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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • China and BRICS: Upgrading Global Agenda
    A few weeks have passed since the Chinese fifth generation leaders came to power. The first impression is really strong. Newly elect Chairman Xi Jinping has visited Moscow and has taken part in the Durbin top level BRICS event; he has received US Secretary of Treasure and Henry Kissinger in Beij ...
  • US’ policy towards Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline (I)
    One of the aspects of change in the mode of warfare, which has come to prominence after World War II, is the non-military aggressive tool of ‘economic strangulation’ through which the powerful states try to politically subjugate their target countries. Unfortunately the development and applicati ...
  • Human Rights and the Sri Lankan Pinochet
    70 years ago, during the WWII, when Japan bombed Madras and Cyclone, the ethnic divide between the Tamils and Sinhalese was hardly pronounced. Both were victims of great power politics that was being played out in the region. In the 1980s the hegemonic politics once again attacked the region. Th ...
  • BRICS: New Geopolitical Model and Russia’s For ...
    Another annual BRICS summit wrapped up on March 27 in South Africa. A cycle of top level events taking place by turns in the member states capitals is over. This time it was of special importance for Russia. In early February Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new Foreign Policy Conce ...
  • Qatar’s Great Power Games
    The recent Arab League summit, which illegally decided to provide military aid to the Syrian opposition under pressure from Doha, has once again demonstrated that there is a new power balance in the Arab world where the traditionally powerful countries like Egypt, Algeria and Iraq have again pro ...

BlogHer

  • Why I Want to Go to Housewife School
    “What you need is housewife school.” This from a friend observing my efforts to replicate traditional Icelandic recipes and to learn how to crochet. He was referring to Reykjavík’s Hússtjórnarskóli, which loosely translates as “house management school,” but is often referred to as “Housewife Sch ...
  • Why Are We Afraid To Talk Before Sex?
    Editor's Note: I cannot overstate the importance of having candid conversations about sexual health prior to having sex with a new partner. Even if you've been with someone before, you ought to periodically ask relevant questions to keep abreast of any risks to your own health. It's YOUR body an ...
  • Why I Gave Into Character Clothing
    At the risk of sounding snotty, I've never been a huge fan of character clothing. It just tends to be a bit cheesy and not necessarily "stylish." Or so says the old me. I'm here to testify that times... ohhh how they've changed. It all started with potty training. Of course I bought Manny som ...
  • Action Needed: WordPress Users Using Social Me ...
    If you use a plugin called Social Media Widget (social-media-widget) on your WordPress blog, you need to remove it, according to WordPress Plugin Social Media Widget Hiding Spam – Remove it now. The plugin is in use on about 900,000 websites. It was recently discovered to be injecting Pay Day Lo ...
  • Anderson Cooper’s Favorite Treats: Compost Cookies
    Editor’s note: Julie from Table for Two was recently the Blogger of the Day on Anderson Live. Host Anderson Cooper, who recently outed himself as a picky eater, is very fussy with about what he eats, but he does have a favorite treat: the Compost Cookie. Julie tracked down the recipe and made a ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Transparency should be at top of EPA pick&#821 ...
    As President Obama’s pick to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in his second term prepares for a confirmation hearing this morning, there’s a lot of talk about what Gina McCarthy’s leadership would do regarding coal industry issues. As we mentioned yesterday, the gro ...
  • ‘We’ll take as much as you’l ...
    We published a story in this morning’s Gazette print edition that tries to detail the findings of an interesting new Duke University study about the potential impacts of low natural gas prices and tougher air quality rules on coal-fired power plants: Coal-fired power plants around the coun ...
  • Getting to zero: Coal death rate drops slightl ...
    In late January, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a press release that touted an “all-time low” in U.S. mining fatality rates. Oddly enough, the news release didn’t include the actual rate. Only when asked for the actual figures did MSHA say that the agency ...
  • ‘The coal industry needs help’: W ...
    Photo by Vivian Stockman, flyover courtesy of Southwings Next week, dozens of scientists (and not a few industry consultants) will descend on Charleston, for a five-day event organizers are promoting as a “symposium” on “Environmental Considerations in Energy Production.” ...
  • The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, April 5, 2010
    Three years ago this afternoon, an explosion tore through Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va. Twenty-nine coal miners died and two others were seriously injured. For many of us, it’s just another day. At best, it’s a time to revisit the disaster and a ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Neil DeGrass Tyson is Agnostic Because He Does ...
    Interesting. I can hear the nodding muscles in Carl’s neck from here. I find it fascinating that he doesn’t distance himself from atheists technically, however. He’s not saying he’s not an atheist. He’s saying he doesn’t group himself with them. He’s sim ...
  • Alternatives to Capitalism by Slavoj Zizek
    Related Posts:This Drummer is Into ItA Guy Talking About LifeA Talk on Parenting You Should SeeHow to Handle BullyingA Happy Commercial
  • Git Koans / Steve Losh
    Master Git turned and threw himself off the railing, falling to his death on the rocks below.Upon seeing this, the novice was enlightened. via Git Koans / Steve Losh.Related Posts:The Teachings of Vim Master WqUsing jk vs. jj for ESC Remapping in Vim by Steve LoshSteve Blank Says Microsoft Is Do ...
  • Republican Roy Blunt Revealed As Senator Who S ...
    Which senator pushed the rider into the bill? No one stepped forward to claim credit. But since then, Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has revealed to Politico that he’s the responsible party. Blunt even told reporteer David Rogers that he “worked with” Monsanto to craft the rider. The admission shines a light ...
  • This is a Snowflake
    From here.Related Posts:2012 Site StatsProtesting with KindnessTrying Tempo for iOSDeleting Horizontal Lines From WordMobile Visitor Data: November 2012

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Shapes of torus and modular group
    In June 2012, I emphasized that the Higgs field was the first experimentally observed elementary scalar field – the Higgs boson is the first elementary spinless particle we know – and because string theory loves to predict scalar fields and gives them many roles while many alternative thinkers l ...
  • Andrew Wiles: 60th birthday
    Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem, is 60 tomorrow. Congratulations. In 1996, Simon Singh produced this 50-minute documentary for the BBC Horizon series. And I just watched it again and liked it a lot. Wiles' father was a chaplain in Cambridge – and a ...
  • Physics World on sub-\(46\GeV\) neutralinos
    Colin Stuart wrote the following article for Physics World yesterday: Are there signs of SUSY in Planck data? A week ago, AMS showed us much more accurate data about the high-energy positrons and electrons that haven't qualitatively changed our beliefs about the dark matter particle, at leas ...
  • Margaret Thatcher: 1925-2013
    The world's most important female politician of the 20th century – and Britain's #1 peacetime politician of the same era – left us yesterday after a stroke. Her physical health has been tolerable in recent years but her mental health wasn't which is why her life's work was essentially wrapped up ...
  • Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing since Democritus
    Guest blog by the man who is Shtetl-Optimized It's an exquisite, delicious, life-changing honor to be invited to guest-blog on Luboš Motl's Reference Frame. In terms of The Big Bang Theory, imagine Sheldon (to whom Luboš likes to compare himself) inviting Howard Wolowitz to guest-post. Lo, ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Ice storm warning for southern Ontario
    A wintry blast of cold air today will put the boot to mild spring weather and bring the threat of a major ice storm for parts of southern Ontario, Environment Canada warns. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Winter storm wallops southern Ontario, parts of U.S. Heavy snow continues to ...
  • Senator Says Universal Background Checks Could ...
    Nothing short of a rejection of any gun bill should be acceptable to the American people if they wish to retain a modicum of liberty. by Kurt Nimmo, Info Wars: Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, expressed his concern on the Senate floor about a universal firearm background check system no ...
  • Rehtaeh Parsons case prompts warning to possib ...
    A group reported to be the infamous hackers Anonymous says it will avenge the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, despite a plea from police urging people not to take justice into their own hands. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Baby wrongly declared dead case prompts ER doctor’s warn ...
  • Muppet Treasure Island: How Goldman’s Gold Cal ...
    from SchiffReport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Muppet Treasure Island: How Goldman’s Gold Call Helps Retail Investors from SchiffReport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Sil ...
  • Muppet Treasure Island: How Goldman’s Gold Cal ...
    from SchiffReport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Muppet Treasure Island: How Goldman’s Gold Call Helps Retail Investors from SchiffReport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Sil ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Man charged with negligent homicide
    A man who was arrested after fleeing the scene of a huge, fatal collision involving several vehicles on the E18 highway west of Oslo on Thursday has been charged with negligent homicide and smuggling. One person was killed, several badly injured and the busy highway was closed for more than half ...
  • Ryanair boss denies ‘slave contracts’
    Details of Ryanair’s so-called “slave contracts” for cabin crews based in Norway continued to emerge this week, revealing terms of employment far below Norwegian standards.  Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary vigorously defended the contracts live on national TV after their ter ...
  • State ‘unaware’ of Ryanair’s ...
    Norwegian authorities are promising an inspection of working conditions for Ryanair cabin crews based at the Rygge airport outside Moss, claiming they weren’t aware Ryanair had a base at the airport it uses for flights to the Oslo area. The base opened in March 2010, amidst much media cove ...
  • Norway ‘not pulling out of Schengen’
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg made it perfectly clear on the floor of the Norwegian Parliament this week that Norway will not be pulling out of the European open-border agreement known as “Schengen.” His remarks came after one of his government’s coalition partners voted to a ...
  • Honest teenager turns in hundreds of thousands ...
    When 16-year-old Bendik Hallstensen found a handbag on an Oslo-area commuter train on Wednesday, he peered into it in the hopes of finding some identification. He did, along with the dizzying amount of NOK 467,200 (around USD 80,000) in cash. He called police right away, and they were as surpris ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A No-Nonsense Guide to Establishing Permacultu ...
    Click to download (5.8mb PDF) This guide is geared towards starting a new forest garden from scratch. It is geared to the west coast of Canada — temperate / cold climate — where my business, Hatchet & Seed Contracting is primarily based. I hope it can be used to help [...]
  • Using Timber and Forestry to Help Sustain Our ...
    This year, May the 5th 2013, is the celebration of International Permaculture Day. In keeping with the theme of this important event, we need to be aware of the importance of producing and using “local”, especially with regard to forestry and use of timber. Local sustainable fores ...
  • Using Permaculture to Improve the Teaching and ...
    by Nelson Lebo, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Some people describe permaculture as a system of science and ethics. While ethics guide permaculturists, it is the use of science to design and develop sustainable and regenerative systems that places them in a position to contribu ...
  • Political Barbed Wire
    Why are 97% of our rivers shut to the public? A millionaire minister’s amazing conflicts of interest give you a clue. by George Monbiot Nowhere in Britain is power more concentrated than in the countryside. Some people claim we have the second lowest distribution of land in the world, after Bra ...
  • Upcoming Courses at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm – A ...
    Click for larger view Get in quick — space is limited! Ten-week Internship Program, April 22 – June 28 Permaculture Earthworks, April 29 – May 3 Urban Permaculture Design, May 13 – 17 Learn How to Teach Permaculture Creatively, May 20 – 24 Permaculture Project Es ...

Pointman's

  • Optimism, blogging and the big green killing m ...
    I’ve been writing this blog for a number of years now. Before that, I used other and much less effective means to resist the rising tide of climate alarmism and its lethal political baggage. Canute would have slapped his thigh and laughed in delight at my ineffectual but earnest efforts. T ...
  • Climategate 3, the goon squad and going nuclear.
    One of the climate establishment’s new coping mechanisms in handling what is effectively the third release of the climategate emails, is to put pressure on the people who were sent the decryption key, rather than looking for the identity of the leaker. The leaker goes by the name FOIA and ...
  • Climategate 3. FOIA’s accompanying email.
    Since I put up the email from FOIA that accompanied the second climategate release here, I thought I might as well be consistent and put up the email that accompanied the third. It makes for interesting reading, if only as a basis for some intriguing speculation. Pointman. ********************** ...
  • La, la, la. I can’t hear you, I’m ...
    I’ve been watching the slow and gory deconstruction of the latest attempt to rehabilitate the hockey stick, otherwise known as the Marcott et al paper. It’s a bit voyeuristic, but you just can’t help yourself in the end. Within the context of the skeptic blogosphere, it’s ...
  • Well, at least one of the bastards is behind bars.
    It’s been a very big week in the war against climate alarmism. FOIA revealed the password, which now gives access to all the emails contained in the CG2 release. Given that the archive contains something like 220,000 emails, you can expect a bit of a lull on the blogging front, simply beca ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Blames Victims
    The New Orleans Police Department recently released a statement on "women and safety," that has outrage across the city and furthered the perception that this police department does not get it. They are more interested in blaming the victim than preventing assault. With absurd advice like "don't ...
  • Robert H. King responds to Louisiana Attorney ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Many thanks to all of you who have aided our cause and added your voices to our quest to free Albert from an obviously unjust imprisonment of more than 40 years. Please continue to make your voices heard and your dissent known, especially in light of the rece ...
  • Global Left Converges in Tunisia – Day One
    Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia and neighboring nations, but there was substantial representat ...
  • Mayor Landrieu and Ronal Serpas Wage War Again ...
    Mayor Mitch Landrieu ran for office on a promise of reform of the city's police department. He promised a national search for a new police chief as his first major initiative as mayor. Then the members of his search team began quitting, saying the process was rigged. When Landrieu "national sear ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Guilty until proven innocent - the oppressive ...
    In tonight's show we take a look at the travesty of justice known as the Apprehended Violence Order (AVO). An AVO is a restraining order which compels an 'alleged' violent person to stay away from an 'alleged' victim. In a strange exception of the norms of criminal justice , when an AVO is iss ...
  • Dissent against water fluoridation sweeps thro ...
    In today's show we cover the astonishing story of how 9 Queensland councils (with more considering) have rejected water fluoridation. This avalanche of dissent was triggered by a decision by the State Premier Campbell Newman in 2012 to allow councils to decide individually whether to fluoridate ...
  • Round table discussion with studio guests Damo ...
    In today's show we take a look at some of the challenges to unconstutional laws which have been rolled out in Australia, with a close look at speeding fines. I am joined in studio for the discussion by Damon Crowe and Chris Tolland. In part 2 of the show we play you some highlights from a re ...
  • Malcolm Roberts exposes deceptions of the IPCC ...
    Malcolm Roberts is an indefatigable warrior for truth, reason and science, rationally opposing the evolving feudal super state which is now being formed around the world from the broken remnants of western (former) democracies. In today's show Malcolm shares some of his new research into the C ...
  • Child abuse in foster care and orphanages is a ...
    Forgotten Australians National Day of Action - 6 Feb 2013 With all the news we have heard over the years about the abuse of children in various Church organisations you may have drawn the conclusion that everything is now out in the open and, the worst is behind us and the wheels of justice ar ...

Beacon

  • The Taiji Dolphin Slaughter: A Scientific Issue
    © OCEANA The dolphin drive hunt in Taiji, Japan has been at the center of animal activism for many years and now it has finally come to the center of science. The dolphin drive in Taiji involves the corralling of dolphins into a cove for slaughter or to be removed and then sold to representa ...
  • NOAA declares “Unusual Mortality Event” for Ca ...
    Sea Lions in rehab. Photo: Pacific Marine Mammal Center Beginning in January 2013, unusually high numbers of stranded California sea lion pups have been observed on the Southern California coast. Marine mammals naturally come ashore along our beaches if they are sick, wounded, or injured. Thi ...
  • Infographic: Shark Attacks
    A new study published earlier this year in Marine Policy put the number of sharks slaughtered each year at 100 million, or roughly three sharks caught per second. Outraged by these shocking numbers, Joe Chernov and Robin Richards created an infographic to put the figures in perspective. While s ...
  • Victory! 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline Protected ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads face thre ...
  • Victory! More than 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate more than 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Twitter, $23,000 of Public Money, and the Naiv ...
    Just to step away from Margaret Thatcher for a second, mainly because the rhetoric hasn’t changed for a day or two, and the build-up to her funeral is taking the long and arduous route. I have an intriguing tale that hit the national news the day before Thatcher’s death, meaning the ...
  • Keystone and Pegasus: Not in My Backyard or Wa ...
    Understandably, no one wants the contents of an oil spill in their backyard, including in their water supply. But of course, even when there’s a local win, and a petroleum pipeline, for example, is denied construction in one community’s “backyard,” it’s likely going to be relocated into the back ...
  • INTERVIEW FEATURE — Queer Talk: “Kissing Wives ...
    You’ve seen the “Gay Marriage Already Won” Time covers. The lesbian couple, or as I’ve heard it described, the “kissing wives” cover (the kissing engaged guys – Russell Hart and Eric LaBonté – were good, too, of course) are Kristen and Sarah Ellis-Henderson. Kristen and Sarah were married in New ...
  • Malawi’s Banda Not That Into Madonna
    THE MALAWI government and Madonna are in quite an international spat. President Dr. Joyce Banda and her Government are livid. This from Madonna today addressing the feud: Madonna Remains Deeply Committed to the Children of Malawi There have been many reports regarding Madonna’s recent visi ...
  • Israeli Police Detain Women for Worshiping at ...
    IF THERE is anything more authoritarian than refusing women the right to worship equal to men, I haven’t read it. Organized religions of all faiths have been the structure for ancient society. However, it’s now the 21st century modern era, so with this things must change. The latest ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians: Why Salam Fayyad Stands No Chanc ...
    In recent weeks, the US Administration has resumed its efforts to achieve peace not only between Israel and the Palestinians, but also between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his prime minister, Salam Fayyad. These efforts, however,
  • Germany: Islam Becomes Campaign Issue
    Germany's opposition Social Democrats are courting disgruntled Muslim voters in a desperate bid to unseat German Chancellor Angela Merkel in federal elections set for September 22. Peer Steinbrück, the 66-year-old chancellor candidate for the center-left
  • "Budget Chicken": The Hollowed-Out U.S. Milita ...
    The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned American security policy upside down, and right at a time when America's security interests are being seriously challenged. On one side, the brigades of those convinced of American being the 21st century bully
  • Would You Name Your Kid "Sword"?
    Would we name our children Warrior, Conqueror, Sword, or Holy War? These are the meanings of personal names commonly used in the Muslim world, and may give some insight into Muslim values, especially regarding violence. Violence has been endemic to
  • Is the Lutheran World Federation Praying for I ...
    Palm Sunday is usually a joyful occasion in the Christian year. The church may be decked with tree branches as the worshipers mimic the jubilation of the crowds that greeted the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem two millennia ago. So a certain Jerusalem

Urban Survival

  • Bitcoin Bubble Bursting?
    A number of readers have taken me to task (friends, too) for failing to get all over the Bitcoin cryptocurrency bubble.  Well, this morning, we notice that Bitcoins were converting to about $141 paper FeRNs (federal reserve notes) after being … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Gun Follies and Someone’s Agenda
    A little earlier in this morning’s column, I was mentioning the nutters d’ net and some of the odd theories which a person can come up with.  For example, if you go to the Wiki page of mass/rampage killings, and … Continue reading →
  • Faraday Friday
    Although I like to think that an attack on America using EMP devices is an incredibly small percentage-wise possibility, I nevertheless will be putting our home in the outback on ‘Faraday-Ready” status Friday of this week due to Clif’s data … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Tuesday at the WuJo
    We continue to be focused on the appearance/disappearance of things in the vicinity of humans because intuitively, perhaps, there’s likely to be a gigantic clue there about how the world really works.  This one from the CodeWarrior, for example: “The … Continue reading →
  • Seven Days of Bluster?
    If Kid Korea really is planning to nuke the US, he may run out of sabers to rattle before we get to April 15th, which was his father’s birth date, and by some speculation as fine a day as any … Continue reading →

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Radical Chic

  • WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
    Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...
  • MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
    It’s always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for everytime we are s ...
  • IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
    Love has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...
  • A WHOLE TOWN SHIFTS EXAMS CAUSE OF A JUSTIN BI ...
      It is difficult enough these days to convince teenagers of the relevance of education. With the amount of uneducated people who end up as stars or reality show celebrities it is no surprise that dropping out and hoping for the best has become an attractive option. It becomes even more int ...
  • WAKING UP IN THE WRONG PLACE, AT THE WRONG TIME
    My vision was blurry. There were people standing above me but I couldn’t clearly make out who they were. I could hear faint voices but they were too far away to bring any recognition. Where am I? I made a failed attempt to lift myself up, but my body wasn’t responding the way it was ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • On the Hot Seat: EPA Nominee McCarthy Comes Be ...
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. Today President Obama's pick to lead the EPA comes before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to answer questions and persaude the committee members she's fit to le ...
  • Citzens' petitions call for stricter environme ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Mexican and U.S. environmental organizations have once more come together to help protect some of the most iconic sites in the Gulf of California. Eleven groups, including NRDC, submitted a cit ...
  • Five Reasons to Support Gina McCarthy's Nomina ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City If your child has asthma or if your parent suffers from heart disease or if you are one of the millions of Americans who value clean air, then the Senate confirmation hearing for Gina McCarthy on Th ...
  • Where sprawl still rules
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   For several years now, many of us have been predicting - or even celebrating - the end of the era of unfettered sprawl.  Central cities have been making a comeb ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Phillipines tells citizens to prepare for nucl ...
    Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, an expert in international law, warned the country of a “nuclear winter” should the ongoing tensions in the Korean peninsula escalate further. Santiago said the so-called “nuclear winter” creates “dust clouds absorbing the sunlight, dropping temperatures, and da ...
  • N. Korea finishes preparations for missile lau ...
    North Korea has completed preparations for a mid-range missile launch from its east coast, Seoul officials said Tuesday, as the country readies for what many suspect is another provocative act amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula. South Korean forces have been on high alert for an imm ...
  • US Air Force grounds 1/3 active-duty combat ai ...
    The Air Force is grounding about a third of its active-duty combat aircraft because of automatic spending cuts. The stand-down will affect units stationed in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific. Those units include fighter, bomber, aggressor and airborne warning and control squadrons. Air Combat Co ...
  • Pyongyang warns foreigners to evacuate S. Kore ...
    Pyongyang has issued a warning urging foreign nationals to evacuate South Korea, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The statement was followed by threats from North Korea of “thermonuclear” war on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea has warned all foreign nationals to prepare to evacu ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: 6.3 magnitude quake strikes nea ...
    Thirty people have been killed after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Bushehr in Iran. Around 800 people have been injured, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency. The area is home to the Bushehr nuclear power plant. “Up until now the earthquake has left behind 30 dead ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • High-speed rail cost and timeline “laughable”
    April 11, 2013 Researchers who have performed their own analysis of the high-speed rail link from Melbourne to Brisbane have today questioned the governments announced 45-year timeline and $114 billion costing. “When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as ...
  • Solar panels reduce everyone's power bills
      May 10, 2013 Australia's one million (and counting) solar powered households could be keeping everyone else's power bills down, by suppressing wholesale electricity prices. That conclusion is drawn from a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Journal of Energy Policy. The paper ...
  • True size of solar subsidies exaggerated, rese ...
    By Peter Hannam The true cost to consumers of subsidies to solar energy has been “somewhat exaggerated” because regulators have excluded the full benefits of solar photovoltaic panels, according to energy researchers. While feed-in tariffs and upfront rebates have been criticised by officials a ...
  • Gas – is it a natural fit for buildings?
    By Richard Keech According to the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency website, old electric-element-style hot water systems (that about half of households still have) “produce up to three times the greenhouse gas emissions of low emission technologies such as gas, solar and hea ...
  • Clean electricity makes fossil gas redundant
    Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions have today published a briefing paper on the use of gas as a fuel in buildings. The evidence shows that fossil gas' reputation as a clean, safe and cheap fuel needs to be re-considered. Beyond Zero Emissions have criticised the fossil gas ind ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New species tree-dwelling porcupine discovered ...
    Scientists in Brazil have described a new species of tree-dwelling porcupine in the country's most endangered ecosystems. The description is published in last week's issue of Zootaxa.
  • Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New ...
    New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) is facing a backlash over plans to aerially drop a controversial poison, known as 1080, over the habitat of two endangered, prehistoric, and truly bizarre frog species, Archey's and Hochsetter's frogs, on Mount Moehau. Used in New Zealand to kill po ...
  • International Paper commits to working with lo ...
    In another sign that the global paper industry may be steering toward more sustainable practices following years of bruising activist campaigns and pressure from buyers, International Paper (IP) has committed to identifying and protecting endangered forests and high conservation value areas in t ...
  • Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders ...
    Jose Rodrigues Moreira, a Brazilian landowner who allegedly ordered the killings of Amazon activists Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria, was acquitted this week due to lack of evidence. But, the two men who carried out the assassinations, Lindonjonson Silva Rocha and Alberto Lopes ...
  • Sarawak to protect population of rarest orangu ...
    After facilitating large-scale logging and conversion of large areas of rainforest habitat, the government of Sarawak says it will protect a population of up to 200 of the world’s rarest Bornean orangutans recently identified during field surveys by conservationists, reports the Wildlife C ...

