Tuesday, March 05, 2013

5 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped pictures...NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped pictures of a double system of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt. This composite picture shows the apparent orbit of one member of the pair. In reality, the objects, called 1998 WW31, revolve around a common center of gravity, like a pair of waltzing skaters. This picture shows the motion of one member of the duo six faint blobs relative to the other large white blob. The blue oval represents the orbital path. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Playa de Los Locos con los Picos de Europa nev...Playa de Los Locos con los Picos de Europa nevados al fondo (Suances, Cantabria, España) 28.06.2009 (Photo credit: Ibán)
Look how many there are!Look how many there are! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

e!Science News

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Brave New Climate

  • 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 ...
  • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...
  • Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
    As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • The Fascist 5 Strikes Again
    It looks like the 5 fascists on the supreme court plan on helping rebel scum make it harder for minorities to vote. The SCOTUS 5 think voting is an entitlement, and not a right, isn’t that right Scalia you pile of human feces. Just think. This will be known as the worst pack of slimeballs ...
  • Anything But Taxing The Rich and Corporations ...
    It appears the Republicans want to keep every tax haven, loophole, and shelter in place for the wealthy, and corporations. Even the corporations that make billions and pay nothing in U.S. income tax. I wonder whey this isn’t the “simple” message every Democrat is using. Attacki ...

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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  • Why the emerging Israeli coalition makes me ho ...
    The answer is not in the government – which would deepen inequality and won’t be willing nor able to end the occupation – but in the unusual alliances that could be formed in the opposition. Benjamin Netanyahu has until the end of next week to introduce his new government. All ...
  • A new low: Police claim torching of Palestinia ...
    When the police say the residents of Qusra fabricated the incident, they are actually saying the residents committed the felony of a false report. But so far, not a single Qusra resident has been interrogated for false complaints.  By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz At the end of last week, t ...
  • How the 1929 Hebron massacre invigorated the Z ...
    The riots made it clear that the distinctions between religious and secular Jews, or between the old established community and the newcomers were meaningless for the Arabs. That wasn’t because in the eyes of Muslims all Jews should equally be put to the death, but because at the end of the ...
  • The market square is empty in Hebron
    There are many injustices under the occupation: small ones and big ones. There is theft and murder and never ending oppression. There is Shuhada Street, and they all exist there. By Leehee Rotschild On the Friday before last, Palestinian protestors accompanied by Israeli and international solida ...
  • Photos: Israel’s new ‘Palestinian ...
    A new Israeli bus line will serve only Palestinians. Officials claim it’s not segregation, but the ongoing experience of discrimination faced by Palestinian workers speaks for itself. Photos by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Early this morning, Palestinians from the West Bank with permits to wo ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Great Keppel Island tourism and marina develop ...
    Federal environment minister Tony Burke today approved the Great Keppel Island tourism and marina development, subject to 96 strict conditions to minimise its potential environmental impact.
  • World Indigenous Network Conference kicks off
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya as the keynote speaker for the World Indigenous Network Conference in Darwin from 26 to 31 May 2013.
  • Indigenous Heritage Program grants
    Federal Heritage Minister Tony Burke today announced the successful applicants for the Gillard Government's Indigenous Heritage program.
  • Tasmanian Forests Agreement to save more than ...
    A new socio-economic impacts study has found the Tasmanian Forests Agreement would prevent substantial job losses in Tasmania's forestry industry.
  • Super trawler stopped again
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has today signed the interim declaration to prevent the super trawler until the environmental impacts of the proposed operation are better understood.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • While Legislators in Tallahasee Move To Attack ...
    The Republican dominated government in this state, as usual, are working to do the business of the banks and corporations who have turned this nation into a fascist oligarchy. The only people left who truly represent the interests of The People, of Consumers, of equal justice and fairness are Co ...
  • The Top 5 Things Wrong With House Bill 87&#823 ...
    A Great Piece From A Member of Florida  Consumer Justice Advocates! Again, the Florida legislature is considering improvident foreclosure legislation, HB 0087, which will impair the rights of homeowners and provide banks with new rights to accelerate their rapid foreclosure of homes statewide. H ...
  • The US Government, Supporting Pervasive, Syste ...
    From William Black: A recent study confirmed that control fraud was endemic among our most elite financial institutions: Asset Quality Misrepresentation by Financial Intermediaries: Evidence from RMBS Market. Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru & James Witkin (February 2013) (“PSW 2013″) ...
  • NYTIMES- The Federal Government, Conspiring To ...
    Well not exactly the federal government, but one of its closest co conspirators in the campaign to steal trillions of dollars from every man, woman and child in the United States of America. Can you imagine, a secret agreement wherein the massive power of the federal government, enters an agreem ...
  • Terror in The USA, The National Defense Author ...
      WATCHING THIS VIDEO IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL AMERICANS Scridb filter

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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

  • Md. Farm Bureau’s stance on pesticide bill see ...
    The Maryland Farm Bureau’s opposition to a pesticide reporting bill in Maryland seems out of step with policy statements made by the national organization with which it is affiliated, the American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • USDA Organic standards for aquaculture under d ...
    Farmed aquatic animals are the only type of food not represented in the marketplace with a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic seal—a highly recognizable label—although that may change soon.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Food Fight, Sugar, Meat ...
    The lack of rain has dried up the pastures and made hay prohibitively expensive, so the number of cattle available for slaughter is no longer sufficient to keep the disassembly plant operating. Losing the $55.5 million payroll is a real body blow to the town and a harbinger of climate change imp ...
  • Feeding animals to animals: a call for vigilan ...
    Using rendered animal parts in feed can “recycle” contaminants such as arsenic, dioxins, and heavy metals back into the food supply chain, increasing their concentrations in animal tissues, and raising exposure risks among consumers.
  • Farm Bureau is a dubious ‘voice of agriculture ...
    The bill is being introduced for a third time, and for a third time its main opposition comes from the Maryland Farm Bureau. This persistent opposition begs two questions: What is the Farm Bureau, and whom does it represent?

k2p blog

  • Rabbits (or a lack thereof) killed off the Nea ...
    A new paper in the Journal of Human Evolution claims that the diet of the Neanderthals contained far fewr rabbits than Modern Humans. The paper then suggests that this was because Neanderthals could not shift from hunting large prey to hunting small animals. The data may well be valid but the in ...
  • Baby cured of HIV?
    A baby has apparently been cured of HIV but there are no samples for others to confirm if she was ever infected.
  • Double peak in Solar Cycle 24? as in SC14 and ...
    The NOAA/NASA Solar Cycle Prediction Panel is puzzled. They don't know if we are reaching solar maximum or whether another little peak could be on its way which would shift solar maximum for SC24 to 2014 from 2013. And should we compare SC24 with SC14 or should it be SC5?
  • A Guard fit for a Queen
    UK's tallest Bobby
  • An almost hidden message
    Hidden message optical illusion.

Left Foot Forward

  • George Osborne is on weak ground opposing sens ...
    Despite record fines for everything from mis-selling to Libor rate fixing and even money laundering, it has been another season of bumper bonuses. Yet against this backdrop our chancellor finds himself in Brussels arguing against a plan to rein in excessive bonuses.
  • George Osborne – driving the UK to frack and ruin
    It was a curious day in the chancellor’s constituency yesterday, but also a very significant one. Greenpeace were there to bring home to George Osborne the realities of fracking.
  • Unionists losing confidence in police, claims ...
    Amidst a highly charged by-election campaign in Mid Ulster, the first minister has warned that Unionists in Northern Ireland are losing confidence in the police force.
  • Tory drive to limit foreign students is damagi ...
    The UK had nine institutions in the top 100 universities this year - three fewer than in 2011, according to the latest figures from the Times Higher Education. The Tories were warned that imposing an arbitrary limit on student numbers would damage Britain's educational reputation abroad.
  • Why are Wonga speaking at a Labour policy meet ...
    It appears that a representative from Wonga is speaking at a Labour Policy Review meeting on household debt. Whatever next? Advice from McDonald's on healthy eating?

Consumerist

  • Get My Daughter A Full-Time Job And I’ll ...
    Sorry, that’s not a direct offer from Consumerist: we don’t have daughters, or $500. A 36-year-old Southern California woman who has spent the last decade and a half as her mother’s caregiver after a car crash is looking for a job now that her mother is well enough to live alon ...
  • Chicken Processing Plant Worker: I Will Never ...
    While there are plenty of people who would rather not imagine where their food comes from, many of us would like to know more about how, for example, a chicken goes from clucking and pecking to one of four shapes of Chicken McNugget. During a recent “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddi ...
  • Customer Orders 85 Pizzas, Pays .68% Tip
    We can understand why one might be reluctant to fork over a full 15-18% tip on a restaurant bill of $1463, but even a 1% tip would be better than this. According to the above image posted on Reddit, a customer ordered 85 pizzas to be delivered and only tipped $10. Now it’s possible this re ...
  • More Than 2,000 Flights Canceled Today & Tomor ...
    Remember when you looked forward to lots of snow? Neither do we. With a huge snow storm coating the Midwest and heading east to wreak even more havoc, more than 1,450 flights have already been canceled for today. Flights in and out of Chicago’s two airports, O’Hare and Midway, make u ...
  • Report: Average $951 Car-Title Loan Results In ...
    If you live in any of the 21 states where car-title loans are available, you’ve probably seen the TV commercials touting the ease of this short-term borrowing option. But a new report claims that the average car-title loan results in revolving door of debt and a mountain of interest paymen ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Bradley Manning and the New Political Prisoner ...
    Democracy Now!: WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning Says He Wanted to Show the Public the “True Costs of War” Military whistleblower Bradley Manning went to court on Friday and pled guilty to 10 charges, still facing as many as 12 more charges at an upcoming court-martial. The most seriou ...
  • OSC Funding is Essential for Whistleblowers & ...
    This week, GAP and other good government partners sent a letter to Congress, requesting adequate funding for the Office of Special Counsel – the agency charged with protecting federal whistleblowers and investigating their disclosures. During a period when our government is cutting spending acro ...
  • Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to Some WikiLeak ...
    Los Angeles Times: Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to Some Charges in WikiLeaks Army whistleblower Bradley Manning pleaded guilty yesterday to sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website, but pleaded not guilty to other charges, including violations of the Espionage Act. He is expect ...
  • CIA/Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Report ...
    Today, Feb. 28, CIA/torture whistleblower John Kiriakou will report to the Federal Correctional Institute in Loretto, Pennsylvania, to begin a 30-month prison term. Kiriakou's attorney, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack, and NSA whistleblower Tom Drake (who was al ...
  • CIA/Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Report ...
    CIA/Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Reports to Prison Today CIA/Torture whistleblower and GAP client John Kiriakou begins serving his 30 month jail sentence today. Though he heads for incarceration, he is going to jail feeling optimistic, saying he wears his conviction as a "badge of honor ...

