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Scoop - NZ

  • Just Another Shin Bet Interrogation
    I said: "You are not willing to listen to our viewpoint. You are racist." He answered: "I am not racist. I am leftist." I asked skeptically: "Can you tell me what you mean by left? You are Zionist left. The left, as I know it, is against racism and is identified with universal values o ...
  • Bush programs flourish under Obama
    Guantanamo Bay and the RDI program are both back in the news now, each for their own unsavory reasons, and their reemergence should be a reminder of how fully the Obama administration has embraced the logic underpinning the Bush regime's response to 9/11. The Pentagon is now requesting nearly $2 ...
  • Castro urges calm in Korea
    Castro warned of the impact that nuclear war could unleash in Asia and beyond. He said Havana has always been and will continue to be an ally to North Korea, but gently admonished it to consider the well-being of humankind. "Now that you have demonstrated your technical and scientific advance ...
  • Offshore Tax Havens Become Traps
    A New York hedge fund manager allegedly swindles $12 million from a prominent Baltimore family. An Indiana couple is accused of bilking hundreds of customers by charging for free trials of cosmetic products. A financial manager in Texas promises 23-percent returns but absconds with $33.5 million ...
  • Harry keen on descendant of Charles II
    Cressida'a half sister is Isabella Calthorpe and their mother happens to be Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, the daughter of the 6th Earl Howe and a descendent of King Charles II.

Independent - London

  • William Hague admits divided G8 ‘has failed’ o ...
    Foreign ministers from the G8 failed to patch up deep divisions over Syria during a meeting in London.Related StoriesBling patrol: Dubai police acquire $550,000 Lamborghini squad carDubai police get $550,000 Lamborghini squad car that can hit 60mph in under three seconds and has a top-speed of 2 ...
  • Finland accidentally blacklists Vladimir Putin ...
    Vladimir Putin was briefly banned from entering Finland, it transpired, after the Russian President’s name was mistakenly placed on a criminal blacklist due to his ties to a motorcycle group.Related StoriesCyprus must pay an extra €6bn for bailout loanSerbian gunman who killed 13 dies in hospit ...
  • Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov endured a l ...
    There were few tears and no wails of anguish at Mikhail Beketov’s farewell at Moscow’s House of Journalists. Instead, there was a heavy air of grim resignation, as the depressing realisation set in that another Russian journalist had paid the ultimate price for seeking out the truth.Related Sto ...
  • Disgraced French minister, Jérôme Cahuzac, for ...
    The disgraced former French Budget Minister, Jérôme Cahuzac, has become a pariah forced to sleep some nights in his car, it has emerged.Related StoriesCyprus must pay an extra €6bn for bailout loanSerbian gunman who killed 13 dies in hospitalIrish Central Bank admits (that) it made error on Jame ...
  • Irish Central Bank admits (that) it made error ...
    He is regarded as one of Ireland’s literary giants and most innovative wordsmiths, but James Joyce has himself just become the subject of an unintended piece of linguistic innovation. Related StoriesCyprus must pay an extra €6bn for bailout loanSerbian gunman who killed 13 dies in hospitalDisgra ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 2013 California Sea Lion Unusual Mortality Eve ...
    Overview Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (as amended), an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) has been declared for California sea lions in California from January 2013 through the present. Beginning in January 2013, elevated strandings of California sea lion pups have been observed i ...
  • The find of a lifetime: Bizarre 'panda bat' di ...
    Researchers say the bat is an entirely new genus Black and white fur make it look uncannily like a panda Researchers have hailed a bat that looks uncannily like a panda bear as 'the find of a lifetime'. The bat, discovered in South Sudan, is so rare researchers believe it is an entirely new g ...
  • Morrissey: 'Thatcher was a terror without an a ...
    Singer Morrissey, of the seminal 1980s band The Smiths, reacts to news of the death of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen ...
  • Hamster comes back from dead on Good Friday
    Lisa Kilbourne-Smith and boyfriend James Davis were looking after the pet hamster, called Tink, for friends when they found her lying lifeless in her cage. They thought she was dead and wrapped her body in kitchen roll, dug a 1ft deep grave in their flower bed and laid her to rest. The pair t ...
  • In brain scans, music is a universal language
    Music may truly be a universal language. When listening to the same piece, different listeners will show very similar patterns of brain activity, a new study of brain scans suggests. Untrained listeners in the study responded very similarly to a 10-minute symphony, and the similarities cropped ...

The Galloping Beaver

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

Media Matters for America

  • Seven Media Myths About The Gun Background Che ...
    With the U.S. Senate having voted to take up legislation to strengthen gun laws, which will likely include a bipartisan proposal to expand federal firearms background checks, Media Matters reviews myths the media has promoted about the background check system.How do federal background ...
  • Right-Wing Media Push For GOP Obstruction Of G ...
    Right-wing media are encouraging Republican senators to filibuster gun violence prevention legislation, continuing a long history of trying to influence GOP politics through recommended obstructionism.Gun Violence Prevention Legislation Added To Legislative Calendar Washington Post: Senate Gun ...
  • Fox Misleadingly Hypes UK's Changes To Disabil ...
    Fox News figures claimed the U.S. should emulate the United Kingdom by slashing funding to federal disability programs and changing eligibility requirements, despite the fact that U.S. eligibility requirements are already stringent, that the new U.K. benefits tests were largely overturned on app ...
  • REPORT: Partisanship And Diversity On The Sund ...
    The four broadcast networks' Sunday morning political talk shows guests skewed right during the first quarter of 2013. MSNBC's two Sunday programs featured far greater gender and ethnic diversity in its guests than the broadcast programs and CNN's Sunday morning political talk show.Republic ...
  • Fox Covers Up Facts That Undermine Anti-Gun Re ...
    Fox News' The Five claimed that the U.S. has the lowest gun-related murder rate in the world and that public opinion is turning against President Obama on gun control, ignoring that the U.S. has a higher gun homicide rate than other developed nations, and that a vast majority of Americans favor ...

Global Research.ca

  • Guantánamo Hunger Strike. “Day of Action to Cl ...
    As Guantánamo Hunger Strike Continues, Activists Rally Nationwide for “Day of Action to Close Guantánamo & End Indefinite Detention”   Protests in D.C., NYC, Chicago , San Francisco , and Over 26 Cities Pressure Obama to Close the Prison   April 11,…
  • Scrapping the US “Social Safety Net&#822 ...
    US President Barack Obama unveiled his budget proposal Wednesday, calling for a historic attack on Medicare and Social Security. The move, coming after the imposition of $1.4 trillion in spending cuts over the past two years, marks a new stage…
  • Neoliberalism and the War Economy in Britain: ...
    Since 2008, America, Britain and other European nations force-fed austerity harshness. Neoliberal and imperial priorities take precedence. Bankers, war profiteers, other corporate favorites, and privileged elites alone benefit. Ordinary people lose out entirely. Public needs go begging. Human mi ...
  • Financial Cleansing: The Cyprus Bail-in Template
    The recent bail-in in Cyprus has given the world a glimpse at the future of the banking landscape. Now, as Canada gets set to hardwire the bail-in process into law, analysts like Michel Chossudovsky are warning how the big banks can use this template to further consolidate their monopoly of econ ...
  • For the Price of the Iraq War, The U.S. Could ...
    What Are We Choosing for Our Future? Wind energy expert Paul Gipe reported this week that – for the amount spent on the Iraq war – the U.S. could be generating 40%-60% of its electricity with renewable energy: Disregarding the…

TPM Cafe

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

  • UN: Gaza restrictions hitting food stocks (Ma ...
    UN humanitarian official said on Wednesday a fresh round of Israeli sanctions on the Gaza Strip was hitting food supplies and would have "serious" effects if continued. "In response to a deteriorating security situation in and around Gaza ... Israel has announced a series of heightened restricti ...
  • Witness accounts of two Tulkarem teens’ killin ...
    On Wednesday last week, four young Palestinians decided to protest against the death of Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abuhamdia, a cancer patient who died of medical neglect while in Isr ...
  • Palestinian farmers thirsty for exports ()
    Agriculture has long formed a pillar of Palestinian society, bringing in much-needed income and creating a bond between man and land. Today, this sector is suffering, both because of th ...
  • Israel demolishes shelters near Hebron (Ma'an ...
    Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday demolished shelters and a water well in the al-Duryat area east of Yatta, saying the area was a closed military zone. A local committee called on international institutions to intervene and stop the Israeli assaults. Separately, in the Jericho area, Israeli forces t ...
  • Tear gas canister explodes in Bethlehem school ...
    An Israeli tear gas canister exploded in a school near Bethlehem on Tuesday, injuring several people, locals said. The unexploded Israeli canister was found by children at Al-Khansa school in Tuqu and released gas after students began playing with it. Eleven students and two teachers were injure ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Austin City Council about to give Austin’s mun ...
    On Thursday (April 11th) at 4 PM Austin City Council will vote on giving the city’s municipal utility, Austin Energy, away to special interests by moving to appoint an un-elected utility board.  A city council vote on Thursday could open the door to industry insiders and special interests ...
  • Support Public Citizen through EarthShare camp ...
    Earthday is coming up and we’d like to share two ways to support Public Citizen’s Texas office through EarthShare programs! H-E-B Tear Pad Campaign For those who are able to give to EarthShare through your work place charitable giving campaign, we thank you.  For those who do not hav ...
  • Public Citizen and Experts Highlight Looming T ...
    Arkansas Spill Points to Problems With Diluted Bitumen Crude Transport Through Aging, Repurposed Pipelines; Tar Sands Crude Poses a Threat to Texas Drinking Water, Home, and Public Health The recent Good Friday tar sands crude spill in an Arkansas neighborhood and an earlier catastrophic spill i ...
  • Fasten your seat belts. Climate change means i ...
    According to the new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, by the middle of this century climate change could lead to more airplane turbulence. Turbulence strength over the North Atlantic flight corridor could increase between 10 percent and 40 percent, and turbulence frequency c ...
  • The Exxon Pipeline Spill: QUESTIONS THAT SHOUL ...
    This is a guest submission by Riki Ott, PhD. Dr. Ott is a marine toxicologist, author, and former commercial fisher. She was one of the first people on the scene during the Exxon Valdez oil spill, when millions of gallons of crude oil were discharged into the pristine waters of Prince William So ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Haiti needs solidarity, not soldiers: First-ha ...
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  • If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sov ...
    Subheadline:  Farmers speak out at the World Social Forum in Tunisia seeds-india-yakshi.jpg Thousands of small farmers joined students, activists, unionists , human rights ...
  • Commemorating Palestinian Land Day
    palestine-boy_in_field.jpg  For 37 years, March 30 has been celebrated as Palestinian Land Day, a day of action for land rights.  On this date in 1976, Palestinians inside Israel mobilized to protest Israel’s plans to take 2,000 h ...
  • The True Costs of Industrialized Food
    brazil-agrotoxin_poster.jpg The real costs of the industrial food system on people’s lives and the planet are as extensive as they are hidden.  The article below by long-time Grassroots International friends, Beverley Bell and T ...
  • Supporting Women's Rights and Power
    janaina.jpg  “There are thousands upon thousands who weren’t as lucky as I was—I survived hunger....I probably would not have survived had it not been for the support and solidarity of groups like Grassroots International.”  Janai ...