Sierra Express

  • Bollore African Logistics and Sierra Leone Por ...
    The Bollore African Logistics is reported to be flouting the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA) when taking over the management of the Queen Elizabeth Quay from the SLPA. In the MOU, Bollore agreed that six months after taking over the quay, it wil ...
  • Action Aid International Sierra Leone on Tax J ...
    Action Aid International Sierra Leone (AAISL) has trained Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and their partners across the country on Tax Justice as a way of setting a solid foundation for its future work on critical tax justice campaign in the country. During the three-days training at the Civi ...
  • Press Release From: The Judiciary of Sierra Leone
    Contrary to utterances and opinions being expressed lately regarding the handling of Anti-Corruption cases in the Judiciary, the Judiciary wishes to state that its primary focus and vision is access to QUALITY justice.  In this regard, we strive to ensure that all litigants who come to court are ...
  • Commonwealth schools Sierra Leone MPs
    Commonwealth support to assist Sierra Leone to rebuild its democracy continued yesterday when a team of experts begin preparing the recently elected Members of Parliament to perform their democratic duties. The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), yesterday opened a two-day professional ...
  • Disunited Union in Sierra Leone
    The Sierra Leone Motor Drivers and General Transport Workers Union is one of the most disunited, disorganized and problematic unions in this country.  For the past years, the union has been in power struggle which has been resulting in violence. On March 27 this year in Kenema, the ongoing power ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Iona McCarthy: Big dry shows risk of investing ...
    Capital growth has always been an important factor in successful dairy farm investment, but it would be unwise for investors to assume land prices always go up.The drought ravaging many parts of the country is just one example of...
  • Fonterra's new China plan
    A year ago, Fonterra's Theo Spierings was wooing Shanghai Pengxin over potential multi-regional partnerships to develop milk pools in China. Now it is Spierings' turn to be courted by powerful China Inc: major SOEs like China Investment...
  • Front-foot approach best on public safety issues
    Well, in the wake of this newest Swiss milk crisis, perhaps the biggest lesson is that you're only in trouble for as long as it takes some other unfortunate company to get in more trouble than you. If it's not another company facing...
  • Simon Page: NZ dairy can win back its reputati ...
    The discovery of traces of the toxic agricultural substance DCD in New Zealand dairy products sold in China has sparked a major reputation crisis for our products in that country but also presented an historic opportunity.Dicyandiamide...
  • Liam Dann: Technology key to global expansion
    We're putting the focus on agriculture this week in the Business Herald .It is not that we ignore the sector and like to grab any opportunity we can to wow people with the enormous scale on which the sector operates in this country.Despite...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Los Angeles May Back Down on Fast Food Paternalism
    Matt Welch and Reason TV have previously reported on the City of Los Angeles’ paternalistic treatment of South LA’s residents by banning the opening of new fast food restaurants. Now it’s possible that the city may scale back on its regulatory meddling. Via CBS Los Angeles: Do ...
  • Police Shoot Dog and Actually Compensate the F ...
    For everybody tired of hearing about police officers shooting family dogs for no good reason, here's a story about ... police officers shooting family dogs for no good reason, splattering a little girl with her beloved pets' blood — and then actually paying damages. That's right, the ...
  • North Korea: No War Today
    The seemingly never-ending drama that is North Korea’s nuclear saber-rattling continued today with the totalitarian regime pointing one of its missiles up. The U.S. and South Korea believe its “highly likely” North Korea will launch a missile. The country has conduct ...
  • Take Xanax, Lose Your Guns?
    The SAFE Act, the gun control law hastily passed by the New York legislature in January, included a provision requiring physicians, psychologists, registered nurses, and licensed clinical social workers to report any patient they deem "likely to engage in conduct that will cause se ...
  • Katherine Mangu-Ward on Teachers Unions and Vi ...
    In 2012, education technology firms attracted $1.1 billion from venture capitalists, angel investors, corporations, and private equity—an order of magnitude more than the industry was pulling in 2002. But gains for the industry could easily be wiped away by politicans. Whil ...

Mercury Rising

  • A picture is worth 1000 words
    Via Ritholtz, the National Priorities Project shows the federal budget. It’s not a perfect picture. It’s misleading to have the military at 26.5% about three times the size of health care at 20%. It doesn’t show Social Security and it’s not clear that Medicare is included ...
  • Cutting The Deathtrap F-35 Would Save More $ T ...
    This needs to be shouted from the rooftops: Below is what would be “saved” using chained-CPI. According to the Congressional Budget Office (pdf), the president’s proposal to use the chained CPI to calculate cost-of-living increases would save the government $127 billion over te ...
  • Even Meryl Streep can’t whitewash this
    Seumas Milne, The Guardian, in January (via Greenwald): Not only in former mining communities and industrial areas laid waste by her government, but across Britain [the late Prime Minister Margaret] Thatcher is still hated for the damage she inflicted – and for her political legacy of rampant in ...
  • Let’s Thank WikiLeaks With Some Cash (Or ...
    Once again, WikiLeaks has performed a signal service to those seeking to expose the soft underbelly of neoliberalism, with their release of the Kissinger cables. Let’s help them out, shall we? http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate You know what to do.
  • Even The Financial Times Has Nice Things To Sa ...
    You could have knocked me down with a feather when I saw this article in the Financial Times (registration required) saying very nice things about the Mondragon Corporation in the Basque region of Spain. What seems to have impressed Miles Johnson, the author of the FT piece, was the speed with w ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Eco Friendly Online Marketplace
    Eco Market is a new and innovative online marketplace devoted to ethical shopping. The website features products that are made with environmental awareness and has been described as "Etsy for Eco." Eco Market launched in October 2010 and features sellers across the world, with ...
  • How Net Parties Are Changing the Rules of the ...
    The emergence of new Net parties suggest a new era in politics. Net (Internet) parties incorporate the open, horizontal and leaderless processes associated with free software and social movements such as 15M. read more
  • The Kabbalah's Remarkable Idea
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  • Memories of Death
    Death. What is it exactly? Theists tell us of heavenly realms of joy and hellfires of despair, atheists speak of eternal night and our gradual reassimilation with the planet, while others resign to the sobering notion that we simply cannot know until we’ve undergone the experience for oursel ...
  • An Open Letter To TED's Chris Anderson
    Dear Chris, I'm one of the many who in recent years discovered new and noteworthy ideas thanks to TED. You've grown TED into an important platform for the introduction of innovative thought to a popular audience; it's a wonderful vision and your achievement of it is widely apprec ...

Desertification

  • U.N. Chief Singles Out Monaco for Raising Clim ...
    When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Kiribati in 2011, he had “an unexpected insight” into the fear that stalks the Pacific Island nation. Along with toiletries, the hotel room “had an additional item that is not your typical amenity: a life jacket,” he said. The ro ...
  • Canada Pulls Out of U.N. Body to Fight Deserti ...
    Canada is pulling out of the United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa next year, making it the only country in the world not participating in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Canada’s Stephen Harper government made the decision behind closed ...
  • Water Crisis Hitting Food, Energy – And Everyt ...
    How much water does it take to turn on a light? It took 10,000 litres to make your jeans. Another three big bathtubs of water was needed for your two-eggs-toast-coffee breakfast this morning. We are surrounded by an unseen world of water: furniture, houses, cars, roads, buildings – practic ...
  • Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Po ...
    When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation. Now, as the United Nations begins the process of formulating a new set ...
  • Food Policies Failing the World’s Hungry
    The world’s food security remains “vulnerable”, new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington think tank, says such numbers are “unacc ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Akaash Maharaj - Advisory: New Leadership for ...
    I am enormously grateful to the Board of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption for their confidence in naming me their Executive Director, and I will work tirelessly to justify their faith. I feel deeply privileged to have a chance to work with GOPAC's global alliance of ...
  • The Trouble with Canada's Temporary Foreign Wo ...
    Many feel bad for the Royal Bank Employees being replaced by temporary foreign workers however they are only the latest example of what is wrong with the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada. Canada's Foreign worker program has been criticized greatly by the NDP for ...
  • 'Maggie Maggie, dead dead'. As North American ...
    The horrors that Thatcher launched on the once great nation of Great Britain are not lost on its citizens. Britons are dancing in the street in the same way the Iraqis danced when their tyrant went down. But don't tell that to the neocons at the National Post, Globe & Mail and the other eli ...
  • Chess Master, You May Approach the Bench
    Ever want to take on an opponent in court from the comfort of your living room?  This legal themed chess set might provide an outlet. “Approach the Bench” was designed by a lawyer’s son as a gift to his dad.  After realizing there aren’t many legal-themed chess sets out t ...
  • Not Even One Cent Of Taxpayers Money Should Be ...
    "The Iron Lady herself would surely agree that poor taxpayers should not be further burdened in these times of British austerity. Surely, the private sector, which benefited immensely from her time in power should foot the full bill for the public event of her funeral." by Sunny Hundal Marga ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • UK medical relief aid arrives in Syria
    Dozens of ambulances dedicated by the UK-based non-profit organization SKT Welfare to Syria have arrived in the war-torn country via the Turkish border town of Reyhanli.
  • Rights group condemns Israeli medics
    Israeli medics have been condemned by a rights group for endangering the lives of Palestinian prisoners, especially those who are on hunger strike.
  • World alarmed about Syria militancy
    More than two years into the start of the Syria crisis, the emergence of different extremist militant groups in the Arab country alarms the Syrian people as well as the international community.
  • Syria wants al-Nusra on UN blacklist
    The Syrian Foreign Ministry has called on the United Nations Security Council to class the militant al-Nusra Front as an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group.
  • Fresh violence kills dozens in Syria
    Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between the Syrian army and foreign-backed militants, who are fighting to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Nominations Now Open for SPS Governing Council ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • CUNY Disability Awareness Month
    April is officially Disability Awareness Month throughout CUNY and to celebrate our commitment to enabling students, faculty, and staff with disabilities to excel in their studies, research, and work there are a series of events throughout the university. Whether you are interested in learning m ...
  • Featured Student: Denise Lewis
    Denise Lewis is a current student at The CUNY School of Professional Studies, enrolled since Spring 2010 in the Online Bachelor’s Degree in Business. As a single parent she raised three children, often working two jobs to support her family, while maintaining an excellent GPA. Each of her childr ...
  • Following Up With The MAAT Lab Conference
    Current student, T.J. Black (’14) contributed the following recap of the inaugural Master of Arts in Applied Theater Lab Conference that was held in mid-March: On March 17, 2012, students and alumni of the Master of Arts in Applied Theatre program gathered for the inaugural MAAT Lab Conference.  ...
  • 2013 ePortfolio Showcase
    The annual ePortfolio Showcase highlights students who have created ePortfolios for academic, professional, and/or personal use. The showcase aims to demonstrate the many ways our students are stretching definitions and creating full pictures of their learning. This year, in addition to acceptin ...

Dissident Voice

  • Obama’s “Cat Food” Social Se ...
    Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Michael Hudson: Obama’s “bargain” on social security reform will push more retirees into poverty in exchange for a minor increase in high end income tax — a class that receives most ...
  • Strategies of Containment
    Many of us on the left have been kettled at demonstrations: surrounded by a wall of police, herded into a small area, and prevented from reaching our goal. The term is a translation of kesseln, the German military tactic of enclosing an enemy force within a tight cordon of troops and gradually w ...
  • Canada’s Love Affair with Monarchy &#821 ...
    The current Canadian government has a thing for monarchy. In fact the Conservatives seem to like it better than democracy. First it seemed quirky and quaint when they ordered portraits of Queen Elizabeth II to be put up in Canada’s overseas missions and promoted British royal visits. Then it got ...
  • Margaret Thatcher’s Criminal Legacy
    Hours after the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the history books are being re-written and the beatification of the Iron Lady is well underway. Current British premier David Cameron praised Lady Thatcher for having “saved Britain” and for making the has-been colonial po ...
  • Police Killing Sparks Ongoing Revolt in the St ...
    New York City’s Office of Emergency Management issued a citywide brush fire warning last week. Authorities said that dry weather conditions combined with strong winds could turn the ember of an abandoned cigarette into an inferno. But New York police officers who stared down the young men ...

Nick Turse

  • globalpost:Reports of a man beheading his si ...
    globalpost: Reports of a man beheading his sister in an apparent honor killing in India have garnered attention recently. On Dec. 7, 29-year-old Mehtab Alam dragged his sister out onto the street, cut off her head in one stroke and walked to a police station with her head in his hand. The ...
  • micropolisnyc:Candlelight vigil I attended l ...
    micropolisnyc: Candlelight vigil I attended last night in Union Square, NYC for Jyoti Singh Pandey, the victim of the brutal gang rape in New Delhi. The vigil, organized by Sakhi, drew a lot of South Asian women, but also men, along with whites, African Americans, and o ...
  • Crow King. With Gaul, a fighting chief of the ...
    Crow King. With Gaul, a fighting chief of the Sioux in the Custer fight [From L. D. Greene Album].: ca. 1881 - ca. 1885 (NARA)
  • pulitzerfieldnotes:“As far as he’s is conce ...
    pulitzerfieldnotes: “As far as he’s is concerned, there’s no conflict of interest in working as a reporter and taking matters into his own hands to help his fellow Burmese. Like them, Kyaw Thaung [pictured above] crossed the border in search of greater freedom to practice his craft. Over the ...
  • cjchivers:Syria’s Archaeological Sites, Impe ...
    cjchivers: Syria’s Archaeological Sites, Imperiled by War. Grave robbers, looters, squatters and the effects of ordnance, too. On the NYT. With photographs by Bryan Denton and a video produced by Mac William Bishop.  (With apologies for late posting. Was away gathering firewood yesterday, ...

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • OP-ED: Azerbaijan and Iran: A Soft-Power Struggle?
    There’s a coffee shop in an out-of-the-way part of Baku where the walls are covered with illustrations from an early 20th century satirical magazine called Molla Nasreddin. The magazine represents a bygone era, when Azerbaijan was a font of new cultural trends in the Muslim world, pioneeri ...
  • Syria Air Strikes ‘Target Civilians’
    Air strikes have hit bakeries and hospitals among other civilian targets in Syria, a rights watchdog reported Thursday, accusing the Syrian government of killing thousands in such raids it said amounted to war crimes. “Individuals who commit serious violations of the laws of war wilfully, ...
  • Mexicans Develop Drones for Peace
    Mexican engineers have begun to work on developing unmanned aerial vehicles for scientific and commercial uses.
  • ‘Money Wasted Without Policy’
    As European Commission leaders make calls for EU countries to raise their spending on development aid for the world’s poor, groups working in underdeveloped states have warned that without more effective aid policies and networks, extra financing may be wasted. Speaking as the European Report on ...
  • Oil Flows Beneath the Battlefield
    At seven o’clock in the morning on Mar. 1, Kurdish militias took over the only operational oil refinery in Syria, located about 800 kilometres northwest of Damascus. “They told us to go home, and to wait for two days until everything was settled,” recalled Mahmud Hassan, one of 3,000 workers at ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Symbolic of Thatcher's Legacy: Her Greeting Ca ...
    Summary: Margaret Thatcher died Monday, April 8, 2013, at the age of 87. Predictably, there is no dearth of hagiographic profiles of the former British Prime Minister in the mainstream press and scathing vitriol elsewhere. But while The Economist hails Thatcher for her "willingness to stand ...
  • In this nuclear standoff, it's the US that's ...
    Summary: The use of threats and isolation against Iran and North Korea is a bizarre, perilous way to conduct foreign relations source: The Guardianread more
  • Podcast discussion with two of America's leadi ...
    Summary: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett are two of the nation's preeminent experts on all matters relating to Iran. They have also become the nation's most unlikely yet compelling critics of US policy toward Tehran and particularly the misconceptions shaping political and media disc ...
  • Suppressing Reality-Based Analysis: Chomsky, t ...
    Summary: What is at play here is this destructive dynamic that the more one dissents from political orthodoxies, the more personalized, style-focused and substance-free the attacks become. That’s because once someone becomes sufficiently critical of establishment pieties, the goal is not mer ...
  • US Policy in Iran: ‘Calculated and Gradual Coe ...
    Summary: During his confirmation process to become Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel delivered a slip of the tongue when describing his support for the Obama administration’s policy of “containment” of Iran. With cameras rolling and Senators ready to pounce, somebody passed Hagel a note, at w ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Did Our Solar System Evolve in a More Oxygen- ...
                   "Our solar system is different than the space right outside it, suggesting two possibilities," said David McComas, IBEX principal investigator, at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "Either the solar system evolved in a ...
  • Image of the Day: 1,000 Monster Black Hole Pan ...
                             In 2007, Chandra X-Ray astronomers captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes, giving scientists a snapshot of a crucial period when these monster black holes are growing, and provide insight into the environments in which they occur ...
  • Strange Galaxy Falling into Virgo Cluster at 1 ...
                     IC 3418 is a small galaxy falling into the Virgo cluster of galaxies (above) at such a high speed (a thousand kilometers per second) that its blanket of cool gas strips off. As it passed through the cluster, its stripped-off cool gas formed a 55,500 light-years-long t ...
  • "Saturn's Ring System Rains Water into Atmosph ...
                     NASA funded observations on the W. M. Keck Observatory with analysis led by the University of Leicester, England tracked the "rain" of charged water particles into the atmosphere of Saturn and found the extent of the ring-rain is far greater, and falls across larger a ...
  • Spitzer Space Telescope --An Infrared "Cosmic ...
      Spitzer was able to improve upon past measurements of Hubble's constant due to its infrared vision, which sees through dust to provide better views of variable stars called Cepheids. These pulsating stars are vital "rungs" in the distance ladder. ...

Natural News

  • Top bitcoin exchange freezes, arbitrarily shut ...
    It is now abundantly obvious that bitcoin has become an insidious "trap" that's taking money from suckers who are deluded into believing the "bitcoin cult." The top bitcoin exchange, MTGox, now openly admits that its trade engine crashed during the yesterday's panic...
  • Mind control, the shell game, and the stealth gods
    Of the many definitions of collectivism, this simple one is my favorite: "The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it." When I was starting out as a reporter 30 years ago, one of my first editors sat down with me and said, " In...
  • A powerful way to kill cancer from the inside out
    A lack of education kills more people than cancer, heart disease and conventional medicine combined. Would we really see so much death and destruction if the majority of the people really knew about the value of fresh, clean food, water and air? And, if people really...
  • Depression in men linked to folic acid deficiency
    Men who do not get enough folic acid in their diets may be more susceptible to depression, studies have shown. Folic acid is the dietary form of vitamin B9 and is found primarily in green leafy vegetables, citrus fruit, beans and other legumes, liver, and yeast (including...
  • Manage diabetes with the foods you love
    Every year, people continue to be diagnosed with the different types of diabetes. And since the major causes are not all the time organic, diabetes can be managed and can be reversed with a better lifestyle. And while most people see lifestyle management as an opportunity...

Threat Level

  • Gaming Company Certificates Stolen and Used to ...
    A rash of breaches at companies that develop online videogames has resulted in digital certificates being stolen from the companies and used in attacks targeting other industries and political activists.
  • Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Re ...
    A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
  • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
  • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
    Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Bush, Obama Tax Cuts Five Times Larger Than Pr ...
    Despite slashing the national debt by an additional $1.8 trillion over the next decade, President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget was received with two predictable talking points by Republican leaders. House Majority Eric Cantor, who previously complained about being called a "hostage ...
  • Will Max Baucus Betray Democrats on Taxes Again?
    At the very start of his political career back in the 1970's, Montana Senator Max Baucus asked New Deal veteran James Rowe Jr., "Do you think I should run as a Republican or a Democrat?" Rowe's uneasy answer--"I sure hope you'll be a Democrat"--has defined Baucus' career ever since. After all, ...
  • Mitt Romney's New Hometown is Going to the Birds
    During his first run for the White House, Mitt Romney briefly crowed that "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." But two days later, he was forced to amend that pander to the NRA by clarifying, "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will." Now his new hometo ...
  • Hostage Taker Boehner Accuses Obama of Hostage ...
    On the federal budget as with so much else, Republicans won't take yes as an answer from President Obama. On Friday, the White House rolled out its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal cutting projected deficits by $1.8 trillion in part by adopting the means testing of Medicare benefits and the "ch ...
  • 10 Reasons Why Uncle Sam Needs More Tax Revenue
    The Obama administration on Friday lifted the covers on its compromise budget proposal for fiscal year 2014. But despite slashing the national debt by a projected $1.8 trillion over the next decade (bringing the total reductions since 2011 to $4.3 trillion) through painful changes to Social Sec ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Cyber Baby – Future Soldier
    Shel Silverstein said, “Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.” I try to stick to that, but I do want to say one thing about half of this cartoon–Parents(!) get your kids OFF devices! They need time with you AND time alone with ...
  • Many Sick Sea Lions Found In California
    Over 1,000 sick or starving sea lion pups have washed up on shores in Southern California since January. This trend has been reported about for months, according to the Marine Mammal Care Center. Some of the pups washing up on shores now are the same ones that were rescued previously. One female ...
  • Apocalypse Avoided? Fed Budget Funds NASA Miss ...
      The spate of recent, near-Earth, asteroid ‘fly-bys’, along with the recent (and sensational) Russian meteor explosion, has heightened public awareness of these random space-based threats and prompted public calls for action. Some space agencies, research institutes and private ...
  • Complex Artificial Reservoirs Were Used By Rur ...
    New research done at the ancient Maya site of Medicinal Trail in northwestern Belize has now revealed how some of the rural populations gathered, managed, and purified the water that they used during the dry season. It had already been known that the larger urban areas possessed complex water ga ...
  • Bat Resembling Badger Discovered
    Is it a bat or flying badger? The yellow stripes on a small black face are reminiscent of a badger, but that is where the resemblance ends. Niumbaha superba is the bat’s name and it didn’t come all that easily, because when it was first discovered the wrong genus was assumed – ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Dear Congress: You Are NOT America's "Nobility"
    By @TomBales1 Ladies & Gentlemen: As one of your employers it has come to my attention that there are certain things going on during the course of your employment with our organization that need to be straightened out before they've gone too far to reverse, which I fear may already be the c ...
  • The Familiar Voice of Reaction
    By @TedFrier Rabbi Steven Pruzansky blames it all on President Obama's reelection last November. But the rabbi's reactionary requiem on the loss of what he calls the "traditional American virtues" of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness, woul ...
  • The Regressive Mr. Jones
  • Sequester Begins To Bite
    By @TedFrier This week I met the federal budget sequester up close and personal.   On Wednesday, I was on hand alongside hundreds of others at Worcester Regional Airport as JetBlue President David Barger touched down in the newest JetBlue plane in his fleet, an Airbus 320 nicknamed the "Blu ...
  • It's a Boy!
    By @BGinKC Both Moms and baby are doing fine after he entered screaming at about 2:25 this afternoon, weighing ten pounds, eleven ounces and 20 1/2 inches long. His name is Jonathan Jacob and he's perfect in every way. His Mom came into the world with the same cocked eyebrow and look of skeptici ...

