Sunday, April 21, 2013

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Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Test Your Oil IQ
    As a result of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) revolution, US oil and natural gas production have been rising for several years. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), US oil production has risen by 27% over the past 5 years. In reviewing the data for individual states, I ...
  • Ethanol Lobby Agitates for E15 Mandate
    History of U.S. Ethanol Policy In 1978 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a gasohol waiver that set the maximum legal limit of ethanol in motor gasoline at 10 percent denatured anhydrous ethanol. 27 years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 created a Renewable Fuel S ...
  • Debut of the Wall Street Journal Energy Panel
    Last week I made my debut as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) new feature The Experts: Journal Reports. The idea is that the WSJ poses questions to the panel, and each panel member provides a response of 300 words or so. The first 4 questions that were asked — and ans ...
  • Protesting Keystone XL While Rome Burns
    I started to go with “Fiddling While Rome Burns” in the title, but I know many people who would take great exception to the notion the Keystone XL protesters are fiddling. Indeed, they do not believe they are fiddling. They believe they are standing up for the most important cause of ...
  • First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in U ...
    It will continue to be true that as long as the US government incentivizes these ventures, companies will continue to pursue them. But it is also true, says Robert Rapier, that every gallon of production they make will be produced at a significant per gallon loss.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Dark Side of Strawberries
    Spring is here—time to start looking forward to strawberries. These treasured sweet berries are one of nature's most potent packages of health-defending antioxidants. But are your strawberries also laced with invisible chemicals that could cause cancer? In U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...
  • 5 Natural Remedies For Ear Infections
    There may be no common pain worse than an earache—for babies, kids and parents alike. Even a mild one can be crippling, and the misery can usually be traced to acute otitis media, a.k.a. the dreaded ear infection. Ear infections occur in the middle ear region behind the eardrum, when the Eustac ...
  • How Dirty is the Meat You Eat?
    A small three-ounce serving of meat daily can be good for you, loading you up with iron and healthy protein. But if you buy that meat at your local grocery store, there's an 87 percent chance that it's exposing you to something decidedly unhealthy: antibiotic-resistant bacteria. For a new repo ...
  • How Dirty is the Meat You Eat?
    A small three-ounce serving of meat daily can be good for you, loading you up with iron and healthy protein. But if you buy that meat at your local grocery store, there's an 87 percent chance that it's exposing you to something decidedly unhealthy: antibiotic-resistant bacteria. For a new repo ...
  • Why You Shouldn't Plant a Tree This Spring
    Depending on where you live, 2013 could be the year of the cicada. Not the green dog-day cicadas that emerge every year, but the periodical, Magicicada type that crawl out of the ground every 13 or 17 years in North America. (No, they are not locusts, as early settlers believed.) Scientists rec ...

