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Dandelion Salad

  • The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Writer, Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Originally posted at AlterNet April 14, 2013 Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy. Where there is the possibility of democra ...
  • Syria’s Civilian Suffering – Western Imperiali ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from www.strategic-culture.org April 14, 2013 The human suffering in Syria, which has escalated from crisis to disaster over the past two years, is the nefarious work of Western governments and their regional allies. It is a si ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Gospels Are Radical Pacifist ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky TheChomskyVideos – Apr 10, 2013 Noam Chomsky (April, 2013) Interview (Hugo Chavez’s death, Pope, and other topics) LATEST NEW Interview with Professor Noam Chomsky. see Is the Catholic Church Ready for a Black Pope? by Finian Cunningham Anti-Catholic ...
  • Iran Represents A Deathblow To US Global Hegem ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV April 12, 2013 The United States of America has become a byword for war. No other nation state has started as many wars or conflicts in modern times than the USA – the United States of Armageddon. Beneath the ...
  • Michael Hudson: Obama’s “Cat Food& ...
    by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com Apr 11, 2013 Michael Hudson: Obama’s “bargain” on social security reform will push more retirees into poverty in exchange for a minor increase in high end income tax – a class that receives most revenue from cap ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass discusses her article defending Pal ...
    Journalist Amira Hass drew heavy criticism from Israeli media about her op-ed in last week defending the right of Palestinians to throw stones, and was accused of incitement to violence by the Yesha... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • APJP: Petition to Eduardo Souto de Moura to re ...
    [W]e were saddened to hear that you have been awarded the 2013 Israeli Wolf Prize for Architecture, not because you are not deserving of such awards, but that it is being offered to you by the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • WikiLeaks: US blamed Israel for peace delay in ...
    US diplomats: "Before talking about extermination, and before allowing either the Masada or the Samson complex to progress to obsession, the Israelis might usefully examine their own position and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Warsaw Ghetto fighter to Israeli youth: Rise u ...
    Statements challenging the national narrative aren’t exactly common in Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day. So it was particularly refreshing to read ... about a different sort of speech delivered in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Iain Banks: Why I’m supporting a cultural boyc ...
    I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign because, especially in our instantly connected world, an injustice committed against one, or against one group of people, is an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Ordinary Skin Cells Morphed into Functional Br ...
    Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other so-called myelin disorders. This discovery appears today in the journal Nature ...
  • Recent Climate, Glacier Changes in Antarctica ...
    In recent decades, glacier thinning at the edge of Antarctica has accelerated and added to sea level rise. New research led by the University of Washington indicates that the dramatic changes cannot be confidently attributed to human-caused global warming.
  • Cutting Specific Pollutants Would Slow Sea Lev ...
    With coastal areas bracing for rising sea levels, new research indicates that cutting emissions of certain pollutants can greatly slow down sea level rise. Reductions in the four pollutants that cycle comparatively quickly through the atmosphere could forestall the rate of sea level rise by roug ...
  • Gene Sequencing Project Finds New Mutations to ...
    The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project advances understanding of genetic defects underlying childhood low-grade gliomas and identifies promising new drug therapies.
  • Study Identifies New Gene Variations Associate ...
    Findings pinpoint 14 genetic targets in humans that may provide insight for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Events and Announcements: April 14, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for papers In case you haven’t seen it yet, we have launched our own call for papers aimed at LL.M, Ph.D and S.J.D. students as well as those practitioners/academics within the first five years post-degree to participate in our New Voices symposi ...
  • Law and Ethics for Autonomous Weapon Systems
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Last November, two documents appeared within a few days of each other, each addressing the emerging legal and policy issues of autonomous weapon systems – and taking strongly incompatible approaches.  One was from Human Rights Watch, whose report, ...
  • Weekend Roundup: April 6-12, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we hosted a symposium on the latest issues of the Leiden Journal of International Law, introduced here by Dov Jacobs. The first article, On the Functions of International Courts: An Appraisal in Light of Their Burgeoning Public Authority ...
  • Guest Post: How International Law Could Work i ...
    by Jonathan Horowitz and Naz Modirzadeh [Jonathan Horowitz is writing in his personal capacity. He is the Associate Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative’s National Security and Counterterrorism Program and Naz K. Modirzadeh is a Senior Fellow at the HLS-Brookings Project on Law ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, April 12, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The US says with “moderate confidence” that North Korea does in fact have a nuclear weapon that they would be capable of mounting to a ballistic missile, but that such a weapon would likely be unreliable. At the G8 summit in London, leaders were ...

Public News Service

  • Tax Professional Has Last-Minute Advice for Pr ...
    Tax Professional Has Last-Minute Advice for Procrastinators PHOENIX - For some people, this will be a busy day, gathering all the stuff they need to file their taxes. The deadline is midnight, and for Arizonans who waited until the last minute, it's often a mad dash to pull the appropriate docum ...
  • Arizona Improves in National Preschool Rankings
    Arizona Improves in National Preschool Rankings PHOENIX – Arizona scores in the top half of the nation in a new report on child care. The advocacy group Child Care Aware’s "We Can Do Better" 2013 rankings put Arizona 22nd overall. The state is marked down for low staff-to-child r ...
  • Senior Advocate “Dismayed” by Obam ...
    Senior Advocate “Dismayed” by Obama Budget Proposal for Social Security PHOENIX - AARP says the senior-advocacy organization is "deeply dismayed" by President Obama's budget proposal to use a calculation known as a "chained CPI" to determine future Social Security cost-of-living adju ...
  • Report: She Works Hard(er) for the Money
    Report: She Works Hard(er) for the Money PHOENIX - A new report is a reminder that the wage gap between the sexes persists. Arizona women earn 85 cents per hour for every $1 paid to men, a gap of about $6,500 a year for a full-time worker, according to the report. Sarah Crawford, the National ...
  • Grocery Chain to Require Labeling of GMO Foods
    Grocery Chain to Require Labeling of GMO Foods PHOENIX - A national grocery chain with stores in Arizona is weighing in with its wallet on the issue of genetically modified foods. Late last week, Whole Foods Market announced plans to require labeling of all GMO foods sold in its stores by 2018. ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Has ExxonMobil lost control of more than just ...
    Credit: EPA How Big a Hole Does it Take to Make a Major Oil Spill? It took less than an hour for something like 5,000 barrels (at 42 gallons per barrel) of ExxonMobil’s tar sands oil flow into a residential neighborhood and surrounding wetlands in [1]Mayflower, Arkansas,[1] on March 29, once th ...
  • Judges threaten Gov Jerry Brown with contempt ...
    That fightin’ liberal, California Gov. Jerry Brown, refuses to cut down on prison overcrowding in California and no stinking Constitution will get in his way. Federal judges disagree: Brown and other officials “will not be allowed to continue to violate the requirements of the Consti ...
  • The Utah Compact for immigration reform
    Credit: ksl.com The Utah Compact is a landmark agreement endorsed by Utah business leaders and other community leaders in 2010 that many are using as a sane framework for immigration reform. The New York Times endorsed it saying “A clearer expression of good sense and sanity than Utah’s wo ...
  • Tweet of the Day. Brian Cuban on ‘punk doucheb ...
  • Idiots leaving graffiti force closure of Joshu ...
    Moron Boy posted this on Facebook, which presumably makes arresting him easier Joshua Tree National Park in California is a wonderful, magical place, filled with rock formations the likes of which you won’t see elsewhere. In the winter, when the weather is cool, rock climbers come from all ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • ‘Rust in hell’: Irish nationalists slam ‘Iron ...
    Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s hardline approach to IRA hunger strikers and her staunch support of Unionism means few nationalists in Northern Ireland are mourning her death. Thatcher presided over the province for more than a decade of strife, death and destruction as the “Troubles” ...
  • This Day In History – April 15
    1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519) was born. 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army. 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutiona ...
  • FASCISM RISING; Britain, Baroness Thatcher&#82 ...
    The British subjects will protest Thatcher but they will never protest those she served, the British Royal Family, so Thatcher plays the scapegoat, her only true function. If you’re against the Fascist “Iron Cross Lady” Baroness Margaret Thatcher you’re automatically clas ...
  • Va. Community College Shooter Had DHS-’C ...
    The suspect announced he would carry out a ‘Virginia Tech-style’ shooting online just minutes before the event took place. He completed the Christiansburg Citizen Police Academy training, a DHS-sponsored training curriculum in which average citizens learn how to ‘work with poli ...
  • WAR ON MALI; France Imposed Media Blackout On ...
    “There have been hundreds of thousands of white Europeans, who don’t want Arabs and Africans coming to Europe, who are now going to Africa looking for work… this is all a front for a collapsing EuroZone, and a dying dollar…” – Randy Short   Once again Ran ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: FWD.us, anti-virus, paid mes ...
    Zuckerberg and tech elite create FWD.us – Mark Zuckerberg this week announced FWD.us, a political advocacy group to focus on the issue of immigration reform. The organization is backed by other tech leaders including Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt,...
  • Facebook careers: public content analysis, mob ...
    Facebook is looking for a Public Content Partnerships Analyst, which could be related to a new push for more public content from users and popular figures. The job description says, “The Public Content Partnerships team is looking...
  • Facebook hires and departures: Timeline design ...
    Facebook product designer Nicholas Felton who was instrumental in the profile overhaul that became Timeline in 2011, announced today that he would be leaving the company after two years. Felton joined the Facebook team through an...
  • Facebook sees growth in U.S. SMB market
    Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told us last year that serving small business is “just as important” as helping large advertisers achieve their goals. Since then we’ve seen the company make a number of changes to simplify Facebook...
  • Facebook Home-coming day: HTC First hits store ...
    The HTC First, a smartphone preloaded with Facebook Home, is now for sale from AT&T. Facebook also updated Messenger for Android to include support for Chat Heads, the feature debuted with Home last week. Home is expected to...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • New York Times v. North Korea
    The Times is America's unofficial ministry of information and propaganda. Daily managed news misinformation is featured.
  • Imperial Partners Showcase Their Ruthlessness
    America and Israel partner in injustice. They prioritize it. Imperial lawlessness is policy. So is state terror. Many examples explain. They're commonplace daily.
  • Assault On Gold Update
    The Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to protect the US dollar's exchange value, which is threatened by the Fed's quantitative easing. With the Fed adding to the supply of dollars faster than the demand for dollars is increasing, the price or exchange value of the dollar is set up to fall.
  • Russia Bars Bush-Era Torture Lawyers
    Washington and Moscow exchanged lists imposing sanctions on each other's officials accused of human rights crimes. But America's benefit of the doubt no longer applies, as the Russians named John Yoo and David Addington, Bush-era legal advisers who twisted the law on torture.
  • President Obama, One Corporate Puppet Among Many
    The people of the United States should rightly interpret this latest slew of betrayals in government as proof that we live under the thumb of a corporate tyranny, not a legitimate constitutional republic. And we should come together to decide what a functional new government would look like, and ...