Care 2

  • US trains dogs to detect illegal wildlife products
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a launched a new initiative to detect illegal wildlife products being smuggled with the first class of "wildlife detector dogs" and their handlers graduated from training in searching for protected species Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • End Sexual Violence, Beatings, and Ethnic Disc ...
    The new Somali government plans to relocate tens of thousands of internally displaced peoples (IDPs) into the capital of Mogadishu during the next few years. Thousands of IDPs have already descended upon the war-torn city, however, due to the widespread Submitted by Agnes N. to World  |&n ...
  • President Obama Proposes 2014 Budget
    New budget includes a 2.25-to-1 ratio of spending cuts to new tax revenue; reduces Social Security benefits; cuts Pentagon by 1.6 percent. Submitted by JL A. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Protect Marine Life on Kangaroo Island ! PLEAS ...
    Protect the marine life of Kangaroo Island by preventing petroleum exploration Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Protect Pacific Salmon by Maintaining Forage F ...
    Ask leaders to protect salmon ecosystems by protecting the populations of their prey Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Maggie Thatcher, Good On Ye
    The passing of Lady Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a grocer, evoked quite a response from the looney left. While I like to think I am tolerant of genuine differences of opinion, the idiotic gibberings of morons like MSNBC’s Martin Bashir makes me want to toss foreign assholes like him ...
  • Special Operations Speaks on Benghazi
    My old friend, Colonel (retired USAF) Dick Brauer was up at the crack of dawn today talking with Fox and Friends about the letter that Special Operations Speaks is sending to the House of Representatives calling for an investigation into the unanswered questions surrounding the terrorist strike ...
  • North Korea Posturing for War
    Although the saber rattling bombast and threats emanating from North Korea’s boy ruler, Kim Jung Un, are grounded in North Korea’s domestic politics, they are producing an unsettling international reaction that carries the growing risk of sparking a war. A war between North and South ...
  • The Unemployment Holocaust
    The latest dismal job numbers tell a dark and disturbing story. The labor force has shrunk dramatically by more than 10 million people since 2008. According to BLS statistics, the number of people no longer in the labor force at the end of 2008 waas 79,501,000. Today? That number stands at 89,96 ...
  • The CIA Playing Hardball on Benghazi
    When I first heard of this from a friend who had first hand knowledge, I was still skeptical. What did I hear? The CIA is conducting weekly polygraphs of officers who work in paramilitary activities (I knew it as Special Activities Division back in my day) and were involved in supporting the ope ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Students support legislation against mountaint ...
    Students support legislation against mountaintop removal Richmond Register Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition delegate Carol Hinds talks with EKU professor Elaine Waters about the affects of mountaintop removal Wednesday. Waters signs the petition that will be sent to legislators to encour ...
  • Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-rem ...
    Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-removal mining at UNCA event ... Mountain Xpress Junior Walk, a West Virginia native who travels the country speaking out against mountaintop-removal mining on behalf of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, i ...
  • LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop remo ...
    LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop removal York Dispatch Here's a better idea: Let's demand Congress pass the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act, H.R. 526. The Act will place a moratorium on new mountaintop removal "mines" until the science demonstrates th ...
  • Stop mountaintop removal mining - Columbia Star
    Stop mountaintop removal mining Columbia Star As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too late. Mountaintop removal no ...
  • Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining ...
    Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining Akron Leader Publications As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too la ...

Memeorandum

  • Report: Progress Kentucky activists recorded M ...
    Kevin Robillard / Politico: Report: Progress Kentucky activists recorded Mitch McConnell meeting  —  A Democratic official in Kentucky told a local radio station on Thursday that two men affiliated with the controversial Progress Kentucky super PAC told him they were responsible ...
  • Senate Votes 68-31 to Allow Debate on Gun Legi ...
    Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times: Senate Votes 68-31 to Allow Debate on Gun Legislation  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday cleared the way for debate on the first piece of major gun-control legislation to be considered in that chamber in two decades.  — ...
  • Anthony Weiner picks up first endorsement for ...
    Kevin Cirilli / Politico: Anthony Weiner picks up first endorsement for mayoral run  —  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Thursday endorsed Anthony Weiner for mayor of New York City.  —  “Anthony's a good guy in my opinion.  Now, he should've came clean ...
  • Senators who split with their party on guns (P ...
    Politico: Senators who split with their party on guns  —  Sixteen Republicans split with their party leaders and voted Thursday to end the GOP filibuster of gun control legislation and begin what will be a contentious Senate debate on the issue.  —  The final vot ...
  • Delaware: The Next Blue State to Move on Marri ...
    David Weigel / Slate: Delaware: The Next Blue State to Move on Marriage Equality  —  A same-sex marriage supporter has her forehead painted with a rainbow as she joins a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court on March 27, 2013 in Washington, DC.  —  Last yea ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Fiji region
    Thursday, April 11, 2013 15:28:27 UTC Friday, April 12, 2013 03:28:27 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
  • M 5.2, Myanmar
    Thursday, April 11, 2013 03:47:03 UTC Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:17:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
  • M 5.8, Batan Islands region, Philippines
    Wednesday, April 10, 2013 20:20:26 UTC Thursday, April 11, 2013 04:20:26 AM at epicenterDepth: 4.20 km (2.61 mi)
  • M 5.0, Molucca Sea
    Wednesday, April 10, 2013 19:59:29 UTC Thursday, April 11, 2013 03:59:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 66.00 km (41.01 mi)
  • M 5.5, Honduras
    Wednesday, April 10, 2013 19:14:02 UTC Wednesday, April 10, 2013 01:14:02 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 中国地球工&#3124 ...
    为了应对干旱，中国政府加大了人工增雨的力度。然而，不少专家对此却持怀疑态度 ...
  • 中国的分布&#2433 ...
    中国新领导集体设立了雄心勃勃的目标，力图突破风力发电的瓶颈，并鼓励小型太阳 ...
  • “拱心石”输 ...
    如果争议巨大的加拿大油砂管道向前推进，环保人士可能会向亚洲石油消费者“宣战& ...
  • 中国猪肉为&#2016 ...
    面对当前畜禽肉类引发的公众焦虑，中国兽医协会会长、曾任首任兽医局局长的贾幼 ...
  • 甲玛事故给&#3425 ...
    甲玛矿区发生的山体滑坡悲剧之后，质疑西藏矿业扩张的声音越来越大。中国矿产企 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 10 Facts Obama Doesn't Want You to Know About ...
     The “chained CPI” proposal in President Obama’s budget continues to draw much-deserved fire, which is only likely to increase as more information about it becomes known.Here are ten embarrassing facts about the chained CPI which the White House and its defenders would ...
  • Organic Eden Foods’ Secretive Right-Wing Agenda
     The slogan for Eden Foods, which describes itself as the “oldest natural and organic food company in North America,” is “creation and maintenance of purity in food.” Its CEO and founder, Michael Potter, has been prominent in debates over labeling of organic food ...
  • Your Sensory Guide to the Imminent, Month-Long ...
    If you live on the East Coast, you’ve probably heard that billions of alien bugs called cicadas will emerge from the ground this spring, swarming over a stretch of land from North Carolina to the southern tip of Vermont. When it hits 64 degrees, this collective of cicada offspring call ...
  • High School Students Teach Us How to Talk Abou ...
     Thank you, Palo Alto High School. This is how it’s done. We have had endless, frequently exasperating conversations of late about the harrowing culture of rape. We’ve dissected a climate in which college authorities are routinely, callously dismissive of students who claim ...
  • Despite Manning Defense Objection, Judge Rule ...
    Digital files obtained during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden can be used to determine whether Wikileaks’ leaker Army Pfc. Bradley Manning “aided” Al Qaeda, a judge ruled during a pre-trial hearing Wednesday.Manning pled guilty to leaking classified information, but de ...

Threat Level

  • Gaming Company Certificates Stolen and Used to ...
    A rash of breaches at companies that develop online videogames has resulted in digital certificates being stolen from the companies and used in attacks targeting other industries and political activists.
  • Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Re ...
    A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
  • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
  • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
    Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Tennessee Testing Prompts Louisiana Listeria R ...
    Manda Packing Company, a Baker, La., establishment, is recalling approximately 20,166 pounds of cooked roast beef deli meat due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s... Continue Reading
  • Off to Iowa Governor’s Conference on Public Health
    Big doings in Des Moines. Tuesday I have the honor to share the stage with one of my “E. coli Hero’s,” Dr. Phil Tarr.  Phil’s and my job is to... Continue Reading
  • 239 (including 31 Alta employees) Get Hepatiti ...
    CNN reports that more than 200 people received hepatitis A vaccinations over the weekend after learning that a Manhattan restaurant employee handling sweets was infected with the virus, according to... Continue Reading
  • Sushi, Salmonella and Arkansas 2006
    Sushi is not what I think about when I am in Arkansas. On February 13, 2006 a physician in Benton County, Arkansas reported 4 cases of gastroenteritis among area residents... Continue Reading
  • Hepatitis A, Not a Virus to Take Lightly
    While dessert patrons of New York’s Alta’s Restaurant line up for preventative vaccines, it is wise to recall a bit of history. Pennsylvania State health officials first learned of a... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...
  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • 20,000 U.S. M-16s stolen from unguarded wareho ...
    ABU DHABI — Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen. “Th ...
  • Want to stop the bedbugs bite? The solution is ...
    By Mark Prigg Bedbugs have become a growing problem around the world, with epidemics New york and other world cities. However, researchers have found an unlikely solution – kidney bean leaves. Inspired by a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy, researchers found microscopic hairs on kidney bea ...
  • Activist Post: IRS claims they can read your e ...
    Madison Ruppert Activist Post According to documents recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes they have the authority to read the private e-mail messages, Facebook chats and other online communications of Americans without obtain ...
  • Activist Post: Secret FDIC Plan to Loot Bank A ...
    Stephen Lendman Activist Post It shouldn’t surprise. It’s already policy. Market analyst Graham Summers explained. Depositor theft is coming. Europe is banker occupied territory. So is America. Finance is a new form of warfare. It’s more powerful than standing armies. Banking g ...
  • The Truth is Out There – The Role of Con ...
    M. Sabeheddin, New Dawn Waking Times “Ignorance…brought about anguish and terror. And the anguish grew solid like a fog and no one was able to see.” – The Gospel of Truth, 17:10, Nag Hammadi Texts “Humanity is asleep, concerned only with what is useless, living in a wrong world….Do not pra ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Peak Oil as seen through the eyes of Arab oil ...
    Summary: One of the world’s great energy experts reports on the view from a energy conference in Qatar. Oil is the fountain of their prosperity, and they well understand how brief the Age of Oil will be. . Reflections by Robert Hirsch on the Conference “Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportuniti ...
  • Thatcher said that we have no alternatives. Pr ...
    Summary:  The people in Europe’s periphery suffer from a lack of alternatives. This locks them into two ugly choices: suffer years of austerity (with no end in sight), or futile (perhaps nihilistic) protests. In fact, the West as a whole has a lack of alternatives. Here we discuss that pro ...
  • The Truth and Beauty of Madrid and Lombardia ( ...
    Summary: The fate of Europe depends on many factors, not least on the support of the people in Europe’s periphery for the European Union. Today we have an excerpt from Truth & Beauty that gives an accurate picture of conditions in this pivotal region, with a comparison to Russia’ ...
  • The March jobs report shows continued slow gro ...
    Summary:  The news media focuses on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consist mostly of noise. Strong months confirm the optimists; weak months confirm the pessimists. The trend of growth remains the real story, with the US economy near stall speed — supported only (like ...
  • Should we expect another war in Korea?
    Summary:  Our military and national security gurus love crises for like that now in Korea. As does the news media, which overflows with fear-mongering laced with war-mongering. Both feed modern America’s defining characteristic: bellicose insecurity. Here we review some general lessons fro ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Children of Blind Mothers Learn New Modes of C ...
    What happens when mom is blind? A new study shows that the children of sightless mothers develop healthy communication skills and can even outstrip the children of parents with normal vision.
  • New Striped Bat Species Looks Like a Tiny Flyi ...
    South Sudan is the home of a newly described bat that manages to simultaneously resemble a badger and bulldog. With black-and-cream coloring reminiscent of a frothy stout, the bat is called Niumbaha superba, and belongs to a completely new genus, ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Enceladus is a R ...
    As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus' south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness. The shadow of the moon itself is slowly creeping up the jets making the portions closest to the surface difficult to observe ...
  • Scientists Make Brains Transparent to Get a Be ...
    This stunning video illustrates a new way of looking at the brain. Scientists at at Stanford University have developed a method for making tissue almost completely transparent to reveal the fine-scale anatomy and molecular make up of neurons
  • Sticky-Fingered Plant May Hold the Secret to S ...
    For a bed bug, scurrying across the leaves of a kidney bean plant could quickly end any plans to foist itchy devastation upon unsuspecting sleepers. Now, using an imprint of the leaf itself, scientists have created a surface that mimics ...

PakAlert

  • Reid’s Gun Control Bill Makes a Missing Firear ...
    Under Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) gun control bill (S. 649), if somebody steals your firearm or you lose it, you can go to prison for up to five years if you have not reported the theft or loss to local police and to Attorney General Eric Holder within 24 hours. The provision merits ridicule ...
  • Obama seeks to cap retirement accounts so that ...
    President Obama wants to make sure that people don’t save “more than is needed,” and his budget proposal includes steps that would limit the amount of money individuals can have in their retirement accounts
  • IRS: We can read emails without warrant
    The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom ...
  • Video: Democrat Admits Obama Agenda Is Total G ...
    Democratic Austin City Council member and potential next mayor Mike Martinez admitted during a speech that the Obama administration’s long term gun control agenda is focused on banning firearms altogether
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities? It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City. As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...

Andy Worthington

  • United Nations and New York Times Call for Clo ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • “Indefinite Detention is the Worst Form ...
    On March 28, 2013, lawyers for Musa’ab al-Madhwani, a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, and a victim of torture at a “black site” in Afghanistan in 2002, prior to his arrival at the prison, submitted an emergency motion to US District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan, in which they rep ...
  • Andy Worthington Talks About the US Authoritie ...
    Since a hunger strike began at Guantánamo two months ago, I have been endeavoring to play my part to keep it in the public eye, because the news of the hunger strike has finally awakened significant interest in the prison, after many years in which almost the whole world had lost interest in the ...
  • As Hunger Strike Continues, Tom Wilner Calls f ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Revolution Interview: Andy Worthington Discuss ...
    Last week, Frank Harper, an activist with the campaigning group World Can’t Wait interviewed me by phone (via Skype) for Revolution newspaper. An edited version of the transcript of that interview has been published on Revolution‘s website, and is published in the latest issue of Rev ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • The State of Nuclear Power in US: Bad and Worse
  • Fourth Radioactive Water Leak Found at Disaste ...
    A fourth leak has been detected at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator TEPCO announced Thursday, and is the latest in a string of failures at the disaster-stricken facility still struggling with the aftermath of the meltdowns following the 2011 massive earthquake and ...
  • 22-Foot Gash in Pegasus Pipeline Puts Gaping H ...
    Dustin McDaniel, the Arkansas Attorney General announced on Wednesday evening that a "22 foot long and 2 inch wide" gash along the Pegasus pipeline allowed crude oil to flood the town of Mayflower with thousands of gallons of tar sands oil on March 29. "The pipeline rupture is sub ...
  • Despite Compromise, Bipartisan Consensus Remai ...
    Recognizing that true gains on gun safety laws are going nowhere fast in Washington, proponents of more aggressive efforts were forced to cautiously applaud the small progress made if a compromise deal struck in the US Senate on Wednesday between Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV ...
  • New York City to Pay Occupy Wall Street Damage ...
    In what some participants from Occupy Wall Street are calling a victory, the City of New York settled a lawsuit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with individuals whose property was destroyed by the NYPD when it raided the OWS Zuccotti Park encampment on Nov. 15, 2011. ...

Lifehacker

  • Use Colored Earbud Tips to Tell the Right From ...
    It's a tale as old as time: how do you easily tell which headphone goes in your right ear, and which one goes in the left ear (without reading tiny text)? You could always mark them with some tape or nail polish, but reader animatorgeek has a pretty clever solution. More » &nbs ...
  • How Do You Teach Your Kids About Money?
    Instilling good money management values in kids seems easy on the surface, but it's a lot more complicated than it seems. So, we want to hear it: how do you teach your kids about money? More »     
  • Mail Pilot Turns Your iPhone's Email Into An O ...
    iPhone/iPad: No matter how many filters, labels, and other tricks you have set up, organizing email is never an easy task. Mail Pilot seeks to make that a bit easier on iOS, and while it comes at the high cost of $14.99, it's a robust email app that works with just about any email accoun ...
  • Why Sighing Makes You Feel Better
    Whether it's a sigh of relief, or a sigh of grief, we all sigh throughout the day. But what's the actual purpose of sighing? Psychology Today points to a few studies that suggest it's not only a sign of communication, but it's also a breathing method that makes us feel better. More & ...
  • Put Your Plastic Wrap in the Fridge to Make It ...
    Unrolling a roll of plastic wrap isn't rocket science, but it is annoying when you pull off a sheet and it gets tangled on itself, or when you buy the cheap stuff and it just won't stick to the bowl or container you're using. Thankfully, both problems are easy to fix. More » ...

Water Wars

  • Georgia EPD director calls for cooperation in ...
    Georgia and its neighboring states might benefit more from cooperation than litigation over the water in their shared rivers, Georgia Environmental Protection Division Director Jud Turner told a University of Georgia audience on Wednesday.
  • Sharon Kleyne Shares Information About How Sum ...
    Sharon Kleyne Presents Information About How Dry Season Brings Water Wars, Famine and Disease.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) April 09, 2013 Water Advocate, Sharon Kleyne, presents information about how Summer is feared in many third world countries due to famine, dehydration, and disease.In many third ...
  • Water wars : Tennessee, Georgia locked in batt ...
    Ga. lawmakers authorize state's attorney general to sue Tenn. for access to Tennessee River's drinking water
  • Safety on tap
    Summer is here and Lakshmi Krupa tells you simple ways to get potable water at home
  • Talks avoid water war and come up with bill
    House Bill 1440 sets out a procedure for resolving disputes over water when cities grow into areas served by rural water districts.