UK Progressive

  • Sheldon Adelson’s Casino Company Stirs Fresh Q ...
    by Stephen Engelberg ProPublica Last week’s admission by Sheldon Adelson’s casino company that it had “likely” violatedprovisions of the federal law barring U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials raises some intriguing questions. Chief among them: Which transaction ...
  • Now What?
    by Robert Reich What should the President do now? Push to repeal the sequester (a reconciliation bill in the Senate would allow repeal with 51 votes, thereby putting pressure on House Republicans), and replace it with a “Build America’s Future” Act that would close tax loopholes used by the weal ...
  • Lawyer in Insurance Fraud Case Asks to Rescind ...
    by Jake Bernstein ProPublica Last November, it looked as though federal prosecutors had closed their case against a Rhode Island man who used terminally ill people in a plan to collect money from insurance companies. After four days of a trial, attorney Joseph Caramadre pleaded guilty to wire fr ...
  • ON THE SOAPBOX: Farewell Steve Ridgway (former ...
    by BT News The last SOAPBOX for 2012 (issue 3 December) featured Mike Ambrose as he retired from a 20-year plus tenure at Director General of European Regions Airline Association (ERA).  Virtually running parallel with Mike at ERA has been Steve Ridgway at Virgin Atlantic whose reign at the airl ...
  • Sequestration Nation, and Remembering Robert K ...
    by Robert Reich With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy — and 46 years ago when I was an intern in his Senate office. 1967 was a difficult time for the nation. America was deeply split over civil rights and the Vietnam War. Many of our cities were burning ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Tim Flannery: We predicted everything. There i ...
    TIM FLANNERY, CHIEF CLIMATE COMMISSIONER 7-30 Report ABC: “…everything we’re seeing is consistent with what the climate scientists have been telling us now for decades…” Leigh Sales, ABC PRESENTER : “… … …(no comment)…” Steve Hunt ...
  • Mystery black-box method used to make *all new ...
    There were not many long term sites (in black dots) in the centre of Australia in 1930. This summer the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) invented a whole new metric to measure average national heat, which might be all very well except no-one (other than the BOM) seems to know what it is. On January 7 ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    For all the non-hottest-summer in Australia talk. … Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)
  • Not the hottest ever summer for most Australia ...
    Despite the wild hype about records being broken, and how hot this summer has “felt” for most Australians there have been many hotter summers, and for millions of people this summer was not remarkable at all. The BOM is planting the unscientific suggestion it “felt warm” ...
  • Monckton explains why taking climate extremist ...
    Christopher Monckton is cutting across Australia and leaving a wake behind him. He’s called for one Doctor’s deregistration, and one university Prof to be investigated for fraud. Today the VC from Uni of Tasmania has agreed to the investigation. Below, Monckton answers the critics an ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
    The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...
  • Novel Coronavirus Human Transmitted?
    The third member of a UK family to contract the new virus, Novel Coronavirus, has died in hospital. It is similar to pneumonia, but substantially more deadly. So far 50% of twelve people infected worldwide have died. A patient diagnosed with the Sars-like coronavirus has died at Queen Elizabeth ...
  • Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory
    Astronomer David Asher (from Armagh University) has agreed with Bill Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe (Cardiff University) that “dark comets” are real and dangerous. The following quotes are from a paper by Napier and Asher published in Astronomy & Geophysics. http://star.arm.ac. ...
  • DNA Evidence of Bigfoot?
    I think that there might really be Yeti in the Himalayas, and there’s a lesser chance that Bigfoot is also real, in North America. So I was really excited to read the following at Red Orbit: A team of scientists has published the results of a five-year study of DNA samples from Sasquatch i ...
  • Meteors Hurting Humans: Actually Quite Common!
    In my book Survive 2o12, the appendix on the threat of asteroids and comets (follow the link to read it online) lists reports of modern era meteorites that have killed people or animals – it’s not a small list: 588 AD, 10 people, China 1490, supposedly 10,000 people, China 1511, Fra ...

Facing South

  • Life after coal: Does Wales point the way?
    Declining coal production is hurting Appalachia's economy, which was already in rough shape. Scholars are looking at Wales, which lost its coal economy in the 1980s, for examples for how Appalachia might address its economic future. read more
  • Energy watchdog pressures NC governor over con ...
    NC WARN is running full-page ads in North Carolina newspapers calling on Gov. Pat McCrory to disclose exactly how much stock he holds in Duke Energy, his longtime employer, and to recuse himself from making appointments to the state regulatory commission that oversees the company. read more
  • What's needed for labor success in the South: ...
    What was true for the civil rights movement in the 1960s is true for the labor movement today: Any social movement in the South needs religion as part of its DNA if it's going to succeed. read more
  • NC environmentalists look to state House to sl ...
    A proposal to speed up the state's timetable for fracking has passed the North Carolina Senate and now moves to the state House, where the speaker has expressed concerns about the legislation. read more
  • Are NC schools teaching Art Pope's version of ...
    A group backed by the Koch brothers and Art Pope, offering a conservative spin on U.S. history, is being promoted as a resource for North Carolina school teachers. read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Remember Libyan Jamahiriya
    Libya was a self-sufficient, prosperous state which collapsed two years ago. It makes remember the dramatic events and what it resulted in. First of all, it was a new type of war, a «virtual revolution» and the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions were based on…editing the stages of a T ...
  • Bashar Al-Assad’s Interview with The Sunday Times
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the full transcript of the interview by Syrian president Bashar Assa to the Sunday Times newspaper (UK). Sunday Times: Mr. President your recent offer of political dialogue was qualified with a firm rejection of the very groups you would have to pacify to stop the vio ...
  • The Return of Empires (IV)
    Part I Part II Part III Modern-day military-political alliances and coalitions as analogues of empires The rebirth of imperial policy in modern international life demands an answer to the question: why are seemingly long obsolete geopolitical projects being dragged into the light of day at all w ...
  • Syrian Crisis, Geopolitical Ramifications And ...
    Even as our car approached Damascus enroute from Beirut, we could see black plumes of smoke emerging from the outskirts of the city. The sound of bombardments continued all through the course of the day & night, with little respite. Way back in 2006, when Israel had waged the war on Lebanon, ...
  • The Return of Empires (III)
    Part I Part II «Smart power» in the service of the American empire The dissociation of the United States from a number of international problems by shifting these problems onto allies and delegating authority to them, a result of the United States’ «imperial overheating», is based on the c ...

BlogHer

  • What I Learned Working 32 Hrs/Week
    First we had Anya Strzemien at HuffPo suggesting the key to happiness is working part-time. Then we had Marissa Mayer at Yahoo! suggesting the key to success is facetime (or at least it is in Sunnyvale). I myself have been thinking about the nature of work, success, happiness -- and yes, flexibi ...
  • The 2 Things You MUST Do in a Job Interview
    For all the advice I give you, or that you read on other websites, or that you hear from career coaches, I want to tell you that it's really so simple.  There are literally only two things you must do in an interview. I know, I know. There are hundreds of articles out there, advice columns ...
  • Realizing Your Child Inherited Your Personalit ...
    Editor's Note: Did you ever have one of those moments when you realized, "Oh man, my kid is more like me than I realized." Maybe it's a personality trait of yours that you don't really like. Or the way you phrase or say something. Gina at The Daily B woke in the middle of the night to find her d ...
  • Oberlin: KKK Sighting or Not, Can We Talk Abou ...
    Oberlin College – the Ohio liberal arts school and alma mater of Lena Dunham – is a bastion of liberalism, right? That perception was shattered Monday, when classes were cancelled after a person wearing Ku Klux Klan robes was spotted on campus near the Afrikan Heritage House. Police were called ...
  • I Won't Let My Kids' Report Cards Grade Me Anymore
    "I'm sorry to inform you that your child is not yet reading in first grade. We are going to put him in the remedial reading group until he makes progress." We received these devastating words at Josh's first parent-teacher conference. We were still under the false notion that we are tiger paren ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

  • Leadership Commitment 2 of 7 – Create a New Game
    This is your life, and only you ultimately choose each and every step you take in any given direction. You’ve already made up the rules for the life you’re living right now. The question is did you design them consciously or did you allow fear and circumstance to control you? Choose ...
  • 10 Best Arcade Games For Wii
    Some of the most fun and entertaining games available are arcade games. From traditional games like Skee Ball to more advanced pinball games, the entertaining activities created for arcade atmospheres have always been intriguing. Now, with some of the best Wii games for kids and adults ever crea ...
  • Top 10 Best SNES Games Ever
    Creating a list of the top 10 best SNES games ever is definitely something that will be subjective towards the creator’s personal views. Both the games that make the list and the order of the list can be debated. Here is a list of the top 10 best SNES games ever. 10 – Street Fighter ...
  • What to Look For in the Best Online Game Renta ...
    What do you look for when selecting a site to rent games from? Most people want to know that there is a very broad selection. What is the point if you can’t rent everything you want to play right? Another component to consider is availability. You want to know that the game you want will [...]
  • Create a Perfect Game Closet With 10 New Games
    During these cold winter months, nothing is better than sitting down as a family and playing games. It gives you a chance to be together, talk, laugh and have fun. Playing in the dining room, at the kitchen table, or on the family room floor creates a whole different family dynamic than other ac ...

Coal Tattoo

  • AP reports: Greenhouse gas levels up in 2012
    Here’s the latest, just out from Seth Borenstein at The Associated Press: New federal figures show the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air jumped dramatically in 2012, making it very unlikely that global warming can be limited to another 2 degrees. Many governments set a 2-de ...
  • Coal and the new Obama EPA/Energy team
    President Barack Obama announces in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2013, he will nominate, from left;  MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz for Energy Secretary; Gina McCarthy to head the EPA;  and Walmart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the Bu ...
  • Will facts matter in Legislature’s selen ...
    It’s always interesting to watch as the same old issues keep coming back before the West Virginia Legislature — especially when it’s the same old complaints from the state’s coal industry and the same old response from lawmakers. Take HB 2579 concerning water pollution li ...
  • What’s next in the Upper Big Branch crim ...
    Well, in case you missed it, yesterday’s big news is in today’s Gazette: A former Massey Energy official who is cooperating with prosecutors on Thursday implicated the company’s former chief executive officer, Don Blankenship, in a decade-long conspiracy to hide safety violatio ...
  • Telling the truth about coal-mining job losses
    In response to a previous Coal Tattoo post, there’s been a little bit of discussion about the relative merits of making sure we use accurate data — as accurate and timely as possible — when we talk about what’s going on with our coal industry here in West Virginia and the ...

Daniel Miessler

  • How to Pronounce Team Cymru
    “Cymru” is pronounced “kum-ree.” It is Welsh (a Celtic language, distantly related to Gaelic) for “Wales.” Related Posts:The Difficulty of Learning to Program in CollegeYou Must Learn JavaScript | The NerdaryHomelessness: Cutting out the middle men | The Econ ...
  • We’ve Reached Peak Prevention
    As we all know, there are two main components to risk: 1) the chance that something will happen, and 2) how bad it would be if it did–or, probability and impact. For the last 20 years we’ve been focused almost exclusively on probability, i.e. trying to make sure bad things don’ ...
  • Authy Rocks
    I’m all about some Authy for two-factor authentication. I’m currently using it for: Google Cloudflare WordPress Dropbox SSH Google Two-Step Authentication So if you’ve heard of Google Two-Step Authentication, which normally uses either text notifications or a ...
  • Working from Home
    Smule was already fairly flexible about scheduling, asking its employees to work a minimum of five hours a day, four days a week, in the office. Recently, as our businesses merged more fully, the company asked the employees from Khush to switch to Smule’s schedule. But instead, I persuaded Smule ...
  • Mac Mini as a Server
    I’m thinking about potentially using a Mac Mini as my web server for the site. Here are a few reasons why: Super clean hardware profile 2.6 Ghz i7 Processor 16GB memory 256 GB SSD You can install Ubuntu I could potentially run it from home, given my symmetrical 100 megabits o ...

Fitwatch

  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
    Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...