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “Need a Hand with That?”
    I eagerly await the next Game of Thrones LGM podcast…
  • Boy, I sure would hate to be Amanda Marcotte r ...
    Because she just got burned in a totally effective manner by an actor! From a television show! This @amandamarcotte claims to like quality television? Well here’s one show she can no longer watch: JUSTIFIED. twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/…  — nick searcy (@yesnicksearcy) April 13, 2013 Th ...
  • The Left’s Gun Fetish
    When I was going through my hate campaign from the NRA, there was a weird set of internet anarchists also hoping I would lose my job. Calling myself and others who were defending me “statist leftists,” they thought guns were central to their hope of fomenting their fantasy revolution ...
  • The Catastrophe of Mass Unemployment
    In addition to the direct misery, why it’s so important in the medium- and long-term as well: Close your eyes and picture the scariest thing you can think of. Maybe it’s a giant spider or a giant Stay Puft marshmellow man or something that’s not even giant at all. Well, whateve ...
  • I just had the best idea ever!
    And now I know exactly what mistakes not to make when I pull it off! (In all seriousness, that’s probably the most engagingly written and outright entertaining article about scholarly fraud I’ve read in recent memory.)

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Inside the Judgment Fund
    The federal government spent more than $4 billion to resolve lawsuits last year, a $1.3 billion increase from spending in 2011, an analysis of government records shows.
  • Labor & Employment: Employers Rush to Embrace ...
    Parties look to Supreme Court to resolve legitimacy of recess appointments.
  • Labor & Employment: To Be Actionable, Credit R ...
    To be actionable, credit reports must be inaccurate, a federal judge has ruled.
  • Labor & Employment: Ruling Treated Veganism Li ...
    What is a religion? This seemingly simple question has proven difficult to answer -- particularly for courts tasked with deciding the merits of claims for religious discrimination brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • NLRB's Quandary
    President Barack Obama stepped back into the fray over the National Labor Relations Board last week, nominating two lawyers to fill vacant seats at an agency whose membership has drawn criticism from Republicans and questions of legality from a federal appeals court.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Many Marine Mammal Species Rebounded Since 197 ...
    Forty years after the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), no marine mammal species in U.S. waters has been extirpated and the populations of many marine animals are more abundant than in 1972, ShutterstockSea lions a new study says. While many species, including the endangered ...
  • Copenhagen’s Ambitious Push To Be Carbon Neutr ...
    The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects wind farms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Copenhagen’s Ambitious Push To Be Carbon-Neutr ...
    The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects wind farms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Marine Council's ‘Eco-Labeling’ Process Is Too ...
    The process by which the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifies seafood as sustainable is too lenient and discretionary, allowing for “overly generous interpretations” from third-party certifiers and adjudicators, a new report says. Launched in 1997, the UK-based MSC administers a well known ...
  • New Satellite-Based System Will Track Illegal ...
    A coalition of organizations has unveiled a digital tool its developers say will help governments, environmental groups, and local communities monitor illegal logging in the world’s forest regions in close to real time. Using satellite technology, data sharing, and a global network of local cont ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Thank You Exxon: Mayflower, Arkansas’ New Oil Lake
    Activist indy news team JNL RadikalMedia did what the mainstream media won’t or can’t do, providing exclusive video from the scene of Exxon’s oil pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. The video shows what can only be described as a lake of oil. Allegedly Exxon has been pumping the spill into th ...
  • Nuclear waste barrels remain strewn across flo ...
    German journalists have found barrels of radioactive waste in an underwater valley in the English Channel, which were dumped there half a century ago. Politicians in Germany have called for the potentially harmful containers to be removed. 28,500 containers of low level radioactive waste were du ...
  • Lasers that switch cocaine addiction on and off
    Researchers are exploring how laser light can be used on the brain to inhibit addictive behavior — in particular, how you can turn “on and off” cocaine addiction in rats. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UC San Francisco (UC ...
  • Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
    "When people don’t see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That’s not true." That’s according to John Matherly, creator of Shodan, the scariest search engine on the Internet. Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web looking for websites, Shodan navigates the Internet’s ...
  • Alert to Congress: Nuclear evacuation may bog ...
    Regulators and congressional investigators clashed Wednesday over a new report warning that in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant, panicking residents from outside the official evacuation zone might jam the roads and prevent others from escaping. The report by the Government Accountabil ...

Not My Tribe

  • First Colorado BDS Conference held in Denver t ...
    DENVER, COLORADO- The first Colorado BDS Conference on April 13 held on the Auraria campus in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel to restore rights to Palestinians, end Israeli Apartheid, and end the occupation of Palestine.
  • Little bully Colorado Springs tries to incite ...
    Belligerent pip-squeak Colorado Springs is doing all it can to rouse our nation to attack North Korea. First our ignoble congressman Doug “Tar Baby” Lamborn leaks a Defense Department document that announces North Korea has nuclear capability enough to strike the continental US, whic ...
  • Has the president offered you his bully-pulpit ...
    When was the last time YOUR issue was given the president’s bully-pulpit? Yeah, the outcry for Gun Control is not yours, and this campaign is not for you. President Obama trotted up a Sandy Hook Mourning Mom TM to rally the nation for action, of the usual so that they will not have died in ...
  • Next time let’s start the Denver Cancer ...
  • Suncor Energy delivers Canadian Tar Sands oil ...
    DENVER, COLORADO- Protesters from AIM, Idle No More, 350 Colorado, Deep Green Resistance, and Occupy lay siege to the Suncor Energey refinery, where what Canadian Tar Sands oil isn’t processed is spilled into Denver’s Sand Creek.

