19 April - RSS SnapShot! III

Tioga County Court House (Photo credit: jimmywayne)

Interior of the 1938 Diner in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Bomb Suspects Pictured; Lawyers Come To Victim ...
  Federal authorities released pictures of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Thursday as firms and lawyers with Boston ties stepped up to help victims and practices in the afflicted area strove to return to normal.
• Suffolk Law gets serious about technology
  Suffolk University Law School professor Andrew Perlman is one of the lucky 10,000 people selected to get an early test drive of the Google Glass--the futuristic specs outfitted with a small computer screen over the right eye, a camera and an Internet connection.
• Trump University Declared A Public Figure
  A federal appeals court has ruled that an online school founded by Donald Trump qualifies as a public figure and therefore bears a higher burden in proving that a disgruntled former student defamed it.
• AG Holder Defends DOJ Budget on Hill
  Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. defended the U.S. Justice Department budget on Capitol Hill on Thursday, while expressing anger that the U.S. Senate blocked gun control legislation yesterday and vowing to keep pushing the White House's proposed gun control measures.
• Social Media Use by In-House Counsel at All-Ti ...
  A study released on Thursday by Greentarget, Zeughauser Group and Inside Counsel has shone a bright light on a topic that has seemed somewhat mysterious: How do general counsel really use social media--or do they really use it at all?

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

• Hidden Immigration: Effect On Unemployment A D ...
  Foreign students on working holiday visas and temporary graduate visas, who visit for relatively long periods, are ignored by policymakers, even though they affect unemployment.
• Bipartisan Policy Center Reveals Cost Containm ...
  In a Thursday afternoon Downtown Washington rollout, complete with an op-Ed in the morning's Washington Post, the Bipartisan Policy Center assembled a panel
• Music 4 Life Helps Relieve Stress
  Judyth Pinkerton the founder of Music 4 Life has been an accomplished musician for most of her life. As a violinist she has traveled throughout the world working for such notables as Andre Bocelli.
• Is Asia The World's Most Dynamic Region?
  According to Secretary Kerry, throughout Asia, he has now seen that very same spirit firsthand, people overcoming conflicts that seem to be locked in time.
• Why Is Greatness Inspired By Tragedy?
  Why? That's the leading question from many when they think about the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week, especially since there still remains much speculation around the reasons

environment 360

• As Final U.S. Decision Nears, A Lively Debate ...
  In an online debate for Yale Environment 360, Elliot Entis, whose company has created a genetically modified salmon that may soon be for sale in the U.S., discusses the environmental and health impacts of this controversial technology with author Paul Greenberg, a critic of GM fish.
• Reducing Short-Lived Pollutants Could Slow Sea ...
  Reducing the emissions of four critical pollutants in the coming decades could at least temporarily slow the rate of global warming and reduce projected sea level rise by as much as 50 percent, according to a new study. Building on previous research that found that reducing the emissions of four ...
• Outdated Management, Drought Threaten Colorado ...
  Drought, mismanagement, and over-exploitation of its waters have made the Colorado River — the lifeblood of the arid Southwest and drinking water source for 36 million people — among the most vulnerable rivers in Pete McBrideE360 VIDEO: The Colorado River: Running Near Empty the U.S., accordin ...
• Interview: Using Citizen Power To Fund a U.S. ...
  Billy Parish is the president of Mosaic, an Internet “crowdfunding” service that lets individual investors put their money into commercial solar projects and earn a rate of return that Billy Parish currently beats anything offered by a bank. This month, California regulators authorized M ...
• U.S. Offshore Seismic Testing Threatens Large ...
  The proposed use of seismic air guns in the search for offshore oil and gas reserves along the U.S. East Coast could injure or kill nearly 140,000 marine animals annually and disrupt the vital activities of other species, Moira Brown/New England AquariumNorth Atlantic right whale a new study say ...

Red Ice Creations

• The House Passes CISPA ’Cybersecurity Bill’, B ...
  The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial data-sharing bill that would authorize e-mail and Internet providers to share confidential information with the federal government. CISPA is "so important to our national security that it must be adopted". “In the case ...
• Smart Meters – Big Brother In The Home
  As the British government controversially moves ahead with its plan to introduce 53 million electricity and gas ‘smart meters’ across the UK by 2019, more than a million have already been deployed in the UK, which is beginning to raise privacy concerns. Smart meters monitor energy consumption an ...
• Migrant Workers Gunned Down in Greece
  Twenty-eight migrant workers were gunned down in Greece on Wednesday after demanding back pay owed to them on a farm they had worked on for several months. Up to 28 out of a total of 200 mostly Bangladeshi immigrant workers who came under fire were hospitalized following the incident, although n ...
• 10,000-year-old Mammoth skeleton Uncovered Nea ...
  Mexican archaeologists associated with the country’s National Institute of Anthrolopology and History have uncovered the intact skeleton remains of a giant mammoth. The discovery was made near Mexico City in the town of Santa Ana Tlacotenco. The giant mammoth, which is nearly uncovered, is thoug ...
• Ball of fire lights up skies above Spain
  "A brilliant ball of flame streaked across the sky above the Spanish capital Madrid, dazzling stargazers and astronomers alike. The celestial display was so bright it could be seen across the entire country. The eye-popping moment was caught on camera by the Hita Observatory at the University of ...

Not My Tribe

• “Turn off your cellphone” or polic ...
  STREAMING OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING DENOUEMENT: DID YOU KNOW that law enforcement can tell you “If you want to live, turn off your cell phone.”? That was shouted to an AP reporter tonight in Watertown, just before he heard officers shout “Fire in the hole&#822 ...
• Crowdsourced Boston Marathon pics point to usu ...
  YES, MORE CSI DIY CROWDSOURCING PHOTO-ANALYSIS! If you could anticipate that criminologists would scrutinize surveillance videos for who left what at the scene, or who behaved oddly after a bomb blast, you could probably plan to evade detection, by, for example, bringing a larger bag to conceal ...
• Private security protects authorities from pub ...
  “Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf and his security team pushed past policemen and sped away from a court in the country’s capital on Thursday to avoid arrest after his bail was revoked in a case in which he is accused of treason.” Obviously that’s what a p ...
• Colorado Extraction Resistance claims responsi ...
  DENVER, COLORADO- Organizers of an annual oil and gas industry conference held at the Grand Hyatt on Monday and Tuesday tried to prevent public interruption of their let’s frack Colorado discussion. They tried to ignore protesters outside, and revoked admissions passes to activists who wan ...
• 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.

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

• Mozzarella Cheese – 7 Things to Know
• Trend Alert – Pea Protein
• Chain Restaurant Nutrition: 12 Easy Ways to Le ...
• The Problem with Science Funded by Industry
• Taco Bell: By 2020 Some of Our Food Will Be He ...

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

• Ban upheld: Avatar tribe ‘to decide’ future of ...
  India's Supreme Court has recognized the Dongria Kondh's right to worship their sacred mountain in a landmark decision.© SurvivalIn a landmark ruling, the Indian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgiri hills. In a complex judgement, the c ...
• Brazil ignores deadline to save Earth's most t ...
  The Awá are scared to go hunting in the forest because they fear attacks by illegal loggers.© SurvivalBrazil’s authorities have ignored an urgent deadline by a federal judge to evict all invaders from the heartland of Earth’s most threatened tribe by the end of March. The Awá tribe i ...
• Enxet Indians take back their land
  Convicted fraudster Heribert Roedel bought up ancestral Enxet territory in Paraguay – and then evicted the Indians. © H Roedel’s Facebook pageA group of Enxet Indians in western Paraguay have moved back to their homeland after waiting for almost 20 years by the side of a highway for their ...
• Ethnic conflict in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park
  Waorani land in Ecuador is under huge pressure from oil companies and loggers © John WrightIn the last month there have been reports of two violent incidents in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park involving members of the Waorani tribe. The killings have renewed claims that outside pressures are caus ...
• Aid agencies turn blind eye to 'catastrophe' i ...
  Three new reports predict 'catastrophe' for half a million tribal people such as the Mursi of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley.© SurvivalThree independent reports have warned that the controversial Gibe III dam, and land grabs for plantations, risk imminent ‘catastrophe’ in ...

