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Johnoldephartte  Monday, March 25, 2013 8:50:25 AM
BTW I missed it at first. Note the Olaf Koenders quip about a cold Europe. We currently have cooling in Europe coincident with a warming Arctic. That also supposedly goes with change/dissipation in deepwater conveyor currents of heat from the Gulf of Mexico...where oil is poured on the water...and corexit. Plus there are scantly reports of a lack of storm activity over the Gulf of Mexico. ( likely a good thing considering what is on the ocean floor ). And I recall a report of an Italian physicist noting that current change roughly coincident with the BP blowout. So : what if the warming from the Gulf has been reset into an alternative flow pattern ?
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Dr. John v. Kampennepmak2000  Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:21:55 PM
I continue to witness a decline in solar output, hence less 'warming' of the oceans that are our heat-tanks. We had hurricanes at the pole that shifted ice around, undersea volcanoes working under the Arctic etc. What I do know is that our planet is cooling. And for some time already. A natural cycle to my opinion. Whether the Gulf stream has to do with this is uncertain and cause of controversies. http://iceagenow.info/
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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Maratón de Boston: patriotas y activistas por ...
    Publicado el 19 de abril de 2013 Amy Goodman El lunes fue el Día del Patriota en Massachusetts, que conmemora el comienzo de la Guerra de la Independencia de Estados Unidos en 1775 en dos batallas celebradas en ese estado. También es el día en que se celebra la maratón anual de Boston, ...
  • El mundo en 5 minutos
    Para más información acerca de lo que pasó en el mundo en esta semana, visita nuestro Resumen Semanal - Autoridades identifican al menos a un sospechoso en videos de maratón de Boston Autoridades federales anunciaron el primer gran avance en la búsqueda de sospechosos tras los aten ...
  • Part 2: Robert Greenwald on Film "War on Whist ...
    We continue our discussion with filmmaker Robert Greenwald about his new documentary, "War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State." Click here to watch Part 1 of this interview. The film looks at four whistleblowers who had their lives practically destroyed ...
  • Peace Activists and Patriots at the Boston Mar ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Monday was Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts, celebrating the day the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It is also the day of the annual Boston Marathon, which will now, sadly, go down in history as yet anothe ...
  • Part 2: "Keeping Hope Alive" in Somalia with H ...
    In part two of our interview with Somali human rights activist and physician, Dr. Hawa Abdi, she describes how thousands of Somalis were killed in the 1993 attack in Mogadishu that is best known for killing 18 elite U.S. special forces. She also discusses her book, Keeping Hope Alive , which s ...

Solari

  • Jon Rappoport and Catherine discuss Hamilton S ...
    “If you’re going through hell, keep going!” – Winston Churchill Map of HUD Defaulted Mortgages in South Central Los Angeles, California (Map courtesy The Hamilton Securities Group) By Catherine Austin Fitts This week on the Solari Report, I join Jon Rappoport to discuss the ...
  • Wagner – “Tristan und Isolde &#821 ...
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  • April Solari Toon!
  • Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Report w ...
    Transcript of Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Larry Pratt is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Franklin You had a very elegant way of explaining how I stay out of bar fights. Catherine Yes? Franklin You know how to stay out of bar fights, right? Leave the ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “We all live in the South Bronx because that neighborhood is the unavoidable proof that American civilization can stop. It can stop literally right around the corner, and if it does nobody can do a thing about it. . . . ” - Michael Ventura Related Reading: Violence Haunts Boston Ar ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Each Piece of Mark Jupiter’s Reclaimed Furnitu ...
    As a fourth-generation New York builder, Mark Jupiter has plenty of stories to tell, but instead of writing in a journal, Jupiter shares his tales through each of his reclaimed furniture pieces, which he'll be showcasing this May at BKLYN Designs 2013.    
  • Win a Sustainable Cassia Weekender Bag from Ca ...
    Spring has sprung, which means it's time to dust off your sandals and emerge from your cave, but you'll need company. We've teamed up with Canopy Verde to give away one of their awesome Cassia weekender bags which are worth a whopping $199. Made with organic    
  • Bien Hecho to Bring Elegant Reclaimed Furnitur ...
    We're gearing up for BKLYN Designs 2013, which kicks off in DUMBO on May 10, and one the designers we're most excited to check out is woodworking studio Bien Hecho, which was founded by John Randall in 2006. The Brooklyn-based studio produces gorgeous and understated    
  • Groundbreaking Lifewrap Saves Thousands of Wom ...
    Every four minutes a woman dies from obstetric hemorrhaging usually caused during childbirth. Appalled by these statistics, Dr. Sullen Miller, Director of Safe Motherhood Programs at UCSF Bixby Center for Global and Reproductive Health and Policy designed    
  • Aellon Gives Shipwrecks New Life in Unique Fur ...
    When it comes to finding unique materials for their gorgeous handcrafted interiors, New York-based design firm Aellon has carved out a special niche - with shipwrecks. Although their team uses regular reclaimed or sustainably-sourced timber as well, their    