Worldwide Hippies

Empty newsfeed.

reference frame

  • Crisis forgotten: Dow Jones sets a new all-tim ...
    The Dow Jones Industrial Index is at 14,275 right now. It's the first day in the history when it's higher than the previous all-time closing high of 14,164.53 set on October 9th, 2007. The 2008 downturn was often being compared to the Great Depression. After all, if our grandfathers h ...
  • Alessandro Volta: an anniversary
    Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born to a somewhat poor family in Como, Duchy of Milan, in 1745. He died aged 82 on March 5th, 1827, i.e. 186 years ago, in the same city that already belonged to Lombardy-Venetia. Before he reached the age of 30, he became a physics professor ...
  • LHCb: \(7\)-\(\sigma\) and \(9\)-\(\sigma\) an ...
    First, let me start with Tommaso Dorigo. He reviewed a recent paper by Carena et al. that tried to find the best parameters of the MSSM Higgs sector that are compatible with the LHC experiments so far. Dorigo reprints this graph for a particular "low \(M_H\)" scenario (subset of MSSM ...
  • George Gamow: 109th birthday
    March 4th was the birthday or deathday of at least 15 famous enough physicists. For example, cosmologist Robert Henry Dicke (recall the Brans-Dicke scalar-tensor gravity and an amplifier) died in 1997. Ta-You Wu, the father of Chinese (not only nuclear) physics died in 2000. Particle experimente ...
  • We don't live in a simulation
    In 2011, I already wrote a text about the theories that our universe is a computer simulation: Rebooting the Cosmos Needless to say, a regular reader has seen lots of other criticisms of discrete physics, a more general concept. Let me return to this topic – and change the focus somewhat – i ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Contraband tobacco bill sets mandatory minimum ...
    The Harper government has introduced legislation that sets mandatory minimum prison sentences for trafficking contraband tobacco. A new 50-member RCMP team has also been established to crack down on illegal tobacco sales. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: U.S. bill to avert fiscal c ...
  • Universal Background Check: Registration and C ...
    Oklahoma Republic senator Tom Coburn knows that if a universal background check system is implemented it will eventually lead to registration of all firearms in the United States. Coburn is the main hurdle posited between Obama, his allies in Congress and the Democrat dream of America stripped o ...
  • Pay taxes like the rich by taking the long view
    Being able to minimize your tax hit like the rich do may be less about having the money to afford a clever tax accountant and more about taking the long view. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Politicians Share Obama’s View of a “Balanced Approach” from Daniel j Mitchell: President ...
  • Ancient Arctic camel offers climate change clues
    Camels may be called the ships of the desert, but ancient, mummified bones dug from the tundra are confirming that the animals now synonymous with the arid sands of Arabia actually developed in what is now Canada’s High Arctic. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Shell says it w ...
  • Ex-veterans’ ombudsman treated for post-trauma ...
    Canada’s former veterans affairs ombudsman is being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder — a result, he says, of the shock he felt over Ottawa’s treatment of disabled soldiers. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Post-traumatic stress: looking for a place to rest A C ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Nuclear weapons conference attracts global crowd
    Officials from more than 120 countries were in Oslo this week for an international conference entitled the “Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons.” After six decades of discussing non-proliferation, military strategies and disarmament, they thought it was time to put the human aspec ...
  • Nobel nominations set record again
    The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received 259 nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, breaking the record of 241 set in 2011. One of the candidates this year is also the youngest on record, after 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan was nominated for defying the Taliban and get ...
  • ‘Network error’ blocked banking
    Bank customers all over Norway were left without electronic access to their accounts for several hours on Monday night, because of what the country’s largest bank, DNB, called a “serious network error” at its supplier of electronic banking services. A spokesman for Evry, which ...
  • Ruling may put social media at risk
    A court ruling in Oslo that ordered a Norwegian blogger to remove his posts about the alleged reasons for the break-up of a high-profile celebrity couple seems to have broken new legal ground. Media and legal experts think it may put active social media users at risk for getting sued themselves. ...
  • Oil industry claims huge number of jobs
    Norway’s oil industry claims it’s responsible for far more jobs than state analysts have given it credit for. A new report from the industry itself claims it provides fully a quarter-million Norwegians with full-time employment. The report from industry association Norsk olje og gass ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Book Now for the April 22nd, 2013 Internship P ...
    Geoff Lawton leads instruction at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm Photo © Craig Mackintosh Ever considered becoming a ‘Permaculture Professional’? Here is your chance. We still have a few free places on the Permaculture Research Institute’s upcoming 10-week Internship Program ...
  • The Tale of a Local Community Network (Melbour ...
    I attended the Community Gardens Conference in Canberra in 2010. Myles Bremner, CEO of Garden Organic, Europe’s main organic gardening organization, was speaking about how surprised he was that in Australia there was no unified network of Community Gardens. In fact in Australia no one even ...
  • Allan Savory: How to Green the World’s Deserts ...
    I have been waiting so long for Allan to get on Ted Talks! Now, here it is. Prepared to have your minds blown, ok? I am sure you’re going to want to know more about HM in Australia and where to learn? The best training for HM comes out of InsideOutside Management. As it [...]
  • Permaculture Design Course in Tulum, Mexico, A ...
    Green Beat is happy to announce its third PDC, which will take place in Tulum, Mexico at our Permaculture Center. The Venue: The Green Beat Institute of Tulum opened its doors to the public in November 2012, with Green Beat’s second PDC. We have been working on this 4,000m2 plot of land s ...
  • A Great Corporate Cock-up
    Take a ringside seat as a giant company beats the living daylights out of itself. by George Monbiot “Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” The current answer to Alexander Pope’s question is the power company Électricité de France (EDF). It is suing 21 climate change activists for £5m as a resul ...

Pointman's

  • Sleeping with the enemy.
    Carbon is the Great Satan of the environmental movement. They all worry about their carbon footprint, want to impose carbon taxes on it and even have schemes to capture the poor thing and imprison it down holes in the ground. Oh the humanity. For such a supposedly caring bunch, they can be so cr ...
  • It’s 2.45 in the am and I’m reflecting on a lo ...
    I’m writing this up in real-time. There won’t be any rewrites, no polishes, no second thoughts. It’s all going to be first draft stream of consciousness stuff, whether either of us like it or not. If you’re sensitive about bad language, walk away right now because my emot ...
  • We’re going to have to do something about peer ...
    Not too many years ago, there were two researchers who discovered that stomach ulcers were not the result of a stressful lifestyle, but simply an infection. The idea that ulcers were related to a high stress lifestyle was so deeply embedded in the medical establishment psyche, they couldn’t get ...
  • The Breaking Point.
    If you play team sports, or even just watch them, there’s very often a moment in the struggle between the opposing teams, when one of them breaks. Sometimes it’s sparked by a single incident but more usually, it’s an acceptance by the whole group that they’re going to lose. The opposition are si ...
  • Is being Green left-wing or right-wing?
    I’m the son of a blue-collar upbringing and consequently a blue-collar view of the world. In many of the ways that really matter, I still am. It does give you a realistic outlook on life, which makes you wary of all politicians, irrespective of what their nominal politics might happen to b ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Israeli Propaganda Event at UNO Fails Miserably
    On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli soldier spoke at an event at University of New Orleans to speak in support of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. According to reports from the event, the room was initially full. But, as the photo from the event shows, as soon as the soldier started spea ...
  • Amnesty International Urges State of Louisiana ...
    From an Amnesty International news release: Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty Interna ...
  • Angola Three Member Albert Woodfox Has Convict ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Today, February 26, District Court Judge Brady released a 34-page ruling that granted habeas to Albert Woodfox on the issue of racial discrimination in the selection of the grand jury foreperson for his 1998 retrial. This decision now overturns Albert’s convic ...
  • A Child On Death Row - The Story of Shareef Cousin
    From Resurrection After Exoneration: “I was a child. Death row didn’t affect me like it would now. Today, I’d go crazy!” On July 3, 1996, when Shareef Cousin was only seventeen years old, he became the youngest inmate on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As a matter of fa ...
  • What Do We Have Left?, By Oliver M.Thomas Jr.
     Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Mardi Gras are over.  Today we celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of  Lent where sinners take at least 40 days off to discipline their lives, give up worldly lusts and desires that control them most of the year, and make a pact with God ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    You have to ask yourself... Whcih group and WHO benfits from SandyHookNose, and 20 children and 6 adults supposedly being murdered? Muslims? Whites? Asians? Blacks? Or J EWs?Statistics: Posted by SimonOfTRrent — Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:06 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.newtownbee.com/news/0001/11/ ... tions/5012 Newtown Legislators All Back Privacy Restrictions On Vital Records By John Voket Friday, February 22, 2013 On Wednesday, February 20, Newtown’s delegation of legislators Representatives Mitch Bolinsky, DebraLee Hovey, and Dan Carter joined ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yes Indeed. The J E ws, Freemasons, Communists CHANGED the Canon of the Mass, Christ's Own Words. They altered it, completly discredited its validity. Pre planned. Nostra Aetate is also apostate and contradicts 1900 years of Church teaching. Even with the pedophile scandal (Homo queers were l ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    No, valuing Jews and Judaism would mean for Europe to accept to be ethically and philosophically questioned by the teachings of Judaism. To recognize that circumcision, to name but this one example, is not to be treated as a barbaric, insignificant ritual to be eradicated, but rather as an act ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your father, but I am glad to know that he is in a good place. That is a very interesting story about your "knowing" beforehand. Perhaps those were angels that your friend saw. On the Assumption of Mary, this is a tradition of the Church, with no sc ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • African Forest Elephant Populations Fell 62 Pe ...
    Populations of forest elephants in central Africa plummeted by more than 60 percent from 2002 to 2011, with dwindling habitat and an acceleration in poaching driving the elephants toward extinction, according to a View gallery Elizabeth M. Rogers A forest elephant in Gabon new study. An int ...
  • Why a Highly Promising Electric Car Start-Up F ...
    Better Place was touted as one of the world’s most innovative electric vehicle start-ups when it launched six years ago. But after selling fewer than 750 cars in a major initiative in Israel and losing more than $500 million, the company’s experience shows that EVs are still not ready for primet ...
  • U.S. Educational Standards to Urge Teaching Ab ...
    A new set of U.S. educational standards that is expected to be released this month will recommend that global warming be included in the science curriculum for all U.S. public schools. The Next Generation Science Standards, which are being developed by a coalition that includes the National Rese ...
  • Loss of Wild Pollinators Affecting Global Cro ...
    Research data from 600 fields in 20 countries shows that wild bees and insects are more effective pollinators than domesticated honey bees, suggesting that the continuing loss of wild insects in many agricultural landscapes has negative consequences for crop harvests. Reporting in Science, an in ...
  • Earth Unlikely to Face an Ecological Tipping P ...
    A team of international scientists has rejected the idea that the planet could face a sudden and irreversible ecological shift as a result of largely human-driven pressures, suggesting that such global transformations are more likely to occur over a long period of time. While earlier studies hav ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and G ...
  • Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company ...
    By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, ”His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and ...
  • Is Google making us less lituritt?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Today is Family Literacy Day in Canada, an initiative organized by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which encourages families to incorporate reading and other literacy-related activities into their daily routines. There’s no question that developing literacy in children i ...
  • Robocalls: Mr. Sona goes to Ottawa
    By Alison@Creekside Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph robocalls election fraud. Sona: “I contacted a few p ...
  • Argo: We’ve written ourselves out of history
    By Paul Mather Okay I never do this, but everybody else in the house is occupied and it’s too icy to jog (or at least that’s what I’m telling myself). So, I’ve poured a cup of coffee, and here’s a long post. I was reading today about Argo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a [...] Tags:   ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Microsoft to release pro version of tablet
    Microsoft says the pro version of its Surface tablet will be available to purchase Feb. 9 in the U.S. and Canada. Unlike the previous version that launched in October, the Surface Windows 8 Pro will use the full version of Windows 8, which is compatible with programs that run on earlier versions ...
  • Shooting on Texas campus hurts three
    A fight between two people led to a shooting at a Texas community college Tuesday that left three people injured. The gunfire on the Lone Star College System campus about 30 km north of downtown Houston sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said. ...
  • Japan bids to build S. Africa rail link
    Japan joined Germany, China and France Tuesday in bidding to build a 157 billion rand (¥1.6 trillion) high-speed rail link between South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban and Johannesburg, the country’s commercial hub. Funding models include partnerships between g ...
  • Royal ‘slur’ nets Thai editor 10 years
    A prominent Thai labor rights activist and magazine editor was sentenced to a decade in prison Wednesday for violating much-debated laws designed to protect Thailand’s royal family. The verdict came despite repeated calls by rights groups to free Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, who has been jai ...
  • Rail linkup to ease metro commute
    Railways in Tokyo announced Tuesday a new timetable set to come into effect March 16 when the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line are to be connected. According to Tokyu Corp. and Tokyo Metro Co., Tokyo’s Ikebukuro will be linked with Yokohama in 38 minutes at the fastest ...

