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2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: 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 ...

k2p blog

  • Questioning global warming dogma is taboo in B ...
    The authors of this paper recently presented their views on climate science at the Royal Academy of Belgium. No French or Belgian newspaper was willing to publish their assessment. Questioning the impact of mankind on climate change is evidently still a taboo in the French-speaking world.
  • Composition of exhaust gases from humans and f ...
    Human exhaust gases are very similar in composition to the exhaust gases from a gas turbine combined cycle power plant.
  • Glorious, glorious North Korea!
    North Korean medals
  • Wild ride for the Bitcoin as its value crashes
    In the space of a few days the Bitcoin value has gone from less than $10 upto about $240 and is now back to $69. I am inclined to think that some very "hot" money was involved in the boom and that it has "moved on" to create the bust - but has almost certainly not moved back to where it started ...
  • Norwegian goat genes in 300,000 Tanzanian goats
    80 Norwegian dairy goats which were transplanted into Tanzania 30 years ago have bred with Tanzanian goats to create a brand new goat dairy economy where none existed. Their genes are now spread among about 300,000 goats.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • State Goofs, Demands Man Pay Back $17,000 In U ...
    Back in 2007, when a newly unemployed New Jersey man decided to relocate to South Carolina, he checked with the state to let them know about the move and to make sure he was filing all his unemployment records properly. $17,000 and multiple assurances from state employees later, he was suddenly ...
  • Dish Network Throws $25.5 Billion On The Table ...
    It’s been about six months since Japanese Wireless company SoftBank said it’d pay a handsome price to buy control of Sprint. And in yet another example of how a much-buzzed about hookup sometimes fails to get to the completion stage, there’s another company suddenly in the runn ...
  • Soda At Walmart Is Wholesome, Healthy, Delicio ...
    Reader Kathy sent along this photo that she took at Walmart. She found this display kind of puzzling, and for good reason. “Seriously? So suddenly soda is ‘wholesome and healthy’?” she writes. “Yeah right… good one, Walmart.” We’re more concerned a ...
  • Flying The Friendly Skies Friday: Traveling Wi ...
    Around these parts, we hear our share of the frustrating, the woeful and the all-out angry. But when we catch hold of an idea that brings out the happy and rewarding stories of customers, we like to celebrate it. This week in Flying The Friendly Skies Friday: Honoring the best among us, celebrat ...
  • Let’s Review: If You Didn’t Order ...
    Andrew subscribes to Popular Photography magazine, and was annoyed to receive an instructional DVD in the mail. Not because he’s a pro photographer and already knows his way around a DSLR, but because he didn’t order it. “I was just going to throw it out,” he writes. &#82 ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Inter-American Investment Corporation Must Rev ...
    On Apr. 5, 2013, the District Court of the District of Columbia ordered the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the multilateral private sector lending arm of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to turn over documents to Jorge Vila, who is suing the institution. The ruling read: ...
  • Unfair Tax Liability for Whistleblower Awards ...
    The following piece is a guest editorial by Gary J. Aguirre, former SEC Senior Counsel and client of GAP attorneys, who presently heads a law practice focused on financial litigation that includes whistleblower representation. Whistleblowers who receive an award from the Securities and Exchan ...
  • Significant Ruling for Manning: Daily Whistle ...
    Politico: Bradley Manning, Media Score Court Martial Wins Returning to court yesterday, military whistleblower Bradley Manning won a possibly significant ruling after the judge stated that the prosecution will have to prove that Manning acted with the knowledge that his whistleblowing could pu ...
  • In Budget Debate, Congress Should Review ICIJ ...
    The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is mining the largest stash of leaked corporate documents everDeutsche Bank is among those accused of encouraging offshore accounts delivered to any group beyond those involved in the schemes exposed. The group’s website reveals th ...
  • Upcoming Hearing to Force IRS into Action on W ...
    Reuters: Hearing to Expose IRS Informant Program to Scrutiny The IRS has faced criticism for some time of not doing enough to promote whistleblower disclosures. The agency has increasingly come under scrutiny since it adopted a new whistleblower law seven years ago, which stipulates monetary ...

UK Progressive

  • The Canonisation and Vilification of Baroness ...
    This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell I’d rather write eulogies about Jonathan Winters (an undisputed comedy king), Annette Funicello (whom every pre-pubescent American boy watching The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s had a crush on) or the witty Roger Ebert (who spoke more truth about fil ...
  • iWatch News’ Continued Investigation into Tril ...
    by Bill Buzenberg Our reporting of previously secret off-shore companies and trusts from the British Virgin Islands to Singapore will continue throughout this year. The exact value of wealth held offshore in tax havens is hard to come by, but it is estimated to encompass $21-32 trillion in priva ...
  • Moonwalking the Assault Weapons Ban
    by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad From the time the tragic school massacre occurred that killed 20 young children (and their teachers) on December 14th, 2012, the national debate shifted to what could be done. For the past three and a half months, all we heard from Congress, the pundits and the med ...
  • Obama’s Third Term-Democratic Convergence: Hil ...
    by Brent Budowsky There is a powerful and profound convergence of interest between Team Obama, Team Clinton, and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate. The prime directive for the leadership strata of Democrats in Washington and the Democratic base nationally is clear and well understood by ...
  • Gitmo Defense Lawyers Say Somebody Has Been Ac ...
    by Cora Currier ProPublica Update, April 12: In a statement, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale disputed defense attorneys’ characterizations of the email and data breach described below, saying that none of the government prosecutors “saw the content of any privileged communications.” ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Lewandowsky, Prof of Psychology, thinks the La ...
    Stephan Lewandowsky’s work is a case study in government funded inanity. Some Australians are sure that burning coal will make storms stronger. Others are not convinced. In November 2012 Lewandowsky’s intellectual contribution to science in Australia was to call the unconvinced &#822 ...
  • The Monster has arrived. Thanks to friends&#82 ...
    The Monster is in the house. I haven’t actually laid a finger on it, but I’ve been introduced. It is currently being fed with special monster baby food — heavy windows, slow drivers, stuff like that — it is pacified with shiny plastic discs and countless downloads. At a h ...
  • Global gloom. Help. I need a new computer.
    In astrological terms, Jupiter must be passing through my technology zone. Yesterday the web-host was down for 15 hours. Today, my computer collapsed randomly into the blue screen of death. It can be revived, sort of, but the five-year-old-overworked-disc only springs to life for short bursts in ...
  • Is the media waking up? Global warming: time ...
    Tic, tic, tic. The sleeping MSM is stirring. Headlines no one could imagine seeing a few years ago are popping up on a regular basis. The backdown is beginning. For those who have not gone-over-the-falls and chained their reputation to a big-Green-rock, there is time to backtrack. This is a good ...
  • Rupert Wyndham ponders the wanton hypocrisy of ...
    Rupert Wyndham is an eloquent treasure. For those who have not already seen this (and I’ve received many emails about it) — Enjoy! — His turn of phrase is something to behold: the damning indictments carefully understated, yet laid bare. That the Royal Society President has bee ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

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

Facing South

  • 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

One News Page

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

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) ...
    American democracy appears to be in jeopardy. Irrespective of the political dispensation at the White House, the policy of promoting proxy wars and covert military operations across the globe continues to mutate. Any nation that decides to exercise its sovereign right to protect its citizens fro ...
  • Foreign Intervention in the Syrian Conflict
    The increased foreign intervention in Syria’s internal conflict suggests that the anti-Assad coalition is preparing for the end of the “battle for Syria.” In northern Jordan, a training camp with mockups of typical Syrian towns and an airport has been established alongside the military training ...
  • China and BRICS: Upgrading Global Agenda
    A few weeks have passed since the Chinese fifth generation leaders came to power. The first impression is really strong. Newly elect Chairman Xi Jinping has visited Moscow and has taken part in the Durbin top level BRICS event; he has received US Secretary of Treasure and Henry Kissinger in Beij ...
  • US’ policy towards Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline (I)
    One of the aspects of change in the mode of warfare, which has come to prominence after World War II, is the non-military aggressive tool of ‘economic strangulation’ through which the powerful states try to politically subjugate their target countries. Unfortunately the development and applicati ...
  • Human Rights and the Sri Lankan Pinochet
    70 years ago, during the WWII, when Japan bombed Madras and Cyclone, the ethnic divide between the Tamils and Sinhalese was hardly pronounced. Both were victims of great power politics that was being played out in the region. In the 1980s the hegemonic politics once again attacked the region. Th ...