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking 911 Skeptics (playlist)
    A 10 video playlist from blog contributor Stewart Bradley.
  • New Paper Supports Large Plane Impact at Pentagon
    The Pentagon Attack: Eyewitnesses, Debris Flow and Other Issues – A Reply to Fletcher and Eastman by John D. Wyndham. This paper deals with issues raised in a November, 2012 letter to the Journal of 9/11 Studies by Tod Fletcher and Timothy E. Eastman. These involve eyewitness testimonies as ana ...
  • Pat Curley Has Made Up His Mind
    And apparently that’s never going to change. Mr. Curley has commentedon my recent article posted at ae911truth.org, and seems to think there’s a contradiction. He writes: Box Boy Gage publishes another article supposedly debunking the latest version of the Popular Mechanics book. Get this part: ...
  • More Crazy Conspiracy Theories at JREF.org
    So I added a poll recenrtly and many JREF's ventured into wild cospiracy theorizing, but not Oystein, [thanks] take look at these comments: cjnewson88: 6 to 57 now. No doubt there is a conspiracy against 'Debunking the Debunkers' at foot [It's funny taking a jab about conspir ...
  • Petition: The US President and US Congress: En ...
     www.tourdepeace.org WAY PAST TIME TO ACT:To End Wars To End immunity for US War Crimes To End Suppression of our Civil Rights To End the use of Fossil Fuels To End Persecution of Whistle blowers  To End Partisan Apathy and Inaction Please sign the Petition  Related: 9/ ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Paris judge rejects attempt to halt auction of ...
    Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house.© Jonathan Mazower / SurvivalRobert Redford amongst many who had asked for auction to be scrapped A Paris judge today threw out a ...
  • Survival goes to court to stop Hopi sacred obj ...
    Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house.© Jonathan Mazower / SurvivalLawyers acting for Survival International have today filed legal papers in an attempt to stop the sale ...
  • Maori journalists make unprecedented trip to w ...
    The Guarani are fighting to return to their ancestral land.© F. Watson/SurvivalA team of indigenous Maori journalists from New Zealand has visited the Guarani Indians of Brazil, to investigate their plight. Their 2-part report, entitled ‘Silent Genocide’, was broadcast last week on Maori Televi ...
  • Nasa Indian killed as Colombian violence continues
    Nasa Indians have been attacked from all sides of Colombia's civil war © Francisco PedroA 57-year-old Nasa Indian man has been shot dead in an alleged army attack in Colombia. Álvaro Chocué was shot in the head on Saturday, 30th March in the Caldono Indian Reserve in Colombia’s south-east ...
  • Salgado's 'Genesis' showcases photos of threat ...
    Zo'é children playing in a waterfall.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs London’s Natural History Museum prepares for the opening of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition ‘Genesis’ on April 11, Survival International has highlighted the plight of some of the ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • UK Health Minister's Reply Undermines Media Cl ...
    From the Child Health Safety site in the UK comes this post, Dr Andrew Wakefield Not Cause of Welsh Measles Outbreak – Confirms UK Government Minister In Parliament. It looks like British Health Minister Earl Howe has put egg over...
  • UK Health Minister's Reply Undermines Media Cl ...
    From the Child Health Safety site in the UK comes this post, Dr Andrew Wakefield Not Cause of Welsh Measles Outbreak – Confirms UK Government Minister In Parliament. It looks like British Health Minister Earl Howe has put egg over...
  • MMR and the Crumbling Façade of the British State
    Dr David Salisbury - Head of UK Immunisation in Victoria Towers Garden by the Palace of Westminster By John Stone Truth is a hard game and when people start admitting it you scarcely know where it might end. Today, the...
  • What Doesn’t Kill You
    By Cathy Jameson During the hype of the flu shot season, I went through our local pharmacy drive-thru to get a prescription filled. Not being able to avert my eyes from the posters, signage or cheery Flu Shot ribbon hanging...
  • Weekly Wrap: Snickering About Shingles, Sticki ...
    By Dan Olmsted My cousin, a doctor, told me a long time ago that the best way to approach doctors and medicine is this: go to the doctor as little as possible, take as few medications as possible, and take...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Off Grid and Lovin’ It
    Most of us have wondered what it would be like to pack bag and baggage, move to a remote area of the country, be able to cut all ties to the outside world if necessary and live off-grid. Quite a daunting task, and a bit scary. But it can be done, as evidenced by Bud and Judy who did just that ar ...
  • Monsanto Madness (Graphic)
    New Farm Wars Graphic - Monsanto Madness!!!
  • Terminator Seeds and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
    Why is it that people are spreading the word that the Terminator seed is being marketed by Monsanto? Could it possibly be that the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” strategy is being used to pave the way for Monsanto to release this technology on a complacent populace?
  • New GMO Gene Silencing Technology – Backdoor T ...
    An unregulated GM technology is ready to replace the old, and this technology appears to be exactly what is needed for implementation of the Terminator.
  • Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
    Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.

new geography

  • Why Cities Matter
    Why Cities Matter by Stephen Um and Justin Buzzard Pretty much everybody doing anything today has to be thinking about how to respond to urbanism, especially in a global but also a developed world context. While it’s clearly too early to proclaim the “death of the suburb” clearly cities ...
  • US Suburbs Approaching Jobs-Housing Balance
    Suburban areas in the US metropolitan areas with more than 1 million total regional population, once largely seen as bedroom communities, are nearing parity between jobs and resident employees. The jobs housing balance, which measures the number of jobs per resident employee in a geographica ...
  • Density Boondoggles
    Is it density or migration? Venture capitalist Brad Feld weighs in: The cities that have the most movement in and out of them are the most vibrant. The densest city in the world won't be as vibrant as the city with the most talent churn. Yet planners and urbanists tout the former over the ...
  • The World's Fastest-Growing Megacities
    The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it’s increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban development of over 10 million people) are located in Asia, based on a roundup of the latest ...
  • Houston Rising—Why the Next Great American Cit ...
    America’s urban landscape is changing, but in ways not always predicted or much admired by our media, planners, and pundits. The real trend-setters of the future—judged by both population and job growth—are not in the oft-praised great “legacy” cities like New York, Chica ...

water.org

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

Cryptogon

  • GOLD GAP DOWN
    Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. $1403. Hot knife through butter. Next likely support: $1300. — Bloody knuckles over that weekly 200 EMA. You have to see this, keep in mind, this is the weekly interval: — $1445. Longs trying to boun ...
  • ‘News Is Bad for You – And Giving ...
    “I hear from people who had read Cryptogon for years, and report to me how their quality of life improved dramatically since shutting out this type of information.” —Comment to Cryptogon reader Via: Guardian: News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hin ...
  • Hacked Photos Show Colin Powell at Bohemian Grove
    Via: cryptome (.pdf): Guccifer: Colin Powell and Bohemians April 9, 2013 Related: Guccifer Emails Link Tony Blair to Top-Secret Bohemian Grove Gathering
  • Shocker: Solar Panels Could Destroy U.S. Utili ...
    Via: Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities t ...
  • Guess At Satoshi’s Fortune: USD$100 Million
    This reminds me of the proles debating aspects of the lottery in 1984. *chortle* But I went on to read both pages of the thread anyway. Via: Bitcoin Talk: I’ve estimated a lower bound of current Satoshi’s fortune. My estimation is that he owns more than 1M BTC, or 100M USD at current ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Wa ...
    Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax?  Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.  ...
  • 11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW
    The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now.  Just like we saw back in 2008, it is taking stocks a little bit of extra time to catch up with economic reality.  But almost everywhere else you look, there are signs tha ...
  • Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our G ...
    The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold.  They are warning that we have now entered a "bear market" for gold and that the price of gold will continue to decline for the rest of the year.  So should we believe them?  Well, their warnings might be more [...]
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?  It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City.  As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...
  • 25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared F ...
    Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy?  If so, are you putting that knowledge into action?  In America today, people are more concerned about the possibility of an economic collapse than ever before.  It has been estimated that there are now three million prep ...

Desertification

  • Allan Savory’s Environmental Tyranny (G ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://james-mcwilliams.com/?tag=desertification Nature’s Warped Wizardry What gets me most is the arrogance. I’m currently researching a rebuttal to Allan Savory’s now viral TED talk about holistic grazing. Maybe it’s the TED format talking, but & ...
  • Sandy desertification: Borne on the wind (Goog ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11434-013-5771-9 Sandy desertification: Borne on the wind XunMing Wang Sandy desertification is both an inherently interesting bioscience and geoscience topic and an important topic from the perspectives ...
  • Planting China´s Green Wall (Google / CNTV)
    VIDEO : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfn01u-2rNs Planting China´s Green Wall to fight off desertification http://youtu.be/Jfn01u-2rNs
  • Data dearth impeding fight against desertifica ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.scidev.net/en/news/data-dearth-impeding-fight-against-desertification.html Data dearth impeding fight against desertification by Jan Piotrowski SPEED READ A lack of data means that global land degradation maps may misrepresent the proble ...
  • About walking away from desertification talks ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenovascotian/1122021-global-voices-walking-away-from-desertification-talks-accomplishes-nothing?utm_source=website&utm_medium=read-next&utm_campaign=slidebox GLOBAL VOICES: Walking away from desertification ta ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Officials: 9 killed in car bombings northern Iraq
    SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press= BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a string of six car bombs in a northern Iraqi city has killed nine people and wounded 79. Two police officers say the bombs, all parked cars,...
  • As US talks up diplomacy, North Korea takes ha ...
    TOKYO: The United States and Japan opened the door on Sunday to new nuclear talks with North Korea if the saber-rattling country lowered tensions and honored past agreements, even as it rejected South Korea's latest offer of dialogue as a "crafty trick." US Secretary of State John Kerry told rep ...
  • Bracing for Israel's next war
    “The collection of threats against Israel is greater than in the past,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. But he quickly tried to instill calm: “The IDF and our security services are stronger than ever before.” Netanyahu releases a weekly warning of the nu ...
  • Bahrain: F1 security boosted after blasts
    MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain says it will expand security before hosting next week's Formula One race after a series of explosions, including a gas cylinder blast that set a car ablaze in the Gulf...
  • German bakery blast: Pune court to give verdic ...
    Tweet Pune, Apr 15 (ANI): A court in Pune will give its verdict today on a man who allegedly plotted the bomb blast at the city's German Bakery in February 2010, in which 17 people were killed and 64 others were...

