. In 1999, the state of Texas made a commitment to renewable energy in the ...
  • Texas House Energy Resources Committee to hear ...
    The House Energy Resources Committee is scheduled to hear Representative Dennis Bonnen’s bill, HB 2166, relating to the continuation, functions, and name of the Railroad Commission of Texas; providing for the imposition of fees, the repeal of provisions for the suspension of the collection ...
  • Public Citzen’s Guide to Amending the PUC Suns ...
    Public Citizen’s positions on the pre-filed amendments to the PUC Sunset bill can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/Guide_to_Amend_PUC_Sunset_bill_HB1600 or in the table below. Support These Amendments to Improve the PUC Sunset Bill Bar code # Sponsor Description Comment 830096 Cook clean up c ...
  • Federal Judge finds TCEQ violated the Endanger ...
    A federal judge has ruled that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was responsible for the deaths of 23 rare whooping cranes in the winter of 2008-2009. Senior U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in Corpus Christi found that TCEQ’s management of rivers feeding San Antonio and A ...
  • Join us for ACT Lobby day at the Texas Capital ...
    Whether you’re concerned about eminent domain and oil & gas regulations, climate change and the effects of drought on our water supplies, or you’re ready to see Texas move toward a 21st century clean energy economy, the 83rd legislative session presents a critical opportunity to speak up for ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 'Gate to Hell' discovered in Turkey
    Italian archaeologists have announced the discovery of Pluto's Gate amongst ruins in southwestern Turkey. The gate was said to be a portal to the unde...
  • Smuggler caught with 10% of entire species
    More than 10% of the world's population of ploughshare tortoises were found in the man's suitcase. The botched smuggling attempt took place at an airp...
  • Mystery bee deaths accelerate
    Honeybees have been dying off faster than ever with up to 50% of hives being wiped out last year. Scientists have been scratching their heads since be...
  • 'Fairy circles' mystery solved
    Mysterious grassless rings appearing in the South African desert are believed to be made by termites. The rings known as "fairy circles" had perplexed...
  • Pentagon to track soldiers using tattoos
    Scientists at the Pentagon are looking to use a special tattoo to track the vital signs of US soldiers. The unobtrusive and durable bio-statistic devi...

Grassroots

  • Commemorating Palestinian Land Day
    palestine-boy_in_field.jpg  For 37 years, March 30 has been celebrated as Palestinian Land Day, a day of action for land rights.  On this date in 1976, Palestinians inside Israel mobilized to protest Israel’s plans to take 2,000 h ...
  • The True Costs of Industrialized Food
    brazil-agrotoxin_poster.jpg The real costs of the industrial food system on people’s lives and the planet are as extensive as they are hidden.  The article below by long-time Grassroots International friends, Beverley Bell and T ...
  • Supporting Women's Rights and Power
    janaina.jpg  “There are thousands upon thousands who weren’t as lucky as I was—I survived hunger....I probably would not have survived had it not been for the support and solidarity of groups like Grassroots International.”  Janai ...
  • Celebrating World Water Day
    water_for_all.jpg Grassroots International celebrates World Water Day and the efforts of small farmers, indigenous peoples and water rights activists worldwide.In light of global water grabs, this year’s theme is quite ironic: water coopera ...
  • Peasant Families Nourishing the Next Generatio ...
    mcp_school_program_delivery_small.jpg Peasant farmers from Brazil’s central plateau delivered more than three tons of fresh vegetables and homemade cakes, cookies and cheese to local schools last week. This was the first delivery as part of ...

Climate

  • Two Key Climate Change Concepts Are ‘Misunders ...
    (Climate Central) There is widespread confusion about the near-term benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and that misunderstanding may be complicating the formidable task of reducing manmade global warming, argue two climate ...
  • Report: Some Federal Wind Energy Programs 'Dup ...
    (The Hill) Most of the 82 federal programs designed to support wind energy had “overlapping characteristics,” and several “provided some duplicative financial support,” according to a Government Accountability Office report released Th ...
  • Court: EPA Can Stop Some Power Plant Modifications
    (AP) TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. — Government regulators can try to halt construction projects at power plants if they think the companies didn't properly calculate whether the changes would increase air pollution, a federal appeals cour ...
  • Obama Administration Says New Proposal Will Re ...
    (AP) WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will unveil a proposal Friday to clean up gasoline and automobile emissions, a step that officials say will result in cleaner air across the U.S. and slightly higher prices at the pump. The E ...
  • As Fracking Proliferates, So Do Wastewater Wells
    (Texas Tribune) GONZALES, Tex. — In a dusty lot off the main highway in this South Texas town, Vern Sartin pointed to a collection of hose hookups and large storage tanks used for collecting wastewater from hydraulic fracturing jobs. ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Well, That Touched a Nerve
    The New York Times' obituary of Yvonne Brille really touched a nerve. I understand why, but I am a little surprised at the intensity of the reaction. I think part of the point of the obituary was to emphasize that although she was an accomplished scientist, she managed to balance that out with ...
  • Casual Observation
    I don't care what Ed Rendell says, I don't want Pennsylvania to become a seismically active area. Discuss
  • Can't Wait
    Liz Cheney is at least as dangerously unhinged from reality as her pulseless father. I am fairly certain she will be a senator from Wyoming before long. It depends on whether Sen. Mike Enzi seeks another term or not. If he doesn't, I hear that Ms. Cheney will run for his seat, and I don't see ...
  • Time for China to Step Up
    Even though South Korea (with our help) could quickly win a war with North Korea that would unify the country and lead to prosperity on a massive scale, it is very unlikely that our side will start a war there. The fear that North Korea would explode a nuclear weapon is not the reason we won't ...
  • Voter Suppression is Their Game
    I am guessing that you can look up every bill related to voting introduced by a Republican in every legislature in the entire country and you will not find one bill that makes voting easier or that encourages more people to vote. All of the bills will be aimed at reducing early voting, making i ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Abandoned Steam Ship Transformed into Giant St ...
    Previously abandoned and left to rust, steamer the TSS Duke of Lancaster has been given a new life in a project aimed at making her the largest outdoor gallery in Europe. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    From bizarre stamp forgeries and audacious jailbreaks, to soberingly creative public health ads, this selection of links brings together some fascinating nuggets. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rivers Aglow With Ethereal Globes of Color
    In the River of Light art installation, ethereal spheres of light float down rivers, highlighting our need to preserve vital water supplies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Old Kashgar: The Historic Silk Road City Being ...
    In this ancient desert oasis city on the Silk Road, traditional mud brick buildings are rapidly disappearing in the name of modernization. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Explosive Power of Flour
    Discover the truth about this seemingly innocuous kitchen ingredient. Flour isn't just about baking cakes; it packs serious explosive power and can wreak havoc in mills. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...
  • NEW VIDEOS: Interviews from Enbridge blockade ...
    Got a batch of videos here from the last week to check out. Glad to have a little chance to bring these interesting projects, including Idle No More MN & the Enbridge Blockade near Leonard MN (also known as the encampment) going strong since late February. All these videos are basically uned ...
  • LOL wow for the House of Cards: Cyprus bank co ...
    Admittedly this is a little bit speculative but it looks pretty big. lol wow I can't believe they are triggering a huge EU bank run in Cyprus by confiscating big slabs of bank accounts to satiate the European Central Bankers - it's blamed on rich Russians who 'deserve' to have their savings jack ...
  • Stay Fly: Holy Smokes
    Oh I dearly hope this is an authentic photo - isn't it easily the greatest news photograph ever? Floating around, see : Something Out of The Godfather... | E L V O M I T A R . C O M etc. Good luck to the Catholics, they need help like all of us. Regardless, there's no swag like Vatican swag. Th ...
  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Court rejects release of spy records on iconic ...
    Canada’s highest court has rejected a legal argument in favor of releasing surveillance records on Tommy Douglas, an iconic Canadian politician who was monitored for most of his life by the security services.
  • CIA officer who purged torture evidence is rew ...
    A United States Central Intelligence Agency officer who was personally involved in the illegal destruction of videotapes showing CIA personnel torturing detainees, is now leading the Agency’s operations arm.
  • Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of running 18-member ...
    The government of Saudi Arabia has publicly accused Iran of setting up an espionage ring consisting of 18 members, in order to spy on “vital sites and installations in the Kingdom”.
  • MI5 chief credited with ‘transforming the agen ...
    The head of MI5, Britain’s primary domestic intelligence agency, is to step down at the end of this month, it has been announced. Sir Jonathan Evans is widely credited with transforming MI5, also known as the Security Service, in one of the agency’s most turbulent periods following 9/11/2001.
  • Israel’s Prisoner X ‘gave Mossad secrets to He ...
    An Australian-born Israeli spy, who killed himself while being held in an Israeli prison in 2010, had been arrested for sharing Israeli secrets with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to a German report.