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The Wonk Room

  • Iconic Children’s Singer Raffi Cavoukian Speak ...
    Like many of you, I’d imagine, I grew up listening to Raffi Cavoukian, the Egyptian-born Canadian children’s musician singing songs like “Baby Beluga” and “Down By The Bay”—I even have dim memories of going to see him in concert. He’s recently embarked o ...
  • Progressives of the World, Unite!
    As the undesirable constraints in President Obama’s new budget highlight, austerity continues to reign even as the jobs crisis, anemic growth and rising inequality continue to plague American and European societies.   Given the poor track record of austerity policies here, in the U.K. and ...
  • Climate Change Keeps Expanding Canada’s Unprec ...
    Since the late 1990s, climate change has driven a massive expansion of forest-destroying Mountain Pine Beetles in Canada, delivering the country one of the worst ecological disasters in its history. The insects are not technically invasive, and until recently they existed in a natural balance wi ...
  • Florida Court Allows Felon Illegally Possessin ...
    Although possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is illegal, it does not prevent a defendant from invoking the state’s Stand Your Ground law, a Florida appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel held that the controversial law immunized Aaron A. Little from second-degree murder charges, after ...
  • Two More House Democrats Endorse Marriage Equality
    Two Democratic Congressmen endorsed marriage equality Thursday. In statements on their Facebook pages, Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) joined the vast majority of their Democratic colleagues and two House Republicans in supporting equal marriage for same-sex couples. Kind wro ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canadian Banks Outsourcing Jobs
    Billions of dollars in profits. Multi-million dollar salaries. But still, they want to save a few hundred grand at the expense of the livelihoods of their workers. Who are the main shareholders in Canadian bank stocks? Of course, you'll always find some mainstream economist who will drone on a ...
  • Miserable Failure
    So, Tom Flanagan is back, writing in the Glib n' Stale. (He doesn't have a steady gig like plagiarist, shit-for-brains Margaret Wente, but that might be testimony to his inferior fellatio skills.) Anyhow, if some figure, revered by the Canadian Left, had been filmed saying that child pornography ...
  • Resisting the State - Chapter 5
    This was maybe the most problematic chapter of Scott Neigh's Talking Radical:Resisting the State for me. It's about Don Weitz of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement. Now, I've heard of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement before. And I get that mental institutions were, and remain, frightening places where hor ...
  • Resisting the State: "I Call It Surviving"
    Chapter 4 of Scott Neigh's Resisting the State deals with Lynn Jones,  a black, female trade union and community activist from Truro Nova Scotia. My Mom's family settled in Truro when she was a girl. We went down east once on a visit and my Aunt was driving us around and referred to one pa ...
  • I Don't Want To Be An Old Man Who Can't Stop M ...
    There's the example of the guy in the second video at this post. Then, ... at a talk that I gave (wherein, this middle-aged white guy got himself FORMALLY INCLUDED on the schedule) a respondent, .... a successful in life, now retired, older white guy, went off on a series of extended rants about ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Arctic ships a titanic blunder
    A new report examining the government’s plans to build Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
  • Responses from political parties
    On March 3rd Ceasefire.ca supporters and allies responded en masse to Be Heard – No Attack Drones! Nearly 6,000 letters have been sent so far! Ceasefire.ca has received responses from the Green Party and the NDP.
  • UN adopts Arms Trade Treaty
    On April 2nd, the UN General Assembly voted to approve a draft treaty to control the global arms trade. The proposed treaty leaves it largely up to the arms exporters themselves to determine the appropriateness of their exports. But groups working to control the arms trade are hopeful that by es ...
  • Drones update from Ottawa
    Thousands of emails and postcards are being sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other party leaders, and we are more than halfway to our goal of delivering 10,000 messages to Parliament. But there is a lot more work to be done.
  • Canada pulls out of UN drought pact
    The Harper government is taking another giant leap towards making Canada the least-green country on the planet -- by withdrawing from the international convention to combat desertification.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Exxon Mobil Cleans Up Major Tar Sands Oil Spil ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comExxon Mobil Cleans Up Major Tar Sands Oil Spill with PAPER TOWELS By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com (The above is video shot by a local resident in Mayflower, Arkansas.) And take a look at these must-see pictures of ...
  • Obama’s “Cat Food” Social Security Reform
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy The Real News Network (TRNN) Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Michael Hudson: Obama’s “bargain” on s ...
  • Pentagon to Build Robots With ‘Real’ Brains
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTechnology would make robots “truly anonymous” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com April 11, 2013 A Pentagon-funded team of scientists have constructed a machine that functions like a human brain and would e ...
  • Inhofe: ‘MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comInhofe: MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore created global warming hoax Raw StoryBy David Edwards   Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) on Wednesday explained that Al Gore and the United Nations get most of the blame for w ...
  • Strategies of Containment
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William T. Hathaway Many of us on the left have been kettled at demonstrations: surrounded by a wall of police, herded into a small area, and prevented from reaching our goal. ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Progressives Who Become More Progressive After ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Originally published November 21, 2009 It is one of those pesky little paradoxes in history that to the chagrin of many, shatters stereotypes, kicks ass, and takes names. Yes, you guessed it: the ...
  • Chris Hedges and Andrew Harvey: The Time For A ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad April 8, 2013 Progressive Commentary Hour – Conversations With Great Minds Gary Null April 8, 2013 [...] Among Chris’ many noteworthy books are “American Fascists” (about the fundamental Christian Right), “Empire of Illusion”, and “Death of the Liberal C ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Obama Not Willing To Support Pal ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Akshay Pahilajani – Apr 9, 2013 Date 4/8/2013 Noam Chomsky discusses Syria, Israel, Palestine and Iran in an interview with Robert Shortt. Presented by Claire Byrne Interviewed Guest: Noam Chomsky Interviewer: Robert Shortt http://www.rte.ie/news/primetime ...
  • Margaret Thatcher’s Criminal Legacy by Finian ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV April 9, 2013 Hours after the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the history books are being re-written and the beatification of the Iron Lady is well underway. Current British premier David ...
  • Why Derivatives Threaten Your Bank Account&#82 ...
    by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 9, 2013 Shock waves went around the world when the IMF, the EU, and the ECB not only approved but mandated the confiscation of depositor funds to “bail in” two bankrupt banks in Cyprus. A “bail in” is a quantum leap beyond a “bail out.” ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Children of Blind Mothers Learn New Modes of C ...
    What happens when mom is blind? A new study shows that the children of sightless mothers develop healthy communication skills and can even outstrip the children of parents with normal vision.
  • New Striped Bat Species Looks Like a Tiny Flyi ...
    South Sudan is the home of a newly described bat that manages to simultaneously resemble a badger and bulldog. With black-and-cream coloring reminiscent of a frothy stout, the bat is called Niumbaha superba, and belongs to a completely new genus, ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Enceladus is a R ...
    As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus' south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness. The shadow of the moon itself is slowly creeping up the jets making the portions closest to the surface difficult to observe ...
  • Scientists Make Brains Transparent to Get a Be ...
    This stunning video illustrates a new way of looking at the brain. Scientists at at Stanford University have developed a method for making tissue almost completely transparent to reveal the fine-scale anatomy and molecular make up of neurons
  • Sticky-Fingered Plant May Hold the Secret to S ...
    For a bed bug, scurrying across the leaves of a kidney bean plant could quickly end any plans to foist itchy devastation upon unsuspecting sleepers. Now, using an imprint of the leaf itself, scientists have created a surface that mimics ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • APJP: Petition to Eduardo Souto de Moura to re ...
    [W]e were saddened to hear that you have been awarded the 2013 Israeli Wolf Prize for Architecture, not because you are not deserving of such awards, but that it is being offered to you by the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • WikiLeaks: US blamed Israel for peace delay in ...
    US diplomats: "Before talking about extermination, and before allowing either the Masada or the Samson complex to progress to obsession, the Israelis might usefully examine their own position and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Warsaw Ghetto fighter to Israeli youth: Rise u ...
    Statements challenging the national narrative aren’t exactly common in Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day. So it was particularly refreshing to read ... about a different sort of speech delivered in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Iain Banks: Why I’m supporting a cultural boyc ...
    I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign because, especially in our instantly connected world, an injustice committed against one, or against one group of people, is an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Arab funding for Jerusalem come ...
    Assuming the Arab League makes good on its commitment ... the fund will serve only to highlight the very problems it seeks to alleviate... The reality is that Mr Abbas and the Arab League are at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Keeping up with the Drones’
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Internal debate inside the Administration must be heating up, because someone in D.C. is in a leaky mood. McClatchy yesterday released a storyon U.S. targeting operations billed as the “first independent evaluation of internal U.S. intelligence accou ...
  • Guest Post: How International Law Could Work i ...
    by Jonathan Horowitz and Naz Modirzadeh [Jonathan Horowitz is writing in his personal capacity. He is the Associate Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative’s National Security and Counterterrorism Program and Naz K. Modirzadeh is a Senior Fellow at the HLS-Brookings Project on Law ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 11, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Human Rights Watch has published a new report entitled Death from the Skies alleging that Syrian forces have killed over 4,300 civilians by targeting places like bakeries and hospitals, and calls these air raids war crimes.  Concerns about Syria and North Ko ...
  • Judge Leval’s Revealing Defense of the Alien T ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Pierre N. Leval, a well-respected judge who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, has published a full-scale no-holds-barred policy defense of the Alien Tort Statute in Foreign Affairs.   The essay, which is adapted from his lecture to ...
  • LJIL Symposium: The Idea of Justice in Interna ...
    by Darryl Robinson by Darryl Robinson [Darryl Robinson is Assistant Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law] This post is part of our symposium on the latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I am deeply ...

Public News Service

  • Senior Advocate “Dismayed” by Obam ...
    Senior Advocate “Dismayed” by Obama Budget Proposal for Social Security PHOENIX - AARP says the senior-advocacy organization is "deeply dismayed" by President Obama's budget proposal to use a calculation known as a "chained CPI" to determine future Social Security cost-of-living adju ...
  • Report: She Works Hard(er) for the Money
    Report: She Works Hard(er) for the Money PHOENIX - A new report is a reminder that the wage gap between the sexes persists. Arizona women earn 85 cents per hour for every $1 paid to men, a gap of about $6,500 a year for a full-time worker, according to the report. Sarah Crawford, the National ...
  • Grocery Chain to Require Labeling of GMO Foods
    Grocery Chain to Require Labeling of GMO Foods PHOENIX - A national grocery chain with stores in Arizona is weighing in with its wallet on the issue of genetically modified foods. Late last week, Whole Foods Market announced plans to require labeling of all GMO foods sold in its stores by 2018. ...
  • Mercury Thermostat Collection Programs Failing ...
    Mercury Thermostat Collection Programs Failing in Arizona, U.S. PHOENIX - Voluntary efforts to keep old mercury thermostats out of the trash in Arizona and nationwide are failing, according to a new analysis. Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project, said the programs run by manufa ...
  • Consumer Warning: Identity Thieves Trolling fo ...
    Consumer Warning: Identity Thieves Trolling for Your Tax Refund PHOENIX – Consumer advocates warn that identity thieves are working overtime this year, trying to get people to reveal personal information by email and phone in order to steal tax refunds. Harold Moldoff is a volunteer "Frau ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
  • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
    I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...
  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Tar sands oil: Pegasus pipeline busts a gut in ...
    In case you’re wondering, here’s what the Arkansas oil spill looks like in one backyard. Clean in no time I bet! twitter.com/cheneywatch/st… — Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 1, 2013 Within a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansa ...
  • Liberal denial over Obama plan to “reform” Soc ...
    Apparently there is nothing liberals like better than another punch in the mouth from their supposed leaders, this time from President Obama. Liberal denial over Obama’s stated plan to gut Social Security and Medicare has become comical Liberals have a multitude of excuses. Obama has bad ...
  • Martin McGuiness on Thatcher’s death
    As Alan Watts once said, hatred is a form of bondage to the object Resist celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher,she was NOT a Peacemaker but it is a mistake to allow her death to poison our minds. — Martin McGuinness (@M_McGuinness_SF) April 9, 2013
  • Bitcoin goes splat
    Credit: bitcoinbullbear
  • U.S. to America: Be Afraid! North Korea is coming!
    National paranoia is the irrational fear that you’re being threatened. Which is the more paranoid statement? 1.) AMERICAN MEDIA: “North Korea is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons” or 2.) NORTH KOREAN MEDIA: “The United States is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.” Taking ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Georgia Man Killed by Police in Hostage Stand Off
    All over the news in ATL – This took about an hour to wrap up. We do NOT endorse any action that harms our Firemen! BUT, could this have been handled without killing a man that had an obvious stress blowout? YES! Firefighter hostage situation ends with suspect’s death   Atlanta ...
  • Atlanta: Anti-police rebellion makes cops retr ...
    It’s encouraging that we are seeing the people standing up to power and police abuse more than ever! DABC From Anarchist News: Today, April 9th 2013, there was a riot in Edgewood, a neighborhood northeast of downtown Atlanta. The area is almost entirely residential and is about a year behi ...
  • 81yrs for consensual interaction, targeted for ...
    Obama’s record on the growing police state is nothing to support or brag about! Even Bush didnt go quite as far.
  • XBOX VIRTUAL PSYCHIATRIST; SimSensei Can &#821 ...
    The RT video below discusses a new Xbox Kinect app called SimSensei that can allegedly “diagnose depression”, but what they fail to mention is that this is a DARPA project named “SIM Sensei” mentioned in a one year old Wired article, see below.  It was allegedly designed ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – April 10 2013
    WEDNESDAY 4.10.13 – Archives are back and Jack Blood has a pocket full of…… rants. Breaking news, decoding the matrix, long pauses, and comedy LAMF – peace yo.

The Air Vent

  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...
  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...
  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...
  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...
  • Cryosphere – Sea Ice Video
    I wanted to see the 2012 ice loss in the Arctic so I updated the video’s.    The first video is full length, the second is just a clip of more recent years.   I repeated the result for the Antarctic which has seen increases in sea ice. . . .

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook acquires stealth startup Osmeta
    Facebook has acquired stealth software startup Osmeta, TechCrunch reports today. The deal was apparently completed last month. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the acquisition, but did not offer any additional information. Osmeta did not share an update...
  • The Walking Dead, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ar ...
    The Walking Dead is this week’s most talked about page for TV shows. The page has been popular consistently, earning the same title last February. The page is the top PTAT gainer in its category, receiving almost...
  • Status updates to share what you’re doing or f ...
    Facebook today officially announced its enhanced status update product, which allows users to share what they’re doing or how they’re feeling in a structured and visual way. The feature will be available to all U.S. users in...
  • Facebook identifies engaging posts for page ow ...
    Facebook is testing a homepage module that recommends a recent engaging post for page owners to promote and reach more people with. Reader Matteo Gamba says he saw the “Get More For Your Budget” prompt, shown right,...
  • Self-serve Facebook advertisers can use third- ...
    Facebook today announced the availability of new “partner categories,” audience segments created by third-party data providers that U.S. advertisers can use for targeting via Power Editor or the API. Grocery habits, occupation and car ownership are...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • GOP's Not-So-Shocking "Shocking Attack" On Oba ...
    It's hard to understand why so few pundits seemed to understand that President Obama was walking into a trap. Republicans want the chained CPI. But they've never been reluctant to use policies they support as a club to bludgeon any opponent foolish enough to agree with them. And only the Preside ...
  • Stephen Moore, Rush Limbaugh, And The Right-Wi ...
    mental midgets mock science, even more cluelessly than past right wing morons. In this case a high school kid calls out a Wall Street Journal hack... but the problem is growing-- as the right's attack on education continues to dumb down America (rk)
  • Oregon set to ban GM salmon and mandate GMO la ...
    In Oregon a trio of legislative bills recently introduced would require that all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) be properly labeled, as well as prohibit the import and sale of GM salmon, the first transgenic animal to ever be preliminarily approved by the FDA
  • UNLEASH No FEAR: A Campaign To Secure Our Nati ...
    The Coalition For Change, Inc.'s (C4C), a civil rights advocacy and support network, launched its "Unleash No FEAR" campaign. The campaign is a social media initiative to raise public awareness about federal workplace abuse and the danger it poses on the lives and well-being of U.S. citizens.
  • Thatcherism More Strategy Than Ideology
    Thatcherism wasn't so much ideology, but more part of an ongoing strategy. Regardless who had nominal power at that time they'd only have been able to function were they amenable to the diktat of the same unelected, oligarchic clique that controls the political agenda today.

Switchboard

  • On the Hot Seat: EPA Nominee McCarthy Comes Be ...
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. Today President Obama's pick to lead the EPA comes before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to answer questions and persaude the committee members she's fit to le ...
  • Five Reasons to Support Gina McCarthy's Nomina ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City If your child has asthma or if your parent suffers from heart disease or if you are one of the millions of Americans who value clean air, then the Senate confirmation hearing for Gina McCarthy on Th ...
  • Where sprawl still rules
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   For several years now, many of us have been predicting - or even celebrating - the end of the era of unfettered sprawl.  Central cities have been making a comeb ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • How the New Interior Secretary Can Protect the ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City We applaud the Senate for confirming Sally Jewell as the new Secretary of the Interior. Jewell brings a strong business background and a personal conservation ethic to the position. We look forward ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Lessons From the Gosnell Case
    Kristen Powers is right — we should be inferring some important lessons from the Kermit Gosnell case: We should do everything to protect Roe v. Wade and prevent the proliferation of unethical black market providers that proponents of abortion criminalization want. Arbitrary abortion regula ...
  • Never Wavered!
    Rand Paul is a totally unwavering supporter of the Civil Rights Act.   Speaking of the Paul family, I have never wavered from my conviction that any progressive could plausibly prefer restoring the Articles of Confederation to a moderate Democrat. Serwer: So Paul made it quite clear in 2010 that ...
  • Administrative Bloat
    Good short summary on the ridiculous administrative bloat at universities. While it’s arguable the extent to which administrative bloat is leading to spiraling tuition costs (although it is not arguable that it is a factor), it is incontrovertible that administrative bloat is replacing ten ...
  • Rand Paul’s speech at Howard [official t ...
    I think he nailed it. Praise where it’s due: I’d like to thank President Ribeau, the Howard University faculty, and students for having me today, and apologize in advance for what I’m about to say. Some people have asked if I’m nervous about speaking at Howard. They say “You know, so ...
  • Republican Reverse Court-Packing
    I’m sure Chuck Grassley will support adding more court seats as soon as a Republican becomes president: I would like to spend a couple minutes discussing the D.C. Circuit. As most of my colleagues know, the D.C. Circuit is the least busy circuit in the country. In fact, it ranks last or al ...

Desert Research Institute

  • KC King, Apr. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Kristen "KC" King, a Ph.D. student in the atmospheric sciences program.  She is a part of the EPSCoR Climate Change project, on the climate modeling team, and interested in climate models’ ability to correctly forecast teleconnections seen in the western U.S. in temperature and precipitatio ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    A new joint contract between the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Development and IBM will support innovation and economic development.
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
    This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Copenhagen’s Ambitious Push To Be Carbon-Neutr ...
    The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects wind farms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Marine Council's ‘Eco-Labeling’ Process Is Too ...
    The process by which the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifies seafood as sustainable is too lenient and discretionary, allowing for “overly generous interpretations” from third-party certifiers and adjudicators, a new report says. Launched in 1997, the UK-based MSC administers a well known ...
  • New Satellite-Based System Will Track Illegal ...
    A coalition of organizations has unveiled a digital tool its developers say will help governments, environmental groups, and local communities monitor illegal logging in the world’s forest regions in close to real time. Using satellite technology, data sharing, and a global network of local cont ...
  • Artificial Leaf’s ‘Self Healing’ Properties Ma ...
    The so-called “artificial leaf,” a solar cell being developed by MIT and Harvard scientists to produce low-cost electricity, is now capable of “self healing” the damage that occurs during energy production, clearing Dominick Reuter/MITThe artificial leaf a hurdle to deploying the device in the d ...
  • Probing the Reasons Behind The Changing Pace o ...
    A consensus is emerging among scientists that the rate of global warming has slowed or stalled 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. BY FRED PEARCE

Red Ice Creations

  • Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath ...
    A giant "monumental" stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled as to its purpose and even how long ago it was built. The mysterious structure is cone shaped, made of "unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders," and weighs an estimated 60,00 ...
  • Can a Small Community Throw a Monkey Wrench in ...
    The history of liberty is a history of resistance — Woodrow Wilson While New Yorkers anxiously await Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision on whether to lift the state’s de facto moratorium on high-volume slick-water horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” Woodstock, the iconic counter-cultur ...
  • Watching UK: A silent explosion of private inv ...
    Private investigation firms are multiplying across the UK: As the technology used by undercover snoopers becomes cheaper and increasingly advanced, the practice continues to grow, with even town authorities using them to bypass privacy laws. ‘A CCTV camera for every 14 citizens’ is a widely cite ...
  • Invisible ’Dark Lighting’ Blasts Airline Passe ...
    "Dark lightning" that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, scientists find. However, these outbursts do not seem to reach truly dangerous levels, researchers added. More than a decade ago, researchers unexpectedly discovered t ...
  • Meditation Allows Brain To Control Body Temper ...
    Scientists report that the meditating brain can control core body temperature, a finding that could help in boosting immunity to fight infectious diseases or immunodeficiency. A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Maria Kozhevnikov from the Department of Psychology at the National Uni ...

Not My Tribe

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Petition: The US President and US Congress: En ...
     www.tourdepeace.org WAY PAST TIME TO ACT:To End Wars To End immunity for US War Crimes To End Suppression of our Civil Rights To End the use of Fossil Fuels To End Persecution of Whistle blowers  To End Partisan Apathy and Inaction Please sign the Petition  Related: 9/ ...
  • MP3 Download - 4/30/2009 - Chemical Engineer M ...
    Chemical Engineer Mark Basile discusses with Empire Watch's George Corrette and Pat Riot his scientific analysis of 9/11's WTC dust as of 4/30/2009. Basile is currently looking to oversee a definitive study where those doing the experiments will be workers from an independent lab that have no id ...
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • New Evidence from AE911Truth Chemical Engineer ...
    "Mark Basile has tested paint chips from the World Trade Center dust from 9/11 and found that neither the blue nor red paint chips exhibit any explosive properties." A red/gray chip being ignited by Basile. Taken from Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup. As suspected, the paint chips do n ...
  • 'Splitting The Sky' Found Dead - He Was an Act ...
    From Facebook.com Sander Hicks shared a link. YesterdayRIP Friend and Comrade, Splitting The Sky. I knew him, and supported him. He died alone, but we are still with him. http://splittingthesky.blogspot.com/The 'Splitting the Sky' Blogsplittingthesky.blogspot.com

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Survival goes to court to stop Hopi sacred obj ...
    Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house.© Jonathan Mazower / SurvivalLawyers acting for Survival International have today filed legal papers in an attempt to stop the sale ...
  • Maori journalists make unprecedented trip to w ...
    The Guarani are fighting to return to their ancestral land.© F. Watson/SurvivalA team of indigenous Maori journalists from New Zealand has visited the Guarani Indians of Brazil, to investigate their plight. Their 2-part report, entitled ‘Silent Genocide’, was broadcast last week on Maori Televi ...
  • Nasa Indian killed as Colombian violence continues
    Nasa Indians have been attacked from all sides of Colombia's civil war © Francisco PedroA 57-year-old Nasa Indian man has been shot dead in an alleged army attack in Colombia. Álvaro Chocué was shot in the head on Saturday, 30th March in the Caldono Indian Reserve in Colombia’s south-east ...
  • Salgado's 'Genesis' showcases photos of threat ...
    Zo'é children playing in a waterfall.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs London’s Natural History Museum prepares for the opening of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition ‘Genesis’ on April 11, Survival International has highlighted the plight of some of the ...
  • Tanzania: Land grab could spell ‘the end of th ...
    The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more.© SurvivalThe Tanzanian government this week announced a new ‘conservation’ area on Maasai lands, which community leader Samwel Nangiria says will spell ‘the end of the Maasai and the Serengeti ecosystem’ ...

Greg Palast

  • My Apologies to the Family of Mrs. Thatcher
    By Greg Palast I strenuously object to the dissemination of this scurrilous doggerel, falsely attributed to me, on the passage of an iconic stateswoman: Naggie Hatchet dead and gone Ruled her Empire State like Queen Kong Stomping on us little peeps Just to sell our Jewels to creeps. And lost the ...
  • Bradley Manning & The Deepwater Horizon
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Three years ago this month, on the 20th of April, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizondrilling rig blew itself to kingdom come. Soon thereafter, a message came in to our office's chief of investigations, Ms Badpenny, from a person I dare not name, who was floating some ...
  • How Bush won the war in Iraq - really!
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine If you thought it was "Blood for Oil"--you're wrong.  It was far, far worse. Because it was marked "confidential" on each page, the oil industry stooge couldn't believe the US State Department had given me a complete copy of their secret plans for the oil fields ...
  • Hugo Chavez vs "The Network"
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine London, February 2002. A tiny, dark and intense woman waited at the end of a lecture until I was alone, brought her face strangely close to mine and whispered, “President Chavez needs you. Right now. To Caracas. Right now. You must come to see him.” President Who ...
  • Fukushima: They Knew
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" Two years later, the Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN An excerpt from Vultures' Picnic by Greg Palast I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the n ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Andrew Wakefield: British Government Culpable ...
    UK Measles Outbreaks Statement from Dr. Andrew Wakefield British Government is entirely culpable for measles outbreak In the wake of further media distortion, misrepresentation, and ignorance in relation to the measles outbreak in Wales, it is important to clarify some...
  • Dachel Media Update: The Mystery of Autism
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary after the jump. April 10, 2013, Youngstown (OH) News: Autism still shrouded in mystery April 9, 2013, Northern Virginia Daily: Finding hope for children with autism Youngstown (OH) News "I have been writing letters...
  • The Business of Baby by Jennifer Margulis from ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We have a copy for one lucky reader. Leave a comment to enter. Scribner is pleased to announce the publication of award-winning journalist Jennifer Margulis’s groundbreaking book: THE BUSINESS OF BABY (Scribner, April 16, 2012). In this...
  • Reaction to Autism Action: The “Unofficial Let ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. On January 29, 2013 I appeared before the San Ramon Valley School Board as part of a delegation of teachers expressing our concern over what we considered to be practices which did not properly value teachers....
  • Autism Is Medical: One Boy's Plea for Action w ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Our friend Allison Chapman posted this photo of her son CJ on Facebook - we hare happy to share his message of action with you. Please share this photo with others who do not understand how much...