BlogHer

  • Chalkboard Notecard How-To
    [Editor's Note: That Ruth from GraceLaced is one clever lady. Just when I thought I had seen all the chalkboard projects the craft world has to offer she shows me something new. Chalkboard notecards - so cute, so easy, so versatile. You could make a batch of these and chalk in whatever messag ...
  • Job Interviews: Answering Why You Left Your La ...
    [Editor's Note: You're in a job interview and they ask the dreaded question: Why did you leave your last job? You wonder, what is the right way for me to answer if I was laid off? Work Coach Cafe gives you the answer of how to successfully answer this question. -Paula G We have several posts ab ...
  • Job Interviews: Answering Why You Left Your La ...
    [Editor's Note: You're in a job interview and they ask the dreaded question: Why did you leave your last job? You wonder, what is the right way for me to answer if I was laid off? Work Coach Cafe gives you the answer of how to successfully answer this question. -Paula G We have several posts ab ...
  • Nie Asks: What Cheers You Up When You're Sick?
    I have been so sick lately. When you are sick, what cheers you up? I lie on my bed and read to my baby girl. Seems to get my mind off myself and my woes. Tell me what you do -- I want to know!
  • Nie Asks: What Cheers You Up When You're Sick?
    I have been so sick lately. When you are sick, what cheers you up? I lie on my bed and read to my baby girl. Seems to get my mind off myself and my woes. Tell me what you do -- I want to know!

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Patriot Coal: Potential progress and more protests
    Retired coal miner Ricky Clark, left, of Man, W.Va., protests with around 2,000 other retired and active coal miners and their The United Mine Workers of America is promising more protests in its continuing campaign regarding the Patriot Coal bankruptcy and the future contract and benefits for t ...
  • W.Va.’s Rep. David McKinley lectures ast ...
    We’ve written before on this blog about West Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley. He’s not a big fan of environmental regulations, especially those that might improve the handling and disposal of toxic coal ash, and definitely doesn’t like federal regulators. During a House ...
  • Friday roundup, April 12, 2013
    Rescued miner Feng Zuxue is carried out of the mine shaft of a flooded coal mine in Weng’an County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Monday, April 8, 2013. Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency say three miners have been rescued after spending two and a half days trapped undergro ...
  • Democrats let GOP hijack EPA transparency issue
    It was certainly fascinating to watch yesterday as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a confirmation hearing for Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s nominee to be U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator during his second term. We had a story in this morning&#821 ...
  • Coal operators face ‘skyrocketing produc ...
    There’s an important story out from Darren Epps at SNL Financial that reports this: The cost of coal sales per ton accelerated an average of 38.9% between 2009 and 2012 among eight major U.S. coal companies analyzed by SNL Energy, highlighting the geological, regulatory and market challeng ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Harms Science Education by ...
    In the video above, Neil deGrasse Tyson (our generation’s Carl Sagan) takes what appears to be intellectual high ground by denying that the term “atheism” has any use in our society. Would that this were true. What he fails to acknowledge in his argument is the active anti-inte ...
  • Does News Consumption Destroy Creativity?
    I don’t know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer, architect or painter. On the other hand, I know a bunch of viciously uncreative minds who consume news like drugs. via News is bad for you ...
  • Insurance Companies Make U.S. Healthcare Expensive
    Because insurers are paid a fixed percentage of the claims they administer, they have no incentive to hold down costs. Worse than that, they have no incentives to do their jobs with even a modicum of competence. To take one small personal example, I have reached the age of Medicare eligibility b ...
  • We Used to Sleep Twice Per Night?
    "From his cocoon of books in Virginia, Ekirch somehow rediscovered a fact of life that was once as common as eating breakfast. Every night, people fell asleep not long after the sun went down and stayed that way until sometime after midnight. This was the first sleep that kept popping up in ...
  • Existentialism and Free Will
    I was just doing some reading on Existentialism to make sure I wasn’t misusing the word. Turns out I was, or might have been. A number of the “definitions” or interpretations of the word indicate a requirement of “self-created meaning”. I use it that way as well, bu ...

Fitwatch

  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Complex, real, and pseudoreal representations
    I decided to extract the comments about "structure maps" to a special blog entry and add lots of details. Everyone knows what a group is. A group \(G\) is a set of elements – operations – that may be composed ("multiplied" – most typically, we imagine products of matrices; the word "additio ...
  • Why quantum mechanics can't be any different
    Classical physics and quantum mechanics are the only two frameworks for physics that are worth mentioning. And it's quantum mechanics that is more true in Nature, that is more fundamental, and that is more legitimate as the starting point. Classical physics may be derived as a limit of quantum m ...
  • Accidents killing professional climate alarmists
    This blog entry will review some recent sad events. This pretty, 35-year-old lady is Dr Katharine Giles of London. Unfortunately, the bike accident on the picture is no accident. She hit a lorry and died. Giles focused on the analyses of Arctic and Antarctic ice. Her fre ...
  • Shapes of torus and modular group
    In June 2012, I emphasized that the Higgs field was the first experimentally observed elementary scalar field – the Higgs boson is the first elementary spinless particle we know – and because string theory loves to predict scalar fields and gives them many roles while many alternative thinkers l ...
  • Andrew Wiles: 60th birthday
    Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem, is 60 tomorrow. Congratulations. In 1996, Simon Singh produced this 50-minute documentary for the BBC Horizon series. And I just watched it again and liked it a lot. Wiles' father was a chaplain in Cambridge – and a ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Some partly thought out ideas on engagement fo ...
    There is no false modesty in the title of this seminar. This is a genuine attempt to grapple with a set of problems for which solutions are elusive. My objec… earn money watching videos This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Smart Meter Radiation DOOM 6 Smart Meters ...
  • Assault On Gold Update
    by Paul Craig Roberts, Activist Post: I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to protect the US dollar’s exchange value, which is threatened by the Fed’s quan ...
  • Chavez heir Maduro takes narrow win in Venezuela
    Venezuelan electoral officials say voters have narrowly elected Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor as president in a razor-close special election Sunday. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Venezuela’s choice: Chavez hei ...
  • Ex-Soros Advisor Sells “Almost All” Japan Hold ...
    from Zero Hedge: Former Soros’ Japan advisor Fujimaki takes center stage: “The volatility in the JGB market as well as the fact that there is large selling represent fear among investors,” Fujimaki said. “They are early signs of a larger selloff and we should continue to monitor the moves ...
  • Rick Ross Apologizes For Being Satanic Scumbag ...
    from MarkDice: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Snoop Dogg (Lion) Puts out Anti-Gun Song titled “No Guns Allowed” from MarkDice: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antido ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Oslo braced for ‘Biebermania’
    Canadian singer and teen idol Justin Bieber was heading to Oslo this week for three concerts that have sold around 66,000 tickets and won massive publicity in Norwegian media. Police have been working for months to be better prepared to handle the tens of thousands of screaming young Bieber fans ...
  • Woman admits to arson in Bergen, ‘wanted ...
    A court in Bergen on Norway’s west coast ordered that a 45-year-old woman who’s admitted setting a series of fires be held in custody for at least the next four weeks, while police continue their investigation. “She has expressed that she wanted people to die,” police law ...
  • Survivors hail new willingness to reexamine &# ...
    Survivors of the deadly fire on board the passenger- and car ferry Scandinavian Star 23 years ago are relieved that the Oslo Police now agree they should launch a new investigation into who was responsible. It’s already been ruled a case of arson, but the survivors and victims’ famil ...
  • Author Nesbø may lose Scorsese
    Norwegian author Jo Nesbø has dreamed of working with famed film director Martin Scorsese and it seemed it would come true with his crime novel Snømannen (The Snowman). Now it looks like the film version of Nesbø’s best-seller may be directed by someone else. Newspaper Aftenposten reported ...
  • Special ‘after-ski’ for Northug
    Norwegian cross-country champion Petter Northug ended this year’s professional skiing season in grand style by winning the overall World Cup but now will be forced to take at least some time off when he heads in for some minor knee surgery next week. There’s still snow in the mountai ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Great Unmentionable
    We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions by George Monbiot Every society has topics it does not discuss. These are the issues which challenge its comfortable assumptions. They are the ones that remind us of mortality, which threaten the continuity we anticipate, which expose ou ...
  • Free Permaculture Design Videos
    A free series of permaculture design videos by Geoff Lawton, world renowned permaculture designer, teacher and consultant, reveals how to not only survive the coming crisis with permaculture design but how to build abundance on your land. How to have all the water you will ever need. How to h ...
  • Coppiced Nitrogen-Fixing Firewood Species of t ...
    This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices, and is part of a series promoting my kickstarter campaign to raise funds with which to complete the book. Coppiced firewood ...
  • PRI Sunshine Coast – Biogas Project Update, Ma ...
    On the 18th of March we started our biogas project. This project involves making a bio-digester which will turn manure into methane gas for cooking and other energy needs. An update on a previous post, by Zaia Kendall Outline of the bio-digester Tom had to re-do some fencing and clear the si ...
  • Layers of Healing: Realizing the Power of the ...
    They’re a staple in stews, a flavor in fried foods, and that ’sting’ in salads. The sharp, savory taste and juicy crunch give them versatility in the kitchen cooked and uncooked — but they really deserve a place in your permaculture medicine cabinet. That’s right&#8 ...