big think

  • For a Happy Life, Choose Relationships Over Am ...
    What's the Latest Development? The ambition that propels us to advance our own careers comes at the expense of community and well-being, according to a new study that has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922. "The researchers found that the chil ...
  • Brain Puzzle: What is Perception?
    "Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes the philosopher/cognitive scientist/neuroscientist Alva Noë. "It is something we do."  In the video below, Noë tells us that, paradoxical it sounds, "just because something does enter our eyes, provides a stimulus to the  ...
  • Addressing sexual harassment in science
    The stories come in surprising ways.  An unexpected confession over a meal or a few drinks. A warning, perhaps, to keep your distance from a particular person before a conference.  A breakdown during one too many late nights in the lab. But, eventually, one way or another, these stories come.  A ...
  • We'll Get the Internet We Deserve
    There is an old adage that says in a democracy you get the government you deserve. If you’re not making any effort to get involved, don’t be surprised when the people who are most active shape the government to their liking. It’s the same thing with the Internet.   We’re going to get the ...
  • Why I Bet on Seinfeld
    When we developed the Seinfeld show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name.  But Jerry had a voice.  He was appearing on Late Night, on The Tonight Show, had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, looking at the world around him, that voice was rea ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Bushfire Update
    G’day everyone, Sorry I haven’t had much time for blogging lately; getting the property and my business back to normal has occupied all of my calendar for the last couple of months. Farmerbraun asked me earlier today to put up some … Continue reading →
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →
  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Getting the garlic blues
    Pickler Andrew Dalby responded to one of my recent tweets about not cooking asparagus in lemon juice because it discolours it. He had found that his garlic cloves turned blue when he pickled them in spiced malt vinegar. The discolouration doesn’t mean that the pickles are inedible. Now pla ...
  • What if Greg House MD were on twitter?
    What if Dr Gregory House were on twitter? Hungardian doctor Berci Meskó MD PhD ‏knows his medical communities and uses the internet like a pro in his practice: “We must include digital literacy in the medical curriculum,” he tells TEDxNijmegen ;-) What if Greg House MD were on twitte ...
  • Get Deceived Wisdom audio book free
    You can grab a copy of my book Deceived Wisdom, as narrated by actor Kris Dyer (Radio 2, Nice Mum, Edinburgh Fringe etc), for free with the Audible introductory offer. Sign up for a free trial here, download my book and listen on your iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone or any of more than 500 ...
  • Science mob to attack austerity
    Austerity measures – cutbacks in other words – are taking their toll on science. A special issue of The Euroscientist brings together an analysis of the impact of austerity on scientists and their research and the growing brain drain. The magazine is also encouraging other scientists ...
  • The Daily Fail
    Periodically I receive links to stories in the British “tabloid” newspaper, The Daily Mail, from Sciencebase readers. I am yet to see anything in that paper that is worth the ink or electrons. Moreover, I wouldn’t even deem it fit to be torn up into squares and hung from a stri ...

RFF Library

  • The Trouble with Biofuels: Costs and Consequen ...
    Chatham House http://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/190783 Biofuel use in the United Kingdom is set to increase significantly despite continued sustainability concerns In the current financial year (2013/14) UK biofuel use will increase to 5 per cent of transport volumes, the high ...
  • S. 601, Water Resources Development Act of 2013
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44095 The legislative language for this version of the bill was provided by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to CBO on April 12, 2013 S. 601 would authorize the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to construct water proje ...
  • International Climate Change Financing: the Gr ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41889.pdf Over the past several decades, the United States has delivered financial and technical assistance for climate change activities in the developing world through a variety of bilateral and multilateral programs. The United S ...
  • BISON, a Species Discovery Tool (Biodiversity ...
    US Geological Survey http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/ [From Press Release]  Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation or BISON is the only system of its kind; a unique, web-based Federal resource for finding species in the U. S. and territories.  Its size is unprecedented, offering more than 100 mi ...
  • Memorandum of Understanding on the Development ...
    US Dept. of Energy | Alaska State Dept. of Natural Resources http://1.usa.gov/Z6k04M [From DOE Press Release] Development of potentially vast and important unconventional energy resources in Alaska – including viscous oil and methane hydrates – could be accelerated under a Memorandum of Und ...