Global BDS Movement

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 ...

new geography

  • Density Boondoggles
    Is it density or migration? Venture capitalist Brad Feld weighs in: The cities that have the most movement in and out of them are the most vibrant. The densest city in the world won't be as vibrant as the city with the most talent churn. Yet planners and urbanists tout the former over the ...
  • The World's Fastest-Growing Megacities
    The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it’s increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban development of over 10 million people) are located in Asia, based on a roundup of the latest ...
  • Houston Rising—Why the Next Great American Cit ...
    America’s urban landscape is changing, but in ways not always predicted or much admired by our media, planners, and pundits. The real trend-setters of the future—judged by both population and job growth—are not in the oft-praised great “legacy” cities like New York, Chica ...
  • Progessives, Preservation & Prosperity
    Conservatives often fret that Barack Obama is leading the nation toward socialism. In my mind, that's an insult to socialism, which, in theory, at least, seeks to uplift the lower classes through greater prosperity. In contrast, the current administration and its core of wealthy supporte ...
  • Green Office Towers Cast Shadow Over Sydney
    Known for her spiky hair, studded-collar and heels, Sydney’s Lord Mayor is the epitome of progressive chic. For a green activist, though, Clover Moore attracts some surprising company. Landlords owning 58 per cent of the CBD’s office space have rushed to join her Better Buildings ...

water.org

  • Feeling Good in India
    It is a known fact that children learn and absorb knowledge better than adults. Because of this, the ASOMI WSH Project, a partner of Water.org’s, initiated the Children Health Club Programme to teach good hygiene practices to rural school children.
  • Jeanne Jacque's Story
    Once her town rallied together, and worked with Water.org to dig a well, everything changed for Jeanne Jacque and her children.
  • Do something for World Water Day
    As you might imagine, World Water Day is our favorite holiday. There's no shortage of ways you can jump in!
  • Happiness in Selvi’s House
    Selvi is 37 years old and lives in Karattai Village in Vannur block, in Tamil Nadu. She and her husband work as agricultural laborers and have two daughters in school.
  • Support builds for the Strike
    More and more celebrities are supporting Matt Damon in his toilet strike protesting the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for billions.

Cryptogon

  • 20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen from Unguarded Wareho ...
    Part of the Syria op? Via: World Tribune: Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds fo ...
  • Boeing Subsidiary Spectrolab Sets World Record ...
    Via: Boeing: A Spectrolab solar cell recently set a world record by converting more energy from the sun into electricity than any other ground-based solar cell without solar concentration. The Boeing [NYSE: BA] subsidiary’s achievement in ground-based solar cell efficiency was verified by ...
  • How the Pentagon Used Video Games to Spy on Us ...
    Full interview. Via: Democracy Now: Research Credit: ottilie
  • U.S. Rice Imports Contain Harmful Levels of Lead
    Via: BBC: Analysis of commercially available rice imported into the US has revealed it contains levels of lead far higher than regulations suggest are safe. Some samples exceeded the “provisional total tolerable intake” (PTTI) set by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a fac ...
  • PC Shipments Post the Steepest Decline Ever in ...
    Via: IDC: Worldwide PC shipments totaled 76.3 million units in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), down -13.9% compared to the same quarter in 2012 and worse than the forecast decline of -7.7%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The extent of the ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our G ...
    The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold.  They are warning that we have now entered a "bear market" for gold and that the price of gold will continue to decline for the rest of the year.  So should we believe them?  Well, their warnings might be more [...]
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?  It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City.  As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...
  • 25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared F ...
    Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy?  If so, are you putting that knowledge into action?  In America today, people are more concerned about the possibility of an economic collapse than ever before.  It has been estimated that there are now three million prep ...
  • More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do ...
    The jobs recovery is a complete and total myth.  The percentage of the working age population in the United States that had a job in March 2013 was exactly the same as it was all the way back in March 2010.  In addition, as you will see below, there are now more than 101 million [...]
  • 21 Statistics About The Explosive Growth Of Po ...
    If the economy is getting better, then why does poverty in America continue to grow so rapidly?  Yes, the stock market has been hitting all-time highs recently, but also the number of Americans living in poverty has now reached a level not seen since the 1960s.  Yes, corporate profits are at lev ...

Desertification

  • New Plans Past the MDGs (IPS)
    Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/eu-calls-for-new-plans-past-the-mdgs/ EU Calls for New Plans Past the MDGs by Pavol Stracansky The European Commission has unveiled a blueprint for global development aid and called on world leaders to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with ...
  • Drought tolerant trees (e-ssortment)
    Read at : http://www.essortment.com/drought-hardy-trees-54139.html Drought Hardy Trees If you live in the high desert country and want to plant trees, you’ll need drought hardy trees. If you live in the high desert country you’ll need to realize that trees that … Continue readi ...
  • Excellent drought resistant shrubs for refores ...
    Read at : http://www.buzzle.com/articles/drought-tolerant-shrubs.html Drought Tolerant Shrubs Planting shrubs and trees that are tolerant to drought is a practical approach to maintain a beautiful landscape, irrespective of the water availability. For those who reside in dry regions, there is no ...
  • Is Sustainability Still Possible? (Worldwatch ...
    Read at : http://www.worldwatch.org/sustainability-still-possible-4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+worldwatch%2Fall+%28Worldwatch+Institute%29 Is Sustainability Still Possible? State of the World 2013 asks “can we get there—and what happens if we fall short?” ...
  • Drought and tropical storms hinder food supply ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44556&Cr=haiti&Cr1=#.UWZkMseGHK0 Drought and tropical storms hinder food supply in Haiti, UN says A growing number of people in Haiti do not have enough to eat, according to the United Nations relief wing, mostly as a result of &#823 ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Tim Hetherington, Indelible on Film
    In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington basked in the celebratory spotlight the night of the 2011 Academy Awards, where their groundbreaking film “Restrepo” was in the running for Best Documentary. While ...
  • Red Cross needs funds for Mali
    Geneva - The Red Cross has appealed for an additional $43-million to help hundreds of thousands of people in war-torn Mali, and said it would be stepping up its visits of detainees. “Now that northern Mali has been in the grip of armed violence for almost 16 months, the living conditio ...
  • Michelle Williams would love more time
    Michelle Williams Michelle Williams wishes she had more side projects. The 'Oz: The Great & Powerful' star - who recently ended her relationship with funnyman Jason Segel - would love to have more time and energy to devote to other things but is focused on raising her...
  • Audrey Tautou will be mistress of ceremon ...
    11 April 2013, 9:58 Audrey Tautou will be mistress of ceremonies at Cannes Tweet French actress Audrey Tautou will serve as the...
  • Lakers Retro Player: Nick Van Exel
    Tweet 0 Email Report Photo 1 of 33 A look back at the career of point guard Nick Van Exel with the Los Angeles Lakers.A look back at the career of point guard Nick Van Exel with the Los Angeles Lakers.A look back at the career of point guard Nick Van Exel with the Los Angeles Lakers.A look b ...

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MY Daily Apple

  • TIGER BALM ULTRA STRENGTH (Camphor (Synthetic) ...
    Updated Date: Apr 9, 2013 EST
  • U.S. agency to investigate possible leak of Me ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nominee to lead a key healthcare agency said on Tuesday that the agency was investigating events surrounding a decision on Medicare Advantage payment rates that sent shares of insurance companies soaring. (Source: Reuters: Health)
  • Insight: Insurers see promise in pay-for-perfo ...
    (Reuters) - Insurers and doctors are testing a way to pay for healthcare that has been more common in the corporate suite than the emergency room - paying for better performance, betting it is the key to controlling runaway costs. (Source: Reuters: Health)
  • U.S. Insurers See Promise in Pay-for-Performan ...
    Insurers and doctors are testing a way to pay for healthcare that has been more common in the corporate suite than the emergency room - paying for better performance. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Have a look at The ...
  • Approaches Based On Behavioral Economics Could ...
    Policies that change the environment or context in which decisions are made and "nudge" people toward particular choices have been relatively ignored in health care. This article examines the role that approaches based on behavioral economics could play in "nudging" providers and patients in way ...

Common Dreams

  • The State of Nuclear Power in US: Bad and Worse
  • Fourth Radioactive Water Leak Found at Disaste ...
    A fourth leak has been detected at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator TEPCO announced Thursday, and is the latest in a string of failures at the disaster-stricken facility still struggling with the aftermath of the meltdowns following the 2011 massive earthquake and ...
  • 22-Foot Gash in Pegasus Pipeline Puts Gaping H ...
    Dustin McDaniel, the Arkansas Attorney General announced on Wednesday evening that a "22 foot long and 2 inch wide" gash along the Pegasus pipeline allowed crude oil to flood the town of Mayflower with thousands of gallons of tar sands oil on March 29. "The pipeline rupture is sub ...
  • Despite Compromise, Bipartisan Consensus Remai ...
    Recognizing that true gains on gun safety laws are going nowhere fast in Washington, proponents of more aggressive efforts were forced to cautiously applaud the small progress made if a compromise deal struck in the US Senate on Wednesday between Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV ...
  • New York City to Pay Occupy Wall Street Damage ...
    In what some participants from Occupy Wall Street are calling a victory, the City of New York settled a lawsuit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with individuals whose property was destroyed by the NYPD when it raided the OWS Zuccotti Park encampment on Nov. 15, 2011. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Negative Energy for Dummies
    By Robert Singer Let’s say you wanted to create negative energy in the media [as if there weren’t enough already]. How would you do it? Sandy Hook, I think everyone will agree, created a lot of negative energy. Are we sure we know what really happened? Here are four possible sce ...
  • 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 benefit. Ordinary people lose out entirely. Publi ...
  • 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. They rally courageously. They defy government diktats. They brave beatings, tear gas, r ...
  • Winner Takes All: The Super-priority Status of ...
    by Ellen Brown Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the “new normal.” Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing failing TBTF banks to convert the funds of “unsecured creditors” into capital; and those creditors, it turns out, ...
  • Obama's War on Social America
    by Stephen Lendman Obama, Republicans and most democrats are in lockstep. They claim Medicare and Social Security are going broke. They lie saying so. When properly administered, both programs are sound. Modest adjustments only are needed to assure it. They're federally mandated. They're not e ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Armine Yalnizyan on the business of outsourcin ...
    In recent years, Canada has seen an explosion of low-skilled temporary foreign workers. Though outsourcing is not new, the practice is under renewed scrutiny—especially given the recent alleged in-sourcing of workers at RBC and the HD Mining case in British Columbia. On this morning’s episode of ...
  • BC's public sector: decades of cuts have done ...
    In BC, 20 years of cuts to the public sector have had serious consequences. A report released today by our BC office shows how an understaffed public sector (the smallest in Canada) has left British Columbians vulnerable: Read the news release: BC's public sector the smallest in Canada; public ...
  • The 28 cent difference
    Working women in Ontario are doing all they can to get by: they're working hard, they're driving enrolments in bachelor and master's degree programs at our universitites. But when it comes to pay, the gap between men and women remains. Women in Ontario earn 28% less than men. And we know that ra ...
  • A valuable resource: gender and work database
    For anyone doing research on work and gender, here is a valuable resource: the Gender and Work Database is housed at York University and maintained by a team of respected researchers. The GWD is suitable for researchers with varying levels of expertise and with different needs, and you'll f ...
  • New information on federal job and service cuts
    After four austerity budgets and lots of hide and seek, there are finally some answers about what services federal departments are going to cut. CCPA’s Senior Economist David Macdonald has examined over 180 departmental Reports on Plans and Priorities in order to estimate employment cuts down to ...

World Wide Hippies

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Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

Energy Collective

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Google, Blackberry, Earthlink and Red Hat Comm ...
    Although we agree that the current patent system undesirably encourages PAE activity, we are also concerned with, and suggest that the agencies should seriously examine, the outsourcing of patent enforcement by operating companies -- companies that develop technology and sell products -- to PAEs ...
  • Paul Hansmeier Pops Up In Prenda Law Defamatio ...
    The general rules for removing to federal court under diversity includes that no plaintiffs live/work in the same state as any defendants. If Alpha Law is in the same state as Cooper and Godfread (as they are), they can argue that there is no diversity, and a federal court very likely could agre ...
  • Do I qualify for Micro-Entity-Status at the Pa ...
    As per their usual, the folks at Brown & Michaels have provided a concise write-up to help inventors and small companies understand whether they qualify for Micro-Entity-Status and the resulting fee reduction. http://www.bpmlegal.com/howsmall.html...The big deal here is that micro-entities r ...
  • Sen. Roy Blunt: Monsanto's Man in Washington
    Which senator pushed the rider into the bill? At the time, no one stepped forward to claim credit. But since then, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has revealed to Politico's ace reporter David Rogers that he's the responsible party. Blunt even told Rogers that he "worked with" GMO seed giant Monsanto to ...
  • The death of the PC: Invented by Apple, accele ...
    We've seen a decline in PC sales for several years now, and both Dell and Hewlett-Packard struggle to figure out a new business plan as a result. But many people -- particularly those in enterprise IT, who tend to live in a Microsoft reality-distortion field -- have actively blinded themselves t ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Tar sands oil: Pegasus pipeline busts a gut in ...
    In case you’re wondering, here’s what the Arkansas oil spill looks like in one backyard. Clean in no time I bet! twitter.com/cheneywatch/st… — Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 1, 2013 Within a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansa ...
  • Liberal denial over Obama plan to “reform” Soc ...
    Apparently there is nothing liberals like better than another punch in the mouth from their supposed leaders, this time from President Obama. Liberal denial over Obama’s stated plan to gut Social Security and Medicare has become comical Liberals have a multitude of excuses. Obama has bad ...
  • Martin McGuiness on Thatcher’s death
    As Alan Watts once said, hatred is a form of bondage to the object Resist celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher,she was NOT a Peacemaker but it is a mistake to allow her death to poison our minds. — Martin McGuinness (@M_McGuinness_SF) April 9, 2013
  • Bitcoin goes splat
    Credit: bitcoinbullbear
  • U.S. to America: Be Afraid! North Korea is coming!
    National paranoia is the irrational fear that you’re being threatened. Which is the more paranoid statement? 1.) AMERICAN MEDIA: “North Korea is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons” or 2.) NORTH KOREAN MEDIA: “The United States is threatening to attack us with nuclear weapons.” Taking ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Cackling Paula has no idea how kids will survi ...
    You might think that the idea of financial sanctions on the very poorest children in New Zealand because of their parents’ behaviour would be an anathema to anyone who cares about the welfare of children. Its cruel, at best, and downright dangerous at worst. So when the Minister of Social Develo ...
  • How safe is your information?
     Today I attended the Financial review of the Privacy Commission. It was a disturbing meeting.  The Privacy Commission is the only public organisation in this country with a focus and expertise on privacy rights.  Privacy is essential for trust in our government and economic systems. If people d ...
  • A bad week for women and children
    It is pretty shocking our environment and democracy and that is the topic of this blog post. The National Government passed the Child Support Amendment Bill and the Social Security (benefit categories and work focus) Amendment Bill  into law this week. Both of these bills will reduce women’s eco ...
  • Anadarko amendment proves need for human right ...
    In a little victory, last night we managed to avoid the third and final reading of the Crown Minerals Bill, containing the terrible and possibly unlawful ‘Anardarko Amendment’ from passing today.
  • Running hot and cold- energy tip for the week
    There are heaps of opportunities to save money and energy and I am going to start posting tips to make it easier to be energy efficient. This week I’m looking at hot water.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Call to Action as Portland, Oregon Readies to ...
    By Dr. Mercola Water fluoridation is considered one of the most notable advancements in public health, and cities around the US spend millions adding fluoride to communal water supplies each year. But, as stated in the video above, 99 percent of that fluoridated water ends up on your lawn ...
  • How to Recognize the Plastics That are Hazardo ...
    By Dr. Mercola Look around your home and take note of just how many plastic items are around you.  From food containers and utensils to bags, water bottles, shower curtains and children’s toys, plastic has become a permanent fixture in our everyday lives – but it’s one ...
  • Electronic Cigarettes Contain Higher Levels of ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you’re a smoker, you’ve probably seen the relatively new electronic cigarettes on the market. Maybe you’ve even tried them in an attempt to quit your cigarette habit. My mom has been a smoker for over sixty years and I really don't hassle her about it beca ...
  • How Gut Bacteria Affects Your Weight, and Why ...
    By Dr. Mercola Recent studies have repeatedly demonstrated that the makeup of your intestinal flora can have an impact on your weight, and your propensity to gain or lose weight. Most recently, research1 also suggests that as much as 20 percent of the substantial weight loss achieved from ...
  • New Norovirus Strain Behind Recent Outbreaks in US
    By Dr. Mercola A new type of norovirus, named GII.4 Sydney because it was first detected in Australia, was the main culprit behind the norovirus outbreaks that sickened many Americans this past fall and winter. According to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival goes to court to stop Hopi sacred obj ...
    Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house.© Jonathan Mazower / SurvivalLawyers acting for Survival International have today filed legal papers in an attempt to stop the sale ...
  • Maori journalists make unprecedented trip to w ...
    The Guarani are fighting to return to their ancestral land.© F. Watson/SurvivalA team of indigenous Maori journalists from New Zealand has visited the Guarani Indians of Brazil, to investigate their plight. Their 2-part report, entitled ‘Silent Genocide’, was broadcast last week on Maori Televi ...
  • Nasa Indian killed as Colombian violence continues
    Nasa Indians have been attacked from all sides of Colombia's civil war © Francisco PedroA 57-year-old Nasa Indian man has been shot dead in an alleged army attack in Colombia. Álvaro Chocué was shot in the head on Saturday, 30th March in the Caldono Indian Reserve in Colombia’s south-east ...
  • Salgado's 'Genesis' showcases photos of threat ...
    Zo'é children playing in a waterfall.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs London’s Natural History Museum prepares for the opening of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition ‘Genesis’ on April 11, Survival International has highlighted the plight of some of the ...
  • Tanzania: Land grab could spell ‘the end of th ...
    The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more.© SurvivalThe Tanzanian government this week announced a new ‘conservation’ area on Maasai lands, which community leader Samwel Nangiria says will spell ‘the end of the Maasai and the Serengeti ecosystem’ ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Fukushima: Massive Leaks Continuing On a Daily ...
    from washingtonsblog.com: You may have heard that Tepco – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive water. You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month. This is ...
  • BOOMTOWN 2: Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion ...
    from breitbart.com: Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs—a figure slightly less than the national debt. In 1969, just 2.8 million Americans received food stamps. Today, over 47 million ...
  • New study: Fukushima meltdown correlates to hy ...
    from fukushimaupdate.com: Via Grist.org: Fallout from that Fukushima meltdown thing a couple years back? It’s not just the Japanese who are suffering, though their plight is obviously the worst. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the failed reactors may have given kids born in Hawaii and along ...
  • Canadian Scientists Charged with Smuggling Dan ...
    from http://www.cryptogon.com: Via: AFP: Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs. Klaus Nielsen and Wei Ling Yu, former researchers at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), are accus ...
  • Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Year ...
    from ammoland.com: The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes. ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our G ...
    The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold.  They are warning that we have now entered a "bear market" for gold and that the price of gold will continue to decline for the rest of the year.  So should we believe them?  Well, their warnings might be more [...]
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?  It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City.  As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...
  • 25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared F ...
    Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy?  If so, are you putting that knowledge into action?  In America today, people are more concerned about the possibility of an economic collapse than ever before.  It has been estimated that there are now three million prep ...
  • More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do ...
    The jobs recovery is a complete and total myth.  The percentage of the working age population in the United States that had a job in March 2013 was exactly the same as it was all the way back in March 2010.  In addition, as you will see below, there are now more than 101 million [...]
  • 21 Statistics About The Explosive Growth Of Po ...
    If the economy is getting better, then why does poverty in America continue to grow so rapidly?  Yes, the stock market has been hitting all-time highs recently, but also the number of Americans living in poverty has now reached a level not seen since the 1960s.  Yes, corporate profits are at lev ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

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

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

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Tech Drive In

  • Don't Starve: Refreshing Survival Game in Now ...
    After popular titles such as Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ) and Shank 2, Don't Starve becomes the latest entrant into the Linux gaming scene. And as always, Steam for Linux facilitated the arrival. Don't Starve is basically an endless wilderness survival game. Game's goal is to&nbs ...
  • GNOME 3.8 in a Nutshell
    GNOME 3.8 looks incredibly slick and balanced. I can't wait to take Ubuntu GNOME Remix for a spin with latest GNOME 3.8 on it. We were in the process of reviewing the brand new GNOME 3.8. And then I saw this animated video on GNOME 3.8. Probably the best (and really quick) "what's new" vi ...
  • Upgrade to Firefox 21 in Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring ...
    Firefox 20 has all the goodies and it is already available for stable Ubuntu releases such as Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04. But what about Ubuntu 13.04? Ubuntu "Raring Ringtail" is already on beta and the final release will happen in a few weeks time. And it is yet to receive Firefox 20 updat ...
  • 10 New Features and Changes in Ubuntu 13.04 Ra ...
    There were some confusions regarding the release of next Ubuntu release. But overtime, all the apprehensions were laid to rest. Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" will be released as per schedule. User Interface Freeze is already a done deal. Final beta release should also be arrived by now. And t ...
  • Most Highly Anticipated Android Smartphones fo ...
    This past year was a fantastic one for the Android community. The year started out strong with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and quickly got better with fantastic offerings from HTC, Motorola and LG. Google also released Jelly Bean with major enhancements to Android's UI and performance. If ea ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • 20,000 U.S. M-16s stolen from unguarded wareho ...
    ABU DHABI — Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen. “Th ...
  • Want to stop the bedbugs bite? The solution is ...
    By Mark Prigg Bedbugs have become a growing problem around the world, with epidemics New york and other world cities. However, researchers have found an unlikely solution – kidney bean leaves. Inspired by a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy, researchers found microscopic hairs on kidney bea ...
  • Activist Post: IRS claims they can read your e ...
    Madison Ruppert Activist Post According to documents recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes they have the authority to read the private e-mail messages, Facebook chats and other online communications of Americans without obtain ...
  • Activist Post: Secret FDIC Plan to Loot Bank A ...
    Stephen Lendman Activist Post It shouldn’t surprise. It’s already policy. Market analyst Graham Summers explained. Depositor theft is coming. Europe is banker occupied territory. So is America. Finance is a new form of warfare. It’s more powerful than standing armies. Banking g ...
  • The Truth is Out There – The Role of Con ...
    M. Sabeheddin, New Dawn Waking Times “Ignorance…brought about anguish and terror. And the anguish grew solid like a fog and no one was able to see.” – The Gospel of Truth, 17:10, Nag Hammadi Texts “Humanity is asleep, concerned only with what is useless, living in a wrong world….Do not pra ...

Veterans Today

  • Islam and the West
    More importantly, Horowitz does not seem to take into consideration the fact that Arabic countries have made enormous contributions to science, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, etc.[7] “From the eight century to the end of the fourteenth,” writes noted historian Toby E. Huff in The Rise of Earl ...
  • Why We Must Fight to The Death Against The Fas ...
    Anybody who is even partially aware knows that a fascist coup d’etat has taken place in the West. History teaches us that if we do not fight this take over to the death, we will be killed anyway.
  • President Karzai ,Obama on security Transition ...
    President Karzai ,Obama on security Transition process President, Hamid Karzai in a telephone conversation with his US counterpart, discussed issues on transition process for security responsibility from the international forces to the Afghan control and some other key issues, his office said on ...
  • Syrian Opposition: Assad’s Overthrow Wou ...
    The head of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCC) in exile, Haytham al-Manna, said that the Syrian regime is seeking to “clone the Algerian solution” to solve the crisis in the country. He called on “friends” of the regime to pressure the regime for serious negotiations t ...
  • Chinese Cinderella Reaches Israel
    Chinese Cinderella Reaches Israel — “I will take for my wife the lady that this golden shoe fits.” Cinderella’s Prince — By www.roytov.com — Pirating movies is big business. In much of Asia and South America improvised shops and stalls sell movies in cheap pla ...

electric politics

  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...
  • The Bargain With Hell
    Delegates from the Northern and Southern States didn't do any simple deal over slavery in order to devise a Constitution. No: they consciously created a complex, interlocking system of iron-clad guarantees so that within the Union the institution of slavery would exist forever. These men truly i ...