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Common Dreams

  • 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' ...
    An effigy of late British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher is carried during an anti-Thatcher party celebrating her death in Trafalgar Square in central London on April 13, 2013 (Carl Court / AFP)Close to 2,000 people gathered in London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday in a mass celebra ...
  • Egypt: As Mubarak Retrial Begins, Judge Recuse ...
    Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was brought to a courtroom on Saturday for the beginning of his retrial on charges of ordering hundreds of peaceful demonstrators killed in January and February 2011 during the revolution against him. The trial was abruptly postponed, however, when Judge Mu ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Making Enhanced Geothermal Energy Real
    Ormat has produced 1.7 megawatts of power using enhanced geothermal methods from inside an existing geothermal field, the first power from this source to get on the electric grid.
  • Iowa Solar Energy Ruling: Private vs. Public E ...
    A significant factor in this case was the ability of for-profit companies like Eagle Point, but not non-profit entities like city governments, to access numerous federal and state subsidies for solar power installations.
  • Keystone XL Rewards: Jobs, Energy, Prosperity
    To hear the other side, you’d think the Keystone XL pipeline project would be nearly 1,200 miles of all pain, no gain for the United States. No rewards? The State Department has reviewed Keystone four times and finds rewards aplenty.
  • EU on Track to Meet 2020 Clean Energy Targets, ...
    The newest European Union statistics show its member nations are on track to meet their renewables targets but will need a new policy boost to keep up the pace.
  • Of Smart Grids and Resilience: Where’s My Micr ...
    You can’t throw a stone at smart grid conference these days and not hit a panel talking about microgrids. The chatter is incessant, but the actual work done to date has been far more limited.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • New York Times Anti-Palestinian Bias
    by Stephen Lendman On April 4, The New York Times headlined "Palestinian Defiance on Display at West Bank Funerals." It discussed their anger in response to Israeli murder by torture and medical neglect. The Times didn't explain. More on that below. According to New York TimesThink, Pales ...
  • Venezuelans Vote
    by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, April 14, PSUV's Nicolas Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) faces opposition Rountable of Democratic Unity (MUD) candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Most Venezuelans deplore him. They do so for good reason. He represents oligarch power, ties to Was ...
  • Creating a North Korean Threat
    by Stephen Lendman Washington needs enemies. When none exist, they're invented. A previous article said North Korea's straight from central casting. Pyongyang threatens no one. Media scoundrels say otherwise. So does Obama. On the one hand, he claims no one wants war on the Korean peninsul ...
  • Controlled Opposition – From Goldstein t ...
    http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/controlled-opposition-from-goldstein-to-soros-and-beyond.html By Gilad Atzmon Jewish power is the unique capacity to stop us from discussing or even contemplating Jewish power. It is the capacity to determine the boundaries of the political discourse and critici ...
  • Greater Grand Theft Cyprus
    by Stephen Lendman Hit 'em again harder is policy. Cyprus is Exhibit A. It's pound of flesh demanded got greater. "Could it possibly get any worse," headlined Cyprus Mail?" Weeks after agreeing to Eurocrat terms, six billion more euros are demanded. A leaked European Commission "Assessme ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • Exxon's Tar Sands Spill in Mayflower, AR
    Published on Apr 6, 2013 Exxon had already partially destroyed this wetland, so they decided to power-wash diluted bitumen spilled in other areas to this area, via storm drains. The level of security - private security and police, as well as Exxon's no fly zone, make it clear that secrecy wa ...
  • Backyard picture of the Mayflower, AR oil spil ...
  • Arkansas oil spill: Timeline
    April 7, 2013 Friday marks one week since an ExxonMobil pipeline burst in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, spilling thousands of barrels of toxic tar sands. Town residents say they are being kept in the dark over compensation and the cleanup by Exxon. April 7 Members of Pipeliners Union 798 told ...
  • Tar Sands Oil Arkansas
    April 7, 2013 Exxon pipeline heavy crude oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. (photo: 350.org National security demands secrecy in the heart of Arkansas ithin a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, ExxonMobil was in charge of the clean-up, the U.S. government ...
  • UNGRIP Declaring Our Inherent Independence
    Dec. 10, 2012 Extremely powerful. Please pass it on. This is a template for taking action, abiding by conscious awareness of our inherent rights as sovereign human beings. – Zen VIEW HERE http://www.