Pointman's

  • A postcard from warmer climes.
    As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...
  • A postcard from warmer climes.
    As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...
  • Optimism, blogging and the big green killing m ...
    I’ve been writing this blog for a number of years now. Before that, I used other and much less effective means to resist the rising tide of climate alarmism and its lethal political baggage. Canute would have slapped his thigh and laughed in delight at my ineffectual but earnest efforts. T ...
  • Optimism, blogging and the big green killing m ...
    I’ve been writing this blog for a number of years now. Before that, I used other and much less effective means to resist the rising tide of climate alarmism and its lethal political baggage. Canute would have slapped his thigh and laughed in delight at my ineffectual but earnest efforts. T ...
  • Climategate 3, the goon squad and going nuclear.
    One of the climate establishment’s new coping mechanisms in handling what is effectively the third release of the climategate emails, is to put pressure on the people who were sent the decryption key, rather than looking for the identity of the leaker. The leaker goes by the name FOIA and ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...
  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Blames Victims
    The New Orleans Police Department recently released a statement on "women and safety," that has outrage across the city and furthered the perception that this police department does not get it. They are more interested in blaming the victim than preventing assault. With absurd advice like "don't ...
  • Robert H. King responds to Louisiana Attorney ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Many thanks to all of you who have aided our cause and added your voices to our quest to free Albert from an obviously unjust imprisonment of more than 40 years. Please continue to make your voices heard and your dissent known, especially in light of the rece ...
  • Global Left Converges in Tunisia – Day One
    Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia and neighboring nations, but there was substantial representat ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Introducing Nicole Bijlsma: building biologist ...
    Today it is my pleasure to welcome to the show Nicole Bijlsma, a best selling author with extensive knowledge on many health issues related to the toxic effects of ordinary things found in your home. Nicole joins us in the 2nd hour of today's show. Nicole's website provides information on th ...
  • Full body scanners now in full operation at Sy ...
    In today's show we re-visit the thorny issue of full body scanners and what they signal for your rights, your privacy, your health and human freedom generally. Full body scanners (millimitre wave) are now in operation at all international airports in Australia. The devices deployed in Australi ...
  • An unprecedented assault on media freedom
    In today's show we are joined by Josh Jackson to discuss highly controversial media reforms proposed by the Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy. We also take a look at the implications of the Cyprian crisis for internatinal banking, and the alternate non-centralised currency bitcoin. ...
  • Live show with current news and some callers - ...
    In today's show we take calls from TNRA listeners, as well as covering news and current topics of interest, including reflections on the death of Hugo Chavez. Related links What happens when you refuse a search in Parramatta
  • Guilty until proven innocent - the oppressive ...
    In tonight's show we take a look at the travesty of justice known as the Apprehended Violence Order (AVO). An AVO is a restraining order which compels an 'alleged' violent person to stay away from an 'alleged' victim. In a strange exception of the norms of criminal justice , when an AVO is iss ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • A New Kind of Torture at Gitmo Because Congres ...
    I do not want to die here, but until President Obama and Yemen’s president do something, that is what I risk every day. [New York Times] THE STORY of his treatment at Gitmo starts with the Yemeni detainee saying he’s been on a hunger strike since February and has lost 30 pounds. He then st ...
  • Bill Maher, the First Female President and Per ...
    “Because what good is being the first female president if you still have to be a dick?” – Bill Maher EVERYONE is a Clinton critic, Bill Maher one of the most offensive in past years. Bill Maher worrying that Hillary might “still have to be a dick,” like any man has ...
  • Dr. Kermit Gosnell on Trial
    No, they aren’t right about the Gosnell story. If you’ve never heard of the Gosnell story, it’s not because of a coverup by the liberal mainstream media. It’s probably because you failed to pay attention to the copious coverage among pro-choice and feminist journalists, as well as the big news o ...
  • Queer Talk: The “Right” Regulation of Sodomy, ...
    It’s about the “Right” Regulation. Anti-sodomy, anti-marriage equality, anti-abortion, and anti-gun-regulation conversations are active at state and federal levels. It isn’t all negative news, from the perspective of those who aren’t in agreement with this “anti” thinking. But ...
  • Queer Talk: “Kissing Wives” and Antigone Risin ...
    Four women come together to create the band, Antigone Rising, in what their bio describes as the “second phase of their career.” See the first of a two part interview with members of the band here. In 2005, they’d opened for The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and Rob Thomas. After an “unpredictable” ...

Hudson New York

  • The Crisis of Islam
    In 2010 the Egyptian-born German academic Hamed Abdel-Samad wrote a book called Der Untergang der islamischen Welt (The Fall of the Islamic World), in which he predicted the collapse of the Islamic world within 30 years. This groundbreaking book was
  • Does Welfare Have Limits?
    Sometimes a thing so terrible occurs that it forces us to notice a reality otherwise unbearable. Such has been the case in Britain in recent days. A man called Mick Philpott, father of 17 children, has been jailed for life for burning six of his children
  • Palestinians: Why Salam Fayyad Stands No Chanc ...
    In recent weeks, the US Administration has resumed its efforts to achieve peace not only between Israel and the Palestinians, but also between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his prime minister, Salam Fayyad. These efforts, however,
  • Germany: Islam Becomes Campaign Issue
    Germany's opposition Social Democrats are courting disgruntled Muslim voters in a desperate bid to unseat German Chancellor Angela Merkel in federal elections set for September 22. Peer Steinbrück, the 66-year-old chancellor candidate for the center-left
  • "Budget Chicken": The Hollowed-Out U.S. Milita ...
    The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned American security policy upside down, and right at a time when America's security interests are being seriously challenged. On one side, the brigades of those convinced of American being the 21st century bully