Scientific American - News

  • Energy-Harvesting Street Tiles Generate Power ...
    PARIS--On April 7, 2013, Kenya’s Peter Some won the 37th Paris Marathon with a time of 2:05:38. A surprise winner, Some missed the event record by only 27 seconds, thus depriving him of a place in running history. He need not have worried; unknown to him and thousands of fellow marathoners ...
  • Obama s 2014 Science Budget Proposal Revitaliz ...
    Among the winners in Pres. Barack Obama’s 2014 federal budget: the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Education and National Science Foundation (NSF). The losers include agribusiness and the Environmental Protection Agency. Obama’s plan, announced April 11, is less a vision for a ...
  • "Way Too Bright" Supernova Eludes Astronomers
    All supernovae are bright. When a star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, it emits a burst of energy and light that can outshine the rest of the galaxy in which it resides. But some supernovae are a little too bright --at least from the standpoint of the researchers trying to figure out ...
  • The Solar Cell That Turns 1 Photon into 2 Elec ...
    Solar cells are picky. If an incoming photon has too little energy, the cell won’t absorb it. If a photon has too much, the excess is wasted as heat. No matter what, a silicon solar cell can never generate more than one electron from a single photon. Such harsh quantum realities severely l ...
  • Planet-Seeking Spacecraft Spies Water Worlds
    NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered two planets that are the most similar in size to Earth ever found in a star’s habitable zone -- the temperate region where water could exist as a liquid. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • VPD Goes for Unusual Approach to PiDGiN Protest
      Preface The appended transcript deserves careful examination. It records in writing what Vancouver Police Department representative Brian Montague said about PiDGiN protest at a press conference on 17 April 2013 . The video stream ...
  • Youth For Climate Justice Now - Earth Day 2013
    On Saturday April 20, 2013 Youth For Climate Justice Now organized and march and rally with a focus on climate justice, and the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. A ...
  • La Coop média de Montréal a besoin de vous et ...
    La Coop média de Montréal est une partie d'un réseau national dont le site Internet principal est mediacoop.ca et qui produit aussi le journal The Dominion. Il est composé de sections régionales à Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal ainsi qu'à Halifax et compte aussi des groupes de travail à Ot ...
  • Day 28: Hunger Strike Weighs in at Vancity
    VANCOUVER, Coast Salish Territories -  Hunger striker (formerly) Homeless Dave was wheeled into the headquarters of Vancity yesterday to confront the massive credit union on  its lending policies on Day 28 of his protest. Accompanied by about a dozen Downtown Eastside residen ...
  • POLICE IMPUNITY CASE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF C ...
    Supreme Court hears arguments from police groups and families of two men killed by police regarding practice of lawyer note vetting when police are under investigation The Schaeffer and Minty families were brought to the Supreme Court of Ca ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The bombs and bombers of Boston
    David Seaton's News LinksFederal investigators are hurrying to review a visit that one of the suspected bombers made to Chechnya and Dagestan, predominantly Muslim republics in the north Caucasus region of Russia. Both have active militant separatist movements. Members of Congress expressed conc ...
  • Bombs in Boston
    I live in Madrid, Spain, and at this moment we are enjoying a (momentary?) respite from nearly 40 years of constant terrorist attacks, mostly by Basque separatists, with the one monumental attack by Al Qaeda in March 2004 with nearly 200 dead.I remember once, many, many years ago, being in an of ...
  • Thoughts on the New technology and privacy in ...
    David Seaton's News Links When I was a child, back in the 1950s, I spent many a summer in my grandmother's tiny village about 1/2 hour's drive from Hannibal Missouri on the Illinois side of the Big Muddy.Neighbors would come into your house without knocking... they'd suddenly be there without a ...
  • Maggie
    David Seaton's News LinksMy private theory of Margaret Thatcher is not as kind as most of the opinions expressed in the media. Cutting to the chase. I believe that British industry (Britain "invented" industry and was once the "workshop of the world") if properly reformed and restructured could ...