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Stop NATO

  • Top Commander: NATO Backs Georgia’s Clai ...
    Civil Georgia April 10, 2013 Top U.S. Military Commander in Europe Visits Georgia Tbilisi: Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, commander of U.S. European Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, visits Georgia. He was at the Krtsanisi training ground outside Tbilisi on April 10, where ...
  • Maupassant: How and why wars are plotted
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Guy de Maupassant: Why does society not rise up bodily in rebellion at the word “war”? Guy de Maupassant: I only pray that our sons may never see any wars again Guy de Maupassant: The army, murdering those who defend themselves, ma ...
  • Salmond Tells Americans: Scotland To Be NATO&# ...
    Irvine Herald April 9, 2013 Salmond reiterates Nato desire Scotland’s international partnerships would remain unchanged in the event of independence, the First Minister has told an American audience. Alex Salmond said the nation’s alliances with the US and other nations would endure, ...
  • NATO Chieftain Headed To South Korea and Japan
    Agence France-Presse April 9, 2013 NATO head Rasmussen to visit South Korea BRUSSELS: NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen will visit South Korea later this week, the military alliance said Tuesday, stressing the trip was long-planned and not connected with North Korean threats of nuclear war. Rasmus ...
  • Top NATO, EUCOM Priorities: Afghanistan, Cyber ...
    U.S. Department of Defense April 9, 2013 NATO, Eucom Commander Identifies ‘Three Big Issues’ By Donna Miles ==== [Stavridis] pressed for NATO to define a cyberattack to update its treaty that, when signed in 1949, never anticipated this new form of threat. Recognizing NATO’s role in protecting m ...

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Intel Hub

  • Is China’s H7N9 Biological Warfare?
    Avalon | Everyone should remember the H1N1 Emergency of 2009 and World Health Organizations (UN WHO) declaration of a Pandemic Level 6.The post Is China’s H7N9 Biological Warfare? appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • “Silver Circle” Feature Film on Mo ...
    JG Vibes | This Friday the heavily anticipated independent activist film "Silver Circle" will have its feature premiere in Washington DC.The post “Silver Circle” Feature Film on Monetary System Premieres This Week appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • US Gov. Killed 10,000 During Prohibition by Po ...
    JG Vibes | During prohibition, the US Government added poison to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government added more and they killed 10,000 people.The post US Gov. Killed 10,000 During Prohibition by Poisoning Alcohol to Discourage Use ap ...
  • CISPA Cyber Security Bill Moves Forward, IRS S ...
    Derrick Broze | As the cyber security battle continues the IRS warns no warrant needed for email.The post CISPA Cyber Security Bill Moves Forward, IRS Says no Warrant Needed for Email Access appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Vermont Police to Protest Marijuana Decriminal ...
    Thomas H. Clarke | Police from across Vermont plan to descend on the State House today to protest ongoing hearings on pending legislation that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, legislation that is supported by the state’s Attorney General, the Governor and ma ...

FRS

  • Israel’s dirty war
    [Repressive ethnic wars, designed for mass displacement and elimination, are characterized by their indiscriminate targeting and by their use of weapons which combine their military purposes with malevolent political objectives of humiliation, de-humanization through inducing disease and transfo ...
  • Israel’s dirty war
    [Repressive ethnic wars, designed for mass displacement and elimination, are characterized by their indiscriminate targeting and by their use of weapons which combine their military purposes with malevolent political objectives of humiliation, de-humanization through inducing disease and transfo ...
  • UK: Mass Actions to End Caste Discrimination i ...
    ———————————————- Campaigners urge government to tackle caste discrimination in UK Politicians and human rights groups say people from traditionally lower status Asian backgrounds need legal protection Sam J ...
  • UK: Mass Actions to End Caste Discrimination i ...
    ———————————————- Campaigners urge government to tackle caste discrimination in UK Politicians and human rights groups say people from traditionally lower status Asian backgrounds need legal protection Sam J ...
  • Margaret Thatcher’s death greeted with s ...
    Crowds shout ‘Maggie Maggie Maggie, dead dead dead’ during impromptu events Barry Neild guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 April 2013 Several hundred people gathered in south London on Monday evening to celebrate Margaret Thatcher‘s death with cans of beer, pints of milk and an impromptu ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...
  • Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
    Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • College Stabbing Instantly Becomes Gun Control ...
    The "Internet community" in general has decided it's OK to take a story about innocent people getting stabbed and make it all about gun control. Here's why it's not.Contributor: Trent Sandusky Published: Apr 09, 2013
  • 'We Don't Want the Money' a Bad Sign for Korea ...
    Giving up good strategy is a sign that things may get violent, one side having determined that a show of brute strength, no matter how unwise, is preferable to a never-ending game of chess. North Korea has closed its final link with South Korea.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 08, 2013
  • Why the Obama Administration Sent B-2s to Korea
    CNN is reporting that as part of joint American/Republic of Korea exercises, the United States sent B-2 stealth bombers on a 6,500-mile flight to South Korea, whereupon they dropped some inert munitions, and then returned to base.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 28, 2013
  • Supreme Court: Gay Marriage, Internet, Cell Ph ...
    The Supreme Court was the stage for spirited discussion on the topics of gay rights and the definition of marriage on Tuesday. The verdict? Gayness, the Internet, and cell phones all exist on the same timeline.Contributor: Trent Sandusky Published: Mar 27, 2013
  • No Cheers for Rob Portman's Same-Sex Marriage ...
    Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio came out in favor of same-sex marriage. So why aren't I applauding him?Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Mar 15, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Experiment Gives Phantom Limb Syndrome To Peop ...
    A simple illusion caused subjects to mentally process an extra hand. You've probably heard of phantom limb syndrome. Because of odd wiring in the brain, a majority of amputees get the (frequently painful) sensation of having a limb, even after it's gone. But a team has shown that you don't have ...
  • Brassiere Support Is A Lie, Say French Scientists
    Strapping breasts down won't keep them from their inevitable journey south, according to the preliminary results of a 15-year study. In a 15-year study from the University of Besançon in eastern France, sports science professor Jean-Denis Rouillon found that wearing a bra may not actually keep ...
  • Who Or What Left This 60,000-Ton Ancient Artif ...
    Shall we take bets on how the ancient-alien conspiracy theorists will spin this one? Put on your tin-foil hats and special anti-Illuminati underwear. A recently discovered mysterious ancient rock structure under the Sea of Galilee, possibly built in the same era as Stonehenge, has archaeologis ...
  • Iranian Scientist Says He Has A Future-Predict ...
    We see no reason to doubt this. Ali Razeghi, a 27-year-old businessman and scientist in Tehran, has registered "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" with Iran's Center for Strategic Inventions. Razeghi told a state news agency that the machine can "predict five to eight years of the future life ...
  • An Illustrated Tour Of Australia's Museum of C ...
    An art museum dedicated to the reproductive organs of fruit flies, spiders, snails and more     

Veterans Today

  • Islam and the West
    More importantly, Horowitz does not seem to take into consideration the fact that Arabic countries have made enormous contributions to science, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, etc.[7] “From the eight century to the end of the fourteenth,” writes noted historian Toby E. Huff in The Rise of Earl ...
  • Why We Must Fight to The Death Against The Fas ...
    Anybody who is even partially aware knows that a fascist coup d’etat has taken place in the West. History teaches us that if we do not fight this take over to the death, we will be killed anyway.
  • President Karzai ,Obama on security Transition ...
    President Karzai ,Obama on security Transition process President, Hamid Karzai in a telephone conversation with his US counterpart, discussed issues on transition process for security responsibility from the international forces to the Afghan control and some other key issues, his office said on ...
  • Syrian Opposition: Assad’s Overthrow Wou ...
    The head of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCC) in exile, Haytham al-Manna, said that the Syrian regime is seeking to “clone the Algerian solution” to solve the crisis in the country. He called on “friends” of the regime to pressure the regime for serious negotiations t ...
  • Chinese Cinderella Reaches Israel
    Chinese Cinderella Reaches Israel — “I will take for my wife the lady that this golden shoe fits.” Cinderella’s Prince — By www.roytov.com — Pirating movies is big business. In much of Asia and South America improvised shops and stalls sell movies in cheap pla ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • "Overfinance": Iceland, Cyprus...Now Luxembourg?
    The modern world has enabled many things to grow far larger than they ought to be through rather unnatural processes. Below is an alleged photo of a 30 pound "goldfish" supposedly caught in a lake in France. I still cannot believe my eyes so many weeks after first seeing this photograph, but if ...
  • Loser's Lament: Delta Air Sues US Ex-Im Bank
    The hapless and pathetic US carrier Delta Airlines seems less interested nowadays in running a viable business than in taking on quixotic wild goose chases. A few months ago it made the headlines by buying an oil refinery to help bring its costs under control. Nevermind that it's the cost of cru ...
  • Obama's Anti-China Free Trade Area of Free Peo ...
    Question: What do you get when you cross the EU-US FTA with the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Answer: The Free Trade Area of Free People (FTAFP)[sic] During the Cold War, older readers will remember that the United States began funding pro-democracy propaganda via Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asi ...
  • Mideast Tragicomedy: Iraq's '$4B Bailout' of Egypt
    It is no big secret that Egypt has been scrounging around the Middle East for emergency funding insofar as it has been unable to conclude an IMF deal. Famously, mercurial Qatar has stepped into the breach, but has been unwilling to extend more money as of late. More good money after bad and all ...
  • Island Lovin': Chasing Revenue in Cyprus, Falk ...
    No pina coladas for you I'm afraid. On today's blogging menu are--can you believe it--tax cheats and squid. In the past I've enumerated the generic ways island nations or protectorates generate revenues: tourismtax havens (paradis fiscaux)offshore gambling sitesflags of conveniencenationality fo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our G ...
    The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold.  They are warning that we have now entered a "bear market" for gold and that the price of gold will continue to decline for the rest of the year.  So should we believe them?  Well, their warnings might be more [...]
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?  It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City.  As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...
  • 25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared F ...
    Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy?  If so, are you putting that knowledge into action?  In America today, people are more concerned about the possibility of an economic collapse than ever before.  It has been estimated that there are now three million prep ...
  • More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do ...
    The jobs recovery is a complete and total myth.  The percentage of the working age population in the United States that had a job in March 2013 was exactly the same as it was all the way back in March 2010.  In addition, as you will see below, there are now more than 101 million [...]
  • 21 Statistics About The Explosive Growth Of Po ...
    If the economy is getting better, then why does poverty in America continue to grow so rapidly?  Yes, the stock market has been hitting all-time highs recently, but also the number of Americans living in poverty has now reached a level not seen since the 1960s.  Yes, corporate profits are at lev ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...

WL Central

  • 2013-02-04 Julian Assange receives Yoko Ono Le ...
    On 3 February 2013 at a private dinner at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, attended by more than 150 guests, Julian Assange will receive the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 2013 for his WikiLeaks work including, amongst other releases, Collateral Murder. This award is ...
  • 2013-02-02 Exclusive: CIA Drug Money Plot to O ...
    WikiLeaks Central presents an exclusive interview with Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, who claims the CIA has been actively plotting to destabilise or even assassinate Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, after US anger over decisions such as the granting of political asylum to Julian Assange an ...
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 14 January 2013 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of statements made by members of the Swedish Executive and government officials on the Assange case. read more
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 28 November 2012 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of links to evidence relating to the existence of a criminal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks. read more
  • 2013-01-02 Inside the Hourglass, A World Risin ...
    With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...

U N News

  • UN human rights chief urges US to close Guantá ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today urged all branches of the United States Government to work together to close the Guantánamo detention centre, stressing that the indefinite incarceration of detainees is a clear breach of international law.
  • Secretary-General voices sadness at loss of li ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his sadness at the loss of life and the damage to homes and infrastructure in Argentina as a result of the torrential floods in the capital, Buenos Aires, and in the city of La Plata.
  • Drought and tropical storms hinder food supply ...
    A growing number of people in Haiti do not have enough to eat, according to the United Nations relief wing, mostly as a result of drought and the impact of recent tropical storms.
  • The majority of poor in Mexico are children - ...
    More than 20 million children and adolescents in Mexico are estimated to live in poverty, and five million of them in extreme poverty, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today reported in a joint study with the Mexican Government.
  • UN calls Canada&#39s pullout from drought conv ...
    The United Nations today said it was &#39regrettable&#39 that the Government of Canada is withdrawing from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the only legally binding instrument that addresses desertification, land degradation and drought.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.
  • Monsanto Gets Immunity to Law – Can Plan ...
    (NaturalNews) President Barack Obama campaigned on promises to end secret prisons, decriminalize marijuana, balance the budget, honor the Second Amendment and make health care affordable. But what really unfolded was an explosion in the national debt (now $16 trillion and climbing), the signing ...
  • World War Z – Conspiratorial Review of N ...
    The core of the book is a UN plan developed to use survivors as bait to lure in the zombies so they can be exterminated. The number one enemy in this disgusting, pro-genocide anti-human publication is that, humans that have not submitted to communism and the United Nations, are undesirables that ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Wrenched: A Feature Documentary by ML Lincoln
    Watch the trailer for “Wrenched,” coming soon. “Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who will carry Abbey’s legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Rise ...
    Nature reserves [are] the little fragments of landscape where Man expects to preserve nonhuman life…. Nature reserves are the most valuable weapon in our conservation arsenal. –Michael Soulé and Bruce Wilcox  Steve McCormick, the President of TNC in 2005, wrote, “We need to move past the p ...
  • Film Premier for “The Current” in Durango April 10
      While the southwest is primarily a desert, more than 30 million people live here. In a few decades the region’s population will double while the amount of available water will decrease. Most of these 30 million people use water without thinking about where it came from or where it’s going ...
  • Around the Campfire With Uncle Dave The Rise ...
    We need to move past the place where we see people as essentially enemies of nature.  We need to break down the barriers between urban and rural, between set-asides and sustainable use, between “us” and “them.”                                       [...]
  • John Davis featured in video about TrekWest
     TrekWest’s John Davis hikes solo through Arizona’s longest single mountain range His 35-mile trek through Chiricahua Mountains includes big peaks, lots of snow, and a premier wildlife corridor  Portal, AZ — TrekWest conservationist and adventurer, John Davis, says he’s “looking forward to exper ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • ALERT!... Traitor Pat Toomey Betrays PA Gun Ow ...
    Manchin - Toomey It is urgent that every gun owner call their Senators today and demand that they oppose the “See a Shrink, Lose your Guns” sell-out bill that is being authored by Senators Pat Toomey (R) and Joe Manchin (D) – but which also has Chuck Schumer’s fingerprints all over it. Call&n ...
  • Underground and Under Sea Bases Exposed
    Dr. Richard Sauder is the author of four books and major reports. The underground bestseller, Underground Bases and Tunnels - What is the Government Trying to Hide?, which represents his first work on the underground bases issue, the esoteric Kundalini Tales which deals with paranormal and m ...
  • Takeover of Planet Earth... Jordan Maxwell
    Project Camelot interviews Jordan Maxwell... This is a long-awaited, long-requested blockbuster of an interview with one of the greatest alternative researchers of our time. Here Jordan Maxwell tells all: and builds, through out the documentary, to present his firm conclusions about what is h ...
  • Ron Paul Launches His Own School
    Although Ron Paul has left Congress, he will likely remain an influential voice... the libertarian-leaning Texas Republican has launched his own homeschooling curriculum for students, which he hopes will be “revolutionary” in restoring limited government. read more
  • Homeschooling... Laws for Each State
    Government should have never been 'allowed' to interfere with education. The United States has dropped to 26th in the world and may soon drop again. It should be the parents' choice how their children are educated and what they are taught... not dictated by the federal government. read more

Tarpley

  • Tarpley in Denver: Mobilize to Stop Obama&#821 ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 11, 2013 The Pro-War Left and the State of Alternative Media — a conference held in Denver, CO on April 4-7, 2013 at the Mercury Cafe. [download video] [download audio]
  • Webster Tarpley Program on Unbound Radio World ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com April 9, 2013 [download audio]
  • Tarpley in Denver This Sunday
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 5, 2013 Webster G. Tarpley will be the featured speaker at the panel on “The State of the Alternative Media” in Denver on Sunday April 7, 2013 1:30pm–4:30pm at the: Mercury Cafe Theater 2199 California St. Denver, Colorado 80205 Strea ...
  • Stockton, Harrisburg, Detroit Show that Obama ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com April 3, 2013 [download audio]
  • Detroit Under Austerity Dictatorship
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 1, 2013 To the extent that the modern world thinks at all about the problem of fascism, there is a tendency to regard this form of bankers’ totalitarian dictatorship as something which happens suddenly and all at once. Historians can remember Mussolini’s ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Anonymous Browsing the Internet
    Many of you may be concerned about the unseen tracking that happens when you browse the internet. Much or most of this is fairly innocuous; for example the majority of online tracking is used by marketing and advertising companies for the purpose of serving relevant advertisements to you in allo ...
  • IRS Neural Networks Are Monitoring YOU
    The IRS is acquiring a huge volume of personal information on taxpayers’ digital activities, including for the first time ever, credit card and e-payment transaction records. The agency reveals little about how it will engage its enormous new network scanning powers, but here is what we fo ...
  • Suspect Super-EMP Orbit Over United States
    Given the recent nuclear threats from North Korea directed at the United States, the satellite orbital map shown above indicates the track of the KMS 3-2 “satellite” this week from APR 8 – APR 16, which coincidentally just so happens to orbit along the eastern half of the U.S. ...
  • It’s Official, Biden Calls For New World ...
    Vice President Biden: “The affirmative task we have now, is uh, is to actually um, create uh, uh, a New World Order, because the global order is changing again…” Is this treasonous? You decide… The definition of treason includes the following…   Disloyalty or t ...
  • NOAA Weather Radio Basics
    NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is an ‘all-hazards’ public warning system. The broadcasts included local weather, weather watches and warnings, and other emergency information. NWR broadcasts all across the country, 24 hours a day, and is updated about every 5 minutes. There are more than 1 ...

Fast Company

  • This App Is Expanding 311 To Create A Robust C ...
    PublicStuff helps cities create ways to digitally connect with their citizens. In Philadelphia, though, the 311 app they made is becoming much more than just a place to report potholes and noise complaints. Even if you haven’t heard of PublicStuff, a three year-old startup, there&rsq ...
  • Taylor Swift Shows Her Songwriting Process In ...
    Diet Coke goes behind "22." If you were ever keen to see how the creative wheels spin to propel Taylor Swift’s musical creations, here’s a spot for you. The Diet Coke brand ambassador appears in the new spot, "Music That Moves," part of the brand’s "Stay Extraordinary" ca ...
  • How Work BFFs Make Your Employees More Engaged ...
    Empathy, positive reinforcement, and other "soft skills" contribute in a significant way to the very real bottom line at an organization. So help your employees build relationships. This post goes out to a certain coworker who had a desk near mine for five years and was always good for a ...
  • Fox News Beaming Coupons To iPhones
    Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and Shaw Media are testing a product which will beam product coupons to customers watching television commercials. Fox News is testing out new interactive advertisements that beam coupons to iPhones and iPads. In an announcement today, Fox News, the Wall ...
  • Big Data Jobs Around The Nation (And What They ...
    graphic by Tableau Image by JD Hancock on Flickr Read Full Story    

Jadaliyya

  • Salafism in Tunisia: An Interview with a Membe ...
    The emergence of Salafi movements in post-Ben Ali Tunisia surprised both the international community and many in Tunisia itself. The astonishment was such that when the first Salafi demonstrations took place in downtown Tunis, journalists and observers were talking quite confusingly about the ph ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (April 11)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • قطري حبيبي": ملهاة الإخوان ومأساة الناصرية"
    بعد انتخابه ديموقراطياً، بدأ محمد مرسي عهده متكئاً على بنية قمعية إعلامية، قانونية، قضائية، وعسكرية. لكنّ هذه الممارسات السلطوية القديمة/ الجديدة ما لبثت أن أثارت سلسلة من ردود الفعل النقدية ضمن مجموعة متنامية من الناشطين والفنانين والصحافيين والمدونين الذين ساهموا في أعمال دورية لا تزال تتحدى و ...
  • غرفة
    قصة عندما دخل الغرفة ورآني كما أنا، عارياً، جاثماً فوق زوجته، لم يقل شيئاً. بل وقف، متسمراً، غير متأكد مما يجب عليه فعله. لم يبد غاضباً، ولم تبد هي خائفة. أما أنا فقد كنت متيقظاً حذراً. أي شيء ممكن أن يحدث الآن. من الممكن أن يفقد أعصابه، بل من حقه أن يفقد أعصابه. لو كنت أنا في مكانه لقتلتني بيد ...
  • بمباركة ملكية: إصلاحات يقودها القطّاع الخاص في ...
                 