War is a Crime.org

  • Two things have prevented another 9/11 attack, ...
    Lisa Simeone, in a comment at NJ.com: read more
  • Depositor Haircuts Spreading
      Depositor Haircuts Spreading   by Stephen Lendman   A previous article called them the new normal. Bad ideas spread fast. Canada endorses Cypriot harshness. Its "Jobs Growth and Long-Term Prosperity: Economic Action Plan 2013" says so.   read more
  • Commemorating Land Day
      Commemorating Land Day   by Stephen Lendman   On March 30, Palestinians worldwide observe Land Day. They've done so since 1976.   Nationwide protests and general strike action erupted. At issue was Israel's land confiscation policy and brutal occupation harshness.  &nb ...
  • TSA fires 4, suspends more at Newark, by Lisa ...
    Ah, yes, our old friend Newark Liberty Airport, site of so many colorful TSA hijinks. read more
  • Regime Change Begins at Home
      Regime Change Begins at Home   by Stephen Lendman   Charles Derber's book by that title says it's the only way to free America from corporate rule. It transformed America from "we the people" to what CEOs say goes.   read more

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Watch: Amy Goodman with Vampire Weekend, Cyndi ...
    Stream live tonight! Amy Goodman joins the media panel on "Q in New York City," hosted by Jian Ghomeshi on CBC at 7pm ET. "Q in New York City" will be recorded live before sold-out audience of 600 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in Manhattan. You can watch the live video s ...
  • Edie Windsor's Day in Court
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about same-sex marriage this week. On Tuesday, it was about the controversial California ballot initiative known as Prop 8, which has banned same-sex marriages in that state. On Wednesday, the case challenging the co ...
  • Cheryl Wills on Her Family's Path from Slavery ...
    In our extended discussion with Cheryl Wills, NY1 anchor and author of Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale, she discusses the legacy of slavery and the impact of Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe on African Americans’ pride in their history. We also play an excerpt of Morgan Freeman readi ...
  • VIDEO: Understanding the Mondragon Worker Coop ...
    Watch a 2012 interview Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman did with Mikel Lezamiz, director of Cooperative Dissemination at the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation in Spain’s Basque Country. He described how the project relies on a participatory model in which the workers are the cooperative&#8 ...
  • Watch Extended Interview with Economist Richar ...
    In this extended interview with Richard Wolff, he discusses how his parents fled Hitler and immigrated to the United States from Germany during World War II, and their influence on his worldview. "I grew up convinced that understanding the political and economic environment I lived in was ...

Solari

  • Happy Easter
    Painting by Claude Monet “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” ~Martin Luther Related Reading: Easter From Wikipedia
  • 1st Quarter Wrap Up – April 4
    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness” ~ Charles Dickens By Catherine Austin Fitts This week on the Solari Report, please join me for our 1st Quarter Wrap Up. It’s been three months since we publish ...
  • One Eskimo – “Amazing”
    Related Reading: One Eskimo Official Website One Eskimo on Wikipedia
  • Hammond, Brown, Swartz, Assange, Manning: Info ...
    By Darker Net Glenn Greenwald…”Brown – who has been imprisoned since September on a 17-count indictment that could result in many years in prison – is a serious journalist who has spent the last several years doggedly investigating the shadowy and highly secretive underworld of private intellig ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Announcing Lighten Up! An LED Lighting Design ...
    Calling all architects, interior designers and lighting designers! Do you have a spectacular architecture or interior project that uses LED lighting? Share it with the world today in our newly launched competition, Lighten Up! An LED Lighting Design Competition. We’re looking for the best ...
  • Awesome Dad Builds Son a Calvin and Hobbes-The ...
    Any young boy raised on Calvin and Hobbes has dreamed of retreating to a tree fort to hurl snowballs and Susie Derkins and host G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS) meetings. One amazing dad created a nursery for his kid that would be any Calvin & Hobbes fan’s dream come true. The room ...
  • 7 Creative, Non-Toxic Ways to Decorate Your Ow ...
    Easter is coming up fast, and as you prepare for the arrival of basket-carrying bunnies, it’s time to decorate those festive eggs! Whether you’re preparing an Easter egg hunt for the kids in your life, or looking to create decorations and center-pieces for your home, we’ve got ...
  • Are We on the Verge of a Smartwatch Arms Race?
    Just when you thought that your phone was the only gadget you need to worry about, the battle is beginning to heat up over smartwatches. Samsung recently revealed its plans to release a wristwatch-style computer; Sony released an Android-powered model last April; and rumors of an Apple producing ...
  • Subaru 2014 XV Crosstrek Hybrid Unveiled at th ...
    Read the rest of Subaru 2014 XV Crosstrek Hybrid Unveiled at the 2013 New York Auto Show Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: electric vehicle, ev, EVs, green cars, green transportation, green vehicle, hybrid car, hybrid SUV, jacob javits car show, jacob javits center car s ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • On Local Revisionsism
    Dan Drezner has an interesting post asking why we do not see more revisionist behavior from Russia and China: To be sure, China and Russia have, on occasion, engaged in some revisionist efforts to change the status quo.  See: Russia’s 2008 war with Georgia; China’s border disputes wi ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drone Secrets, Noise, a ...
    Jameel Jaffer, “The Drone Secrets We Should See,” Politico, March 29, 2013. The administration owes the public a fuller account of the program. It should begin by releasing the legal memos that supposedly justify the program. In litigation, the government has acknowledged the existence of three ...
  • The Measured Madness of North Korea
    You’ve got to hand it to North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un: the man is a past master at panic promotion. He learned from the master, his dad, Kim “Dear Leader” Jong-il, whose tantrums, threats, and theatrics routinely rattled South Korea, Japan, and the United States. The reactions that fol ...
  • Debating the Benefits of Nuclear Superiority f ...
    Editor’s Note: Back in February I riffed on a post by Erik Voeten in which Erik discussed two articles in International Organization (IO). One, by our colleague Matt Kroenig, argued that nuclear superiority gives states advantages in crisis bargaining (PDF). Another, by Todd Sechser and Ma ...
  • Progress and Warnings On U.S.-Africa Security ...
    This morning Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with a delegation of leaders from Africa to discuss security and democracy in Africa. The event with presidents and prime ministers from Malawi, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Cape Verde was meant to highlight African countries where democracy and se ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: The Angry Whites Liquidation Sale
    Let it not be said that the GOP doesn't know it has a problem. As Senator Lindsay Graham said last year, "We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term." And in the November election, that became vividly clear. Mitt Romney lost Latino voters by 44 points, As ...
  • Not so Fast, Republicans
    Jonathan Chait makes an important point about the progress of social movements. In the beginning, they inspire rabid opposition—“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever”—but as they earn mainstream acceptance, former opponents quickly “forget” they ever worked to stymie t ...
  • Sarah Palin Soldiers On
    One of the main reasons so many members of Congress become lobbyists after they leave office is that there just aren't that many high-level opportunities available to them where they can use what they learned in office. After you've spent a bunch of time learning the ins and outs of Congress, a ...
  • What New York’s (Partial) Victory on Paid Sick ...
    The news broke last night: a deal to bring paid sick days to a vote in the New York City Council has been reached.  As I noted in my recent testimony on the bill, paid sick time is far from a pie-in-the-sky idea. It is the law in 145 countries around the world as well as the state of Connecticu ...
  • Barack Obama is Not a Supervillain
    If there’s anything that’s always struck me about the GOP’s response to Barack Obama, it’s the extent to which conservatives have grossly underestimated Obama’s political prowess. It seems obvious to me that the first African American president would be a terribly effective politician, but it’s ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Under Huge Police Presence, Memphis Uneasily F ...
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “Here they come,” someone shouted, standing in the rain in the fenced-in and heavily guarded protest area set up here more than 100 yards from where the Ku Klux Klan was beginning its controversial rally Saturday on the steps of the Shelby County Courthouse. “I can’t see them,” ...
  • On Eve of Memphis Klan Rally, Officials Prepar ...
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Pay no attention to that man beneath the sheet. Do not go downtown to listen to his wicked words. Do not heckle or protest his presence. He is not worth it. His time has passed. He has no teeth. That’s the message of the city of Memphis as it faces a trying [...]
  • Slain California Cop-Killer Held ‘Sovereign Ci ...
    A 36-year-old software engineer who shot and killed a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer last fall was bipolar and held antigovernment “sovereign citizen” views, an investigation by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office has concluded. Christopher Lacy’s ideological ties to the sovereign ...
  • DOJ Study: More Than 250,000 Hate Crimes a Yea ...
    More than 250,000 Americans over the age of 12 are victimized every year by hate criminals, according to a new government study that puts the number some 50,000 higher than the best earlier analyses. At the same time, the study found that in recent years only about one in three hate crimes are e ...
  • National Organization for Marriage Has a Rough ...
    Thousands of conservative culture warriors are gathering in Washington this morning for the “March for Marriage,” timed to coincide with today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, the 2008 voter referendum that banned same-sex marriage. Th ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Gasoline and Auto Pollution Standards Will ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency's new standards for gas and vehicle emissions that will be announced today will dramatically reduce hazardous air pollution such as smog-forming nitrogen oxides. Luke Tonachel, senior vehicles analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the foll ...
  • Obama Administration to Release Cleaner Tailpi ...
    Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to release new cleaner tailpipe standards that will reduce smog-forming pollution, save lives and improve public health. These new safeguards will require that oil refineries reduce the sulfur content of gasoline and that automakers ...
  • Marijuana Decriminalization Law Takes Effect M ...
    Possession of small amounts of marijuana will no longer carry criminal penalties in Rhode Island when a law adopted last year officially takes effect on Monday.  read more
  • Sanders, Weinberger Highlight First Use of Inn ...
    U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today recognized the first business to participate in an innovative financing program that helps pay for energy efficiency improvements.read more
  • Americans United Urges Federal Appeals Courts ...
    Americans United for Separation of Church and State has told federal courts now considering the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s birth-control mandate that employers do not have a religious liberty right to deny their employees access to contraceptives.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Message Sent by America's Invisible Victims
    Glenn Greenwald Afghan men stand over the dead bodies of civilians who were killed during an operation in Logar province, March 27, 2013. International special forces staged a night raid with police on Wednesday killing 5 civilians, four of ...
  • The Promise of Prague, Self-Assured Destructio ...
    Robert Dodge On April 5, 2009, in the first foreign policy address of his presidency, President Obama expressed his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. The realization of this vision, shared by a majority of citizens around the world ...
  • A Pledge to Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young
    John Bruhns I never met Tomas Young. However, I strongly identify with his story as he and I joined the military for the same reason -- to fight those responsible for 9/11. However, I was far luckier than Tomas Young as I never had to endur ...
  • Boeing Helps Kill Proposed Law to Regulate Drones
    Pratap Chatterjee Boeing, the aircraft manufacturing giant from Seattle, helped defeat a Republican proposal in Washington state that would have forced government agencies to get approval to buy unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly known as ...
  • War Risk Rises Sharply in Korea
    Eric Margolis The United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another.read more