Urban Survival

  • BitProblem
    Well, lemme see here…Thursday morning I alerted you to the end of the parabolic rise in Bitcoin.  Since I like to see how my financial acumen works out in real-life, I noted that the price of Btc was around $145 … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With ANOTHER Really, Really Bad Idea
      As you may know, I keep in touch with the folks up at the Chronicle Project, www.thechronicleproject.org, since they discovered a method for retranslating ancient Hebraic language using an internal “error correcting” system system they discovered built-in to what … Conti ...
  • Bitcoin Bubble Bursting?
    A number of readers have taken me to task (friends, too) for failing to get all over the Bitcoin cryptocurrency bubble.  Well, this morning, we notice that Bitcoins were converting to about $141 paper FeRNs (federal reserve notes) after being … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Gun Follies and Someone’s Agenda
    A little earlier in this morning’s column, I was mentioning the nutters d’ net and some of the odd theories which a person can come up with.  For example, if you go to the Wiki page of mass/rampage killings, and … Continue reading →
  • Faraday Friday
    Although I like to think that an attack on America using EMP devices is an incredibly small percentage-wise possibility, I nevertheless will be putting our home in the outback on ‘Faraday-Ready” status Friday of this week due to Clif’s data … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • 8 Ways that California and China Can Work Toge ...
    Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Beijing I was delighted to see that California Governor Jerry Brown has made climate change and environmental protection a key focus of his visit to China this week. In addition to discussing with ...
  • New interactive antibiotics timeline!
    Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco In January, I posted a timeline infographic that NRDC put together to illustrate the history of the regulation of antibiotic use in livestock and FDA’s ineffective response to this public health crisi ...
  • Latin America Green News: Pascual Lama is susp ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. April 8-12, 2013 Chile The Italian energy company Enel—which ha ...
  • The Port of Los Angeles' Clean Truck Case to B ...
    Melissa Lin Perrella, Staff Attorney, Southern California Air Project, Santa Monica If our name was Walmart, you wouldn’t even be having this lawsuit.  We’re operating like a private company.  David S. Freeman, Former Presid ...
  • Protecting NEPA environmental review is essent ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The need to protect some of California’s rich agricultural land provides the latest example of how important NEPA is in safeguarding our nation’s natural resources. Last week a feder ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New insect discovered in Brazil, only third kn ...
    A new species of forcepfly named Austromerope brasiliensis, was recently discovered in Brazil and described in the open access journal Zoo Keys. This is the first discovery of forcepfly in the Neotropics and only the third known worldwide. The forcepfly, often called the earwigfly because the ma ...
  • Market figures out that geckos don't cure AIDS ...
    Millions of tokay geckos continue to be traded for traditional medicine, despite waning belief that the colorful lizards are a cure for AIDS, reports a new study from TRAFFIC.
  • Will Indonesia renew its moratorium on new for ...
    Indonesia’s forestry minister has again said that the country will extend its two-year moratorium on primary forest and peatland conversion, which is set to expire next month.
  • Fighting deforestation—and corruption&#8 ...
    The basic premise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program seems simple: rich nations pay tropical countries for preserving their forests. Yet the program has made relatively limited progress on the ground since 2007, when the concept got tentative go-ahead du ...
  • South African reserve poisons rhinos' horns to ...
    A game reserve in South Africa has taken the radical step of poisoning rhino horns so that people risk becoming 'seriously ill' if they consume them.

Sierra Express

  • SDI Releases Damaging Media Report – ED Lambas ...
    “A Year of  Hate Speech and Political Divide” is the theme of the damning ‘State of The Media Report  2012′, launched past Friday by the Society for Democratic Initiatives (SDI) in the conference room of their office at 28 Charlotte Street, Freetown. The critical report highlights th ...
  • Via Defiance… Awareness Times kills IMC in Sie ...
    The Executive Director of the Society for Democratic Initiatives (SDI), Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, has accused Awareness Times newspaper of killing the Independent Media Commission (IMC) by deliberately and boastfully defying the Commission. He made the allegation past Friday while launching the &# ...
  • Mourning the Kelvin Victory
    In line with the expectation of most journalists in Sierra Leone, Kelvin Lewis, the Proprietor and Managing Editor of Sierra Leone newspaper AWOKO,  has been elected National President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ). While congratulating our new president and celebrating h ...
  • On the Sporadic Fuel Queues in Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, has been disfigured again by long petrol queues, obviously due to fuel shortage, a chronic problem which Sierra Leoneans have been suffering since the historic 1980 OAU Conference which devastated the country’s economy. Successive governments in this nation ...
  • CPA Ends Seminar in Sierra Leone
    The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has concluded a two-day training of Members of Parliament in Sierra Leone. The seminar, which ended past Friday, April 12, was geared towards building the capacity of newly elected Members of Parliament to enable them function efficiently and effe ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra leaves out Northland organic farmers
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is shaking up its organics business to refocus supply in the central and lower North Island, leaving Northland organic farmers out in the cold. The cooperative will...
  • Eric Watson: Trade future could be Made By NZ
    There is a widely held view that growth in exports is the path to economic prosperity.While exports are certainly important, exceptional growth is not going to come from sticking to the old recipe of making things in New Zealand...
  • Foreign milk in top Kiwi brands
    Supermarkets around the world are selling Anchor milk that is not produced on New Zealand farms.New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra says it gets nearly 5 billion litres of milk a year from cows in Australia, Chile and, increasingly,...
  • Miraka - it's Maori for milk
    Given the attention that focuses on Fonterra's every move, it can seem that the huge co-op and the dairy industry are one and the same thing. But despite its dominance, a band of smaller players is surviving - and sometimes thriving...
  • Co op or company - dairy firms cover the range
    Fonterra's not-so-little brother, Westland Milk, has no plans to substantially alter the co-operative model under which it operates, and it appears its farmer members like it that way.Westland, one of New Zealand's top 100 businesses...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Gun Background Check Measure Dying a Well-Dese ...
    The limp and pointless Senate measure to extend background checks to all sales made at gun shows and personal sales that originate with online listings appears to be losing steam. Democratic Senators from states where people actually care about their self-defense rights appear to be ...
  • Remember Justin Bieber Next Time You Want to T ...
    Let's blame Canada for this one. Canadian-born singing phenom Justin Bieber recently visited the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam and managed to say something truly awful by writing in the museum's guestbook: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopeful ...
  • What a Libertarian Future Looks Like, Summed U ...
    For some people, anyway: 
  • Number of Americans Who Say Their Income Taxes ...
    About 55 percent of Americans say the income taxes they pay are fair, according to a poll by Gallup. That's fewer than any year since 2001, when just 51 percent said their income taxes were fair, and down from a high of 64 percent in 2003, right after a tax rate cut under President ...
  • A.M. Links: Maduro Wins Venezuelan Election, I ...
    Venezuela’s electoral authority has declared Nicolas Maduro the winner of the presidential election. Chavez’s hand-picked successor narrowly beat Henry Capriles, who has demanded a recount.  Inmates at Guantanamo Bay have clashed with guards after communal housi ...

Mercury Rising

  • Venezuela’s Maduro re-elected with 1.5% ...
    So says Telesur. He very nearly lost himself the election–he was tipped to win by double digits. Let’s hope Maduro is better at governing than at running for office.
  • Riverbend’s Farewell: Iraq Ten Years Aft ...
    I’d wondered what happened to Riverbend after October of 2007, when she was writing from what was then calm and peaceful Damascus. Now we know, as she has re-opened her long-dormant blog to write what is probably her farewell: And what happened to Riverbend and my family? I eventually move ...
  • Update on Honduras, 4/12/13
    Adrienne Pine is on fire (metaphorically-speaking, of course), posting half a dozen links to substantive articles or her own analysis about Honduras in the last two days. Jeremy Kryt (via Quotha): Rights Action director Russell is not impressed by this largesse. “It is controversial, to put it m ...
  • Hugo Chavez’s successor publishes column ...
    Nicolas Maduro, who is running to succeed Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, has published a thoughtful column in The Guardian. An excerpt: The media myth that our political project would fall apart without Chávez was a fundamental misreading of Venezuela’s revolution. Chávez has left a solid edifi ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
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Reality Sandwich

  • The Meaning of Sacred Geometry Part 2: What's ...
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  • Sex in the News
    France has its citizens backs when it comes to contraception and abortion, smartphones and dating apps, Jada Pinkett Smith on being open, and more in this week's update.  Viva la France! The land where abortion and contraception roam free. (Policymic) Can smartphones hook you up with love ...
  • Empowering Public Wisdom: Chapter 6
    The following is the second installment of Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics, available from EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books. You can visit the Empowering Public Wisdom homepage here. read more
  • Eco Friendly Online Marketplace
    Eco Market is a new and innovative online marketplace devoted to ethical shopping. The website features products that are made with environmental awareness and has been described as "Etsy for Eco." Eco Market launched in October 2010 and features sellers across the world, with ...

