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Scoop - NZ

  • Wikileaks publishes Kissinger cables
    Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is publicly dumping just under two million diplomatic cables - dubbed the Kissinger cables - from the mid 1970s. Wikileaks has put together a search function on its website so users can comb for keywords in these Kissinger files as well as the 'Cablegate' fil ...
  • Shanghai: 2 more cases of H7N9 bird flu virus
    Two more people in Shanghai have been confirmed infected with the deadly H7N9 bird flu strain that has claimed the lives of six people nationwide, local authorities said yesterday. Meanwhile, Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, announced yesterday that it was suspending live poultry trading ...
  • GCSB Report: Extensive Illegal Espionage
    The Government’s beleaguered intelligence agency may have unlawfully spied on 85 people, a top secret review reveals. The report, ordered after the Kim Dotcom fiasco, contains a raft of criticisms of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB). The revelations are contained in the ...
  • Just Another Shin Bet Interrogation
    I said: "You are not willing to listen to our viewpoint. You are racist." He answered: "I am not racist. I am leftist." I asked skeptically: "Can you tell me what you mean by left? You are Zionist left. The left, as I know it, is against racism and is identified with universal values o ...
  • Bush programs flourish under Obama
    Guantanamo Bay and the RDI program are both back in the news now, each for their own unsavory reasons, and their reemergence should be a reminder of how fully the Obama administration has embraced the logic underpinning the Bush regime's response to 9/11. The Pentagon is now requesting nearly $2 ...

Independent - London

  • In pictures: Venezuela reacts to razor-close e ...
    Chavez's successor Nicolas Maduro has won the presidential elections by almost 300,000 votes. Related StoriesGuantanamo Bay - President Obama's shame: The forgotten prisoners of America's own GulagMatadora of Missouri leaves the bullring for the last timeAtheist defends critical focus on IslamHu ...
  • Crocodile Dundee hunts lost $34 million from ' ...
    Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan is on the trail of his former tax adviser, claiming the so-called “bowler hat Englishman” has made off with $34m.Related Stories'I hope she would have been a Belieber': Justin Bieber on his visit to the Anne Frank museumJustin Bieber hoped 'great girl' Anne Fran ...
  • Crocodile Dundee hunts lost $34m from 'bowler ...
    Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan is on the trail of his former tax adviser, claiming the so-called “bowler hat Englishman” has made off with $34m.Related Stories'I hope she would have been a Belieber': Justin Bieber on his visit to the Anne Frank museumJustin Bieber hoped 'great girl' Anne Fran ...
  • The bizarre tale of the 'North Pond Hermit' ta ...
    A man who lived as a hermit for nearly three decades, before being arrested on suspicion of 1,000 burglaries, has attracted a marriage proposal and a stranger's offer to bail him out.Related StoriesGuantanamo Bay - President Obama's shame: The forgotten prisoners of America's own GulagMatadora ...
  • Italy court considers possible charges in Cost ...
    An Italian court is deciding whether the captain and some crew of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will face trial for the 2012 disaster off Tuscany that killed 32 people.Related Stories'I hope she would have been a Belieber': Justin Bieber on his visit to the Anne Frank museumFrench prisoner bl ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Doctor sued for botched surgeries and leaving ...
    A lawsuit brought against Denver surgeon Dr. Warren Kortz alleges he botched surgeries and left surgical instruments and sponges inside patients. Kortz, a surgeon at Porter Adventist Hospital, was placed on precautionary suspension after 11 kidney surgeries he performed, some of which with a ro ...
  • Mystery illness strikes employees at Baby Buy ...
    Authorities were called to a Buy Buy Baby store in Forth Worth, Texas after several employees fell ill on Saturday afternoon. It was only two people who reported feeling nauseous, dizzy and generally sick, and once those people left, business went on as usual. But then, several others fell sic ...
  • Lawyers for 911 accused discover client emails ...
    Lawyers for the five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks asked a judge Thursday to delay an upcoming hearing after learning that emails with their clients had been monitored. The surveillance was only the latest instance of compromised confidentiality at Guantanamo Bay, following ...
  • Vaccine development for H7N9 flu problematic b ...
    Making a vaccine to protect against the new H7N9 flu virus that has emerged in eastern China could prove to be problematic, influenza experts acknowledge. There hasn't been enough time to produce even the seed strain to make H7N9 vaccine, let alone small batches of a prototype vaccine for testi ...
  • Found? Mars-3 Soviet probe that mysteriously v ...
    A group of Russian space enthusiasts may have found the location of the first space probe ever to land on Mars, the 42-year-old Mars-3. In a post Thursday, NASA highlighted pictures taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter near the location of the Curiosity rover. "In 1971, the former Soviet ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Fifty years ago . . .
    — KIM & LEE — 1963, LEE HARVEY Oswald is murdered and Kim Philby defects — two individuals who effected great changes. Or not; nobody seems to know for sure, in both cases.   Ron Rosenbaum has a great article in SLATE, "Philby and Oswald The truth is still out there." Maybe there a ...
  • Beware . . .
    BEAVERS BITE. According to Lapham's Quarterly, with fatal results.
  • buh-bye Mugsy
  • Posturing . . .
    STEVIE LOVES UNIFORMS. Maybe he should visit and stay there, and take Airshow with him, too, come to think of it.
  • Priorities . . .
    STEVIE THINKS PANDAS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE, even those who have walked 1,600  kilometers.

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

  • Venezuelan Presidential Elections: Nicolas Mad ...
    According to the Electoral Commission, PSUV’s Nicolas Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) won the presidential election with 50.7% of the vote against 49.1% for the opposition MUD candidate Henrique Capriles Rodonski. The polls had indicated that Maduro was way…
  • Major Oil Spill in Arkansas: Has ExxonMobil Lo ...
    It took less than an hour for something like 5,000 barrels (at 42 gallons per barrel) of ExxonMobil’s tar sands oil flow into a residential neighborhood and surrounding wetlands in [1]Mayflower, Arkansas,[1] on March 29, once the company’s Pegasus pipeline…
  • France’s Media Admits that the Syrian &# ...
    In a report published on the 11th of April French daily Le Monde admits that rebels fighting the government of the Syrian Arab Republic are dominated by Japhat Al Nosra, a terrorist group linked to Al Qaida. The admission comes…
  • Week in Review: Preemptive Wars and Ponzi Schemes
    Venezuelans Vote: Presidential Elections. Maduro vs. Capriles By Stephen Lendman, April 14, 2013  On Sunday, April 14, PSUV’s Nicolas Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) faces opposition Rountable of Democratic Unity (MUD) candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski.Most Venezuelans deplore ...
  • Venezuelans Vote: Presidential Elections. Madu ...
    On Sunday, April 14, PSUV’s Nicolas Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) faces opposition Rountable of Democratic Unity (MUD) candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski.Most Venezuelans deplore him. They do so for good reason. He represents oligarch power, ties to Washington, and…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Tide Turning on Austin Energy Governance Ordinance
    I was part of and witnessed an inspiring evening at Austin City Hall yesterday.  Engaged citizens came together to speak passionately about the importance of maintaining democratic leadership for Austin Energy, our city’s electric utility. Many people talked about wanting the right to vote ...
  • EPA Director Nominee Questioned About the Futu ...
    While EPA nominee, Gina McCarthy is likely to be confirmed, the confirmation hearing on Thursday was dominated by a debate on the future of coal as a source of electric power in the U.S. according to a report by NBC News. Click here to read NBC’s story on this confirmation hearing. Filed u ...
  • CPS Energy’s Unelected Board Announces Plan Th ...
    If you weren’t already convinced that Austin would be misguided to hand over governance and oversight of our municipal electric utility, Austin Energy, to an unelected board, CPS Energy’s unelected board just provided a great example of what we can expect under such a regime. CPS Ene ...
  • Austin City Council about to give Austin’s mun ...
    On Thursday (April 11th) at 4 PM Austin City Council will vote on giving the city’s municipal utility, Austin Energy, away to special interests by moving to appoint an un-elected utility board.  A city council vote on Thursday could open the door to industry insiders and special interests ...
  • Support Public Citizen through EarthShare camp ...
    Earthday is coming up and we’d like to share two ways to support Public Citizen’s Texas office through EarthShare programs! H-E-B Tear Pad Campaign For those who are able to give to EarthShare through your work place charitable giving campaign, we thank you.  For those who do not hav ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Loch Ness celebrates 80 years of Nessie
    Today is the 80th anniversary of the first modern sighting of Scotland's elusive Loch Ness Monster. It has been 80 years since hotel manageress Aldie ...
  • Giant wasp nest fills up entire room
    A contender for the world's largest wasp nest has been discovered on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The monster nest was found inside an empty house ...
  • Ever get the feeling you are being watched ?
    Scientists believe that the sensation of being watched is actually hard-wired in to our brains. New research suggests that we are predisposed to assum...
  • DARPA building robots with 'real' brains
    A Pentagon-funded research team has created a device that allows robots to think for themselves. True artificial intelligence is perhaps still a long ...
  • Early chimp-human fossil uncovered
    The two-million-year-old fossil remains of an ancient human ancestor have been uncovered in South Africa. Australopithecus sediba possessed the long a...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Global Warming Not Significant in 2012 Drought ...
    (Climate Central) The extreme 2012 Central Great Plains drought was more intense than the Dust Bowl era droughts of the 1930s, according to a new federal assessment of the origins and predictability of the drought, released on Thursday ...
  • Spring Storm Smashes Snow and Temperature Records
    (Climate Central) Sleet? Check. Hail? Check. Snow? Yup, got that too. You name the type of precipitation, and odds are that it is falling somewhere between Texas and Minnesota on Wednesday, as ice storm warnings, winter storm warnings ...
  • Nike, Starbucks: Betting Against Climate Scien ...
    (The Hill) A corporate coalition that includes big clothing and food companies says in a new joint statement that confronting global warming is "one of America's greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century." They're also offe ...
  • Exxon, Rosneft Firm Up LNG Plant Plan
    (Wall Street Journal) Exxon Mobil Corp. and Russia's OAO Rosneft said Thursday they could spend $15 billion building a proposed gas-liquefaction plant on Russia's Pacific coast in a move to jump start the country's attempts to ship the ...
  • TEPCO Plans for Storing Radioactive Water Deal ...
    (The Asahi Shimbun) Radioactive water continues to leak from tanks at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Space is running out to store the hundreds of tons of contaminated water produced each day. And the initial plan to address the ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Nation of Cowards
    I spoke earlier about how fear is keeping Congress from allowing President Obama to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay. This is the consequence of that fear. It's a credit to our country that a detainee can get himself heard in the pages of the New York Times. But a truly decent country would ...
  • Special Rules for Tiger?
    Ironically, the golf snitch who narced out Pagraig Harrington in 2011 wound up saving Tiger Wood's ass at this year's Masters. Back in 2011, while playing the seventh hole at the Abu Dhabi Championship, Harrington inadvertently brushed his ball while replacing his marker. He knew he had touche ...
  • Managing Fear
    I like this piece from Jim Wright which I came to through Jay Ackroyd. It's a worthy rant, and it's on a topic I keep coming back to over and over. Fear. Fear and its role in politics is the key that unlocks the puzzle and best explains the last hundred years of American politics. Hell, ...
  • Michelle Rhee Exposed
    John Merrow really takes Michelle Rhee to the woodshed. I don't spend much time thinking about education policy, but it seems like I've been missing out on quite a scandal. I suspect that Atlanta and DC are just the tip of the iceberg. Rhee's specific policies seem custom-made to encourage che ...
  • Bio House
    Check this out: A 15-unit apartment building has been constructed in the German city of Hamburg that has 129 algae filled louvered tanks hanging over the exterior of the south-east and south-west sides of the buildingmaking it the first in the world to be powered exclusively by algae. Design ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of T ...
    I remember seeing Spook years ago on a rough videotape with horrible audio at the Soap Factory - shortly thereafter it was possible to obtain the DVD, based on a negative long-hidden in some film vault under a false name. Spook is one of those incredible movies - a 1973 narrative of a black CIA ...
  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...
  • NEW VIDEOS: Interviews from Enbridge blockade ...
    Got a batch of videos here from the last week to check out. Glad to have a little chance to bring these interesting projects, including Idle No More MN & the Enbridge Blockade near Leonard MN (also known as the encampment) going strong since late February. All these videos are basically uned ...
  • LOL wow for the House of Cards: Cyprus bank co ...
    Admittedly this is a little bit speculative but it looks pretty big. lol wow I can't believe they are triggering a huge EU bank run in Cyprus by confiscating big slabs of bank accounts to satiate the European Central Bankers - it's blamed on rich Russians who 'deserve' to have their savings jack ...
  • Stay Fly: Holy Smokes
    Oh I dearly hope this is an authentic photo - isn't it easily the greatest news photograph ever? Floating around, see : Something Out of The Godfather... | E L V O M I T A R . C O M etc. Good luck to the Catholics, they need help like all of us. Regardless, there's no swag like Vatican swag. Th ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • The Paradoxes of the Pacific Pivot
    The U.S. needs to come up with a new and different Pacific pivot that places peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula at the top of the list of priorities.
  • Robin Hood Tax, Not Corporate Greed, Should be ...
    Chanting, "Human need, not corporate greed! Robin Hood Tax now!" protesters dressed as polar bears, farmers, and bankers engaged with officials entering the meeting to urge them to support a Robin Hood Tax.
  • Wall Street's Climate Finance Bonanza
    Government officials from an elite group of developed countries meeting in Washington DC appear to be on the brink of instigating yet another big bank giveaway, this time in the name of fighting climate change.
  • Wall Street's Climate Finance Bonanza
    An elite group of developed countries appears to be on the brink of instigating yet another corporate handout and big bank giveaway--this time in the name of fighting climate change.
  • Bulgaria's Podkrepa Made the Same Mistake as S ...
    The nineties were challenging years in Bulgaria for trade unions affiliated with the political opposition.