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

• Dachel Media Update: Wales Measles
  NEWS VIDEOS FROM WALES---Coverage on the measles outbreaks. ITV made an attempt at covering both sides of the MMR controversy, although it's clearly NOT BALANCED. Here a mother, seen with her severely autistic son, refuses to vaccinate her youngest child...
• What Happens When You're Gone? Aging Out – ASD ...
  By Dan Burns Our ASD kids turn 21 or 22 and the school bus stops coming, “student services” are gone and social services dwindle to a trickle, but life goes on for them. How independent will your adult child be?...
• Book Review: The Thinking Moms' Revolution
  By Anne Dachel After reading the Thinking Moms’ Revolution, I know one thing: this is our book. The twenty-three moms and one dad included in TMR tell all our stories to some degree. And they are THINKING. They question, they...
• SafeMinds Congressional Autism Educational For ...
  Coalition of SafeMinds Hosted a Congressional Autism Educational Forum on April 12, 2013 in Washington, DC. The topic Was Environmental Factors - What are They and What Do They Matter? Goal for Congress is to move from Autism Awareness to...
• Dachel Media Update: April Continues
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary after the jump. April 17, 2013, East Central IL News Gazette: Learning to 'embrace the challenge' of autism April 16, 2013, CBS Pittsburgh: New Study Focuses On Environment & Autism April 15, 2013, American...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• New Study: Glyphosate Enhances Damaging Effect ...
  This study shows that glyphosate, the active ingredient of roundup, enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins.
• 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.

new geography

• Richard Florida's Federal Fantasy
  Urbanist Richard Florida, in a New York Daily News op-ed, has called for President Obama to define his legacy not only by focusing on gun control, immigration and climate change, but by zeroing in on an even more important issue: America’s urbanization. This is because today, he explains, the ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Nanjing
  Nanjing is one of China's most historic cities. It is one of the four great ancient capitals of the nation, along with Beijing, Chang'an (Xi'an) and Luoyang. Its name means southern capital (Nan=south, Jing=capital), while the name of the current capital, Beijing means Northern capital. Nanj ...
• Megacities And The Density Delusion: Why More ...
  Perhaps no idea is more widely accepted among urban core theorists than the notion that higher population densities lead to more productivity and sustainable economic growth. Yet upon examination, there are less than compelling moorings for the beliefs of what Pittsburgh blogger Jim Russel ...
• Building Authenticity: Finding Gems in Florida ...
  This jaded land, Florida, is the world-weary capital of architectural irony, with more tongue-in-cheek showpieces than even Las Vegas. But hidden within the MedRev McMansions, the stucco-smeared stage sets, and the high cynicism of our highway junkspace, there lies hidden a handful of tr ...
• 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 ...

water.org

• Building Her Future: Mrs. Chawda's Story
  Galalben Keshubhai Chawda, pictured in red, is 38 years old and lives in Thakkerbapa Nagar, Ahmedabad, India. She has worked incredibly hard to become a successful construction worker and has skills in masonry, plastering, tiling, flooring and stone cutting. Here is her story, in her own words.
• 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.

Cryptogon

• Bitcoin Ramping Up Again
  Just crossed $135.
• Watertown: Police Engaged In Prolonged Gunbatt ...
  Latest Summary of Incident Via: The Lookout: A late-night police chase and shootout has ended with one Boston Marathon bombing suspect dead and another on the run, police said early Friday morning. One police officer was killed and another was seriously wounded during the violent spree. At sunri ...
• Texas: ‘This Is Only a Drill…&#821 ...
  Via: North Hills Hospital: Update on the drill (posted 4/18): Due to the events in West, Texas last night, North Hills Hospital and the NCTTRAC have chosen to cancel today’s emergency preparedness drill. Many of the same resources planned for the drill have already deployed to West to help care ...
• They’re Still Talking About the Gold Wreck
  Via: Daily Ticker: The speed and depth of gold’s decline drew comparisons to the 1987 stock market crash and prompted veteran trader Dennis Gartman to declare: “We’ve never… ever… ever… seen anything like what we’ve witnessed in the past two trading sessions.”
• Cyprus: Government Plans to Sell Part of Its G ...
  Via: Bloomberg: The Cypriot government plans to sell part of its gold reserves within the next months, a decision that needs to be approved by the country’s central bank, Finance Minister Haris Georgiades said. … Central bank chief Panicos Demetriades said last week that the Cypriot govern ...

The Economic Collapse

• 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
  The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
• History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
  Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...
• Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire ...
  Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On Monday, the price of gold had fallen by more than 10 percent at one point.  It shocked investors all over the globe, ...
• 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 ...

Desertification

• LAND AND WATER RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULT ...
  Read at : http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i1688e/i1688e.pdf?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fbpost&utm_campaign=FAO+Facebook THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S LAND AND WATER RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (FAO) Managing systems at risk Systems at risk are production systems where the land and wa ...
• Germany’s commitment to implementing UNCCD (Go ...
  Read at : http://www.giz.de/Themen/en/dokumente/giz2013-en-german-national-report-unccd.pdf Combating Desertification Germany’s commitment to implementing the United Nations Convention (UNCCD) This document is aimed at the general public and provides an overview of Germany’s commitment to implem ...
• The Kenya Climate Justice Women Champions (Ale ...
  Read at : http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/small-farmers-take-the-stage-to-sway-climate-justice-debate Small farmers take the stage to sway climate justice debate By Megan Rowling LONDON (AlertNet) – In northern Kenya’s impoverished and drought-prone Turkana region, a group called ...
• Economics of Desertification (Google / Paepard)
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://paepard.blogspot.be/2013/04/the-economics-of-desertification-land.html The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought The international community is losing vast amounts of agricultural production due to the effects of continu ...
• Combating Desertification with Science and Tec ...
  Read at : http://www.gulf-times.com/qatar/178/details/349395/%E2%80%98use-science-%26-technology-to-beat-desertification%E2%80%99 ‘Use science & technology to beat desertification’ By Ayman Adly/Staff Reporter Desertification in the country should be combated through the adoption of modern t ...

News Blaze

• Hidden Immigration: Effect On Unemployment A D ...
  Foreign students on working holiday visas and temporary graduate visas, who visit for relatively long periods, are ignored by policymakers, even though they affect unemployment.
• Bipartisan Policy Center Reveals Cost Containm ...
  In a Thursday afternoon Downtown Washington rollout, complete with an op-Ed in the morning's Washington Post, the Bipartisan Policy Center assembled a panel
• Music 4 Life Helps Relieve Stress
  Judyth Pinkerton the founder of Music 4 Life has been an accomplished musician for most of her life. As a violinist she has traveled throughout the world working for such notables as Andre Bocelli.
• Is Asia The World's Most Dynamic Region?
  According to Secretary Kerry, throughout Asia, he has now seen that very same spirit firsthand, people overcoming conflicts that seem to be locked in time.
• Why Is Greatness Inspired By Tragedy?
  Why? That's the leading question from many when they think about the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week, especially since there still remains much speculation around the reasons

Worldnews

• How to wash dry-clean-only clothing at ho ...
  When it comes to delicate fabric and dry-clean-only clothing, washing your favorite items can be a hassle. Picking things up from the dry cleaner isn’t always a quick stop, especially if any unexplained marks or stains appear on your clothes. And some chemicals used at specific dry cl ...
• Michael Savage and Wing Nut Daily Islamap ...
  Michael Savage began the Right Wing fruit cake feeding frenzy with his irresponsible and racist claims that it was Muslims who committed the Boston Marathon attack and that the US was engaged in a cover-up to hide this. Another claim in the Right Wing blogsphere was that the Saudi national w ...
• Kentucky Toyota plant in line to add 570 ...
  By Roger Alford Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky is in the running to produce an unspecified new vehicle model and add 570 permanent full-time workers at its Georgetown plant, according to details the carmaker provided to state officials to qualify f ...
• AMR Corp. reports smaller loss in fourth ...
  The parent of American Airlines narrowed its first-quarter loss as the carrier shrank its labor costs by $300 million as part of the bankruptcy process. AMR, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2011, renegotiated union contracts with its pilots, flight attendants, ground worker ...
• IMF's Lagarde: China's Yuan Moderately Un ...
  The IMF head said yuan was "moderately undervalued", echoing an earlier IMF report on the world's economic outlook. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said China has played a crucial role in running the world's economy, with the government more focused on the...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• TERAZOSIN (Terazosin Hydrochloride) Capsule [J ...
  Updated Date: Mar 11, 2013 EST
• NITROFURANTOIN MONOHYDRATE/ MACROCRYSTALLINE ( ...
  Updated Date: Mar 21, 2013 EST
• TOBI PODHALER (Tobramycin) Capsule [Novartis P ...
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• Bayer Initiates Phase III Trial of Investigati ...
  WAYNE, N.J., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that patient enrollment is underway in its global Phase III trial program to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adjunctive aerosolized BAY41-6551 versus aerosolized placebo in the...

Common Dreams

• Rights Groups Slam House Passage of Privacy-In ...
  Rights groups are slamming the House passage of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) Thursday afternoon, a bill they say "undermines the privacy of millions of Internet users." The bill received strong Republican support with 196 in favor and 29 oppos ...
• Sandra Steingraber, Others Get 15 Days in Jail ...
• Migrant Workers Gunned Down in Greece
  Twenty-eight migrant workers were gunned down in Greece on Wednesday after demanding back pay owed to them on a farm they had worked on for several months. Up to 28 out of a total of 200 mostly Bangladeshi immigrant workers who came under fire were hospitalized following the incident, although n ...
• Majority in the US: Redistribute Wealth, Enac ...
  A sign at Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Kimberlyki/flickr)A majority of people in the U.S. read more
• Nebraskans Take on Keystone XL in Public Hearing
  "Tribal pipeline fighters starting our press conference in pure spirit #nokxl" (Photo: Jane Kleeb/ Bold Nebraska)Hundreds of Nebraskans are hoping to have their voices heard on Thursday as they rally to attend a public hearing with the US State Department over the proposed Keystone XL ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

• IEA: Global Progress on Clean Energy Has Stall ...
  Global progress towards low-carbon energy has stalled, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Strong, consistent policies are needed to unlock clean energy innovation.
• 3 Years Later: Act on the Lessons of BP Gulf O ...
  We've issued report card on the progress made and the considerable work yet to be done since the BP spill, assigning grades to the three key actors: the administration (B), the offshore drilling industry (B-); and the U.S. Congress (D+).
• Solar Apps Improving Process, Customer Engagement
  People have now become tools of their web and mobile applications. The solar industry has jumped right in with an influx of innovative new online technologies, digital apps, and customer engagement strategies.
• Africa Aims to Combat Climate Change By Greeni ...
  In Africa, climate change is exacerbating the desertification of the continent. The Sahara Desert, which covers the majority of northern Africa, is spreading southward at a rate of 30 miles per year.
• Peeling Back the Packaging: Center for Sustain ...
  First, the standards put forth by CSSD are no substitute for strong regulation and enforcement. Voluntary efforts by industry leaders help only to distinguish the best from the rest and raise the bar.