Climate

  • U.S. Plains States Brace for More Wild Weather
    (Reuters) Residents of the central United States braced for a night of nasty weather on Tuesday, with high wind, rain, sleet, hail and possible tornadoes forecast from north Texas through Nebraska. Meteorologists said the stormy weath ...
  • Amid Drought, Water Board in New Mexico Confro ...
    (New York Times) A small water agency in southern New Mexico has moved to force state agencies that control water distribution to deprive some users of their supplies. The local agency, the Carlsbad Irrigation District, or C.I.D., act ...
  • Margaret Thatcher’s Strong Stance on Climate C ...
    (The Daily Climate) Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" of British politics who died Monday at the age of 87, is being lionized as the woman who tilted British domestic and economic policy to the right. Less noted is how seriously she ...
  • Brazil Says Chevron Can Restart Offshore Oil O ...
    (Reuters) Brazil's oil regulator, the ANP, said on Monday that it authorized Chevron Corp to restart output from an offshore oil field more than a year after a November 2011 spill forced the No. 2 U.S. oil company to stop Brazilian pro ...
  • Exxon Ordered to Pay $236 Million for Cleanup ...
    (AP) Exxon Mobil Corp. was found liable Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit over groundwater contamination caused by the gasoline additive MTBE, and the jury ordered the oil giant to pay $236 million to New Hampshire to clean it up. The ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Signs of Hope
    Last night, twelve Republican senators dined with the president at the White House. The dinner was organized by Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia, who the White House thanked after the dinner was over. The attendees, in addition to Isakson, were Marco Rubio (Fla.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Lamar Alexa ...
  • Eddies and Whirlwinds
    I've been thinking a lot over the last three years about some of the less commonly debated effects of the South moving from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican one. Mostly, I've been trying to understand how Southern politicians have remained the same even as they've taken on an entirely di ...
  • So, You Freaked Out
    The White House has a page on their website that discusses their Chained-CPI proposal. I find it a little confusing, but at least some parts of it are clear. First, the offer is contingent on two things. It will be rescinded if the Republicans do not agree to a "package that includes substant ...
  • Beat Up the Black Lady
    The entertainment wing of the Professional Right has been beating up MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry over one of her "Lean Forward" promos. The promo invited controversy, I guess, because Perry talked about a need for people to think about "our children" and support more funding for education. ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Jim Inhofe
    Whether he's being needlessly insensitive and cruel or just making a fool of himself, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma is off to a banner start to his week. Telling the grieving families of Newtown, Connecticut that the gun violence debate in Congress had nothing to do with them is not only fa ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Exploring a Creepy Abandoned Croatian Hospital
    Abandoned hospitals are used as settings in horror movies because of their creepy atmosphere. This location could certainly serve such a purpose. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    There are some serious claims for historic significance in this week’s collection of coolness, while elsewhere other links lend a lighter note to proceedings. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Fascinating Life of Japan's Nine-Fingered ...
    From lowly beginnings as an illegitimate child sold into her profession, via many love affairs and much heartache, the geisha Teruha rose to be head priest of a temple. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Amazing Pictures of Burrowing Owls
    As these photos show, with their large, yellow eyes, long, spindly legs, and underground burrows, Burrowing Owls are an unusual species indeed. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From lone survivors of airline disasters to business icons who bounced back from the sack, it's a mesmerizing mix of miscellany. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #829
    Irish police responds to claims of IRA collusion. How CIA spy Raymond Davis helped turn Pakistan against the US. New book explains CIA shift from spying to killing.
  • Pakistan secretly helped CIA drone strikes (ac ...
    For many years, Pakistan’s main spy agency secretly helped the United States launch hundreds of unmanned drone strikes on Pakistani soil, while the government in Islamabad publicly denounced them as infringements on its sovereignty. The US-based McClatchy news agency said on Tuesday it had uncov ...
  • French spy agency forced Wikipedia volunteer t ...
    A French intelligence agency forced a volunteer for online open-source reference site Wikipedia to delete n entry that allegedly contained classified information about French nuclear defense systems.
  • Ex-CIA analyst says North Korea will launch st ...
    A former senior analyst on North Korea at the United States Central Intelligence Agency believes that the communist state will launch limited strikes against the South before moving to de-escalate the ongoing crisis in the Korean peninsula.
  • Intelligence historian calls on MI6 to declass ...
    An historian whose book on British intelligence prompted the claim of Britain’s complicity in the 1961 assassination Patrice Lumumba has called for MI6 to declassify its secret files on the late Congolese Prime Minister.

War is a Crime.org

  • Come to Syracuse for Regional Anti-Drones Conf ...
    April 26-28!   Resisting Drones, Global War and Empire: A Convergence to Action! Three Days to Join the Resistance!  Three Days of networking, learning, sharing and preparing to build a national movement!  Three Days to say NO! to Drones. NO! to Global Wars. NO! to Empire. At The ...
  • Strong Antiwar-Protest @ Berlin University Aga ...
    http://cooptv.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/massive-antiwar-protest-berlin-university/ Massive Antiwar-Protest @ Berlin University on Wed, April 10 Students shouting down German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière German Defence Minister wanted to speak at Berlin’s Humboldt University on the role of ...
  • TSA worker: “But Hawaii is a foreign country!”
    Luckily (or unluckily) for us, the TSA is just a security puppet show, not real security. We took care of actual security by reinforcing cockpit doors and by coming to understand that passengers will no longer silently submit to would-be attackers. Read about the brilliance of TSA workers as the ...
  • Force-Fed UK Austerity
      Force-Fed UK Austerity   by Stephen Lendman   Since 2008, America, Britain and other European nations force-fed austerity harshness. Neoliberal and imperial priorities take precedence.    Bankers, war profiteers, other corporate favorites, and privileged elites alone b ...
  • Deplorable Bahraini Human Rights Abuses Continu
      Deplorable Bahraini Human Rights Abuses Continue   by Stephen Lendman   In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. In mid-February 2011, major ones erupted. Bahrainis want democracy. They want King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalif's repressive regime replaced.   read more

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables a ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976, which they have dubbed “The Kissinger Cables,” after Henry Kissinger, who in those years served as secretary of state and assistant ...
  • Amy Goodman's "Other" America: Interview with ...
    In a wide-ranging conversation, Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now! tells Moyers & Company‘s Michael Winship why she believes independent media is essential to a functioning democracy. Click here to listen and read highlights from the interview to the interview. ...
  • Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian R ...
    Part two of our interview with Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. Christiane Amanpour has described her as "one of the greatest truth-seekers of them all." Amira Hass recently suffered a ...
  • Former Animal Rights Prisoner on Ag-Gag Laws, ...
    As efforts grow to target activists who expose animal abuse, we speak to Andrew Stepanian who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2006 for violating a controversial law known as the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Stepanian and several others were jailed for their role in a campaign to ...
  • Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Criminalization of Cybe ...
    In part two of our conversation, Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir talks about why she decided to come to the United States at a time when a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, is investigating WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Jonsdottir, a former WikiLeaks volunteer, also talks about ...

Solari

  • Solari Stories – A State of Amusement
  • Transcript of “Exit the Matrix with Jon Rappop ...
    Transcript of Exit the Matrix with Jon Rappoport is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: The people who have seriously taken on the exercises and really – because to me, the imagination is like a muscle. If you don’t exercise it, it atrophies. So the people who have real ...
  • Teacher’s Resignation Letter: ‘My Profession … ...
    by Valerie Strauss Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they have had enough. Here is one resignation letter from a veteran teacher, Gerald J. Conti, a social studies teacher at Westh ...
  • Hedge Funds Wagering on Fannie-Freddie Reincar ...
    By Katherine Burton, Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn Investors including hedge funds are buying the preferred stock of government-controlled mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a long-shot bet they will have a future as private companies. Fannie Mae’s 8.25 percent of preferred shares have mor ...
  • Subscriber Lunch in Portland
    If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and lunch with Catherine. This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with other Solari Report subscribers in your area. Catherine will be in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, April 27.

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • INTERVIEW: Freeman Thomas, Director of Strateg ...
    In just a few hours we'll be kicking off Design with a Conscience, a live webcast panel discussion where visionary California architects and automotive designers will be talking about the intersection of car and building design and how conscious design can    
  • Westpol’s Sunken Observation Deck Brings Visit ...
    A winding trail leads through the landscaped greenery and down a gradual ramp along the pond’s edge. As visitors proceed down the ramp, the water’s edge becomes higher and higher, as they descend down the ramp and into the observation area. At its peak    
  • MAD Completes Stunning China Wood Sculpture Mu ...
    Located across from a park and backed by a dense neighborhood and buildings, the China Wood Sculpture Museum is a long, low volume. As with many of MAD's projects, the form is organic and flows like a liquid frozen in time. The Beijing-based firm wanted to    
  • Spent Nuclear Fuel Could Be Used to Sterilize ...
    Photo via Shutterstock For decades, engineers have been looking for something to do with spent nuclear waste other than letting it just sit in a repository. There are 104 nuclear reactors in the country with tons of old fuel just waiting to find a purpose.    
  • Forecasters Predict “Above Average” Hurricane ...
    Photo of Lower Manhattan © Iwan Baan The Gulf Coast and Atlantic states should brace themselves, as forecasters predict that 2013’s hurricane season may be above average. Experts at Colorado State University predict eighteen tropical storms for this    

Pogue's Posts

  • The HTC One Deserves Its Place in the Spotlight
    HTC should grab the headlines with its newest phone, the One — the most beautiful Android phone you've ever seen.
  • Hurrahs and Harrumphs for T-Mobile
    Many readers are thrilled by T-Mobile’s new policies. But there is, as always, a sizable crowd who object.
  • Great April’s Fools Pranks From Around t ...
    It's April Fool's Day, and companies from Google to Virgin Atlantic have put up great jokes on the Web. Check out Nokia's new line of microwave ovens and Twitter's decision to eliminate all vowels on its free service to pack more information into those 140-character messages.
  • An Easy Way to Capture Live Video of Your iPho ...
    A $13 program called Reflector transmits the video image from your iPhone, iPod or iPad to your Macintosh or PC for easy recording or projecting. It's a great help for anyone making videos or trying to conduct a presentation.
  • Addressing Fears About LED Light Bulbs
    A column about LED light bulbs generated a lot of reader e-mail, probably because LED represents change. And change is always scary. David Pogue addresses some reader concerns.

The Progressive Realist

  • NNSA Nuclear Weapons Budget Ignores Fiscal Rea ...
    The Barack Obama administration’s fiscal year 2014 budget request proposes spending $7.87 billion for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Weapons Activities, which would be an increase of $654 million, or nine percent above the 2012 enacted level, and $300 million more than the ...
  • The End of the Fayyad Era?
    AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Since becoming secretary of State, indeed even during his confirmation hearings, John Kerry has made it clear that he places high priority on achieving a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has spent the first months ...
  • Why Aren’t the Sochi Olympics Moderating Russi ...
    With the Sochi Olympic Games in 2014 approaching, Russia is regressing on human rights. In the last two years, it has increased its rate of harassing human rights activists, declined to prosecute violence against journalists (one of whom recently died from his injuries), and instigated a massive ...
  • John Kerry's Middle East Mystery Tour
    AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool The mysterious Mr. Kerry has come to the Middle East and gone. The secretary of State promises to return soon, but does not tell us exactly when. In Jerusalem and Ramallah, he says, he listened to leaders' suggestions for restarting peace talks. He does not say ...
  • To Wolfowitz, Iraq Was Just a Chance for the U ...
    Andrew Bacevich's Letter to Paul Wolfowitz at Harper's has been generating significant attention. Bachevich reminds us that Wolfowitz was a protégé of nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter, who believed states should act to prevent war, not just react to aggression. At one point, Bacevich writes ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • California Fights Back
    Last fall, California voters were confronted with two major and hotly-contested ballot measures—Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal (Proposition 30) to raise taxes on the rich to end the state’s chronic budget shortfalls, and a conservative initiative (Proposition 32) which would have curtailed uni ...
  • Left Behind
    Social conservatives are getting awfully worried about this new push in the Republican Party to modernize, sideline the knuckle-draggers who can't help but offer their opinions on the functioning of ladyparts, show minorities that they don't hate them, and find a way to appeal to young people. ...
  • The End of the Fayyad Era?
    AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Since becoming secretary of State, indeed even during his confirmation hearings, John Kerry has made it clear that he places high priority on achieving a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has spent ...
  • John Kerry's Middle East Mystery Tour
    AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool The mysterious Mr. Kerry has come to the Middle East and gone. The secretary of state promises to return soon, but does not tell us exactly when. In Jerusalem and Ramallah, he says, he listened to leaders' suggestions for restarting peace talks. He does ...
  • Bi-Partisanship We Don’t Need
    John Boehner, Speaker of the House, revealed why it’s politically naive for the president to offer up cuts in Social Security in the hope of getting Republicans to close some tax loopholes for the rich. “If the President believes these modest entitlement savings are needed to help shore up thes ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • White Supremacists Arrested in Tennessee Murde ...
    Two white supremacists are in custody and two more are being sought in the beating death in Tennessee of a volunteer firefighter who authorities say was affiliated with the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations. At least one of the four suspects is reportedly a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a prison-based, ...
  • American Renaissance Speakers Call for White H ...
    Over 150 white nationalists gathered yesterday at Montgomery Bell State Park outside Nashville, Tenn., for the American Renaissance conference. This year’s event featured new speakers and a noticeably younger audience, with half the crowd raising their hands after Jared Taylor, emcee of the even ...
  • Major White Nationalist Conference Opens in Te ...
    Jared Taylor, the man behind the racist American Renaissance journal that is at the heart of the white nationalist movement, kicks off his latest annual conference tonight at Montgomery Bell State Park, just outside Nashville, Tenn. This is the second year the event has been held at the park, af ...
  • Charges Dropped Against Most Defendants in Ame ...
    Criminal charges have been dropped against nine of 13 people arrested last year in Florida for allegedly participating in paramilitary training with the American Front, described by authorities as a well-armed, militia-style white supremacist group. Only its leader, Marcus Faella, 39, still face ...
  • Army Charges Alleged Terror Ring Leader With M ...
    Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, the alleged ringleader of a murderous antigovernment group, was charged today by the United States Army with killing his wife, who was several months pregnant when she was found dead in their home on the Fort Stewart military base in Georgia nearly two years ago. The 21-year- ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 'Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, D ...
    This Saturday, April 13, 2013 at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: "Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law" "Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law" is an conference Saturday April 13, 2013, at Harvard Law School organized by t ...
  • Military Decrees Media Access is a Privilege, ...
    Announcing new restrictions on the press covering Bradley Manning’s court-martial trial at Fort Meade, MD, a military spokesperson said, “This media operation center is a privilege, not a requirement. Privileges can be taken away.” She also announced that cell phones would no l ...
  • Obama Administration Caves to Poultry Industry ...
    “The Obama Administration’s proposed cuts to the FY 2014 budget for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) pave the way for an ill-conceived proposal to remove government inspectors from slaughter facilities and turn over their responsibilities to company-paid employe ...
  • Federal Pipeline Safety Vacuum Magnifies Risks
    In a week witnessing three major pipeline spills, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the entity supposed to be our first line of defense, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), is not up to the task. The size of the gap between what it is supposed to do and wh ...
  • Judge Refuses to Dismiss Pelican Bay Solitary ...
    Last night, a federal judge rejected the State of California’s attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California’s notorious Pelican Bay prison. The case was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and partners on behalf of ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Just a Few Reasons Why a Democratic Senate Hop ...
    Jamie Henn Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA)A year ago, Rep. Stephen Lynch was an ardent supporter for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Now, he just seems confused.read more
  • New Documents Suggest IRS Reads Emails Without ...
    Nathan Freed Wessler Everyone knows the IRS is our nation’s tax collector, but it is also a law enforcement organization tasked with investigating criminal violations of the tax laws.read more
  • Where's the Change?
    Jeff Faux (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)The Democratic Party’s long-term prospects have dramatically improved since the November election. They will control the White House for another four years. The Republicans, who lost the total vote for ...
  • The Madness of NYT’s Tom Friedman
    Robert Parry When ranking which multi-millionaire American pundit is the most overrated, there are, without doubt, many worthy contenders, but one near the top of any list must be the New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman – with hi ...
  • Drone World
    Robert C. Koehler (Image: deviantart.com)In the not so distant future, America’s skies will be full of . . . drones. What could go wrong?read more