Water Privatization

  • Winning bidder needs separate water rights for ...
    The winning bidder in the rehabilitation deal being dangled by the Metropolitan and Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS) for its 28-megawatt auxiliary units in the Angat hydropower plant will need to apply for separate water rights with the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) upon its assumption ...
  • City Wants Water Takeover To Avoid Penalties
    Jakarta - Deputy Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama insists that the city administration will seek other options to avoid penalties and other legal consequences instead of canceling the city's contracts with private water firms.
  • Bill promotes public-private partnerships
    Proposed legislation would use public-private partnership to improve the nation’s water infrastructure.
  • Allendale closer to finalizing deal to transfe ...
    A final vote on the plan is scheduled for April 25, after the public comment period concludes.
  • Water concerns and privatization discussed
    About 60 concerned residents packed a small room at the Sierra Senior Center in Oakhurst last week to discuss the future of water in Eastern Madera County -- a meeting… Click to Continue »

Guardian

  • Man dies after attempting to rob jewellery sho ...
    Police say Clinton Townsend, 33, died after he was restrained during robbery, while his accomplice escapedA man has died after he was restrained by members of the public as he attempted to rob a jeweller's shop, according to police.At 9.15am on Saturday, two men wearing motorcycle helmets target ...
  • Texas DA and wife killed in 'targeted act' two ...
    Prosecutor Mike McLelland had vowed to arrest 'scum' responsible for killing of an assistant district attorney in JanuaryA Texas prosecutor and his wife were shot dead in a "targeted act" that comes just two months after one of his assistants was killed as he walked to his office, authorities sa ...
  • Bedroom tax and benefit cap spread fear in Tot ...
    Charity head warns that 'people face destitution' over benefit cuts and reforms, as local MP David Lammy hears concernsIn a packed and stuffy meeting room at a council leisure centre, the Tottenham MP David Lammy rouses his specially invited audience with a question: "I'm getting a feeling some ...
  • Cyprus bets on casinos to help boost economy a ...
    President braves wrath of Orthodox church by including plan to lift ban on gambling among his initiatives to rescue economyCyprus is to lift a ban on casinos as part of measures to counter the economic shock of a much larger than expected 60% raid on the savings of the island's most wealthy depo ...
  • Easter Sunday coldest on record
    Met Office confirms temperatures of -12.5C in Scottish Highlands, beating previous record of -9.8C set in 1986The UK has recorded its coldest Easter Sunday for more than 50 years, with overnight temperatures dipping to below -12C in Scotland. The Met Office confirmed it had registered a temperat ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban may set up office in Qatar
    With the search for a political settlement in Afghanistan now a priority, negotiating with the Taliban regime has become a reality. The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has flown to Qatar to speak to the Emir of Qatar about opening of a Taliban office in Doha. President Karzai was on a ...
  • Jailed husband murders Afghan wife
    An Afghan prisoner has murdered his wife during a jail visit. According to police, the man, Din Mohammad, admitted to killing her because he believed she had been unfaithful following his jailing for killing her relatives. Din Mohammad was sentenced to 20 years in prison two years ago for kil ...
  • Work in Afghanistan leaves a stark education
    Community celebrates the life and work of Walt Bodine More than 200 friends, family members, co-workers and listeners gathered Saturday at Unity Temple on the Plaza to honor the Kansas City broadcasting ...
  • Blast Targets Pakistan Politicians Motorcade
    Officials in northwest Pakistan say a roadside bomb blast targeting a politician's motorcade has killed two people and wounded six others, including the politician. Authorities say the explosion Sunday hit the convoy of Adnan Wazir who is associated with the secular Awami National Party. ...
  • Karzai Returns from Qatari Talks on Taliban
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has returned home from a two-day visit to Qatar where he discussed the possibility of having the Taliban open a political office there to help move Afghanistan's peace process forward. Mr. Karzai met Sunday with the Qatari emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, to ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Drones update from Ottawa
    Thousands of emails and postcards are being sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other party leaders, and we are more than halfway to our goal of delivering 10,000 messages to Parliament. But there is a lot more work to be done.
  • Canada pulls out of UN drought pact
    The Harper government is taking another giant leap towards making Canada the least-green country on the planet -- by withdrawing from the international convention to combat desertification.
  • Thank you, Kevin Page
    March 22 was Kevin Page's last day as Parliamentary Budget Officer, and Ceasefire.ca would like to thank him for consistently demanding transparency from the Harper Government.
  • Drone strikes in Pakistan visualized
    Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a stunning interactive graphic by Pitch Interactive, shows all known drone strikes in Pakistan, beginning with the first strike recorded in 2004.
  • Missile defence 30 years after “Star War ...
    March 23rd marked the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's infamous "Star Wars" speech, which launched the United States on a new round of the long effort to build a unilateral technological defence against the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Thirty years and some $200 billion later, that dream ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Is the Epidemic of Dead and Sick Sea Lions in ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIs the Epidemic of Dead and Sick Sea Lions in California from Fukushima Radiation? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Painting by Jonathan Raddatz  What’s Causing the Mass Die-Off and Starvation of Californ ...
  • Do not underestimate the North Korean Threat t ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDo not underestimate the North Korean Threat to Global Peace By World News TommorrowSunday, March 31st, 2013 The President of ECIPS, Baron Baretzky said on Friday not to underestimate the North Korean Threat to Global Pe ...
  • Reporter explains ‘complete dysfunctionality’ ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comReporter explains complete dysfunctionality of Veterans Affairs disability backlog Raw StoryBy Eric W. Dolan   During an appearance onCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • The Easter Bunny
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Easter Bunny By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com. Share this: Facebook Twitter Google +1 Pinterest LinkedIn StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Digg Print Email View the origin ...
  • Hamid Karzai Afghan President met with a numbe ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHamid Karzai Afghan President met with a number of Qatari traders in the capital city, Doha and said Afghanistan was an underground-resources rich country, the presidential palace said Sunday. By Zabiullah RashidiSunday, ...

Dandelion Salad

  • For Sale, Habitable Planet, Too Late by Guy Mc ...
    Dandelion Salad by Guy McPherson Transition Voice March 25, 2013 According to legend, Ernest Hemingway bet his 1920s-era colleagues he could write a complete story in just six words. Hemingway is said to have considered the resulting piece his best work: “For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn.” Makin ...
  • Jean Ziegler: Every Child Who Dies of Hunger I ...
    Interview with Jean Ziegler by Harald Schumann, Norbert Thomma, translation by Siv O’Neall Writer, Dandelion Salad Der Tagespiegel, Mar 25, 2013 Axisoflogic.com Lyon, France March 27, 2013 Every five seconds a child dies of hunger – that leaves Jean Ziegler no rest. He calls banks and corporatio ...
  • “The Crime of the Century”: Napalm ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England March 28, 2013 “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths … I mean, it’s not relevant, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that …” (Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, Good Morning America, 18th March 2003) In t ...
  • Fracking records unsealed in Pennsylvania by B ...
    Dandelion Salad by Betsey Piette www.workers.org March 26, 2013 Philadelphia  — Since 2005, a provision of the federal Energy Policy Act popularly labeled the “Halliburton Loophole,” allowed the giant corporations profiting from drilling in major shale formations across the U.S. to withhold info ...
  • Missile Defense Arc Being Created Across Asia- ...
    by Bruce Gagnon Writer, Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes March 26, 2013 As part of Obama’s recent announcement about expanding “missile defense” (MD) systems in Alaska, along with studies to determine a possible site for an East Coast base in the US, the Pentagon also announced ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Groovy False-Col ...
    This Voyager 1 picture of the great red spot shows a white oval with its "wake" of counter-rotating vortices. North is at the top and the distance from top to bottom is about 24,000 km. This enhanced color view emphasizes ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: High-Mass Star F ...
    In this new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, ESA’s Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born. W3 is a giant molecular cloud containing an enormous stellar nursery, some 6,200 light-years away in ...
  • GoT Beer? A Crafty Blonde Attempts to Ascend t ...
    It was only a matter of time before serious Game of Thrones fans decided they needed a horn of ale with which to toast the show. Now Brewery Ommegang has partnered with HBO to oblige this thirst with a beer ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Not Actually a D ...
    The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula — glowing shells of ionised gas pushed out by a dying star. Discovered in the early 1900s by astronomer Robert Jonckheere, the dusty nebula is small ...
  • Will NASA Announce Plans to Snag an Asteroid a ...
    When the Obama administration's 2014 federal budget gets released in early April it might include a curious item: a $100 million request for NASA to conduct a mission to capture an asteroid and bring it back to Earth.