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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Peoples Voice

• Palestinian Prisoners Day
  by Stephen Lendman On April 17, Palestinians commemorate Prisoners Day. They do so annually. They've done it since 1979. It marks Mahmoud Hijazi's release. Israel freed him in its first ever prisoner swap. Addameer honored thousands in Israel's gulag. They're held lawlessly. Now's "the t ...
• Collapse and Resurrection
  By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers The economic news in the last two weeks points to bad news for the economy and a reason for people to mobilize and demand change. We’ll get to the impact of the Obama budget, but first let’s explode a critical myth: there is no recovery. Last mon ...
• Obama as the Cover for U.S. Perpetual War, Aus ...
  By Larry Pinkney “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” –Martin Luther King, Jr. “Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes ...
• Vile, Filthy, Bloody, Dirty Wars
  By David Swanson Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, has a new book that should be required reading for Congress members, journalists, war supporters, war opponents, Americans, non-Americans -- really, pretty much everybody. The new book ...
• Towards Understanding Global Peace: Warlords a ...
  Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD Global political affairs are a complex discipline and often require serious, critical and impartial mindset to see the man-made problems truthfully, objectively, rationally and dispassionately. The 21st century of hope for Peace is fast turning into a fraught history ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• New fact sheets: health care and housing for B ...
  Our seniors care researcher Janine Farrell is creating a series of fact sheets on issues for seniors in BC, distilling CCPA-BC research in this area into key points and suggested questions for candidates in the provincial election. The fact sheets will be translated into multiple languages and p ...
• Youth and Unions
  Are unions doing a good job of connecting with young workers and teaching them about their rights in the workplace? A TURC (Trade Union Research Collective) member provided us with this article on the challenges of getting youth engaged with the labour movement - something we all need to fi ...
• Labour Symposium in Ontario
  CCPA Ontario is holding a one-day symposium featuring leading union researchers and communicators on Monday April 22, 2013.  Speakers include: Janet Schaffer, AFL-CIO; Brynne Sinclair-Waters, OFL,  Jim Stanford, CAW, and more.  Unfortunately all the spaces are taken, but we late ...
• Push back on Bill C-377
  TURC members have been responding to Armine's posting about the debate heating up in the Senate on Bill C-377. It is heartening that the odd Senator has the sense and the conviction to push back on this proposed legislation. This link will take you to Senator James Cowan's address to the Senate ...
• Canadian Airlines also use TFWs
  It turns out that the banking sector is not the only one to take advantage of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP). The airline industry is also happily lowering costs with TWFs at the same time as it dukes it out with unionized Canadian workers. This despite the fact that worldwide dema ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

• Deepwater Horizon oil spill 'cleanup' made tox ...
  Dec. 1, 2012 (NaturalNews) The cleanup technique used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually made the spilled oil more than 50 times more toxic than doing nothing, according to a study conducted by researchers fr ...
• GEOS-5 - Aerosois - [aerosols whipping around ...
• BEIJING'S POLLUTION ALARMS NEIGHBORS
• WHEN THE MERMAIDS CRY: THE GREAT PLASTIC TIDE
• BPs Extinction Level Event! Experts: 'We Have ...
  April 1, 2013 Despite the fact that dead dolphins and manatees are STILL showing up in droves along BOTH coasts of Florida, experts have been advised that they are NOT ALLOWED to discuss their findings due to the ongoing court cases involving BP. Since I am not beholden to BP nor to corrupt poli ...

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

• IEA: Global Progress on Clean Energy Has Stall ...
  Global progress towards low-carbon energy has stalled, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Strong, consistent policies are needed to unlock clean energy innovation.
• 3 Years Later: Act on the Lessons of BP Gulf O ...
  We've issued report card on the progress made and the considerable work yet to be done since the BP spill, assigning grades to the three key actors: the administration (B), the offshore drilling industry (B-); and the U.S. Congress (D+).
• Solar Apps Improving Process, Customer Engagement
  People have now become tools of their web and mobile applications. The solar industry has jumped right in with an influx of innovative new online technologies, digital apps, and customer engagement strategies.
• Africa Aims to Combat Climate Change By Greeni ...
  In Africa, climate change is exacerbating the desertification of the continent. The Sahara Desert, which covers the majority of northern Africa, is spreading southward at a rate of 30 miles per year.
• Peeling Back the Packaging: Center for Sustain ...
  First, the standards put forth by CSSD are no substitute for strong regulation and enforcement. Voluntary efforts by industry leaders help only to distinguish the best from the rest and raise the bar.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

• Go at Google
  Rob Pike explains how Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter while using other languages: long build times, poor dependency management, lack of robustness, etc. - InfoQ
• Going Google (apps), Part 1: Move your mail
  Are you getting tired of struggling with Microsoft's increasingly complex, sometimes arcane, and always expensive versions of Office? This article, the first in a series, will show you how easy it is to move from bloated and pricey desktop programs to fast, free - though somewhat less capable - ...
• Google Internet business solid despite Motorol ...
  "If you look at most companies they never do anything different, and eventually they run into problems for that reason," said the 40-year-old Page, who co-founded Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin. - Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters
• Nokia sales tumble overshadows Lumia pick-up
  The results renewed pressure on Chief Executive Stephen Elop, who was hired in 2010 to turn the Finnish mobile phone maker around after it fell behind rivals Samsung and Apple in the smartphone race. He made the controversial decision to switch to Microsoft's untried Windows Phone software in ...
• Lower Nokia handset sales hurt earnings, share ...
  While the Finnish mobile giant reduced its first-quarter net loss in 2013 to 272 million ($357 million) compared to its staggering loss of 928 million ($1.2 billion) in the first quarter of 2012, the company also sold 32 percent fewer smartphones than it did in that quarter. Worse still, ...

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Politics in the Zeros

• Social Distortion at Coachella 2013
  Orange County punk bands generally have a seriously hard edge of barely controlled mayhem and Social Distortion is no exception. “Mommy’s Little Monster” has always been one of my favorites. It’s a sneering putdown of suburban loser kids and humorous in its own dark way. ...
• FBI releases photos of Boston bombing suspects
  The FBI emphasizes that these and only these photos should be used for identification of the Boston bombing suspects and to call law enforcement if you think you’ve spotted them. Do not approach them. Suspect One put a backpack very close to where one of the bombs went off. FBI photos Ti ...
• Muslim Brotherhood called Eqypt’s master race, ...
  Credit: Times of Israel Egypt Government can’t take jokes, goes all fascistic on comic mocking Muslim Brotherhood Declaration of Support. Seriously. In Cairo on April 12, the TV anchor on the Al-Bernameg show looked straight into the camera and said: “I hereby declare my total support of all th ...
• Small Bitcoin exchanges are shutting down, ban ...
  Comment on Zero Hedge In yet another sign that Bitcoin is circling the drain, small exchanges like Bitfloor are shutting down, saying their bank accounts were closed. It’s unclear at this point if the bank accounts closings were voluntary. Primary Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is having severe ...
• Google Glass, disruptive technology, released ...
  Tech journalist Robert Scoble loves Google Glass because it makes taking videos and photos much easier and more natural. This is just one example of how Glass is disruptive technology that will change many things, including journalism. As a photographer I’m already in love with Google Gl ...