Desertification

  • OP-ED: Letting Nature Take Its Course?
    Is sustainability still possible? Yes. Is it still probable? No. With bold action today, tomorrow, and in years to come, we could succeed in creating a sustainable and prosperous society. But what does bold action actually mean? First and foremost, we have to start living within Earth’s boundari ...
  • U.N. Chief Singles Out Monaco for Raising Clim ...
    When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Kiribati in 2011, he had “an unexpected insight” into the fear that stalks the Pacific Island nation. Along with toiletries, the hotel room “had an additional item that is not your typical amenity: a life jacket,” he said. The ro ...
  • Canada Pulls Out of U.N. Body to Fight Deserti ...
    Canada is pulling out of the United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa next year, making it the only country in the world not participating in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Canada’s Stephen Harper government made the decision behind closed ...
  • Water Crisis Hitting Food, Energy – And Everyt ...
    How much water does it take to turn on a light? It took 10,000 litres to make your jeans. Another three big bathtubs of water was needed for your two-eggs-toast-coffee breakfast this morning. We are surrounded by an unseen world of water: furniture, houses, cars, roads, buildings – practic ...
  • Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Po ...
    When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation. Now, as the United Nations begins the process of formulating a new set ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Justin's not so positive acceptance speech
    The full text of Justin Trudeau's speech can be found here. I wanted to highlight the section talking about the Conservatives and Stephen Harper. It is the first major section after thank you's, and while there are many positive things that come after this lengthy section, the gloves sure came ...
  • Akaash Maharaj: Margaret Thatcher's Verdict on ...
    My article in the Globe and Mail: My one conversation with Margaret Thatcher about the Liberal Party of Canada began with a chill in the air, and ended with our host mopping his brow. We were all polite, but there were daggers behind the smiles and venom coiled around the courtesy...The news ...
  • Akaash Maharaj - Advisory: New Leadership for ...
    I am enormously grateful to the Board of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption for their confidence in naming me their Executive Director, and I will work tirelessly to justify their faith. I feel deeply privileged to have a chance to work with GOPAC's global alliance of ...
  • The Trouble with Canada's Temporary Foreign Wo ...
    Many feel bad for the Royal Bank Employees being replaced by temporary foreign workers however they are only the latest example of what is wrong with the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada. Canada's Foreign worker program has been criticized greatly by the NDP for ...
  • 'Maggie Maggie, dead dead'. As North American ...
    The horrors that Thatcher launched on the once great nation of Great Britain are not lost on its citizens. Britons are dancing in the street in the same way the Iraqis danced when their tyrant went down. But don't tell that to the neocons at the National Post, Globe & Mail and the other eli ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • CW use in Syria, heinous crime: Ban
    Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has condemned the use of chemical weapons by foreign-backed militants in Syria as a heinous crime.
  • Kuwaiti opposition leader to be jailed
    A court in Kuwait has sentenced opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison for insulting the ruler of the oil-rich Persian Gulf littoral state.
  • OIC condemns chemical attack in Syria
    Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has denounced the recent chemical attack in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo.
  • Multiple car bombings kill 30 in Iraq
    Security and medical officials say nearly 30 people have been killed and almost 200 others injured in over a dozen bomb attacks carried out across Iraq.
  • Iraq searches Syrian passenger plane
    Iraqi authorities have ordered a Damascus-bound passenger plane operated by Syria’s national flag carrier, Syrian Air, to land for inspection.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Adoption, Surrogacy, and Birthright
    Adoption and surrogacy are today uniquely framed in terms of family creation, and the mythologies that surround this status quo still hold within all realms of “First World” societies, despite a growing challenge from adoptees, true mothers and families, as well as originating commun ...
  • Drugs, Guns, and Politics
    Ron Jacobs’ newest novel All the Sinners Saints is being published April 15, 2013 by Fomite Press. Fomite will also republish the two previous novels in the series, Short Order Frame Up and The Co-Conspirator’s Tale, as part of an unboxed set. Here, Kathleen Brown and Ron discuss his work. Kathl ...
  • FIFA’s Anti-racism Is a Greater Threat to Foot ...
    In June, Israel will host the European Under-20 football championship, and in doing so will formally debunk the myth that FIFA gives a toss about fighting “racism.” In fact, it will confirm, as if further confirmation were necessary, that the great football anti-racism campaign is a pretentious, ...
  • Dead Poets … Sold Out Bards … The ...
    April’s National Poetry Month — Banning Pugilistic Prose, err, Verse? No. Nyet! Since the invasion of Iraq, a symphony of voices has reasserted the American poet’s role in the public sphere. “It’s impossible for poetry not to be political,” Li-Young Lee said to a St. Pete ...
  • Abolish the Police
    This Week: 1. Cops don’t like freedom 2. Cops don’t like it when we hang out together 3. The police want to kill you 4. The cops protect the rich, the rich protect the cops 5. The cops fuckin hate you **MUSIC BREAK: Bob Marley – Burnin’ & Lootin’ 6. Justice for Levi