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Researchers Discover New Clues About How Amyot ...
    Johns Hopkins scientists say they have evidence from animal studies that a type of central nervous system cell other than motor neurons plays a fundamental role in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal degenerative disease. The discovery holds promise, they say, for ide ...
  • Amherst College Faculty Vote Backs Open-Access ...
    In keeping with a global trend toward making information open to all, the faculty at Amherst College voted this month overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that will effectively offer their forthcoming scholarly articles online for free.
  • Tablet Computers Acceptable for Reading EEG Re ...
    Mayo Clinic physicians in Arizona have shown that tablet computers can be used to analyze electroencephalogram or EEG results outside of the clinic or hospital. Their study findings were recently presented at the American Academy of Neurology conference in San Diego.
  • Young Baseball Pitchers Shouldn't Overdo It
    Following a few basic guidelines can help young pitchers avoid overuse injuries, says Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center orthopaedic surgeon and former minor league pitcher Michael Freehill.
  • IFT Releases Two New Videos in World Without F ...
    The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) today released two new videos in their World Without Food Science series. The video, Special Foods, discusses how food science has played a critical role in contributing nutritious foods to people with unique nutritional needs like pregnant woman, new mo ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Events and Announcements: March 31, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events On April 2, a book launch co-sponsored by the ICRC and hosted by Georgetown Law’s National Security Law Society will take place along with a discussion on the Relevance of International Humanitarian Law in the United States after the end of h ...
  • Weekend Roundup: March 23-29, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Peter wrote about the unlikely advocates of international law in amicus briefs submitted in the gay marriage cases before the Supreme Court this week. Julian was disappointed that despite all the reporting on the Amanda Knox retrial, nob ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, March 29, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey North Korea has put its rocket units on standby aimed at the US air force bases in South Korea and the Pacific after the US flew two nuclear stealth bombers over the Korean Peninsula yesterday.  Iran, North Korea and Syria have blocked the adoption of the UN ...
  • Lots of Media Coverage of Amanda Knox, But Alm ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku A depressing large number of U.S. media outlets are covering the Italian Supreme Court’s decision to order a new trial in the case against Amanda Knox, the American exchange student charged with murdering her British roommate in Italy. Knox was convicted in tria ...
  • Posner and Sykes Book Symposium: Response by t ...
    by Eric Posner and Alan Sykes by Eric Posner and Alan Sykes [Eric Posner is Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago. Alan Sykes is Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law at NYU Law.] In Economic Foundations of In ...

Public News Service

  • Analysis – Ryan Budget Would Cost Big For AZ
    Analysis – Ryan Budget Would Cost Big For AZ PHOENIX – An in-depth analysis of the recently passed U.S. House Republican budget shows it would shift huge costs to Arizona state programs and taxpayers. At a time when the Legislature has already cut several key health and education p ...
  • Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program Turns 15
    Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program Turns 15 PHOENIX, Ariz. - Fifteen years ago Friday, in the wake of a blizzard, the first group of 11 captive-bred Mexican gray wolves was released in Arizona's Apache National Forest. Today, the recovery program population has grown to 75, but advocates say mu ...
  • Land Lines – Endangered Phone Species?
    Land Lines – Endangered Phone Species? PHOENIX - Millions of consumers have canceled their old land-line telephone service and replaced it with wireless phones. But many seniors and people who live in rural areas still depend on land lines. Consumer watchdogs are making sure they don't los ...
  • Arizona’s Government Transparency Grade ...
    Arizona’s Government Transparency Grade Slips Slightly PHOENIX - Arizona's state government transparency grade has dropped from an "A-minus" last year to a "B" this year, according to the latest "Following the Money" report from the Arizona PIRG Education Fund. Byron Schlomach of the Phoe ...
  • Report Finds New Kinds of Tobacco Lure AZ Kids
    Report Finds New Kinds of Tobacco Lure AZ Kids PHOENIX, Ariz. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than one in six Arizona teens either smoke or chew tobacco products. A new report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids shows how new products are reaching young peopl ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • No Agenda podcast 500th show w Adam Curry and ...
      The No Agenda podcast just hit a landmark 500 shows. Adam “Crackpot” Curry and John “Buzzkill” Dvorak pump out two shows a week. Each show is at least 2 1/2 hours long. No Agenda is one of my favorite podcasts. They dissect the media and government skillfully, tar ...
  • Italy 3rd largest bank, Monte Paschi, no clue ...
    The CEO of the Monte Paschi bank in Italy says “several billion in deposits” was withdrawn recently and somehow just couldn’t give a number when asked the level of deposits that will remain at the close of this quarter. Sounds like a bank run to me. The contagion is spreading ...
  • Texas District Attorney murdered two months af ...
    Someone, it appears, has declared war on prosecutors in Kaufman County in Texas. District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife “assassinated” in their home on Saturday. Assistant District Attorney was shot dead two months ago. Police have no leads in either case but many believe the ...
  • India installing solar panels on canals
    Solar panels covering water irrigation canals make huge sense. The solar panels slow water loss from evaporation by shielding the water from direct sun and produce power, generally in areas where there is lots of sun. This really needs to be done in California, where water is sent for hundreds ...
  • Don’t make it easy for identity theft on Facebook
    Former con man, now security consultant, Frank Abagnale says identity theft is easy if you make important data public on Facebook and other social media sites. “If you tell me your date of birth and where you’re born [on Facebook] I’m 98% [of the way] to stealing your identity ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – March 29 2013
    EASTER 2013 (Good Friday – 3.29.13) Jack Blood discovers the true reason that the Adam Lanza ( the Alleged Newtown CT shooter) search warrent was “redacted”. The Pope drools all over tennage prisoner’s feet. The ‘Mind Control’ parasite that effects 40% of the ...
  • Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid
    Cant we just legalize pot farming and be done with it? Who would it really hurt? Big Pharma? Dow Chem? Monsanto? The international Police State? The Central bankers? right…..   LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana durin ...
  • “Armed Citizens Project” VS CNN Ai ...
    So in 3 minutes, CNN tries to link the Armed Citizen Project to the Giffords shooting and Newtown. Also started the segment by trying to link ACP to Emanuel Goldstein… I mean Wayne LaPierre. Good job CNN   PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARMED CITIZEN PROJECT Houston, Feb. 13, 201 ...
  • Obama Easter Sermon …. Whom would Jesus ...
    There is no day off for Hypocrisy this Easter…. Chicago Jesus Gives His Easter Sermon- We “Recommit Ourselves To Following Jesus’s Example Here On Earth”   Of course, notice the “I” throughout, even in describing Jesus’s message, because it just wouldn’t have any meaning without Obama ...
  • Eiffel Tower briefly evacuated after bomb threat
    PARIS, FRANCE (BNO NEWS) — The Eiffel Tower was briefly evacuated Saturday after someone called in a bomb threat, saying a bomb would explode at the landmark in the French capital of Paris, officials said on early Sunday morning. Police using sniffer dogs did not find anything suspicious. ...

The Air Vent

  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...
  • Cryosphere – Sea Ice Video
    I wanted to see the 2012 ice loss in the Arctic so I updated the video’s.    The first video is full length, the second is just a clip of more recent years.   I repeated the result for the Antarctic which has seen increases in sea ice. . . .
  • Cryosphere at the Air Vent
    All data provided by NSIDC gridded satellite. Compilation by me so errors are mine.  All Y axis units Km^2. The Antarctic had the second highest sea ice area minimum summer level in 35 years while the Arctic set a record lowest sea ice area minimum this year. Arctic Minimum Arctic Maximium Antar ...
  • Priceless Entertainment from SKS
    John Cook continued his path of self destruction at “Skeptical Science”.   I’ve often wondered if the blog title was meant as a sarcasm.  Today, we know neither word can apply accurately to their work in any other sense.  When others noticed that Richard Betts of the met office ...
  • Lewandowsky – Strike Three!! What a riot!
    H/T Reader Skiphil again… Update: Barry Woods or Geoff Chambers seem to have found the quote. So the good docktor finally got his contribution to scientific understanding past the rigorous peer review of Frontiers of Psychology.   I have to say, I’m actually pleased with his improved ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: marriage equality, Zuckerber ...
    Facebook users change profile picture show support for same sex marriage – As the U.S. Supreme Court met this week to address same-sex marriage, the Human Rights Campaign encouraged users to change their profile pictures to...
  • Facebook careers: strategic partnership develo ...
    Facebook added 25 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the infrastructure, human resources, marketing and sales teams. The company seems to be trying to improve its relationships with major partners...
  • Facebook hires: technical privacy manager, gro ...
    Facebook removed 30 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after filling roles in the areas of engineering, corporate communications, policy, marketing, sales and others. Prior listings removed from Facebook’s careers page: Oracle Applications Engineer (Dublin) Advocacy...
  • Facebook gives users new ways to add movies, b ...
    As the new Timeline and News Feed rolls out to more users, Facebook is providing more ways for users to share stories about the books, movies, TV shows and music in their lives. This week we...
  • Facebook tests omnipresent ‘compose’ button to ...
    Some users are seeing a new icon in the header of Facebook.com, which allows them to quickly compose a post or share a photo from any page they’re on. If this feature rolls out more widely...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Crazy Gun-Toting Insurrectionists
    Just a few months after 20 first-graders were mowed down by a deranged killer wielding an assault rifle, the prospects of restraining this gun madness are fading. A major factor is the Right's success in promulgating a bogus history of what the Framers were doing with the Second Amendment.
  • Immodest Proposals
    We were not thrown out of paradise. We thought ourselves so smart that we could make a better paradise. We must find a way to get human thinking back to seeking solutions from the bottom up, rather than today's thinking focused almost exclusively on top down, from experts or leaders or the very ...
  • Fusion Center Director: We Don't Spy On Americ ...
    With at least 72 fusion centers across the US and technology that could further infringe upon privacy rights, government agencies will be able to more efficiently collect data on Americans solely for exercising their freedom of speech.
  • Louis CK: "Everything is amazing and nobody is ...
    We've been taught to collect facts, figures, data and information and in the process stopped listening to our hearts.
  • How Bush Won The War In Iraq -- Really!
    Oil men, whether James Baker or George Bush or Dick Cheney, are not in the business of producing oil. They are in the business of producing profits. And they've succeeded. Iraq, capable of producing six to 12 million barrels of oil a day, still exports well under its old OPEC quota of three mill ...