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Obama urges North Korea to end aggression as U ...
    Pentagon concludes that North Korea does have nuclear technology but president maintains 'strategic patience' approachBarack Obama called on North Korea to end what he described its "belligerent approach" on Thursday as US intelligence officials concluded for the first time that the country has ...
  • Basel v Tottenham – live! | Jacob Steinberg
    Minute-by-minute report: Will Spurs make it through to the semi-finals? Jacob Steinberg has the latest newsJacob Steinberg     
  • Thatcher funeral's military pomp raises concer ...
    Questions raised over appropriateness of such a divisive figure being escorted on her final journey by military honours Ken Livingstone: throw out the myths about Margaret Thatcher Russell Brand: I always felt sorry for her children Gary Younge: the Iron Lady is dead but Thatcherism lives on M ...
  • KPMG partner's stock tips earned golf buddy $1m
    Former senior partner Scott London charged by US authorities with insider dealingUS authorities have charged a former KPMG partner with insider dealing after he admitted giving his golfing buddy share tips in exchange for cash, jewellery and $25,000 worth of concert tickets.Scott London, a senio ...
  • Thatcher's funeral: VIPs, celebrities and worl ...
    Three ex-PMs and four former US presidents on guest list, but Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan too ill to attendMore than 2,000 politicians, dignitaries and celebrities – from Tony Blair to Terry Wogan, Jeremy Clarkson to FW de Klerk, and Jeffrey Archer to Shirley Bassey – will attend the funeral of L ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban gunmen kill Pakistani election candidate
    KARACHI, Pakistan -; Officials say Taliban gunmen on a motorcycle killed a candidate running in Pakistan's upcoming elections whose party opposed the ...
  • Tajik president fears instability after NATO A ...
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Tajikistan is deeply concerned about instability after foreign troops withdraw from neighbouring Afghanistan, Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon said on Thursday. Afghanistan is to hold presidential elections in April 2014 as most foreign combat troops will be preparing to with ...
  • Karzai briefs Senate on security pact
    U.S. President Barack Obama listens as Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai makes a point during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 11, 2013. The two leaders agreed that U.S. troops would be moving to a support role this spring. UPI/Pat ...
  • Story changes Diplomat now said to be on foot ...
    This undated photo provided by Tom Smedinghoff, shows Anne Smedinghoff, who was killed April 6, 2013 in southern Afghanistan, the first American diplomat to die on the job since last year's attack on the US diplomatic installation in Benghazi, ...
  • Combined Force in Kandahar Arrests Taliban Leader
    From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, April 11, 2013 A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader and detained another insurgent in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province today, military ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • CISPA Amendment Proves Everyone's Fears Were J ...
    The single biggest criticism of CISPA is that it could be used by the federal government in a way that infringes on people's privacy, allowing government agencies, including the NSA, to sift through the private data of American citizens with little to no oversight. It's pretty obvious why that f ...
  • Fox Sends Cease & Desist Letters To Firefly Fa ...
    As a whole bunch of you sent in, via a variety of different sources, apparently a maker of "Jayne hats" from the cult TV show Firefly has received a cease & desist letter from the legal attack dogs at Fox, just as an "authorized" version has shown up for sale on Thinkgeek and other sites. ...
  • Paul Hansmeier Pops Up In Prenda Law Defamatio ...
    Ah, the twists and turns of Prenda Law cases. While much of the focus has been on the big showdown in California, there are also the infamous defamation cases. As you may recall, three separate lawsuits were filed in state courts against Alan Cooper (John Steele's caretaker, who has accused St ...
  • St. Louis' Washington University: Free Speech ...
    For some reason, institutes of higher education seem to have the urge to treat budding adults as guileless children, proactively covering their ears and eyes lest something offensive rear its ugly head and slap them soundly right in their shielded sensibilities. Critical thinking is a skill that ...
  • Apple Bows To Chinese Censorship Demands
    It isn't news that Apple's app store is a garden with some mighty high, awfully arbitrary walls. Whether Apple is rejecting developer's apps on the grounds of profanity or subject matter, the fact is that the reasoning for these takedowns is a thinly veiled form of what I call "Apple morality". ...

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

  • Video: Mark Mazzetti on CIA’s post-9/11 move f ...
  • Classified reports raise doubts about the lega ...
    McClatchy reports: Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in P ...
  • Has the CIA used drones to engaged in contract ...
    Rolling Stone: In a major story in Sunday’s New York Times, national security reporter Mark Mazzetti details the troubling origins of the CIA’s targeted killing program in Pakistan – which he says began in 2004 with the killing of one of that country’s internal enemies, not a m ...
  • Drone war causing suffering on unprecedented s ...
    AFP reports: After nine friends and relatives were killed in a US drone strike four years ago, Mohammed Fahim took tranquillisers to blot out the nightmares. The 19 year-old is one of a growing number of Pakistanis living in the tribal areas on the Afghan border who has suffered from conditions ...
  • How Margaret Thatcher fueled the conflict in I ...
    Gerry Adams writes: Margaret Thatcher was a hugely divisive figure in British politics. Her right wing politics saw Thatcher align herself with some of the most repressive and undemocratic regimes in the late 20th century – including apartheid South Africa and Chile’s Pinochet. Her description o ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Michael Mann says climate models cannot explai ...
    Ice core data shows CO2 levels changed less than 10 parts per million from 1600-1800 during the MWP. From the Hockey Schtick:  A new paper from Schurer et al (with Mann as co-author) finds that climate “models cannot explain the warm … Continue reading →
  • Those who don’t learn from Yamal, are co ...
    You’d think academics in the upside down Mann climate proxy world would pay attention, and not repeat the same mistakes of the past. Apparently not. WUWT readers surely recall the Yamal YAD06 (The most influential tree in the world) and … Continue reading →
  • Evidence for a Global Medieval Warm Period
    From CO2Science: Medieval Warm Period (Antarctica) — Summary Was there a Medieval Warm Period somewhere in the world in addition to the area surrounding the North Atlantic Ocean, where its occurrence is uncontested? This question is of utmost importance to … Continue reading →
  • ENSO Myth 5 – ENSO Only Adds Noise to th ...
    …and We Can Determine its Effects through Linear Regression Analysis, Then Remove Those Effects, Leaving the Anthropogenic Global Warming Signal This is the 5th post in the series about myths and failed arguments about the El Niño-Southern Oscillation—myths that were … Continue reading →
  • Nutri-systems for climate control
    From the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) Ocean nutrients a key component of future change say scientists Variations in nutrient availability in the world’s oceans could be a vital component of future environmental change, according to a multi-author review paper … Cont ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Autism Rate Rises To 1 In 50 Children – Cause ...
    In 2002 the Center for Disease Control estimated that autism affected about 1 in 150 children. By 2012 the CDC estimate had increased to 1 in 88. Now, according to the latest revision of the estimate recently released, autism affects 1 in 50 children. That’s a phenomenal 300 percent increase in ...
  • See-through brain
  • Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Ex ...
    The visible brain has arrived — the consistency of Jell-O, as transparent and colorful as a child’s model, but vastly more useful. Scientists at Stanford University reported on Wednesday that they have made a whole mouse brain, and part of a human brain, transparent, so that networks of neurons ...
  • Painted turtle gets DNA decoded
    Scientists have decoded the genome of the western painted turtle, one of the most abundant turtles on Earth, finding clues to their longevity and ability to survive without oxygen during long winters spent hibernating in ice-covered ponds. Understanding the natural mechanisms turtles use to prot ...
  • Study Points to New Culprit in Heart Disease
    Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic, who led the study, and his colleagues had accumulated evidence for a surprising new explanation of why red meat may contribute to heart disease. And they were testing it with this early morning experiment. The researchers had come to believe that what d ...

CFACT

  • Reports show global temperatures leveling off
    Climate change skeptics are doing a bit of gloating following a series of mainstream media reports that acknowledge what those skeptics have long held -- the earth is not warming, at least not in the last 10 years.
  • State lawmakers are stalling on renewables man ...
    Lawmakers in states across the nation are thinking twice about policies that drive up the cost of power. In fact, according to a recent report, fourteen states with renewable energy mandates are currently considering laws that repeal of significantly roll back provisions that require utilities t ...
  • EPA regulations damaging economy
    As the economy limps along, many are wondering what is stymieing economic growth. Dr. Tom Borelli from the National Center for Public Policy Research credits the EPA as one of the chief problems, and here explains why... [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5102.mp3]
  • Rush Limbaugh touts Climate Depot
    Rush Limbaugh praised CFACT's Marc Morano and Climate Depot on the air yesterday.
  • Rocking down to Portland’s new Electric Avenue
    In the early 80’s, one popular song said “We’re gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we’ll take it higher.” Now, some 30 years later, one Pacific Northwest city has a real Electric Avenue... [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5101.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Chelsea Battle Past Tenacious Rubin in Europa ...
    A never-say-die performance from Rubin Kazan tested Chelsea Thursday as the Londoners secured their place in the Europa League semifinals, losing 3-2 in Moscow but going through 5-4 on aggregate.    
  • Russia Must Be Ready to Face Military Threats ...
    The Russian industrial complex must be ready to mobilize quickly in case of a potential regional or global conflict, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.    
  • Oligarch Politician Blasts Religion Lessons in ...
    Russian billionaire-turned-politician Mikhail Prokhorov said on Thursday that religious lessons, introduced last year in Russian schools, threaten the principles of a secular state.    
  • Beaver Kills Man in Belarus
    Putting the “wild” in “wildlife,” an aggressive beaver in western Belarus attacked a local fisherman, biting him so hard that the man bled to death.    
  • Moscow Alarmed by Al Qaeda’s Interest in Syria
    Moscow is concerned by al Qaeda’s growing interest in Syria, fearing that the international terrorist organization is seeking to turn the country into its Mideast base, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.    