Nick Turse

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    planetbillard: Kerala, India
  • globalpost:“The big threat is that if they a ...
    globalpost: “The big threat is that if they arrest me, they will behead me from the back of the neck,” said Mawlawi Pir Mohammed Rohani, a former member of the Taliban in Afghanistan. “Any person who is working for peace is under threat from different sides, not only from one side,” he told Gl ...
  • tomdispatch:Hey, I know I sound like a broke ...
    tomdispatch: Hey, I know I sound like a broken record when it comes to Nick Turse’s book, Kill Anything That Moves, but a volume on U.S. war crimes in Vietnam becoming a bestseller, who woulda thunk it? Not me, and I was the book’s editor. (It was published in the American Empire Project serie ...
  • Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [A man ...
    Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [A man holding a sign that reads “We Demand Voting Rights Now!”]: 08/28/1963 (NARA)
  • "Paradise is overrated. We dream of the cessat ...
    “Paradise is overrated. We dream of the cessation of misery, but who really wants a world...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Commodities Trade Haven Faces Protests
      The powerful Swiss commodity sector is under fire here, as citizens fed up with government inaction on charges of corporate corruption, tax evasion and lack of transparency gear up for major protests. Switzerland is anything but a country rich in raw materials but it is, nevertheless, a major hu ...
    • Culture Is the New Resistance
      Ela, a young Tunisian woman whose face is barely visible behind her niqab, says she has spent five months protesting a university ban against the religious garment in the classroom “to no avail”. On the other side of the capital Tunis, a group of students decked out in djellabas and keffiyehs (t ...
    • U.S.: Occupy Affiliate Aims at Abolishing Cons ...
      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. The project is called Rolling Jubilee, and by raising money from other citizen activists to purchase debt on the secondary market, Rolling J ...
    • Give a Teenager a Camera, Watch the World Change
      Today’s youth are hardly passive consumers of content – they create it, endlessly updating via social media and spreading information faster than one can say “go”. This weekend at New York’s Columbia University, the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC) teamed up wit ...
    • Greece Becomes Outpost in Turkey’s “Anti-Terro ...
      Zeki Gorbuz, a Turkish asylum seeker in Greece, who was arrested on Feb. 12, remains detained today due to an international warrant that was transmitted by Turkish authorities to Greece just one day before his asylum interview. Turkish media were quick to report the arrest, describing Gorbuz as ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • US belittles Iran's nuclear offer
      Summary: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - In the aftermath of nuclear talks between Iran and international powers in Almaty, the US media has been replete with Iran-bashing commentaries that place the blame for the stalled process squarely on Iran's shoulders. Relying on information and input from ...
    • Symbolic of Thatcher's Legacy: Her Greeting Ca ...
      Summary: Margaret Thatcher died Monday, April 8, 2013, at the age of 87. Predictably, there is no dearth of hagiographic profiles of the former British Prime Minister in the mainstream press and scathing vitriol elsewhere. But while The Economist hails Thatcher for her "willingness to stand ...
    • In this nuclear standoff, it's the US that's ...
      Summary: The use of threats and isolation against Iran and North Korea is a bizarre, perilous way to conduct foreign relations source: The Guardianread more
    • Podcast discussion with two of America's leadi ...
      Summary: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett are two of the nation's preeminent experts on all matters relating to Iran. They have also become the nation's most unlikely yet compelling critics of US policy toward Tehran and particularly the misconceptions shaping political and media disc ...
    • Suppressing Reality-Based Analysis: Chomsky, t ...
      Summary: What is at play here is this destructive dynamic that the more one dissents from political orthodoxies, the more personalized, style-focused and substance-free the attacks become. That’s because once someone becomes sufficiently critical of establishment pieties, the goal is not mer ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Exo-Planet Names Not for Sale Warns IAU
                     Beware --alien planet names not for sale International Astronomical Union (IAU) warns. More than 2000 planets outside the Solar System have been found to date, with more waiting to be confirmed. Detection methods in this field are steadily and quickly increasing—meaning t ...
    • "Earth-like Planets May Have Formed Early in M ...
                     Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe. The Big Bang filled space with hydrogen and helium. Chemical elements like silicon and oxygen - key components of rocks - had to be cooked up over time by star ...
    • Beyond the "Hubble Deep Field" --First Galaxie ...
                       At some stage after its birth in the big bang, the universe began create galaxies. No one knows exactly when, or how, this occurred. For that matter, astronomers do not know how the lineages of our own Milky Way galaxy and its stars trace back to those first galaxie ...
    • Image of the Day: Supernova Powered Superbubbles
                      This stunning view shows the star-forming region LHA 120-N44 [1] in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Combining different views of this dramatic region has allowed astronomers to solve a mystery: why are N44, and similar superbubble ...
    • Earth's Missing Moon -- NASA: "May Explain a L ...
                        NASA's GRAIL mission started its lunar probe late in 2011 to uncover some of the mysteries buried beneath the surface of the Moon --even, perhaps, a long-lost companion. According to recent scientific speculation, the Earth once had two moons gracing our night ski ...

    Natural News

    • Google Glass: obedience to the Matrix
      It's now being suggested that Google Glass, the computers worn over the eyes, can be used to catch rogue stock traders before they wander off the reservation and destroy the firms they work for. Google Glass records everything the wearer sees and says. So if all brokers...
    • The sweet taste and deadly effect of mothballs
      Mothballs. Remember those smelly little white balls mothers and grandmothers used to store winter sweaters in? And that odor! They gave off an odor that would make the nose and eyes run like Niagara Falls. They looked harmless enough, after all, Grammy used them, the...
    • Research: Asthma found to be strongly associat ...
      Evidence is increasingly emerging that a Western diet may be a significant risk factor for asthma. Asthma is a growing and serious health problem worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2003 asthma was responsible for 4,261 deaths...
    • Five lies psychiatry tells for power and profit
      The field of psychiatry has succeeded in branding some whoppers into the minds of millions, to the tune of billions, with no accountability. You'd think the Federal Trade Commission would hold psychiatry accountable for blatantly misleading the public, but there is...
    • Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats ...
      They serve a critical role in pollinating crops, killing insects, and fertilizing soil, but their presence throughout the state of Pennsylvania is in a disastrously serious decline. According to a new report by PhillyBurbs.com, 99.99 percent of bats living in Pennsylvania's...

    Threat Level

    • Virginia Mall Shooter Apparently Announced Cri ...
      The man arrested today in connection to the shooting of two women at a suburban Virginia mall announced his crime minutes in advance on the 4chan message board.
    • Gaming Company Certificates Stolen and Used to ...
      A rash of breaches at companies that develop online videogames has resulted in digital certificates being stolen from the companies and used in attacks targeting other industries and political activists.
    • Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Re ...
      A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
    • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
      The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
    • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
      Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Raising Payroll Tax Cap is the Best Fix for So ...
      The United States may have serious longer-term fiscal problems, but Social Security is not chief among them. After all, the Social Security Trust Fund has a $2.7 trillion surplus and will continue to grow until 2021. Even though the population of Americans over 65 will grow by a third over the ...
    • Bush, Obama Tax Cuts Five Times Larger Than Pr ...
      Despite slashing the national debt by an additional $1.8 trillion over the next decade, President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget was received with two predictable talking points by Republican leaders. House Majority Eric Cantor, who previously complained about being called a "hostage ...
    • Will Max Baucus Betray Democrats on Taxes Again?
      At the very start of his political career back in the 1970's, Montana Senator Max Baucus asked New Deal veteran James Rowe Jr., "Do you think I should run as a Republican or a Democrat?" Rowe's uneasy answer--"I sure hope you'll be a Democrat"--has defined Baucus' career ever since. After all, ...
    • Mitt Romney's New Hometown is Going to the Birds
      During his first run for the White House, Mitt Romney briefly crowed that "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." But two days later, he was forced to amend that pander to the NRA by clarifying, "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will." Now his new hometo ...
    • Hostage Taker Boehner Accuses Obama of Hostage ...
      On the federal budget as with so much else, Republicans won't take yes as an answer from President Obama. On Friday, the White House rolled out its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal cutting projected deficits by $1.8 trillion in part by adopting the means testing of Medicare benefits and the "ch ...

    Blackspot News Feed

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

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • More Fire, More Rain: Two New Reports Predict ...
      Two separate reports issued in early April by different US agencies predicted significant increases in major wildfires and in major rain storms (“precipitation events”) within the next few decades due to the atmospheric effects of expected greenhouse gas emissions. A study by the US ...
    • Largest Wind Farm In Southern Hemisphere Opens ...
      Equipment and personnel from four continents banded together to build the largest wind farm in the world’s southern hemisphere: the 420 MW (nearly ½-billion-watt) Macarthur Wind Farm. The Macarthur Wind Farm is now officially open and pouring electricity into the country’s electric g ...
    • Mantis Shrimp, Peacock Mantis Shrimps, Breakin ...
      The Mantis Shrimp periodically makes its way into the news, thanks to the bright and colorful bodies of the some of the species, and their interesting behavior/abilities. Such as breaking glass aquariums. As a result, I’ve decided to provide some facts about them (the most interesting ones ...
    • Ice-Free Arctic Possibly Within The Next Decad ...
      The Arctic Ocean may be free of summer sea-ice as soon as sometime this decade, according to a new report from NOAA. As the report notes, it isn’t a question of if the Arctic will have ice-free summers, it’s simply when. And as of right now, NOAA’s projections say that it is ve ...
    • Confirmed: 7 Million Year Old Skull Belonged T ...
      The skull fragments were discovered amongst the scorching sands of the Djurab Desert in Chad, Africa, in 2002. At that time, the anthropologists who discovered ‘Toumai’ (as the fossil hominin was dubbed) were already claiming it as a human ancestor — possibly the oldest ever fo ...