Switchboard

  • Tar sands pipeline risks - examining the facts
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC In early 2011, NRDC raised concerns that an influx of tar sands on the U.S. pipeline network posed greater risks to pipeline integrity, challenges for leak detection systems and signific ...
  • A Step Forward for Environmental Transparency ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a gathering in China before.  Nearly one hundred people - including city, provincial and central government officials, business leaders and NGO repr ...
  • Is Duke's basketball team worse than global wa ...
    Aliya Haq, Water and Climate Policy Advocate, Washington, D.C. A few years ago, I was explaining to my nephew why climate change is a problem, citing droughts, floods, and wildfires. As the child of two UNC Law School alums, he was a precocious six- ...
  • India Green News: Renewables Meet New Support ...
    Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York March 15-29, 2013 India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Climate Change UK Keen on Ties with India to Tackle Cl ...
  • EPA Proposes Stronger Standards on Gasoline an ...
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City In a step forward that will help Americans breathe easier, the U.S. EPA today proposed long-awaited standards to clean up gasoline and cut smog-forming pollution from cars and light trucks. Now the EPA ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Is This 1992 Again?
    As regulars will know, inner circle Hall of Fame commenter Howard and I have a running charity bet in which I wager that the Yankees will win the division and he takes a McClellan-like evaluation of his own team’s chances; alas, I’m usually right, and Planned Parenthood gets richer e ...
  • Global Warming, As Seen from 1982
    Yet another factor enters into the world food picture – a new and ominous phenomenon. The climate of the world seems to be changing; it may, say our best scientists, be warming up. This slight, almost imperceptible, but relentless warming of the past ten years has already brought tragedy, ...
  • Why Not Just Call it the “Treason in Def ...
    Circumstances in which naming your new business after Jefferson Davis are appropriate? On behalf of our family at the Jefferson Davis Inn we would like to thank you for your support of the new “JDI.” Please join us for a private celebration to be held at six o’clock Saturday, March 2nd on the th ...
  • Slavery and Capitalism
    It can’t be stated often enough that slavery was inexorably tied with the rise of capitalism in the United States. Historian Walter Johnson: Without slavery, however, the survey maps of the General Land Office would have remained a sort of science-fiction plan for a society that could neve ...
  • OSHA
    A must-read story on the problems with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, focusing on glue poisoning in a North Carolina furniture factory. The article describes OSHA as “the watchdog agency that many Americans love to hate and industry often faults as overzealous.” I ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • In-HOUSE COUNSEL: In good health
    Profile of Merge Healthcare Inc. general counsel Ann Mayberry-French.
  • THE PRACTICE: Venturing some predictions on pr ...
    New tools are nice, but transparency and cooperation always have been, and will be, good ways to go.
  • OPINION: Tales from the appellate bench
    Would you want to author an opinion on the Pink Bollworm Control Act? A California court of appeal justice reflects on the unsung self-sacrifice of his colleagues.
  • OPINION: The compelling case for cameras
    The notion that spectators have to camp out or spend money to see a public institution do public business is offensive. It is the direct result of the high court's refusal to allow its proceedings to be broadcast.
  • Sanctions climb in battle over religious texts
    A court order levying a $50,000 daily fine against the Russian government for refusing to return thousands of Jewish religious texts made international headlines in January. But what's happened since then remains a secret, except that the Russian Feder­ation's tab has grown to more than $3.5 mil ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • California City to Require Solar Energy System ...
    A city in southern California this week passed a zoning regulation that requires developers to install solar power systems on every new house they build. Beginning next year, all new homes built on lots at least Shutterstock 7,000 square feet in size in Lancaster, Calif. will be required to prod ...
  • Long Outlawed in the West, Lead Paint Sold in ...
    A new study finds that household lead paint — banned for years in the U.S. and Europe because of its health effects on children — is commonly sold in the African nation of Cameroon. Is lead paint the latest case of Western companies selling unsafe products in developing countries? BY REBECCA ...
  • Natural Gas Extraction Triggering More Earthqu ...
    Extraction of natural gas from the deep soil in a region of the Netherlands has triggered an increase in minor earthquakes, similar to seismic effects that have raised concerns about drilling operations, including hydraulic fracturing, in other countries. While the extraction of gas has occurred ...
  • China’s Utility Giants Vulnerable to Water Sca ...
    China’s five largest power utilities, which depend on water-intensive, coal-fired stations to generate electricity, are vulnerable to water supply disruptions because they are centered in the country’s water-scarce northern regions, a new report says. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, t ...
  • Peach Genome Offers Hints for Better Biofuel P ...
    A long-term genomic analysis of the common peach has revealed important insights into how scientists can improve the biofuel potential of other plant species, including the fast-growing poplar tree, a new study says. Wikimedia Commons Three years after a team of scientists first released a draf ...

Red Ice Creations

  • First Love Child of Human, Neanderthal Found
    The skeletal remains of an individual living in northern Italy 40,000-30,000 years ago are believed to be that of a human/Neanderthal hybrid, according to a paper in PLoS ONE. The genetic analysis shows that the individual’s mitochondrial DNA is Neanderthal. Since this DNA is transmitted from a ...
  • Massive Louisiana sinkhole caused by oil indus ...
    A sinkhole triggered in Louisiana by the fossil fuel industry grew to 12 acres over the weekend, and it appears that hundreds of displaced nearby residents will never be able to return to their homes. The oil-sheen-coated sinkhole, photographed over the weekend. The sinkhole has been growing sin ...
  • Two-Headed Bull Shark Confirmed Rarest in the ...
    Imagine Jaws through the eyes of director Guillermo del Toro, and maybe you get something like this: a two-headed shark that’d be right at home in something like “Pan’s Labyrinth 2: The Ocean Blue.” According to the Journal of Fish Biology, where research on the incredibly rare find was publishe ...
  • Facial recognition and GPS tracking: TrapWire ...
    An internationally-spread Orwellian surveillance system uncovered by RT has been linked to a software company that collects the GPS coordinates of cell phone users in over 100 major cities. The discovery of the TrapWire risk mitigation program last year and its ability to match human faces caugh ...
  • Eco-Madness: As Earthworms Are Blamed For “Glo ...
    The world of global warming alarmists is increasingly resembling a madhouse, with conservationists falling over each other trying to salvage the last shreds of credibility. Very funny. What makes the situation hilarious, is the fact many eco-zealots inadvertently put out increasingly panicking p ...

Wind Watch

  • US support for wind projects could be wasting ...
    The US government has not justified its financial support of wind energy and that failure could lead to unnecessary federal spending to boost the wind industry, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday. “Federal support in excess of what is needed to induce projects to be built c ...
  • Rural Mainers turn out in force to back bills ...
    AUGUSTA, Maine — People who live near wind farms and other opponents of expedited permitting for wind energy projects packed a legislative hearing room Thursday to testify in favor of three bills that aim to change parts of the Wind Energy Act of 2008. The act, which won unanimous support from t ...
  • Tipton puts stop to wind farms; Moratorium to ...
    Tipton County will not accept any new applications for the development of a wind farm. Steve Edson, director of the Tipton Plan Commission, said Thursday that he could administratively refuse to accept any wind farm application that did not have road, economic development and decommissioning agr ...
  • Turbines will damage our tourism industry &#82 ...
    The Scottish Government approved plans for an offshore wind testing centre despite admitting it would have an impact on tourism and recreation in the north-east. First Minister Alex Salmond insisted previously that Scotland’s tourism industry would grow alongside the development of offshore wind ...
  • Local control dropped from energy project bill
    MONTPELIER — Legislation that began earlier this year as a three-year moratorium on new mountaintop wind-energy projects limped off the Senate floor Tuesday as yet another study, dealing a setback to environmental activists who had sought to halt development on Vermont ridgelines. In a four-hour ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 10 examples of bespoke article design and scro ...
    Have you been noticing all the pretty sliding/scrolling articles that are popping up around the Internetz? My students think they’re wonderful, and so do I. So let’s look at a roundup of some great ones. Of course we’ll begin with Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Th ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
    This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
    So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
    I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
    There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...

Facing South

  • Climate science denier found behind controvers ...
    An email exchange between John Droz of the fossil fuel-funded American Tradition Institute and an attorney with the North Carolina Public Staff led to the introduction of a controversial bill that would have made it harder for the agency to do its work on behalf of the public. read more
  • VOICES: In North Carolina, a conspicuous parti ...
    The state's Republican leaders are trying to solve a problem they created so they can help themselves politically by solving it. They might be undermining democracy, but you have to give them credit for their brazenness. read more
  • Can gay marriage win in the South?
    How different are Southern views about gay marriage? And are they changing fast enough for marriage equality advocates to win victories in Southern states? read more
  • Bank of America makes 'dirty dozen' list of cr ...
    A watchdog group has compiled a list of banking's "dirty dozen" corporate criminals, and Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America makes the cut with billions paid out in penalties and settlements for various crimes. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • US economy ekes out 0.4% growth in fourth quarter
    BBC – The US economy grew at a faster than expected 0.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012, the Department of Commerce has said. The annualised figure was better than an earlier estimate of 0.1% growth, reflecting increased investments in plant and equipment. However, despite the upwards revis ...
  • Cyprus bank depositors ‘could lose 60%&# ...
    Aljazeera – Big depositors in the Bank of Cyprus could lose about 60 percent of savings of more than 100,000 euros ($128,000), the island’s central bank has confirmed. The official decree published on Saturday said that the bank would give depositors shares worth 37.5 percent of savi ...
  • Protester slams ‘militarisation’ o ...
    ABC – The Australian man whose protest halted last year’s Oxford-Cambridge rowing race in London has described the use of Royal Marines to boost security for the event as the “militarisation of public space”. Trenton Oldfield was jailed for causing a public nuisance after ...
  • Animal welfare group to monitor farms with drone
    ABC – Farming bodies have criticised an animal welfare group’s plan to use a drone to film farming practices on properties around Australia, with one saying the drone would be shot down. Animal Liberation has purchased a surveillance drone equipped with a powerful camera. The group s ...
  • Study shows vitamin D can help people breathe ...
    Miami Herald – The next time you watch a Florida Panthers game, take a minute from the action on ice to look at the seats behind the bench. There you may see the team’s doctors Gautam Yagnik and David Westerdahl. When they aren’t out on the ice with an injured player or sewing sutures in t ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