Pogue's Posts

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The Chechen Connection
    Thursday night, the FBI released photographs of two suspects wanted in connection with Monday’s bombing of the Boston Marathon. Shortly afterward, Boston police identified two men suspected of the attack, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Over the course of several chaotic early morning h ...
  • Useless Speculation on Twitter Standard Time
    Since the news broke this morning that the likely perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing are two brothers from Chechnya, speculation has been rampant about their ties to militant groups there. That zero evidence supports that proposition seems irrelevant. We're on Twitter Standard Time and ...
  • Presidents Are Breaking the U.S. Foreign Service
    Susan R. Johnson is president of the American Foreign Service Association. Ronald E. Neumann, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, is president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, where Thomas R. Pickering, a former undersecretary of state and PSA Advisory Board member, is chairman of the ...
  • An Actual Expert on the Caucasus….
    Charles King at The Daily Beast: read more
  • Spending on Overseas Bases, Drones over Boston ...
    Donna Cassata, “Report: US Footing Greater Bill for Overseas Bases,” Associated Press, April 17, 2013. The United States is footing more of the bill for overseas bases in Germany, Japan and South Korea even as the military reduces the number of American troops in Europe and strategically reposit ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Why Did Gun Control Fail?
      Gage Skidmore/Flickr Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. With near-unanimous support from the public, how did President Obama’s plan for expanded background checks fail? The easy ...
  • The Chechen Connection
      Thursday night, the FBI released photographs of two suspects wanted in connection with Monday’s bombing of the Boston Marathon. Shortly afterward, Boston police identified two men suspected of the attack, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Over the course of several chaotic early mornin ...
  • Ringside Seat: How Much Bull Could a Sen. Chuc ...
    When you learned that the suspects in the Boston bombing were ethnic Chechens who came to the United States as children, you may have had any number of thoughts. Chances are, though, that "I'm just glad Obamacare hasn't taken effect, otherwise they might have gotten health insurance subsidies" ...
  • Don't Leave the House
    At 5:30 a.m., we awakened to the ping of texts from friends around the country asking if we were okay. That’s how we learned that the Arsenal Mall in Watertown—the town a mile away where I lived for 20 years and the mall where we do our house and garden and video-game shopping—is crawling with ...
  • Substituting Identity for Motivation
    Let's be honest and admit that everyone had a hope about who the Boston bomber would out to be. Conservatives hoped it would be some swarthy Middle Easterner, which would validate their belief that the existential threat from Islam is ongoing and that their preferred policies are the best way t ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • In Wake of ID of Boston Bombers, a Look at Jih ...
    With the news that the Boston Marathon bombers may have Chechnyan roots, attention is turning to the threat of “self-radicalized” Muslims in the United States. In the fall of 2011, the Intelligence Report ran a cover story and several sidebars on that phenomenon that may be useful to ...
  • Extremists Blame Favorite Bogeymen for Boston ...
    Who was responsible for the deadly Boston terrorist attack? The Muslims did it. No, it was an illegal immigrant. Think again – it was a gay guy. Wait, you missed the key signs: Our own government once again pulled off an act of covert terror to promote its nefarious aims. Fingers have been point ...
  • Judge Sentences Mosque Arsonist, Likens Crime ...
    The “American psyche” was damaged when an armed arsonist set fire to a Toledo mosque, much like the impact of Monday’s bombings in Boston, a federal judge said in sentencing an Indiana man to 20 years in prison. Randolph Linn, 52, of St. Joe, Ind., was also ordered to pay restitution of more tha ...
  • White Supremacists Arrested in Tennessee Murde ...
    Two white supremacists are in custody and two more are being sought in the beating death in Tennessee of a volunteer firefighter who authorities say was affiliated with the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations. At least one of the four suspects is reportedly a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a prison-based, ...
  • American Renaissance Speakers Call for White H ...
    Over 150 white nationalists gathered yesterday at Montgomery Bell State Park outside Nashville, Tenn., for the American Renaissance conference. This year’s event featured new speakers and a noticeably younger audience, with half the crowd raising their hands after Jared Taylor, emcee of the even ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU Statement on Capture of Boston Bombing S ...
    NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union reacted to the apprehension of the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing and statements from federal officials that he would be questioned without being read his Miranda rights.read more
  • Boston Bombings: Reflection from Watertown
    JOSEPH GERSON, jgerson at afsc.org Gerson is director of programs for the American Friends Service Committee in New England. He said today: “It’s been an interesting 18 hours, since we heard the helicopters overhead. I live in Watertown, about a mile and a half from the 20-block are ...
  • Boston Bombings: Reflection from Watertown
    JOSEPH GERSON, jgerson at afsc.org Gerson is director of programs for the American Friends Service Committee in New England. He said today: “It’s been an interesting 18 hours, since we heard the helicopters overhead. I live in Watertown, about a mile and a half from the 20-block are ...
  • On Third Anniversary of BP Disaster, the Story ...
    Note: A demonstration will be held at 1 p.m. CDT Saturday, April 20, at the Amphitheater at Washington Artillery Park in New Orleans. Demonstrators will spell out the messages of the memorial with their bodies: “11” for the workers we remember, “200” for the miles of coas ...
  • On Third Anniversary of BP Disaster, the Story ...
    Note: A demonstration will be held at 1 p.m. CDT Saturday, April 20, at the Amphitheater at Washington Artillery Park in New Orleans. Demonstrators will spell out the messages of the memorial with their bodies: “11” for the workers we remember, “200” for the miles of coas ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Running on Empathy
    Frida Berrigan The War Resisters League Track Club in Worcester, Mass. (WRL)I started running after a bad break-up. With more than a decade of relationship over, there was a lot of uncertainty and questions. How to heal? How to hold on to f ...
  • Earth Day 2013: Land for Food Under Attack Wor ...
    Sally Miller As Earth Week 2013 rolls around, a frenzy of land grabbing threatens our food supply, Indigenous land use practices, access to water and the future of farming. In recent years the focus on speculation in food prices caused riot ...
  • Bangladeshi Activists Bring Fight to Wal-Mart’ ...
    Michelle Chen The day after the enormous fire in Bangladesh in November, Kalpona Akter holds up a garment bearing Wal-Mart's brand, "Faded Glory," which she found in the ashes inside the Tazreen factory (Photo by Bangladesh Center ...
  • America Cannot Assert Moral Authority While Gu ...
    Photo: Justin Norman/flickrIn 2009, defending the promise he made to close Guantánamo Bay, President
  • Why We Must Protect Next Year’s Boston Maratho ...
    Dave Zirin Photo: Vjeran Pavic/flickrIf emerging victorious after being down 3-0 to the Yankees in the 2004 playoffs should have taught us anything, it’s that the people of Boston are tough as hell and never lose faith. After Monday& ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Horacio Cartes wins Paraguay election
    Rightwinger from Colorado party tied to big agricultural interests sweeps to popular victory despite stain of corruption scandalsParaguayan voters have elected the rightwing tobacco tycoon Horacio Cartes as president after a campaign marked by allegations of vote-buying, crime and homophobia.Des ...
  • Life on Mars to become a reality in 2023, Dutc ...
    Thousands apply to become one of four astronauts selected to set up a human colony in a plan that comes with snagsA few months before he died, Carl Sagan recorded a message of hope to would-be Mars explorers, telling them: "Whatever the reason you're on Mars is, I'm glad you're there. And I wish ...
  • MPs look lazy with short parliamentary hours, ...