IntelNews

  • Growing number of US officials believe al-Qaed ...
    An increasing number of government officials in the United States believe that al-Qaeda is no longer a serious threat to the homeland and are turning their attention to the next chapter of America’s security posture.
  • Middle East expert to lead France’s external s ...
    A career diplomat, who spent many years serving in embassies in predominantly Muslim countries, has been nominated to head France’s main external intelligence agency.
  • News you may have missed #829
    Irish police responds to claims of IRA collusion. How CIA spy Raymond Davis helped turn Pakistan against the US. New book explains CIA shift from spying to killing.
  • Pakistan secretly helped CIA drone strikes (ac ...
    For many years, Pakistan’s main spy agency secretly helped the United States launch hundreds of unmanned drone strikes on Pakistani soil, while the government in Islamabad publicly denounced them as infringements on its sovereignty. The US-based McClatchy news agency said on Tuesday it had uncov ...
  • French spy agency forced Wikipedia volunteer t ...
    A French intelligence agency forced a volunteer for online open-source reference site Wikipedia to delete n entry that allegedly contained classified information about French nuclear defense systems.

War is a Crime.org

  • New York Times v. North Korea
      New York Times v. North Korea   by Stephen Lendman   The Times is America's unofficial ministry of information and propaganda. Daily managed news misinformation is featured.    Articles, commentaries and editorials are brazenly one-sided. Readers are systematically lie ...
  • Imperial Partners Showcase Their Ruthlessness
      Imperial Partners Showcase Their Ruthlessness   by Stephen Lendman   America and Israel partner in injustice. They prioritize it. Imperial lawlessness is policy. So is state terror. Many examples explain. They're commonplace daily.   read more
  • Democracy is coming... to the U.S.A.!
    By Mike Ferner When Judge Debbie O’Dell-Seneca, recently directed a corporate “fracking” combine in Western Pennsylvania to unseal the terms of a settlement with citizen-plaintiffs, she struck a clear blow for the public’s right to know.  But far beyond the borders of Washington County PA, ...
  • Syria News Apr 15
        Lebanese fighters backed by Hezbollah fighting inside Syria near border, in several towns inhabited by 15,000 Lebanese who live on the Syrian side - Fox News Lebanese factions deepen involvement in Syria supporting opposite sides in the civil war - VOA Iraqi forces arrest 18 a ...
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Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Victoria Brittain: "Shadow Lives: The Forgotte ...
    Lawyers representing hunger-striking detainees at Guantánamo Bay have warned some of the protesters could soon die in the ongoing protest. Lawyers for the men estimate that of the 166 still indefinitely detained at Guantánamo, nearly all are on hunger strike. On Wednesday, 25 legal and human ri ...
  • WikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables a ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976, which they have dubbed “The Kissinger Cables,” after Henry Kissinger, who in those years served as secretary of state and assistant ...
  • Amy Goodman's "Other" America: Interview with ...
    In a wide-ranging conversation, Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now! tells Moyers & Company‘s Michael Winship why she believes independent media is essential to a functioning democracy. Click here to listen and read highlights from the interview to the interview. ...
  • Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian R ...
    Part two of our interview with Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. Christiane Amanpour has described her as "one of the greatest truth-seekers of them all." Amira Hass recently suffered a ...
  • Former Animal Rights Prisoner on Ag-Gag Laws, ...
    As efforts grow to target activists who expose animal abuse, we speak to Andrew Stepanian who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2006 for violating a controversial law known as the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Stepanian and several others were jailed for their role in a campaign to ...

Solari

  • Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson: Yields and ...
    “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt By Catherine Austin Fitts For decades, the G-7 economies have been the beneficiary of a long-term bull market in bonds. That has made it inexpensive for sovereign governments to borrow and spend, fueling economies thr ...
  • Nina Simone – “Feeling Good”
    Related Reading: Nina Simone Official Website Nina Simone on Wikipedia
  • Getting to Real Solutions: A Dialogue with Cat ...
    On my last trip to California I kept running into a people promoting specific solutions to the problems that face us, including government owned banks, B corporations, impact investing and certain kinds of local investment. Often times these solutions reflected inadequate assessments of the cha ...
  • Transcript of “1st Quarter Wrap Up” is Now Ava ...
    Transcript of 1st Quarter Wrap Up is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine Austin Fitts: Good evening. Welcome to the Solari Report. Today is April 4, 2013. I’m Catherine Austin Fitts, and I’m delighted you could join me this evening. Tonight is the first quarter wrap-up. ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The endurance of the enemy” -National Security Advisor Bundy upon being asked what most surprised him about the Vietnam War

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • The Best Green Designs at Fiera Milano During ...
    The 2013 international furniture exhibition during Milan Design Week featured an incredible array of products and furnishings from the biggest names in design. The theme of this year's show was “The world we will live in,” and we were glad to see designers    
  • Woman Gets Married in Dress Made from 10,000 B ...
    Adding to a growing list of dresses made with weird, recycled materials, including beetle wings and cow nipples, a woman in Australia recently tied the knot in a dress made with 10,000 bread tags. A fashion designer who joked that she'd marry her then boyfriend    
  • Lotus Birth Recommends Keeping Baby’s Umbilica ...
    There's a new trend in natural births and it involves keeping baby's umbilical cord and placenta intact until they sever themselves. Midwife educator Mary Ceallaigh extolled the benefits of Lotus Birth or umbilical non severance in a recent New York Post story,    
  • The World’s First Algae-Powered Building Opens ...
    The world’s first algae-powered building just opened in Hamburg! Dubbed the BIQ House, the project features a bio-adaptive algae facade and it will serve as a testing bed for sustainable energy production in urban areas and self-sufficient living buildings.    
  • The Best Green Designs From Salone Satellite a ...
    Maija Puoskari of Finland caught our eye with Terho and Tatti. Inspired by acorns, these ethereal LED lamps create a dream-like glow. The lamps are available as suspended pendants or table lamps, and are made from locally sourced Finnish alder and opal-white    