  • A collection of press snippets
    David Seaton's News LinksI began my journalistic endeavors by simply juxtaposing snippets from the press in an electronic collage, hoping that in the end result the total effect would be more than just the sum of the separate clippings. With the quotes below I return to my origins...According ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • A Tax Everyone Can Love (But No One Actually Does)
    Doyle McManus writes today that a carbon tax would promote efficiency, reduce air pollution, slow climate change, and increase energy independence. What's more, conservative economists like the idea: If it were part of a "revenue neutral" deal, in which all the taxes that came in were re ...
  • Who Will Immigration Reform Help More? Republi ...
    The other day I was idly wondering whether immigration reform would be better for Republicans or Democrats. Politically, it's a zero-sum game, so it can't be both. And if, in the end, supporting immigration reform doesn't improve GOP electoral prospects, why should they bother supporting it? ...
  • A Style Question on Filibusters for the Times ...
    On Thursday I wrote a post about this week's filibuster of universal background check legislation. My topic was the unwillingness of news outlets to call it a filibuster even though 60 votes were required for passage. Why the reluctance? The reason is that, technically, it wasn't a filibuster. ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 19 April 2013
    Some weeks you need Friday catblogging more than other weeks. This is one of those weeks. Yesterday it was 80 degrees in the backyard, so that's where Domino spent the afternoon, soaking up the warmth while the rest of us worried about terrorist bombings, exploding fertilizer plants, and faile ...
  • Tea Party Smells Blood In Immigration Fight
    Glenn Thrush and Reid Epstein report on one of the reasons that gun legislation failed in the Senate yesterday: In the end, [] moderates and conservatives in the upper chamber said they simply couldn’t deal with a flurry of progressive issues at once — from gay marriage ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 392: Manly Shit
    Good Sci-Fi The problem with Defiance Patt Oswalt’s awesome idea for Star Wars Episode VII White weddings are awesome Gender Roles can be fine Doing manly shit Some people deserve to die Pulling guns for chicken Share with your friends:
  • IC 391: Morning Wood Syndrome
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips joins Kriss & Kev Laughing at mental illness….until its not funny Being offensive Rick Ross outrage revisted The difference between Eminem & Rick Ross Going all in with being offensive Bringing awareness to Morning Wood Syndrome Women’s MMA B ...
  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...
  • IC 389: Double Agent
    NWFO back together Trolling relationship experts on Twitter Operation Make AskCheyB quit Tiger Woods is a black double agent Hating on Tiger because of adultery Openly gay in the NFL in between homophobia and full support of gays the Fallon Fox/Transgender issue North Korea gotta go The Wolverin ...
  • Best of The Insanity Check: Side Chicks Don’t ...
    The 2nd “Best of the Insanity Check”. Side Chicks Don’t Have Rights: Gloria Allred thinks Tiger Woods owes his side chicks apologies Mel Gibbson’s mixtape,Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel & the “Rules of Ryce” More Mel Gibbson Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Probabilities reveal shape of climate change
    David Stainforth from the London School of Economics and his colleagues have developed a new way to analyse weather data and understand whether temperatures have warmed evenly on a local level, showing European trends with less than a 2% chance of happening at random.
  • Alternate histories back unique modern warmth ...
    Creating and averaging thousands of slightly different historic temperature records shows that Northern hemisphere 21st century temperatures are almost certainly unique in the last 600 years, according to Harvard University’s Martin Tingley.
  • Temperature patterns produce perplexing Plioce ...
    Failure to model a climate fingerprint from 5 million years ago thought to be similar to what we can expect in the warmer future must be resolved, say Lafayette College’s Kira Lawrence and University College London’s Chris Brierley
  • Diving deep into ocean data uncovers ‘missing ...
    Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven’t been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps explain current surprisingly slow surface warming, and invalidates simple climate models.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.