    Spending committee's Labour chair urges coalition to extend schedule at Westminster as 'it feels as if we are hardly working'MPs risk accusations of laziness and poor value for money because the number of hours they work in Westminster appear to be shrinking, according to the senior MP responsib ...
  • Tory councillor resigns after remarks on Londo ...
    John Cherry lambasted for 'racist' comments regarding impact of moving inner-city pupils to West Sussex schoolsA Conservative councillor has resigned from the party after "unacceptable" remarks he made about the prospect of minority ethnic children from London studying in West Sussex.John Cherry ...
  • Glencore traded with Iranian supplier to nucle ...
    Company says it 'ceased transactions prior to EU sanctions' when it learned of links with Atomic Energy Organisation of IranOne of Britain's biggest companies has made millions of pounds selling goods to Iran, including to a state-owned firm that supplies the regime's nuclear programme.Glencore, ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan interpreters to arrive in NZ today
    Thirty Afghan interpreters and their families are expected to arrive in Auckland today. The Afghan interpreters played an essential role in NZ's mission in Bamiyan Province, but translators feared they would become a target for those opposed to western presence in the country when New ...
  • Afghan interpreters could receive asylum
    David Cameron has been given three broad options and is expected to make a decision on Tuesday that could affect up to 1,100 Afghan nationals, including 600 interpreters, The Guardian reported. Those Afghans could be in grave danger once NATO forces leave Afghanistan in 2014, The Guardian repor ...
  • Pakistani Taliban Violently Reshape the Ballot
    NOWSHERA, Pakistan - When Shahid Khan started talking, his gunmen clambered onto a school's rooftop, scanning the surrounding hills with flashlights, anticipating a possible attack. Below them, Mr Khan, a candidate for his region's provincial assembly, addressed potential voters - poor fa ...
  • Soldier completes Afghan marathon
    21 April 2013 As thousands of runners took to the streets of London, a soldier overcame sizzling heat to run his own marathon in Afghanistan - completing the "struggle" on a ...
  • Peace-prize winning girl shot by Taliban to be ...
    After being targeted by the Taliban for speaking out about women's rights, Malala Yousafzai remains in the hospital, recovering from surgery to remove a bullet from her neck. NBC's Amna Nawaz ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • The Copy Culture Cryptic Crossword
    I don't know if we have any fans of cryptic crosswords in the Techdirt audience, but if so, this one's for you. I've been putting this together slowly on and off over the past few months, and now it's ready: the Copy Culture Cryptic. We're posting it this week in lieu of the standard "favorites ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Three Kickstarters From Musicia ...
    Since we began the awesome stuff series of posts about cool crowdfunded projects to check out each week, they've mostly focused on cool physical objects. However, obviously, we talk a lot about music and musicians doing cool things online, and it just so happens that three different musicians t ...
  • MPAA Tells US Government To Screw Over The Bli ...
    Just this morning we were pointing out the MPAA's long history of attacking fair use. We noted that this often happened in international fora, where the MPAA and others would seek to block fair use in treaties and push rules that would limit or reject the possibility of fair use. And, just lik ...
  • Prenda Now In Trouble In Another Case In Calif ...
    While Prenda is dealing with trouble down in Southern California (and Florida, and Illinois, and... ), it's run into some more problems in Northern California as well, where it tried to dismiss one of the AF Holdings cases, but the judge asked lawyer Paul Duffy (who stepped in for Brett Gibbs to ...
  • Bob Goodlatte Receives Most Awkward Serenade E ...
    House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte has sort of an up and down history when it comes to technology and innovation. He made some rather unfortunate comments after the SOPA debates, ignoring the public's place in talks. On the other hand, he was among the lawmakers who wanted to make unlocking ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • America’s willingness to be terrified by terrorism
    Numerous times this week, the question has been raised about whether the perpetrators of the Marathon bombing might have been inspired by Inspire — the online magazine published by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Perhaps a more pertinent question is this: in what ways might events of th ...
  • Half of Syrian population ‘will need aid by en ...
    The Guardian reports: More than half the population of Syria is likely to be in need of aid by the end of the year, the UN high commissioner for refugees has warned, while labelling the ever-worsening crisis as the most serious the global body has dealt with. António Guterres, who has led the UN ...
  • Last British resident in Guantánamo ‘may never ...
    The Observer reports: The last British resident being held in Guantánamo Bay may never be allowed to return to his family in London because of an alleged “secret deal” between US authorities, Saudi Arabia and the British security services. Shaker Aamer, 46, has been in the Cuban dete ...
  • The people who fled the terror in Chechnya
    Joshua Foust writes: Early reports suggest that the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are ethnically Chechen. Media reports suggest their family lived in Chechnya in the 1990s and later moved to neighboring Dagestan and then Kyrgyzstan. The Tsarnaevs moved to ...
  • A ‘whom do you hang with?’ map of America
    Robert Krulwich writes: Look at the center of this map, at the little red dot that marks Kansas City. Technically, Kansas City is at the edge of Missouri, but here on this map it’s in the upper middle section of a bigger space with strong blue borders. We don’t have a name for this b ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Sunday silliness: zombie wood
    Josh writes: Over at Climate Audit, Steve has been looking at the resurfacing of some Hockey Stick science papers, and the fun continues here and here. Cartoons by Josh
  • Dehumidifying the Tropics
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I once had the good fortune to fly over an amazing spectacle, where I saw all of the various stages of emergent phenomena involving thunderstorms. It happened on a flight over the Coral Sea from … Continue reading →
  • Lawsuit challenges California cap and trade pr ...
    While the EU carbon trading market began its death spiral this week, much like the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) where it ended up at a nickel per ton when the exchange died and closed per good, CARB’s director, Mary Nichols, … Continue reading →
  • Efficacy Of Green House Gas Forcing Compared T ...
    Guest post by Bob Irvine SUMMARY This paper outlines an idea or hypothesis that should be discussed. This idea has the huge advantage of being supported by all the available data both from over the last thousand years or more, … Continue reading →
  • Gergis made to order IPCC zombie climate science
    Steve McIntyre points out how climate science errors return from the dead as zombies: PAGES2K, Gergis and Made-for-IPCC Journal Articles March 15, 2013 was the IPCC deadline for use in AR5 and predictably a wave of articles have been accepted. The … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Bioengineers Build Open Source Language for Pr ...
    Drew Endy wants to build a programming language for the body. Endy is the co-director of the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology — BIOFAB, for short — where he’s part of a team that’s developing a language that will use genetic data to actually program biological cells. That may ...
  • Scientists map elusive 3-D structure of telome ...
    Like finally seeing all the gears of a watch and how they work together, researchers from UCLA and UC Berkeley have, for the first time ever, solved the puzzle of how the various components of an entire telomerase enzyme complex fit together and function in a three-dimensional structure. The thr ...
  • Scientists ‘read dreams’ using bra ...
    Scientists have found a way to “read” dreams, a study suggests. Researchers in Japan used MRI scans to reveal the images that people were seeing as they entered into an early stage of sleep. Writing in the journal Science, they reported that they could do this with 60% accuracy. The ...
  • Autism Rate Rises To 1 In 50 Children – Cause ...
    In 2002 the Center for Disease Control estimated that autism affected about 1 in 150 children. By 2012 the CDC estimate had increased to 1 in 88. Now, according to the latest revision of the estimate recently released, autism affects 1 in 50 children. That’s a phenomenal 300 percent increase in ...
  • See-through brain