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Making Enhanced Geothermal Energy Real
    Ormat has produced 1.7 megawatts of power using enhanced geothermal methods from inside an existing geothermal field, the first power from this source to get on the electric grid.
  • Iowa Solar Energy Ruling: Private vs. Public E ...
    A significant factor in this case was the ability of for-profit companies like Eagle Point, but not non-profit entities like city governments, to access numerous federal and state subsidies for solar power installations.
  • Keystone XL Rewards: Jobs, Energy, Prosperity
    To hear the other side, you’d think the Keystone XL pipeline project would be nearly 1,200 miles of all pain, no gain for the United States. No rewards? The State Department has reviewed Keystone four times and finds rewards aplenty.
  • EU on Track to Meet 2020 Clean Energy Targets, ...
    The newest European Union statistics show its member nations are on track to meet their renewables targets but will need a new policy boost to keep up the pace.
  • Of Smart Grids and Resilience: Where’s My Micr ...
    You can’t throw a stone at smart grid conference these days and not hit a panel talking about microgrids. The chatter is incessant, but the actual work done to date has been far more limited.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Computer Chronicles: Gary Kildall Special
    [PJ: Computer Chronicles did this special in 1995, a year after Kildall's death. Here's Part 2.] - YouTube
  • Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad ...
    QUESTION PRESENTED: Many patients seek genetic testing to see if they have mutations in their genes that are associated with a significantly increased risk of breast or ovarian cancer. Respondent Myriad Genetics obtained patents on two human genes that correlate to this risk, known as BRCA1 an ...
  • Will the Supreme Court end human gene patents ...
    On Monday, the high court will hear arguments about whether to invalidate a Utah company's patents on two genes associated with breast cancer. But the legal challenge, spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation, could have much broader implications. A deci ...
  • Richard Turere: My invention that made peace w ...
    In the Masai community where 13-year-old Richard Turere lives, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away. Young inventor Richard Turere inv ...
  • Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing"
    3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time. This emerging technology will allow us to print objects that then reshape themselves or self-assemble over time ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Has ExxonMobil lost control of more than just ...
    Credit: EPA How Big a Hole Does it Take to Make a Major Oil Spill? It took less than an hour for something like 5,000 barrels (at 42 gallons per barrel) of ExxonMobil’s tar sands oil flow into a residential neighborhood and surrounding wetlands in [1]Mayflower, Arkansas,[1] on March 29, once th ...
  • Judges threaten Gov Jerry Brown with contempt ...
    That fightin’ liberal, California Gov. Jerry Brown, refuses to cut down on prison overcrowding in California and no stinking Constitution will get in his way. Federal judges disagree: Brown and other officials “will not be allowed to continue to violate the requirements of the Consti ...
  • The Utah Compact for immigration reform
    Credit: ksl.com The Utah Compact is a landmark agreement endorsed by Utah business leaders and other community leaders in 2010 that many are using as a sane framework for immigration reform. The New York Times endorsed it saying “A clearer expression of good sense and sanity than Utah’s wo ...
  • Tweet of the Day. Brian Cuban on ‘punk doucheb ...
  • Idiots leaving graffiti force closure of Joshu ...
    Moron Boy posted this on Facebook, which presumably makes arresting him easier Joshua Tree National Park in California is a wonderful, magical place, filled with rock formations the likes of which you won’t see elsewhere. In the winter, when the weather is cool, rock climbers come from all ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • General debate, April 14, 2013
  • Schedule 4 Open for Drilling!
    Many of the Frogblog readers would have supported the fantastic campaign in 2010 to love and protect the Schedule 4 areas of our beautiful country from mining. You will not be impressed by the news that the Government which promised to protect Schedule 4 is now eroding the promise. You will not ...
  • Marriage Equality: Difference of world views
    The debate over Louisa Wall’s marriage equality bill has been raging for almost a year now, and I have received thousands of emails and letters, as well as having read many thousands of submissions during the Select Committee process I thought the contrast between those in favour and those ...
  • NZ border threats – now in 3D
    I nearly choked on my muesli this morning listening to Maurice Williamson on Morning Report on the emerging border threat facing our country….3D printers!
  • Cackling Paula has no idea how kids will survi ...
    You might think that the idea of financial sanctions on the very poorest children in New Zealand because of their parents’ behaviour would be an anathema to anyone who cares about the welfare of children. Its cruel, at best, and downright dangerous at worst. So when the Minister of Social Develo ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Eight Tips for Eating and Drinking
    By Dr. Mercola Throughout history, new discoveries have revolutionized the way societies of the time regarded meal times. First, the discovery of fire changed a predominantly raw ancient diet to one of cooked foods, which some believe gave humans the extra calories they needed for their brain ...
  • Wild Alaskan Salmon is a Powerhouse of Nutriti ...
    By Dr. Mercola A slew of media reports encouraging you to eat more fish have surfaced lately, following the publication of a study on omega-3 fats and health. The research, published in The Annals of Internal Medicine,1 suggests that eating oily fish once or twice a week may increase your lif ...
  • Mammography: Are There Pros, or is It Just a Con?
    By Johnnie Ham, MD, MBA Many women are completely unaware that the science backing the use of mammograms is sketchy at best. As was revealed in a 2011 meta-analysis by the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, mammography breast cancer screening led to 30 percent overdiagnosis and overtreatm ...
  • Can ‘Mindfulness’ Help You Focus?
    By Dr. Mercola Practicing “mindfulness” means that you’re actively paying attention to the moment you’re in right now. Rather than letting your mind wander, when you’re mindful you’re living in the moment and letting distracting thoughts pass through your ...
  • Salmon Confidential—How a Canadian Government ...
    By Dr. Mercola Many environmental experts have warned about the unsustainability of fish farms for a decade now, and we have documented those objections in many previous articles. Unfortunately nothing has yet been done to improve the system. As usual, government agencies and environmental ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Paris judge rejects attempt to halt auction of ...
    Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house.© Jonathan Mazower / SurvivalRobert Redford amongst many who had asked for auction to be scrapped A Paris judge today threw out a ...
  • Survival goes to court to stop Hopi sacred obj ...
    Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house.© Jonathan Mazower / SurvivalLawyers acting for Survival International have today filed legal papers in an attempt to stop the sale ...
  • Maori journalists make unprecedented trip to w ...
    The Guarani are fighting to return to their ancestral land.© F. Watson/SurvivalA team of indigenous Maori journalists from New Zealand has visited the Guarani Indians of Brazil, to investigate their plight. Their 2-part report, entitled ‘Silent Genocide’, was broadcast last week on Maori Televi ...
  • Nasa Indian killed as Colombian violence continues
    Nasa Indians have been attacked from all sides of Colombia's civil war © Francisco PedroA 57-year-old Nasa Indian man has been shot dead in an alleged army attack in Colombia. Álvaro Chocué was shot in the head on Saturday, 30th March in the Caldono Indian Reserve in Colombia’s south-east ...
  • Salgado's 'Genesis' showcases photos of threat ...
    Zo'é children playing in a waterfall.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs London’s Natural History Museum prepares for the opening of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition ‘Genesis’ on April 11, Survival International has highlighted the plight of some of the ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Duke Professor Suggests Simple Solution to Cou ...
    from activistpost.com: Arguably, animal rights activists are the most tenacious; so much so, that they have routinely been labeled anarchists and terrorists by various governmental organizations the world over. Yet, beyond the general demonization campaign of anyone who professes sympathy for th ...
  • Call to Action as Portland, Oregon Readies to ...
    from mercola.com: Water fluoridation is considered one of the most notable advancements in public health, and cities around the US spend millions adding fluoride to communal water supplies each year.  But, as stated in the video above, 99 percent of that fluoridated water ends up on your la ...
  • Fukushima: Massive Leaks Continuing On a Daily ...
    from washingtonsblog.com: You may have heard that Tepco – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive water. You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month. This is ...
  • BOOMTOWN 2: Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion ...
    from breitbart.com: Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs—a figure slightly less than the national debt. In 1969, just 2.8 million Americans received food stamps. Today, over 47 million ...
  • New study: Fukushima meltdown correlates to hy ...
    from fukushimaupdate.com: Via Grist.org: Fallout from that Fukushima meltdown thing a couple years back? It’s not just the Japanese who are suffering, though their plight is obviously the worst. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the failed reactors may have given kids born in Hawaii and along ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Wa ...
    Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax?  Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.  ...
  • 11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW
    The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now.  Just like we saw back in 2008, it is taking stocks a little bit of extra time to catch up with economic reality.  But almost everywhere else you look, there are signs tha ...
  • Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our G ...
    The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold.  They are warning that we have now entered a "bear market" for gold and that the price of gold will continue to decline for the rest of the year.  So should we believe them?  Well, their warnings might be more [...]
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?  It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City.  As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...
  • 25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared F ...
    Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy?  If so, are you putting that knowledge into action?  In America today, people are more concerned about the possibility of an economic collapse than ever before.  It has been estimated that there are now three million prep ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Jean-Paul Sartre and the Theory of Individualism
    The condition of society in the 21st century has a pronounced fear of individual freedom. The relevance of Sartre’s philosophy remains intact because we desperately need a counterweight to a world that promotes dictatorial compliance. As a seminal thinker and most celebrated existential proponen ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Apri ...
    Military sexual trauma (MST) refers to sexual assault during military service. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, time to talk about services VA has available for Veterans who experienced MST.
  • Venezuelans Vote
    On Sunday, April 14, PSUV's Nicolas Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) faces opposition Rountable of Democratic Unity (MUD) candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski.
  • Aborting the “Arab Spring”
    One thing for sure, the “secularist/nationalists” and the “salafi/islamist” in Egypt and in Tunisia all conspired willingly or unwillingly to abort the “Arab Spring” or what is left of it. Both are unfit to lead let alone govern.
  • The JFK War: The Challenging Case of Robert Groden
    On the eve of the 50th observance of the death of JFK, it would appear to be timely to make an assessment, not only of what we know now that we didn't know then, but of the contributions of some of the most admired figures in the history of assassination research.

electric politics

  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...

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Stop NATO

  • Across The Globe: NATO Chief In Japan, South K ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization April 13, 2013 NATO Secretary General starts visit to Japan NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived on Saturday (13 April) in Japan for a three-day long-planned visit. During the visit, the Secretary General will meet in Tokyo with Prime Minister S ...
  • United Arab Emirates Mission Opened At NATO He ...
    Emirates News Agency April 13, 2013 UAE mission opened at Nato HQ ==== A Nato official told Wam that the opening of such a mission is an important event because the UAE is the first partner from the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) to establish an office at it headquarters. The UAE has clos ...
  • Leo Tolstoy: Letter on the Peace Conference
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Leo Tolstoy: Selections on war ==== Leo Tolstoy Letter on the Peace Conference (1909) Translated by Aylmer Maude Portrait by Ilya Repin The opinion expressed in your estimable letter, that the easiest and surest way to universal di ...
  • Leo Tolstoy: Selections on war
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence Leo Tolstoy: Two Wars and Carthago Delenda Est Leo Tolstoy: Patriotism or Peace Leo Tolstoy: Murder and vengeance are not the will of the people Leo Tolstoy: The Beginning of the End ...
  • U.S. Prepares This Year’s NATO Military ...
    U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs April 12, 2013 Multinational Planners Ensure Successful Exercise BALTOPS 2012 KEIL, Germany: Representatives from 10 nations met to plan the 41st Exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) at the naval base in Kiel, Germany, Apr. 9-11. BALT ...

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Intel Hub

  • 20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen From Unguarded Warehouse
    JG Vibes | As politicians clamor for more gun control 20,000 M-16s have been reported stolen from an unguarded warehouse in Kuwait.The post 20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen From Unguarded Warehouse appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Analysis Finds Monsanto’s GM Corn Nutritionall ...
    Mike Barrett | Is GMO corn nutritionally equivalent to non-GMO corn? Monsanto will tell you the answer is a big ‘yes’, but the real answer is absolutely not.The post Analysis Finds Monsanto’s GM Corn Nutritionally Dead, Highly Toxic appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Remember: Guantanamo Detainees Not Proven Guil ...
    JG Vibes | Most "Enemy Combatants" at Guantanamo Bay have never actually been charged with a crime.The post Remember: Guantanamo Detainees Not Proven Guilty or Even Charged With a Crime appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • In April Only A Fool Happily Pays Taxes
    Gary Gibson | Most people think April's Fool Day in the US falls on the first of April. They're wrong, but they are close. It's really April 15.The post In April Only A Fool Happily Pays Taxes appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Major Oil Spill in Arkansas: Has ExxonMobil Lo ...
    William Boardman | The Duncan Firm is pursuing the class action suit against ExxonMobil in federal court. On local TV April 9, Duncan Firm founder, attorney Philip Duncan said he expected the class of Arkansans harmed by ExxonMobil to grow into the hundreds.The post Major Oil Spill in Arka ...