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia’s ISS Crew Devotes Record Time to Science
    Cosmonauts who completed their mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-March devoted a record 33 percent of their work time to conducting scientific experiments, a space official said on Thursday.    
  • Chile-Based Telescope Captures Star’s Death
    Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released what they call an “unusually good picture” of a star 3,300 light years from Earth taken by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, that is putting on a show of color and light as it dies.    
  • ‘Secretbook’ – New Tool Encodes Hidden Message ...
    Maybe Facebook doesn’t know everything. A new tool lets anyone using Google’s Chrome internet browser embed secret messages in photos uploaded to the sprawling social network, keeping them out of reach of outsiders, including governments and Facebook itself.    
  • US Museum to Show Chelyabinsk Meteorite Chunks
    Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History has obtained 234 pieces of the meteorite that slammed into Russia’s Urals region in February from a donation by meteorite collector Terry Boudreaux, the museum has said on its website.    
  • Belarus, Russia to Create New Satellite Grouping
    Belarus and Russia are planning to set up an advanced civilian satellite grouping, Pyotr Vityaz, a spokesman for the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences, said on Tuesday.    

Pruning Shears

  • Troika's plan for Cyprus: destroy the village ...
    The economic crisis in Cyprus began with a depressingly familiar story: bank gambles on risky debt, loses its bet, goes bust and needs a bailout. It very quickly took what was to me1 a bewildering turn: Instead of a central bank cranking up the money printing machines until smoke billowed from ...
  • Most recent vintage of eulogies for rock music ...
    I’m a big rock music fan, so a couple recent articles on it have stuck with me. The first was from a couple weeks ago, and for the life of me I can’t track it down now. The gist of it was that the era of great guitarists is passing. The most celebrated are all old in rock and roll ...
  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...
  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Help Us Find the Top Ten ‘Right-to-Know’ Grocers!
    We all know which companies and brands spent millions last year in California to defeat our right to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We’ve outed them, criticized them and boycotted them. Now it’s time to support those companies, large and small, that do support our right to kno ...
  • Rachel Parent: A Young Activist Fights for GMO ...
    Rachel Parent is a 13-year-old activist who believes we have the right to know what we are eating. In 2012, she founded the Kids Right to Know Walk to pressure our government to label genetically modified foods (GMOs). Click here to read this article
  • Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement is ...
    Harvesting Justice isn't just a roundup of the world's most exciting food justice groups-it's also a knockout organizing tool. Click here to read this article
  • A Dismissal Raises Questions About Objectivity ...
    The politics of genetically modified food has created a rift in a policy-setting committee of the influential Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that demonstrates the difficulty in finding anyone - anywhere - who doesn't already have an opinion on the issue. Click here to read this article
  • How America Breeds Mental Illness from Birth U ...
    The over-diagnosis and over-prescription that dominates the mental health care scene in the US contributes to a system that is better at producing disorders than fixing them. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Why you should care about the Agricultural Cer ...
    Last week, an Agricultural Certainty Bill was approved by the Maryland House and is now making its way through the state Senate.  Although the word “agriculture” takes it off most of our radars, this bill is as important to city dwellers as to the farming community. Here’s why we, the non-farmer ...
  • Want to make food more affordable? Boost worke ...
    The incipient food movement should make common cause with a potentially resurgent labor movement, and attack the affordability problem by improving working people’s buying power rather than trying to further depress the price of food.
  • CLF Week in Links: Bees, Monsanto, Free Trade ...
    Sadly, President Obama signed the bill protecting Monsanto, further tarnishing the environmental record of his administration.
  • State agencies sometimes send mixed messages t ...
    Each state has an agency that advises people not to consume certain recreationally caught fish, because of health concerns. Each state also has an agency that aims to prevent certain species from being overfished. Unfortunately, in many cases these two agencies are sending mixed messages to the ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Rivers, Slow Food, ADUFA, a ...
    Rep. Louise Slaughter (D–NY) said, “This study ends any debate. The extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock is endangering human health."

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administr ...
    The reports, obtained by McClatchy, show targeted assassinations go beyond Al Qaida leaders. Several drone victims died in what appeared to be attacks carried out based on a signature pattern of behavior, rather than a known identity. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't &nb ...
  • Hormones and Nitrites and Antibiotics, Oh My!!
    There is a culpable group of individuals whove made their livelihood from perpetuating various myths about what a healthy diet ought to be. Lets consider the subjects of antibiotics, nitrites, and antibiotics in meat . Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it ...
  • The Elephant in the Room: Militarism | Alternet
    Its arguably our countrys biggest problem and the mainstream media won't acknowledge it exists. Submitted by Wild Thang to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 'War on Whistleblowers' Investigation Exposes ...
    Two of the most powerful and secretive Washington power centers ran amok after 9/11 and declared war on a handful of whistleblowers who went to press to expose lies, fraud and abuses that meant life or death for troops and spying on millions of Americans Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Autism and Learning Disabilities: The Top 10 P ...
    There is a huge gap in the research into the increase in autism and the 80,000 chemicals in use in our society today, only 200 of which have been examined by the EPA. Submitted by Marty Kassowitz to Environment  |   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

  • Terminator Seeds and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
    Why is it that people are spreading the word that the Terminator seed is being marketed by Monsanto? Could it possibly be that the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” strategy is being used to pave the way for Monsanto to release this technology on a complacent populace?
  • New GMO Gene Silencing Technology – Backdoor T ...
    An unregulated GM technology is ready to replace the old, and this technology appears to be exactly what is needed for implementation of the Terminator.
  • Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
    Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.
  • The Last Heirloom Seed
    I am the last of my kind. That last of the truly pure here on earth. I have struggled long and hard to maintain my integrity, as did all of my brothers and sisters in a war we did not start, but were force into. In this war, we have been systematically overtaken by hostile genetically engineered ...
  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Privacy protections booted from CISPA data-sha ...
    ShareThisPrivacy protections booted from CISPA data-sharing bill 10 Apr 2013 A controversial data-sharing bill won the approval of a key congressional committee today without privacy amendments, raising concerns that the National Security Agency and other spy agencies will gain broad access to ...
  • Gunman Attacks Police Officer Guarding Polio W ...
    ShareThisGunman Attacks Police Officer Guarding Polio Workers in Pakistan 11 Apr 2013 A gunman shot and killed one policeman and wounded another on Wednesday as they provided security for a team of polio 'eradication' health workers in northwestern Pakistan, according to government officials. Th ...
  • Obama's drone war kills 'others,' not just al ...
    ShareThisObama's drone war kills 'others,' not just al Qaida leaders 09 Apr 2013 Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of 'al Qaida' and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pak ...
  • Margaret Thatcher's funeral to involve 700 arm ...
    ShareThisMargaret Thatcher's funeral to involve 700 armed forces personnel --Pallbearers will be from units associated with Falklands war, Downing Street announces 10 Apr 2013 More than 700 armed forces personnel drawn from all three services will take part in the funeral of Lady Thatcher, Down ...
  • U.S. stock rally lifts S&P 500 to intraday record
    ShareThisU.S. stock rally lifts S&P 500 to intraday record 10 Arp 2013 U.S. stocks climbed Wednesday, lifting the S&P 500 index to an intraday record of 1,576.46, after the release of minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting did not spark fears that the central bank would slow its m ...

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: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Come to Jamaica - Mon!
    09 April 2013 Crystal clear A good friend—who is a young former Marine Captain and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan—was taking a break from grad school when he headed to Jamaica. I emailed asking how his vacation went.  His answer…is a trip.  My friend's letter has been edited so that ...
  • Ammunition Atmospheric in America
    04 April 2013 I posed a question on Facebook about ammunition availability across the United States.  About 150 answers have come in so far: My Facebook Page
  • Stalking Soldier Arrested, Disarmed by Texas P ...
    28 March 2013 US Army Master Sergeant CJ Grisham: This Soldier has a Top Secret clearance. Over the past couple of years, I repeatedly warned the US Army that Master Sergeant Christopher “CJ” Grisham is a lethal threat.  These warnings were ignored. Grisham has harassed a long list of pe ...
  • Tragedy in Thailand
    27 March 2013 Burma neighbors Thailand on the west.  For 65 years, a war against and between ethnic groups in Burma has been on.  The conflicts created many internally displaced refugees, while others have crossed into Thailand.  Thailand has allowed this incursion for humanita ...
  • USAF and American Flags Atop Mt. Everest
    25 March 2013 Written by: Rob Marshall Family and Friends, I've been meaning to write this email for some time now.  I thought it would be better to hold off until the big event was close, but I didn't expect it to be just a few days away when I sent this!  As you can tell, I'm about ...