e!Science News

  • From blank round to a potently active substance?
    A long-forgotten candidate for antiviral therapy is undergoing a renaissance: Since the 1970s, the small molecule CMA has been considered a potent agent against viral infections, yet it was never approved for clinical use. Scientists at the Bonn University Hospital have now deciphered how the mo ...
  • Same protein that fires up cancer-promoting Er ...
    A protein which is intimately involved in cancer-promoting cell signaling also keeps a key component of the signaling pathway tied down and inactive, a team led by scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports this week in Nature Structural Molecular Biology. read more
  • Freedom of assembly
    In a new study performed at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, researchers have for the first time seen the self-assembly of nanoparticle chains in situ, that is, in place as it occurs in real-time. read more
  • Calculating tsunami risk for the US East Coast
    The greatest threat of a tsunami for the U.S. east coast from a nearby offshore earthquake stretches from the coast of New England to New Jersey, according to John Ebel of Boston College, who presented his findings today at the Seismological Society of America 2013 Annual Meeting. read more
  • Quest for edible malarial vaccine leads to oth ...
    Can scientists rid malaria from the Third World by simply feeding algae genetically engineered with a vaccine? read more

unEarthed

  • Devil's Slide Was No Tunnel of Love
    It took one tough attorney and many years to finally build tunnel solution An aerial shot of the new tunnel bypass near Devil's Slide. (© 2010 California Department of Transportation) ...
  • Unplugged: Improving Energy Efficiency a Gray ...
    DOE releases new distribution transformer standards Although the electricity used by any one transformer is small, the losses add up on a national scale.  (iStockphoto) ...
  • Lean Green Two-Wheeled Machines Bike for Susta ...
    4 ladies take on 1,000 miles to spread the word about climate change View from the top of Hawk Hill, after a steep climb of 1,100 feet. In just one month's t ...
  • A Reason to Celebrate Earth Day: No Arctic Oce ...
    Three years after Gulf oil spill, Big Oil remains absent from Arctic Earth Day is observed on April 22 each year to raise awareness of environmental issues. P ...
  • Pick Your Wildlife Poison
    Feds, locals don't always have wildlife's best interests at heart The imperiled Gunnison sage grouse. (FWS) It's hard to know, sometimes, who to tru ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
    On the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan. It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker way to ...
  • Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
    Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement. While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these loans often wonder i ...
  • Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
    How typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a humble pl ...
  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • A Crowd Gathers in Philly at EPA Region 3 Offices
    Dustin White of Boone County explaining mountaintop removal to a group of 4th graders outside the EPA Dist 3 office in Philadelphia — at Appalachia Rising: Stand Up and Demand EPA End Mountaintop Removal.
  • Join Appalachia: Call EPA Region 3!
    Take action with Appalachia–Call EPA Region 3 now: (215) 814-5000. Appalachians and their allies are taking action right now in Philly at EPA region 3 Headquarters! The EPA has the power to ban the dumping of mine waste into our … Continue reading →
  • Appalachia Locked to Dirty Water–EPA has ...
    Contact: Delta Merner For Immediate Release Phone: 304-896-9437 Email: organizeapprising@gmail.com COMMUNITIES LOCKED TO DIRTY WATER The EPA Holds to Key to Clean, Healthy Water for Communities in TN, WV, VA & KY April 15, 2013– Appalachian citizens and allies from … Continue re ...
  • Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →

Amped Status

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

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  • New Knesset member visits a friend in Ramallah ...
    Adi Koll, a relatively unknown Knesset member from Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid party, posted this picture along with an uncharacteristically long and emotional status on Facebook, the day after she paid a visit to the home of a Palestinian friend in Ramallah. (Translated in full below) Warni ...
  • Israeli airlines strike over ‘Open Skies ...
    Israeli airlines stopped flying this morning in an open-ended strike opposing the country’s Open Skies agreement with the EU. The issue is complicated and there are no easy ways to resolve it. On the one hand, there is no question that opening Israeli airport(s) to more flights is good for ...
  • Finding a place in the Middle East through music
    Although the racism and hatred between Israel and its neighbors seems as entrenched as ever, many Mizrahi artists are connecting to their Arab roots. Does this trend portend a brighter future for the Middle East? By Mati Shemoelof and Ophir Toubul / Café Gibraltar In an interview with Al Arabiya ...
  • Senior EU officials: ‘Oslo process has n ...
    An unprecedented letter by former European leaders and peace process veterans recognizes Western support for the occupation and calls for immediate steps that will bring an end to it. 13 European states to label products from Israeli settlements. A group of senior former European officials, incl ...
  • UNICEF reportedly tones down report on child d ...
    A story in ‘The Australian’ newspaper offers a glimpse into the makings of a UN report on Palestinian children detained by Israel, including a look into how Israeli pressure reportedly muffled the report’s criticism.  The issue of Israel’s treatment of detained minors has ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Fascism Alert- While You Were Distracted By Th ...
    Members of Congress and their staff trade on insider information that would put civilians in prison….remember Martha Stewart anyone?  Well, they fixed that little problem….then promptly unfixed it while you were….watching the little birdie….From Forbes: Last month the Nat ...
  • Boston Bombing Update- The President of The Un ...
    In a hastily-organized press conference, President Obama, flanked by his national security advisers announced that in retaliation for the unprovoked bombing in Boston, the full weight of the United States military would attack Czechoslovakia.  When a reporter asked why we were attacking Czech wh ...
  • HELP!…. HAVE YOU SEEN THE $125,000 UNICORN?
    The mainstream press continues to report: BANKS SENDING OUT BILLIONS IN DOLLARS IN CHECKS. SOME CONSUMERS WILL RECEIVE $125,000! And so here’s my challenge to you American Sheep….someone find me a recipient of a $125,000 check. I want to talk to one honest to goodness American… ...
  • THE FORECLOSURE FRAUD SETTLEMENT: EPIC EXAMPLE ...
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  • Failure To Present Evidence: The Defense To Fo ...
    The Banks claim their interest in the property through another entity, First National Bank of Chicago. But by the time First National obtained its assignment of the note, from the receiver of Home Owners Federal Savings and Loan Association, Home Owners had already assigned the note to another p ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • Light blogging
    I’m off on an assignment in Asia and blogging will be light for the next week or so.    
  • The climate is a-changin
    The winds of climate are changing direction - again. Forty years ago "climate scientists" were sure we were entering a new ice age and even that we could have triggered the end of the current inter-glacial. For forty years we have seen the growth of the global warming meme and the demonisation ...
  • Climate forcing: Missing water must be hiding ...
    NASA data shows quite clearly that water vapour in the atmosphere has been decreasing quite significantly especially since about 1998 while carbon dioxide has continued rising. The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of water in the atmosphere and it is a travesty that we can’t.
  • “Leaders” who can’t lead
    Those who can lead , lead; those who can't lead, follow; and those who think they can lead but can't, blame others". President Obama may prove to be an adequate administrator, but a leader he is not.
  • Too many coincidences? 70 feared dead in Waco ...
    The name "Waco" had not entered my consciousness for many, many years until a TV commentator brought it up after the Boston Marathon bombs on April 15th.. He pointed out that it was close to the 20th anniversary of the Waco siege ending (April 19th 1993) and the 18th anniversary of the Oklahom ...