  • A twenty-first century folk devil
    In Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust, Frank Furedi adroitly uses the sociological literature around moral panics to draw out the deeper meaning of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
  • ‘If you question the Savile crusade, you ...
    Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse.
  • Climate change: an elite affectation
    Rupert Darwall’s history of the idea of global warming shows how the belief in an impending manmade apocalypse emanated from the top of wealthy Western societies.
  • The psychopathology of office politics
    Oliver James' advice for workers on ‘how to thrive in a world of lying, backstabbing and dirty tricks’ merely reinforces the navel-gazing of today's atomised workforce.
  • Lowering the flag on old-fashioned Ulster loyalism
    Working-class loyalists are the only constituency in Northern Ireland to have shunned the therapeutic ideas and language of the peace process - and they're being punished for it.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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  • March of discontent: lessons in work struggles ...
    sciopero-22.jpg Reflections on the escalation of workers' struggles in Italy in the wake of the large logistics workers' strike of March 22. The working class is awake ...
  • EGYPT: Nothing has changed, but everything begins…
    1460729797_81f0114081.jpg Everyone, whatever he says, whatever he does, takes part in the class struggle… Either in an active or a passive way… While developing and deepening it or while denying it… A ...
  • National demo against privatisation - Universi ...
    Sussex House.jpg Monday March 25th is the national demonstration against privatisation being held at the University of Sussex. We'll edit this post with updates throughout the day. Also keep an e ...
  • Appeal for boycotting World Social Forum 2013 ...
    http://appelsm.wordpress.com/call/english/ Quote: Call World Social The people want the fall of the system Download the call here / pdf Revolutionaries of the world, read more
  • Write to Finnish anarchist total objector
    Anarchist total objector Topi Lauko began his prison sentence 18th of December in a low-security prison. He was transferred to a half-way house, maintained by Siltavalmennus NGO, in second half of February. Although in half-way house the conditions of de ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Proof that the Book of Mormon is Pure Fiction ...
    In the field of modern Quantum Physics, the word ETHER is defined as: “a very rarefied and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space, including the interstices between the particles of matter, and to be the medium whose vibrations constituted light and other electrom ...
  • Apotheosis – Man Becoming God – Th ...
    Apotheosis is a Greek word literally meaning man becoming a God THROUGH HIS WORKS.   This is the ultimate end goal of the Gnostic secret societies since the days of Adam.   Gnosticism literally means secret knowledge.  Why has this knowledge been so “secret” and hidden for thousands ...
  • Why Mormonism (LDS Inc.) is a Satanic Masquera ...
    I had to laugh at today’s Salt Lake Tribune front-page story.  The entire article pointed an accusatory, holier-than-thou  finger at the FLDS (Fundamentalist LDS) “Big Brethren” spycams positioned pretty much everywhere in the twin FLDS enclave towns of Hilldale and Colorado Ci ...
  • The God of This World – (The God of Morm ...
    The author’s name is John Bertrand (J.B.) Phillips, and his seminal book is titled: “Your God is Too Small”.   It was written and first published in the year 1953 – but Phillips’ words and message are never more relevant and meaningful than they are today.   TRUTH i ...
  • Update on the Satanic “6″ Frequenc ...
    Please understand that it is not my wish to attack or denigrate others who may have an OPINION contrary to mine. However, when a deeply SATANIC AGENDA is falsely promoted under the disguise of Christ-like “peace and love” – I have the moral obligation to take a stand.  Nay, I h ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Renewable Energy-Energy Conservation and MO Le ...
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: We need more petition signers for the RES Complai ...
  • Renewable Energy-Energy Conservation and MO Le ...
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: We need more petition signers for the RES Complai ...
  • CAD Design- Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design ...
    Project Notes / Must Haves Additional Room for the Newly Added Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers Create a User Friendly area for the Bartenders with the addition of additional beer coolers under the lower shelf Decor Must Match Existing Finishes Materials Used 2″x20″x14′ White Oak ...
  • CAD Design- Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design ...
    Project Notes / Must Haves Additional Room for the Newly Added Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers Create a User Friendly area for the Bartenders with the addition of additional beer coolers under the lower shelf Decor Must Match Existing Finishes Materials Used 2″x20″x14′ White Oak ...
  • Karmic Korner-Grand Opening Invitation
    Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy will be at Karmic Korners Grand Opening today at 3131 Morgan Ford, St Louis MO from 11:00 AM-8:00 PM. Everyone is invited to see the: Solar Cells, Green Building, Natural Products, Home Made Wares, Up-cycled Items, Natural Beauty Supplies, Art and mo ...

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • You're Next: Don't Let Them Do a Cyprus on New ...
    Please sign petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Reform_the_banking_system_so_that_no_more_bailouts_are_ever_needed/?cHHSRcb Readers may be aware of an effort by the New Zealand’s government to re-jig the Reserve Bank’s Open Banking Resolution to permit failing banks to ...
  • Follow the Money at Santa Monica College
    The mission statement of Alex Abramoff in his bid for student body president of Santa Monica College in California Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 3 of a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa Monica College. While thi ...
  • The Abramoff Way: GOP Mischief on College Campuses
    Police pepper spray Santa Monica protestors Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 1 of a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa MonicaCollege. While this might seem incredibly trivial, this is precisely how his father Jack A ...
  • Son of Casino Jack Runs for Pres at Santa Moni ...
      Kevin Spacey as Casino Jack Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 1 about a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa Monica College. While this might seem incredibly trivial, this is precisely how his father Jack Abra ...
  • Is Obama Preparing for Martial Law?
    Is Obama preparing for martial law? All the signs say yes. Many prominent market analysts predict the US economy will collapse some time in 2013. They fully believe Americans will wake up one morning and learn the government has closed all the banks, as they have in Cyprus. When this happ ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...
  • Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun V ...
    These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Pane ...
  • Hold Your Own 10th Anniversary 'Bowling for Co ...
    Please check this page frequently for updates all week This coming Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine' winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary. To mark the date, Michael is hosting a screening of the film in New York City &nda ...
  • Jeffrey Toobin on Sandra Day O'Connor's 'Regre ...
    From NPR's Fresh Air With Terry Gross, March 6th, 2013: TERRY GROSS: So finally, since I did just talk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday, I want to ask you about something that I asked her, which related to something that you had said. And in one of our previous interviews when you and ...
  • Left on the Cutting Room Floor of 'The Gatekee ...
    On February 28th, 2013, Dror Moreh, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Gatekeepers,' spoke with Dave Davies of NPR's Fresh Air about what he wasn't able to include in the film due to time constraints: DAVE DAVIES: I know that you talked to these gentlemen a long time, and there m ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Approval of "Monsanto Rider" in Senate Budget ...
    Between 80 and 95 percent of Americans want genetically modified foods labeled—an unprecedented agreement in a nation of political polar divides. And yet, in defiance of the overwhelming majority of the public, the Senate just gave what amounts to a "free pass" for biotech companies p ...
  • The Biggest Problem with U.S. Fish
    If you think the economy has taken a dive in recent years, take a gander at the closest stream running by your house. Chances are, it's not in any better shape. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released its assessment of America's rivers and streams, and it paints a very blea ...
  • Antibiotics on Apples? Really?
    If you saw a sign for antibiotic-free apples at your grocery store, you’d probably do a double take, right? The fact is, though, that the antibiotics tetracycline and streptomycin are used in both conventional and organic apple and pear orchards to control a devastating infection called fire bl ...
  • Avoid This Dangerous Household Chemical Combo
    Humans don't live in a vacuum. We encounter dozens of chemicals every day, and even though there's a ton of new research coming out about what those individual chemicals are doing to us, there's very little known about how those chemicals are interacting with each other—and what those combinati ...
  • 5 Signs of a Baby-Friendly Hotel
    Congratulations, new parents, on your bundle of joy. Your life has completely changed, you’ve never been as tired in your life—and you definitely could use some R & R. What might surprise you is that these first few months before your baby starts to crawl is a magical window for your first ...

big think

  • Are the French Innately Unhappy?
    What's the Latest Development? The French are the least happy people in Europe, according to a new survey of French nationals living in France and abroad. What's more, the French academic behind the new poll places the blame on French culture itself. Claudia Senik, a professor at the Par ...
  • Friscos for Scientists V: Naturalistic Fallac ...
    The last frisco for scientists (for now) is slightly different from the others.  Unlike other friscos, which are either a word (“proof”) or a sentence (“Correlation does not imply causation”) that clueless civilians use unwittingly to reveal their ignorance, this one is a logical fallacy.  It’s ...
  • How Parasites Warp the Human Mind
    What's the Latest Development? "The enemy within" is a salient cultural trope readily found in the most successful thriller movies, where adversaries shock audiences by appearing from supposedly safe and secure places. The concept has a strong biological correlative in the parasite, whic ...
  • How Walks in Nature Restore the Mind
    What's the Latest Development? The theory that natural landscapes recharge minds that have been stretched thin by harsh urban environments is not new, but only recently has the theory become testable. Thanks to portable EEG machines, which measure brain activity in an unobtrusive manner ...
  • 603 - When Harry Met Paris: Beck's Métro Map
    Last week, Harry Beck finally got his blue plaque. The house where the designer of the iconic London Tube map spent his first years is now marked by a memorial sign - and unlike English Heritage's other plaques, the one affixed to 14 Wesley Road in Leyton (East London) is the font used on London ...