CFACT

  • Einar Du Rietz, R.I.P.
    CFACT is sad to learn of the untimely passing of our friend and colleague Einar Du Rietz of Sweden. Einar wrote a long-standing blog for CFACT Europe. He was a member of several CFACT delegations to UN climate conferences. Einar loved individual freedom and it is to that he dedicated his life ...
  • Listen Now: Climate Depot’s Morano Unleashed i ...
    CFACT's Marc Morano unleashed on global warming in a one hour interview with UK podcaster.
  • Doubletalk, double standards are SOP for Ameri ...
    Americans must no longer ignore false realities and double standards that threaten our health and prosperity.... The examples are legion. It’s fortunate that ruling elites have double standards, or they wouldn’t have any standards at all. Legislators and regulators would never tolerate such be ...
  • Rockefeller Foundation’s anti-oil crusad ...
    Canadian researcher Vivian Krause wrote, “A large part of Tides Canada’s funding comes from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. These are Th ...
  • Don’t be fooled: a carbon tax will hurt ...
    From a social cost perspective, carbon taxes are, by nature, regressive, meaning that they inflict largest pain burdens upon low-income households. As Marlo Lewis observes, this presents a “Catch-22” dilemma for any Republicans. If on one hand, they offer to support a carbon tax in exchange for ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • US Antares Rocket Makes First Flight
    The Antares rocket, designed in US to carry a commercial space freighter to the International Space Station (ISS), blasted off early on Monday Moscow time from the launch pad in the Wallops Island.    
  • Workers Rescued After Siberian Coalmine Accident
    All workers trapped by a ceiling collapse in a mine in southwestern Siberia’s Kemerovo region, were safely taken to surface on Sunday evening, a police source told RIA Novosti.    
  • Main News of April 21
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours    
  • Russia Scrapes into Fed Cup Final
    Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina completed Russia's day-long comeback against Slovakia in their Fed Cup semifinal, beating Daniela Hantuchova and Dominika Cibulkova in the doubles rubber in Moscow on Sunday.    
  • Afghanistan Journal: Fighting the Soviets, Take 2
    The Soviet veterans defeated the Afghan side 1-0 in a football game in Kabul on Thursday. I was deeply embarrassed.    

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • The incomplete logic of gold investors
    Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ...
  • Troika's plan for Cyprus: destroy the village ...
    The economic crisis in Cyprus began with a depressingly familiar story: bank gambles on risky debt, loses its bet, goes bust and needs a bailout. It very quickly took what was to me1 a bewildering turn: Instead of a central bank cranking up the money printing machines until smoke billowed from ...
  • Most recent vintage of eulogies for rock music ...
    I’m a big rock music fan, so a couple recent articles on it have stuck with me. The first was from a couple weeks ago, and for the life of me I can’t track it down now. The gist of it was that the era of great guitarists is passing. The most celebrated are all old in rock and roll ...
  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Calls for ...
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  • Is Organic Better? Ask a Fruit Fly
    When Ria Chhabra, a middle school student near Dallas, heard her parents arguing about the value of organic foods, she was inspired to create a science fair project to try to resolve the debate.Click here to read this article
  • Why I Hope the Boston Bomber is a White American
    The identity of the person behind the Boston bombings will strongly affect our response. Click here to read this article
  • The Accelerating Climate Crisis: Tweak or Tran ...
    "There are no experts." This was my biggest take-away message from the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, held in Denver recently. Although it was my second major climate change adaptation conference in three weeks, I wasn't sure what to expect. Click here to read this article
  • Update - Help Us Find the Top Ten ‘Right-to-Kn ...
    We all know which companies and brands spent millions last year in California to defeat our right to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We’ve outed them, criticized them and boycotted them. Now it’s time to support those companies, large and small, that do support our right to kno ...