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Just World News

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frogblog

• Farrar wrong on renewables
  As you might have caught we have (alongside Labour) announced a plan to cut excessive profits from the Electricity Sector and return the money to households. David Farrar over on Kiwiblog yesterday posted about the total cost of Electricity Production claiming that renewable options – which we p ...
• Akaroa Harbour marine reserve welcome news
  Gareth has previously posted about the Dan Rogers marine reserve in Akaroa Harbour.  Living on Banks Peninsula and having helped promote the reserve I wanted to share my thoughts and thank and congratulate the reserve applicants, Kathleen and Brian Reid and the Akaroa Harbour Marine Protection S ...
• MPs said ‘we do’ to marriage equality
    We are all celebrating today at Parliament after an amazing night in which love was the winner.   A huge number of people came to watch the marriage equality debate and vote. The queue stretched around the building and people were bubbling with excitement to see such happy history be ...
• Before we fix water quality we need to stop al ...
  The Prime Minister bragged about how much money his Government is spending on water clean-ups today, but he failed to admit that the money required for clean-up of our rivers and lakes will increase because of his policies. Nearly every study on water quality shows that land use intensification ...
• Nail in the coffin of state housing in Sandringham
  Last month I blogged about the sale of Housing New Zealand land in Haverstock Road, Sandringham, where – instead of redeveloping its land into a groundbreaking mixed housing development – Housing New Zealand was flogging off a huge parcel of land to the highest bidder. I visited the ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
  America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
• 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• How to Address Allergies and Asthma Symptoms a ...
  By Dr. Mercola Spring allergies affect an estimated 25 million Americans, and according to the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, we’re looking at one of the worst allergy seasons in a long time, thanks to a number of climactic factors.1 The Asthma and Allergy Foundation's annua ...
• Blood Lead Levels High in 535,000 Kids in the USA
  By Dr. Mercola More than half a million US kids aged 1 to 5 years have blood lead levels higher than 5 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL), the “level of concern” at which health problems may occur. The new data comes from a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
• How the New American “Oil Boom” Might Destroy ...
  By Dr. Mercola Recent headlines in the American press would have you believe we’re in for a robust economic boom, courtesy of the new shale gas revolution. Some forecasters claim the US will outstrip Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer by 2017, effectively rendering t ...
• Side Effects of Statins
  By Dr. Mercola One in four Americans over the age of 45 now takes cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, typically for the primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes. Not only is their benefit for preventing heart disease highly questionable, but these drugs come with an avalanch ...
• Dr. Oz Investigates the Hazards of Dental Amalgams
  By Dr. Mercola Dental amalgam is a primitive, environmentally polluting product. It is an antiquated remnant from the Civil War era—which is composed of about 50 percent mercury, a well-known neurotoxin. Aside from the health risks associated with placing mercury into your teeth, the ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Ban upheld: Avatar tribe ‘to decide’ future of ...
  India's Supreme Court has recognized the Dongria Kondh's right to worship their sacred mountain in a landmark decision.© SurvivalIn a landmark ruling, the Indian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgiri hills. In a complex judgement, the c ...
• Brazil ignores deadline to save Earth's most t ...
  The Awá are scared to go hunting in the forest because they fear attacks by illegal loggers.© SurvivalBrazil’s authorities have ignored an urgent deadline by a federal judge to evict all invaders from the heartland of Earth’s most threatened tribe by the end of March. The Awá tribe i ...
• Enxet Indians take back their land
  Convicted fraudster Heribert Roedel bought up ancestral Enxet territory in Paraguay – and then evicted the Indians. © H Roedel’s Facebook pageA group of Enxet Indians in western Paraguay have moved back to their homeland after waiting for almost 20 years by the side of a highway for their ...
• Ethnic conflict in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park
  Waorani land in Ecuador is under huge pressure from oil companies and loggers © John WrightIn the last month there have been reports of two violent incidents in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park involving members of the Waorani tribe. The killings have renewed claims that outside pressures are caus ...
• Aid agencies turn blind eye to 'catastrophe' i ...
  Three new reports predict 'catastrophe' for half a million tribal people such as the Mursi of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley.© SurvivalThree independent reports have warned that the controversial Gibe III dam, and land grabs for plantations, risk imminent ‘catastrophe’ in ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Common sense prevails in Lachine Ho ...
  Health Minister Réjean Hébert has accepted the view of people in the community who saw in the transfer an upgrade of their health services, not a threat.
• Editorial: Finding hope in the Lisée-Parizeau ...
  The PQ government’s language policy is driven by hardliners, but there is hope for moderation in light of tolerant attitudes in the greater francophone community.
• Hockey deal augurs poorly for rebirth of Nordiques
  With a new collective bargaining agreement in place, National Hockey League play resumed on the weekend. The enthusiastic fan reaction suggests that the four-month lockout will not result in any significant fan blowback in the short term.
• Editorial: A historic moment for Ontario, and ...
  When Kathleen Wynne becomes Ontario’s new premier, Canada will be in the remarkable position of having women as leaders of six of its provinces and territories.
• Editorial: Charbonneau Commission’s mandate mu ...
  The larger problem with the Charbonneau Commission is starting to look conceptual, having to do with what it can and cannot investigate.

Food World Order

• Fight to Patent Human Genes Heard by Supreme Court
  from activistpost.com: On Monday, the Supreme Court heard Myriad Genetics plead their case on why they want to patent human genes. According to the biotech company, it discovered the gene linked to higher risks in breast and ovarian cancer and plans to further its research. Related:&nbs ...
• 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 ...

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

• 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
  The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
• History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
  Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...
• Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire ...
  Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On Monday, the price of gold had fallen by more than 10 percent at one point.  It shocked investors all over the globe, ...
• 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 ...

CASSE

• The Lurking Inconsistency
  Herman Daly suggests that changing the economy will require more than new policies; it'll require a substantial change in worldview.
• China’s Infinite-Growth Haze
  China is playing a dangerous game based on a seductive (but faulty) economic theory.
• How I’ve Responded to the Financial Crisis
  Maybe pirates had a good idea about burying their loot -- see how to disentangle yourself from the too-big-to-fail financial system.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis Unveils Three New ...
  GDI, CCI, and FEI -- Three new economic measures that are worth shouting about.
• Three Glimmers of Hope for an Economic Transfo ...
  Brent Blackwelder sees three possibilities (granted they're long-shots) for overcoming the obstacles to an economic paradigm shift.

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

• The other form of violence
  While terrorism and gun violence dominated this week's headlines, the tragedy at a Texas fertilizer plant points to another danger that for most of the population is actually a more significant threat: industrial accidents. read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Three years into the BP disaster
  Saturday, April 20, marks the third anniversary of the deadly BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We take a by-the-numbers look at the still-unfolding disaster today. read more
• VOICES: North Carolina's arrogant and vindicti ...
  A comment made this week by a North Carolina senator to a constituent illustrates a culture of arrogance that has taken hold in the state legislature. read more
• BP head defends dispersant use as Gulf Coast c ...
  When Gulf Coast activists attended BP's annual meeting last week to express concerns about the ongoing environmental health problems related to the 2010 oil disaster, BP chief Bob Dudley assured them it's an "ecosystem that's used to oil." read more
• NC poll finds support for voter ID drops with ...
  Most surveys on voter ID ask only if voters support or oppose it. But what happens if you ask them about voter ID's potential impact on certain voters, and whether they support less strict alternatives? 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

• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    
• Spring warmth sets Atlantic aflame
  This fiery infrared satellite image shows the Gulf Stream as it bends and stretches eastward toward Europe    
• World's biggest telescope gets green light
  The Thirty Meter Telescope – due to be the world's widest eye on space – has got the go-ahead for construction on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii    

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

• Jesse Ventura It s Called A False Flag Operati ...
  Jesse Ventura It s Called A False Flag Operation! (HD) – YouTube.
• Surreal: US Troops Stage in Jordan to Defend a ...
  By Tony Cartalucci Global Research, April 18, 2013 CNN reports that some 200 US troops are staging along Syria’s border, this as reports reveal huge amounts of US-provided flour smuggled into Syria have formed the foundation of Al Qaeda’s public relations strategy. Together with huge amounts of ...
• Rothschilds Want Iran’s Banks | American Free ...
  By Pete Papaherakles Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) be one of the main reasons that Iran is being targeted by Western and Israeli powers? As tensions are building up for an unthinkable war with Iran, it is worth exploring Iran’s banking system com ...
• When False Flags Don’t Fly – YouTube
  When False Flags Don’t Fly – YouTube.
• Boston Blowout!!! – YouTube
  Boston Blowout!!! – YouTube.

Veterans Today

• American-Palestinian Jailed by Israel. Does it ...
  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel Ezekiel 37:11 On April 5, 2013, a 14-year-old boy with American and Palestinian citizenship was arrested by Israel; on April 11 he reached the military court at the Ofer Prison. It was an event which this website wouldn& ...
• VA to Expedite Claims Decisions for Veterans W ...
  The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today it is implementing an initiative to expedite compensation claims decisions for Veterans who have waited one year or longer. Effective today, VA claims raters will make provisional decisions on the oldest claims in inventory, which will allow Vet ...
• MHN: Intell Breach by Congressman, US Paying B ...
  Military Headline News No free lunch overseas The United States is paying more to keep military bases in foreign lands than in the past. A review by the Senate Armed Services Committee found the US spends more than $10 billion each year to maintain overseas locations. Seventy percent of that mon ...
• Breaking Bombing News – The Brothers Tsa ...
  - Long Delayed Release of Suspect Photos Produces Quick Indentification - but Why So Long?
• Israeli False-Flaggers Flown in for Boston Sho ...
  Is the Israeli Mossad involved in the Boston Marathon bombings - and the cover-up?

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 ...