    Water Quality - WordPress

    Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • The Crisis of Zionism, Conservatism
      By @TedFrier Before there was Governor Rick Scott's defiance of the US Justice Department's order to stop purging Hispanics and other dark-skinned Democrats from the Florida voter rolls, there was Avigdor Lieberman, foreign minister in Israeli leader Bibi Netanyahu's ruling Likud coalition, who ...
    • A Blunt Mental Health Epiphany
    • Dear Congress: You Are NOT America's "Nobility"
      By @TomBales1 Ladies & Gentlemen: As one of your employers it has come to my attention that there are certain things going on during the course of your employment with our organization that need to be straightened out before they've gone too far to reverse, which I fear may already be the c ...
    • The Familiar Voice of Reaction
      By @TedFrier Rabbi Steven Pruzansky blames it all on President Obama's reelection last November. But the rabbi's reactionary requiem on the loss of what he calls the "traditional American virtues" of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness, woul ...
    • The Regressive Mr. Jones

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    No Quarter

    • Do You Have the Right to Play Poker?
      When it comes to having fun and spending your own money, how much power should the government have over that decision? I think this is a particularly relevant question to ask as the Feds take a pound of flesh on tax day. It is bad enough that there is a confiscatory tax for those who [...]
    • Too Young for A Gun but Not an Abortion?
      The following circulated on the internet a couple of monte past but I missed them. They are worth recycling in light of the trial of the mass murdering abortion doctor in Philadelphia–Dr. Gosnell. Liberals in America have no problem giving a young girl the right to end the life of an unbor ...
    • General Franklin Did His Job
      Civilian ignorance of the military is deep and dangerous. I was reminded of this today while discussing with an old warrior a recent recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. It was awarded posthumously to a young man who conducted himself with great bravery but died because he made a bad d ...
    • Maggie Thatcher, Good On Ye
      The passing of Lady Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a grocer, evoked quite a response from the looney left. While I like to think I am tolerant of genuine differences of opinion, the idiotic gibberings of morons like MSNBC’s Martin Bashir makes me want to toss foreign assholes like him ...
    • Special Operations Speaks on Benghazi
      My old friend, Colonel (retired USAF) Dick Brauer was up at the crack of dawn today talking with Fox and Friends about the letter that Special Operations Speaks is sending to the House of Representatives calling for an investigation into the unanswered questions surrounding the terrorist strike ...

    Futurismic

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

    Mountaintop Removal

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

    Memeorandum

    • Gitmo Is Killing Me - ONE man here weighs just ...
      New York Times: Gitmo Is Killing Me  —  ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds.  Another, 98.  Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago.  —  I've been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds.  I will not eat ...
    • It's a girl for Jenna Bush Hager (Caitlin McDe ...
      Caitlin McDevitt / Associated Press: It's a girl for Jenna Bush Hager  —  Former President George W. Bush is now a grandfather.  —  Bush's daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, had her first child — a girl named Mila — on Saturday.  —  “La ...
    • For Penney, a Tough Lesson in Shopper Psycholo ...
      New York Times: For Penney, a Tough Lesson in Shopper Psychology  —  WHEN the board of J. C. Penney ousted its chief executive, Ron Johnson — news that broke last Monday — you might say it was, in some small way, because he didn't understand Tracie Fobes.  &mdas ...
    • With Tougher Standardized Tests, a Reminder to ...
      Kyle Spencer / New York Times: With Tougher Standardized Tests, a Reminder to Breathe  —  At Public School 10 on the edge of Park Slope, Brooklyn, parents begged the principal to postpone the lower school science fair, insisting it was going to add too much pressure while they w ...
    • Man shoots himself in the head during NRA 500 ...
      Associated Press: Man shoots himself in the head during NRA 500 at Texas  —  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A medical examiner says a man who died in the infield during the NRA 500 at Texas Motor Speedway shot himself in the head.  —  The Tarrant County (Texas) m ...

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    China Dialogue

    • 整镇迁移：&#2001 ...
      为了给秘鲁的一个采矿项目让路，中国投资商搬迁了整个城镇及其全部人口，这代表 ...
    • 中国改写非&#2795 ...
      中国是众多发展中国家以很低成本获取所需投资的参照，西方国家在这一方面还有许 ...
    • 中国地球工&#3124 ...
      为了应对干旱，中国政府加大了人工增雨的力度。然而，不少专家对此却持怀疑态度 ...
    • 中国的分布&#2433 ...
      中国新领导集体设立了雄心勃勃的目标，力图突破风力发电的瓶颈，并鼓励小型太阳 ...
    • “拱心石”输 ...
      如果争议巨大的加拿大油砂管道向前推进，环保人士可能会向亚洲石油消费者“宣战& ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    • Arkansas Hires Notorious Private Contractor Wi ...
       Arkansas' Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the "independent analysis of the cleanup" of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O'Brien's, a firm with a history of oil spill cover-ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals. A ...
    • 2 Teen Girls Kill Themselves After Rape Photos ...
      Let's do everything we can to make sure this doesn't become a trend, okay? Really dosomething, I mean. Two teenage girls have killed themselves in recent months after pictures of them being raped or sexually assaulted circulated among their classmates and online. In Canada, 17-year-old&# ...
    • How America's Corporate Overlords Cheat and Sc ...
      When Dante descended into the Inferno, guided by Virgil, he passed through Circles of Gluttony and Greed, and of Heresy and Fraud and Treachery.  The modern-day version is the corporate tax filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Navigation through the hellish ...
    • Why We Need to Talk About the Horrifying Gosne ...
       Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of running a clinic straight out of the Saw horror franchise: standard practices allegedly included snipping the spines of live newborns with rusty equipment, storing feces in cat-food containers and fetus feet ...
    • America Has Turned a World Without Serious Ene ...
      To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from  TomDispatch.com here.The communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States w ...

    Threat Level

    • Virginia Mall Shooter Apparently Announced Cri ...
      The man arrested today in connection to the shooting of two women at a suburban Virginia mall announced his crime minutes in advance on the 4chan message board.
    • Gaming Company Certificates Stolen and Used to ...
      A rash of breaches at companies that develop online videogames has resulted in digital certificates being stolen from the companies and used in attacks targeting other industries and political activists.
    • Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Re ...
      A legal fight over the government's use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect.
    • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
      The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
    • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
      Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.

    Equality Trust

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

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

    Marler Blog

    • A Washington Salmonella Virchow Outbreak Heads ...
      In early October 2012, the Clark County Public Health Department (“the health department”) received the first reports of a cluster of Salmonella Virchow infections occurring in the county.  Additional reports... Continue Reading
    • Watch the Germs that Lurk in Your Kitchen
      In 2010 I received the NSF Food Safety Leadership Award: Innovation in Education.  So, clearly NSF knows what they speak. In a germ study conducted by NSF International, 20 families... Continue Reading
    • Rare E. coli Hits Manitowoc Wisconsin
      Health officials have detected two cases of the same strain of E. coli O157:H7 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and are conducting an investigation to determine the source of the bacteria.... Continue Reading
    • Who’s who of Diarrhea Reports Rates of non-O15 ...
      I was reading an article this morning: “Increased Recognition of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli Infections in the United States During 2000–2010: Epidemiologic Features and Comparison with E. coli O157... Continue Reading
    • Tennessee Testing Prompts Louisiana Listeria R ...
      Manda Packing Company, a Baker, La., establishment, is recalling approximately 20,166 pounds of cooked roast beef deli meat due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s... Continue Reading

    AutoblogGreen

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

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    Invisible Opportunity

    • Sunday Times Reports Record Ice Growth As Reco ...
      Ice melt is worst in 1,000 years THE melting of ice on the Antarctic Peninsula during the summer months is now at its highest level for 1,000 years, according to research. Scientists have for the first time been able to demonstrate that increasing temperatures since the 1960s have caused 10 time ...
    • Smoking Mirrors | The Janus Anus, Self Sodomiz ...
      By Visible You know who the enemies of humanity are; those with no semblance of humanity. It is those who have practiced their dark arts upon the rest of us. Their greatest victory was to make you fear and admire them… to want to be like them, to be incrementally corrupted by them because, ...
    • Michelle’s Last Four Years – One L ...
      FIRST LADY OF LUXURY TRAVEL: THE COSTLY TRIPS SPAIN: AUGUST 2010 Michelle Obama and 40 of her friends paid for personal expenses, such as hotels and meals themselves. But the U.S. taxpayer would have paid for the 68-strong security detail, personal staff and use of presidential jet Air Force Two ...
    • 20,000 U.S. M-16s stolen from unguarded wareho ...
      ABU DHABI — Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen. “Th ...
    • Want to stop the bedbugs bite? The solution is ...
      By Mark Prigg Bedbugs have become a growing problem around the world, with epidemics New york and other world cities. However, researchers have found an unlikely solution – kidney bean leaves. Inspired by a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy, researchers found microscopic hairs on kidney bea ...