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee ...
    Examining the federal governments policies and actions related to the capture, detention and treatment of suspected terrorists during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ten Years On...
    Riverbend has finally made an update note on her famous blog about her family in Baghdad at the time of the US invasion Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • US belittles Iran's nuclear offer
    Herding Iran to violate the NPT through abridging the 3rd Pillar of the NPT as per the NPT TRAP ( Transcend Media, where disarmament proponents are 'the real danger' say nuclear armed nations ) in a propagandized semi-covert and economic war ( sanctions ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Engineering Consent Through Propaganda
    The dominant framework is entirely political in that it dominates by excluding and marginalizing dissenting evidence. Ecosystems around us are crashing and we do not see the roles of synergy and interdependence, bio-accumulation, and bio-magnification: Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wel ...
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    The success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $1.7 billion today. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • GMOs in USDA Organic Food
    It seems that “organic” does not mean “safe from tampering.” What sorts of “business interruptions” justify using non-organically produced annual seeds? I’m willing to bet that the dramatic effects on crops due to drought from climate change easily warrant such activity, under this clause; howe ...
  • 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?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Obama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weap ...
    ShareThisObama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weapons plan emerges --Plan to spend $10bn on updating nuclear bombs goes against 2010 pledge not to deploy new weapons, say critics 21 Apr 2013 Barack Obama has been accused of reneging on his disarmament pledges after it emerged the administra ...
  • Boston bombing suspect still hospitalized, guarded
    ShareThisBoston bombing suspect still hospitalized, guarded 21 Apr 2013 As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators' plan to quest ...
  • After Boston bombings, crucial military unit s ...
    ShareThisAfter Boston bombings, crucial military unit staying at Fort Hamilton 19 Apr 2013 The U.S. government will not be moving the National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Civic Support Team (WMD-CST) from Fort Hamilton any time soon. The day after five members of the team provided critic ...
  • North Korea moves two more missile launchers: ...
    ShareThisNorth Korea moves two more missile launchers: report 20 Apr 2013 North Korea has moved two short-range missile launchers to its east coast, apparently indicating it is pushing ahead with preparations for a test launch, a South Korean news agency reported on Sunday. An unidentified South ...
  • London Marathon to run under heightened security
    ShareThisLondon Marathon to run under heightened security 21 Apr 2013 The London Marathon takes place Sunday amid a heightened police presence following the Boston Marathon bomb attacks -- and a moment of silence to remember those killed and wounded. World-class athletes and fun-runners alike ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • US Border Security - Immigratio​n, Crime, and ...
    19 April 2013 Written by: General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.) Below is both the Statememt for the Record and the PDF presentation from General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.)   Click the icon to the left to Download and view the above document. Click the icon to the left to Download ...
  • FBR Report: Attacks Continue as the Burma Army ...
    Kachin State, Burma 13 April 2013 Written by: Free Burma Rangers Map showing area of this report. BA – Burma Army activity. Below is a list of Burma Army activities in Kachin State and Northern Shan State in April, including attacks, troop movements and resupply operations. 11 April 2013 •B ...
  • FBR Report: The Burning of Karenni Camp 2 And ...
    13 April, 2013 Karenni State, Burma Written By: Free Burma Rangers Dear friends, On Friday afternoon, 22 March, a fire devastated the Mae Surin Refugee Camp, home to more than 3,605 people. The deadly fire killed 39 people and left 2300 homeless. The response of people wanting to help has bee ...
  • Come to Jamaica - Mon!
    09 April 2013 Crystal clear A good friend—who is a young former Marine Captain and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan—was taking a break from grad school when he headed to Jamaica. I emailed asking how his vacation went.  His answer…is a trip.  My friend's letter has been edited so that ...
  • Ammunition Atmospheric in America
    04 April 2013 I posed a question on Facebook about ammunition availability across the United States.  About 150 answers have come in so far: My Facebook Page

The Killing Train

  • The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview with Sudha ...
    [First published in Kafila: http://kafila.org/2013/04/20/the-bastar-land-grab-an-interview-with-sudha-bharadwaj/] This intervew with SUDHA BHARADWAJ of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha was conducted by JUSTIN PODUR in Raipur on 5 March 2013 JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you see the relationsh ...
  • To break a siege: A review of Nirmalangshu Muk ...
    [First published at kafila.org] http://kafila.org/2013/04/03/to-break-a-siege-justin-podur/#more-17722 This is a review by JUSTIN PODUR of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege (Pluto Press 2012) read more
  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...
  • Why the Taliban is unlikely to win
    KABUL – Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai two days ago. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the open. Ultimatel ...
  • Kerry in Kabul
    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a joint press conference in Kabul this evening. There were three main issues discussed. The first was an agreement for the US Forces to make a phased withdrawal from Wardak province. Announced five days ago, Wardak has been ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Police crack down on ‘unlawful’ gas pipeline p ...
    At least three people were detained and questioned by local authorities in Arakan state on Friday, for their alleged role in staging an unauthorised protest against the Chinese-backed Shwe Gas Pipeline
  • ‘Legal’ Burmese migrants still face exploitati ...
    Burmese migrants, who have arrived ‘legally’ in Thailand under a bilateral agreement between the two countries, continue to be systematically exploited and abused by their Thai employers, activists have warned
  • Japan’s PM meets Suu Kyi
    Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday and expressed his support for the country’s reforms.
  • Burma celebrates Thingyan
    Burma celebrates the Buddhist New Year Water Festival, Thingyan, which runs from 13-16 April. People celebrate by throwing water on each other to wash away the sins and bad luck from the previous year. Traditional dancing and music accompanies the festivities. The Buddhist New Year is also a rel ...
  • EU set to lift sanctions on Burma: reports
    The European Union is set to lift all remaining sanctions against Burma next week, except its arms embargo, to recognise the country’s "remarkable process of reform", according to news reports