Left Foot Forward

  • Coalition presses ahead with discredited ‘shar ...
    Despite being rejected by the House of Lords recently, the coalition’s discredited ‘shares for rights’ scheme, which allows workers to give up basic employment rights in exchange for company shares, was passed in the House of Commons by a margin of 277 to 239.
  • UK downgraded by credit ratings agency Fitch
    Fitch Ratings has downgraded the UKs long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to AA+ from AAA.
  • Tory spin on coal masks fact that 80 per cent ...
    Amid the concerted attempts to reinvent the Thatcher years in recent days, an intriguing, counter-intuitive claim has been doing the rounds that rather than being the enemy of coal mining Margaret Thatcher was actually kinder to the industry than previous governments.
  • This week’s most read: The Bedroom Tax, ...
    The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
  • Italian politics: Pier Luigi Bersani should be ...
    Instead of engineering a revival of the media magnate, whose party is now ahead of the Democrats in the polls, Italy's Pier Luigi Bersani should be trying harder to woo Beppe Grillo, who, despite his contradictions and megaphone political style, has a programme that is much closer to the traditi ...

Consumerist

  • Flying The Friendly Skies Friday: No Tears Ove ...
    In an attempt to make Fridays even more of a delightful day, we’ve been asking you, our dear readers, for stories that made you smile while soaring through the air. Flying The Friendly Skies Friday celebrates all that is right and good in the world of customer service, and this week’ ...
  • Flooding In Illinois Leaves Site Of Original M ...
    In addition to the many people driven out of their homes or stranded by flood waters in Illinois, recent storms have wreaked havoc on a piece of fast-food history, with the site of the first McDonald’s opened by Ray Kroc now underwater. The building in Des Plaines, IL, that is now flooded ...
  • Airlines Suing FAA In Attempt To Prevent Delay ...
    Know who hates flight delays possibly more than frustrated travelers? The airlines, because all those disgruntled fliers will take out their travel woes on the carriers. That’s a group representing U.S. airlines as well as pilot unions are suing the Federal Aviation Administration in an at ...
  • Swingline Replaces Broken Stapler, No One Had ...
    If you’ve seen the movie “Office Space,” you may have wondered: what’s so great about a Swingline stapler that the character Milton clung to his so desperately? Reader Bradley can’t vouch for the red, small-capacity type of stapler, but his office regularly uses a h ...
  • Razer Mistakenly Posts Coupon Code For 90% Dis ...
    We occasionally hear about companies mis-labeling a product for significantly less than the retail price then canceling orders once the error is discovered. In spite of what a lot of people believe, this is generally not bait-and-switch and the retailer is not legally obliged to honor the incorr ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Report Shows Devastating Impact of Corexit ...
    Newsweek: What BP Doesn’t Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill Capping a 20-month investigation into the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, today GAP released groundbreaking findings in a report aimed at revealing the truth about the oil company and federal government’s dangerous “cleanup” s ...
  • Acclaimed Documentary Puts Whistleblowers in t ...
    Everyone is talking about War on Whistleblowers, the new documentary from Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films.  The film uses the stories of four national security whistleblowers to illustrate the growing threat that government secrets pose to the foundations of American democracy. Positi ...
  • Secretary General Announces Review of Whistleb ...
    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Earlier this week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that there will be a review of whistleblower protections at the United Nations. At a press conference, the Secretary-General stated that “we are receiving certain complaints about implementing all of ...
  • 3 Years After Deepwater Horizon, Report Shows ...
    Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) released Deadly Dispersants in the Gulf: Are Public Health and Environmental Tragedies the New Norm for Oil Spill Cleanups? The report details the devastating long-term effects on human health and the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem stemming from BP an ...
  • Concerns of Punitive Psychiatry as Government ...
    Radio Free Europe: Whistleblower’s Case Revives Concerns of Punitive Psychiatry in Russia   A Russian labor union chairwoman, who blew the whistle when she found out one of her organization’s accountants had been bribed with an apartment from the Kremlin administration, has been sent by au ...