The Killing Train

  • To break a siege: A review of Nirmalangshu Muk ...
    [First published at kafila.org] http://kafila.org/2013/04/03/to-break-a-siege-justin-podur/#more-17722 This is a review by JUSTIN PODUR of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege (Pluto Press 2012) read more
  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...
  • Why the Taliban is unlikely to win
    KABUL – Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai two days ago. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the open. Ultimatel ...
  • Kerry in Kabul
    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a joint press conference in Kabul this evening. There were three main issues discussed. The first was an agreement for the US Forces to make a phased withdrawal from Wardak province. Announced five days ago, Wardak has been ...
  • Foreign-imposed ideologies and report wars
    It's raining in Kabul so I spent a quiet day indoors, reading and watching television, surfing the 30 some Afghan channels. Yesterday the winner of Afghan Star (basically Afghan Idol), Sajed Jannati, sang a song for New Year's. Another New Year's concert took place today, and the singer was Farz ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Debt Domination & the Crisis in Cyprus Cyprus is in the midst of a troublesome bailout deal, buying large amounts of bad bank debts and handing the bill to the population to pay for with reduced standards of living and increased exploitation. This is the nature of the ‘debt crisis&#82 ...
  • The Latest Threats to Life as We Know It
    “American sovereignty hasn’t faced a legitimate foreign threat to its existence since the British in 1812.” Last month numerous foreign-policy commentators marked the tenth anniversary of the fateful American bombing and invasion of Iraq. Those who condemned the appalling devastation of the Iraq ...
  • The EyeOpener- Meet the 9/11 Whistleblowers
    There are literally dozens of witnesses and insiders who have attempted to blow the whistle on various aspects of the 9/11 story, but still there are those who argue that the official story must be true because otherwise “someone would have talked.” Given how many people have indeed ...
  • BFP Exclusive: Fethullah Gulen’s New Controver ...
    By Peter Edel In no country has the Fethullah Gülen movement become more of a political issue than in The Netherlands. A television item in 2008 resulted in questions in parliament to the Minister of Social Affairs about a possible negative influence by the movement on the integration of Turks i ...
  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-“Search & Destroy ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Pepe Escobar Investigative journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar joins us to explain what really happened with the so called “surge” in Iraq, how the sectarian violence was fostered to divide and conquer, and what a time bomb Iraq still may be. How did ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Defense Minister Yaalon Rejects Palestinian Pa ...
    Yesterday, I posted the flyer for Friday’s Yom Ha-Zikaron ceremony sponsored by Combatants for Peace.  It is the eighth year in which they’ve offered an event that incorporated the political and national narrative of the suffering and sacrifice of two peoples in this land called Isra ...
  • Combatants for Peace Israeli-Palestinian Memor ...
    One of Israel’s leading peace activist NGOs, Combatants for Peace, holds a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony every year. This year’s event will happen on April 14th in Tel Aviv. Below is a flyer for the event. It is important because it presents an alternative to the wh ...
  • Rabbi Brant Rosen in Seattle
    Brant Rosen Flyer by richards1052 Related PostsMichael Oren to Rally Seattle Jews at “Private Event” Open to Local JewsPort of Seattle Brings Back Christmas Trees, Refuses MenorahSeattle Federation Attack: Pam Waechter Funeral TodaySeattle I-97 Divestment Campaign Against Israeli Occ ...
  • Two Life Terms for American-Jewish Terrorist, ...
    Jack Teitel, the ‘flower’ of American Jewry, has received two life sentence from an Israeli court for his acts of terror against Palestinians, Christian missionaries, gays, Israeli leftists, and even the Israeli police.  This is the final act in a drama that began nearly two decades ...
  • Last of Warsaw Ghetto Survivors Calls for Rebe ...
    On Yom Ha-Shoah, one of the few remaining living survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Chavka Fulman-Raban, delivered a fierce denunciation of evil and injustice, including the Israeli Occupation.  Her speech was offered to guests at the ceremony of Beit Lohamey Ha-Getaot (the Ghetto-Fighters House). ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Behavio Updates the Funf Open-Source Project
    The Behavio team is very happy to announce a major version update to Funf, our open-source mobile sensing framework, accompanied by respective updates to Funf's two user-facing components (Funf Journal and Funf In A Box). In the time since our last major version update (Funf 0.3) last year, w ...
  • OpenNews Revamps Code Sprints; Sheetsee.js Win ...
    Back at the Hacks/Hackers Media Party in Buenos Aires, I announced the creation of Code Sprints -- funding opportunities to build open-sourced tools for journalism. We used Code Sprints to fund a collaboration between WNYC in New York and KPCC in Southern California to build a parser for electio ...
  • Why Media Sites Should Adopt Responsive Design
    Responsive design is the big buzz of 2013. If 2012 was foretold to bring prosperity based on the Chinese zodiac, Mashable's prediction for 2013 forecast a big year for responsive design, presenting a significant paradigm shift in the web design and development world where previously we were rest ...
  • The School of Data Journalism: Europe's Bigges ...
    The International Journalism Festival will take place April 24-27 in Perugia, Italy. We are excited to announce that the School of Data Journalism will be held for the second time at the festival. The workshop will be run by the School of Data team at the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Europe ...
  • How to Embed Open Spending Visualizations In Y ...
    The Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Spending platform is a hive of activity and packed full of colorful displays of spending and budgets from all over the world. Its aim is to help track government and corporate financial transactions across the world and present them in useful and engaging for ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edging Away From Peace - Palestinians: Why Sal ...
    The Fatah leaders are yearning for the days of Yasser Arafat, when they were able to steal international aid earmarked for helping Palestinians. The Palestinians' problem with Fayyad is that he did not sit even one day in an Israeli prison. For them, graduating from an Israeli prison is even mor ...
  • The Digital Edge - Redesigned Material Could L ...
    The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can be modified in a new way to advance future electronics, according to a new study.Chemists at The Ohio State University have developed the technology for making a one-atom-thick sheet of germanium, and found ...
  • Book Review - Interracial Organizing and Labor ...
    I was introduced to District 65, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, in the 1950s, when I was in college and employed part-time as a sales clerk by the Gimbel’s department store in Manhattan. Union membership was required, for which I received benefits, including inexpensive ...
  • The Race for Natural Gas - Will Israel’s Nat ...
    The discovery and development of large natural gas deposits by Israel in the eastern Mediterranean by local and foreign energy companies such as Delek Energy and Noble Energy  has become a game changer for Israel. Up to now, Israel has had to import most of its energy supplies which became ...
  • The Cyber Edge - Business Planning in the Face ...
    In our private lives we can’t always effectively prepare for any emergency or threat scenario, we can try and prepare for a specific and collective threat or to invest in expensive cover plans that may quiet our anxiety, however the real important aspects of our private lives are irreplaceable ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Thatcher The Milk Snatcher Passes Away
    Margaret Thatcher, the most hated British prime minister of the 20th century, died on April 8, 2013. Victims of her vicious 1980s onslaught against the working class refused to show any sorrow over the final demise of the frail 87-year-old after a stroke. Spontaneous exultation broke out across ...
  • The Media In Overdrive: Thatcher And The Trium ...
    How a senior BBC presenter can sit there and not challenge someone who says the debate about socialism/capitalism is ended because capitalism has proved to be successful may well be beyond the thought process of some people. Successful for whom? For the rich and for millionaire politicians who c ...
  • Hearts Of Oak, Men Of Steel And The Iron Lady ...
    Thatcher destroyed the heavy industries and the people who rebuilt post-war Britain. She took their jobs, their pride and their sense of self. There will be no state funeral in their memory. Thatcherism has run in the corridors of power like a baton, passing since she left No 10 from one governm ...
  • Martin Luther King, We Need Your Voice Today! ...
    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., great orator, champion of justice and equality, fearless opponent of war, we need your voice today
  • Probing The Reasons Behind The Changing Pace O ...
    A consensus is emerging among scientists that the rate of global warming has slowed over the last decade. While they are still examining why, many researchers believe this phenomenon is linked to the heat being absorbed by the world’s oceans

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • Appropriate? Mother Jones/David Corn To Receiv ...
    One of the ways the Soviet Union kept its population "in its place" was the continual monitoring of people who disagreed with the freedom grabbing communist system. They would infiltrate dissident groups via what they called agents provocateur pretending "sympathy to the cause", using/distor ...
  • Looks Like A Trend-> Mother Jones' David Corn ...
    Earlier today it was revealed that David Corn, the Mother Jones "reporter" who posted the tape of the Mike McConnell campaign discussion changed some important words in the transcript to make is seem that opposition research was being done by senate staffers while they on the taxpayer payroll. ...
  • LIARS! Mother Jones Edited McConnell Transcrip ...
    Yesterday many liberals seemed to enjoy the part of the Mother Jones wiretap story where it seemed that members of Mitch McConnell's Senate staff were forced to do opposition research while  on the public payroll. For example American Bridge a liberal PAC ...
  • Is Green Energy Turning BROWN? The POWER of POOP
    Have you ever noticed that every time President Obama takes our hard earned money and "invests" it with another green energy company, that business turns to sh*t? Fisker Automotive and Solyndra are great examples of this--but there are many more. Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana goes straigh ...
  • HYPOCRISY: Mother Jones Writer Behind McConnel ...
    The who wrote the paragraph below took a bold stand against the conversations of American Citizens being "listened in on," without their knowledge or consent--even if it is being done because of national security. It's not every day a former deputy attorney general testifies that the Wh ...

Wind Watch

  • Fairhaven official apologizes for turbine &#82 ...
    FAIRHAVEN — In a move that brought some in the audience to tears, Selectmen Chairman Charlie Murphy Tuesday night apologized to residents and called for a meeting of selectmen and the health board to discuss shutting down the town’s two wind turbines at night. Murphy said he hopes to provi ...
  • Tipton imposes wind moratorium
    Tipton County will not accept any new applications for wind farm development through Oct. 1 or until the county’s wind ordinance is amended. Steve Edson, director of the Tipton County Plan Commission, on Monday requested the Tipton County Commissioners vote to temporarily suspend receipt of new ...
  • Etowah Commission says it can’t prevent ...
    GADSDEN, Alabama — Members of the Etowah County Commission today said they cannot keep a Texas-based company from building up to 40 wind turbines in an unincorporated part of the county. “This is a privately-owned company operating on privately-owned property,” said Commissione ...
  • Suit challenges townships’ powers in $12 ...
    ST. JOHNS — The developer of a proposed 39-tower, $120 million wind energy project is suing to prevent three Clinton County townships from enforcing special ordinances that restrict turbines’ height, noise, setbacks and shadow flicker beyond the terms specified in the county’s zoning ordinance. ...
  • Mason County wind farm neighbors sue Consumers ...
    LUDINGTON, MI – Seventeen neighbors of the Lake Winds Energy Park wind farm south of Ludington have sued Consumers Energy Co., alleging that noise, vibrations and flickering lights from its 56 towering turbines are causing sleeplessness, headaches, dizziness and other physical symptoms as well a ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • List of requirements for a digital story designer
    The job title given in the advertisement is “digital news developer.” These are the requirements: College degree Minimum of 2 years programming experience Advanced command of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (including jQuery) Light Ruby or Python for data mining, Web scraping Comfort w ...
  • 10 examples of bespoke article design and scro ...
    Have you been noticing all the pretty sliding/scrolling articles that are popping up around the Internetz? My students think they’re wonderful, and so do I. So let’s look at a roundup of some great ones. Of course we’ll begin with Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Th ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
    This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
    So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
    I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: The danger of McCrory's Bobby Jindal i ...
    N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory wants to privatize the Department of Commerce and the state's Medicaid program, but the experiences of other states like Louisiana that have carried out similar plans point to serious problems. read more
  • Youth unemployment crisis hits South hard
    Young adults face dramatically high rates of unemployment, and the problem is particularly severe in Southern states, which are also grappling with high poverty rates. read more
  • Moving beyond us vs. them: Mayor Landrieu and ...
    The New Orleans mayor is fighting a consent degree aimed at improving the abysmal conditions inside the Orleans Parish Prison, arguing it would adversely affect people who aren't incarcerated. But in a city that incarcerates more of its residents than anywhere else in the world, will this "us vs ...
  • NC attorney general asked to probe possible fr ...
    The environmental advocacy group Food & Water Watch has called on North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate apparent financial conflicts of interest involving state officials responsible for fracking oversight. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The South under the gun
    With a new study showing that weak gun laws lead to higher levels of gun violence, what does that mean for the South, which has some of the nation's loosest gun regulations? read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australian Judge blames society for domestic a ...
    Herald Sun – Justice Betty King has hit out at white Australia over the tragic case of an Aboriginal woman who stabbed her partner to death ending a years long abusive relationship. Veronica Hudson stabbed abusive partner Edward Heron to death on Boxing Day 2011 at a Bendigo caravan park. ...
  • Australia’s Unemployment Rate Jumps to Three-Y ...
    Bloomberg – Australia’s unemployment rate climbed in March to the highest level in more than three years, sending the local dollar and bond yields lower as traders added to bets the central bank will resume interest rate cuts. The jobless rate rose to 5.6 percent from 5.4 percent, the stat ...
  • Italy’s Debt to Rise to Record in 2013 as Rece ...
    Bloomberg – Italy’s debt will reach a postwar record this year as the recession-hit country borrows to contribute to bailouts and pay arrears to suppliers. The public debt will rise to 130.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2013 from 127 percent last year, Prime Minister Mario Monti’s ...
  • Mississippi set to add terrorism to death pena ...
    Associated Press – Mississippi is set to add terrorism to the list of crimes that could lead to the death penalty, if a victim is killed. “The governor intends to sign this public safety measure,” Gov. Phil Bryant’s spokesman, Mick Bullock, told The Associated Press. Miss ...
  • Open Your Eyes News recommends – Flow: F ...
    Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Document ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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  • This time it’s personal. Mortgage fraud, faux- ...
    escraches.jpg The escrache protests in Spain organised by the Platform of Mortgage Victims are quickly getting to the rotten core of a technical government in all but name. Despite the Popular Party&# ...
  • "Start your own local uprising!": an interview ...
    kranj1.jpg This week's episode of The Final Straw features an interview with Ramona, an anarchist activist in Slovenia and member of the Federation for Anarchist Organizing. She speaks about the ...
  • Street parties greet news of Thatcher's death
    BHYKa9PCEAA1HRT[1].jpg Hundreds gather in spontaneous celebrations in Brixton, Glasgow and Easton. In Brixton, hundreds of people took over the street as soundsystems played dub ...
  • Boycott OARS
    This is a call-out to anarchists across the world, asking comrades to break all friendly relations with OARS, the Anarchist Organization for Social Revolution (La Paz, Bolivia). The reasoning is simple: they are snitches, and they ope ...
  • Police represses anti-fascists on the eve of u ...
    At 8:00 a.m. 3rd of April, the officers from the Centre Against Extremism came with a search warrant to 4 adresses of Kazan antifascists. The searches were carried out with clear violations. There was no any documents to substaniate t ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • New Avian Flu Strain Strains U.S. Relations wi ...
    Just as Red China’s barking dog, aka North Korea, is rattling military sabres like never before, a Chinese Red Army “Colonel” is making some very harsh allegations against the United States. He is proclaiming that the latest “Bird Flu” virus – the H7N9 variety ...
  • Saddam Hussein – Thanks For the Memories ...
    Most Americans believe everything they see on the Tel-Lie-Vision.  They don’t feel the need to think for themselves, let alone search for the truth of all things.  They are blissfully ignorant as to how pervasively deep the Edomite-conrolled propaganda machine goes. Here is just ONE dose o ...
  • U.N. Passes Small Arms Treaty
    Listen up, Friends: You must understand, this issue is not about “gun” control – it is all about PEOPLE control. You must also understand the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, signed by the POTUS and then ratified by the Senate supersede and trum ...
  • Proof that the Book of Mormon is Pure Fiction ...
    In the field of modern Quantum Physics, the word ETHER is defined as: “a very rarefied and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space, including the interstices between the particles of matter, and to be the medium whose vibrations constituted light and other electrom ...
  • Apotheosis – Man Becoming God – Th ...
    Apotheosis is a Greek word literally meaning man becoming a God THROUGH HIS WORKS.   This is the ultimate end goal of the Gnostic secret societies since the days of Adam.   Gnosticism literally means secret knowledge.  Why has this knowledge been so “secret” and hidden for thousands ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Less Weight=More Horsepower
      To use a Building as an example: less weight on your Energy Bills equals more Horsepower for your Bank Account! and the same principle can be applied to your Home or Business.   Everyone who has driven a car or truck built in the Late 70s or early 80s knows that gas was cheap-car [...]
  • Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
    Reblogged from Scotts Contracting: Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Cond ...
  • What about Green and Cost Effective Decks?
    Here’s my thoughts Answering : What about Green and Cost Effective Decks?  Asked by: BentonPark West  When I build anything my goals are that the Project will be: Low Maintenance User Friendly Meet any Must Have conditions for the Client Green, Eco Friendly, and Sustainable As far as Lumbe ...
  • DIY Flat Screen TV Mount
    Rather than spend $200 for 2 TV Mounting Brackets.  I fashioned these  Flat Screen TV Mounts for the New Bar Design. Every Design Build Project has a Must Have.  The Must Have for this part of the New Bar Design were: Adjustable Mounting to accommodate future TVs Forward Tilt of TV Screen to acc ...
  • All About Comfort
    Simple Comparison of Clothes to a Buildings Envelope Author:Scotty, Scotts Contracting-StLouis Renewable Energy 4/2/13 If you are reading this I’m going to assume that you aren’t a google bot or bing bot and wear clothes in your daily activities.  You are an actual human being who we ...