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Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Boost the Minimum Wage, Boost the Economy, fro ...
    A version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. (This version includes references to the debate plus charts and graphs from data specially tabulated from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey. The data don’t include the self-employed.) President Obama put the idea ...
  • Parliamentary reform idea: Get out of the House
    By Seth Klein and Shannon Daub [Note: Samara Canada has been gathering ideas for reforming Parliament. All the ideas they have collected are being posted on their blog, which you can find here. What follows is our contribution.] Here’s the big dilemma: Whatever reforms are made to Parliamentary ...
  • Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 20 ...
    I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim of increasing tuition fees in Québec. I believe it was crucial when the proposal to hike fees was formally submitted in Raymond Bachand’s first budget, the Liberal ...
  • Sweet heart, bitter pill: Rising, dancing, and ...
    On Valentine’s Day this year women around the world will be dancing. One Billion Rising, a new initiative from Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler, calls on women to dance their way to a future without violence. Now, I’m all for dancing, but I’d like to add a little counting into the mix.  Each ...
  • The City of Regina’s Unquenchable Thirst for B ...
    It seems the City of Regina just can’t get enough of bad deals. Hot on the heels of the City Plaza debacle and the stadium funding mess, the City has now announced its intention to enter into a 30-year contract with a private corporation to upgrade its waste water treatment facilities. Jus ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

  • Will Plans for Massive Tunnels to Pipe Norther ...
    “The oil industry, represented by Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and former Chair of the Marine Life Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Task Force for the South Coast, is pushing for increased “fracking” in California. Fra ...
  • Construction of Disputed Turkish Dam Continues
    “About 1,450 workers are laboring around the clock to complete the Ilisu Dam, one of the most controversial public works projects in recent history, by the middle of next year. That would be exactly five years after European lenders pulled out of the €1.1 billion, or $1.5 billion, project ...
  • Activism and the Nexus: Shaping Policy
    Retrieved from GRIID.org Activism & the Nexus: Shaping Policy by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbri ...
  • New Maps Provide Crucial Information For Water ...
    “For the first time, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have mapped long-term average evapotranspiration rates across the continental United States – a crucial tool for water managers and planners because of the huge role evapotranspiration plays in water availability. “Why are evapot ...
  • Parting the Radioactive Water: Can the Nexus G ...
      Parting the Radioactive Water: Can the Nexus Guide Us Through Our Nuclear Legacy? by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the Universit ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • … And while we’re at it let’s also shut ...
    … And while we’re at it let’s also shut down the privately owned Federal Reserve System as it’s nothing but a racket too … God’s Racket: Why It’s High Time to Shut Down the Vatican Bank Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNe …  READ MORE» Think of it as HSBC with God’s imprimatur.  Fil ...
  • IF IT’S ONLY 8 WAYS WE SHOULD CELEBRATE
    … IF IT’S ONLY 8 WAYS WE SHOULD CELEBRATE … REALITY IS … THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO HUMAN WELFARE IS OPEN TO THROUGHALL ASSESSMENT …  BY YOU AND ME …     8 Ways Corporations are Poisoning Our Food, Water, the Earth 03-02-2013  •  Prison Planet  While we may be under the ...
  • WHAT … WE EXPECT THAT CHINA FEARS THE US ...
    WHAT … WE EXPECT THAT CHINA FEARS THE USA PAPER TIGER … Unmasked, but Unfazed—Chinese Hacking Group Is Still Active 03-02-2013  •  Technologyreview.com  An exposé of its methods and technology may not have deterred a group targeting U.S. corporate secrets.  Filed under: Blogroll
  • and just whee is the MORMON CHURCH in all this ...
    … Now just get the MORMON CHURCH on board and ask them not to fund defeating this and you will have accomplished something … On the News With Thom Hartmann: 131 Republicans and 60 Corporations Submitted Friend-of-the-Court Briefs in Favor of Gay Marriage to the Supreme Court This Wee ...
  • they too, need the latest toy
    … Well if they did not have drones it is likely they would be the only agency in government without this latest “toy” …   Documents Reveal US Marshals Using Spy Drones 02-28-2013  •  Prison Planet  Program has remained secret for seven years  Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • 2016: Obama's America
    2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...
  • Asiatic cheetahs: on the road to extinction?
    Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are unique among large cats. They have a highly specialized body, a mild temperament, and are the fastest living animals on land. Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, the Asiatic subspecies, is unique among cheetahs and the only member of five currently living subspecies to oc ...
  • Warlords, sorcery, and wildlife: an environmen ...
    Last year, Roger Peet, an American artist, traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to visit one of the world's most remote and wild forests. Peet spent three months in a region that is largely unknown to the outside world, but where a group of conservationists, headed by Terese and Jo ...
  • Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
    For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
  • Asia Pulp & Paper hires top U.S. lobbyist to h ...
    Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has hired a top U.S. official to help it work through trade and environmental issues. In November, APP announced it had retained Stuart Eizenstat of Covington & Burling, a U.S.-based law firm, to help 'ensure APP’s trade and sustainability ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Shark expert: Your questions answered - part two
    Following last Wednesday's fatal shark attack at Muriwai Beach, we thought our readers might have some questions about sharks they'd like answered.NIWA fisheries scientist and fish biologist Dr Malcolm Francis is New Zealand's foremost...
  • Baby cured in HIV breakthrough
    Scientists appear a step closer to conquering the Aids virus after doctors in the United States confirmed they had cured an infant born with HIV through a course of antiretroviral drugs, the first time this has been recorded.Doctors...
  • Shark expert: Your questions answered - part one
    Following last Wednesday's fatal shark attack at Muriwai Beach, we thought our readers might have some questions about sharks they'd like answered.NIWA fisheries scientist and fish biologist Dr Malcolm Francis is New Zealand's foremost...
  • Shark attack: Ask an expert
    Following Wednesday's fatal shark attack at Muriwai Beach, we thought our readers might have some questions about sharks they'd like answered.NIWA fisheries scientist and fish biologist Dr Malcolm Francis is New Zealand's foremost...
  • Submarine sent to world's deepest sea vents
    Researchers steering a remote-controlled submarine around the world's deepest known hydrothermal vents have collected numerous samples from sunless depths of the Caribbean Sea where blazing hot, mineral-rich fluid gushes from volcanic...

The Bovine

  • Studies show kids who drink raw milk have a hi ...
    From Sarah at the Healthy Home Economist: “The Hygiene Hypothesis states that when children lack early exposure to infectious agents, parasites, and symbiotic microorganisms like normal gut flora such as would naturally occur in a rural or farm environment, they are much more likely &#8230 ...
  • Biodynamic farming, and a new doc on “Th ...
    Although the above film clip is specifically about Biodynamic farming, the 3 hour documentary it’s part of, is about the life and work of Rudolf Steiner as a whole. Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt farms biodynamically. Although Rudolf Steiner never … Continue reading →
  • CFIA changes the status of a reportable diseas ...
    From Karen Selick, on The Justice Report: “Montana Jones today brought to my attention an interesting article (“CFIA to give up on wiping out anaplasmosis”) published at Grainews.ca, a website that provides daily news on agriculture topics to Canadians.  Here’s the … Continue r ...
  • Monsanto vs farmer over seed saving
    From Charlotte Silver, on Aljazeera: “During last week’s oral testimonies before the United States Supreme Court, a 75-year-old soybean farmer from Indiana faced down Monsanto, as he challenged the biotech giant’s aggressive and frequently criticised pursuit of patent infringem ...
  • “Carry On Milking” — devotee ...
    From Joe Shute in The Telegraph: “Lunchtime at London’s Borough Market. And, for somebody flogging a product marked with a government health warning, Tony “the raw milkman” is doing a roaring trade. “That milk there is fresh from last night,” … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • The Fatter the Cat, the Louder the Howl
    Bloomberg reports Swiss Voters Approve Limits on ‘Fat Cat’ Executive Pay Swiss voters approved some of the world’s toughest limits on executives’ pay in a referendum, a move critics say could make Switzerland less attractive to multinational corporations. The initiative against “fat cats,” ...
  • Car Sales Plunge 10% in Germany, 12% in France ...
    European bulls lauding the message "the worst is behind" received another dose of reality today. Data shows German car sales plunge as Europe's auto crisis deepens. New car sales in Germany fell by more than 10 percent year-on-year in February, signaling the crisis for Europe's auto maker ...
  • Michael Pettis on Misguided European Optimism
    Via Email, Michael Pettis author of "The Great Rebalancing" (see "Great Rebalancing" Book Review: Two Thumbs Up) dispels the myth that Spain and peripheral Europe are on a sustainable rebalancing path relative to Germany. Pettis writes ... Several euro-optimists have pointed out that u ...
  • Japan Central Bank Nominee Pledges to Do Whate ...
    Those who thought Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was not serious in his pledge to defeat deflation (and destroy the Yen in the process) need think again. Haruhiko Kuroda (Abe's nominee to head Japan's central bank) pledges to do Whatever Needed to Combat Japan Deflation. Haruhiko Kur ...
  • Traffic Slump at Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Lo ...
    High gasoline prices coupled with 2% payroll tax hikes is going to take a bite out of restaurant sales this year. For some chains the slump has already started. Consider Darden Restaurants, the owner of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steak House. Darden Restaurant Traffic is down an av ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 4, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Saluting Those Who Stand By A True Alternative
    The Boiling Frogs Post Team Thanks You For All Your Support We have achieved our goal in raising the funds needed to carry us for another quarter. We want to thank you for all your support. We appreciate your kind and generous donations during these tough economic times. We know that your suppor ...
  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-“End the Biggest ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Bill Still Bill Still, the author of 22 books and two award winning documentaries, The Secret of Oz and The Money Masters, joins us today to discuss Monetary reform. If collecting interest on loans from imaginary money is such an obvious scam, then why aren’t more poli ...
  • The Missing Recovery
    “Sooner or later something will pop these bubbles … and the consequences will be horrendous.” Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither can millions of unemployed ...
  • We Need Your Support- Help Us Continue Counter ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Needs $8000 To Meet This Quarter’s Budget! What does it mean to be a ‘True Alternative’ among the too many and too powerful media outlets infested with lies and busy with implementing deception and propaganda? As a long-term truth seeker and activist, and as a founder and dire ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • The Shipbuilder Formerly Known as STX OSV
    The specialized and offshore vessel designer and shipbuilder formerly known as STX OSV Holdings Limited will now be officially known as VARD, the company said in a statement Tuesday. VARD [...]
  • Scrubbing Up Well: The Evolving Market For Exh ...
    Over the last few years, the exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) / scrubber market within the maritime industry has accelerated and with it so has scrubber technology innovation. However, the [...]
  • Seadrill Orders Pair of High Spec Jack-Ups Fro ...
    Seadrill announced today they have ordered two high specification jack-up drilling rigs to be built at China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC). At a total project price is approximately US$230 million, these [...]
  • Crunch… Royal Navy Frigate Tags Canary Wharf
    HMS Lancaster, a 4900 tonne Type 23 Royal Navy frigate makes a rather rough landing at London’s Canary Wharf dock.
  • Scorpio and Tsakos Set to Profit on Increased ...
    (Bloomberg) — Record production of so-called ultra-light oil from U.S. shale deposits will spur demand for tankers hauling refined fuels because of three-decades-old laws banning most crude exports. Earnings for [...]

Press TV

  • ‘Iran scholars dictate no model to Egypt’
    A signatory of a recent letter written to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by a group of Iranian scholars has dismissed allegations of suggesting Iran’s Islamic Republic model to the North African country, Press TV reports.
  • ‘US, KSA instigate Yemen against Iran’
    A political analyst says Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is following in the footsteps of the country’s former Yemeni dictator in making groundless accusations against Iran with the support of the US and Saudi Arabia.
  • One killed in Kashmir clashes
    At least one person has been killed after Indian police opened fire at demonstrators condemning the mysterious death of a PHD student in Indian-administered Kashmir, police officials say.
  • Venez. leaders meet on Chavez health
    Venezuelan leaders have met amid growing concern over President Hugo Chavez health, with Vice President Nicolas Maduro saying Chavez cancer is result of enemies' attack.
  • Iran calls for closer ties, unity in PG
    Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called for stronger cooperation among Persian Gulf countries, urging vigilance against divisive enemy plots.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Open Access - Science For Everyone
    It has been a busy week for open access. So what is open access? The basic idea is that most scientific research is paid for by governments using money from tax payers, so it is only fair that these ...
  • Extracting Hydrogen from Methanol
    Hydrogen fuel cells, we keep being told, are the future. A clean energy source that has water as its only emission. But we're often told that hydrogen cars are still a few years away, and one of the r...
  • Mum and Dad might go to Mars
    Inspiration Mars,a private company founded by former space tourist Dennis Tito, hopes to send a manned craft to fly past Mars, launching as early as 2018. January 2018 is a good time to launch ...
  • .And S T R E T C H
    Imagine a world where your mobile phone could be wrapped around your wrist, your GPS could be bent around your bike handles, or your tablet rolled up and put in your pocket this is a vision of a futu...
  • In Utero MRI
    The brain is a hugely complex organ made from expansive networks of cells, all connecting and communicating with one another, quickly and effectively. This vast array of connections begin to form in u...