Pogue's Posts

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

The Progressive Realist

  • How to Read the North Korean Nuclear Missile T ...
    North Korea parades a KN-08 in April 2012. Experts believe it is a mock-up. Enduring the continuous barrage of nuclear missile threats coming out of North Korea in recent days is not for the faint-hearted. But seeking to separate the real from the rhetorical is an essential task for policy-make ...
  • There's No North Korea Crisis
    From the hysterical TV portrayals of goose-stepping North Korean troops, breathless news reports of North Korean warnings of war, and maps depicting the range of imminent missile launches (complete with retired U.S. generals explaining the targets), you might think there is a crisis on the Korea ...
  • The First Casualty of the National Science Fou ...
    If you belong to APSA, you probably got the email announcing the last-minute closure of the Ralph Bunch Summer Institute because of the Coburn (left) amendment. Undergraduate programming like this is obviously pretty vulnerable. It doesn’t have the cache of high-profile, ‘big think’ research. Bu ...
  • Top of the Morning: G8 Fights Rape in War; It ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest G8 Reaches Landmark Agreement to Fight Rape as a Weapon of War A London meeting of foreign ministers from the G8 took some concrete steps to end this global scourge of war. “G8 states had agreed on six major steps to tackle the culture of impunity…including ne ...
  • NNSA Nuclear Weapons Budget Ignores Fiscal Rea ...
    The Barack Obama administration’s fiscal year 2014 budget request proposes spending $7.87 billion for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Weapons Activities, which would be an increase of $654 million, or nine percent above the 2012 enacted level, and $300 million more than the ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Mr. Brooks’s Planet
    Since New York Times columnist David Brooks is the very model of the sentient conservative, his acknowledgements of social reality are often more than just personal—they signal that a particular state of affairs has become incontestable to all but the epistemically shuttered. Writing today on P ...
  • Wall Street's Grand Bargain
    Three developments in finance cropped up in the last days that must be read as a single story. First, Blankfein, Dimon and the rest of the Wall Street bigwigs visited the White House to meet with the President and his team. That team consisted of Denis McDonough (Chief of Staff); Valerie Jarret ...
  • Rand Paul Is a Genius
    When your party is in power, the lines of authority are very clear. The White House is in charge, and though a certain amount of freelancing is always possible, the media's attention tends to be focused on those at the top. They'll always seek out the White House first as the party's voice, and ...
  • Your Guide to Immigration Reform
      The chances for real, comprehensive immigration reform to be passed through both houses of Congress and signed by the president, the first such reform in decades, now look greater than ever. This is in no small part because the issue has split conservatives, meaning there will be no united Re ...
  • Thinking Outside the (X)Box
    On the narrow sidewalk outside the building where the Game Developers Conference was held, a group of enthusiastic marketers offer free t-shirts that say “0% THE MAN 100% INDIE.” It seems like a call to arms, but a tiny bit of research unearths that it's a new campaign by Samsung to attract gam ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • U.S. Laws Would Be Exposed for Attacks by Japa ...
    Concerns about today’s announcement that the United States is green lighting Japan’s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have focused largely on new threats that would be posed to the U.S. auto industry, which the Obama administration has highlighted as a sect ...
  • Bipartisan Bill Introduced in Congress to Immu ...
    U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher introduced legislation today in Congress that would modify the federal Controlled Substances Act so that anyone acting in compliance with a state marijuana law would be immune from federal prosecution.read more
  • Global Sustainability Forum Tells Indonesian P ...
    The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), which claims to be the "world’s foremost business association dedicated to sustainable development", today warned Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL), Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper producer ...
  • Hunger Strikes Malian Refugees Stranded in Mau ...
    Conflict in Mali has driven nearly 70,000 refugees to Mbera camp in the Mauritanian desert, where appalling conditions and inadequate assistance are leading to severe malnutrition and deaths from preventable diseases, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M& ...
  • Paris Judge Rejects Attempt to Halt Auction of ...
    A Paris judge today threw out a bid by Survival International to block a controversial auction of sacred objects of Arizona’s Hopi tribe. The judge ruled that ‘in spite of their sacredness to the Hopi these masks are not a representation of any creature, alive or dead.’ The auc ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Obama's Chained-CPI Social Security Cut is Sma ...
    John Nichols The most misread -- perhaps the proper word is “miscovered” -- story of the current budget wrangling in Washington is that of Republican Congressman Greg Walden’s savage condemnation of President Obama’s ...
  • In HOV Lane, Is a Corporation a Person?
    Russell Mokhiber In the High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane, is the corporation a person? Jonathan Frieman wants to know. That’s why for ten years he traveled in the HOV lanes in northern California alongside legal papers of one of his ...
  • Occupy Affiliate Aims at Abolishing Consumer Debt
    Matthew Charles Cardinale Strike Debt, an affiliate of the Occupy movement, has devised a legal and what some consider ingenious way to abolish millions of dollars in consumer debt.Strike Debt action on medical debt, held in New York in Mar ...
  • Tax Day and the Pentagon
    Kevin Martin This month, as budget and policy issues in Washington muddle along inconclusively as usual, grassroots peace activists are busy organizing, educating, protesting and lobbying. read more
  • Money for Militarism, not for People: Obama’s ...
    Dave Lindorff What’s wrong with the Obama administration’s proposal to change the way Social Security checks are adjusted for inflation from using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to instead using something called a “chained ...

Water Privatization

  • Lucerne residents turn out to protest water rates
    LUCERNE -- Residents of this lakeside community squared off against their water provider Friday evening in what turned into an impassioned and occasionally heated argument against the proposed rate hike of California Water Service Co. (Cal Water).
  • Lucerne residents turn out to protest water rates
    LUCERNE Residents of this lakeside community squared off against their water provider Friday evening in what turned into an impassioned and occasionally heated argument against the proposed rate hike of California Water Service Co. (Cal Water).
  • PSALM bent on restarting gov’t privatization t ...
    State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. is bent on pushing forward the governments privatization program, which has been stalled for nearly three years.
  • Maynilad invests in 10-M liter per day Bacoor ...
    As the scorching summer heat increases water consumption, west zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. has allotted P166.5 million for the construction of a 10-million liter per day pumping station in Bacoor, Cavite.
  • Asheville water bill moves forward
    • $26.1M — Operating budget. • $7.4M — Capital budget. • $7.7 M — Total in salary and benefits for Water Resources Department’s 147 workers. • 1,600 — Miles of line.

Guardian

  • LSE students on North Korea trip with BBC team ...
    Director of university says he has received complaints and claims there is no written evidence students consented to riskThe director of the London School of Economics has revealed that some of the university's students who travelled to North Korea with BBC Panorama journalist John Sweeney have ...
  • North Korea defies growing crisis to mark Kim ...
    Holiday time in Pyongyang away from the warlike rhetoric as residents celebrate holiday to mark birthday of first leaderOblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets on Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, t ...
  • Rescuers work to save beached whale in Cornwall
    Coastguard says teams are keeping pilot whale wet and will try to return it to sea after it washed ashore in FalmouthRescue crews are working to save the life of a whale which has become stranded on a beach.The three-metre (10ft) pilot whale was reported to have washed ashore at Castle beach in ...
  • Margaret Thatcher funeral: Galloway attacks 'c ...
    Respect MP aims to block proposal to suspend parliament during funeral, and attacks 'tidal wave of guff' about former PMGeorge Galloway has denounced the decision to spend £10m on the "canonisation of this wicked woman", a reference to Lady Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday.The Respect MP will att ...
  • David Cameron renews pledge to publish senior ...
    No 10 supports more transparency after French scandal prompted tax avoidance charges against budget ministerDavid Cameron remains relaxed about the publication of ministers' tax affairs, but appears to have done nothing to bring this about since he declared a year ago that he was happy for detai ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Inside the hellish jails of Afghanistan where ...
    The prisoners are given daily lessons as the authorities want them to have a skill when they leave The harrowing stories of women and children locked up for so-called 'moral crimes' in Afghanistan's notorious female prison have been revealed after cameras were allowed inside. ...
  • Pak Taliban target secular political party lea ...
    Beijing, April 15 (Xinhua-ANI): A roadside bombing in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley has killed a local leader of an anti-Taliban political party. It is the fourth attack on members of secular-leaning parties ahead of next month's parliamentary election. According to local police, the bomb ...
  • Key Taliban commander killed
    A key Taliban commander, identified as Safiullah alias Shafiq, has been killed in Afghanistan's Wardak province, an official said. Afghan security forces backed by NATO-led troops Sunday targeted and killed Safiullah in Wardak, 35 km west of Kabul, Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for provincial adm ...
  • Neither heat nor gloom ... Afghan post office ...
    As the Afghan government struggles to develop, the post office has quietly managed to become one of the nation's most efficient institutions - and with extremely limited international ...
  • Afghanistan tries to lure investments
    By Farangis Najibullah and Zarif Nazar Foreign forces are preparing to leave the country, capital is fleeing, and it's the Afghan government's job to stop it. To meet its objective, the Afghan Finance Ministry has drafted a package of incentives to assure companies and individual ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • Sorry, Having IMDB Accurately List Your Age D ...
    Junie Hoang has lost her lawsuit against IMDb. She sued the online database for "breach of contract" after it replaced her fake birthdate (1978) with her real one (1971). The case had a few twists and turns, most of them "wrong ways" and "dead ends." Claiming the posting of her real birthda ...
  • Washington State Apparently Taxes Clubs For Pe ...
    Dancing, what could be more controversial? Whether it's arresting NYC subway travelers for doing the charleston, or body slamming anyone dancing silently at a memorial to freedom, there appears to be something our government dislikes about musically-induced gyrations. With that in mind, it's wit ...
  • How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat ...
    Recently we wrote about how pharmaceutical companies use "evergreening" to extend their control over drugs as the patents expire. But this is also an issue for the world of agribusiness: a number of key patents, particularly for traits of genetically-engineered (GE) organisms, will be entering ...
  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    With Aereo having won its most recent round in court, we fully expected a temper tantrum from the TV networks on the other side — and we certainly got one. Kicking off the Fox CEO's statement was a very telling line that Josh in CharlotteNC latched onto, delivering our most insightful comm ...
  • Julie Samuels' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Hello, Techdirt! I'm Julie Samuels, staff attorney at EFF, where I also hold the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents. (Yes, that's my real title. And, yes, it's that awesome.) I'm super excited to be here, talking about my favorite posts of the week (not an easy task—those folks a ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Tom Engelhardt: The cathedral of the enemy
    The enemy-industrial complex By Tom Engelhardt The communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration.  Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable.  ...
  • Obama’s empty rhetoric on climate change
    Ryan Lizza writes: The budget released this week by the White House is by far Obama’s most ambitious statement of his legislative priorities since 2009, when, as a newly elected President, he produced a plan brimming over with initiatives like Obamacare, education reform, new spending to aid the ...
  • Who should own DNA? All of us
    Marcy Darnovsky and Karuna Jaggar write: Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property rights and, therefore, profits. Big companies fighting over big money can seem painfully irrelevant, especially when so ...
  • Reliability of neuroscience research questioned
    Bristol University: New research has questioned the reliability of neuroscience studies, saying that conclusions could be misleading due to small sample sizes. A team led by academics from the University of Bristol reviewed 48 articles on neuroscience meta-analysis which were published in 2011 a ...
  • Music: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh — ‘Courante’ (Bach ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Another Internet poll goes horribly wrong
    The Daily Kos writer Don Kikulecky muses: Michael Mann is a Modern Hero and we need to acknowledge that He then proceeds to tell us why: I have been both a scientist and a political activist for most of my … Continue reading →
  • A Different Perspective of the Equatorial Paci ...
    by Bob Tisdale It’s difficult to express how enormous El Niño and La Niña events are. Often, when discussing them, I’ll display a map of the tropical Pacific (see example here) and write something to the effect of, the equatorial … Continue reading →
  • My response to Delingpole over invoking Godwin ...
    Last weekend I posted an essay on what I considered to be a pointless invocation of Godwins Law by my friend James Delingpole: The battle of the pointless Nuremberg insults: Romm -vs- Delingpole (Note: For those of you who don’t know, … Continue reading →
  • A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” &# ...
    Image Credit: NASA and BP.Blogspot.com By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Recently there has been significant attention focused on “The Pause” in Earth’s warming, the length of “The Pause” and where “Earth’s Temperature” may go from here, ...
  • Don Easterbrook’s response to a smear by ...
    Readers may recall that WUWT published  this defense of Dr. Don Easterbrook last week: Rebuttal to the attack on Dr. Don Easterbrook by Dr. David Deming I enjoyed this passage from Dr. Deming: Among the gems in the endless litany … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Scientists map elusive 3-D structure of telome ...
    Like finally seeing all the gears of a watch and how they work together, researchers from UCLA and UC Berkeley have, for the first time ever, solved the puzzle of how the various components of an entire telomerase enzyme complex fit together and function in a three-dimensional structure. The thr ...
  • Scientists ‘read dreams’ using bra ...
    Scientists have found a way to “read” dreams, a study suggests. Researchers in Japan used MRI scans to reveal the images that people were seeing as they entered into an early stage of sleep. Writing in the journal Science, they reported that they could do this with 60% accuracy. The ...
  • Autism Rate Rises To 1 In 50 Children – Cause ...
    In 2002 the Center for Disease Control estimated that autism affected about 1 in 150 children. By 2012 the CDC estimate had increased to 1 in 88. Now, according to the latest revision of the estimate recently released, autism affects 1 in 50 children. That’s a phenomenal 300 percent increase in ...
  • See-through brain
  • Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Ex ...
    The visible brain has arrived — the consistency of Jell-O, as transparent and colorful as a child’s model, but vastly more useful. Scientists at Stanford University reported on Wednesday that they have made a whole mouse brain, and part of a human brain, transparent, so that networks of neurons ...