Information Liberation

  • Welcome to Sulphur Springs, Where the Police C ...
    Like many third-world countries, Arkansas is a beautiful place inhabited by lovely people who are burdened with an extravagantly corrupt ruling class. This helps explain, but by no means does it justify, the fact that the minuscule town of Sulphur Sp...
  • Why Are Cops Acting Like Soldiers?
    From the early days of the United States to the post-Reconstruction era and beyond, Americans viewed the separation of the military from law enforcement as essential for the health of the republic. In recent years, however, the line between the polic...
  • Video: Vancouver Police Officer Punches Man in ...
    Officer Bhabha, badge number 2703, caught on tape punching a man, claiming he was "resisting arrest". Andi Shae Akhavan was biking home in Yaletown at around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday when two officers pulled him over and accused him of running a red l...
  • Esquire's Bin Laden Killing Story "Complete BS ...
    (CNN) -- In February, Esquire magazine published a lengthy profile of "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden." The story did not identify the killer by his real name, referring to him only as "the Shooter." The Shooter told Esquire he encountered al...
  • Congress' New CFAA Draft Could Have Put Aaron ...
    Law professor and historian Tim Wu has called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) the "worst law in technology." The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has described the government's interpretation of it "expansive," "broad," and "sweeping." And Orin...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Whose line is it, anyway?
    Nineteenth century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli supposedly remarked that there are “lies, damned lies and statistics” but although the phrase was repeated often, it is more likely that it was coined by American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. ...
  • Greening end of life gadgets
    Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is a growing problem, there are mountains of obsolete computers, mobile phones, refrigerators, televisions etc piling up on dumps around the world. Regulations implemented at the National and European levels seek to force those disposing of WEEE t ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Insurance as a Risk Management Instrument for ...
    US DOE http://energy.gov/oe/articles/insurance-risk-management-instrument-energy-infrastructure-security-and-resilience The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has released a report that examines the key risks confronting critical energy infrastructure and ways in which the ins ...
  • Retail Gasoline Price Impact of Compliance wit ...
    Informa Economics for the Renewable Fuels Association http://www.ethanolrfa.org/news/entry/new-study-rin-credits-not-a-factor-in-higher-gas-prices/ [From Press Release] Contrary to the recent wave of hyperbole coming from the oil industry, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its associated “RI ...
  • Natural Catastrophes and Man-made Disasters in ...
    Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re) http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=31982&pid:50 [From a Climate Wire article by Evan Lehmann] …Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company, said in a report released yesterday that a smaller rise in seawater — 1 ...
  • The Impact of Corruption on Climate Change: Th ...
    United Nations Environment Programme http://na.unep.net/geas/archive/pdfs/GEAS_Mar2013_EnvCorruption.pdf [From this 13-page report] …Corruption impacts the success of emissions trading schemes by reducing the overall reliability and effectiveness of GHG markets. The implementation of cap-a ...
  • Trade and Climate Change
    World Trade Association | United Nations Environment Programme | Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2013/trade-and-climate-change Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the international community. Mitigating global warming and adapting to it ...

Scientific American - News

  • The Science of Storytelling: Live Stream on Sa ...
    Watch a live stream below of an event, "The Science of Storytelling and the Storytelling of Science." The event, set for 10 pm EDT on Saturday, March 30, will feature popular science educator Bill Nye, Hayden Planetarium astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, theoretical physicis ...
  • Root Fungus Stores a Surprising Amount of the ...
    A forest floor can store lots of atmospheric carbon, helping to limit global warming that results from carbon dioxide emissions. Most of that storage, scientists have thought, is found in tree leaves and branches that absorb carbon, eventually fall to the ground and slowly decay into soil. A n ...
  • Airplanes Bear High Levels of Flame Retardants
    Spending about 100 hours each month in the air, flight attendants are bombarded with pesticides, radiation, ozone and any illnesses passengers carry on board. Now new research shows that they also fly along with some of the highest levels ever measured for some flame retardants. [More] ...
  • Is the U.S. Exporting Coal Pollution?
    LONDON – The good news is that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to decline. "Over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen," said President Obama in his State of the Union address last month. [ ...
  • Drier Climate May Spread Diarrhea
    LONDON – Diarrhea, killer of 1.5 million children annually, is likely to become more prevalent in many developing countries as the climate changes, a report says. But the authors found an unexpected twist in the way the climate is likely to affect the disease. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Bike Tour Blockades Three Chevron Gas Stations
      Chevron Gas Stations Blockaded for Fracking Project March 30, 2013 -- Victoria, Coast Salish Territories – Community activists on a critical mass bicycle ride ...
  • Truck Stop Circus Rings Chevron Refinery
    BURNABY - There were no tanker trucks rolling in or out of the North  Burnaby Chevron Refinery Saturday afternoon. The roads were blocked by anti-pipeline activiists holding a 'climate crime circus' as part of a global day of action against Chevron. At issue is Chevron's partici ...
  • Action Camp (sous-titré en français)
    Traduit de http://stoptheflows.tumblr.com/ C'est le second vidéo que subMedia.tv a produit à propos de la lutte contre le projet de transport du gaz naturel appelé Pacific Trails Pipeline ou PTP. Les Unis’tot’en, un ...
  • Action Camp (sous-titré en français)
    Traduit de http://stoptheflows.tumblr.com/ C'est le second vidéo que subMedia.tv a produit à propos de la lutte contre le projet de transport du gaz naturel appelé Pacific Trails Pipeline ou PTP. Les Unis’tot’en, un ...
  • Journey of Nishiyuu - final leg (video)
    Six Cree youth and one guide started out in January from Whapmagoostui in Northern Quebec to walk to Ottawa, a journey of around 1600km. By the time they arrived the numbe ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • North Korea puts its armed forces on a war footing
    David Seaton's News Links "As we have learnt again and again in this long period of turmoil, the impossible can become inevitable without even passing through improbable." Anatole Kaletsky - The TimesWe seem to be immersed in a period of cumulative disasters, rather similar to the astrological i ...
  • Obama's triumphal entry into Jerusalem... yada ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe US is hoping that Obama's positive first trip will reinvigorate peace efforts, though most settlers are not worried. They see the composition of the new Israeli cabinet as a reassurance that Israeli policy will move away from peace negotiations. Christian Science Mon ...
  • America's central question
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking on ...
  • What is the new Pope about?
    David Seaton's News Links His Holiness Pope FrancisFrancis is no liberal. He had no truck with liberation theology, the popular movement in Latin America and elsewhere which links the church’s work to radical social change, even though many of its supporters have been Jesuits. Not Francis: he ...
  • Whither post-Chávez Venezuela
    To put the entire subject of Venezuela into perspective from a yanqui point of view, I suggest reading the following snippet by Matthew Yglesias.The late Hugo Chavez is controversial because of American aspirations to global military hegemony. People who vocally oppose those aspirations find t ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Rules of the Game
    Here's a little something to noodle on while I'm lounging in my easy chair trying to solve this week's Saturday Stumper crossword puzzle. First, you need to click here and go read a post by Matt Yglesias. I'll wait. You didn't read it, did you? Fine. I know you're busy, so here's the n ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 29 March 2013
    Marian bought a new comforter for our bed a few days ago, and it's rather thicker and more cushiony than our old one. Domino adores it. She's actually abandoned her favorite American Airlines blanket and now spends every morning plonked down in the lovely, luxurious nest of the new comforter. ...
  • President's Budget May Include Entitlement Cuts
    Damian Paletta reports that President Obama may endorse entitlement cuts when he releases his budget on April 10: Including entitlement curbs would be notable, as Republicans often have criticized the White House for offering such steps in private negotiations but never fully embracing t ...
  • How Gays Won the Adoption Battle
    Gay marriage has been a culture-war hot button for the past two decades. But what about gay couples adopting children? Why did that never ignite the same level of opposition? In "Under the Gaydar," Alison Gash explains: The secret to this progress was that gay parents and couples—w ...
  • Barack Obama is Dumb and Lazy
    Jamelle Bouie points me toward the very conservative John Podhoretz today, who warns his fellow conservatives against their peculiar preoccupation with the idea that Barack Obama is an empty suit: The weird condescension his opponents display toward him is ludicrously wrongheaded. They s ...

Insanity Report

  • Best of The Insanity Check: Side Chicks Don’t ...
    The 2nd “Best of the Insanity Check”. Side Chicks Don’t Have Rights: Gloria Allred thinks Tiger Woods owes his side chicks apologies Mel Gibbson’s mixtape,Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel & the “Rules of Ryce” More Mel Gibbson Share with your friends:
  • IC 388: Religious Rapers
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment Great sith council assignment in real life Religious rapers don’t know “No Means No” Door-to-Door Salesmen Savages Part 2 Ford makes a really bad decision with an Ad Teaser for Riddick Upcoming movies Upcoming Video Games BioWare says goodbye ...
  • IC 387: Savages
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment St. Patrick’s Day = White People Get Drunk Day Kriss & Kev don’t like the way GSP fights Greek Soccer Player gets what he deserves The Steubenville rape trial We’re too easy on rapists Men don’t need to be taught not to rape, those ...
  • Best of the Insanity Check: The Co-Hosts
    The first “Best of the Insanity Check”. This focuses on the 3 co-hosts that have been a part of making the Insanity Check so funny & Ratchet: Ryce Juanton: Nothin But Pho, The Great Frosted Flakes Conspiracy of 86, Giant Stone Penises Dylan: Chicken Foot Soup, The Strawberry Let ...
  • IC 386: I Don’t Work Here
    Topic: Guest Host: Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips Sith Council Assignments Emails Why we review movies? Weathermen suck Why black people won’t survive the zombie apocalypse? Bag fees New ads about Teen Pregnancy Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Diving deep into ocean data uncovers ‘missing ...
    Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven’t been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps explain current surprisingly slow surface warming, and invalidates simple climate models.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
    In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.
  • How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
    In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.