UK Progressive

  • 400K Hiroshima Atomic Bombs Per Day
    by Robert L. Hunziker The energy of four hundred thousand (400,000) Hiroshima atomic bombs is how much energy imbalance Earth is absorbing because of global warming… per day! This imbalance was explained by Dr. James Hansen, one of the world’s foremost, and most celebrated, climate scientists, w ...
  • Why This Is the Worst Recovery on Record
    by Robert Reich The biggest economic debate is between Keynesians (who want more government spending and lower interest rates in order to fuel demand) and supply-side “austerics” (who want lower taxes on the wealthy and on corporations to boost incentives to hire and invest, and who see governme ...
  • Double Dose: In Second Case of Flawed Drug Res ...
    by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica This week, we reported that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the market for years after discovering they were approved based on fraudulent studies by Cetero Research, which did testing for drug companies worldwide. Turns ou ...
  • Why Jackie Robinson Still Matters
    by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad There are some things in our society that matter and need not be explained. We live in a society where we have forgotten about the things that matter. We find ourselves explaining things that shouldn’t have to be explained and paying attention to things that we sho ...
  • Hunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Run ...
    by Cora Currier ProPublica It’s been 11 years since the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. But the future of the prison, and the fate of the men inside it, is far from certain.  With 59 detainees at Gitmo currently on hunger strike, by the military’s count, here’s a primer on what’s ...

NewsAlert

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  • The free market strikes back. Renewables Inves ...
    What the government giveth, the government can take away. So it came to pass that the glory of green investments fell over its peak and started to slide — a slide we hope will continue forthwith with speed until such day that Renewables Actually Work. Weakest quarter for clean energy inves ...
  • Game Changer? EU carbon price hits “Junk ...
    The EU is a basket-case, teetering, so when the European Parliament had the chance to “fix” the carbon market yesterday, they surprised everyone and chose not to. Being unfixed, it’s free to collapse, which it did and by 40%. The Economist headline today is “Carbon Tradin ...
  • Antarctica gaining Ice Mass — and is not ...
    It’s difficult to say anything for sure about Antarctica because the weather is so variable. Bumper snow one year, not so much the next. (Noise and uncertainty is large). But 800 years of ice cores spread across Antarctica shows the Surface Mass Balance (SMB) is more likely to have been in ...
  • Lewandowsky, Prof of Psychology, thinks the La ...
    Stephan Lewandowsky’s work is a case study in government funded inanity. Some Australians are sure that burning coal will make storms stronger. Others are not convinced. In November 2012 Lewandowsky’s intellectual contribution to science in Australia was to call the unconvinced &#822 ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