CFACT

  • Britain narrowly escapes winter blackouts
    For years, many have warned of the energy havoc that could be wrought by global warming hysteria. Great Britain barely avoided such chaos this past winter when one million homes narrowly escaped a blackout during Britain’s 5th harsh winter in a row. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5106.mp3]
  • Grotesque greedy Green land grabs
    “Green grabbing involves novel forms of valuation, commodification and markets for pieces and aspects of nature, and an extraordinary new range of actors and alliances. Pension funds and venture capitalists, commodity traders and consultants, GIS service providers and business entrepreneurs, eco ...
  • Reports show global temperatures leveling off
    Climate change skeptics are doing a bit of gloating following a series of mainstream media reports that acknowledge what those skeptics have long held -- the earth is not warming, at least not in the last 10 years.
  • State lawmakers are stalling on renewables man ...
    Lawmakers in states across the nation are thinking twice about policies that drive up the cost of power. In fact, according to a recent report, fourteen states with renewable energy mandates are currently considering laws that repeal of significantly roll back provisions that require utilities t ...
  • EPA regulations damaging economy
    As the economy limps along, many are wondering what is stymieing economic growth. Dr. Tom Borelli from the National Center for Public Policy Research credits the EPA as one of the chief problems, and here explains why... [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5102.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Engineers Invent ‘Nanosponge’ Removing Toxins ...
    Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have created a “nanosponge” that can remove dangerous toxins, including those produced by drug resistant staphylococcus, E. coli, venomous snakes and bees, from the bloodstream, the US news website Science Daily reported Sunday.  &nb ...
  • Engineers Invent ‘Nanosponge’ Removing Toxins ...
    Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have created a “nanosponge” that can remove dangerous toxins, including those produced by drug resistant staphylococcus, E. coli, venomous snakes and bees, from the bloodstream, the US news website Science Daily reported Sunday.  &nb ...
  • NASA Images May Show 1970s Soviet Mars Lander
    A group of Russian space followers think they have spotted the remnants of a Soviet spacecraft that made the first successful soft landing on Mars more than 40 years ago in an image from 2007 taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.    
  • Russia to Explore Moon, Mars by 2030 - Deputy PM
    Russia will develop new technology including huge new rockets for manned flights to the Moon and Mars by 2030, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.    
  • NASA Plans for Asteroids, Astronauts and a Tri ...
    Planned space adventures over the next few decades for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) read like a science fiction thriller with a touch of the wild west thrown in, with plans to journey farther and faster than anyone from Earth has gone before.    

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • How Government Cover-Up on Fish Farming Affect ...
    Many environmental experts have warned about the unsustainability of fish farms for a decade now, and we have documented those objections in many previous articles. Unfortunately nothing has yet been done to improve the system.Click here to read this article
  • The Biotech and Agricultural Industry is Now A ...
    In a move to gain total control of the farming industry, three resolutions have been proposed in the state of Missouri. Saint Louis, Missouri is the home of biotech giant Monsanto's headquarters. These laws have been deceitfully written to appear to support modernization and progression in farm ...
  • Republicans Have Drooled Over the Idea of Slas ...
    The public wants nothing to do with Obama's idea of bipartisanship. Click here to read this article
  • Is Renewable Energy's Biggest Problem Solved?
    German researchers have found a way to overcome one of the problems with renewable energy -- the fact that it is not always available -- by linking different options in a unified system. Click here to read this article
  • Climate Change: How a Warming World is a Threa ...
    Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Heart Disease, Ag-Gag Laws, ...
    I imagine McCarthy will take on the challenge of climate change—or climate justice, as some of us are beginning to say—and I hope she will address the Clean Water Act as one of her first orders of business.
  • Why you should care about the Agricultural Cer ...
    Last week, an Agricultural Certainty Bill was approved by the Maryland House and is now making its way through the state Senate.  Although the word “agriculture” takes it off most of our radars, this bill is as important to city dwellers as to the farming community. Here’s why we, the non-farmer ...
  • Want to make food more affordable? Boost worke ...
    The incipient food movement should make common cause with a potentially resurgent labor movement, and attack the affordability problem by improving working people’s buying power rather than trying to further depress the price of food.
  • CLF Week in Links: Bees, Monsanto, Free Trade ...
    Sadly, President Obama signed the bill protecting Monsanto, further tarnishing the environmental record of his administration.
  • State agencies sometimes send mixed messages t ...
    Each state has an agency that advises people not to consume certain recreationally caught fish, because of health concerns. Each state also has an agency that aims to prevent certain species from being overfished. Unfortunately, in many cases these two agencies are sending mixed messages to the ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    The success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $1.7 billion today. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administr ...
    The reports, obtained by McClatchy, show targeted assassinations go beyond Al Qaida leaders. Several drone victims died in what appeared to be attacks carried out based on a signature pattern of behavior, rather than a known identity. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't &nb ...
  • Hormones and Nitrites and Antibiotics, Oh My!!
    There is a culpable group of individuals whove made their livelihood from perpetuating various myths about what a healthy diet ought to be. Lets consider the subjects of antibiotics, nitrites, and antibiotics in meat . Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it ...
  • The Elephant in the Room: Militarism | Alternet
    Its arguably our countrys biggest problem and the mainstream media won't acknowledge it exists. Submitted by Wild Thang to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 'War on Whistleblowers' Investigation Exposes ...
    Two of the most powerful and secretive Washington power centers ran amok after 9/11 and declared war on a handful of whistleblowers who went to press to expose lies, fraud and abuses that meant life or death for troops and spying on millions of Americans Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Off Grid and Lovin’ It
    Most of us have wondered what it would be like to pack bag and baggage, move to a remote area of the country, be able to cut all ties to the outside world if necessary and live off-grid. Quite a daunting task, and a bit scary. But it can be done, as evidenced by Bud and Judy who did just that ar ...
  • Monsanto Madness (Graphic)
    New Farm Wars Graphic - Monsanto Madness!!!
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Antarctic Ice-Melt Is 'Worst In 1,000 Years'
    ShareThisAntarctic Ice-Melt Is 'Worst In 1,000 Years' 15 Apr 2013 Summer ice in parts of Antarctica is melting at a faster rate than at any time in the past 1,000 years, new research shows. The study by Australian and British researchers indicates that even small increases in temperature could ...
  • Black workers 'banned from Gare du Nord during ...
    ShareThisBlack workers 'banned from Gare du Nord during Israeli president visit' 14 Apr 2013 Black and North African railway workers were banned from working at Paris's Gare du Nord when the President of Israel visited France over fears they might be Muslim, it has emerged. The alleged dis ...
  • Margaret Thatcher funeral: Full military dress ...
    ShareThisMargaret Thatcher funeral: Full military dress rehearsal takes place before dawn on London's empty streets --700 Armed Forces personnel gathered in central London before dawn 15 Apr 2013 A full dress rehearsal for Margaret Thatcher's funeral took place early this morning. The controver ...
  • Santorum hospitalized, cancels trip to Iowa
    ShareThisSantorum hospitalized, cancels trip to Iowa 14 Apr 2013 One-time GOP presidential contender and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) is cancelling a trip to Iowa after being hospitalized for an illness. "While traveling in South Carolina on Saturday, Rick Santorum became ill and was admit ...
  • Idaho restricts drone use by police agencies a ...
    ShareThisIdaho restricts drone use by police agencies amid privacy concerns 11 Apr 2013 Idaho's Republican governor signed a law on Thursday that restricts use of drone aircraft by police and other public agencies as the use of pilotless aircraft inside U.S. borders is increasing. The measure ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • FBR Report: The Burning of Karenni Camp 2 And ...
    13 April, 2013 Karenni State, Burma Written By: Free Burma Rangers Dear friends, On Friday afternoon, 22 March, a fire devastated the Mae Surin Refugee Camp, home to more than 3,605 people. The deadly fire killed 39 people and left 2300 homeless. The response of people wanting to help has bee ...
  • Come to Jamaica - Mon!
    09 April 2013 Crystal clear A good friend—who is a young former Marine Captain and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan—was taking a break from grad school when he headed to Jamaica. I emailed asking how his vacation went.  His answer…is a trip.  My friend's letter has been edited so that ...
  • Ammunition Atmospheric in America
    04 April 2013 I posed a question on Facebook about ammunition availability across the United States.  About 150 answers have come in so far: My Facebook Page
  • Stalking Soldier Arrested, Disarmed by Texas P ...
    28 March 2013 US Army Master Sergeant CJ Grisham: This Soldier has a Top Secret clearance. Over the past couple of years, I repeatedly warned the US Army that Master Sergeant Christopher “CJ” Grisham is a lethal threat.  These warnings were ignored. Grisham has harassed a long list of pe ...
  • Tragedy in Thailand
    27 March 2013 Burma neighbors Thailand on the west.  For 65 years, a war against and between ethnic groups in Burma has been on.  The conflicts created many internally displaced refugees, while others have crossed into Thailand.  Thailand has allowed this incursion for humanita ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Local hostility threatens Arakan reconstructio ...
    Doubts have been cast doubt on the Burmese government’s latest commitment to implement a “long-term” rehabilitation strategy in Arakan state, where Buddhists continue to oppose reintegration with the stateless Muslim Rohingya
  • Government to prosecute two administrators fol ...
    Burmese authorities have defended earlier claims that the blaze at an Islamic school in downtown Rangoon in early April was caused by an ‘overheated voltage regulator’
  • Burma gets ready to celebrate Thingyan
    The Buddhist New Year water festival, Thingyan, will be celebrated this weekend across Burma and for the second time in nearly three decades the old art of Thangyat is back on the streets.
  • Burma’s police struggle to adapt to ‘new ...
    After decades in the shadow of the military, Burma's ragtag police force has found itself thrust onto the security frontline – and under fire for failing to stop a wave of religious unrest
  • Police round up alleged rioters in Pegu division
    Dozens of people have been arrested throughout Pegu division for having alleged connections with the anti-Muslim riots that rocked the region last month