PR News

• Brands simplify their message on privacy
  Tech-sector heavyweights are beginning to express their privacy policies in customer-friendly language and formats.
• Interpublic PR firms see 4% revenue jump in Q1
  NEW YORK: Interpublic Group's PR firms in the Constituency Management Group saw organic revenue growth of 4% in the first quarter of 2013, compared with the same period the prior year.
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Maryland aw ...
  WASHINGTON: Both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the state of Maryland have hired Weber Shandwick to launch campaigns promoting insurance marketplaces mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Combined, the contracts are worth nearly $14 million.
• Illinois looks for shop to promote insurance e ...
  SPRINGFIELD, IL: The Illinois Department of Insurance is seeking a firm to create and implement a marketing and outreach strategy to promote its health insurance marketplace.
• Hager Sharp wins contract from Education Dep't
  WASHINGTON: The National Center for Education Statistics, part of the US Department of Education, has granted Hager Sharp another five-year contract to provide communications support for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
• Steve Hadley at FP: “I should have asked that ...
• Allen speaks about the day the Afghanistan cam ...

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Contract Opportunity: Fund Development & Progr ...
  Position:  Fund Development & Program Manager Organization:  Alberta Environmental Network ...
• Earth Day Celebration: Small is Beautiful
  Edmonton Earth Day Festival Earth's General Store 20 Apr 2013 - 11:00 - 16:00 Earth's General Store is working with the Edmont ...
• City of Edmonton Master Naturalist Program
  City of Edmonton Office of Biodiversity 4 Jun 2013 (All day) City of Edmonton Master Naturalist Program 2013 – Now Accepting Applications! Are you interested in learning ...
• Alberta Ecotrust Community Grant Program - Dea ...
  Deadline:  22 Apr 2013 - 23:59 Organization:  Alberta Ecotrust Foundation Need cash for a good ca ...
• Action for Earth Day
  Activist Network 22 Apr 2013 - 12:15 - 12:45 Join us in saying no to environmental destruction and yes to the transformation of our society for a sustainable and resilient future. C ...

Stop NATO

• Expeditionary Army: First U.S. Troops In Jorda ...
  U.S. Department of Defense American Forces Press Service April 18, 2013 Advance Headquarters Elements Operating in Jordan By Donna Miles ==== The division is regionally aligned with U.S. Central Command, and Pittard and most of his headquarters staff worked alongside their Jordanian counterparts ...
• New Command Integrates U.S.,NATO Special Force ...
  U.S. Department of Defense American Forces Press Service April 18, 2013 New Command Structure Fortifies Special Operations Partnerships By Amaani Lyle WASHINGTON: The commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command yesterday lauded a new command structure that aligns various NATO and U.S. speci ...
• Afghan War: Germany Offers NATO Troops Beyond 2014
  Stars and Stripes April 18, 2013 Germany offers troops for Afghan training mission Afghanistan: First German ground combat since World War II SHAPEBERLIN: Germany offered Thursday to provide up to 800 soldiers for a NATO training mission in Afghanistan after U.S. and other foreign combat troops ...
• NATO Conducts Largest-Ever Naval War Games Off ...
  The News (Portsmouth) April 18, 2013 Navy at heart of NATO exercise ==== Involving more than 40 warships, 40 fixed-wing aircraft and 30 helicopters from the UK, Netherlands, Canada, France, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Germany, over 12,000 personnel will be taking part in Exercis ...
• Romain Rolland on Leo Tolstoy: How is it they ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war Leo Tolstoy: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From Tolstoy (1911) Translated by Bernard Miall The Invasion (finished in December, 1852), impresses the reader deeply by the magnificence of its ...

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Intel Hub

• Texas Mass-Casuality Drill Cancelled Following ...
  Intellihub | North Hills Hospital in Texas was scheduled to have a Mass-Casualty "Emergency Drill" on Thursday April 18th, with two days of set-up prior to the actual drill.The post Texas Mass-Casuality Drill Cancelled Following Waco Explosion appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Breaking Reports: On Scene From Boston Bombing ...
  UnboundRadio.com | Shepard Ambellas the host of Intellihub™ will be talking with Intellihub.com’s Derrick Broze who is reporting on scene from Boston with breaking information regarding the bombing. The post Breaking Reports: On Scene From Boston Bombing Vicinity & Texas Fertilizer Exp ...
• US Supreme Court: Warrant Needed To Take Blood ...
  Thomas H. Clarke | In a case that could have nationwide implications in the enforcement of marijuana impaired “drugged driving” laws, the United States Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states can not routinely compel drivers to submit to a blood test in drunk driving cases without consent ...
• Venezuelan President-Elect Accuses US and Othe ...
  Intellihub.com | Reports from the region indicate that at least 7 people are dead and 60 people were injured in protests following the Venezuela election on Tuesday.The post Venezuelan President-Elect Accuses US and Others of Coup appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Jaden Smith Says Obama Confirmed Aliens Are Real
  Open Minds | Jaden Smith told Wonderland magazine this week that a conversation with President Obama at the White House confirmed to him that aliens are real.The post Jaden Smith Says Obama Confirmed Aliens Are Real appeared first on Intellihub.com.

FRS

• India: Intense Revolutionary Struggles for Li ...
  No revolution without the annihilation of caste, no annihilation of caste without revolution!! The only way of paying true homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar is to fight back the caste atrocities and caste oppression! by Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 18 April 201 ...
• India: Intense Revolutionary Struggles for Li ...
  No revolution without the annihilation of caste, no annihilation of caste without revolution!! The only way of paying true homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar is to fight back the caste atrocities and caste oppression! by Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 18 April 201 ...
• Protests, hunger strikes mark Palestinian Pris ...
  [Palestinians gather to commemorate Prisoners' Day in Nablus on April 17, 2013. Palestinians across the territories are attending marches and rallies as a show of solidarity with prisoners from the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza held in Israeli facilities, whose numbers according to Israeli ...
• Protests, hunger strikes mark Palestinian Pris ...
  [Palestinians gather to commemorate Prisoners' Day in Nablus on April 17, 2013. Palestinians across the territories are attending marches and rallies as a show of solidarity with prisoners from the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza held in Israeli facilities, whose numbers according to Israeli ...
• India: Dalit Woman Activist Brutally Raped an ...
  [When The Hindu, a bourgeois Indian  media mouthpiece, reported this brutal rape and murder, they could not avoid revealing, by putting  "murder" in quotes in the title, to show their skepticism at the report, and their dehumanizing view of Dalit women. -- Frontlines ed.] ———&# ...

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

• Obama Justified in Criticizing Senators Over B ...
  Many U.S. senators who voted against increasing background checks for gun purchases may have inadvertently handed their next challengers powerful fodder in campaign battles.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 18, 2013
• How Misinformation Could Help the Boston Bomb ...
  When terrorism strikes the United States, whether in Boston, New York City, Atlanta or Oklahoma City, there’s a rush to tell the audience who is responsible, often getting the wrong person and hampering the investigation.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 16, 2013
• Actually, Americans are Overtaxed
  A slew of studies come out around April 15 every year to remind us how we have a much lower tax burden than other countries have, but is that really the case. It depends on whether you are a corporation or a personal income taxpayer.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 15, 2013
• 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

Popsci - Science

• Kepler Search Finds Two New Cozy, Possibly Wat ...
  Scientists can't know for sure if the worlds have water. But they could, making them a potential habitat for life. In our solar system, only one world has just the right size, just the right temperature and just the right home for liquid water. Long ago, at least one other rocky planet had wate ...
• Super-Fast New Telescope Solves Star Birth Mystery
  ALMA is the best way to see these births in super-fertile galaxies, which helps scientists understand how galaxies form. Birth is messy, for stars as for anything else, and it can be hard for astronomers to see through the dirt and crud. This is especially true in distant, very old galaxies, wh ...
• Why It's So Hard For Scientists To Study Medic ...
  The nation's research-grade cannabis is controlled by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, whose mission to curb use is at odds with that of researchers looking to study pot's therapeutic properties. Eighteen states (plus the District of Columbia) allow cannabis use for certain medical condit ...
• FYI: What Is Anhydrous Ammonia, The Chemical F ...
  One of agriculture's most dangerous substances, anyhydrous ammonia requires several precautions to handle. At least five people are dead and more than 160 injured after an explosion at an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer plant in the small Texas town of West. Anhydrous ammonia is a highly toxic, vo ...
• In 1884, A Popular Science Writer Got Way Too ...
  From our archive, a dramatic first-hand account of marijuana overdose. "An Overdose of Hasheesh," by Mary C. Hungerford, originally appeared in the February 1884 issue of Popular Science magazine. Being one of the grand army of sufferers from headache, I took, last summer, by order of my physic ...

Veterans Today

• American-Palestinian Jailed by Israel. Does it ...
  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel Ezekiel 37:11 On April 5, 2013, a 14-year-old boy with American and Palestinian citizenship was arrested by Israel; on April 11 he reached the military court at the Ofer Prison. It was an event which this website wouldn& ...
• VA to Expedite Claims Decisions for Veterans W ...
  The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today it is implementing an initiative to expedite compensation claims decisions for Veterans who have waited one year or longer. Effective today, VA claims raters will make provisional decisions on the oldest claims in inventory, which will allow Vet ...
• MHN: Intell Breach by Congressman, US Paying B ...
  Military Headline News No free lunch overseas The United States is paying more to keep military bases in foreign lands than in the past. A review by the Senate Armed Services Committee found the US spends more than $10 billion each year to maintain overseas locations. Seventy percent of that mon ...
• Breaking Bombing News – The Brothers Tsa ...
  - Long Delayed Release of Suspect Photos Produces Quick Indentification - but Why So Long?
• Israeli False-Flaggers Flown in for Boston Sho ...
  Is the Israeli Mossad involved in the Boston Marathon bombings - and the cover-up?