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • USA: The Creator & Sustainer of Chechen Terrorism
    Boston Terror: Don’t Let the Media Fool You … Again- Climb Up the Chain and Meet the Real Masterminds of Global Terror. Here we go again- Déjà vu. Out of the blue we have a ‘terror event,’ a couple of pop-terrorists, and a new buzz-word nation-Chechnya. There they go again: USA Media tales made- ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 19 ...
    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 ...
  • Iran’s Gas Pipelines
    “Ultimately, in context of Eastern Mediterranean natural gas supplies, Syria is about China.” The conflict in Syria has insistently been tied to the interests of Iran and, to a lesser degree, to Russia. Little, however, has been said about China. Beijing has a major stake in the entire Syrian ve ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • FBI Intelligence Failure in Vetting Tsarnaev
    Today, the L.A. times reported chillingly that the FBI had received a report on Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamist proclivities from the Russian intelligence service before his 2012 trip to that country’s restive Muslim republics, Dagestan and Chechnya. Yet after examining his back ...
  • Boston Marathon Suspect Wounded, Arrested
    The worst appears over for the city of Boston as police arrested their final second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. He is 19 year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen of Chechen heritage.  He’d taken refuge in a covered boat in a Watertown backyard.  After another shootout, he ...
  • Possible Boston Marathon Suspects in Running G ...
    Tonight, there appears to be a major development in the Boston Marathon bombing case. Several hours ago, someone shot and killed an MIT security guard. This set off a vast manhunt for the killers. They apparently carjacked several vehicles including a State Police SUV, from which they threw expl ...
  • Haaretz Columnist Confirms Two Unarmed Palesti ...
    Recently, I wrote a post about two Palestinian teenagers murdered (Hebrew) by the IDF near Tulkarem. I said in my post that the IDF story that they were killed as they threw fire bombs at an IDF security post made little or no sense. Now, Gideon Levy not only confirms this, he adds an even more ...
  • Israeli Army Radio Manager Posts Racist Joke o ...
    The evening of Israel’s Memorial Day, when Israelis commemorate the sacrifices made by its soldiers to protect the homeland (and generally ignore the pain suffered by Palestinians), the manager of the military base that houses Israel’s Galey Tzahal (Army Radio), posted a racist joke ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • China After the Earthquake - Rescue Workers St ...
    Rescue teams in southwestern China continue to search for survivors of Saturday's earthquake, despite heavy rainstorms that have hampered the effort to reach victims.  A massive search and rescue effort is underway in Sichuan Province, a day after an earthquake flattened buildings and ...
  • Broken Borders - Boston is Reason for Urgency ...
    The Boston Marathon tragedy is a reason for Congress to move faster – not slower – to overhaul the nation's immigration system, according to two co-authors of a Senate reform package.Some conservatives on Capitol Hill have suggested Monday's deadly bombings – allegedly orchestrated by a pa ...
  • The Race for Natural Gas - Fracked Gas Far Mor ...
    Natural gas produced in the northeast's booming Marcellus shale region leads to far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than coal, a competing source of electric power, according to a new study by Exxon Mobil’s research arm.“We conclude that substantial [greenhouse gas] reductions and freshwater ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Unity Amid Carnage
    After more than 11 years, the fear is fresh but familiar: a shocking new attack has reminded us that no matter where we gather, someone somewhere wants to tell us we truly are not free. On a spring day at the Boston marathon — warmed by the big-ness of strangers cheering strangers, of enduranc ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - How U.S. Cities Can Pr ...
    Roughly a decade ago, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, FBI director Robert Mueller predicted that the United States would soon face the kinds of frequent small-scale bombings perpetrated frequently abroad by Hamas and Hezbollah. He considered the attacks nearly certain.For a decade, ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The Real Issue: How To Keep More Teenage Musli ...
    By Barry Rubin The lesson from the Boston Marathon bombings could not possibly be clearer. Yet few people, due to various complications, will address that real issue. Part of the problem is this. Most powerful institutions and people say that Islam is a religion of peace. There’s no ...
  • 2009 Stimulus Money Used For Nanny-State Lobby ...
    Way back in the beginning of the Obama attack on the economy the Progressive-controlled congress passed a $800 billion plus Keynesian stimulus that was supposed to take this country out of the recession.  All that pork was to be spent on shovel-ready program. Approximately $373 million w ...
  • BOSTON BOMBING UPDATE: CAPTURED-THE STANDOFF I ...
    For those of you who are reading this via the daily email..the updates from 8am-4pm can be found HERE --on the updates to the post sent out to you Friday AM As that page was getting long...new updates can be found below: As of 4pm police are still going door to door. (By the way I wond ...
  • UPDATE: Boston Bomber's Dad: If They Kill My ...
    One cop dead another critically wounded...please pray for them and their families. Right now we know that suspect #1 is dead and the surviving Boston bomber #2 (his brother) identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass (originally from Chechnya) is on the run.  ...
  • Whoever the Boston Bombers Are, The Radical Is ...
    By Barry Rubin Whoever perpetrated the terror attack in Boston, Americans has probably been underestimating the extent of the terror war against them and what has been its overwhelming single point of origin. This fact is not altered by the staging of at least two major attacks--on ...