FRS

  • Liberal Anti-Drone-Policy activists ask legal ...
    Rights Groups, in Letter to Obama, Question Legality and Secrecy of Drone Killings [Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency -- A drone model burned Friday at a protest in Sana, Yemen. Most American drone attacks have been in Yemen and Pakistan.] By SCOTT SHANE, New York Times, April 12, 2013 In a ...
  • Liberal Anti-Drone-Policy activists ask legal ...
    Rights Groups, in Letter to Obama, Question Legality and Secrecy of Drone Killings [Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency -- A drone model burned Friday at a protest in Sana, Yemen. Most American drone attacks have been in Yemen and Pakistan.] By SCOTT SHANE, New York Times, April 12, 2013 In a ...
  • Seattle, Washington: Lummi Tribe leads anti-co ...
    IdleNoMore protests coal trains by Ansel Herz, The Seattle Globalist,  March 22, 2013 In Canada, the birthplace of the “Idle No More” movement, six members of the Cree tribe are nearing the end of a 1000 mile trek to the nation’s capital to protest the enduring poverty of indigenous Canadians. F ...
  • Seattle, Washington: Lummi Tribe leads anti-co ...
    IdleNoMore protests coal trains by Ansel Herz, The Seattle Globalist,  March 22, 2013 In Canada, the birthplace of the “Idle No More” movement, six members of the Cree tribe are nearing the end of a 1000 mile trek to the nation’s capital to protest the enduring poverty of indigenous Canadians. F ...
  • Hawai’i: Kanaka Maoli Struggle Against ...
    Pohakuloa:  Now that you know, do you care? Take action at kamakakoi.com Filed under: Colonialism, Hawai'i, Imperialism, Indigenous, indigenous, International, Internationalism, Mass Action, Military, Native Americans, Solidarity, U.S., US Wars Tagged: depleted uranium, Hawai'i, Hawaiian Soverei ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Week In Numbers: Our Time Left On Earth, T ...
    $50 billion: the amount Russia will invest in an ambitious space program to put a person on Mars, build a moon base, and shoot down foreign threats 9%: the portion of Americans who would have sex with a robot 7 millimeters: the average distance that nipples traveled toward the shoulders each y ...
  • New Species Of Brazilian Porcupine Found, Has ...
    Hi friend! Your Linnaean name means "hope." Hope you don't go extinct too soon after we found you! Brazilian porcupines are recognizable as porcupines to us North Americans due to their quills, but they don't look much like our more familiar North American porcupine otherwise. Their quills are ...
  • What You Need To Know About The New Bird Flu
    The H7N9 avian flu virus outbreak in China has already killed 11 people. Here's what's up with it. There have been some new developments in China's struggle with bird flu over the past two days, including another confirmed death and a scientific report from Chinese researchers about the first t ...
  • Did You Pay To Name A Planet? You Got Scammed
    The International Astronomical Union issues a special report to let you know you’ve probably been screwed. Most of the more than 800 exoplanets discovered have unbelievably boring names — 16 Cygni Bb or HD 41004 Ab, to name a couple. So some enterprising entrepreneurs have started a naming cont ...
  • Every Single Person In The World On One Chart
    What does 7 billion look like in a browser window? When you read on your computer screen that world population has surpassed 7 billion, as it did in 2011, it's hard to put that number in context. It's big a world. Where is everyone? 7 Billion World is a website/infographic that breaks it down. ...

Veterans Today

  • Jean-Paul Sartre and the Theory of Individualism
    The condition of society in the 21st century has a pronounced fear of individual freedom. The relevance of Sartre’s philosophy remains intact because we desperately need a counterweight to a world that promotes dictatorial compliance. As a seminal thinker and most celebrated existential proponen ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Apri ...
    Military sexual trauma (MST) refers to sexual assault during military service. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, time to talk about services VA has available for Veterans who experienced MST.
  • Venezuelans Vote
    On Sunday, April 14, PSUV's Nicolas Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) faces opposition Rountable of Democratic Unity (MUD) candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski.
  • Aborting the “Arab Spring”
    One thing for sure, the “secularist/nationalists” and the “salafi/islamist” in Egypt and in Tunisia all conspired willingly or unwillingly to abort the “Arab Spring” or what is left of it. Both are unfit to lead let alone govern.
  • The JFK War: The Challenging Case of Robert Groden
    On the eve of the 50th observance of the death of JFK, it would appear to be timely to make an assessment, not only of what we know now that we didn't know then, but of the contributions of some of the most admired figures in the history of assassination research.

War is Business

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Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Wa ...
    Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax?  Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.  ...
  • 11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW
    The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now.  Just like we saw back in 2008, it is taking stocks a little bit of extra time to catch up with economic reality.  But almost everywhere else you look, there are signs tha ...
  • Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our G ...
    The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold.  They are warning that we have now entered a "bear market" for gold and that the price of gold will continue to decline for the rest of the year.  So should we believe them?  Well, their warnings might be more [...]
  • The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets ...
    Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?  It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City.  As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United S ...
  • 25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared F ...
    Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy?  If so, are you putting that knowledge into action?  In America today, people are more concerned about the possibility of an economic collapse than ever before.  It has been estimated that there are now three million prep ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Prosecuting past crimes provides hope to survi ...
    A senior United Nations official today welcomed the efforts of Guatemalan authorities to investigate crimes of sexual violence that occurred during the country&#39s 36-year internal conflict, and urged authorities to ensure a fair trail and protections for the witnesses and others involved.
  • UN human rights chief urges US to close Guantá ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today urged all branches of the United States Government to work together to close the Guantánamo detention centre, stressing that the indefinite incarceration of detainees is a clear breach of international law.
  • Secretary-General voices sadness at loss of li ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his sadness at the loss of life and the damage to homes and infrastructure in Argentina as a result of the torrential floods in the capital, Buenos Aires, and in the city of La Plata.
  • Drought and tropical storms hinder food supply ...
    A growing number of people in Haiti do not have enough to eat, according to the United Nations relief wing, mostly as a result of drought and the impact of recent tropical storms.
  • The majority of poor in Mexico are children - ...
    More than 20 million children and adolescents in Mexico are estimated to live in poverty, and five million of them in extreme poverty, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today reported in a joint study with the Mexican Government.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • United Nations Disarmament Agenda 1961 ~ Willi ...
    United States arms control disarmament agency date 1961- "The United States calls on all states to make a continuous uninterrupted offense to achieve a total program for general and complete disarmament” As you see, as far back as 1961 they had a program to disarm nations and people. The pro ...
  • Highway Patrol Gave Feds List Of Concealed Car ...
    In what is clearly a “No, no,” it was revealed that the Missouri State Highway Patrol turned over concealed carry data to federal authorities. The information was passed on as the feds investigated Social Security disability fraud. This happened on at least two occasions, the latest occu ...
  • Shame On Remington!... Sells Out To NY For $8 ...
    Back in February, several gun manufacturers decided to boycott law enforcement in states that are hostile to the Second Amendment, states like New York for instance. They would not be providing weapons or ammunition. Within a week that number had grown by over 700%. ~Tim Brown read more
  • Andrew Cuomo Buying His Way to the Presidency ...
    Andrew Cuomo wants to be President of the United States!!! That’s a frightening thought to those of us who know him well. He has little chance of succeeding though he doesn’t seem to know it. He knows how to get moneyed interests behind him however. ~ Sara Noble - Related articles read more
  • Are Individuals The Property Of The Collective?
    Mankind has faced a bewildering multitude of self-made catastrophes and self-made terrors over the past few millennium, most of which stem from a single solitary conflict between two opposing social qualities:  individualism vs. collectivism. ~ Brandon Smith - Video  read more

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • Pro and Anti Constitution States
    There has been a lot of attention building in the alternative media and blogosphere regarding infringement on our American freedoms, as the nation’s 535 ‘leaders’ continue the buildup into a ‘police state’ to control 314 million of us; an embodiment of increasing ru ...
  • The First Cities To Be Nuked
    Have you ever wondered which cities would be nuked first? You probably have not, because it is an unpleasant thought, and is something that most people believe would never happen. At one time between Russia and the United States alone, there were more than 20,000 nuclear warheads. Not that long ...
  • 2 Homegrown Garden Pest Control Recipes
    Make your own insecticidal soap for controlling many pests. To help control aphids, earwigs, grasshoppers, harlequin bugs, spider mites and many more nasty bugs… as well as helping to repel deer, rabbits and other unwanted critters, follow any of these recipes…   INSECTICIDAL SO ...
  • The World Is Going To War
    It is inevitable. Man is the most aggressive and deadly animal in the world. Unlike other animals who normally will kill only for food or in self-defense, man will commit murder singly or in a war with little provocation or motive. In fact, in the past 3,400 years the world has known only 200 ye ...
  • Anonymous Browsing the Internet
    Many of you may be concerned about the unseen tracking that happens when you browse the internet. Much or most of this is fairly innocuous; for example the majority of online tracking is used by marketing and advertising companies for the purpose of serving relevant advertisements to you in allo ...

Fast Company

  • Forget GDP: The Social Progress Index Measures ...
    What’s the best way to tell how a country is doing (and serving its citizens)? It’s not just a measure of economic output, that’s for sure. This new index tracks everything from opportunity to health to sustainability. Guess where the U.S. ranks. For many years, the power ...
  • Say It Out Loud: How David Sedaris Makes His W ...
    There’s nothing like reading out loud to road test your writing. Even if you don’t have an audience of hundreds, you can learn from David Sedaris’ verbal method of honing his work. With social networking tools and access to e-reader data, 21st-century authors have unlimit ...
  • Find Out Where You Rank On The List Of The Wor ...
    Probably higher than you think. And if that’s the case, perhaps the news might put you in a charitable mood. Most people are interested in how much money the fabulously wealthy have. An app Co.Create mentioned last fall even lets you search to see how much any Hollywood star is worth ...
  • Inside Bill Gates' $5 Billion Plan To Put Came ...
    "We need a system that helps all our teachers be as good as the best." Actors do it. Professional athletes do it. Now Bill Gates wants the country to spend $5 billion for every teacher in every classroom in every district to be filmed in action so they can be evaluated and, maybe, improve. ...
  • Why Maintaining A DIY Ethos Can Endear Custome ...
    Kings County Distillery is one of Brooklyn's booming brands that has benefited from thinking small. When Kings County Distillery produced its first batch of whiskey in 2009, even the “craft” distilling label would have been a stretch. Cofounder Colin Spoelman got his start in t ...