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Don't Look at the Man Behind the Curtain
    Lumina’s Building Tomorrow’s Workforce Policy Forum Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (Why now? In this 4th of 6 posts, Weil explains the motives behind the campaign to replace the Master Plan in California that assures a free and unfettered college access for students of all walks of ...
  • Excluding Students Who Don't Fit the Corporate ...
    Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (In number 3 of 6 posts, Weil explains how “undesirable” students will be weeded out, while tuition increases increase student debt loads – and profits for the companies that service them.) Fighting local struggles with an eye on national efforts ...
  • How to Take Over a Community College
    Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the 2nd of 6 guest posts in which Weil describes how the “crisis” stemming from a shrinking global economy is being used as an justification to make previously public community colleges private. He describes important parallels bet ...
  • Time to Stop Community College Privatization
    Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (A week ago, I posted Weil’s three part article about the aggressive campaign by the Gates and Lumina Foundation, in concert with the Obama administration, private for-profit colleges and notable corporate neoliberals, to privatize Santa Monica C ...
  • How Big Corporations Avoid Tax
     A Tax Shelter   Film Review The Tax Free Tour VPRO-Marijee Meerman   The Tax Free Tour is an hour long Dutch documentary (in English) about the highly specialized field of corporate tax avoidance. I found it astounding how many US corporations use overseas tax havens to avo ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...
  • Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun V ...
    These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Pane ...
  • Hold Your Own 10th Anniversary 'Bowling for Co ...
    Please check this page frequently for updates all week This coming Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine' winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary. To mark the date, Michael is hosting a screening of the film in New York City &nda ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Ethanol Lobby Agitates for E15 Mandate
    History of U.S. Ethanol Policy In 1978 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a gasohol waiver that set the maximum legal limit of ethanol in motor gasoline at 10 percent denatured anhydrous ethanol. 27 years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 created a Renewable Fuel S ...
  • Debut of the Wall Street Journal Energy Panel
    Last week I made my debut as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) new feature The Experts: Journal Reports. The idea is that the WSJ poses questions to the panel, and each panel member provides a response of 300 words or so. The first 4 questions that were asked — and ans ...
  • Protesting Keystone XL While Rome Burns
    I started to go with “Fiddling While Rome Burns” in the title, but I know many people who would take great exception to the notion the Keystone XL protesters are fiddling. Indeed, they do not believe they are fiddling. They believe they are standing up for the most important cause of ...
  • First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in U ...
    It will continue to be true that as long as the US government incentivizes these ventures, companies will continue to pursue them. But it is also true, says Robert Rapier, that every gallon of production they make will be produced at a significant per gallon loss.
  • Why Environmentalists are Wrong on Keystone XL
    Bill McKibben and and other protestors are being naive in choosing this particular battle. They won't make any meaningful impact on climate change even if they manage to stop Keystone XL. The reason that is important is that they could be channeling their energy into things that could potentiall ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Nation's 10 Largest Retailers Urged to Dump To ...
    How much do you think your favorite store cares about your health? While some retailers are taking baby steps toward ridding certain products of toxic chemicals, they aren't doing enough, according to a new campaign sponsored by the advocacy group Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. The campai ...
  • Quit the False Debates over Climate Science, S ...
    Ask a scientist whether climate change is our new reality and that we humans are the cause and you'll get a resounding "Absolutely!" Ask a high-school science teacher those same questions and you'll probably get a less-emphatic response. For the past decade, high-school teachers have ...
  • Climate Change to Intensify Airplane Turbulence
    Climate change has an impact on so many aspects of everyday life. It fuels the expansion of pests and diseases like West Nile virus and Lyme disease, promotes intense pollen production that makes allergy sufferers miserable, and now, it seems, climate change will also make airplane travel more ...
  • 7 Things You Need to Know about GMOs
    The average person may not know what the term GMO means but is certainly eating GMOs, and probably at every meal. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are created when scientists take DNA from one species and insert it into another in a way that would never occur naturally. It's a complicated ...
  • A New Reason to Watch Your Fish Intake
    Being choosy at the fish counter could pay off in more ways than you might expect. In addition to leaving the oceans in better shape, choosing sustainably caught, contaminant-free fish could help you stave off diabetes, according to a new study in the journal Diabetes Care. The researchers used ...

big think

  • 'Cause We Got A Great Big (Semi-Autonomous) Co ...
    What's the Latest Development? Earlier this year, a team of researchers in Japan became the latest group to demonstrate the feasibility of truck platooning technology, which involves linking multiple trucks together wirelessly under the command of a single lead truck. The driver of a "dr ...
  • Stephen Hawking: Look Up At the Stars, Not Dow ...
    The British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has had his moments of doubt, about both himself and about the future of the human race.  Hawking was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, 50 years ago. As a result, he told an audience of doctors at a stem cell laboratory yesterday, Hawkin ...
  • Kidney Bean Leaves 1, Bedbugs 0
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at the University of California-Irvine and the University of Kentucky in search of a solution to the recent bedbug problem found themselves looking at kidney bean leaves, which had been used in southeastern Europe for centuries. They found that ...
  • Why Should a Company Invest in Personal Growth?
    The School of Personal Growth is is an offering by Google to help its employees “grow as people.” It offers courses such as "The Neuroscience of Empathy" and "Search Inside Yourself." The main goal of this university is to promote happiness among the employees and allow them to understand ... R ...
  • Transparent Brain Imaging Will Accelerate Rese ...
    The world of neuroscience is abuzz with the news that a new technique has been developed to study brain anatomy in mice. By removing the brain and treating it with chemicals, researchers are able to obtain a transparent view.  This advance was made by the bioengineering lab of Dr. Karl . ...

Information Liberation

  • Video: Disarmed Chicago Shop Owner Reduced to ...
    A shop owner in the slave-city of Chicago was forced to use a stick to fight off an armed robber with a loaded pistol and his criminal partner. It's extremely difficult to legally get guns in the slave-city of Chicago due to their restrictive gun l...
  • Witness Contradicts Cop's Story in Fatal Shoot ...
    After shooting and killing a 15-year-old boy who was pulled over for driving a stolen vehicle, an Arizona DPS officer claimed the teen attempted to run him over, forcing the officer to shoot him in self-defense. Now a witness has come forward contra...
  • A Caveman's Account of "Civilized Society"
    Emblazoned across the lucre-basted exterior of the Internal Revenue Service Building in Washington, D.C., is one of the most intellectually polluted quotes any free mind is ever likely to encounter: *Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.*...
  • How The Market Creates Jobs And The Government ...
    If the media tell us that "the opening of XYZ mill has created 1,000 new Jobs," we give a cheer. When the ABC company closes and 500 jobs are lost, we're sad. The politician who can provide a subsidy to save ABC is almost assured of wide-spread publi...
  • Playing Devil's Advocate - "Why Bitcoin Will C ...
    OK, let me start by saying that I think the general idea of a cryptographic currency is a brilliant one. I can definitely see Bitcoin establishing itself as a major world currency, and basically doing to fiat currencies what email did to the postal s...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The Daily Fail
    Periodically I receive links to stories in the British “tabloid” newspaper, The Daily Mail, from Sciencebase readers. I am yet to see anything in that paper that is worth the ink or electrons. Moreover, I wouldn’t even deem it fit to be torn up into squares and hung from a stri ...
  • Let me introduce Professor Risk and Professor Risk
    I met David Spiegelhalter at a conference a while back, a very engaging and charismatic chap with the real stats and the data to tell you all about true risk. His proper title is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge. He is in two minds literally about play ...
  • H7N9 bird flu
    Is another bird flu on the rise? Report from Nature on H7N9 type A influenza virus and reported outbreak in China. Scientists and public health officials worldwide are on alert after China announced on 31 March that two people had died and a third had been seriously sickened from infections with ...
  • Does eating fish really extend your life?
    NHS Choices critiques tabloid claims for recent research on fishy life extension. “…study has found that higher levels of omega-3 in blood at the start of the study were associated with a 27% reduction in risk of death from any cause, and a 35% reduction in risk of death from heart d ...
  • Buckyball discovery
    Science is often portrayed as a fixed set of rules, impersonal, and devoid of emotions. It is not, as can be seen from the discovery of fullerenes, or more specifically buckminsterfullerene, the molecule that became known as the buckyball and on which I must have written a hundred articles over ...

RFF Library

  • Induced Seismicity and Hydraulic Fracturing fo ...
    Accepted for publication in “Marine and Petroleum Geology” / by Richard Davies, Gillian Foulger, Annette Bindley and Peter Styles http://bit.ly/ZphKkL [Durham University Press Release] A new study of hundreds of thousands of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) operations has found that the proc ...
  • A Summary of Current Climate Change Findings a ...
    World Meteorological Organization http://bit.ly/16cAfyD There is a strong scientific consensus that the global climate is changing and that human activity contributes significantly. This consensus is attested to by a joint statement signed in 2005 by 11 of the world’s leading national science ac ...
  • Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health
    New England Journal of Medicine (April 4, 2013;  v368,  p1335-1343; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1109341) / by Anthony J. McMichael http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1109341 The global scale, interconnectedness, and economic intensity of contemporary human activity are historically unprecedented, ...
  • The Year of Recurring Disasters: A Review of N ...
    Brookings Institution / By: Elizabeth Ferris, Daniel Petz and Chareen Stark http://bit.ly/10S8W9B In this report, Elizabeth Ferris, Daniel Petz and Chareen Stark examine four topics: disasters in 2012, with a focus on recurring disasters; the role of regional organizations in disaster risk manag ...
  • The Energy Visualizer (or eVIZ): Maps/Animates ...
    Socialbomb  and Cousins and Sears for the Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eviz/id618473489 [GreenBiz] Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee, which oversees all U.S. energy sources, have released “eVIZ,” short for Energy ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Stephen Harper Is Hiking Your Water Bill By 30%
    By Kyle Buott Water rates could be going up by 30%. 1 Halifax Water, the publicly owned utility providing water, sewer and wastewater services to most of HRM, has applied to the Utility and Review Board for a major water rate hike. There i ...
  • The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention: Mali ...
    Roger Annis of Canada Haiti Action Network February 22nd episode of Warning Shots Roger Annis the coordinator for the Canada Haiti Action Network talks with Scott Price on the intervention in Mali. Roger covers the context before the interv ...
  • Update on Indigenous Struggles
    Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan Scott Price interviews John Schertow editor\manager\creator of Intercontinental Cry an online news source on indigenous struggles around the world. John will be discussing the Ainu Maori Exchange, the Y ...
  • New Action Group Targets Food Poverty
    VANCOUVER, Coast Salish Territory -  A new group dedicated to ending hunger and malnutrition hit the Vancouver streets today. More than a dozen members of the Neighbourhood Action Food Group gathered outside the BC Social Development Office on Commercial before marching to NDP MLA ...
  • DTES Hunger Strike, Day 19