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-“North Korea: Whe ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Professor Christine Hong Sometimes the voices for peace get drowned out by all the saber rattling and chest pounding in the press and general discourse about potential war. Are North Korea’s recent actions really actions or predictable reactions to US and South Korean ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Drifters – “There Goes My Baby” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick takes us back to the summer of 1959 with the song There Goes my Baby by the 2nd incarnation of the Drifters with Ben E. King, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. The song ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 24
    “More than Music” with Rebel Diaz This week, Eric sits down with hip hop artists Rebel Diaz for a wide-ranging discussion about music, art, politics, and much more. Eric and the guys (RodStarz & G1) discuss the political and class nature of hip hop and why we should be wary of romanticizing ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • “Museveni abhorring Impunity! Phew!&#822 ...
    I will be shocked if the legal fraternity in Kenya and East Africa in general won’t react towards recent salvos leveled …Continue reading »
  • African Leadership Academy
    Greeting’s Everyone! I first have to say that the post Rant from a BlackYo Da! is a good article. Education is …Continue reading »
  • Rebel Flag and Old Glory: Symbols of Oppression
    One of the controversies being bandied about by the African-American community with regards to Brad Paisley song: “Accidental Racist”, is that for …Continue reading »
  • Rant from a BlackYo Da!
    Read and listen Black people! The success of the student isn’t predicated on whether or not the teacher believes in …Continue reading »
  • Historical African American First
    Greeting’s Everyone! I appreciate the comments from a couple of week’s ago! I had a week off, but want to …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Intellectuals Call for End to Administ ...
    Last night, I had the misfortune of telling you that some of Israel’s self-styled liberal intellectual elite had published a letter to Samer Issawi on his death bed, calling for him to end his hunger strike because he should be happy for Israel to send him into exile. It also suggested tha ...
  • Thousands Join Combatants for Peace in Commemo ...
    Thousands of Israelis joined Combatants for Peace’s Yom HaZikaron ceremony marking Israel’s Memorial Day. Among those who led and performed at the event were Israeli-Arab TV star and singer, Mira Awad. Only 44 Palestinians attended the event, because the defense ministry refused to a ...
  • Defense Ministry Overturns Decision to Refuse ...
    After appealing to the Israeli Supreme Court, the Israeli NGO Combatants for Peace announced today that the Defense ministry abandoned its previous refusal to permit the participation of the 109 Palestinains who’d intended to join the ceremony on Yom HaZikaron this Sunday. The threat of a ...
  • Israeli Writers Ask Palestinian Hunger Striker ...
    Samer Issawi is a Palestinian hunger striker who is on a fast to the death. He is currently being treated at Kaplan Hospital and floats in and out of consciousness. Yesterday, Israeli peace activists smuggled from his hospital room, where he is chained like a dog, a letter from his death bed. It ...
  • Aipac Asks Congress to Approve Israel Visa Wai ...
    Aipac, with its hand deeply in the pocket of the U.S. taxpayer on Israel’s behalf, and with Congress in its own pocket, has devised proposed legisltation that would even further surrender of U.S. sovereignty to Israel.  It’s advancing a visa waiver program that would allow both count ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The North Korean Threat - Getting Kim Jong Un' ...
    Nothing about the international response to North Korea's third nuclear test in February or subsequent provocations has been unreasonable. The crisis is entirely of Pyongyang's making. But it is possible that the hard-line approach taken by Washington, Seoul and other capitals to the North Korea ...
  • The North Korean Threat - US, China Pledge to ...
    The United States and China have expressed their desire to work together to get North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions.  Just how the two will do that remains uncertain.  North Korea topped the agenda during a visit by the top U.S. diplomat to Beijing on Saturday.U.S. Secretary o ...
  • Venezuela on Edge - Venezuelans Vote for Chave ...
    In Venezuela, polls are closing in the presidential election to replace the late Hugo Chavez.  Voters are choosing between Chavez's handpicked successor, who has vowed to continue the country's socialist policies, or Henrique Capriles, who favors more private-market friendly policies. The f ...
  • Campaign 2016 - Santorum Ignores Shift
    Several 2016 presidential campaigns are already up and running — some more quietly than others — and Republicans hoping to be their party’s nominee are preparing for a primary that could potentially bear little resemblance to those of 2012 and 2008. As the party grapples with a shifting el ...
  • Broken Banking - Mystery of Pre-Civil War Heli ...
    On June 5, 1997, all hell broke loose in Brazzaville. Presidential forces moved on the compound of a former president whose militia hit back, igniting a civil war that would lay to waste much of the Congolese capital and claim the lives of thousands of civilians, many of them victims of indiscri ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Arctic Will Be Almost-Completely Ice-Free By 2020
    The Arctic is melting much faster than most studies previously predicted. As early as 2020 and not later than 2050 it will be almost completely ice-free, according to a new study by the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
  • With Surging Emission Global Climate Change Go ...
    A global goal for limiting climate crisis is slipping out of reach and governments may have to find ways to artificially suck GHG from the air if they fail to make deep cuts in rising emissions by 2030, a draft UN report said. A 25-page draft summary, by the UN panel of climate experts and due f ...
  • CopenhaAmbitious Push To Be Carbon Neutral by ...
    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
  • Two Obamas, Two Classes Of Children By Ralph Nader
    The president, filled with memories of what his secret drone directives as prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner have done to so many children, in so many places, traveled on Monday to Newtown, Connecticut for the second time. He commiserated with the parents and relatives of the 20 children ...
  • Africa: Imperialism’s High Mark Of Conquest In ...
    The US-NATO military curtain has fallen the length and breadth of Africa. “Zimbabwe and tiny Eritrea are among the few nations on the African continent that have not yet been absorbed into the AFRICOM matrix.”

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • UH-Oh Is Tim Geithner In Trouble?
    To Err is Human, To Really Screw Things Up you Need a Computer Today is tax  is April 15th, Tax Day for much of America--but last night was a possible disaster for former Treasury Secretary Turbotax Tim Geithner, who famously forgot to pay his taxes and blamed it on Turbotax. Tubotax Tim ...
  • John Kerry to N Korea: Play Nice and We'll Giv ...
    Any parent will tell you if you give into a child's tantrums  you are in fact conditioning them that kind of behavior is acceptable and effective. For the past few weeks, North Korean strong man Kim Jong Un has been engaging in childish behavior, whining and screaming that he is a ...
  • No Seats on The Long Island Rail Road?
    When I got on the 5:45 train this AM it seemed more crowded than usual.  I was about to complain to the conductor until I opened the New York Daily News and saw this guy. Now his train must have been VERY crowded: There is always someone worse off than you are.Please email m ...
  • Senator Rubio: Please Answer the Question!
    Senator Marco Rubio appeared of Fox News Sunday to begin the sale of the gang of eight immigration plan to America. One part of the discussion was particularly disturbing: WALLACE: All right. Let's go back to the border, though, just as an example. You say it's a trigger, the number, 90 ...
  • Only Thing The Mother Jones Tape Proves is Dav ...
    Its been a long week for David Corn, Mother Jones' Washington Reporter. On Tuesday Corn released a tape of a Senator McConnell campaign meeting where the Minority Leader and his staff discussed opposition research on potential Democratic opponent Ashley Judd. The tape's release has lea ...