Wind Watch

  • Wildlife researcher pleads guilty to unlawful ...
    United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that a Julian resident pled guilty today to the unlawful taking of a Golden Eagle, in violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, before the Honorable David H. Bartick, United States Magistrate Judge. At the time of the plea, wildlife re ...
  • Hunger protest against wind turbines continues
    Residents from Miaoli County’s Yuanli Township (苑裡), on the 11th day of a hunger strike, rallied yesterday outside the Executive Yuan, protesting against a project to build wind turbines near their homes. “I want to stress that we are not against green energy solutions. In fact, we fully support ...
  • Environmental groups sue federal agencies over ...
    Environmentalists who are suing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar over approval of a 200-MW wind farm in Nevada say regulators relied on a “one-sided” and “incomplete” environmental analysis to pursue a renewable energy project while “disregarding” other policies ...
  • Commissioners end county alternative energy zone
    After a number of meetings on the subject, the Van Wert County Board of Commissioners have decided to terminate the countywide energy zone designation originally approved in 2009 prior to the construction of wind farms in the county. The decision came a month-long series of meetings with townshi ...
  • Wisconsin lawmaker’s bill gives property ...
    MADISON – A state lawmaker who has stood at the forefront in the fight in what he asserts to be the real and present dangers of wind turbines on Tuesday plans to introduce a bill giving harmed property owners living next to the massive towers the right to sue for damages. Sen. Frank Lasee, R-De ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Brief Comments on the Boston Bombing
    “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” - Unknown That’s most of the necessary commentary, as Boston has already said they’ll be doing random backpack checks (unconstitutional on the face) tomorrow. I ...
  • Brief Comments on the Boston Bombing
    “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” - Unknown That’s most of the necessary commentary, as Boston has already said they’ll be doing random backpack checks (unconstitutional on the face) tomorrow. I ...
  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
    1) Almost everything you have more than someone else is because of where you were born, and who your parents were, including your genetic endowment and your life experiences.  Whether you believe in nature, nurture, or both, you don’t “deserve” squat. 2) Justification for havin ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • How Royals’ lawyer used Leveson, Lord Mc ...
    Daily Mail – Lawyers for Rolf Harris have used intimidating and potentially misleading tactics to stop The Mail on Sunday from naming the Australian entertainer in the investigation in the wake of the Jimmy Savile abuse claims. In a series of threatening emails sent to this paper, London l ...
  • In Second Case of Flawed Drug Research, FDA Re ...
    SA – A recently exposed case of the agency’s handling of drugs that reached the market in spite of fraudulent studies is no anomaly. The agency’s response mirrors how it handled an earlier instance of scientific misconduct at another contract research organization. Read article
  • Guantánamo Bay: why can’t Shaker Aamer r ...
    Guardian – Shaker Aamer is the forgotten detainee in the ‘war on terror’. After nearly 70 days on hunger strike, he fears he might never return to his family in London. But why is he still being held, despite having been cleared for release six years ago? Mark Townsend reports. ...
  • Babies as young as six months victims of rape ...
    Reuters – In her first seven months as U.N. envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura has visited a Congolese district where rebels raped babies, and Somalia where a woman was paid $150 restitution for the rape of her 4-year-old daughter. She met a refugee at a camp in Keny ...
  • Rights group raps UK govt.’s intervention in S ...
    Press TV – 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. In a statement on its official website on Wednesday, the group described the dismissal of the Kio ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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libcom

  • Anarchist activist seriously wounded in a Nazi ...
    In the evening of 14th of April, social activist V.N. was seriously wounded in Kiev. He was assaulted by 5 Nazis in the area of metro station Dorozhichi. Young patriots used knives and cutted three times arteries in the legs of the activist. V.N. also lo ...
  • Like father, like son: Fascists of the 3rd Mil ...
    alemanno-celtica1.jpg Two policemen are under investigation for covering up a fascist brawl that involved Rome’s Mayor’s son, Manfredi Alemanno. According to Rome’s Public Prose ...
  • Mythbuster: "strivers v skivers"
    welfare-spending.PNG Excellent document from the New Economics Foundation debunking government and media rhetoric about benefit "skivers" and showing that only 2.6% of welfare spending is on ...
  • Fighting the Bedroom Tax in Huddersfield and t ...
    battle of Barcleys 2.jpg The battle against the bedroom tax in Huddersfield has commenced resulting in a near riot outside Barclays bank. The battle against the bedroom tax and ...
  • This time it’s personal. Mortgage fraud, faux- ...
    escraches.jpg The escrache protests in Spain organised by the Platform of Mortgage Victims are quickly getting to the rotten core of a technical government in all but name. Despite the Popular Party&# ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Hacked Again – I am Done Blogging
    For the record – this site was VICIOUSLY hacked once again despite numerous changes to my password. I received a rather urgent call from a concerned friend who knows me very well.  He was appalled at what he saw on my blog.  Going into my “dashboard” and looking at what I actua ...
  • Are You Just a Believer, Or Do You Think?
    Great expose, here.   It brings up some very important points. True Are You Just A Believer Or Do You THINK? Posted by BMan ⋅ April 20, 2013 I’ve studied and graduated EMT-B certification with the state of Oregon. I’ve been on calls with heavy arterial bleeds, internal bleeding, fatalities, doa’ ...
  • A Letter to “Pastor Jim”
    “Pastor Jim” Catlin directs the small, non-denominational Christian “Main Street Church” in Brigham City, Utah.   He is a wonderful teacher, and I love and support him as a Brother in Christ.  In the hope that it may help other Christians, I am publishing an e-mail letter ...
  • Listen To Colonel Potter, Hawkeyes – HE ...
    Retired army lieutenant colonel Potter has reason to be concerned. Before you listen to his presentation, you need to check out this 2008 Power Point, prepared by Boston Marathon and NYC Marathon EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVIES (EMS) and presented to FEMA and DHS.   The very NAME says it all: Plann ...
  • Alex Jones Nails THIS Story!
    Hey friends - I have not been a fan of Alex Jones.   That’s not to say his reports are not accurate.  They are often very accurate.  Historically, however, it is clear that Mr. Jones misdirects the attention away from the actual culprits – which too often turn out to be “God&#8 ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Pt1 Spray Foam Insulation-St Louis Brick Buildings
    Cost Effective:Energy Conservation for StLouis Brick Buildings As a provider for Free Green Estimates and Advice in regard to Green Building for St Louis Homes.  I get many requests for my opinion on various construction related home and business requests for: improvements, retrofits, rehabbing ...
  • Do you know a Mother that has lost a child in ...
    No parent should EVER be forced to walk this lifetime journey alone! If you would like to join our special group, please contact us at angelmomsoverstlouis@yahoo.com or at the Facebook Links below We are: ” Angel Mom’s Surviving Together ”  ♥♥♥♥ Loss of a Child-No parent should ...
  • DIY Energy Audits and the A-Hah Moment
    In the preceding post on-Less Weight Equals More Horsepower I used the comparison on how the US Automakers figured out how to make our Automobiles use less gas by lightening the vehicles weights which increased horsepower which equates into less Petrol needed for operation and how the same princ ...
  • DIY Energy Audits and the A-Hah Moment
    In the preceding post on-Less Weight Equals More Horsepower I used the comparison on how the US Automakers figured out how to make our Automobiles use less gas by lightening the vehicles weights which increased horsepower which equates into less Petrol needed for operation and how the same princ ...
  • Less Weight Equals More Horsepower
    To use a Building as an example: less weight on your Energy Bills equals more Horsepower for your Bank Account! and the same principle can be applied to your Home or Business. Everyone who has driven a car or truck built in the Late 70s or early 80s knows that gas was cheap-car and truck [...]