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
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• In the big freeze - but for how long?
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• January 2nd warmest globally on record
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• 'Near average' January masks extremes
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• Return of westerly wind brings relief to sea birds
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Internat'l Political Economy

• LDC Marketing Lessons Selling to Brokebank Yanks
  Here's an interesting feature I somehow missed given my interest in the intersection between marketing and international political economy. Nowadays the "American Dream" is a punch line to a sick joke only the most delusional and gullible of USA#1 cheerleaders actually fall for. (And the joke's ...
• The IMF is Unfair (Duh): Japan v Egypt
  That the IMF has special and differential treatment for developed countries over developing countries is an unoriginal criticism of the institution. For whatever reason, rich donor countries do not get long sermons about fiscal profligacy, burgeoning deficits, and the need for belt tightening. O ...
• "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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
  The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
• History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
  Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...
• Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire ...
  Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On Monday, the price of gold had fallen by more than 10 percent at one point.  It shocked investors all over the globe, ...
• 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 ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• UN report suggests social conflict in Latin Am ...
  The Latin American countries afflicted by the greatest amount of social conflict are also those suffering from broad inequality and limited capacity to manage unrest, according to a United Nations report launched today.
• Ban calls Boston marathon bombing senseless, a ...
  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the bombing at the Boston Marathon, calling "this senseless violence… all the more appalling for taking place at an event renowned for bringing people together from around the world in a spirit of sportsmanship and harmony."
• 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.
• 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.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
  The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
• 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 ...

Rewilding Institute

• EARTH DAY 2013: TAKE ACTION FOR THE MANED WOLF
  Project at a glance:  Due to rapid habitat destruction, the Maned wolf in Bolivia is now facing extinction. To protect this endangered species, WLT-US is seeking funds to buy the 15,711-acre Santa Anita Ranch for $29 an acre. The purchase will more than double the size of 11,555-acre Barba Azul ...
• TrekWest – A Coalition’s Campaign for Connectivity
  Original post, April 15, 2013 on Defenders of Wildlife by Matt Clark, Southwest Representative  If you are anything like me, you might get to feeling pessimistic sometimes because of all of the alarming news we hear about the growing extinction crisis, climate change and a plethora of other wild ...
• 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 ...

Asia Sentinel

• India Infrastructure Spending Bogs Down
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Big projects hit a wall
• Indonesia's Infrastructure Bottlenecks
  • (http://twitter.com/share) All full stop
• China Vastly Under-Reports Global Fish Catch
  • (http://twitter.com/share) European Parliament study says China catches 12 times as many fish as it says
• Falling Commodity Prices Spell Trouble
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia on the firing line
• On China's Future
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Chinese writer on the impossibility of being optimistic

We Know the Lies

• RED ALERT!... REVENGE! ... "Obama To Issue New ...
  Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun violence bill. ~ Jake Hammer - Video read more
• Pennsylvania Judge, Citing 1776 Law, Orders Fr ...
  A Pennsylvania judge surprised the corporate world by ordering the unsealing of a settlement between a family and a fracking company, saying businesses do not enjoy the right of privacy under the state’s constitution. read more
• United Nations Scam... Using CO2-Induced Clima ...
  The United Nations, in conjunction with its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is using the threat of “climate change” in order to establish a carbon trading system. ~ Karen Dopozo read more
• Free Healthcare For Illegals Continues... The ...
  In 2009, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated that the yearly cost of providing healthcare for illegal aliens was $10.7 billion. It was a difficult figure to approximate as hospitals are not permitted to ask if an emergency room patient is in the country illegally. ...
• IRS Expected to Target Small Businesses This Year
  Americans who get paid in cash and own a small business are at high risk of being audited – especially if they live in wealthy suburbs: the IRS is going after those from which the agency thinks they can get more taxes. read more

Tarpley

• NATO’s Reliance on Al Qaeda as Its Irreg ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 17, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• Political Fight Against Bipartisan Austerity R ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com April 16, 2013 [download audio]
• More Senseless Drone Killings Show That Total ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 14, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• Obama Budget Launches Treacherous Attack on So ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 13, 2013 Last Wednesday, April 10, marked a day of infamy for the Obama administration and an ominous watershed in contemporary American history. On that day, Obama sent to Congress his proposal for the Fiscal Year 2014 US federal budget containing cripp ...
• 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]

Modern Survivalism

• Yellowstone Super Volcano Much Larger Than Thought
  Image: National Park Service A mega disaster waiting to happen. A Yellowstone ‘super volcano’ eruption. As though this in itself isn’t troublesome enough, it has just been revealed that Yellowstone’s underground volcanic plumbing is much bigger and better connected than s ...
• Survival Kit: Signal Mirror
  A signal mirror is one of the many items that you could choose to add to your survival kit. It is a tool that could save your life. A signal mirror is, you guessed it, a mirror – but it’s design and purpose is to alert others of your location. While an ordinary reflective mirror [...]
• Inventory For Home Owners Insurance
  Home Owners Insurance; it’s not just about paying your premiums… Your home is your castle; however it is at risk from a number of disaster circumstances such as fire, severe weather related events, or home burglary, just to name a few. These are reasons why nearly all of us have home ...
• Mosquito Control
  That time of year… If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s mosquitoes, and that telltale very high pitched buzzing sound as one flies around your head looking for a juicy piece of skin to land on… To control mosquitoes, it’s all about WATER. Mosquitoes lay th ...
• Boston Bombing; Who Did It…
  The Boston bombing, Day #2. No publicly announced suspects or solid hints of the current investigative direction. We have countless federal alphabet agencies and local authorities scouring for clues following an event which is quite obviously “terrorism”. The president has not yet ut ...

Fast Company

• Infographic: A Guide To Time Travel In The Movies
  Or, how "Primer" is different than "Back To The Future." What do Groundhog Day, Twelve Monkeys, and The Time Traveller’s Wife have in common? Yes, exactly, they’d all be better with Nicholas Cage. But also: time travel! As we see in this flow chart, however, not all time-bendin ...
• Amazon Snaps Up Goodreads, A Partner Apple Wanted
  This article branches off of a longer story we're tracking called Apple's New Technology Partners: What Developers Need To Know.Steve Jobs once said said, "people don't read anymore." He wasn't the only tech pundit pronouncing books dead in the middle of the last decade, as people turned to inte ...
• 3 Creative Ways To Visualize Urban Public Tran ...
  The Urban Data Challenge asked teams to make something beautiful and helpful from open data sets in San Francisco, Zurich, and Geneva. The results will change what you think a city’s transportation system can look like (and how useful it can be). As cities gradually realize that open ...
• How Snoop Dogg Is Turning Illegal Guns Into Br ...
  The rap star is supporting a new (and controversial) line of jewelry made from illegal guns that sends it proceeds to tries to help get guns off the street. If you follow rap, reggae or gun control, you may be aware of the transformation of gun-toting gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg into peace-l ...
• Rusty Fire Hydrants, Transformed Into Beautifu ...
  Using city infrastructure to create intergalactic art, Adam Kennedy takes these hydrants to another galaxy. There is beauty in decaying urban landscapes, but that beauty is distinctly grounded in reality. It’s inextricably linked to humanity’s growing impact on the planet. In P ...

Jadaliyya

• On the Margins Media Roundup (April)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusi ...
• Algeria: The Revolution to Come?
  Hocine Belalloufi, Democracy in Algeria, Reform or Revolution. Coédition Lazhari Labter éditions / Editions Apic Alger, 2012. On the shelves of bookstores in Algiers, a book appeared a few months ago whose cover immediately stood out.  Under the image of a large classic-looking c ...
• Syria Media Roundup (April 18)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
• Continuity from Rupture: Deir Yassin’s Absent ...
  The Zionist guns trained in our direction were not a mere physical barrier: they were a lethal reminder that our city, for us, was to be now no more than a memory; a dream that we were now back to zero. Enjoy the view if you can, in the midst of the homeless thousands. But you’ve been plucked ou ...
• سامر العيساوي والسلطة الفلسطينية
                 

mediagazer

• Fujitsu Develops Technology That Turns Paper I ...
  Stan Schroeder / Mashable: Fujitsu Develops Technology That Turns Paper Into a Touchscreen  —  We're quickly getting used to the fact that computer, smartphone and tablet screens are meant to be touched — but what about paper?  —  Fujitsu has developed a te ...
• Inside Forbes: On a Visit to Ole Miss, a Look ...
  Lewis DVorkin / Forbes: Inside Forbes: On a Visit to Ole Miss, a Look Into Journalism's Past, Present and Future  —  Will Norton and I go back 40 years.  A former Chicago Tribune reporter (a job I coveted at that time), he was a graduate student at the University of Iowa mo ...
• Reddit vs. the Media (Will Oremus/Slate)
  Will Oremus / Slate: Reddit vs. the Media  —  Two days after the tragedy, Wolf Blitzer of CNN attracts a crowd as he waits to go on air in Copley Square, close to the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, on April 17, 2013.  Boston has been inundated with media from around ...
• Hyperlocal startup Street Fight owns the block ...
  Teresa Novellino / Upstart Business Journal: Hyperlocal startup Street Fight owns the block, hits profitability on 2nd anniversary  —  Two years ago, Laura Rich and David Hirschman founded an online news and interview site called Street Fight to cover companies in the burgeoning ...
• YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright ...
  Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuit  —  After an appellate court revived Viacom's claims that YouTube hosted copyright infringing work, U.S. District judge Louis Stanton has again given the defendant a victory.&n ...