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Kabul Bank: A Bank that Defaulted on Trust
    Afghanistan’s Kabul Bank is back in the news, with the sentencing of two of its top executives to five years in prison for fraud. But being in the limelight – for good or bad – has been part of the bank’s saga since its inception in 2004. Billed as “the bank for eve ...
  • Taliban Can’t Beat This Act
    The applause has continued long after the curtain came down on the last performance of Khushal Khan Khattak in the northern Pakistan city of Peshawar last month. The enthusiastic reception should have the Taliban worried. The play is based on the life of Khushal Khan Khattak, the 17th century Pa ...
  • U.S. “Stalling” Could Force Acceptance of Oner ...
    Civil society opposition here has strengthened against a U.S.-proposed free trade zone that would include some dozen countries around the Pacific Rim. As negotiators head into a 16th round of talks this week in Singapore, around 400 organisations are urging the U.S. Congress to demand greater tr ...
  • Immigrant Groups Say Spanish Hospitality in Danger
    “We used to be seen as really useful, and now we’re a pain in the neck,” said Roberto Suárez, an Ecuadorian who was complaining about proposed fines or prison sentences that could target Spanish citizens who help undocumented immigrants. A proposed reform of article 318 of Spain’s penal code sta ...
  • Millions of Kenyans Vote in Historic Election
    On Monday, Mar. 4, Betty Amollo was one of the millions of Kenyans who turned out in large numbers to cast her ballot in the country’s first general election since the 2007 disputed polls left almost 1,200 people dead and displaced 600,000 in the resultant inter-ethnic violence. Though polling s ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • “Obama in Tehran”—Another Thoughtful Review of ...
    Summary: Of course, we have to like any review which concludes, “The year is young but Going to Tehran is likely the most important book on U.S. foreign policy in 2013.” Madar, though, makes important points not just about our book, but also about what the book’s reception by much of the mai ...
  • Iran nuclear talks reach a turning point
    Summary: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - After two intense days of nuclear talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tehran issued a statement that described negotiations as a positive step forward due to a "more realistic" position adopted by the "Iran six" nations that compromise the UN Security Council's pe ...
  • Jalili: 5+1 response to Iran’s proposals more ...
    Summary: Tehran, Feb 27, IRNA – Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili said the response of the 5+1 to Iran’s proposal was more realistic than before. source: IRNAread more
  • Former Insiders Criticise Iran Policy as U.S. ...
    Summary: Review of Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett's "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran" (Metropolitan Books, 2013) - source: IPSread more
  • A proposed endgame for the Iranian nuclear crisis
    Summary: After a long hiatus, the Godot of US-Iran diplomacy may finally arrive in 2013, in light of the reciprocal overture at the recent Munich Security Conference, featuring the signs of a new approach to Iran articulated by Vice President Joe Biden. Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Sale ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Extreme Cosmic Ice --NASA's New Search for Clu ...
                   NASA scientists at the Goddard Cosmic Ice Lab are studying a kind of chemistry almost never found on Earth. The extreme cold, hard vacuum, and high radiation environment of space allows the formation of an unstructured form of solid water called amorphous ice. Often parti ...
  • Image of the Day: Supernova Cassiopeia A --"A ...
                    This extraordinarily deep Chandra image shows Cassiopeia A (Cas A, for short), the youngest supernova remnant in the Milky Way. New analysis shows that this supernova remnant acts like a relativistic pinball machine by accelerating electrons to enormous energies. ...
  • "Evolution of Oxygen" --New Theories of Key Ev ...
                    The Great Oxidation Event occured around 2.3 billion years ago, when it was no longer possible for newly created oxygen to be captured in chemical compounds. Instead, it started to accumulate as oxygen in the oceans and in the atmosphere. Before this event, in the ...
  • World-Leading Thinkers Creating an Inter-Speci ...
                     A consortium of of some of the planet's best thinkers and celebrity names --including Google's Vint Cerf, a member of the team that set up the protocols for the original Internet; famed MIT tech guru Neal Gershenfeld; psychology professor and dolphin researcher Diana ...
  • Could the Solar System's Deepest Ocean Harbor ...
                    The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter's moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. Although Europa is covered in a thick crust of ...

Natural News

  • Miracle: no one shot by strawberry tart shaped ...
    (NaturalNews)Josh Welch. Seven years old. Park Elementary School, Baltimore. Bit off pieces of strawberry tart, trying to make shape of mountain. Tart ended up looking like gun. Josh suspended for two days. No bullet wounds reported. On top of all that, the students at Park El ...
  • 'Junkitarian' birth: Babies born addicted to j ...
    How would you like to enter this world with a brain pre-programmed to crave junk food? Toward the realization that you are what your mother ate, the March 2013 FASEB Journal published research that suggests women who eat junk food while pregnant chemically alter the...
  • Expectant mom alert: C-sections may cause babi ...
    No one would suggest a pregnant woman forgo a Caesarian section, commonly called a C-section, if that kind of surgical birth is needed to save the life of mom and/or baby. However, C-sections are too often performed for other reasons -- even because the surgical procedure...
  • Benefits of lettuce for digestion
    Lettuce is one of the most popular green and leafy vegetables today, mostly used for salads. Their nutritional value may vary depending on the specific type of lettuce in question. What's noteworthy though, is the ability of lettuce to affect a person's digestion. For...
  • Top foods for great-looking skin
    There are all sorts of personal care products on the market today that claim to hide wrinkles, clear up blemishes, and add a healthy glow to your skin. But many of these products fail to address the root causes of bad-looking skin, which for many people are nutritional...

Threat Level

  • Alleged Drug Dealer at Center of Supreme Court ...
    The alleged drug dealer who was at the center of the Supreme Court's landmark GPS tracking case had a mistrial declared Monday in his retrial after District of Columbia jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. The mistrial perhaps underscores that ...
  • White House, FCC Chairman Support Legalizing M ...
    The President Barack Obama administration said Monday that it made "common sense" for Americans to legally have the power to unlock their mobile phones, so they could use them on a compatible carrier of choice without fear of being sued ...
  • Evernote Hack Exposes User Data, Forces Extens ...
    Evernote “has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service,” according to a statement posted on the company’s website earlier today. “As a ...
  • Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Sa ...
    A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with "Occupy Everything," and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the Department of Justice says.
  • Flame Windows Update Attack Could Have Been Re ...
    When the sophisticated state-sponsored espionage tool known as Flame was exposed last year, no one was more concerned about the discovery than Microsoft, after realizing that the tool was signed with a modified Microsoft certificate to verify its trustworthiness to ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Boehner Claims He Doesn't Know if Sequester Wi ...
    As the deadline for the March 1 budget sequester approached, John Boehner made a surprising admission. Asked if he had "a sense of how many jobs will be lost as a result of the sequester," the Speaker of the House said, "I do not." On Sunday, Boehner once again proclaimed his ignorance in an i ...
  • Romney Was AWOL on Sequester Deal He Now Criti ...
    History will record that Mitt Romney was a pimple on the ass of American politics: painful while here and forgotten once gone. Now the pustule has resurfaced. As part of his brief "Thank You Tour," Romney is using appearance on Fox News Sunday to attack President Obama for "berating Republican ...
  • Bipartisan Resolution Calls for U.S. to Suppor ...
    Among the ideas most thoroughly discredited by the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the notion of "preventive war" to avert supposed future threats. Now, as the nation approaches the 10th anniversary of that disaster, a bipartisan group of legislators isn't just seeking to commit the United States to ...
  • Boehner Misleadingly Claims Tax Revenue at a R ...
    Back in 2010, Ohio Rep. John Boehner defied recent history and basic math when he comically denied that the Bush tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 played any role in producing federal budget deficits ever since. Now in his refusal to countenance any new tax revenue in a last minute compromise t ...
  • Justice Scalia, Meet Congressman John Lewis
    By all indications, conservatives on the United States Supreme Court are preparing give the Voting Rights Act (VRA) thumbs down. Echoing his question four years ago in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District v. Holder, lifelong VRA foe turned Chief Justice John Roberts asked again on Wednes ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Fracking In The Age Of Cancer
    In 1794 Thomas Paine released “The Age of Reason“, a call to abandon blind loyalty to institutionalized religion.The title of Paine’s work can also be applied to today’s fracking industry — in the age of cancer. In 2012 alone there were 1,600,000 newly diagnosed can ...
  • Google Maps Of Human Metabolism, Most Comprehe ...
    The most complete and comprehensive systems reconstruction of human metabolism to date has now been created via the collaboration of a large number of international researchers. Some of the researchers have likened it to the the “Google Maps” of human metabolism, merging extremely co ...
  • Pacific Leatherback Turtles Could Be Extinct I ...
    Pacific leatherback turtles are the largest in the world. They can grow up to 2,000 pounds and six feet long. They migrate from the West Coast of the United States each year to Indonesia, a journey of about 6,000 miles. This epic journey is one of the longest in Nature, and takes about seven mon ...
  • 5 Home Technologies For Cleaner Energy
    Clean energy is in everyone’s best interests. Not only does it save you money, but it also helps to save the future of the earth’s resources and ecosystem. Finite energy sources will not be around forever, and their production is harmful to the earth’s atmosphere. Luckily, some real progress has ...
  • NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Forced To Backup C ...
    NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been forced to a backup computer as a result of a computer glitch. engineers made the switch to the secondary computer while they work on the problem. As of right now, Curiosity’s science missions are being placed on hold, in “safe mode”, u ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Liberal's New Role: Whipping Boy
    BY @TomBales1  OK, I'm a grouch, a curmudgeon, a cranky old man.  I'm very happy and proud to accept every one of those descriptions and to wear the mantle of each as a raiment of honor.  I have long reveled in being all of them and if you have any more like them to heap on me, I' ...
  • GOP Tries to Fire The American People
    By @TedFrier Why does Justice Antonin Scalia presume he can discern the "original intent" of long-dead Founding Fathers when he wiffed so badly on the intent of 98 United States Senators who voted unanimously just seven years ago to extend the protections of a Voting Rights Act the right wing Ro ...
  • Dictatorship or Democracy
    By @TedFrier Long time readers know that one of my favorite quotes about the nature of politics, and democracies in particular, comes from Walter Lippmann's Essays in the Public Philosophy, where the preeminent American journalist of the 20th century tried in 1955 to diagnose why fascism and oth ...
  • Let's Call Him "Madhouse" Speaker Boehner
    By @TedFrier Bloomberg blogger (and self-described Republican) Josh Barro shows us how it is done.   In Florida, nearly 60% of voters oppose the expansion of Medicaid benefits, apparently vindicating the foot-dragging obstruction of that state's Republican governor - and convicted health ca ...
  • Good Riddance To Pope Ratzo
    Today is reported to the be last day in office for Pope Benedict XVI (real name: Herr Joseph Ratzinger). Not that I have any stake in this at all -- to me, one of the most telling arguments AGAINST conservatism's invocation of venerable human institutions is the Roman Catholic Church. But as far ...

Care 2

  • Food stamps for pets organization opens in New ...
    Pet Food Stamps, a donation-based program, provides assistance to low-income people with pets. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA TO DE ...
    The State Department has just issued a terribly flawed environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that papers over its far-reaching impacts on climate and our environment. Send a message asking President Obama to reject the review Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment   ...
  • A rare glimpse inside Pakistan's ground zero f ...
    A rugged swath of tribal territory nestled between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Waziristan is ground zero for some of the region's most notorious militant groups and warlords, including the Pakistani Taliban and Haqqani network. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it! &nb ...
  • Big Banks Would Barely Be Breaking Even Withou ...
    If big banks are really "too big to fail," shouldn't they be able to make some kind of profit without average Americans propping them up? Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • URGENT! YOUR VOICE IS STILL NEEDED TO FREE THE ...
    According to Cherokee legend black bears are the keepers of dreams. When observing the bears who have been relegated to the concrete pits of roadside zoos in the Qualla Boundary area of western No. Carolina one must question the integrity of this belief. Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nbs ...