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

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  • Lady Gaga Backs Anti-Fracking Campaign
    In October 2012, Lady Gaga joined a coalition of 200 artists started by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon called Artists Against Fracking. She simultaneously urged her 90 million Facebook and Twitter fans to support the organization and sign a petition asking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban f ...
  • Would You Donate to Stop a Saudi Execution?
    No, this isn’t spam. It’s actually a novel form of crowdfunding, the latest fad in raising funds for new movies and community projects. The Philippine government is asking for “kind hearted individuals” to assist in raising the 512,066.35 Saudi Arabian Riyals (appro ...
  • The Criminal Nature of Austerity
      Guest post by Steven Miller (This is the last of three guest posts laying out the real story about the role of Wall Street banksters in the recent bankruptcy of Stockton California. In this post Miller lays out the extra-legal, criminal nature of government austerity measures.) If the O ...
  • The "Interest Rates Swap" Scam Killing Our Cities
    Guest post by Steven Miller (This is the second of three guest posts laying out the real story about the role of Wall Street banksters in the recent bankruptcy of StocktonCalifornia. In this post Miller describes how interest rate swaps work. He also explains the LIBOR scandal – in wh ...
  • The Real Story Behind Stockton's Bankruptcy
      Guest post by Steven Miller (This is the first of three guest posts laying out the real story about the role of Wall Street banksters in the recent bankruptcy of Stockton California, the largest city to go bankrupt in US history. It’s a grisly tale involvi ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

To Do

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Could New York run on renewable energy alone?
Salon
At first glance, your proposals to convert society wholesale to renewable energy, and relatively soon, sound wild. What kinds of reactions do you get? Mostly, it's pretty positive. A lot of people say, “Wow, we should really make a huge effort to push ...
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Renewable energy an economic boon for NC
News & Observer
A 2007 compromise among utilities, legislators, regulators and community groups brought substantial investments in domestic renewable energy. The 2007 standard is working and fueling job growth and economic investment that is good for the economy, ...
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Rooftop solar panels installed under Renewable Energy Target
The International News Magazine
Australia's solar industry has passed an important milestone with over 1 million rooftop solar panels supported by the Renewable Energy Target since Labor was elected on 24 November 2007. The Renewable Energy Target is a market mechanism which ...
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Altmaier & Rösler Renewable Energy Brake Proposals Failed
CleanTechnica
What happens after the election depends upon what happens to the FDP. If the German voters succeed in booting them out of the Bundestag and a SPD and Green majority materializes, the German transition to 100% renewable will be done much faster and ...
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Forest ecology: Splinters of the Amazon
Nature.com
The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragmentation project is the largest and longest-running ecological experiment of its kind. Beginning in 1980, scientists and ranchers cleared the trees around 11 plots of primary forest in the Brazilian Amazon ...
Art History Meets Ecology: The Buddha Tree Story
Washington College Elm
On April 11th, accomplished art historian Gregory Levine visited campus to deliver his lecture “Silenced by Aesthetics”? A Tentative Poetics of Art History and Ecology.” Levine is a very active member of his field, currently serving as associate ...
Staten Island's Ecology Day focus: Devastation of Sandy
SILive.com
Hosted, funded and coordinated by the Staten Island Rotary since its inception 22 years ago, Ecology Day showcases exhibits from 40 schools, community-based organizations and nonprofit groups to educate folks about the environment. Consolidated ...
National ecology study described as cutting edge, groundbreaking
Deseret News
A precedent-setting, national-scale ecology research project spanning decades is slated to set up five data collection points in Utah — sites winnowed from 800 candidates. Sites here tap the Great Basin and southern Rockies, two distinct ecoregions.
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Water Power

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Thirsty States Take Water Battle To Supreme Court
NPR
The court will hear oral arguments in the case of Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, et al. The case pits Oklahoma against Texas over rights to water from the river that forms part of the border between them. Depending on how the court ...
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Water Rights Tear at an Indian Reservation
New York Times
A water war is roiling the Flathead Indian Reservation here in western Montana, and it stretches from farms, ranches and mountains to the highest levels of state government, cracking open old divisions between the tribes and descendants of homesteaders ...
Tata Faces Crisis as $20 Billion Spent on Water: Corporate India
Bloomberg
India, the world's second-most populous nation, is doubling spending on water management to a record as conglomerates from the Tatas to Adani face shortages that the United Nations calls an impending crisis. The federal and state governments have set ...
Water is on Florida's mind this Earth Day
Orlando Sentinel
But as scientists continue to examine the Gulf for damage from the 2010 oil spill, Florida has refocused its concern on other waters in trouble, including Central Florida's ailing Indian River Lagoon, the Panhandle's shriveling Apalachicola River ...
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