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

• How to wash dry-clean-only clothing at ho ...
  When it comes to delicate fabric and dry-clean-only clothing, washing your favorite items can be a hassle. Picking things up from the dry cleaner isn’t always a quick stop, especially if any unexplained marks or stains appear on your clothes. And some chemicals used at specific dry cl ...
• Michael Savage and Wing Nut Daily Islamap ...
  Michael Savage began the Right Wing fruit cake feeding frenzy with his irresponsible and racist claims that it was Muslims who committed the Boston Marathon attack and that the US was engaged in a cover-up to hide this. Another claim in the Right Wing blogsphere was that the Saudi national w ...
• Kentucky Toyota plant in line to add 570 ...
  By Roger Alford Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky is in the running to produce an unspecified new vehicle model and add 570 permanent full-time workers at its Georgetown plant, according to details the carmaker provided to state officials to qualify f ...
• AMR Corp. reports smaller loss in fourth ...
  The parent of American Airlines narrowed its first-quarter loss as the carrier shrank its labor costs by $300 million as part of the bankruptcy process. AMR, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2011, renegotiated union contracts with its pilots, flight attendants, ground worker ...
• IMF's Lagarde: China's Yuan Moderately Un ...
  The IMF head said yuan was "moderately undervalued", echoing an earlier IMF report on the world's economic outlook. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said China has played a crucial role in running the world's economy, with the government more focused on the...

no frakking consensus

• A Few Crumbs of Pastry: More Nobel Nonsense
  What happens when you slice half a pie into 9,000 pieces? You get a few crumbs of pastry.
• Mark Jaccard, Counterfeit Nobel Laureate
  Canadian economist Mark Jaccard is falsely described as a Nobel laureate in the headline of a press release - and then on the front page of a newspaper.
• Oil Spills By the Numbers
  Opposition to oil pipelines has led to sharp increases in train transport. Not only is that method less safe, it costs significantly more.
• The Mysterious Wilderness International
  A Canadian charity for which German school kids are raising money is the furthest thing from transparent.
• The ‘Smart Storms’ Hockey Stick
  Humour is sometimes the best medicine.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 4/18/13 - Educators in over 3,750 schools in a ...
  www.procon.org - – Educators in over 3,750 schools in all 50 US states and 56 countries use ProCon.org. 819 elementary and middle schools, 1,926 high schools, and 1,010 colleges and universities use our free nonpartisan research to stimulate critical thinking. The newest international schools us ...
• 4/16/13 - Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Origin ...
  borngay.procon.org – Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Origin of Sexual Orientation Since 1990 – In our selection of 18 studies, researchers found anatomical and genetic differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals (different brain structures, inner ear anatomy, smell sensitivity, chromosom ...
• 4/16/13 - Should people become vegetarian?
  vegetarian.procon.org - Should people become vegetarian? - Read our updated pro and con arguments in this popular debate.
• 4/12/13 - Can childhood sexual abuse cause hom ...
  borngay.procon.org - UPDATED: Can childhood sexual abuse cause homosexuality?
• 4/12/13 - Should the US authorize the Keystone ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - Should the US authorize the Keystone XL pipeline to import tar sand oil from Canada?  On Mar. 1, 2013, the US State Department released the draft Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline.  Read background on the pi ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• Boston Marathon bomb suspect killed, second on ...
  One of the men wanted in connection with the Boston bombs has been killed by police, while another is on the run.
• Syria conflict a humanitarian catastrophe - UN
  Syria's two-year-old war has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, the United Nations says.
• Rolf Harris arrested on historic sex charges - ...
  Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has been arrested on historic sex charges, according Britain's Sun newspaper.
• Boston Marathon bomb suspect arrested - reports
  One of the men wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombs has reportedly been arrested after chaotic police chase through city.
• Pakistan police arrest former president Musharraf
  Pakistani police have arrested former president Pervez Musharraf at his home.

environment 360

• As Final U.S. Decision Nears, A Lively Debate ...
  In an online debate for Yale Environment 360, Elliot Entis, whose company has created a genetically modified salmon that may soon be for sale in the U.S., discusses the environmental and health impacts of this controversial technology with author Paul Greenberg, a critic of GM fish.
• Reducing Short-Lived Pollutants Could Slow Sea ...
  Reducing the emissions of four critical pollutants in the coming decades could at least temporarily slow the rate of global warming and reduce projected sea level rise by as much as 50 percent, according to a new study. Building on previous research that found that reducing the emissions of four ...
• Outdated Management, Drought Threaten Colorado ...
  Drought, mismanagement, and over-exploitation of its waters have made the Colorado River — the lifeblood of the arid Southwest and drinking water source for 36 million people — among the most vulnerable rivers in Pete McBrideE360 VIDEO: The Colorado River: Running Near Empty the U.S., accordin ...
• Interview: Using Citizen Power To Fund a U.S. ...
  Billy Parish is the president of Mosaic, an Internet “crowdfunding” service that lets individual investors put their money into commercial solar projects and earn a rate of return that Billy Parish currently beats anything offered by a bank. This month, California regulators authorized M ...
• U.S. Offshore Seismic Testing Threatens Large ...
  The proposed use of seismic air guns in the search for offshore oil and gas reserves along the U.S. East Coast could injure or kill nearly 140,000 marine animals annually and disrupt the vital activities of other species, Moira Brown/New England AquariumNorth Atlantic right whale a new study say ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Lies My Country Told Me
  Tags: lies propaganda government expose psyops online radio
• Tar Sands Watch
  Tags: water pollution ecosystem genocide woodlands
• Agriculture Defense Coalition
  Tags: agriculture food-poisoning
• HistoryWorld - History and Timelines
  Tags: History timeline Resources world studies SocialStudies reference ...
• nuclear-news
  Tags: nuclear radiation wastes hazards health

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Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• Boston Marathon Hate Crimes Fall Out Begins
  Attacks in New York and Malden.
• Referring to the Boston Bombing, Pat Robertson ...
  The fearmongers have been out in full force.
• Gohmert: Radical Muslims ‘being trained to com ...
  Louie Gohmert (R) on Wednesday connected the Monday bombings in Boston to the immigration debate.
• Fox regular jokes about killing all the Muslims
  He was being "sarcastic", but still said “Islamist apologist sphincters” didn’t get it.
• Racist David Norris Assaults Muslim Women with ...
  Brandishing a six inch knife he told her: "Take the hijab off. This is England, you are not allowed. Take the hijab off before I stab you."

Energy News

• ABC: Major magnitude 7.2 quake strikes off nor ...
• Wired: ‘Healthy debate’ about location of Fuku ...
• Emergency declared at U.S. nuclear plant after ...
• Giant Louisiana sinkhole swallows more land af ...
• Official: Crime scene investigation at site of ...

Japan Times

• Cabinet backs letting SDF use land vehicles fo ...
  The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday endorsed a revision to the Self-Defense Forces law that would allow emergency transportation of Japanese and ...
• FBI releases video images of Boston bombing su ...
  The FBI released video and photos Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings who were seen carrying backpacks and walking casually among spectators ...
• Crews seek survivors, bodies after Texas blast
  Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments ...
• NASA telescope discovers distant planets on wh ...
  NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right ...
• Record trade deficit in 2012
  Japan logs a record-high ¥8.17 trillion trade deficit for fiscal 2012 as the Senkakus clash with China and Europe’s debt crisis stifled exports.

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Breaking news: Your imported hockey helmet wil ...
  The Finance Department admits an oversight
• The Backbench Spring: Justin Trudeau joins the ...
  Liberals will move to change the rules around statements by members
• Mike Duffy: Voluntarily, if necessary
  'Words are important'
• The economy’s potential may be a little ...
  Stephen Gordon spots a quiet revision
• Book review: A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
  Power and spin in China as told by authors Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang

Making It Count - CCPA

• Canadians Aren’t Buying the Banksplaining
  So, am I the only parent of small children struck by the familiar tone of RBC’s Temporary Foreign Worker damage control message fiasco? In a CBC interview that was basically a clinic for how not to do PR, Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji’s attempt at banksplaining sounded suspiciously ...
• 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 ...