Wind Watch

  • Locals fear desert land will feed city’s ...
    YUCCA VALLEY — As the state rushes to expand its use of renewable energy, the Morongo Basin could be a prime target for solar and wind development. Conservation groups, residents and local and county leaders met in Yucca Valley’s community center Thursday, April 11, to discuss the Desert Renewab ...
  • Wind farm project up in the air; Energy compan ...
    Future industrial wind farm development in Mercer County is getting turbulent as BP America announced it will sell its wind energy division. BP spokesman Matt Hartwig said the Great Britain-based company decided to sell its American wind division “as part of a continuing effort to become a ...
  • North East group wants tight restrictions on w ...
    NORTH EAST — A group of North East Township residents is urging township officials to strictly regulate commercial wind farm development. The group, called Neighbors for a Responsible North East and led by Matt Putman and Paul Crowe, is lobbying for limits on the size of wind turbines that ...
  • Campaign donors, politicians behind Searchligh ...
    SEARCHLIGHT — The Department of the Interior may have recently approved the Searchlight Wind Project, but those who stand to benefit most from the project are politicians and well-connected campaign donors, and not the people of Searchlight. “People from other communities told us, ‘you don’t wan ...
  • Obama seen giving himself wiggle room with cal ...
    President Obama’s budget proposal calls for the permanent extension of a key renewable energy tax credit — an approach that goes beyond even what the credit’s main beneficiary says it needs to thrive and that observers say allows room to negotiate a proposal that falls short of the president’s i ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Get started with Web coding. Part 5: How to us ...
    If you want to design the future, learn to code. That’s how I concluded the last post in this series. So far, I’ve discussed HTML and CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, the command line, and software and CMSs. The vast majority of journalists out there are probably not going to stick with ...
  • List of requirements for a digital story designer
    The job title given in the advertisement is “digital news developer.” These are the requirements: College degree Minimum of 2 years programming experience Advanced command of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (including jQuery) Light Ruby or Python for data mining, Web scraping Comfort w ...
  • 10 examples of bespoke article design and scro ...
    Have you been noticing all the pretty sliding/scrolling articles that are popping up around the Internetz? My students think they’re wonderful, and so do I. So let’s look at a roundup of some great ones. Of course we’ll begin with Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Th ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
    This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
    So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...

Facing South

  • Pipeline workers walk picket line in Mississippi
    Pipeliners Local 798 is protesting Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan's decision to award a contract to non-union Loutex for construction of a gas pipeline in south Mississippi. read more
  • The right to (not wait to) vote
    Lawmakers in North Carolina and Texas are attempting to cut early voting hours. But after Florida's 2012 election fiasco -- and mounting evidence of the racial disparities in who such laws affect -- it could be a tough sell. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Regressing further on taxes?
    The U.S. has one of the most regressive tax systems of the developed nations, and now some states including Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina are considering plans to make their own tax systems even more regressive. read more
  • Arkansas TV stations pull ad criticizing Exxon ...
    A satirical TV ad accusing Exxon Mobil of hating children won't be airing after station managers received a cease-and-desist memo from the company, which is under fire for its pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark. read more
  • Drowning in industry in Houston's East End
    Yudith Nieto and Emmanuel Guajardo discuss their experiences organizing a Houston neighborhood that's been sickened by pollution from a Valero refinery slated to receive dirty Canadian tar sands oil via the Keystone XL pipeline. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Egypt judge withdraws from Mubarak trial
    BBC – The judge said he was referring the case to the Cairo appeals court as he felt “unease” in reviewing the case. That court is then expected to appoint a new panel to hear the retrial. But there was shouting in the courtroom, with relatives of protesters killed in the 2011 ...
  • Outcry as US-Palestinian teenager in Israeli m ...
    RT – The imprisonment by Israel of a 14-year old boy with joint US-Palestinian citizenship has provoked widespread criticism amongst human rights groups. The boy went before a military court on Thursday accused of throwing stones at Israeli cars. Mohammed Khalek, who was born in New Orlean ...
  • Alternative for Germany Party calls for abolit ...
    DW – A new political party has been founded in Germany. The Alternative for Germany Party wants to abolish the euro, raising concerns among the political establishment that the group will fan anti-European Union sentiment. Delegates met in Berlin on Sunday to officially launch the Alternat ...
  • Malaria hotspots ‘need new approach’
    BBC – Novel measures are needed to tackle malaria hotspots in countries with low levels of the disease, scientists say. Countries such as Malaysia and Bhutan have seen malaria levels fall – but pockets of infection remain, mainly among men living or working outdoors. Read article Rel ...
  • Kremlin criticizes U.S. blacklist ahead of Oba ...
    Reuters – President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman on Sunday called a U.S. law barring Russians from the country over alleged rights abuses unacceptable interference in Russia’s affairs, setting a tough tone before a visit by a senior White House adviser. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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libcom

  • Like father, like son: Fascists of the 3rd Mil ...
    alemanno-celtica1.jpg Two policemen are under investigation for covering up a fascist brawl that involved Rome’s Mayor’s son, Manfredi Alemanno. According to Rome’s Public Prose ...
  • Mythbuster: "strivers v skivers"
    welfare-spending.PNG Excellent document from the New Economics Foundation debunking government and media rhetoric about benefit "skivers" and showing that only 2.6% of welfare spending is on ...
  • Fighting the Bedroom Tax in Huddersfield and t ...
    battle of Barcleys 2.jpg The battle against the bedroom tax in Huddersfield has commenced resulting in a near riot outside Barclays bank. The battle against the bedroom tax and ...
  • This time it’s personal. Mortgage fraud, faux- ...
    escraches.jpg The escrache protests in Spain organised by the Platform of Mortgage Victims are quickly getting to the rotten core of a technical government in all but name. Despite the Popular Party&# ...
  • "Start your own local uprising!": an interview ...
    kranj1.jpg This week's episode of The Final Straw features an interview with Ramona, an anarchist activist in Slovenia and member of the Federation for Anarchist Organizing. She speaks about the ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • DIY Energy Audits and the A-Hah Moment
    In the preceding post on-Less Weight Equals More Horsepower I used the comparison on how the US Automakers figured out how to make our Automobiles use less gas by lightening the vehicles weights which increased horsepower which equates into less Petrol needed for operation and how the same princ ...
  • DIY Energy Audits and the A-Hah Moment
    In the preceding post on-Less Weight Equals More Horsepower I used the comparison on how the US Automakers figured out how to make our Automobiles use less gas by lightening the vehicles weights which increased horsepower which equates into less Petrol needed for operation and how the same princ ...
  • Less Weight Equals More Horsepower
    To use a Building as an example: less weight on your Energy Bills equals more Horsepower for your Bank Account! and the same principle can be applied to your Home or Business. Everyone who has driven a car or truck built in the Late 70s or early 80s knows that gas was cheap-car and truck [...]
  • Less Weight=More Horsepower
      To use a Building as an example: less weight on your Energy Bills equals more Horsepower for your Bank Account! and the same principle can be applied to your Home or Business.   Everyone who has driven a car or truck built in the Late 70s or early 80s knows that gas was cheap-car [...]
  • Do Squirrels and Rabbits Ravage Your Garden?
    Reblogged from Scotts Contracting: Varmit Garden Screen Protector Designed and Built by Scotts Contracting will protect your precious vegetables from the Vermin. Garden Screen Protector Available at Scotts Contracting Sunday March 18, 2012 Planted Back Yard Garden Gambling on Spring Weather Cond ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Provocative Documentary by Woody Harrelson
    Ethos Peter McGrain 2011 Film Review The hour-long documentary Ethos, narrated by actor/activist Woody Harrelson, is now available free online. In my opinion, it has powerful take home lessons for Americans across the political spectrum. Largely because it addresses what I view as the two m ...
  • Combating Education's Shock Doctrineers
    Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (In this final of 6 guest posts, Weil describes the need for direct action in fighting Wall Street’s effort to end public education as we know it.) The shock doctrineers have moved stealth like, quickly and quietly, under the auspices of dem ...
  • How Wall Streeet Gets Away With It
    Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (The 5th of 6 posts, this one describes how the financial capitalist class has used right wing think tanks, America’s anti-intellectual culture, so-called “philanthropy,” for-profit, drive-by collages, avatars like Alex Abramhoff (son ...
  • Don't Look at the Man Behind the Curtain
    Lumina’s Building Tomorrow’s Workforce Policy Forum Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (Why now? In this 4th of 6 posts, Weil explains the motives behind the campaign to replace the Master Plan in California that assures a free and unfettered college access for students of all walks of ...
  • Excluding Students Who Don't Fit the Corporate ...
    Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (In number 3 of 6 posts, Weil explains how “undesirable” students will be weeded out, while tuition increases increase student debt loads – and profits for the companies that service them.) Fighting local struggles with an eye on national efforts ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...
  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...
  • Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun V ...
    These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Pane ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Top 10 Locavore-Friendly States
    There's something magical about biting into a fresh carrot grown in a farm field just down the road. Not only is it fresh, but there's also a good chance you know the farmer who planted the seed several months earlier. Supporting local farmers helps your local economy, but it also helps put you ...
  • Rice: The Most Toxic Food in Your Pantry?
    Rice, it seems, can’t catch a break. Late last year, Consumer Reports magazine released results of their own independent testing, revealing that brown rice and some varieties of white, are highly contaminated with arsenic. And now, a new study presented this week at the American Chemical Societ ...
  • Nation's 10 Largest Retailers Urged to Dump To ...
    How much do you think your favorite store cares about your health? While some retailers are taking baby steps toward ridding certain products of toxic chemicals, they aren't doing enough, according to a new campaign sponsored by the advocacy group Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. The campai ...
  • Quit the False Debates over Climate Science, S ...
    Ask a scientist whether climate change is our new reality and that we humans are the cause and you'll get a resounding "Absolutely!" Ask a high-school science teacher those same questions and you'll probably get a less-emphatic response. For the past decade, high-school teachers have ...
  • Climate Change to Intensify Airplane Turbulence
    Climate change has an impact on so many aspects of everyday life. It fuels the expansion of pests and diseases like West Nile virus and Lyme disease, promotes intense pollen production that makes allergy sufferers miserable, and now, it seems, climate change will also make airplane travel more ...