mediagazer

  • The newsonomics of recycling journalism (Ken D ...
    Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of recycling journalism  —  There's an important number in his week's first-of-its-kind Newspaper Association of America report — The American Newspaper Media Industry Revenue Profile 2012 — on the evolution of reve ...
  • Sinclair Broadcast Group Adds Station Heft wit ...
    Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Sinclair Broadcast Group Adds Station Heft with Fisher Communications Buy … Sinclair Broadcast Group is adding some large-market heft to its station holdings with a $373.3 million deal to acquire Seattle-based Fisher Communications.  —  The ca ...
  • Gawker Media staff told to keep headlines unde ...
    Jim Romenesko: Gawker Media staff told to keep headlines under 70 characters  —  “Why this drastic measure” of keeping headlines under 70 characters? writes Gawker Media boss Nick Denton.  “Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters.  On t ...
  • The Web's Worst Ad Clutter Offenders (Jack Mar ...
    Jack Marshall / Digiday: The Web's Worst Ad Clutter Offenders  —  Web advertising is a volume game, an arms race to ward off declining CPM prices.  The way to combat that: create more Ms.  —  Web publishers talk a big game about cleaner, less cluttered sites ...
  • UBM Tech shuts print titles to focus on events ...
    Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing: UBM Tech shuts print titles to focus on events and digital communities  —  UBM's technology division is shutting its print magazines and focusing on community websites, as part of a new reorganisation that will reportedly see more than 100 staf ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Tim Hetherington, Indelible on Film
    In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington basked in the celebratory spotlight the night of the 2011 Academy Awards, where their groundbreaking film “Restrepo” was in the running for Best Documentary. While ...
  • Red Cross needs funds for Mali
    Geneva - The Red Cross has appealed for an additional $43-million to help hundreds of thousands of people in war-torn Mali, and said it would be stepping up its visits of detainees. “Now that northern Mali has been in the grip of armed violence for almost 16 months, the living conditio ...
  • Michelle Williams would love more time
    Michelle Williams Michelle Williams wishes she had more side projects. The 'Oz: The Great & Powerful' star - who recently ended her relationship with funnyman Jason Segel - would love to have more time and energy to devote to other things but is focused on raising her...
  • Audrey Tautou will be mistress of ceremon ...
    11 April 2013, 9:58 Audrey Tautou will be mistress of ceremonies at Cannes Tweet French actress Audrey Tautou will serve as the...
  • Lakers Retro Player: Nick Van Exel
    Tweet 0 Email Report Photo 1 of 33 A look back at the career of point guard Nick Van Exel with the Los Angeles Lakers.A look back at the career of point guard Nick Van Exel with the Los Angeles Lakers.A look back at the career of point guard Nick Van Exel with the Los Angeles Lakers.A look b ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/3/13 - Is marijuana an effective treatment f ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Can marijuana help people with Chron's disease, ulcerative colitis, or other inflammatory diseases? Read pros and cons from several physicians as well as the official not clearly pro or con response from the Chron’s & Colitis Foundation of America.
  • 3/28/13 - Gay Marriage in the US Supreme Court ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Gay Marriage in the US Supreme Court, 2013 – On Mar. 26, 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case regarding the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative. On Mar. 27, the justices heard oral argument ...
  • 3/22/13 - Celebrity Golf Tournament
    www.procon.org -  - ProCon.org and the March of Dimes Canada held a celebrity golf tournament on March 2, 2013 to raise money for our charities. See dozens of our celebrity golf tournament photos and watch the celebrity golf tournament videos on our YouTube channel.
  • 3/20/13 - Diabetes, Obesity, and 25,000 US Dea ...
    obesity.procon.org - Diabetes, Obesity, and 25,000 US Deaths Tied to Sugary Drinks, Harvard Study Says
  • 3/14/13 - State with Highest Obesity Rate Pass ...
    obesity.procon.org - State with Highest Obesity Rate Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Copenhagen’s Ambitious Push To Be Carbon-Neutr ...
    The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects wind farms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Marine Council's ‘Eco-Labeling’ Process Is Too ...
    The process by which the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifies seafood as sustainable is too lenient and discretionary, allowing for “overly generous interpretations” from third-party certifiers and adjudicators, a new report says. Launched in 1997, the UK-based MSC administers a well known ...
  • New Satellite-Based System Will Track Illegal ...
    A coalition of organizations has unveiled a digital tool its developers say will help governments, environmental groups, and local communities monitor illegal logging in the world’s forest regions in close to real time. Using satellite technology, data sharing, and a global network of local cont ...
  • Artificial Leaf’s ‘Self Healing’ Properties Ma ...
    The so-called “artificial leaf,” a solar cell being developed by MIT and Harvard scientists to produce low-cost electricity, is now capable of “self healing” the damage that occurs during energy production, clearing Dominick Reuter/MITThe artificial leaf a hurdle to deploying the device in the d ...
  • Probing the Reasons Behind The Changing Pace o ...
    A consensus is emerging among scientists that the rate of global warming has slowed or stalled 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. BY FRED PEARCE

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Federal Budget 2013: stubbornness and hidden s ...
    Reactions to the federal budget presented in March differed in Québec in comparison with the rest of the provinces. In this text we will first review the budget as whole before zooming into measures which caused a big uproar in Québec. In its latest budget, the government brought to the fore an ...
  • Climate justice and BC’s political moment
    The following is based on a talk at the Bring Your Boomers election forum on April 3 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, the fourth in a series of intergenerational dialogues from Gen Why Media, and was co-sponsored by the CCPA, Get Your Vote On, LeadNow and Vancity credit union. I was asked to set ...
  • Fiscal debate in Québec: myth busting and flak
    Some myths are just so hard to debunk. For instance, people in Québec generally assume that they are the most taxed in North America. IRIS tackled the well-rehearsed allegation in a recently published socio-economic notice. The reply resounded of what Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky have prese ...
  • Carbon bubbles and fossil fuel divestment
    Divestment from fossil fuels is an idea whose time has come. Sparked by Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article last summer, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, divestment campaigns are now up and running on over 300 university campuses in the US, with 4 early victories ...
  • Build a Better Nova Scotia: the Alternative Pr ...
    The Nova Scotia provincial government is set to introduce its promised balanced budget this year. The Nova Scotia Alternative Budget, released today, proposes some concrete choices rooted in Nova Scotia communities. Rather than pay down debt, the NS-APB prioritizes balancing the social debt thre ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • USDA and Federal Partners Renew Commitment to ...
    “Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager announced today that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department ...
  • Northern Cyprus Sees Hope in Water Pipeline
    “Even as the Cypriot government struggles to ward off financial disaster, the authorities in the northern part of the divided island are quietly pushing ahead with a project to link their territory, physically and economically, more closely with Turkey, their powerful neighbor and protecto ...
  • China’s Massive Water Diversion
    “This month, a hundred years after the completion of the Panama Canal, China is expected to finish the first phase of its gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project, known in Chinese as Nanshui beidiao gongcheng — literally, “to divert southern water north.” The phrase evokes the suggesti ...
  • California’s small snowpack raises chills
    “The sprinklings of rain and dustings of snow that will fall on California over the next few days are not going to make up for three of the most remarkably dry months in state history, water resources officials said Thursday. “The mountains of the Sierra, which were buried in giant m ...
  • EPA Survey Finds More Than Half of the Nation’ ...
    “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the results of the first comprehensive survey looking at the health of thousands of stream and river miles across the country, finding that more than half – 55 percent – are in poor condition for aquatic life. “The health of our Nat ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • “we” just might mistake some
      …perfect opportunity for Az Gov Jan Brewer to declare open season on snakes … eliminate and terminate them all … OOPS … can it be she is concerned “we” just might mistake some of our elected officials as $nake$ in need of eliminating or terminating…? Filed under: Blogroll
  • don’t tell me you still think they were ...
      …what … you were naïve enough to believe these folk$ would not take action to make sure they get more campaign $$$$ … don’t tell me you still think they were elected “to serve & to protect” … you …? Filed under: Blogroll
  • good boy you drank the kool-aid
    …good boy … you drank the kool-aid… you pass the test … the American-military-industrial-corporate-congressional-complex embraces you… Kerry: US Won’t Hesitate to Attack Iran 04-09-2013  •  http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz Filed under: Blogroll
  • poor vs anointed
    …got it … if you are poor or due to economic conditions imposed by others you are struggling Arizona government will collect a FEE from you … but … if you are in the “anointed” group – like Jerry Colangelo – Suns – Diamond Backs … the Bidwill’s – Cardinals and selected other “developer$” governm ...
  • hooked on bullshit…and loving it
    …hooked on bullshit…and loving it…   The Public Be Damned on Cloak-and-Dagger Decisions: President Obama and George Herbert Walker Bush Agree   Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Read the BuzzFlash Commentary The White House’s justification of drone assassinations and George Her ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New ...
    New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) is facing a backlash over plans to aerially drop a controversial poison, known as 1080, over the habitat of two endangered, prehistoric, and truly bizarre frog species, Archey's and Hochsetter's frogs, on Mount Moehau. Used in New Zealand to kill po ...
  • Investigation clears APP of deforestation alle ...
    Two logging companies that supply Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) with timber have not violated the Indonesian forestry giant's new zero deforestation commitment, according to a field investigation by The Forest Trust, a conservation group. The investigation was a direct response to allegations rais ...
  • Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaug ...
    Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). The numbers are staggering: a single park in Gabon, Minkebe National Park, has seen 11,100 ...
  • Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare b ...
    Ringed with forested mountains forming the borders with Laos and Vietnam, the northeast corner of Cambodia has been an intriguing blank spot among my extensive travels through the country. Nestled up against this frontier is Virachey National Park, created in 1993. I began searching for a way to ...
  • Harnessing religious teachings about stewardsh ...
    Many religious groups have taken on the role of environmental custodians, citing scriptures that urge living in harmony with plants and animals. Representatives of nine world religions pledged in 2009 to develop environmental programs. The Sikh religion’s contribution to that effort is cal ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Rangitoto's blasts from the past
    Rangitoto may be much older - and more explosive - than previously believed.A new study has led scientists to reassess how volcanoes may behave in the future and could be a large step toward unlocking Auckland's mysterious volcanic...
  • Alarm over vanishing frogs in the Caribbean
    A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave.Peeps, tweets and staccato whistles...
  • Mouse brains made transparent, revealing anatomy
    Talk about clearing your head: Stanford University scientists have found a way to make see-through mouse brains.You take the brain out of the mouse, soak it in chemicals for a couple of days, and voila: It becomes transparent.That's...
  • IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead at age 87
    Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilisation research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87.The University of Cambridge,...
  • Warming likely boost to vineyards
    Climate change is forecast to make huge tracts of land ripe for grape-growing in New Zealand while threatening vineyards in some of the world's most celebrated wine regions.A major study by Chilean and Californian researchers gauging...

The Bovine

  • Bag Ag Gag Bills — what a tangled web
    From Dan Imhoff, on Civil Eats: “When might it be punishable to report a criminal activity? When it takes place inside a poultry warehouse, slaughterhouse, or on a cattle feedlot. That’s the upshot of a new wave of so-called “ag-gag” … Continue reading →
  • “Fresh Milk, Food Rights” conferen ...
    By Raoul Bedi , BASc I – Introduction: The Vancouver Fresh Milk Food Politics conference (www.freshmilkfoodpolitics.com) on April 6, 2013 was, according to Ontario Raw Milk farmer, agister and pioneer, Michael Schmidt a “milestone” for the movement in Canada. What … Continue reading ...
  • CFIA threatens Alliston restaurant over &#8220 ...
    Let’s hope the story helps advertise this restaurant! We need more eateries like this. Next time you’re near Alliston, do drop in and check the place out. From Brad Pritchard at the Alliston Herald, via Inside Toronto.com: ALLISTON – The … Continue reading →
  • Farmers Union invites consumers to join anti-G ...
    From the National Farmers Union: The National Farmers Union in Ontario has called for a national day of action for April 9, 2013 to stop the commercial release of GM alfalfa. On March 2, 2013 at the NFU Region 3 Convention/NFU-Ontario AGM passed … Continue reading →
  • “Fresh Milk, Food Politics” summary
    From Hella Delicious  on yesterday’s conference in Vancouver: “Michael Schmidt who Jackie called “Our stubborn German” was up next and he gave us some of his personal background with growing up with the rise of the Nazis and his history of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Chicago Natural Resources Expo April 26
    Those in the greater Chicago should plan on attending the Chicago Natural Resources Expo on April 26 for a discussion about gold, silver, hard assets, inflation, currencies (or whatever else is on your mind). You also have the opportunity to meet with various natural resource company exec ...
  • Eurozone Math; One Size Fits Germany; Door Num ...
    Reader "JB" thinks I am blaming Germany for what is happening. That's not exactly correct, but let's take a look at what "JB" has to say via email. Hi Mish, I read your blog daily. We are generally on the same page. We even agree that in all probability the eurozone will break up. How ...
  • Eurointelligence Founder Wolfgang Münchau, Onc ...
    Things have no gone full circle. Wolfgang Münchau, a staunch euro supporter now realizes the political hopelessness of it all. In an article in Der Spiegel, Münchau shows he is ready to throw in the towel. Via Mish-modified Google Translation ... In her final year as prime minister, ...
  • Brussels Threatens Spain With Fines of 0.1% of GDP
    Never mind that Spanish unemployment is 26.6% and youth unemployment exceeds 55%. The nannycrats wants Spain to hike taxes even more to make up for budget shortfalls. Hiking taxes and levying fines in a severe depression is of course sheer idiocy, nonetheless, Brussels issued a new warning ...
  • S&P 500 May Fall More Than 40% By Fall Says Ch ...
    In another interview from the Wine Country Conference, Chris Martenson says S&P 500 May Fall More Than 40% By Fall. Even though the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are hovering at all-time highs, Chris Martenson, author of PeakProsperity.com and the “Crash Course” Series, ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • NYK Line’s New Tsunami Alert System Warns Vess ...
    We have all heard that tsunami’s pass harmlessly beneath ships at sea, and that their true force doesn’t present itself until the seafloor rises to force the wave up and [...]
  • Russia Arctic LNG Plant To Ship To Europe, UK ...
    By Oleg Vukmanovic LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) – The partners in Russia’s Yamal liquefied natural gas project are in talks to ship cargoes to Britain and northwest Europe in winter, [...]
  • FY 2014 Administration Budget Offers ‘Potpourr ...
    By American Association of Port Authorities With the release [Wednesday] of President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget, the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA)—representing seaports in the United States and throughout the [...]
  • SMIT and SAAM Form Towing Joint Venture
    SMIT and Sudamericana Agencias Aereas y Maritimas (SAAM) are teaming up in a joint harbor towing operation that will involve two joint ventures and the combined operation of 96 tugs [...]
  • ConocoPhillips Halts Chukchi Plans as U.S. Rev ...
    By Edward Klump (Bloomberg) – ConocoPhillips, the largest U.S. independent oil and natural gas producer, put its plans to explore in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea in 2014 on hold because of uncertainties [...]

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SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Delving into Dinosaur Development
    A chance fossil discovery in Yunnan province in China has yielded one of the oldest and most interesting collection of fossilised dinosaur embryos yet. These fossils, including preserved organic...
  • Changing Climate Increases Turbulence
    Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide could lead to more "clear air turbulence", leading to bumpier and more expensive transatlantic flights. Turbulence may make a flight less comfortable for passeng...
  • Obama's brain science funding
    Dominic - Neuroscience stories seem to be a theme this week as last Tuesday, President Obama announced the brain initiative which offers $100 million of federal funding to map, in detail, the w...
  • Baldness-heart disease link
    Balding men may be at greater risk of heart disease, a new study has revealed. Writing in BMJ Open, University of Tokyo scientist Tomohide Yamada and his colleagues analysed data collected previous...
  • Can computers read our dreams?
    Scientistshave developed the first system which is able to predict what objects are appearing in peoples' dreams. The team, led by Tomoyasu Horikawa of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Labora...

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Symbolic of Thatcher's Legacy: Her Greeting Ca ...
    Summary: Margaret Thatcher died Monday, April 8, 2013, at the age of 87. Predictably, there is no dearth of hagiographic profiles of the former British Prime Minister in the mainstream press and scathing vitriol elsewhere. But while The Economist hails Thatcher for her "willingness to stand ...
  • In this nuclear standoff, it's the US that's ...
    Summary: The use of threats and isolation against Iran and North Korea is a bizarre, perilous way to conduct foreign relations source: The Guardianread more
  • Podcast discussion with two of America's leadi ...
    Summary: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett are two of the nation's preeminent experts on all matters relating to Iran. They have also become the nation's most unlikely yet compelling critics of US policy toward Tehran and particularly the misconceptions shaping political and media disc ...
  • Suppressing Reality-Based Analysis: Chomsky, t ...
    Summary: What is at play here is this destructive dynamic that the more one dissents from political orthodoxies, the more personalized, style-focused and substance-free the attacks become. That’s because once someone becomes sufficiently critical of establishment pieties, the goal is not mer ...
  • US Policy in Iran: ‘Calculated and Gradual Coe ...
    Summary: During his confirmation process to become Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel delivered a slip of the tongue when describing his support for the Obama administration’s policy of “containment” of Iran. With cameras rolling and Senators ready to pounce, somebody passed Hagel a note, at w ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Did Our Solar System Evolve in a More Oxygen- ...
                   "Our solar system is different than the space right outside it, suggesting two possibilities," said David McComas, IBEX principal investigator, at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "Either the solar system evolved in a ...
  • Image of the Day: 1,000 Monster Black Hole Pan ...
                             In 2007, Chandra X-Ray astronomers captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes, giving scientists a snapshot of a crucial period when these monster black holes are growing, and provide insight into the environments in which they occur ...
  • Strange Galaxy Falling into Virgo Cluster at 1 ...
                     IC 3418 is a small galaxy falling into the Virgo cluster of galaxies (above) at such a high speed (a thousand kilometers per second) that its blanket of cool gas strips off. As it passed through the cluster, its stripped-off cool gas formed a 55,500 light-years-long t ...
  • "Saturn's Ring System Rains Water into Atmosph ...
                     NASA funded observations on the W. M. Keck Observatory with analysis led by the University of Leicester, England tracked the "rain" of charged water particles into the atmosphere of Saturn and found the extent of the ring-rain is far greater, and falls across larger a ...
  • Spitzer Space Telescope --An Infrared "Cosmic ...
      Spitzer was able to improve upon past measurements of Hubble's constant due to its infrared vision, which sees through dust to provide better views of variable stars called Cepheids. These pulsating stars are vital "rungs" in the distance ladder. ...

Natural News

  • Top bitcoin exchange freezes, arbitrarily shut ...
    It is now abundantly obvious that bitcoin has become an insidious "trap" that's taking money from suckers who are deluded into believing the "bitcoin cult." The top bitcoin exchange, MTGox, now openly admits that its trade engine crashed during the yesterday's panic...
  • Mind control, the shell game, and the stealth gods
    Of the many definitions of collectivism, this simple one is my favorite: "The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it." When I was starting out as a reporter 30 years ago, one of my first editors sat down with me and said, " In...
  • A powerful way to kill cancer from the inside out
    A lack of education kills more people than cancer, heart disease and conventional medicine combined. Would we really see so much death and destruction if the majority of the people really knew about the value of fresh, clean food, water and air? And, if people really...
  • Depression in men linked to folic acid deficiency
    Men who do not get enough folic acid in their diets may be more susceptible to depression, studies have shown. Folic acid is the dietary form of vitamin B9 and is found primarily in green leafy vegetables, citrus fruit, beans and other legumes, liver, and yeast (including...
  • Manage diabetes with the foods you love
    Every year, people continue to be diagnosed with the different types of diabetes. And since the major causes are not all the time organic, diabetes can be managed and can be reversed with a better lifestyle. And while most people see lifestyle management as an opportunity...

Threat Level

  • Gaming Company Certificates Stolen and Used to ...
    A rash of breaches at companies that develop online videogames has resulted in digital certificates being stolen from the companies and used in attacks targeting other industries and political activists.
  • Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Re ...
    A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
  • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
  • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
    Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Bush, Obama Tax Cuts Five Times Larger Than Pr ...
    Despite slashing the national debt by an additional $1.8 trillion over the next decade, President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget was received with two predictable talking points by Republican leaders. House Majority Eric Cantor, who previously complained about being called a "hostage ...
  • Will Max Baucus Betray Democrats on Taxes Again?
    At the very start of his political career back in the 1970's, Montana Senator Max Baucus asked New Deal veteran James Rowe Jr., "Do you think I should run as a Republican or a Democrat?" Rowe's uneasy answer--"I sure hope you'll be a Democrat"--has defined Baucus' career ever since. After all, ...
  • Mitt Romney's New Hometown is Going to the Birds
    During his first run for the White House, Mitt Romney briefly crowed that "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." But two days later, he was forced to amend that pander to the NRA by clarifying, "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will." Now his new hometo ...
  • Hostage Taker Boehner Accuses Obama of Hostage ...
    On the federal budget as with so much else, Republicans won't take yes as an answer from President Obama. On Friday, the White House rolled out its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal cutting projected deficits by $1.8 trillion in part by adopting the means testing of Medicare benefits and the "ch ...
  • 10 Reasons Why Uncle Sam Needs More Tax Revenue
    The Obama administration on Friday lifted the covers on its compromise budget proposal for fiscal year 2014. But despite slashing the national debt by a projected $1.8 trillion over the next decade (bringing the total reductions since 2011 to $4.3 trillion) through painful changes to Social Sec ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Cyber Baby – Future Soldier
    Shel Silverstein said, “Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.” I try to stick to that, but I do want to say one thing about half of this cartoon–Parents(!) get your kids OFF devices! They need time with you AND time alone with ...
  • Many Sick Sea Lions Found In California
    Over 1,000 sick or starving sea lion pups have washed up on shores in Southern California since January. This trend has been reported about for months, according to the Marine Mammal Care Center. Some of the pups washing up on shores now are the same ones that were rescued previously. One female ...
  • Apocalypse Avoided? Fed Budget Funds NASA Miss ...
      The spate of recent, near-Earth, asteroid ‘fly-bys’, along with the recent (and sensational) Russian meteor explosion, has heightened public awareness of these random space-based threats and prompted public calls for action. Some space agencies, research institutes and private ...
  • Complex Artificial Reservoirs Were Used By Rur ...
    New research done at the ancient Maya site of Medicinal Trail in northwestern Belize has now revealed how some of the rural populations gathered, managed, and purified the water that they used during the dry season. It had already been known that the larger urban areas possessed complex water ga ...
  • Bat Resembling Badger Discovered
    Is it a bat or flying badger? The yellow stripes on a small black face are reminiscent of a badger, but that is where the resemblance ends. Niumbaha superba is the bat’s name and it didn’t come all that easily, because when it was first discovered the wrong genus was assumed – ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Dear Congress: You Are NOT America's "Nobility"
    By @TomBales1 Ladies & Gentlemen: As one of your employers it has come to my attention that there are certain things going on during the course of your employment with our organization that need to be straightened out before they've gone too far to reverse, which I fear may already be the c ...
  • The Familiar Voice of Reaction
    By @TedFrier Rabbi Steven Pruzansky blames it all on President Obama's reelection last November. But the rabbi's reactionary requiem on the loss of what he calls the "traditional American virtues" of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness, woul ...
  • The Regressive Mr. Jones
  • Sequester Begins To Bite
    By @TedFrier This week I met the federal budget sequester up close and personal.   On Wednesday, I was on hand alongside hundreds of others at Worcester Regional Airport as JetBlue President David Barger touched down in the newest JetBlue plane in his fleet, an Airbus 320 nicknamed the "Blu ...
  • It's a Boy!
    By @BGinKC Both Moms and baby are doing fine after he entered screaming at about 2:25 this afternoon, weighing ten pounds, eleven ounces and 20 1/2 inches long. His name is Jonathan Jacob and he's perfect in every way. His Mom came into the world with the same cocked eyebrow and look of skeptici ...