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

• Energy, Food Interests Compete for Water in Dr ...
  “A drought in Vietnam has uncovered tensions between water users in the country’s energy and agricultural sectors, Radio Free Asia reported. Despite a directive from the Prime Minister, the operator of a hydropower dam has refused to send more water downstream to drought-hit farms. “ ...
• 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 ...

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

• you proved you are owned and not by the majori ...
  …yes, Jeff … you proved you are owned and not by the majority of Arizona citizens who elected you … rather by a fringe element apparently lacking simple human kindness…   Mark Kelly: Americans for Responsible Solutions will replace Sen. Jeff Flake   Posted: 17 Apr 2013 09:41 AM PDT…Pos ...
• world bank$ters are salivating licking their l ...
    …and if true … America’s military industrial corporate congressional complex along the world bank$ters are salivating licking their lip$ waiting for the profit$… North Korea promises to attack South without warning 04-15-2013  •  The RawStory.com North Korea’s military Tue ...
• what makes you think these records referenced ...
  …what makes you think these records referenced in the article below were ever privileged and confidential … ever heard of the IRS … or FBI … or CIA … how about Homeland Security … Patriot Act …? From … NaturalNews I know things are crazy right now with the Boston marathon bombing investigation a ...
• do not think corporate control of drugs with b ...
  …do not think corporate control of drugs with ble$$ing from the bank$ters and Congre$$ will go quietly into the night… Winding down the War on Drugs 04-16-2013  •  http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com  Nevada voters approved medical marijuana at the polls, placing it in the state constit ...
• yet America wants the rest of the world to acc ...
  …yet America wants the rest of the world to accept the bullshit that gave “W” victory in 2000 … as well as his WMD smoke and mirror  lead up to invading Iraq …upon what pedestal of integrity is America speaking …   US Won’t Accept Venezuela Election Result, Says Full Recount Stil ...

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

• Ears adapt to high noise levels - research
  The temporary hearing loss from an outing at a noisy nightclub may not indicate damage to our ears as traditionally thought, new research shows.University of Auckland scientists and colleagues overseas have found that the temporary...
• Plan puts volcano views at risk
  Sweeping views of Auckland's volcanic cones risk being violated by new planning rules, critics say.They fear long-protected view shafts to Mt Eden, One Tree Hill and Rangitoto and other peaks will be interrupted if council planners...
• 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...

The Bovine

• “Fresh Milk Food Politics” — Raw Milk My ...
  Thanks to Raoul Bedi, BASc, for writing up these detailed summaries of the proceedings from the April 6th “Fresh Milk Food Politics” event in Vancouver. I – Introduction: In Part 1 of this report  about the recent “Fresh Milk Food … Continue reading →
• “Fresh Milk Food Politics” — Raw Milk My ...
  Thanks to Raoul Bedi, BASc, for writing up these detailed summaries of the proceedings from the April 6th “Fresh Milk Food Politics” event in Vancouver. I – Introduction: In Part 1 of this report  about the recent “Fresh Milk Food … Continue reading →
• Video interviews with Fresh Milk Food Politics ...
  Via Rawmilkconsumer.ca These interviews are from the April 6th Fresh Milk Food Politics conference in Vancouver BC. The interviews are by Kari Simpson of Road Kill Radio.com: Michael Schmidt Nadine Ijaz Other interviews with lawyers Jason Gratl and Karen Selick, … Continue reading →
• Video interviews with Fresh Milk Food Politics ...
  Via Rawmilkconsumer.ca These interviews are from the April 6th Fresh Milk Food Politics conference in Vancouver BC. The interviews are by Kari Simpson of Road Kill Radio.com: Michael Schmidt Nadine Ijaz Other interviews with lawyers Jason Gratl and Karen Selick, … 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Excel Spreadsheets, Krugman, and a Question of ...
  In 2010 paper Growth in a Time of Debt and again in a book entitled This Time is Different, Harvard economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart presented the idea that when a country's ratio of debt to gross domestic product reaches 90% lower economic growth is on the horizon. However, Rogoff ...
• Merkel Needs Opposition Party Votes to Pass Cy ...
  Germany approved the Cyprus bailout on Thursday as expected. However, Merkel required votes from the SPD and Green Party, to do so. One might not understand the implications when reading the Wall Street Journal report Germany Approves Cyprus Bailout. Germany's parliament on Thursday vote ...
• Switzerland to Hold Referendum Banning its Cen ...
  In Swiss law, private citizens can put forth any initiative that can gather 100,000 signatures. A campaign by the Swiss People's Party to "Save our Swiss Gold" gathered 106,052 signatures so a vote will be coming up. Switzerland is to hold a referendum on a popular measure that would ban t ...
• Spain's Community Debt Tops €42 Billion as Unp ...
  If you don't have the money, and cannot borrow the money, and cannot print the money, what can you do? The easy to understand answer is "you do not pay the bills" at least on time. This has been happening all over Spain, but particularly Madrid. Via Mish-modified Google translate from Libre ...
• Is the Fed Printing Money?
  Here's a seemingly simple question for you: "Is the Fed Printing Money?" I suspect most of you will reply an emphatic yes, but some of you will say no. Before I give you my take, please ponder a similar question: "Is inflation or deflation coming?" I posed the inflation question to th ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 18 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The Reality Principle -Episode 25
  “Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil” with Stephen Lendman This week, Eric sits down with journalist and blogger Stephen Lendman to discuss some of the most pressing political and economic issues of the first part of 2013. Eric and Stephen provide their analysis of the legacy of Hugo Chavez and the ...
• Drug-War Homicides Spiking Under Mexican Presi ...
  Mexico-based Private Security Firm’s Intelligence Shows Big Jump in Murders, Political Assassinations Since December 2012 By Bill Conroy The administration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has made it a priority to divert the media’s focus from the drug war and toward his economic efforts ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  An Economic NATO Have you heard of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership? It’s been discussed for a few years by top-level politicians, corporate associations and think tanks, and was formally announced by President Obama in February of this year. Still haven’t heard of ...
• The EyeOpener- Blowing the Whistle on the NSA
  Thanks to truth-telling insiders, we not know that the NSA has consistently and systematically broken the law in its surveillance activities, and in fact that these programs started before 9/11, which served merely as a justification for bringing them into the public spotlight. Sadly, if unsurpr ...

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

• Greek Shipowners Play Russian Roulette With Dr ...
  (Bloomberg) — Greek ship owners, who control more vessels than those of any other country, are buying the most iron-ore carriers since before the global recession, seizing on plunging prices [...]
• European Parliament Rejects Proposal for Ship ...
  The European Parliament on Thursday backed plans that would help make the scrapping of old ships safer, but voted against a proposal for a recycling fund financed by a levy.
• USS Freedom Arrives in Singapore on Maiden Ove ...
  The U.S. Navy's first littoral combat ship, USS Freedom (LCS 1), has arrived in Singapore, highlighting the next phase of her deployment to Southeast Asia.
• Why the National Ocean Policy Matters
  Investing in our ocean’s health will help not only respond to future disasters, but also better withstand their impacts.
• Port of Tampa Cruise Terminal Evacuated Due to ...
  The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a suspicious package found near a Royal Caribbean cruise ship at the Port of Tampa. The Sheriff’s office said that a canine team [...]

Press TV

• Iran principlists name nominees
  Two Iranian principlist parties have nominated their prospective candidates for the forthcoming presidential election in June.
• Boston suspects not linked to Chechnya
  Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov says two people suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings lived and studied in the US and have no connection to Chechnya.
• IMF urges UK to ease austerity drive
  The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde has urged British Chancellor George Osborne to rethink his austerity plans amid weak economic figures.
• UK govt. rapped for Shell intervention
  The London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, has hit out at the British government’s intervention in a US court case against oil giant Shell over human rights abuses.
• Morsi fans clash with opponents in Cairo
  Supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have clashed with anti-government protesters rallying outside the Supreme Court in central Cairo to demand judicial reforms.

SciDev.net

• Sustainable intensification 'can work for Afri ...
  To ensure sustainable food production in Africa, farmers must be involved in agricultural research and development, a global panel reports.
• In Perspective: What really holds back Islamic ...
  Conservative traditions, rather than religious belief, seem to be the main barrier to modern science in Muslim countries, says David Dickson.
• China plans research centres to aid developing ...
  The Chinese Academy of Sciences is to open new centres in the developing world to promote science cooperation and training.
• Using innovation to assist Tanzania's craft firms
  Tanzanian government funding aims to help weavers, wood carvers and furniture makers profit from science, says George Achia.
• Aerosols confirmed rising over India
  A new ground study confirms a trend in tiny polluting particles rising over India.

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

• Strange properties observed
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• Insects surviving extreme conditions
  Transcript will be on the site shortly...
• Other habitable planets?
  Transcript will be on the site shortly...
• HIV in breastmilk
  The risk of HIV spread between a breastfeeding mother and her infant is strongly linked to weaning, new research has shown. About 6% of the babies of untreated HIV-positive mothers will test positiv...
• Chemical ear defenders
  Australian researchers have identified a chemical signal that shuts off hearing to protect against loud sounds. Manipulating this same system might be a way to combat age related and occupational deaf...

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