big think

  • Can Science Eliminate the Need to Sleep?
    What's the Latest Development? Entrepreneurs and university scientists alike are working hard to shorten the amount of time we spend sleeping each day while maintaining essential skills like learning, concentrating and being emotionally sensitive to our environment. Stimulants ranging fr ...
  • Let's End this Nightmare: The Corporate Income Tax
    Tax day is no one's favorite day. But perhaps we can take this opportunity to examine how we can reform one of the most complex tax systems in the world. Big Think chief Economist Daniel Altman has a suggestion to end this long national nightmare: get rid of the corporate income tax.   A ...
  • You're Young. Now Is The Time to Take Risks
    Now is definitely the time to take risks.  I have two daughters, both of whom are now grown and married, with kids.  One has two kids, the other almost has two kids, she’s due very soon—twins. They were each waitresses. My older daughter hated it, but my younger daughter actually has pursued a . ...
  • Don't Follow Your Passion. It Might Make You B ...
    I think it’s not always right that people should follow their passion.  There is a questionnaire that people fill out just before they enter college that has been going on for many years—and for many years people are asked the question of how important are various aspects of your life, for examp ...
  • How the Brain Sees Art
    What's the Latest Development?  Earlier this month, President Obama announced his intention to create an ambitious research project, supported by billions of federal dollars, devoted to unlocking the secrets of how the brain works (and how its processes create the thing we call the mind) ...

Information Liberation

  • Caught on Tape: Rehoboth Beach, DE Cop Tazes M ...
    In this newly posted video, Delaware police officer Robert Whitman of the Rehoboth Beach police is seen on video cavalierly tazing 34-year-old Jeremy Anderson of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, then disturbingly stomping his face into hard pavement....
  • House Members File Bipartisan "Respect States' ...
    A bi-partisan group of US representatives led by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) Friday introduced legislation that would end the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have either legalized it or adopted medical marijuana laws. That would...
  • Crash Indicator: Mom and Pop Take the Plunge B ...
    Americans are scared. Their concerns aren*t centered around the possibility of an economic collapse, another down leg in the real estate market, continued deterioration of the labor market, or a US dollar currency meltdown. With markets at all ...
  • Faber: Gold Isn't Down as Much as Apple
    April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Gloom, Boom and Doom Report Publisher marc Faber discusses the markets, gold and his investment strategy on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)...
  • The Great Gold vs Bitcoin Debate: Doug Casey v ...
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Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Science mob to attack austerity
    Austerity measures – cutbacks in other words – are taking their toll on science. A special issue of The Euroscientist brings together an analysis of the impact of austerity on scientists and their research and the growing brain drain. The magazine is also encouraging other scientists ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • At Cross-purposes: Subsidies and Climate Compa ...
    Overseas Development Institute / by Shelagh Whitley http://bit.ly/10QDRmr [Website] …Though climate finance aims to enable climate compatible development (CCD), this paper points out that, within developing countries, subsidies to fossil fuels (alone) currently dwarf any efforts toward CCD ...
  • Climate Change Impacts to Natural Resources in ...
    South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources http://www.dnr.sc.gov/pubs/CCINatResReport.pdf [The State] …The report says South Carolina should brace for the effects of global warming and begin planning for those changes. A warmer climate could lead to the invasion of exotic species from Flori ...
  • U.S. Natural Gas Exports: New Opportunities, U ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42074.pdf As estimates for the amount of U.S. natural gas resources have grown, so have the prospects of rising U.S. natural gas exports. The United States is expected to go from a net importer of natural gas to a net exporter by 20 ...
  • Map of Assessed Shale Gas in the United States ...
    US Geological Survey / National Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources Team; Compiled by Biewick, Laura R. H. — dated “2013″ http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ds69Z The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled a map of shale-gas assessments in the United States that were completed by ...
  • Asian Development Outlook 2013: Asia’s E ...
    Asian Development Bank http://wcm.adb.org/publications/asian-development-outlook-2013-asias-energy-challenge ADO 2013 features a special chapter on Asia’s energy challenges. The region needs an ample supply of clean, affordable energy to continue its rapid growth in the coming decades. To ...

Scientific American - News

  • Can Evolution Beat Climate Change?
    The oceanic pincushion known as the purple sea urchin relies on its many spines and pincers for protection and food. An inability to form its spiny shell would devastate the species, which thrives on rocky shores off North America’s west coast. Unfortunately for the purple sea urchin, high ...
  • Organic Pollutants Now Accumulating in Himalay ...
    Toxic chemicals are accumulating in the ecosystems of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, researchers warn in the first comprehensive study to assess levels of certain organic pollutants in that part of the world. [More]
  • Wild Weather Can Send Greenhouse Gases Spiraling
    Climate change has a disconcerting tendency to amplify itself through feedback effects. Melting sea ice exposes dark water, allowing the ocean to soak up more heat. Arctic warming speeds the release of carbon dioxide from permafrost. And, as researchers discussed at a meeting last week in Seefel ...
  • Neighborhood Watch: New NASA Mission Will Prop ...
    NASA’s Kepler mission has been a smash hit. It has discovered thousands of probable exoplanets--worlds orbiting stars other than the sun--more than 100 of which have already been vetted and confirmed. Many of those planets are among the smallest , most Earth-size planets known: of the 25 ...
  • Supreme Court Set to Hear Arguments on Whether ...
    When Daniel Weaver pitches Genformatic to potential investors, he feels obliged to note a future legal uncertainty. The two-year-old company, based in Austin, Texas, offers whole-genome sequencing and analysis to researchers and physicians, with plans to apply the technology to medical diagnosti ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • BLOG(Rachelle Niemela): Complete Streets – Sud ...
    Chicago has just released the 2013 Edition of its Complete Streets Design Guidelines. It is one of hundreds of U.S. cities and states, and a few Canadian cities, who have endorsed and implemented the concept of Complete Streets. And it is definitely the type of document that Sudbury needs to dev ...
  • Downtown Eastsiders paint old police station t ...
    For Immediate Release April 14, 2013 About 75 Downtown Eastside residents and supporters gathered at the former police station at Main and Cordova today to claim the empty building for social housing and a community space for Aboriginal wo ...
  • Downtown Eastsiders paint old police station t ...
    For Immediate Release April 14, 2013 About 75 Downtown Eastside residents and supporters gathered at the former police station at Main and Cordova today to claim the empty building for social housing and a community space for Aboriginal wo ...
  • Nowhere to Run To: A Global Resistance to Toxi ...
    On April 12, 2013, the province of British Columbia announced four new proposals for LNG export terminals on the north coast. One of the four companies involved, Australian based Woodside Petroleum, announced on the very same day that they ...
  • Nowhere to Run To: A Global Resistance to Toxi ...
    On April 12, 2013, the province of British Columbia announced four new proposals for LNG export terminals on the north coast. One of the four companies involved, Australian based Woodside Petroleum, announced on the very same day that they ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Thoughts on the New technology and privacy in ...
    David Seaton's News Links When I was a child, back in the 1950s, I spent many a summer in my grandmother's tiny village about 1/2 hour's drive from Hannibal Missouri on the Illinois side of the Big Muddy.Neighbors would come into your house without knocking... they'd suddenly be there without a ...
  • Maggie
    David Seaton's News LinksMy private theory of Margaret Thatcher is not as kind as most of the opinions expressed in the media. Cutting to the chase. I believe that British industry (Britain "invented" industry and was once the "workshop of the world") if properly reformed and restructured could ...
  • A collection of press snippets
    David Seaton's News LinksI began my journalistic endeavors by simply juxtaposing snippets from the press in an electronic collage, hoping that in the end result the total effect would be more than just the sum of the separate clippings. With the quotes below I return to my origins...According ...
  • My solution to the North Korean crisis
    David Seaton's News Links This is all much simpler than it looks. Dennis Rodman has shown us the way! Here is the secret: Kim Jong Un is secretly in love with the USA and all things American. You'd really have to be madly in love with the idea of America to invite a freak like Dennis Rodman to ...
  • North Korea puts its armed forces on a war footing
    David Seaton's News Links "As we have learnt again and again in this long period of turmoil, the impossible can become inevitable without even passing through improbable." Anatole Kaletsky - The TimesWe seem to be immersed in a period of cumulative disasters, rather similar to the astrological i ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Buckraking, Obama Style
    Noam Scheiber writes that Barack Obama doesn't really like former aides showing off their closeness to the White House. But that's not really a problem: There are more than enough ways to cash in on a White House tour of duty that fall comfortably within the red lines governing Obama&rsq ...
  • Kermit Gosnell: A Case Study in Working the Refs
    The Kermit Gosnell story is truly breathtaking. There are, of course, the actual crimes Gosnell is charged with, which are appalling all on their own. Gosnell was a rogue abortion doctor who (it's alleged) ran a hideously deadly clinic in Philadelphia, and remained open for years before local ...
  • Lists of Stale Words Have Become Kind of Stale ...
    Andrew Sullivan links today to an interview with Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books: I know from sometimes-painful experience how particular you are about certain tired words. Massive, for example, is strictly forbidden. Or framework. Framework could rightly refer ...
  • An Update on Peak Oil
    If you've been reading this blog regularly, you already know the basics about peak oil: It's not a kooky conspiracy theory. The obsessively mainstream International Energy Agency, which refused to even acknowledge the possibility of peak oil for years, officially admitted it was real thre ...
  • Quote of the Day: Happy Days Are Here Again
    From Kelly Hamon, who recently bid $47,000 over the asking price to beat out five other buyers for a cream-colored North Hollywood home: I am going to have to tighten the budget. Maybe not get TV right away — just Netflix. The backstory here is the return of the housing b ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 391: Morning Wood Syndrome
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips joins Kriss & Kev Laughing at mental illness….until its not funny Being offensive Rick Ross outrage revisted The difference between Eminem & Rick Ross Going all in with being offensive Bringing awareness to Morning Wood Syndrome Women’s MMA B ...
  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...
  • IC 389: Double Agent
    NWFO back together Trolling relationship experts on Twitter Operation Make AskCheyB quit Tiger Woods is a black double agent Hating on Tiger because of adultery Openly gay in the NFL in between homophobia and full support of gays the Fallon Fox/Transgender issue North Korea gotta go The Wolverin ...
  • Best of The Insanity Check: Side Chicks Don’t ...
    The 2nd “Best of the Insanity Check”. Side Chicks Don’t Have Rights: Gloria Allred thinks Tiger Woods owes his side chicks apologies Mel Gibbson’s mixtape,Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel & the “Rules of Ryce” More Mel Gibbson Share with your friends:
  • IC 388: Religious Rapers
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment Great sith council assignment in real life Religious rapers don’t know “No Means No” Door-to-Door Salesmen Savages Part 2 Ford makes a really bad decision with an Ad Teaser for Riddick Upcoming movies Upcoming Video Games BioWare says goodbye ...