Care 2

  • US trains dogs to detect illegal wildlife products
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a launched a new initiative to detect illegal wildlife products being smuggled with the first class of "wildlife detector dogs" and their handlers graduated from training in searching for protected species Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • End Sexual Violence, Beatings, and Ethnic Disc ...
    The new Somali government plans to relocate tens of thousands of internally displaced peoples (IDPs) into the capital of Mogadishu during the next few years. Thousands of IDPs have already descended upon the war-torn city, however, due to the widespread Submitted by Agnes N. to World  |&n ...
  • President Obama Proposes 2014 Budget
    New budget includes a 2.25-to-1 ratio of spending cuts to new tax revenue; reduces Social Security benefits; cuts Pentagon by 1.6 percent. Submitted by JL A. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Protect Marine Life on Kangaroo Island ! PLEAS ...
    Protect the marine life of Kangaroo Island by preventing petroleum exploration Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Protect Pacific Salmon by Maintaining Forage F ...
    Ask leaders to protect salmon ecosystems by protecting the populations of their prey Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Maggie Thatcher, Good On Ye
    The passing of Lady Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a grocer, evoked quite a response from the looney left. While I like to think I am tolerant of genuine differences of opinion, the idiotic gibberings of morons like MSNBC’s Martin Bashir makes me want to toss foreign assholes like him ...
  • Special Operations Speaks on Benghazi
    My old friend, Colonel (retired USAF) Dick Brauer was up at the crack of dawn today talking with Fox and Friends about the letter that Special Operations Speaks is sending to the House of Representatives calling for an investigation into the unanswered questions surrounding the terrorist strike ...
  • North Korea Posturing for War
    Although the saber rattling bombast and threats emanating from North Korea’s boy ruler, Kim Jung Un, are grounded in North Korea’s domestic politics, they are producing an unsettling international reaction that carries the growing risk of sparking a war. A war between North and South ...
  • The Unemployment Holocaust
    The latest dismal job numbers tell a dark and disturbing story. The labor force has shrunk dramatically by more than 10 million people since 2008. According to BLS statistics, the number of people no longer in the labor force at the end of 2008 waas 79,501,000. Today? That number stands at 89,96 ...
  • The CIA Playing Hardball on Benghazi
    When I first heard of this from a friend who had first hand knowledge, I was still skeptical. What did I hear? The CIA is conducting weekly polygraphs of officers who work in paramilitary activities (I knew it as Special Activities Division back in my day) and were involved in supporting the ope ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Students support legislation against mountaint ...
    Students support legislation against mountaintop removal Richmond Register Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition delegate Carol Hinds talks with EKU professor Elaine Waters about the affects of mountaintop removal Wednesday. Waters signs the petition that will be sent to legislators to encour ...
  • Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-rem ...
    Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-removal mining at UNCA event ... Mountain Xpress Junior Walk, a West Virginia native who travels the country speaking out against mountaintop-removal mining on behalf of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, i ...
  • LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop remo ...
    LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop removal York Dispatch Here's a better idea: Let's demand Congress pass the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act, H.R. 526. The Act will place a moratorium on new mountaintop removal "mines" until the science demonstrates th ...
  • Stop mountaintop removal mining - Columbia Star
    Stop mountaintop removal mining Columbia Star As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too late. Mountaintop removal no ...
  • Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining ...
    Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining Akron Leader Publications As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too la ...

Memeorandum

  • Report: Progress Kentucky activists recorded M ...
    Kevin Robillard / Politico: Report: Progress Kentucky activists recorded Mitch McConnell meeting  —  A Democratic official in Kentucky told a local radio station on Thursday that two men affiliated with the controversial Progress Kentucky super PAC told him they were responsible ...
  • Senate Votes 68-31 to Allow Debate on Gun Legi ...
    Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times: Senate Votes 68-31 to Allow Debate on Gun Legislation  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday cleared the way for debate on the first piece of major gun-control legislation to be considered in that chamber in two decades.  — ...
  • Anthony Weiner picks up first endorsement for ...
    Kevin Cirilli / Politico: Anthony Weiner picks up first endorsement for mayoral run  —  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Thursday endorsed Anthony Weiner for mayor of New York City.  —  “Anthony's a good guy in my opinion.  Now, he should've came clean ...
  • Senators who split with their party on guns (P ...
    Politico: Senators who split with their party on guns  —  Sixteen Republicans split with their party leaders and voted Thursday to end the GOP filibuster of gun control legislation and begin what will be a contentious Senate debate on the issue.  —  The final vot ...
  • Delaware: The Next Blue State to Move on Marri ...
    David Weigel / Slate: Delaware: The Next Blue State to Move on Marriage Equality  —  A same-sex marriage supporter has her forehead painted with a rainbow as she joins a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court on March 27, 2013 in Washington, DC.  —  Last yea ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Fiji region
    Thursday, April 11, 2013 15:28:27 UTC Friday, April 12, 2013 03:28:27 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
  • M 5.2, Myanmar
    Thursday, April 11, 2013 03:47:03 UTC Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:17:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
  • M 5.8, Batan Islands region, Philippines
    Wednesday, April 10, 2013 20:20:26 UTC Thursday, April 11, 2013 04:20:26 AM at epicenterDepth: 4.20 km (2.61 mi)
  • M 5.0, Molucca Sea
    Wednesday, April 10, 2013 19:59:29 UTC Thursday, April 11, 2013 03:59:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 66.00 km (41.01 mi)
  • M 5.5, Honduras
    Wednesday, April 10, 2013 19:14:02 UTC Wednesday, April 10, 2013 01:14:02 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 中国地球工&#3124 ...
    为了应对干旱，中国政府加大了人工增雨的力度。然而，不少专家对此却持怀疑态度 ...
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    中国新领导集体设立了雄心勃勃的目标，力图突破风力发电的瓶颈，并鼓励小型太阳 ...
  • “拱心石”输 ...
    如果争议巨大的加拿大油砂管道向前推进，环保人士可能会向亚洲石油消费者“宣战& ...
  • 中国猪肉为&#2016 ...
    面对当前畜禽肉类引发的公众焦虑，中国兽医协会会长、曾任首任兽医局局长的贾幼 ...
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    甲玛矿区发生的山体滑坡悲剧之后，质疑西藏矿业扩张的声音越来越大。中国矿产企 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 10 Facts Obama Doesn't Want You to Know About ...
     The “chained CPI” proposal in President Obama’s budget continues to draw much-deserved fire, which is only likely to increase as more information about it becomes known.Here are ten embarrassing facts about the chained CPI which the White House and its defenders would ...
  • Organic Eden Foods’ Secretive Right-Wing Agenda
     The slogan for Eden Foods, which describes itself as the “oldest natural and organic food company in North America,” is “creation and maintenance of purity in food.” Its CEO and founder, Michael Potter, has been prominent in debates over labeling of organic food ...
  • Your Sensory Guide to the Imminent, Month-Long ...
    If you live on the East Coast, you’ve probably heard that billions of alien bugs called cicadas will emerge from the ground this spring, swarming over a stretch of land from North Carolina to the southern tip of Vermont. When it hits 64 degrees, this collective of cicada offspring call ...
  • High School Students Teach Us How to Talk Abou ...
     Thank you, Palo Alto High School. This is how it’s done. We have had endless, frequently exasperating conversations of late about the harrowing culture of rape. We’ve dissected a climate in which college authorities are routinely, callously dismissive of students who claim ...
  • Despite Manning Defense Objection, Judge Rule ...
    Digital files obtained during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden can be used to determine whether Wikileaks’ leaker Army Pfc. Bradley Manning “aided” Al Qaeda, a judge ruled during a pre-trial hearing Wednesday.Manning pled guilty to leaking classified information, but de ...

Threat Level

  • Gaming Company Certificates Stolen and Used to ...
    A rash of breaches at companies that develop online videogames has resulted in digital certificates being stolen from the companies and used in attacks targeting other industries and political activists.
  • Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Re ...
    A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
  • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
  • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
    Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Tennessee Testing Prompts Louisiana Listeria R ...
    Manda Packing Company, a Baker, La., establishment, is recalling approximately 20,166 pounds of cooked roast beef deli meat due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s... Continue Reading
  • Off to Iowa Governor’s Conference on Public Health
    Big doings in Des Moines. Tuesday I have the honor to share the stage with one of my “E. coli Hero’s,” Dr. Phil Tarr.  Phil’s and my job is to... Continue Reading
  • 239 (including 31 Alta employees) Get Hepatiti ...
    CNN reports that more than 200 people received hepatitis A vaccinations over the weekend after learning that a Manhattan restaurant employee handling sweets was infected with the virus, according to... Continue Reading
  • Sushi, Salmonella and Arkansas 2006
    Sushi is not what I think about when I am in Arkansas. On February 13, 2006 a physician in Benton County, Arkansas reported 4 cases of gastroenteritis among area residents... Continue Reading
  • Hepatitis A, Not a Virus to Take Lightly
    While dessert patrons of New York’s Alta’s Restaurant line up for preventative vaccines, it is wise to recall a bit of history. Pennsylvania State health officials first learned of a... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...
  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • 20,000 U.S. M-16s stolen from unguarded wareho ...
    ABU DHABI — Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen. “Th ...
  • Want to stop the bedbugs bite? The solution is ...
    By Mark Prigg Bedbugs have become a growing problem around the world, with epidemics New york and other world cities. However, researchers have found an unlikely solution – kidney bean leaves. Inspired by a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy, researchers found microscopic hairs on kidney bea ...
  • Activist Post: IRS claims they can read your e ...
    Madison Ruppert Activist Post According to documents recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes they have the authority to read the private e-mail messages, Facebook chats and other online communications of Americans without obtain ...
  • Activist Post: Secret FDIC Plan to Loot Bank A ...
    Stephen Lendman Activist Post It shouldn’t surprise. It’s already policy. Market analyst Graham Summers explained. Depositor theft is coming. Europe is banker occupied territory. So is America. Finance is a new form of warfare. It’s more powerful than standing armies. Banking g ...
  • The Truth is Out There – The Role of Con ...
    M. Sabeheddin, New Dawn Waking Times “Ignorance…brought about anguish and terror. And the anguish grew solid like a fog and no one was able to see.” – The Gospel of Truth, 17:10, Nag Hammadi Texts “Humanity is asleep, concerned only with what is useless, living in a wrong world….Do not pra ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Peak Oil as seen through the eyes of Arab oil ...
    Summary: One of the world’s great energy experts reports on the view from a energy conference in Qatar. Oil is the fountain of their prosperity, and they well understand how brief the Age of Oil will be. . Reflections by Robert Hirsch on the Conference “Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportuniti ...
  • Thatcher said that we have no alternatives. Pr ...
    Summary:  The people in Europe’s periphery suffer from a lack of alternatives. This locks them into two ugly choices: suffer years of austerity (with no end in sight), or futile (perhaps nihilistic) protests. In fact, the West as a whole has a lack of alternatives. Here we discuss that pro ...
  • The Truth and Beauty of Madrid and Lombardia ( ...
    Summary: The fate of Europe depends on many factors, not least on the support of the people in Europe’s periphery for the European Union. Today we have an excerpt from Truth & Beauty that gives an accurate picture of conditions in this pivotal region, with a comparison to Russia’ ...
  • The March jobs report shows continued slow gro ...
    Summary:  The news media focuses on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consist mostly of noise. Strong months confirm the optimists; weak months confirm the pessimists. The trend of growth remains the real story, with the US economy near stall speed — supported only (like ...
  • Should we expect another war in Korea?
    Summary:  Our military and national security gurus love crises for like that now in Korea. As does the news media, which overflows with fear-mongering laced with war-mongering. Both feed modern America’s defining characteristic: bellicose insecurity. Here we review some general lessons fro ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Children of Blind Mothers Learn New Modes of C ...
    What happens when mom is blind? A new study shows that the children of sightless mothers develop healthy communication skills and can even outstrip the children of parents with normal vision.
  • New Striped Bat Species Looks Like a Tiny Flyi ...
    South Sudan is the home of a newly described bat that manages to simultaneously resemble a badger and bulldog. With black-and-cream coloring reminiscent of a frothy stout, the bat is called Niumbaha superba, and belongs to a completely new genus, ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Enceladus is a R ...
    As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus' south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness. The shadow of the moon itself is slowly creeping up the jets making the portions closest to the surface difficult to observe ...
  • Scientists Make Brains Transparent to Get a Be ...
    This stunning video illustrates a new way of looking at the brain. Scientists at at Stanford University have developed a method for making tissue almost completely transparent to reveal the fine-scale anatomy and molecular make up of neurons
  • Sticky-Fingered Plant May Hold the Secret to S ...
    For a bed bug, scurrying across the leaves of a kidney bean plant could quickly end any plans to foist itchy devastation upon unsuspecting sleepers. Now, using an imprint of the leaf itself, scientists have created a surface that mimics ...

PakAlert

  • Reid’s Gun Control Bill Makes a Missing Firear ...
    Under Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) gun control bill (S. 649), if somebody steals your firearm or you lose it, you can go to prison for up to five years if you have not reported the theft or loss to local police and to Attorney General Eric Holder within 24 hours. The provision merits ridicule ...
  • Obama seeks to cap retirement accounts so that ...
    President Obama wants to make sure that people don’t save “more than is needed,” and his budget proposal includes steps that would limit the amount of money individuals can have in their retirement accounts
  • IRS: We can read emails without warrant
    The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom ...
  • Video: Democrat Admits Obama Agenda Is Total G ...
    Democratic Austin City Council member and potential next mayor Mike Martinez admitted during a speech that the Obama administration’s long term gun control agenda is focused on banning firearms altogether
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities? It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City. As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...

Andy Worthington

  • United Nations and New York Times Call for Clo ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • “Indefinite Detention is the Worst Form ...
    On March 28, 2013, lawyers for Musa’ab al-Madhwani, a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, and a victim of torture at a “black site” in Afghanistan in 2002, prior to his arrival at the prison, submitted an emergency motion to US District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan, in which they rep ...
  • Andy Worthington Talks About the US Authoritie ...
    Since a hunger strike began at Guantánamo two months ago, I have been endeavoring to play my part to keep it in the public eye, because the news of the hunger strike has finally awakened significant interest in the prison, after many years in which almost the whole world had lost interest in the ...
  • As Hunger Strike Continues, Tom Wilner Calls f ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Revolution Interview: Andy Worthington Discuss ...
    Last week, Frank Harper, an activist with the campaigning group World Can’t Wait interviewed me by phone (via Skype) for Revolution newspaper. An edited version of the transcript of that interview has been published on Revolution‘s website, and is published in the latest issue of Rev ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • The State of Nuclear Power in US: Bad and Worse
  • Fourth Radioactive Water Leak Found at Disaste ...
    A fourth leak has been detected at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator TEPCO announced Thursday, and is the latest in a string of failures at the disaster-stricken facility still struggling with the aftermath of the meltdowns following the 2011 massive earthquake and ...
  • 22-Foot Gash in Pegasus Pipeline Puts Gaping H ...
    Dustin McDaniel, the Arkansas Attorney General announced on Wednesday evening that a "22 foot long and 2 inch wide" gash along the Pegasus pipeline allowed crude oil to flood the town of Mayflower with thousands of gallons of tar sands oil on March 29. "The pipeline rupture is sub ...
  • Despite Compromise, Bipartisan Consensus Remai ...
    Recognizing that true gains on gun safety laws are going nowhere fast in Washington, proponents of more aggressive efforts were forced to cautiously applaud the small progress made if a compromise deal struck in the US Senate on Wednesday between Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV ...
  • New York City to Pay Occupy Wall Street Damage ...
    In what some participants from Occupy Wall Street are calling a victory, the City of New York settled a lawsuit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with individuals whose property was destroyed by the NYPD when it raided the OWS Zuccotti Park encampment on Nov. 15, 2011. ...

Lifehacker

  • Use Colored Earbud Tips to Tell the Right From ...
    It's a tale as old as time: how do you easily tell which headphone goes in your right ear, and which one goes in the left ear (without reading tiny text)? You could always mark them with some tape or nail polish, but reader animatorgeek has a pretty clever solution. More » &nbs ...
  • How Do You Teach Your Kids About Money?
    Instilling good money management values in kids seems easy on the surface, but it's a lot more complicated than it seems. So, we want to hear it: how do you teach your kids about money? More »     
  • Mail Pilot Turns Your iPhone's Email Into An O ...
    iPhone/iPad: No matter how many filters, labels, and other tricks you have set up, organizing email is never an easy task. Mail Pilot seeks to make that a bit easier on iOS, and while it comes at the high cost of $14.99, it's a robust email app that works with just about any email accoun ...
  • Why Sighing Makes You Feel Better
    Whether it's a sigh of relief, or a sigh of grief, we all sigh throughout the day. But what's the actual purpose of sighing? Psychology Today points to a few studies that suggest it's not only a sign of communication, but it's also a breathing method that makes us feel better. More & ...
  • Put Your Plastic Wrap in the Fridge to Make It ...
    Unrolling a roll of plastic wrap isn't rocket science, but it is annoying when you pull off a sheet and it gets tangled on itself, or when you buy the cheap stuff and it just won't stick to the bowl or container you're using. Thankfully, both problems are easy to fix. More » ...

Water Wars

  • Georgia EPD director calls for cooperation in ...
    Georgia and its neighboring states might benefit more from cooperation than litigation over the water in their shared rivers, Georgia Environmental Protection Division Director Jud Turner told a University of Georgia audience on Wednesday.
  • Sharon Kleyne Shares Information About How Sum ...
    Sharon Kleyne Presents Information About How Dry Season Brings Water Wars, Famine and Disease.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) April 09, 2013 Water Advocate, Sharon Kleyne, presents information about how Summer is feared in many third world countries due to famine, dehydration, and disease.In many third ...
  • Water wars : Tennessee, Georgia locked in batt ...
    Ga. lawmakers authorize state's attorney general to sue Tenn. for access to Tennessee River's drinking water
  • Safety on tap
    Summer is here and Lakshmi Krupa tells you simple ways to get potable water at home
  • Talks avoid water war and come up with bill
    House Bill 1440 sets out a procedure for resolving disputes over water when cities grow into areas served by rural water districts.

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Iconic Children’s Singer Raffi Cavoukian Speak ...
    Like many of you, I’d imagine, I grew up listening to Raffi Cavoukian, the Egyptian-born Canadian children’s musician singing songs like “Baby Beluga” and “Down By The Bay”—I even have dim memories of going to see him in concert. He’s recently embarked o ...
  • Progressives of the World, Unite!
    As the undesirable constraints in President Obama’s new budget highlight, austerity continues to reign even as the jobs crisis, anemic growth and rising inequality continue to plague American and European societies.   Given the poor track record of austerity policies here, in the U.K. and ...
  • Climate Change Keeps Expanding Canada’s Unprec ...
    Since the late 1990s, climate change has driven a massive expansion of forest-destroying Mountain Pine Beetles in Canada, delivering the country one of the worst ecological disasters in its history. The insects are not technically invasive, and until recently they existed in a natural balance wi ...
  • Florida Court Allows Felon Illegally Possessin ...
    Although possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is illegal, it does not prevent a defendant from invoking the state’s Stand Your Ground law, a Florida appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel held that the controversial law immunized Aaron A. Little from second-degree murder charges, after ...
  • Two More House Democrats Endorse Marriage Equality
    Two Democratic Congressmen endorsed marriage equality Thursday. In statements on their Facebook pages, Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) joined the vast majority of their Democratic colleagues and two House Republicans in supporting equal marriage for same-sex couples. Kind wro ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canadian Banks Outsourcing Jobs
    Billions of dollars in profits. Multi-million dollar salaries. But still, they want to save a few hundred grand at the expense of the livelihoods of their workers. Who are the main shareholders in Canadian bank stocks? Of course, you'll always find some mainstream economist who will drone on a ...
  • Miserable Failure
    So, Tom Flanagan is back, writing in the Glib n' Stale. (He doesn't have a steady gig like plagiarist, shit-for-brains Margaret Wente, but that might be testimony to his inferior fellatio skills.) Anyhow, if some figure, revered by the Canadian Left, had been filmed saying that child pornography ...
  • Resisting the State - Chapter 5
    This was maybe the most problematic chapter of Scott Neigh's Talking Radical:Resisting the State for me. It's about Don Weitz of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement. Now, I've heard of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement before. And I get that mental institutions were, and remain, frightening places where hor ...
  • Resisting the State: "I Call It Surviving"
    Chapter 4 of Scott Neigh's Resisting the State deals with Lynn Jones,  a black, female trade union and community activist from Truro Nova Scotia. My Mom's family settled in Truro when she was a girl. We went down east once on a visit and my Aunt was driving us around and referred to one pa ...
  • I Don't Want To Be An Old Man Who Can't Stop M ...
    There's the example of the guy in the second video at this post. Then, ... at a talk that I gave (wherein, this middle-aged white guy got himself FORMALLY INCLUDED on the schedule) a respondent, .... a successful in life, now retired, older white guy, went off on a series of extended rants about ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Arctic ships a titanic blunder
    A new report examining the government’s plans to build Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
  • Responses from political parties
    On March 3rd Ceasefire.ca supporters and allies responded en masse to Be Heard – No Attack Drones! Nearly 6,000 letters have been sent so far! Ceasefire.ca has received responses from the Green Party and the NDP.
  • UN adopts Arms Trade Treaty
    On April 2nd, the UN General Assembly voted to approve a draft treaty to control the global arms trade. The proposed treaty leaves it largely up to the arms exporters themselves to determine the appropriateness of their exports. But groups working to control the arms trade are hopeful that by es ...
  • Drones update from Ottawa
    Thousands of emails and postcards are being sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other party leaders, and we are more than halfway to our goal of delivering 10,000 messages to Parliament. But there is a lot more work to be done.
  • Canada pulls out of UN drought pact
    The Harper government is taking another giant leap towards making Canada the least-green country on the planet -- by withdrawing from the international convention to combat desertification.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Exxon Mobil Cleans Up Major Tar Sands Oil Spil ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comExxon Mobil Cleans Up Major Tar Sands Oil Spill with PAPER TOWELS By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com (The above is video shot by a local resident in Mayflower, Arkansas.) And take a look at these must-see pictures of ...
  • Obama’s “Cat Food” Social Security Reform
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy The Real News Network (TRNN) Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Michael Hudson: Obama’s “bargain” on s ...
  • Pentagon to Build Robots With ‘Real’ Brains
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTechnology would make robots “truly anonymous” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com April 11, 2013 A Pentagon-funded team of scientists have constructed a machine that functions like a human brain and would e ...
  • Inhofe: ‘MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comInhofe: MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore created global warming hoax Raw StoryBy David Edwards   Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) on Wednesday explained that Al Gore and the United Nations get most of the blame for w ...
  • Strategies of Containment
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William T. Hathaway Many of us on the left have been kettled at demonstrations: surrounded by a wall of police, herded into a small area, and prevented from reaching our goal. ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Progressives Who Become More Progressive After ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Originally published November 21, 2009 It is one of those pesky little paradoxes in history that to the chagrin of many, shatters stereotypes, kicks ass, and takes names. Yes, you guessed it: the ...
  • Chris Hedges and Andrew Harvey: The Time For A ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad April 8, 2013 Progressive Commentary Hour – Conversations With Great Minds Gary Null April 8, 2013 [...] Among Chris’ many noteworthy books are “American Fascists” (about the fundamental Christian Right), “Empire of Illusion”, and “Death of the Liberal C ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Obama Not Willing To Support Pal ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Akshay Pahilajani – Apr 9, 2013 Date 4/8/2013 Noam Chomsky discusses Syria, Israel, Palestine and Iran in an interview with Robert Shortt. Presented by Claire Byrne Interviewed Guest: Noam Chomsky Interviewer: Robert Shortt http://www.rte.ie/news/primetime ...
  • Margaret Thatcher’s Criminal Legacy by Finian ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV April 9, 2013 Hours after the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the history books are being re-written and the beatification of the Iron Lady is well underway. Current British premier David ...
  • Why Derivatives Threaten Your Bank Account&#82 ...
    by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 9, 2013 Shock waves went around the world when the IMF, the EU, and the ECB not only approved but mandated the confiscation of depositor funds to “bail in” two bankrupt banks in Cyprus. A “bail in” is a quantum leap beyond a “bail out.” ...

 
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