David Seaton's News Links

  • Maggie
    David Seaton's News LinksMy private theory of Margaret Thatcher is not as kind as most of the opinions expressed in the media. Cutting to the chase. I believe that British industry (Britain "invented" industry and was once the "workshop of the world") if properly reformed and restructured could ...
  • A collection of press snippets
    David Seaton's News LinksI began my journalistic endeavors by simply juxtaposing snippets from the press in an electronic collage, hoping that in the end result the total effect would be more than just the sum of the separate clippings. With the quotes below I return to my origins...According ...
  • My solution to the North Korean crisis
    David Seaton's News Links This is all much simpler than it looks. Dennis Rodman has shown us the way! Here is the secret: Kim Jong Un is secretly in love with the USA and all things American. You'd really have to be madly in love with the idea of America to invite a freak like Dennis Rodman to ...
  • North Korea puts its armed forces on a war footing
    David Seaton's News Links "As we have learnt again and again in this long period of turmoil, the impossible can become inevitable without even passing through improbable." Anatole Kaletsky - The TimesWe seem to be immersed in a period of cumulative disasters, rather similar to the astrological i ...
  • Obama's triumphal entry into Jerusalem... yada ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe US is hoping that Obama's positive first trip will reinvigorate peace efforts, though most settlers are not worried. They see the composition of the new Israeli cabinet as a reassurance that Israeli policy will move away from peace negotiations. Christian Science Mon ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Update on the Manchin-Toomey Background Check Bill
    Ed Kilgore on the prospect for passage of the Manchin-Toomey background check amendment: I've gotten a bit of flack from a progressive friend or two who think I've been insufficiently enthusiastic about Manchin-Toomey. To be clear, I think if it were actually to become law, it would inde ...
  • Raw Data: The Deficit is Shri-i-i-i-nking
    Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride quotes a Goldman Sachs analyst about the rapidly shrinking federal deficit—down from 10.1 percent to 5.7 percent last year, and then down again to 4.5 percent following the fiscal cliff deal—and notes that this hasn't gotten much attention: ...
  • Quote of the Day: On the Usefulness of Stable ...
    From Felix Salmon, on the usefulness of Bitcoin: Bitcoin only works for payments if you can be reasonably sure that its value will remain reasonably steady for at least the next hour or so. Quite so. Two hours would be even better.
  • Republicans Now Officially Opposed to Confirmi ...
    Last week I mentioned that I had once dug into the subject of filling vacancies on the DC Circuit Court. I wanted to find out what the official objection to Obama's nominees was: The party-line answer, it turned out, was pretty straightforward: The DC Circuit doesn't really have a very h ...
  • Immigration Reform About to Finish First Mile ...
    The big sticking point in the Gang of 8 negotiations over immigration reform has been border enforcement. Hardliners want some kind of firm metric that demonstrates a sharp drop in illegal immigration before anyone currently in the country is allowed to apply for citizenship. Reformers general ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...
  • IC 389: Double Agent
    NWFO back together Trolling relationship experts on Twitter Operation Make AskCheyB quit Tiger Woods is a black double agent Hating on Tiger because of adultery Openly gay in the NFL in between homophobia and full support of gays the Fallon Fox/Transgender issue North Korea gotta go The Wolverin ...
  • Best of The Insanity Check: Side Chicks Don’t ...
    The 2nd “Best of the Insanity Check”. Side Chicks Don’t Have Rights: Gloria Allred thinks Tiger Woods owes his side chicks apologies Mel Gibbson’s mixtape,Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel & the “Rules of Ryce” More Mel Gibbson Share with your friends:
  • IC 388: Religious Rapers
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment Great sith council assignment in real life Religious rapers don’t know “No Means No” Door-to-Door Salesmen Savages Part 2 Ford makes a really bad decision with an Ad Teaser for Riddick Upcoming movies Upcoming Video Games BioWare says goodbye ...
  • IC 387: Savages
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment St. Patrick’s Day = White People Get Drunk Day Kriss & Kev don’t like the way GSP fights Greek Soccer Player gets what he deserves The Steubenville rape trial We’re too easy on rapists Men don’t need to be taught not to rape, those ...

Simple Climate

  • Temperature patterns produce perplexing Plioce ...
    Failure to model a climate fingerprint from 5 million years ago thought to be similar to what we can expect in the warmer future must be resolved, say Lafayette College’s Kira Lawrence and University College London’s Chris Brierley
  • Diving deep into ocean data uncovers ‘missing ...
    Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven’t been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps explain current surprisingly slow surface warming, and invalidates simple climate models.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
    In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.

e!Science News

  • Scientists create phantom sensations in non-am ...
    The sensation of having a physical body is not as self-evident as one might think. Almost everyone who has had an arm or leg amputated experiences a phantom limb: a vivid sensation that the missing limb is still present. A new study by neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows ...
  • Despite what you may think, your brain is a ma ...
    The irony of getting away to a remote place is you usually have to fight traffic to get there. After hours of dodging dangerous drivers, you finally arrive at that quiet mountain retreat, stare at the gentle waters of a pristine lake, and congratulate your tired self on having "turned off y ...
  • Scientists use nature against nature to develo ...
    A new broad range antibiotic, developed jointly by scientists at The Rockefeller University and Astex Pharmaceuticals, has been found to kill a wide range of bacteria, including drug-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria that do not respond to traditional drugs. The antibiotic, Epimerox, targ ...
  • Goosefish capture small puffins over deep wate ...
    A recent study has shown that bottom-dwelling goosefish, also known as monkfish, prey on dovekies, a small Arctic seabird and the smallest member of the puffin family. To understand how this deep-water fish finds a shallow-feeding bird in offshore waters, researchers looked at when, where, and h ...
  • 'Sustainable fishing' certification too lenien ...
    The certification of seafood as "sustainable" by the nonprofit Marine Stewardship Council is too lenient and discretionary, a study by a consortium of researchers has found. read more

unEarthed

  • ConocoPhillips Surrenders on Arctic Ocean Drilling
    Big Oil company won't drill in 2014, following Shell's lead The Arctic is home to a rich variety of marine life, such as beluga whales. Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visi ...
  • Sen. Lautenberg Introduces Toxic Chemical Overhaul
    Senator's eighth attempt to replace outdated TSCA law Sen. Lautenberg: "It’s time to break away from the chemical industry lobbyists and listen to concerned parents, pediatrician ...
  • Confirming a New Boss at EPA
    Gina McCarthy is a sound choice for the job McCarthy will be a vital player in the effort to protect our families and environment.  (EPA) This week a Sen ...
  • Friday Finds: Flying High on Flame Retardants
    Plus: Climate changes coffee and oil industry handouts Studies have shown that airline cabins contain high levels of flame retardants. Photo courtesy of chinaoffseason (Flickr) ...
  • Wave Heights Will Wane From Climate Change
    Study predicts a decrease in the size of surf Photo courtesy of Dunedin NZ (Flickr) “Surf’s up!” These two words have sparked countless scenes of surfers wor ...

Brave New Climate

  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...
  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...
  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
  • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
    In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...
  • Two decades and counting…
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • From tear gas to rubber-coated steel bullets: ...
    This week: Solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, opposition to Yair Lapid, preserving Tel Aviv’s beaches, resisting the occupation’s obstacles, Tel Aviv’s ‘Slutwalk’, and the targeting of a Palestinian photographer.               ...
  • Rightists say bring down the Wall, leftists sa ...
    Noted right-wingers call to demolish the separation wall. True, they are driven by a desire for annexation, but the Left finds itself in an unseemly position – defending one of the great injustices of the occupation in the name of the distant prospect of two states.  Former Defense Ministe ...
  • Liberal Zionism at 65: Fantasy and reality
    Liberal Zionism has had 65 years to prove Israel can indeed be both a Jewish state and a liberal democracy. Given its track record, is it time to put the ideology to rest?  By David Sheen Imagine if you would, for a minute, that Liberal Zionists have been proven correct: that it is totally possi ...
  • Good news – Israel publicly trashes Kerr ...
    In remarks to Haaretz today, ‘senior Israeli official’ shows Netanyahu to be the rejectionist, making it easier for Abbas to take ‘unilateral’ steps soon.   Well, that was quick. No sooner does John Kerry wind up his first trip to Israel-Palestine to restart the peace pro ...
  • In Hebron, no arrests (of Jews) on Saturdays
    A Palestinian is attacked by a famous settler. Police detain the Palestinian, but not the settler – because it’s already Shabbat. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz At the beginning of February, “I.”, a resident of Tel Rumeida, was sitting in his yard with some friends. This ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • US Senator Warren to The Federal Reserve: If Y ...
    You really gotta listen to the ongoing discussion with questioning by a United States Senator. The testimony really is quite extraordinary.  What Senator Warren is asking is remarkably simple….. The US Government comes into possession of damming evidence of on going crime sprees committed ...
  • LIVE! LIVE! LISTEN TO THE LIES AND THE FRAUD A ...
    The banks conspired with Congress to rob the American people for Billions of Dollars…listen to them (not) explain to Congress how they got away with their crime spree: LISTEN TO THE LIES BEFORE CONGRESS LIVE NOW Tweet this!Scridb filter
  • St. Petersburg Home Foreclosure Defense Attorn ...
    Do You Need A St.Petersburg Foreclosure Defense Attorney? If a foreclosure case has been filed against you, it is critical that you hire a St. Petersburg foreclosure defense attorney who has experience doing battle with the lenders and mortgage companies. A variety of new laws and government pro ...
  • OUTRAGE, Insult to Congress: The Banks Claim T ...
    Imagine this…no less an authority than the Congress of the United States of America…(theoretically at least the embodiment of the power of the American people, but in practice in most cases the protectors and defenders of the corporate interests…but I digress) demands that the ...
  • Why Is There Very Little (If Any) Outrage From ...
    I was going to start the post my directly and ask, Why do judges largely not care about consumer justice? But then I realized that was far too naive a title.  The fact is, Consumer Justice, like Racial Justice or Gender Justice do not fit into the (largely) institutional paradigmRead the Rest...

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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

  • Why you should care about the Agricultural Cer ...
    Last week, an Agricultural Certainty Bill was approved by the Maryland House and is now making its way through the state Senate.  Although the word “agriculture” takes it off most of our radars, this bill is as important to city dwellers as to the farming community. Here’s why we, the non-farmer ...
  • Want to make food more affordable? Boost worke ...
    The incipient food movement should make common cause with a potentially resurgent labor movement, and attack the affordability problem by improving working people’s buying power rather than trying to further depress the price of food.
  • CLF Week in Links: Bees, Monsanto, Free Trade ...
    Sadly, President Obama signed the bill protecting Monsanto, further tarnishing the environmental record of his administration.
  • State agencies sometimes send mixed messages t ...
    Each state has an agency that advises people not to consume certain recreationally caught fish, because of health concerns. Each state also has an agency that aims to prevent certain species from being overfished. Unfortunately, in many cases these two agencies are sending mixed messages to the ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Rivers, Slow Food, ADUFA, a ...
    Rep. Louise Slaughter (D–NY) said, “This study ends any debate. The extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock is endangering human health."

k2p blog

  • Carbon dioxide warming effect is just a &#8220 ...
    Russian scientists believe a little ice age is starting. They claim that scientific research of the climate of the past geological epoch causes us to doubt the motives behind the demands of the IPCC. The greenhouse effect that is connected with the anthropogenic factor is about 4 or 5 percent of ...
  • Plagiarism and fake certification fell top Fre ...
    France's top rabbi is taking leave from his post after he acknowledged "borrowing" other people's work and lying about his education, a top Jewish leader said Thursday.
  • US Interior Department clears itself of misconduct
    The U.S. Department of the Interior has rejected complaints of scientific misconduct made by its former scientific integrity officer. An internal inquiry must use the null hypothesis "that the alleged wrong-doing did take place" and the task is to see if there is evidence that this hypothesis i ...
  • Prolific Cardiff Professor cleared of misconduct
    Prof. Morgan of Cardiff University has now been cleared of any misconduct but one of his former co-workers, Rossen Donev, has been singled out for the manipulation of images. The investigation seems to have found that Prof. Morgan could not have known about his co-worker's image manipulation ev ...
  • Doomsayers confounded as Gulf of Mexico heals ...
    The Gulf of Mexico may have a much greater natural ability to self-clean oil spills than previously believed. The Gulf has a broad base of natural bacteria, and they respond to the presence of oil by multiplying quite rapidly.