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No Quarter

  • Obama, the Procrastinating Commander
    Vali Nasr, Dean of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University, has written a dandy piece that exposes the sausage making that is foreign policy in the Obama Administration. The piece, The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanista ...
  • Gee, Sequester Has Come and We’re Still Alive
    What the hell was Obama thinking? He and his toadies did everything but sacrifice a live virgin on television in their bid to scare the bejesus out of Americans in the lead up to the start of the sequester. Obama and crew played every hysteria card with the exception of portraying the Republican ...
  • Woodward Pays Piper for Speaking Truth to Powe ...
    I am both amused and empathetic with the plight of Bob Woodward, who is now the focus of a Washington political kerfuffle ignited by his reporting that the sequester idea originated with Barack Obama’s new Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew. That claim led to a White House push back and p ...
  • Backdoor Deal on Syria to Win McCain and Graha ...
    Perhaps today’s vote sealing Chuck Hagel’s future as the new Obama Secretary of Defense had nothing to do with news leaked that Obama is getting ready to help Syrian rebels. But call me skeptical: The Obama administration is moving toward a major policy shift on Syria that could prov ...
  • Oscar Open Thread
    How many of you are watching the Oscar’s tonight? I think Barack Obama deserved to be nominated for best actor. His hysteria and weeping over the last week while pretending “he don’t know nuthin about birthin” that sequester, is truly award winning chutzpah. Now, as I hav ...

Futurismic

  • 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 ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • COLUMN-Keystone shows it is tough to curb carb ...
    COLUMN-Keystone shows it is tough to curb carbon upstream: Wynn Reuters We can move down the path of dirtier more carbon-intensive unconventional fossil-fuels, digging up the dirtiest tar sands and tar shales, hydrofracking for gas, continued mountain-top removal and mechanized destructive long- ...
  • W.Va. mountaintop removal mining activists to ...
    W.Va. mountaintop removal mining activists to target Morgan Stanley with protest The Republic CHARLESTON, West Virginia — Several groups that have fought for years to protect West Virginia's historic Blair Mountain from strip mining are planning a protest outside Morgan Stanley's office ...
  • Using The New Sim City, 6 Urban Planners Battl ...
    Co.Exist Using The New Sim City, 6 Urban Planners Battle For Bragging Rights Co.Exist “If the game pulls you into this path that you know is bad and you know is wrong, you start to understand why we do things like mountaintop removal to get coal.” Champignon, MITtroit, and Openopolis were perfec ...
  • The Energy Debate We Aren't Having - Pacific S ...
    Pacific Standard The Energy Debate We Aren't Having Pacific Standard The extraction of coal via mountaintop removal is extraordinarily damaging to the environment. Power plants that burn coal emit more radiation into neighborhoods around them than do nuclear power plants, and fine particle p ...
  • Area students in annual poetry tourney - Parke ...
    Area students in annual poetry tourney Parkersburg News Good's first book of poetry, "Valley Girl," explores themes in quantum physics, Appalachian culture, gender equality and mountaintop removal. The division welcomes back acclaimed actor and West Virginia native Chris Sarandon, ...

Memeorandum

  • 25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy (NK News)
    NK News - North Korea News: 25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy  —  Illustration by NK NEWS illustrator Cammy Smithwick  —  NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman's circus troupe delegation to North Korea was greeted by ridicule by most of the world.  But does the Kim dynast ...
  • White House Cancels Tours, Blaming Sequester ( ...
    Peter Nicholas / Washington Wire: White House Cancels Tours, Blaming Sequester  —  Above, the audio of the recording on the White House tour phone line.  —  Planning to tour the White House any time soon?  May want to rethink the idea.  —  Th ...
  • FBI Seeks Public's Assistance in Identifying, ...
    FBI: FBI Seeks Public's Assistance in Identifying, Locating Unmanned Aircraft and Operator … On Monday, March, 4, 2013, at approximately 1:15 p.m., the pilot of Alitalia Flight #608 spotted a small, unmanned aircraft while on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
  • Bob McDonnell not invited to speak at CPAC (Ra ...
    Rachel Weiner / Post Politics: Bob McDonnell not invited to speak at CPAC  —  Chris Christie isn't the only Republican governor getting snubbed by the Conservative Political Action Conference.  Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was not invited, according to someone close to CPAC ...
  • More sequester pain: White House cancels tours ...
    Stephen Dinan / Washington Times: More sequester pain: White House cancels tours  —  The White House announced Tuesday that it was canceling all public tours of the president's home because of the sequester spending cuts.  —  “Due to staffing reductions res ...

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    中国数十亿美元的尼克森能源公司收购案遭遇了加拿大国内边缘排外主义的反对。然 ...
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    十多年来，中国科学界对地下水污染防治的呼吁从未停止，但最终成为政策的有效行 ...
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    一个看似不可能的团体是如何挑战英国的既有政治体制，并取得千百万人支持的？政 ...
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    地球的生态系统就是我们经济的基础，但几乎从来没有在资产负债表上出现过，这对 ...
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    福岛事故前，中国核电已基本布满沿海地区，新增装机容量将无法回避内陆核电。王 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Banks Wrongfully Foreclosed on 700 Military Me ...
     As part of a multibillion-dollar settlement deal over foreclosure abuses during the housing crisis, it has been discovered that over 700 members of the military were wrongfully evicted from their homes by major banks.Federal regulators, tasked with determining how to payout the $8.5 bil ...
  • Sex at Dawn: 9 Interesting Things We've Learne ...
    “Human beings aren’t descended from apes,” declared Christopher Ryan at his TED conference talk Thursday afternoon. "We are apes.” The question he explored during his talk was, “What kind of ape are we in terms of our sexuality?” Q ...
  • How I Got Sober and Converted to Atheism
    I stood on a mountaintop and looked out over the sea. A thousand feet below me, eagles soared on thermals. Wind blew through my hair and I felt dizzy. I fell to my knees and cried. I didn't realize it at the time, but this “white-light” experience was the moment I realized there w ...
  • Silicon Valley Reportedly Full of Stoners
    Another major marijuana stereotype just got blown totally out of the water -- this time the idea that consuming cannabis is for unemployed slacker types. In fact, pot is wildly popular in one of America's economic centers, Silicon Valley. According to a new report in Bloomberg's Business ...
  • Is Antonin Scalia the Vilest Person in Washington?
    A day after Justice Antonin Scalia caused gasps in the Supreme Court gallery by saying the 1965 Voting Rights Act had become a “racial entitlement” no congressperson could vote against, Rachel Maddow told The Daily Show she was in the courtroom and Scalia clearly enjoyed tormentin ...

Threat Level

  • Alleged Drug Dealer at Center of Supreme Court ...
    The alleged drug dealer who was at the center of the Supreme Court's landmark GPS tracking case had a mistrial declared Monday in his retrial after District of Columbia jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. The mistrial perhaps underscores that ...
  • White House, FCC Chairman Support Legalizing M ...
    The President Barack Obama administration said Monday that it made "common sense" for Americans to legally have the power to unlock their mobile phones, so they could use them on a compatible carrier of choice without fear of being sued ...
  • Evernote Hack Exposes User Data, Forces Extens ...
    Evernote “has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service,” according to a statement posted on the company’s website earlier today. “As a ...
  • Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Sa ...
    A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with "Occupy Everything," and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the Department of Justice says.
  • Flame Windows Update Attack Could Have Been Re ...
    When the sophisticated state-sponsored espionage tool known as Flame was exposed last year, no one was more concerned about the discovery than Microsoft, after realizing that the tool was signed with a modified Microsoft certificate to verify its trustworthiness to ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Secondary E. coli Cases Can Kill
    In early May 2009, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) identified a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections.  See Email re: Cuyahoga County E. coli, PulseNet Cluster 0905HE…, Attachment No. 1. ... Continue Reading
  • Chamberlain Farms Cantaloupe Outbreak – Lesson ...
    In reading the FDA’s Environmental Assessment: Factors Potentially Contributing to the Contamination of Fresh Whole Cantaloupe Implicated in a Multi-State Outbreak of Salmonellosis regarding the Chamberlain Farm’s Salmonella outbreak from... Continue Reading
  • Hey, Jimmy John’s, Step Away from the E. coli ...
    In 2011 and 2012, a total of 29 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli 026 were reported from 11 states.  Of the 27 ill persons with available... Continue Reading
  • Yet another Leafy Green E. coli Outbreak and N ...
    On November 17, 2012 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that several East coast states were investigating an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.  At that time a... Continue Reading
  • A Truly Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak
    Makes you look at salsa a bit differently. In 2002 a well-documented outbreak of Salmonella enteriditis infections occurred at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas during March and April... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Geneva: Mitsubishi debuts Concept CA-MiEV, a n ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi is stretching the electric jellybean. For years, the i-MiEV was regular presence at Mitsubishi's auto show booths around the world, and the car rightfully earned its nickname because of its rounded shape. ...
  • Video: Toyota sizzle reel gives better look at ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Toyota, Design/Style, Electric Toyota is taking the tiny tandem Tango to Tron town. In a teaser video for the new i-Road, debuting at the Geneva Motor Show next week, we catch a light-bike-like glimpse of Toyota's quirky tandem-seat concept. We still don't know much ...
  • Official: Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing de ...
    Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Take the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, stretch it and take off the wheels then make it float and you've basically got the just-unveiled Cigarette AMG Electric Drive Concept. Powered by an all-electric powertrain that offers 2,2 ...
  • Report: Coda Automotive undergoes "massive lay ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and marketing staf ...
  • Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • 225,000 American patients die in doctors’ hand ...
    Jon Rappoport In my previous article, I examined the silence of the lambs (media) concerning the collusion between Monsanto and the FDA. In the case of medical care in America, that purposeful silence reigns supreme as well. By the most conservative estimate, researched and published by mainstre ...
  • Anonymous strikes Wall Street CEOs, leaks pers ...
    The following is an excerpt from a statement announcing Operation Wall Street: It is obvious that the DoJ and other government entities such as the SEC think that it is more important for them to regulate freedom of speech and information rather than to regulate the blatant organized crimes of t ...
  • Beware: Universal flu jab just around the corner
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer 829 66 [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) A Madison, Wisconsin-based vaccine company is about one year away from enrolling a new universal flu shot into clinical trials, according to reports. The vaccine, known as Redee Flu, is said to provide protection against a ...
  • Clean and green – Inspiring urban farm g ...
    by: Carolanne Wright (NaturalNews) With food prices steadily rising over the last several years, by as much as five percent, families are scaling back and going without many staples just to put a meal on the table. Or worse, resorting to ‘bargains’ like fast food specials, subsidized ...
  • Dick Act of 1902 – The Law Which Cannot ...
    “The prohibitions of the Constitution were designed to apply to all branches of the National Government and they cannot be nullified by the Executive or by the Executive and Senate combined. Did you understand what the Supreme Court said here? No Executive Order, Presidential Directive, Ex ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Look at America’s grand strategy. Why do ...
    Summary: A nation’s grand strategy can make the difference between victory and defeat, prosperity and poverty. Two recent articles about grand strategy have gotten attention, written by an expert in a major periodical — on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, on the eve of our ...
  • Realism about the prospects for reform in America
    Summary: Yesterday we looked at the evolution of American, and what’s coming. Today we consider what that means for those working to reform America: abandon vain hopes, regroup, lay the foundation for later victories. A bleak prospect, but important to understand. The “Correlation of ...
  • On this important date let’s remember th ...
    Summary:  On this day in 1781 the America Republic was born in the midst of war. Here we review its evolution, and the latest stage — which looks like the largest step yet. At some point incremental steps create something new, something different. Science Fiction Shows a Possible Future fo ...
  • A reason for the US military expansion into Africa
    In 2004 the US military began to expand into Africa. In 2007 they created Africa Command (Africom). Since then they’ve accelerated and expanded operations. Africa has great natural resources, but why more interest now? Here is one possible explanation: the great game. A rival great power e ...
  • Who lies to us the most? Left or Right?
    Summary:  Finally an answer to a vexing question! Left or Right in America, who has the greater contempt for truth? Which tribe exaggerates the most in their propaganda?  Looking at the big picture of America, the answer seems obvious.  Considerable efforts gets expended to hide the answer.  In ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Spot the Space I ...
    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful available to astronomers, but sometimes it too needs a helping hand. This comes in the form of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which makes galaxy clusters act as natural ...
  • Europa’s Oceans Might Taste Like Earth’s Oceans
    The subsurface water on Jupiter’s moon Europa probably tastes like the water in Earth’s oceans. This is according to scientists who mapped the frozen moon in greater detail than ever before and discovered a new mineral on its surface. Their research ...
  • The Hidden Costs of Cognitive Enhancement
    Gentle electrical zaps to the brain can accelerate learning and boost performance on a wide range of mental tasks, scientists have reported in recent years. But a new study suggests there may be a hidden price: Gains in one aspect ...
  • Recent Global Warming Slowed by Volcanoes
    Global average temperatures have been rising in recent years, but not as much as they might have, thanks to a series of small-to-moderate-sized volcanic eruptions that have spewed sunlight-blocking particles high into the atmosphere.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Venus From Saturn
    Peering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus. The vast distance from Saturn means that Venus only shows up as a white dot, just ...