e!Science News

  • Congestion in the Earth's mantle
    Earth is dynamic. What we perceive as solid ground beneath our feet, is in reality constantly changing. In the space of a year Africa and America are drifting apart at the back of the Middle Atlantic for some centimeters while the floor of the Pacific Ocean is subducted underneath the South Amer ...
  • New models predict drastically greener Arctic ...
    New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening," or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as much as 5 ...
  • NASA's Swift sizes up comet ISON
    Astronomers from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) and Lowell Observatory have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this year. read more
  • Discovery opens door to efficiently storing an ...
    Two University of Calgary researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy. read more
  • Look out squirrels: Leopards are new backyard ...
    A new study led by WCS-India scientist Vidya Athreaya finds that certain landscapes of western India completely devoid of wilderness and with high human populations are crawling with a different kind of backyard wildlife: leopards. read more

unEarthed

  • Happy Birthday, Cesar E. Chavez
    Injustices plague farmworkers while administration turns a blind eye The agriculture industry relies heavily on the use of pesticides, which are highly toxic chemicals that farmworkers and surrounding communities are frequently exp ...
  • It's Game Over for Foes of National Forests
    Roadless Rule—and 50+ million forested acres—survive test of time Spring blooms of fireweed in the Reservation Divide roadless area in Montana’s Coeur D’Alene Mountains. (© Terry ...
  • Friday Finds: Kraft’s Blue Box Chemical Blues
    Plus: Buzzing over bee deaths and clean energy power up Photo courtesy of @cdharrison (Flickr) Bloggers think chemicals in macaroni are cheesy Two food blog ...
  • Arctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs
    And ConocoPhillips eager to drill in the Arctic Ocean Earthjustice received some superb video today from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, of Shell’s beat up Arctic drilling rig, the Kulluk, as it was lifted onto a huge dry haul ship to ...
  • Esperanza Spalding In Tune With Earthjustice
    Grammy Award-winning singer shares proceeds for endangered species The Grammy-winning Radio Music Society is Esperanza's latest album. (Courtesy of Esperanza Spalding) ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Stand With Us poster sends truly universal mes ...
    Controversial poster juxtaposes Holocaust survivors with IDF soldiers. The only thing is, the Nazis’ victims in the picture are probably not Jewish. Ami Kaufman reported here on a tasteless Stand With Us poster, politicizing the memory of the Holocaust in order to support Israeli policy an ...
  • Tasteless montage: Pro-Israel group puts IDF s ...
    How does one give therapy to a whole nation? This is the question I asked myself after seeing this photo montage made by the pro-Israel group Stand With Us, celebrating that Israel is now the largest center of Jews in the world. That’s the only way I can explain a photo like this. The Jewish [...]
  • ‘Facts on the ground’ loom over Bi ...
    I went to the weekly demo against the Wall in the Palestinian village Bil’in yesterday, after several months that I haven’t visited the West Bank at all (I try not to travel beyond the Green Line when it’s not for work). A colleague visiting from the U.S. joined me, and we arrived at the village ...
  • Palestinians demonstrate against sewage settle ...
    About 100 Palestinians from the ancient village of Sebastia and their supporters held a demonstration today to protest against settlers spilling their sewage onto the village’s agricultural lands. This was the third demonstration in two months, and villagers are also starting weekly demons ...
  • Caught red-handed: Settlers steal Palestinians ...
    Much of the Israeli public believes Palestinians lie constantly. This time, Yossi Gurvitz witnesses and documents evidence in real time. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz One of the problems with reporting what happens in the West Bank to the Israeli public is that it has grown accustomed to ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Foreclosure Warrior Faces Foreclosure… ...
    Danielle Kelley is a foreclosure defense attorney who has dedicated an incredible amount of her time and energy to help all of us who are in this fight. For her it’s not just professional, it’s personal.  Read her story: I am in foreclosure. Although I am not proud of that,Read the R ...
  • Lanny Breuer, US Dept. of Just Us, Fascist Cor ...
    One of the more disgusting examples of the close partnership between the corporations and banks that are robbing and foreclosing and abusing Americans and the government that was supposed to protect us. No banker has gone to jail, and this illustrates exactly why: This isn’t just a revolvi ...
  • The Banks….At War With Themselves… ...
    They are a squirming bunch of lies and fraud….and they don’t want the full story to be told….. Petitioners are defendants in 15 separate actions (the “Actions”) commenced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) as purported con- servator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (c ...
  • Mortgage Modifications Denied to Americans, Th ...
    Every day I see it, the banks that were bailed out by the American taxpayer will not approve mortgage modifications to the taxpayers that bailed them out. They will, however, accept Deed In Lieu, Short Sales or Consented Foreclosure Judgments. Americans are being forced out of their homes so tha ...
  • Banks Breaking Into Homes….The Jack Boot ...
    J. JOHN MARSHALL, ESTATE OF MARJORIE MARSHALL, and KIMBERLY WILEY Plaintiffs, v. JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, AMERIPRISE BANK, FIDELITY NATIONAL FIELD SERVICES, INC., JAKK MORTGAGE COMPANY, LPS, FIELD SERVICES, ROBERT HASBERGER, CITY OF ELKHART, CHIEF DALE PFLIBSEN, CPL. MICHAEL WINDMILLER, PTLMN. BRAN ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Rivers, Slow Food, ADUFA, a ...
    Rep. Louise Slaughter (D–NY) said, “This study ends any debate. The extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock is endangering human health."
  • Coursera Wrap-Up
    The most cited reason that students felt compelled to change their own approach to food was how the food system impacts the environment.
  • CLF Week in Links: Soda, Chicken Waste, Bills ...
    The support from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association for campaigns against the Mayor’s program and sugar taxes proposed around the country is reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s disinformation campaign during the long struggle to expose the lethal effects of cigarette s ...
  • Further Rebuttals to GE Salmon
    On a hopeful note, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and Aldi have pledged not to sell genetically engineered salmon.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Rotting Pigs, Airport F ...
    Do ads cause obesity? Here’s a well-written critique of cross-sectional studies of factors associated with obesity that are interpreted to imply causation. To quote, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.” The author correctly warns ...

k2p blog

  • Boston marathon winning times fail as a proxy ...
    Despite the well-known effect of temperature on marathon performance, we found that warming trends in Boston have not caused winning times to slow over time because of high variability in temperatures on race day.
  • Summer time and it’s -12° C outside
    We changed to summer time last night. And at 0600 on Easter Sunday (5 am according to my body clock) it is all of -12°C outside. I could do with a bit of real global warming - and not that which comes from a mathematical model.
  • Climate science on “negative watch”
    The almost 20 year pause in global warming while emissions of carbon dioxide have continued to increase can no longer be ignored. Following The Economist's article earlier this week, more of the main steam media are beginning to question if climate science is as "settled" as some would like us t ...
  • Climate science on “negative watch”
    The almost 20 year pause in global warming while emissions of carbon dioxide have continued to increase can no longer be ignored. Following The Economist's article earlier this week, more of the main steam media are beginning to question if climate science is as "settled" as some would like us t ...
  • The return of Eugenics
    It would seem therefore that eugenics is here to stay. As a preventative health measure it is already acceptable if practiced voluntarily by the individuals involved. Selective breeding practiced voluntarily by individuals is also acceptable but is unacceptable if imposed by coercive decree. ... ...

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Consumerist

  • Ask Tax Dad: Professional Organizations, Accid ...
    Usually, our staff Certified Tax Cat handles readers’ questions about taxes, but caught his tail in an antique adding machine and is out on medical leave. Filling in for him is Laura’s dad, a retired accountant and independent tax preparer. The April 15th filing deadline is coming up, and ...
  • UPS Hit With $40 Million Settlement In Illegal ...
    UPS may have lost to FedEx in the first round of the Worst Company In America competition, but the shipping giant is getting away relatively unscathed from a Dept. of Justice criminal probe into deliveries it made for illegal online pharmacies. Big Brown has agreed to fork over $40 million, whic ...
  • Why Ordering ‘Suspended’ Coffees F ...
    You might have seen the “suspended coffee” meme going around on Facebook or other social media recently, The idea goes as follows: when you order your morning caffeine jolt or pastry, you order additional items, but ask for them to be “suspended.” When a person who can&#8 ...
  • Chat Transcript Reveals That Guitar Center Cou ...
    Yesterday, we told you about the Guitar Center “Easter Savings Event” that somehow managed to exclude more than 300 brands from the sale, indicating that virtually nothing in the store would actually be included in the promotion. But further investigation by Consumerist readers found ...
  • Worst Company In America Round 2: Apple Vs. AT&T
    Let’s get ready for the weekend by pitting a wildly popular electronics company against the wireless provider that had once been its partner-in-crime. When Apple launched the iPhone oh so many years ago, AT&T was the only company able to offer it in the U.S. The two enjoyed a brief lo ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblowing at the NSA: Daily Whistleblower ...
    HuffPost Live: Whistleblowing the NSA The public's interest in the ‘NSA Four’ continued this week with a HuffPost Live segment yesterday following up on journalist Tim Shorrock’s recent article in The Nation about the intelligence agency whistleblowers. GAP National Security & Human Rights ...
  • UDC Whistleblower Tour Stop Hosts Two Ridenhou ...
    Last Friday, March 22, the University of District of Columbia law school hosted two nationally-renowned whistleblowers – Rick Piltz and Thomas Drake – as part of the American Whistleblower Tour. Piltz and Drake, both recipients of the prestigious Ridenhour Prize, told their stories of talking tr ...
  • Whistleblower Tour at American University Focu ...
    “There are nightmares out there.” That’s what a retired USDA poultry inspector with 44 years of experience told an audience at American University’s Washington College of Law about the current chicken inspection pilot program that may soon expand nationwide. The program, known by its acronym HI ...
  • Keystone Pipeline Saga Demonstrates Need for W ...
    Washington Spectator: Rick Piltz – Keystone XL is Why We Need Whistleblowers White House Climate Change Program whistleblower Rick Piltz – who now heads up GAP’s Climate Science Watch – emphasizes the importance of whistleblowers in the context of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline issue. ...
  • The Story of the 'NSA Four'; Whistleblower Tou ...
    The Nation: Obama’s Crackdown on WhistleblowersTom Drake at the National Press Club This article details the story of the ‘NSA Four’ – including GAP clients Tom Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe and William Binney – featuring insight from their attorney, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Je ...
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