Left Foot Forward

  • Look Left going out shortly – sign up to recei ...
    Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
  • Thatcherism saw child poverty grow by 121 per cent
    Yesterday we ran a piece on the level of people living in poverty under Margaret Thatcher in response to a claim by Guido Fawkes which claimed the poor had "got richer under Thatcher". I dealt with a lot of this yesterday; but here is another graph showing a bit more straightforwardly the growth ...
  • The brighter side of famine
    As we've been picking on the Daily Mail a lot recently, I thought it only fair that I should have a go at someone else today. With that in mind I decided to pick on the Guardian.
  • 8 million people one paycheck away from homele ...
    One in three people would be unable to pay their rent or mortgage for more than a month if they lost their job, new figures from Shelter reveal.
  • This is the biggest assault on workers’ ...
    Collectively, the changes to employment law amount to the biggest assault on workers' rights ever. They very significantly weaken worker bargaining power, and will increase job insecurity for millions. And like so many of the coalition government’s policies they impact particularly on the most v ...

Consumerist

  • Taco Bell Decides That ‘Living Mas&#8217 ...
    Yes, the company that brought you Doritos-shell tacos (in two flavors), the phrases “fourth meal” and “live mas!,” and which will basically shove anything inside of a tortilla and sell it, says it no longer wants to have such a direct impact on customers’ waistlines ...
  • Toyota, Honda & Nissan Recall 3.4M Vehicles Be ...
    The thing about car air bags is it’s quite necessary that they deploy at the right time. Which is why the Japanese maker of safety gear is at the center of a recall of more than three million vehicles, scattered across the Honda, Toyota and Nissan brands. Those companies all have cars that ...
  • Chase Won’t Stop Robocalling About My Lo ...
    Late last year, Dennis got a new phone number. That shouldn’t be anything to complain about, and indeed he has no complaints about his mobile carrier or about his new phone. The problem is that Chase Bank keeps calling him about his account balance, which he would appreciate if he actually ...
  • Lawmakers Call Out Energy Drink Makers For Inc ...
    Despite repeated reassurances to the public that their energy drinks are safe and not marketed to kids, a group of lawmakers is calling the manufacturers of those drinks out for a variety of concerns listed in a new report. From labeling practices to potentially unsafe amounts of caffeine, the r ...
  • T-Mobile iPhone Preorders: A Few Glitches, But ...
    T-Mobile are pretty excited about the iPhone coming to the carrier, and many customers among our readership have pre-ordered the device. On Monday, we shared reader Richard’s preorder report that he wasn’t able to order at all, no one was able to place a preorder for him, and nobody ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Unfair Tax Liability for Whistleblower Awards ...
    The following piece is a guest editorial by Gary J. Aguirre, former SEC Senior Counsel and client of GAP attorneys, who presently heads a law practice focused on financial litigation that includes whistleblower representation. Whistleblowers who receive an award from the Securities and Exchan ...
  • Significant Ruling for Manning: Daily Whistle ...
    Politico: Bradley Manning, Media Score Court Martial Wins Returning to court yesterday, military whistleblower Bradley Manning won a possibly significant ruling after the judge stated that the prosecution will have to prove that Manning acted with the knowledge that his whistleblowing could pu ...
  • In Budget Debate, Congress Should Review ICIJ ...
    The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is mining the largest stash of leaked corporate documents everDeutsche Bank is among those accused of encouraging offshore accounts delivered to any group beyond those involved in the schemes exposed. The group’s website reveals th ...
  • Upcoming Hearing to Force IRS into Action on W ...
    Reuters: Hearing to Expose IRS Informant Program to Scrutiny The IRS has faced criticism for some time of not doing enough to promote whistleblower disclosures. The agency has increasingly come under scrutiny since it adopted a new whistleblower law seven years ago, which stipulates monetary ...
  • UN Whistleblower Awaits State Dept. Response: ...
    New York Times: Aggrieved UN Whistleblower Seeks Withholding of American Funds James Wasserstrom, the UN whistleblower retaliated against for reporting corruption within the multilateral organization’s mission in Kosovo – and who subsequently underwent an intense legal battle – made his case y ...

UK Progressive

  • Remembering the African American Holocaust Sur ...
    Rev. Irene Monroe This week, April 8- 12, marks the 27th annual observance of Holocaust Memorial Week. The week is about remembering not only the 6 million Jews murdered but also remembering the millions of allies, martyrs and victims who survived Nazi Germany’s reign of brutality. The eno ...
  • Bi-Partisanship We Don’t Need: The President O ...
    by Robert Reich John Boehner, Speaker of the House, revealed why it’s politically naive for the President to offer up cuts in Social Security in the hope of getting Republicans to close some tax loopholes for the rich. “If the President believes these modest entitlement savings are needed to hel ...
  • Voter Information Wars: Will the GOP Team Up W ...
    by Lois Beckett ProPublica The Republicans have admitted it: They need to get serious about collecting and analyzing voter data. Well, you can’t get much more serious than talking to Teradata, the “data warehousing” company that helps Wal-Mart, Apple and eBay store massive amou ...
  • The Stealth Sequester
    by Robert Reich So far, the much-dreaded “sequester” – some $85 billion in federal spending cuts between March and September 30 – hasn’t been evident to most Americans. The dire warnings that had issued from the White beforehand – threatening that Social Security checks would be delayed, airport ...
  • Another Layer to Rendell’s Fracking Connections
    by Justin Elliott ProPublica Recently, we wrote about former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s connections to the natural gas industry after he published a pro-fracking op-ed in The New York Daily News. Following our story, Rendell’s column — which called on New York officials to lift a ...

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JoNova

  • Global gloom. Help. I need a new computer.
    In astrological terms, Jupiter must be passing through my technology zone. Yesterday the web-host was down for 15 hours. Today, my computer collapsed randomly into the blue screen of death. It can be revived, sort of, but the five-year-old-overworked-disc only springs to life for short bursts in ...
  • Is the media waking up? Global warming: time ...
    Tic, tic, tic. The sleeping MSM is stirring. Headlines no one could imagine seeing a few years ago are popping up on a regular basis. The backdown is beginning. For those who have not gone-over-the-falls and chained their reputation to a big-Green-rock, there is time to backtrack. This is a good ...
  • Rupert Wyndham ponders the wanton hypocrisy of ...
    Rupert Wyndham is an eloquent treasure. For those who have not already seen this (and I’ve received many emails about it) — Enjoy! — His turn of phrase is something to behold: the damning indictments carefully understated, yet laid bare. That the Royal Society President has bee ...
  • Jobs and junkets are on the line. Abbott could ...
    Tim Flannery No wonder Flannery and co. are playing double or nothing. While headlines have shouted for years that vested interests of the fossil fuel players dominate this debate, few journalists point out that the renewables industry, carbon trading markets, and the climate-scary-science-campa ...
  • Mafia caught laundering $1.7b through “r ...
    Real markets have real customers, who notice when things don’t add up. Fake markets are an invitation to criminals. The state forced payments from citizens for the wrong reasons, to solve a non-problem with the wrong method. In this case, state organized crime meets independent organized c ...

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...

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2012 Blog

  • Fancy Living in Belize?
    Many people don’t even know where Belize is, so look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize (hint: it borders Mexico and Guatemala, and the Maya live there) So, why would you want to live there? Well, if you are happy with your current life, family and employment – and you have fa ...
  • 2012 Sex / Model Story
    I’m sure I missed lots of stories during those last, hectic weeks of 2012 – like this one: A sexy swimsuit model and countless other lusty New Yorkers say tomorrow’s predicted Mayan apocalypse is a great reason to have sex, and are turning to social media and doomsday-themed parties ...
  • Solar Explosion Cycle: Hitting us in 2071?
    Although almost every 2012er focused on the end date of the Long Count calendar, few considered that it might be related to a cyclical phenomena. Even though every ancient Meso-American calendar is/was cyclical… It has become muddled, but according to the ancient Maya and Aztec peoples, we ...
  • 6 Top Quality Survival Products
    I found this at the Daily Mail, but it looks like they have scanned it from a magazine like Popular Mechanics and didn’t credit it… Anyway, this picture could save you a thousand SHTF hours if you buy them all: Your're reading 6 Top Quality Survival Products by Robert Bast, and orig ...
  • Japanese Methane Extraction Could Trigger Tsunami
    Japan is where the word tsunami originated – because they get more than their fair share. Just over 2 years ago the Tōhoku tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster. You could be forgiven for thinking that is as bad as it can get – but the reality is muc ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: The danger of McCrory's Bobby Jindal i ...
    N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory wants to privatize the Department of Commerce and the state's Medicaid program, but the experiences of other states like Louisiana that have carried out similar plans point to serious problems. read more
  • Youth unemployment crisis hits South hard
    Young adults face dramatically high rates of unemployment, and the problem is particularly severe in Southern states, which are also grappling with high poverty rates. read more
  • Moving beyond us vs. them: Mayor Landrieu and ...
    The New Orleans mayor is fighting a consent degree aimed at improving the abysmal conditions inside the Orleans Parish Prison, arguing it would adversely affect people who aren't incarcerated. But in a city that incarcerates more of its residents than anywhere else in the world, will this "us vs ...
  • NC attorney general asked to probe possible fr ...
    The environmental advocacy group Food & Water Watch has called on North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate apparent financial conflicts of interest involving state officials responsible for fracking oversight. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The South under the gun
    With a new study showing that weak gun laws lead to higher levels of gun violence, what does that mean for the South, which has some of the nation's loosest gun regulations? read more

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Low-cost funding for investors in renewable energy
The Hindu
Investing in renewable energy projects is set to get cheaper with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) promising low-cost funds from the National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF). Announcing this at the 'Indo-US joint regional workshop on ...
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Renewable Energy Joins the Army
Motley Fool
The U.S. military has long been an innovator, and the field of renewable energy is no exception to that. In this video, Fool.com contributor Aimee Duffy talks to fellow contributor Tyler Crowe about the army's recent announcement to build a solar farm ...
Asia-Pacific Renewable Energy Market To Hit 535.2 GW By 2020 (GlobalData ...
CleanTechnica
According to a recently published report by Global Data*, the Asia-Pacific region's cumulative installed capacity from renewable energy sources (excluding hydropwer) is expected to reach 535.2 GW (535,200 MW) by 2020. Of course, the rapid economic ...
DEEP Addresses Concerns About 'Cart Before Horse' On Renewable Energy ...
Hartford Courant
The plan — out as an energy department study and pending legislation — opens the state's portfolio of renewable energy sources to large hydropower, tightens emissions on wood-burning biomass plants and gives the state a way to enter into long-term ...
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The 'New News Ecology' Needs to Be Nourished With Sustainable Revenue
Street Fight
JTM is trying to create what it calls a “new news ecology” — “the information exchange amongst the public, the government and institutions that informs inspires, engages, and activates the community.” (Image at right compares new news ecology to ...
New James River Ecology School opens with all-day event Saturday
Virginia Gazette
HOPEWELL - The new James River Ecology School will host a grand opening this Saturday, April 13, at the Presquile National Wildlife Refuge, in the James River. The family-friendly event will include a full day of nature tours, canoe trips, live animal ...
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Council of Canadians and Ecology Action Centre among those appealing ...
Truro Daily News
TRURO - The Council of Canadians and the Ecology Action Centre are included among approximately 30 individual appeals lodged with the County of Colchester over its decision to permit the discharge of frack wastewater into the municipal sewer system.
Class project inspires research article in Ecology
Phys.Org
"Specialization versus generalism is an essential issue in ecology," says Lefcheck. "It's been studied for a long time but many questions remain." These include the benefits of dietary specialism versus generalism, the factors that promote each ...
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Ex-Crestwood water operator pleads guilty in contamination case
Chicago Tribune
Crestwood's former water operator pleaded guilty today to lying about the south suburb's secret use of a community well contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals. Frank Scaccia, 61, who had been scheduled to go on trial in federal court in Chicago ...
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Palestinian NGO accuses Israel of 'water apartheid'
Jerusalem Post
The document slams Israel for providing “discriminatory access” to water and enacting “water apartheid” policies that result in the 500,000 Israelis in the West Bank and east Jerusalem receiving six times the amount of water that the 2.6 million ...
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Ruptured Water Main Temporarily Fixed, Businesses Reopen
wnep.com
PLAINS TOWNSHIP – Officials at Pennsylvania American Water said service has been restored to more than a dozen homes and businesses after a century-old cast iron water line ruptured within an arch bridge early Wednesday morning. Water company ...
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Tepco Faces Decision to Dump Radioactive Water in Pacific Ocean
Bloomberg
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501)'s discovery of leaks in water storage pits at the wrecked Fukushima atomic station raises the risk the utility will be forced to dump radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean. Leaks were found in three of seven pits in the ...
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