PakAlert

  • Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks ...
    According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm
  • Martial Law: Tucson City Council Hands Authori ...
    On February 20, 2013, the Tucson, Arizona City Council passed a resolution allowing the U.S. Air Force to “make appropriate decisions when balancing National Security and community needs when it comes to their existing and future military mission and assignments.”
  • Tax Bicyclists For Exhaling CO2 When They Ride ...
    Taxing the air we breathe may be coming to Washington state. Yes, the insane taxing of every behavior is rising to a whole new level with the proposed "bike tax" in Washington. According to lawmakers who proposed the bike tax, it would help raise $1 million over the next decade to be used fo ...
  • Why Are Giant Sinkholes Appearing All Over Ame ...
    Where are all of these giant sinkholes coming from? Of course there have always been sinkholes, but over the past few years it seems like both the severity and the number of giant sinkholes has been increasing dramatically. So exactly why are so many giant sinkholes appearing all over America ...
  • ‘CIA killed 9/11 author in black ops hit’
    A former US National Security Agency officer says the 9/11 investigative author Philip Marshall and his children were killed in a “black ops hit” by the CIA, dismissing the suicide hypothesis

Andy Worthington

  • Save Lewisham Hospital: Legal Challenge Goes A ...
    Please support the “Born in Lewisham Hospital” event on Saturday March 16, and, if you can, contribute to Lewisham Council’s Legal Challenge Fund to pay for the Judicial Review that has just been launched, to prove that the plans to close Lewisham Hospital’s A&E Depar ...
  • East End Odyssey: Photos of a Journey from Ley ...
    East End Odyssey: A Journey from Leyton to Poplar, a set on Flickr. This photo set is the 81st in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, and is the third of four sets which either precede or follow on from a set I published last [...]
  • The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Photos: From Mile End to Bow and Stratford on ...
    From Mile End to Bow and Stratford on a Summer’s Day, a set on Flickr. This photo set, the 80th in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, is the second of three that precedes and follows on from a set I published last July, entitled, [...]
  • Radio: Guantánamo, Black Sites and Torture &#8 ...
    On Friday, following the publication of my article “America’s Disappeared” on the website of the Future of Freedom Foundation, I was interviewed by Scott Horton, with whom I have been talking since August 2007, when he first picked up on my Guantánamo work, and then followed up ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Sciencebase Twitter archive
    Now, that almost anyone can download an archive of all their twitter activity, there are a few neat things you can do with the data once you’ve got it. For instance, you could upload it all to your Google Drive, set the folder as public and let anyone trawl through all your old tweets. So, ...
  • Meteorite map malarkey
    As is obvious within a few seconds of having tweeted the map purportedly showing “every meteorite that has hit Earth since 2300 BC”, the map actually just shows where the people are and where people have recorded meteorite impacts. The first comment on the Gizmodo item puts this quit ...
  • Exercise, alcohol, fruit and veg
    There was a strike at the BBC yesterday, so the usual “You and Yours” on Radio 4 was replaced with an annotated compilation of recent in-depth reports by Michael Moseley from past episodes (I believe). It made for an interesting alternative podcast listen on my dog-walk today. He dis ...
  • Five major challenges to avoid food crunch
    Growing population and an increasing poverty gap are major challenges for global food security especially when the issue of biofuels produced from crops is introduced. According to Tahereh Alavi Hojjat of DeSales University, in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA, governments around the world must ...
  • Sciencebase to be grilled by Cambridge student ...
    UPDATE: 2012-02-13 It’s on again and this year I can offer a little advice on how to get a popular science book published if any students are interested in hearing my thoughts on that. Also, I’ve dropped the price for students on the PDF version of Deceived Wisdom for the next couple ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Study: Africa's Elephants in 'Devastating Decl ...
    Photo: Richard Ruggiero/USFWSThe forest elephants of central Africa are suffering a "widespread and catastrophic decline," according to a study published Monday in the online journal PLOS ONE. read more
  • 'Mockery' of Transparency Continues as White H ...
    The White House has reportedly released additional top-secret legal memos claiming to justify the use of lethal drone strikes against US citizens to the Senate Intelligence Committee in a bid to appease lawmakers over the expected confirmation of 'kill list' architect John Brennan to CIA ...
  • Today's Most Insignificant Headline: Dow Hits ...
    Where's the Occupy movement when you need it? That's the question columnist Robert Scheer asked Tuesday amid abounding evidence that Wall Street and the wealthiest 1% are living up boom times while the rest of the U.S. continues to languish in the clutches of a recession that began nearl ...
  • Blow for BigPharma, Win for the People in Pate ...
    Pharmaceutical giant Bayer has been dealt a blow with a precedent-setting ruling that allows the production of a low-cost version of its patented cancer drug Nexavar in India, vastly expanding access to the drug and challenging the global pharmaceutical monopolies that put potentially life-savin ...
  • RIP El Comandante: Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)
    Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez line up to put encouraging messages for him, in a box outside military hospital in Caracas March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins UPDATE 4:55 PM EST: Hugo Chávez has died. Earlier... ...

Lifehacker

  • Clear Badges Extinguishes Annoying App Badges ...
    iOS (Jailbreak): The app badges that pop up when an iPhone app sends you a notification are helpful sometimes, but when you have 20 different apps with badges popping up everywhere it stops being useful and becomes annoying. If you want to remove those badges in one swoop, Clear Badges is ...
  • How Do I Prepare for the Death of a Family Member?
    Dear Lifehacker, More »
  • Google Maps for iPhone Now Searches Google Con ...
    iOS: Google Maps for iPhone got a major update today, now showing your contacts' addresses when you search for them by name. Also in version 1.1 is an easier way to look for local places by choosing from categories such as restaurants, gas stations, and more. More »
  • Improve Your Storytelling with the Word "But"
    Telling a story is the most powerful way to activate our brains. If you want to become a better storyteller, UCLA Film School Howard Suber says you should keep in mind the word "but" and the theme that "things are not what they seem." More »
  • Cut Your Own Stew Meat for Better Quality and ...
    Packaged stew meat is a great convenience for making stews and chili, but if you want more consistent sizing and want to know for sure what kinds of beef cuts are being used, it's best to cut your own. More »

Water Privatization

  • Herald News: Proceed cautiously with privatization
    Initial savings of privatization may erode over time.
  • Saudi- Big jump in Saudi desal water supply
    (MENAFN - Arab News) Saudi Arabia remains the largest supplier of desalinated water in the world producing 18 percent of the total global output. SWCC's 27 plants on the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf ...
  • Big jump in Saudi desal water supply
    Saudi Arabia remains the largest supplier of desalinated water in the world producing 18 percent of the total global output.SWCC’s 27 plants on the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf produced 855.9 million cubic meters of water and 15.6 million megawatt/hour in 2012, registering a 6.3 percent increase in ...
  • German States Oppose Privatization of Municipa ...
    Germany’s upper house of parliament, where the 16 states are represented, today opposed a European Commission proposal to allow the privatization of communal water supplies, saying it’s not a good like any other.
  • Authority advises caution on ICC privatization
    The Maryland Transportation Authority has thrown some cold water on the idea of leasing the Intercounty Connector as a relatively pain-free way of raising money to pay for other projects – saying such deals are too complex to enter into without extensive study.

Guardian

  • George Osborne fails to block bankers' bonus c ...
    Chancellor George Osborne was outnumbered in Brussels today as he tried to water down Europe's new clampdown on bank pay.Graeme Wearden
  • One of Beppe Grillo's MP castigated for praise ...
    Roberta Lombardi, senior politician in Italy's Five Star Movement, criticised for blogpost lauding fascism's family valuesOne of the most senior newly elected politicians in former comedian Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement came under fire on Tuesday, for a blog in which she appeared to praise a ...
  • Iran hits back at UN rapporteur over human rig ...
    Ahmed Shaheed's report charges Islamic republic with cases of torture, executions and fostering 'culture of impunity'Iran has criticised the UN special rapporteur tasked with investigating its human rights record for publishing a damning report that warns against widespread and systematic violat ...
  • 10 trends from Paris fashion week - in pictures
    Laundry bag chic, tractor-sole shoes, mannish trousers and artist-inspired collections – autumn/winter 2013 has modern bite, writes Simon Chilvers  Simon Chilvers
  • Ex-City of London police officer arrested over ...
    Arrest, which does not involve allegations of payment, follows IPCC investigation based on information from Operation ElvedenA former senior City of London police officer has been arrested on suspicion of passing information to journalists without payment, the police watchdog has said.The former ...

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

  • Afghan court slaps prison time on Kabul Bank execs
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan tribunal convicted two top executives from Kabul Bank and sentenced them to five-year prison terms on Tuesday for their role in a massive corruption scandal that led ...
  • Afghanistan The cost of clearing out
    There's a plan to have most U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but no call yet on what to do with the 750,000 pieces of major military hardware in country - hardware worth $36 ...
  • Furore over Australian detention of immigrant ...
    MELBOURNE, 5 March 2013 (IRIN) - Australia is failing in its international obligations to protect the rights of close to 2,000 children now in immigration detention, say rights groups and legal ...
  • Miami court convicts Muslim cleric of sourcing ...
    An elderly Muslim cleric has been convicted of funneling thousands of dollars to support the Pakistani Taliban, by a US court. Hafiz Khan, 77, who is a cleric at a downtown Miami mosque, was found ...
  • Afghan childrens deaths a tragedy Smith
    The deaths of two Afghan boys during an operation involving Australian troops are still under investigation, Defence Minister Stephen Smith ...