Jadaliyya

  • مصطفى الأرمني
    [ مقطع بعنوان "مصطفى الأرمني" من رواية "مذكّرات إمرأة شيعيّة" لرجاء نعمة عن شركة المطبوعات للتوزيع والنشر] واقعة 1948،  من ميناء حيفا في فلسطين انطلقت سفينة هاربة باتجاه الساحل اللبناني، حاملة معها فارين من مجازر الصهاينة، ومن بين هؤلاء خوسروف الأرمني وعائلته. كان ا ...
  • التحول الديمقراطي والمصير المجهول لمصر
    أفرز الربيع العربي أوضاعاً لم يسبق أن واجهتها الدول العربية. من انتهاء حكم مبارك ووضعه في السجن ومقتل العقيد القذافي وخروج لعلي عبد الله صالح على غير ما أراد والآن سوريا تواجه الخطر الأكبر فمن مطلب التحول الديمقراطي، ربما تتجه نحو التقسيم بعد الحرب الأهلية الدامية.  لقد أصبح من الشائع الحدي ...
  • From High to Low and Back Again: A Fish Above ...
    Samak fawqa satah al-bahr [A Fish above Sea Level]. Directed by Hazim Bitar. Jordan, 2012. Recently I had the opportunity to view the independent film Samak fawqa satah al-bahr (A Fish above Sea Level) at the University of Jordan. This is the first feature-length film by Hazim Bitar, who both w ...
  • Imperialist Liberalism and the Egyptian Revolution
    In the following lines, I level four criticisms against what I term the imperialist liberal trend of thought and how it deals with the January 25 Revolution. By “imperialist liberalism,” I mean that loose US-European academic tradition, whose defense of liberalism, especially of representative ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (April 12)
     [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@ ...

mediagazer

  • Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away ( ...
    David Folkenflik / NPR: Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away … In the age of hundreds of cable channels, millions of 140-character bulletins and an untold number of cat videos, a fear has been growing among journalists and readers that long-form storytelling may be getting lost.
  • Thin Reads Launches to Track E-Book Singles Ma ...
    Bill Mickey / Folio: Thin Reads Launches to Track E-Book Singles Market  —  Database contains information on more than 700 titles going back to 2010.  —  A new web-based e-book singles aggregator launched this week.  Called Thin Reads and started by Howard P ...
  • Jeff Zucker at CNN Hires Michael Bass, a Deput ...
    Brian Stelter / New York Times: Jeff Zucker at CNN Hires Michael Bass, a Deputy From His NBC Past  —  Jeff Zucker, who left Katie Couric's syndicated talk show, “Katie,” at the end of last year to take over CNN Worldwide, is bringing in one of the show's top producer ...
  • More Cracks in Television's Business Model (Da ...
    David Carr / New York Times: More Cracks in Television's Business Model  —  For the longest time in the media business, the concept of the bundle has been foundational.  Ads go with editorial content in print, commercials go with programming on television and the channels y ...
  • My team, my publisher: The new world of compet ...
    Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: My team, my publisher: The new world of competition between leagues and media in sports  —  The Internet has made for an explosion in choices for sports fans.  Online distribution has turned over the keys of publishing to everyone, and ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Officials: 9 killed in car bombings northern Iraq
    SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press= BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a string of six car bombs in a northern Iraqi city has killed nine people and wounded 79. Two police officers say the bombs, all parked cars,...
  • As US talks up diplomacy, North Korea takes ha ...
    TOKYO: The United States and Japan opened the door on Sunday to new nuclear talks with North Korea if the saber-rattling country lowered tensions and honored past agreements, even as it rejected South Korea's latest offer of dialogue as a "crafty trick." US Secretary of State John Kerry told rep ...
  • Bracing for Israel's next war
    “The collection of threats against Israel is greater than in the past,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. But he quickly tried to instill calm: “The IDF and our security services are stronger than ever before.” Netanyahu releases a weekly warning of the nu ...
  • Bahrain: F1 security boosted after blasts
    MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain says it will expand security before hosting next week's Formula One race after a series of explosions, including a gas cylinder blast that set a car ablaze in the Gulf...
  • German bakery blast: Pune court to give verdic ...
    Tweet Pune, Apr 15 (ANI): A court in Pune will give its verdict today on a man who allegedly plotted the bomb blast at the city's German Bakery in February 2010, in which 17 people were killed and 64 others were...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Many Marine Mammal Species Rebounded Since 197 ...
    Forty years after the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), no marine mammal species in U.S. waters has been extirpated and the populations of many marine animals are more abundant than in 1972, ShutterstockSea lions a new study says. While many species, including the endangered ...
  • Copenhagen’s Ambitious Push To Be Carbon Neutr ...
    The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects wind farms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Copenhagen’s Ambitious Push To Be Carbon-Neutr ...
    The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects wind farms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Marine Council's ‘Eco-Labeling’ Process Is Too ...
    The process by which the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certifies seafood as sustainable is too lenient and discretionary, allowing for “overly generous interpretations” from third-party certifiers and adjudicators, a new report says. Launched in 1997, the UK-based MSC administers a well known ...
  • New Satellite-Based System Will Track Illegal ...
    A coalition of organizations has unveiled a digital tool its developers say will help governments, environmental groups, and local communities monitor illegal logging in the world’s forest regions in close to real time. Using satellite technology, data sharing, and a global network of local cont ...

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?
    An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events ...
  • Federal Budget 2013: stubbornness and hidden s ...
    Reactions to the federal budget presented in March differed in Québec in comparison with the rest of the provinces. In this text we will first review the budget as whole before zooming into measures which caused a big uproar in Québec. In its latest budget, the government brought to the fore an ...
  • Climate justice and BC’s political moment
    The following is based on a talk at the Bring Your Boomers election forum on April 3 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, the fourth in a series of intergenerational dialogues from Gen Why Media, and was co-sponsored by the CCPA, Get Your Vote On, LeadNow and Vancity credit union. I was asked to set ...
  • Fiscal debate in Québec: myth busting and flak
    Some myths are just so hard to debunk. For instance, people in Québec generally assume that they are the most taxed in North America. IRIS tackled the well-rehearsed allegation in a recently published socio-economic notice. The reply resounded of what Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky have prese ...
  • Carbon bubbles and fossil fuel divestment
    Divestment from fossil fuels is an idea whose time has come. Sparked by Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article last summer, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, divestment campaigns are now up and running on over 300 university campuses in the US, with 4 early victories ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Zambia: Electricity for All but Those the Kari ...
    “Lusitu, Zambia — Indigenous people who were displaced from the Zambezi Valley almost six decades ago for the construction of the Kariba Dam say they have not benefited from the development they made way for. The building of the Kariba hydroelectric dam was supposed to usher in a bright fu ...
  • Obama Releases 2014 Budget; Proposal Includes ...
    “President Obama sent his 2014 budget plan to Congress on Wednesday. The $3.8 trillion proposal would increase funding for the departments of Interior and Energy and reduce budgets for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency.” In relation to California&#82 ...
  • USDA and Federal Partners Renew Commitment to ...
    “Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager announced today that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department ...
  • Northern Cyprus Sees Hope in Water Pipeline
    “Even as the Cypriot government struggles to ward off financial disaster, the authorities in the northern part of the divided island are quietly pushing ahead with a project to link their territory, physically and economically, more closely with Turkey, their powerful neighbor and protecto ...
  • China’s Massive Water Diversion
    “This month, a hundred years after the completion of the Panama Canal, China is expected to finish the first phase of its gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project, known in Chinese as Nanshui beidiao gongcheng — literally, “to divert southern water north.” The phrase evokes the suggesti ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • after all he’s being tried in america&#8 ...
    …there are too many secrets our government feels it needs to protect … there are too many political lives at risk … there are too many military officials who need to be protected … Manny must be found guilty and there is no doubt he will be … after all he’s being tried in america’s [...]
  • what U expected more
    …what U expected more … come on … the tank$ters have processing costs … interbank charges … board of directors fees … and of course don’t forget profit$ … to account for before they divvy up proceeds to the “unwashed”… Government foreclosure relief brings homeowners only $300 to $500 04-10-2013& ...
  • might be time to contemplate they don’t ...
    …if this is what world bank$ter$ want, that’s what we will get … might be time to contemplate they don’t care who wins as they $upport both sides so they win no matter what… Chinese Professor: 70-80% Chance of War With North Korea 04-11-2013  •  Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com As the ...
  • the GE product was garbage to begin with &#823 ...
    …likely they will be applying patches to the American made GE nuclear reactor used by the Japan for decades … the GE product was garbage to begin with … and we knew it…   Fukushima nuclear plant springs another radioactive leak 04-11-2013  •  The RawStory.com Japan’s crippled Fuku ...
  • PEDOPHELIA is not porn
    …hold on one cotton-picken minute … PEDOPHELIA is not porn … it has been sanctioned by the catholic church popes and church hierarchy for more than 2,000 years… Someone at the Vatican Is Illegally Downloading Porn By Katie McDonough, Salon Internet records reveal a resident of the city-state is ...