    Global Insights

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

    Twilight Earth

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

    Fabius Maximus

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

    WIRED Magazine | Science

    • Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Elephant Tru ...
      This image of the Elephant Trunk Nebula was taken with the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. The Elephant Trunk is a dense, elongated cloud of gas inside a bright cluster ...
    • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Raindrops on Mars?
      The dark features here look like raindrops, but are actually sand dunes. This spot was targeted by CRISM because the dunes are rich in the mineral olivine. Olivine-rich dunes are very rare on Earth, as olivine rapidly weathers to clays in ...
    • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Green Space Bubble
      This intriguing picture from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star. It is located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). This is the most ...
    • One Hobbyist’s Stunning Collection of Beetles ...
      Udo Schmidt, a retired researcher from Germany's Federal Center for Meat Research in Bavaria, has been collecting beetles since his late 20s. Now, at 70, his beetle drawers have swelled to 30,000 specimens representing more than 6,000 species. This gallery ...
    • Pesticide Suspected in Bee Die-Offs Could Also ...
      Controversial pesticides linked to catastrophic honeybee declines in North America and Europe may also kill other creatures, posing ecological threats even graver than feared, say some scientists.

    PakAlert

    • Poison Apples: “Organic” Fruit can be Tainted ...
      There’s a dirty little secret in some organic fruit orchards. That juicy apple or pear that you just paid triple the price for may have been sprayed with antibiotics. Yep – that’s right. The USDA has approved “new options for organic producers and processors.”
    • The rise of robot wars: Google chief warns arm ...
      The head of Google has warned drone technology proves a serious danger to global security and privacy unless an international treaty is put into place controlling the technology fast. Eric Schmidt today said that the technology for armed unmanned planes will soon pass into the hands of terror ...
    • Here’s Russia’s Badass Next-Generation Stealth ...
      This last week has been pretty hectic in terms of next generation concepts: Boeing unveiled the updated version of the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter concept, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works released a new UCLASS Concept video and, after some years of evaluation and study, Russia’s PAK-DA concep ...
    • Civilian Militia Expands to 38 States To Prote ...
      Alexander Higgins A citizen militia consisting of law enforcement, military and civilians founded by pro-2nd amendment Police Chief Mark Kessler to protect citizens against an over bearing federal government has now expanded to 38 chapters each in a different state. Formally known as the Constit ...
    • North Korea states ‘nuclear war is unavoidable ...
      NORTH KOREA has warned Japan that Tokyo would be the first target in the event of a war on the Korean Peninsula, as it increased threats of an attack

    Andy Worthington

    • A Rainy Easter: Photos of Chesil Beach in Dorset
      A Rainy Easter: Chesil Beach in Dorset, a set on Flickr. My apologies, to those of you who have been following my photographic projects, for the unexplained hiatus over the last few weeks. To explain briefly, I ran into two problems. Firstly, I found myself rather overwhelmed by the number of ph ...
    • Can We Have A Discussion About Releasing the M ...
      With the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo now entering its third month, conditions at the prison have come under sustained scrutiny for the first time in many years, and media outlets, both domestic and international, have learned, or have been reminded that 166 men remain at the prison. ...
    • United Nations and New York Times Call for Clo ...
      I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
    • “Indefinite Detention is the Worst Form ...
      On March 28, 2013, lawyers for Musa’ab al-Madhwani, a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, and a victim of torture at a “black site” in Afghanistan in 2002, prior to his arrival at the prison, submitted an emergency motion to US District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan, in which they rep ...
    • Andy Worthington Talks About the US Authoritie ...
      Since a hunger strike began at Guantánamo two months ago, I have been endeavoring to play my part to keep it in the public eye, because the news of the hunger strike has finally awakened significant interest in the prison, after many years in which almost the whole world had lost interest in the ...

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    Sciencebase

    • 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 ...

    Common Dreams -News

    • Unprecedented Warming in Antarctica Causes Wor ...
      Ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic Peninsula than at any time in the past 1000 years, and ten times more than it was 600 years ago, according to a new study by the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey, published in Nature Geoscience. According to lead res ...
    • World is Unprepared as Climate Change Starvati ...
      Millions of people will die of starvation across the world as agricultural yields are expected to tank and the price of food is expected to double by 2050 scientists warned in a new report released this week. The culprit? Extreme temperatures, floods and droughts brought on by climate change, th ...
    • Venezuelans Head to Polls to Choose Chavez Suc ...
      Venezuela's acting President and presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro (L) greets supporters during a campaign rally in Cumana, in the eastern state of Sucre, in this picture provided by Miraflores Palace on April 8, 2013 (Reuters)Venezuelans headed to the polls on Sunday morning to decide, once ...
    • Anti-Thatcher, Anti-Cuts Protest Fills London' ...
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      Logitech discontinued its line of Squeezebox smart radios last year, but if you want to build your own, DIYer Emmaanuel shows off how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a Squeezebox system complete with speakers and a case. Read more...    
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    • How To Diagnose What's Making You Chronically Late
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      If you prefer your feed reading simple, without too many distractions or bells and whistles, Skimr is a new webapp that organizes all of your feeds into a single column, with or without images. All of your stories are arranged chronologically, with a short snippet before each, so you can quickly ...
    • Get Facebook Home on Any Android Phone
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      Oily snakes — or snake oil? Sure, you thought nothing good could come from ExxonMobil’s pipeline spill of some 200,000 gallons into the residential streets of Mayflower, Arkansas. After all, it was “low-quality Wabasca Heavy crude oil from Alberta.” And a technicality has spared Exxo ...

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    Ceasefire.ca

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      The Harper government is taking another giant leap towards making Canada the least-green country on the planet -- by withdrawing from the international convention to combat desertification.

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
      Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
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    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
      Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-22-12
      Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind Subway’s false and misleading advertising, body scanner radiation vs. airplane radiation, and even Your Wish Is Your Command! Self Help: Protect You & Your Family Grass Fed Beef & Dairy Change The Way You Think Health: Your PC, TV or Cell Phone May B ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
      Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...

    Armies of Liberation

    • Hadi appoints new SCER
      On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
    • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
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    • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
      Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
    • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
      Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

    Dark Politricks

    • Texas man shoots himself dead during NRA-spons ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTexas man shoots himself dead during NRA-sponsored NASCAR race Raw StoryBy Arturo Garcia   Authorities in Texas said a 42-year-old man died late Saturday night after shooting himself in the head during a NASCAR race ...
    • Drugs, Guns, and Politics
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    • Justices Consider Whether Patents on Genes Are ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comANDREW POLLACK NY Times April 15, 2013 The Supreme Court is poised to take up the highly charged question of whether human genes can be patented. But another question could trump it: Has the field of genetics moved so fa ...
    • The Deadliest Israel Lobby Conspiracy Theories
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Deadliest Israel Lobby Conspiracy Theories – Mainstream media awash in false accusations Antiwar.comGrant Smith Photo credit: Getty Establishment news media outlets are awash in new Israel lobby conspiracy theo ...
    • Mobile banking sparks a ‘minor revolution’ in ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMobile banking sparks a minor revolution in DR Congo workforce Raw StoryBy Agence France-Presse   AFP – For civil servants working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the arrival of mobile banking has been ju ...

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