Simple Climate

  • Alternate histories back unique modern warmth ...
    Creating and averaging thousands of slightly different historic temperature records shows that Northern hemisphere 21st century temperatures are almost certainly unique in the last 600 years, according to Harvard University’s Martin Tingley.
  • Temperature patterns produce perplexing Plioce ...
    Failure to model a climate fingerprint from 5 million years ago thought to be similar to what we can expect in the warmer future must be resolved, say Lafayette College’s Kira Lawrence and University College London’s Chris Brierley
  • Diving deep into ocean data uncovers ‘missing ...
    Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven’t been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps explain current surprisingly slow surface warming, and invalidates simple climate models.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.

e!Science News

  • Recent climate, glacier changes in Antarctica ...
    In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise. read more
  • Mass. General team develops implantable, bioen ...
    Bioengineered rat kidneys developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus and after being transplanted into living animals. In their report, receiving advance online publication in Nature Medicine, the research team descr ...
  • New insight into accelerating summer ice melt ...
    A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since the mid 20th Century. Summer ice melt affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers. read more
  • Nanosponges soak up toxins released by bacteri ...
    Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream -- including toxins produced by MRSA, E. coli, poisonous snakes and bees. These nanosponges, which thus far have been stud ...
  • Bacterial security agents go rogue
    CRISPR, a system of genes that bacteria use to defend themselves against viruses, has been found to be involved in helping some bacteria evade the mammalian immune system. read more

unEarthed

  • Manatees Dying in Florida's Algae-Choked Waterways
    Toxic algae, caused by runoff, found in mammals' stomachs Florida tourism promoters are always looking to get stories in the newspaper to lure northern tourists – and their vacation cash -- down here. But a recent story ...
  • ConocoPhillips Surrenders on Arctic Ocean Drilling
    Big Oil company won't drill in 2014, following Shell's lead The Arctic is home to a rich variety of marine life, such as beluga whales. Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visi ...
  • Sen. Lautenberg Introduces Toxic Chemical Overhaul
    Senator's eighth attempt to replace outdated TSCA law Sen. Lautenberg: "It’s time to break away from the chemical industry lobbyists and listen to concerned parents, pediatrician ...
  • Confirming a New Boss at EPA
    Gina McCarthy is a sound choice for the job McCarthy will be a vital player in the effort to protect our families and environment.  (EPA) This week a Sen ...
  • Friday Finds: Flying High on Flame Retardants
    Plus: Climate changes coffee and oil industry handouts Studies have shown that airline cabins contain high levels of flame retardants. Photo courtesy of chinaoffseason (Flickr) ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • The Wall, 11 years on: Changes, normalization ...
    Exactly 11 years ago today, PM Ariel Sharon ordered the start of construction on a ‘separation barrier’ in the West Bank. It would soon become what is probably the biggest, most expensive and most influential construction project in Israel’s history. Eleven years later, how is constr ...
  • Poll: 23% of Jewish Israelis support apartheid ...
    Survey finds that majority of Jewish Israelis think the country should unilaterally determine its borders along the route of the West Bank separation barrier. One-third support either annexing the West Bank without giving Palestinians civil rights, or perpetuating the status quo — both of ...
  • Who got rid of the prime minister of Palestine?
    The resignation of the Palestinian Authority’s relatively popular but unsupported Prime Minister Salam Fayyad ends a story of frustration, progress and hope. Who killed the prime minister of Palestine? Well, no one killed Salam Fayyad, of course. But the idea of a prime minister of Palesti ...
  • Who killed the prime minister of Palestine?
    The resignation of the Palestinian Authority’s relatively popular but unsupported Prime Minister Salam Fayyad ends a story of frustration, progress and hope. Well, no one killed Salam Fayyad, of course. But the idea of a prime minister of Palestine, the political leader of a someday-democr ...
  • Israel’s deputy FM: Russian Jews get what some ...
    One hundred Jewish leaders from Russia sent a public letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to ignore the call from Jewish-American leaders and public figure to make territorial concessions for peace. “…we believe that the decisions of the Head of the Government of Israel ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • What If Hundreds Of Thousands of Foreclosures ...
    Or, stated another way, The banks and their foreclosure mills are cheating, and foreclosures should stop until the courts and other state agencies wrapped their hands around the full magnitude of the cheating. In my foreclosure files, I’ve found a pattern of conduct, potentially criminal c ...
  • Foreclosure and Short Sale Stats in Pinellas C ...
    THESE NUMBERS REALLY ARE SO COMPELLING… SEE THE FULL REPORT HERE   Tweet this!Scridb filter
  • Defense In Foreclosure- The Bank Failing to Pe ...
    How many hundreds of millions of man (and women) work hours have been lost as Americans send paperwork back and forth and struggle to obtain mortgage modifications? And what if it were finally proven (what we all know to be the case)? The banks are cheating, the banks are lying,Read the Rest...
  • (nuclear) BOMBSHELL- Wells Fargo Fined More Th ...
    What if everything the banks are doing is a lie?  What if the banks are systematically cheating america and americans with every foreclosure filing? MICHEAL L. JONES v. WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, INC. SECTION “B” Appellant, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo”) has submi ...
  • Think a Short Sales in Foreclosure Solves Your ...
    From the St. Petersburg Times: NEW PORT RICHEY — When his home’s value plunged, George Albright opted to sell it for less than he owed, believing the “short sale” would scar his credit less than a foreclosure. But after saving for a down payment and building back his credit, th ...

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Vaccine Awakening

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


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renewable recycling conservation
EPA grant fuels research into barriers torenewable energy - MiBiz
MiBiz
ANN ARBOR — State policy can be a larger impediment to renewable energy than overcast skies and a lack of wind. One statewide nonprofit hopes to address those challenges as part of a new study. The Clean Energy Coalition of Michigan recently received...
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PG&E's Green Option Gives Customers Opportunity To Support Renewable ...
CleanTechnica
“This new program will provide a meaningful opportunity for PG&E customers to link their energy usage to the development of new localrenewable energy projects,” said Matthew Freedman , Staff Attorney with TURN. ”Every customer subscription will help ...
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Colorado Senate votes to raise renewableenergy goals for rural co-ops
Denver Business Journal (blog)
Both IREA and Tri-State already are covered under a 2007 bill that requires they get 10 percent of their electricity supplies fromrenewable energy sources by 2020. IREA serves customers in several counties, including Douglas County, south of Denver.
WTO Appeal Hearings in Canada RenewableEnergy Row Kick Off
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
The WTO appeals process for the high-profile dispute over the Canadian province of Ontario's feed-in-tariff (FIT) programme forrenewable energy officially kicked off in Geneva last week, as the EU, Japan, and Canada all participated in the first round ...
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ecology water energy
Answers: Human Ecology
New York Times
1. c. Life's boundaries are not always clear. One fungus occupies about 2,384 acres of the forest floor in eastern Oregon, the filaments extending along the root systems of trees. The Pando aspen grove, once thought to be the largest organism, consists ...
Class project inspires research article inEcology
William and Mary News
A study that began as a class project among graduate students at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science is now a peer–reviewed research article in Ecology, the flagship journal of the Ecological Society of America. The article ...
Ecology Center festival encourages Earth-friendly ways
OCRegister (subscription)
The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano hosted a free Earth Day Festival on Saturday, featuring a scavenger Eco-Hunt through the Eco-Labs, live music from Robert Layton, Moonsville Collective and Live Oak Revue, free lunch from Chipotle Mexican Grill ...
Landscape Detective Walk - Hale MossEcology
BBC News
Noticeboard at Red Hills Road, Arnside. Run by: Arnside and Silverdale AONB Landscape Trust. Short walk of around 1.5 miles on level ground. Some stretches are uneven and may be very wet. Looking at peat bog, pond and trees with associated ecology.
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WATER POWER

water floods pollution
'Water dumping' Bangor man upset after police stop his bottle return
Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine — A local man seen Monday dumping bottled water he had purchased with a food stamp card in order to cash in the returnables violated federal regulations and was issued a warning by police. The man used his Supplemental Nutrition ...
Songkran Festival 2013: World's biggest waterfight
CNN International
Thailand's massively popular Songkran Festival celebrating the Thai New Year and the official start of summer runs April 12-15. Splashing water is one of the main ways to celebrate. In this particular water fight in the Ayutthaya province, our bet's on ...
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Report Shows Texas Counties Where Fracking and Water Needs Collide
StateImpact Texas
Tom Bragg, left, of Sunpro Inc., works on finishing filling his truck with water as Gary Wortman takes off the filler hose from his truck after filling up with water at a Chesapeake Energy Corporation fresh watercollection station at a sand and gravel ...
Jomi's Smart Water Bottle Sleeve-Plus-App Wants To Track & Chart Your Liquid ...
TechCrunch
Move over HAPIfork. Estonian startup Jomi Interactive is cooking up a pair of smart devices that will remind people to drink morewater. Or at least whatever liquid/poison of choice you put in your water bottle. The aim, says the startup, is to ...
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