Futurismic

  • 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 ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • 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
  • OSHA Announces Interim Rule on Whistleblower P ...
    Last Friday, OSHA published an interim final rule, and invited public comment on whistleblower protections for reporting violations of Affordable Care Act's health insurance reforms.  The Affordable Care Act contains various provisions to make health insurance more affordabl ...
  • IRS On Verge Of Crippling Whistleblower Program
    Whistleblower Advocates Submit Extensive Comment  in Response to Proposed IRS Regulations Yesterday, the National Whistleblower Center ("NWC"), the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund ("Fund"), Bradley Birkenfeld, Scott Rosen, and Gene Ross jointly ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Dear Hollywood: Hire Better Shills
    The Wall Street Journal recently ran a puff piece showing just how much work it is for NBC Universal to keep fighting all those darn pirates. It's basically a propaganda piece starring Rick "Save the Corn Farmers!" Cotton, NBC's general counsel who fights piracy the way that Captain Ahab chases ...
  • Bradley Manning Nominated For Nobel Peace Priz ...
    With Bradley Manning pleading guilty to some of the lesser charges against him, Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler -- who is a possible expert witness in the trial -- has an excellent and detailed post about why the entire case against him should be seen as a threat to the nature of whistleblo ...
  • If Most Crime Involves A 'Cyber' Element, Can' ...
    It is a standing modern truth that you can take a scary word in the English language and turbocharge its terror factor by putting the word "cyber" in front of it. Don't believe me? Murder. Some guy stabs or shoots me. Cyber-murder. Holy crap! A dude can reach through the computer and electrocute ...
  • Yes, The US Industrial Revolution Was Built On ...
    Missed this when it first came out, but Bloomberg ran a fantastic report at the beginning of February, highlighting how piracy and fraud were key components to helping America catapult into the industrial revolution. In fact, there are reasonable arguments to be made that if the US was not a "p ...
  • Librarian Of Congress Shoots Back At White Hou ...
    Following the White House officially coming out and saying that mobile phone unlocking should be legal, the Librarian of Congress has issued what feels like a passive aggressive response, basically saying that their job is not to consider the public policy, but just to follow the specific rules ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Netanyahu threatens America
    “We have to stop [Iran's] nuclear enrichment program before it’s too late. And I have to tell you, from the bottom of my heart and with the clarity of my brain: words alone will not stop Iran. Sanctions alone will not stop Iran. Sanctions must be coupled with a clear and credible mil ...
  • The Zionism that Erdoğan opposes
    Mustafa Akyol writes: Last week, during a visit to Vienna, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan initiated an international controversy by condemning “Zionism,” albeit in passing. “As is the case for Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism,” he said, “it is inevitable that Islamophobia be ...
  • Fallout from ‘Untouchables’ documentary: Anoth ...
    Matt Taibbi writes: A great many people around the county were rightfully shocked and horrified by the recent excellent and hard-hitting PBS documentary, The Untouchables, which looked at the problem of high-ranking Wall Street crooks going unpunished in the wake of the financial crisis. The PBS ...
  • Video: Former Pentagon spokesman defends lying ...
  • Victoria Brittain: Fighting a global war of terror
    The Global War on Terror has had many victims since it was launched by President George W. Bush soon after September 11, 2001.  In his “crusade,” a word he used publicly before he thought better of it (“This crusade,” he said, “this war on terrorism”), th ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Categorical Thinking and The Climate Debate
    Guest post by Craig Loehle, Ph.D. We often hear this disconnect in the climate debate: sceptic Joe says “human impacts are small and likely not harmful”; alarmist Arthur says “humans are affecting the climate, therefore we must act now”. It … Continue reading →
  • I Have It Made In Alaska
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the fall of 1964 I started college at the University of California at Berkeley, but I hated it. I lasted one year, and in 1965 I went to Alaska to seek my fortune. My … Continue reading →
  • Keystone Pipeline: Housecats Have More Emissio ...
    Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times On Friday, the Department of State released a 2,000-page draft review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project. If approved, the pipeline will carry up to 830,000 barrels of … Continue reading →
  • Big drop in global surface temperature in Febr ...
    UAH Global Temperature Update for February, 2013: +0.18 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for February, 2013 is +0.18 deg. C, a large decrease from January’s +0.50 deg. C. (click … Continue reading →
  • Mysterious ‘electron stash’ found ...
    You’d think the science on the Van Allen Radiation belts was long ago considered “settled science”. Nope. And yet, while we discover new things like this, some insist we fully understand all aspects of the workings of Earth’s climate. Instruments … Continue reading ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • 3D printing breakthrough with human embryonic ...
    A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time. It is hoped that this breakthrough, which has been published today, 5 February, in the journal Biofabrication, will allow three-dimensional tissues an ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Raise Mens Death Risk ...
    Men taking calcium supplements may be running a nearly 20 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests.Both men and women take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss. In this study of calcium intake, the risk of dying from heart disease was higher for men b ...
  • Researchers unveil first artificial enzyme cre ...
    There’s a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig’s lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years ago, when life on earth began to evolve – long before they became ingredients for new and improved products, from detergents to foods a ...
  • HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus)

  • Alya Red: A Computational heart
    Alya Red is a project of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for simulating a human heart. In this video we explain the scientific background of the project, and show scientific visualizations of simulations using the computational electromechanical model applied to a rabbit heart.

CFACT

  • A new energy boom in the West
    New advances in extracting oil and natural gas from shale formations hold great promise for America’s energy future. Indeed, recent analysis indicates the West alone could generate 1.3 million barrels of production per day by 2020, exceeding our current daily imports from Russia, Iraq, and Kuwai ...
  • Pictures of CFACT’s D.C. billboard campa ...
    Pictures from the field of CFACT's billboard campaign on the Washington, D.C. beltway. If you can’t count on the media to report, place the facts where they must be seen. Fight propaganda with facts!
  • The Obama onslaught on oil and gas and coal co ...
    It’s very apparent that the real intent is to make oil and gas more expensive in order to make the heavily subsidized, unreliable and costly ”renewable” energy programs they are pushing more cost-competitive. This is the Tonya Harding approach to energy… break your opponent’s kneecap if you can’ ...
  • State Department Friday release: Keystone XL w ...
    It's 4:00 on Friday afternoon. Time to release a report with great news for the American economy, but which will leave hard-core enviros spitting, sputtering and gnashing their teeth. The Keystone XL pipeline is all gain, no pain.
  • Good news for oil companies and Green activists
    In news that could please oil companies and Green activists alike, the U.S. Department of Energy released a report claiming that using carbon dioxide to enhance oil recovery could be beneficial for the economy and the environment. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5075.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russia to Resurrect Titanium Submarines
    The Russian Navy will refit, modernize and recommission two Sierra class (Project 945) titanium-hull nuclear-powered attack submarines by 2017, the Zvezdochka shipyard said on Tuesday.
  • NASA Launches Best Earth Image Voting
    On March 4, NASA launched online voting in its Earth Madness photo competition. A total of 32 images from 2012 were selected for voting.
  • Russian Army Cuts Female Staff by Two-Thirds
    Russia’s Armed Forces have cut around two-thirds of their women in uniform over the past five years, a military official said on Tuesday.
  • The Unbridled Power of Josef Stalin. Archive F ...
    Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died 60 years ago, on March 5, 1953. This video, full of archive footage, tells of the life and death of the man who headed the Soviet state for nearly 30 years, leaving a controversial legacy of crimes and victories.
  • Peter the Great’s renovated house to survive 1 ...
    The wooden house in Zaandam, the Netherlands, where Peter the Great started opening a window to Europe, will survive at least another 100 years from its reopening following the recent renovation on March 8.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...
  • Nook & Cranny - 'The Bird With the Broken Wing ...
    Nook & Cranny took the top spot on my best music of 2012 post, so it’s safe to say I’m a fan. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and here’s a live take of one of the tracks - The Bird With the Broken Wing.Pretty sweet, eh?
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2013 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2013 selections:Systemic DisorderThe Titanic sails at dawnMario Piperni dot ComAlternate BrainThe Mills River Progressivep ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Two Latest GE-Related Health Threats
    'Monster Salmon,' and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from GE Experiments Found in Chinese Waterways Click here to read this article
  • Why America Has the Cheapest, Most Addictive a ...
    Author Melanie Warner talks about her new book "Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal." Click here to read this article
  • Perfect Storm Threatens Minnesota's Natural Re ...
    Issues facing Minnesota's environment are complex, often involving multiple states and agencies. Officials are realistic but hopeful. Click here to read this article
  • NY Fracking Held as Cuomo, RFK Jr. Talk Health
    ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo came as close as he ever has to approving fracking last month, laying out a limited drilling plan for as many as 40 gas wells before changing course to await the findings of a new study after discussions with environmentalist and former brother-in-law Ro ...
  • Media Fails, Tea Party Wins as "Sequestration" ...
    Having forsaken hopes of a settlement to avert the self-imposed austerity cuts known as "sequestration," progressive critics of the unfolding events continued to decry the folly on Friday.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Md. Farm Bureau’s stance on pesticide bill see ...
    The Maryland Farm Bureau’s opposition to a pesticide reporting bill in Maryland seems out of step with policy statements made by the national organization with which it is affiliated, the American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • USDA Organic standards for aquaculture under d ...
    Farmed aquatic animals are the only type of food not represented in the marketplace with a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic seal—a highly recognizable label—although that may change soon.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Food Fight, Sugar, Meat ...
    The lack of rain has dried up the pastures and made hay prohibitively expensive, so the number of cattle available for slaughter is no longer sufficient to keep the disassembly plant operating. Losing the $55.5 million payroll is a real body blow to the town and a harbinger of climate change imp ...
  • Feeding animals to animals: a call for vigilan ...
    Using rendered animal parts in feed can “recycle” contaminants such as arsenic, dioxins, and heavy metals back into the food supply chain, increasing their concentrations in animal tissues, and raising exposure risks among consumers.
  • Farm Bureau is a dubious ‘voice of agriculture ...
    The bill is being introduced for a third time, and for a third time its main opposition comes from the Maryland Farm Bureau. This persistent opposition begs two questions: What is the Farm Bureau, and whom does it represent?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Interview with Ivor van Heerden on Settlement ...
    emails revealed an apparent early plan to muzzle Dr. Ivor van Heerden when he rightly blamed the Army Corps of Engineers for most of the New Orleans area flooding during Katrina Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Japan Mass Media Banned From Reporting Radiati ...
    a joint French and Japanese NGO project found that external radiation continues to cause unacceptable health risks for hundreds of thousands of citizens and that government estimates ignore internal consumption of radionuclides Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |  &nbsp ...
  • Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page
    Ive posted all of the credible 3rd party paleoclimate graphs Ive compiled thus far, but I am sure there are lots more. Please post links to any credible paleoclimate data sources Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • China admits pollution brought about 'cancer v ...
    According to Greenpeace East Asia, 320 million people are without access to clean drinking water in China and 190 million people are drinking water severely contaminated with hazardous chemicals. Submitted by to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Death of a Hero
    The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims One measure of a society's honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...
  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    You drench your fields with it in the fall. You kill anything growing. And you drench the fields again in the spring, before you plant. Then, just as you’re going to plant, you hit the fields a third time with the poison. This is in addition to all the sprayings with Roundup, which is toxic, too ...
  • They Want To Tag Us Before They Bag Us
    My advice is to all Americans is to immediately work towards becoming self-sufficient to such a degree that it appears to others that your life depends on it, because it does.
  • The hideous BAM in Obama: map your brain for y ...
    This is the technocrats’ wet dream: “We can now power up an artificial brain of such power and intelligence that it can make all crucial decisions for the human race from Central Planning.”

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Press TV CEO blasts war on Iranian media
    ShareThisPress TV CEO blasts war on Iranian media 05 Mar 2013 The chief executive officer of Iran's English-language news network Press TV, Dr. Mohammad Sarafraz, has in an open letter lambasted the ongoing muzzling campaign embarked on by the Franco-Israeli chief of the European satellite pr ...
  • Dow surpasses record high
    ShareThisDow surpasses record high 05 Mar 2013 The Dow has never been higher. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 100 points early Tuesday, climbing to an all-time high. The Dow gained 103 points, or 0.8 percent, to 14,239 as of 10 a.m. ET, surpassing its previous record high o ...
  • Halliburton, KBR Burn Pit Suit Thrown Out by U ...
    ShareThisHalliburton, KBR Burn Pit Suit Thrown Out by U.S. Judge 28 Feb 2013 Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc. are entitled to the same legal protection as U.S. armed forces when serving as military contractors, a judge ruled, dismissing claims over so-called burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. D ...
  • Escort was paid to frame Robert Menendez and t ...
    ShareThisEscort was paid to frame Robert Menendez and top Dem donor 04 Mar 2013 An escort who appeared on a video claiming that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican authorities that she was instead paid to make up the claims and has never met or seen the senator, acc ...
  • Did Alitalia Pilot Spot a Drone Near JFK?
    ShareThisDid Alitalia Pilot Spot a Drone Near JFK? 04 Mar 2013 A mystery in the sky over New York City on Monday got one commercial airline pilot's attention.The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a report from the pilot, who claims he saw an unmanned or remote-controlled aircraft ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • White Letter 1-13
    05 March 2013
  • Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL Murdered: Some Thoughts
    04 February 2013 News of Chris Kyle’s shooting has reached around the world.  Many people are asking for my thoughts, and so this morning I write these words in response. Chris was credited with killing about 160 enemy combatants in Iraq. He is called the most deadly sniper in US history. ...
  • FBR: Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State
    Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State Kachin State 29 January 2013 From Free Burma Rangers Despite the Government of Burma declaring a ceasefire, Burma Army troops still continue to launch attacks in Kachin State. In this Report: • Burma Army troops take Hkaya Bum after repeated attack ...
  • Air Force Crashing
    25 January 2013 Team AFMC, The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require us to take prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks. Based on guidance r ...
  • SAR Overnighter
    24 January 2013

The Killing Train

  • My lecture at Jamia on Aid Politics and Foreig ...
    The Jamia Journal did a nice little report and audio recording of my lecture on Feb 25/13 in the Poli Sci Department of Jamia Millia Islamia, here in Delhi. You can see it here.
  • Can 1.7 Billion Dollars Imagine Wrong?
    21 February, 2013 Countercurrents.org A review of Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009) If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? It's a daunting task to critique a book by a billionaire. JK Galbraith once wrote that conventional wisdom has it that wea ...
  • Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Free ...
    Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main poi ...
  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...
  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.
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