Popular Technology

  • 13,950 Meaningless Search Results
    In the never ending quest for alarmists to one up their incompetent friends they continue to seek out new ways to demonstrate their own computer illiteracy. Enter James Powell who in a meaningless analysis is apparently ignorant that the 'Web of Science' database does not have a "peer-reviewed ...
  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Probing secrets of earth's plates
    Scientists from across the world have come here to examine how to unlock secrets hidden within our offshore tectonic plate boundaries over the next decade, potentially resulting in multi-million dollar projects.Around 160 leading...
  • Brian Rudman: Snail-pace action on volcanoes
    In March 2007, the Crown declared the Auckland volcanic field was top of its list of potential Unesco World Heritage Sites.Tomorrow, Auckland councillors are finally being asked to help fund a year-long "evaluation that will inform...
  • Soviet Mars spacecraft possibly spotted in photos
    Space fans from Russia have spotted what may be parts from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971.Poring through images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the citizen scientists point to what could be...
  • Two-million-year-old fossils detail early humans
    She walked with a knock-kneed gait, with a heel like a chimp but the upright posture of a human, and she may provide the most complete evidence yet of early man's closest ancestor, scientists say.Two-million-year-old Australopithecus...
  • Russell Conduit: Dream police are inside your head
    You may have read that a team of researchers has developed a way to detect the contents of people's dreams. But what can we glean from this research?During the same week that US President Barack Obama announced the US$100 million...

The Bovine

  • “Fresh Raw Milk & Fighting for Food Free ...
    From Banyen.com BC raw milk pioneer Alice Jongerden will be speaking about raw milk and food freedom this coming Thursday April 18th, 2013 at Banyen Books and Sound, in Vancouver. Free admission. “Join Alice Jongerden of Home on the Range Organics to gain an … Continue reading →
  • “Fresh Raw Milk & Fighting for Food Free ...
    From Banyen.com BC raw milk pioneer Alice Jongerden will be speaking about raw milk and food freedom this coming Thursday April 18th, 2013 at Banyen Books and Sound, in Vancouver. Free admission. “Join Alice Jongerden of Home on the Range Organics to gain an … Continue reading →
  • Utah wakes up to fluoridation dangers
    From “Matthews and Associates” law firm: “With the “Safe Drinking Water Disclosure Act” – H.B. 72 – the state of Utah is holding the companies that “fluoridate” Utah’s drinking waters accountable for pouring huge amounts of other toxic chemicals in … Continue reading →
  • Utah wakes up to fluoridation dangers
    From “Matthews and Associates” law firm: “With the “Safe Drinking Water Disclosure Act” – H.B. 72 – the state of Utah is holding the companies that “fluoridate” Utah’s drinking waters accountable for pouring huge amounts of other toxic chemicals in … Continue reading →
  • Bag Ag Gag Bills — what a tangled web
    From Dan Imhoff, on Civil Eats: “When might it be punishable to report a criminal activity? When it takes place inside a poultry warehouse, slaughterhouse, or on a cattle feedlot. That’s the upshot of a new wave of so-called “ag-gag” … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Demographics in Pictures: Peak Earning (and Pe ...
    Here is a nice theme from reader "BC" regarding peak earning years that I merged into a single chart. Peak Earning Years click on chart for sharper image The above chart shows what is happening to employment in age groups 35-44 (blue), 45-54 (red), and the combined effect 3 ...
  • "Wise Men" Propose Theft to Bail Out Banks
    Far be it from bondholders or banks that caused the debt crisis to be punished for their sins, German 'Wise Men' push for wealth seizure to fund EMU bail-outs. Two top advisers to German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called for a tax on private wealth and property in eurozone debtor states ...
  • Five Alternatives to FDIC "Insured Deposits"
    In the wake of capital controls in Cyprus and statements by the Dutch finance minister Jereon Dijsselbloem that brought into question the entire notion of deposit insurance in the eurozone, readers are wondering where to safely keep their money. Concerns heightened when people discovered Ne ...
  • Former Portuguese Prime Minister Says "Portuga ...
    It's rare to hear any bit of common sense from political leaders, but today I have a sterling example. Mário Soares, Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976-1978 and 1983-1985, and the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996 speaks the truth. Soares says "Portugal Cannot Pay Its Debts". H ...
  • Marc Faber "I love the Fact that Gold is Final ...
    Marc Faber loves that gold is finally breaking down. The reason is not to gloat, or a prediction. Rather "gold will offer an excellent buying opportunity". Link if video does not play Faber: Gold Isn't Down as Much as Apple. Marc Faber on Bloomberg TV on the Fall in Gold Prices ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-“North Korea: Whe ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Professor Christine Hong Sometimes the voices for peace get drowned out by all the saber rattling and chest pounding in the press and general discourse about potential war. Are North Korea’s recent actions really actions or predictable reactions to US and South Korean ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Drifters – “There Goes My Baby” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick takes us back to the summer of 1959 with the song There Goes my Baby by the 2nd incarnation of the Drifters with Ben E. King, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. The song ...
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  • The Reality Principle -Episode 24
    “More than Music” with Rebel Diaz This week, Eric sits down with hip hop artists Rebel Diaz for a wide-ranging discussion about music, art, politics, and much more. Eric and the guys (RodStarz & G1) discuss the political and class nature of hip hop and why we should be wary of romanticizing ...
  • The Latest Threats to Life as We Know It
    “American sovereignty hasn’t faced a legitimate foreign threat to its existence since the British in 1812.” Last month numerous foreign-policy commentators marked the tenth anniversary of the fateful American bombing and invasion of Iraq. Those who condemned the appalling devastation of the Iraq ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • STX May Sell Dalian Shipyard
    April 15 (Bloomberg) — STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., a South Korean company that is rescheduling debt with creditors, jumped the most in two years in Seoul trading on speculation [...]
  • South Korea Resumes Iranian LNG Imports
    By Meeyoung Cho SEOUL, April 15 (Reuters) – South Korea resumed imports from Iran of natural gas liquids in March, customs data showed on Monday, after halting shipments for eight [...]
  • Maritime Monday for April 15th, 2013: Seiner M ...
    a selection of picture postcards produced within each of the belligerent nations during the wartime Segelschiff SMS Nixe 1892 The domestic clamor for a German fleet only grew with German [...]
  • Four Rescued After Tug Sinks Off Big Sur, Cali ...
    UPDATE: So far no reports of a sheen or impacted wildlife. Earlier: The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four people from a liferaft Saturday after the Delta Captain tug sank off [...]
  • Are ‘Somali Pirates’ Real? Some May Only Be Acting
    The video opens in the slums of Eastleigh, a sprawling suburb of Nairobi in Kenya and home to ‘the fixer,’ a man who the UK’s Channel 4 claims has duped [...]

Press TV

  • Dutch anti-monarchists want king pay cut
    The Netherland’s anti-monarchy group is planning to launch a campaign to push for an 80-percent cut to the salary of the country’s next king.
  • ‘Guantanamo, US license to violate laws’
    The Guantanamo Bay prison complex in Cuba sends a message to the world that the US has hegemony and can violate any laws and get away with it, a political commentator tells Press TV.
  • 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.
  • South Korea resumes Iran NGL imports
    South Korea has resumed its natural gas liquid (NGL) imports from Iran after an eight-month break due to EU sanctions.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Ice Age Pots Give Us A Taste For Fish
    Charred fishy food residues have been discovered on ceramic pots that are around 15, 000 years old. The ancient titbits of food provide evidence that people used pots for cooking much earlier than tra...
  • Beer Filtration Could Add Arsenic
    A team of researchers led by Mehmet Coelhan of the Weihenstephan research centre at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, has found that brewers might unwittingly be adding arsenic to beer. I...
  • High-Res 3D images From a Distance
    Optical imaging techniques have come a long way since the invention of the first light-box, but a standard camera still only produces 2D images. To determine any 3D information, such as the distance t...
  • Delving into Dinosaur Development
    A chance fossil discovery in Yunnan province in China has yielded one of the oldest and most interesting collection of fossilised dinosaur embryos yet. These fossils, including preserved organic...
  • Changing Climate Increases Turbulence
    Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide could lead to more "clear air turbulence", leading to bumpier and more expensive transatlantic flights. Turbulence may make a flight less comfortable for passeng...

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