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

Facing South

  • 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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Evolving Strategic Competition in the Indian Ocean
    “The Indian Ocean area will be the true nexus of world powers and conflict in the coming years. It is here that the fight for democracy, energy independence and religious freedom will be lost or won.”             (Robert D. Kaplan) The Indian ocean once regarded as a ‘neglected ocean’ has, today ...
  • Boston Highlights the Illusion of Terror & Sec ...
    Sometime before 1775, American Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin wrote: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Across much of the West, after September 11, 2001, we have indeed given up our essential liberty, and more ove ...
  • Why Washington Doesn’t Like Russia Expor ...
    The world is becoming more multipolar. But the United States is only one of its poles. It has a huge navy, and it is striving desperately to gain control over all of the world’s oceans and, therefore, the major cargo routes. The United States is also the world’s financial center. The US dollar f ...
  • Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Qatar: Pipelineistan at ...
    Construction is nearing completion on a natural gas pipeline linking Iran and Pakistan, a project that portends a huge geopolitical shift. As regional powers strengthen ties in this key energy market, they’re looking to China, and away from the West. Since the early 2000s, analysts and dip ...
  • “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) ...
    American democracy appears to be in jeopardy. Irrespective of the political dispensation at the White House, the policy of promoting proxy wars and covert military operations across the globe continues to mutate. Any nation that decides to exercise its sovereign right to protect its citizens fro ...

BlogHer

  • How Not to Be Late All the Time
    When people are late they disrespect themselves and everyone else that is left waiting for them. It is personally one of my big pet peeves. I hate when I end up late because I value walking my talk. The Everyday Minimalist has some thoughts on the matter and tips to help you not be late all the ...
  • Rumination is for Cows: #18 of 55 Things I hav ...
    Editors's Note: I hope you've been following AnnMaria's Blog and her list of things she has learned in 55 years. She's up to number 18, which talks about how our inner monologues can mess with our heads. I recommend reading them all. Every one of her lessons learned are interesting, practical an ...
  • Teaching Morals with a Chess Board
    Do you ever feel overwhelmed when it comes to teaching your kids right from wrong, the ins and outs of ethics and morals and etiquette? I do. I feel such a weight, such a responsibility to raise children who genuinely care about others, who make good choices, and who apologize and accept consequ ...
  • Nie Asks: Does the Tooth Fairy Visit Your Kids?
    When your child loses a tooth, does the tooth fairy come? Does your child still believe in the tooth fairy? Did he or she ever? Tell me -- I want to know!
  • My Marriage Will Survive Twitter!
    Editor's Note: Social Media presents greater opportunity for people in relationships to get caught out there slipping and doing the things that can hurt their relationships. There's a lot of distraction out there, and it's not just about infidelity. Read more about how being fully engaged in so ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 19, 2013
    This April 4, 2013 photo shows an 80-foot thick coal seam at Cloud Peak Energy’s Spring Creek strip mine near Decker, Mont.  From the time coal is blasted from strip mines in remote southeastern Montana to the point where it reaches customers in Asia, the fuel’s price gets marked up ...
  • Power plant sales, efficiency and coal’s ...
    FirstEnergy’s Harrison Power Station near Haywood is among the state’s largest coal-fired power plants. Ohio-based FirstEnergy wants to sell the plant to a West Virginia subsidiary, and Mountain State customers would fund the purchase through increased electricity bills. (FirstEnergy ...
  • Patriot Coal: Potential progress and more protests
    Retired coal miner Ricky Clark, left, of Man, W.Va., protests with around 2,000 other retired and active coal miners and their The United Mine Workers of America is promising more protests in its continuing campaign regarding the Patriot Coal bankruptcy and the future contract and benefits for t ...
  • W.Va.’s Rep. David McKinley lectures ast ...
    We’ve written before on this blog about West Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley. He’s not a big fan of environmental regulations, especially those that might improve the handling and disposal of toxic coal ash, and definitely doesn’t like federal regulators. During a House ...
  • Friday roundup, April 12, 2013
    Rescued miner Feng Zuxue is carried out of the mine shaft of a flooded coal mine in Weng’an County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Monday, April 8, 2013. Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency say three miners have been rescued after spending two and a half days trapped undergro ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Why the Response to the Boston Bombing Was a F ...
    Many are celebrating the outcome of the Boston bombing standoff that happened yesterday. They shouldn’t be. One of the two suspects was captured alive, and on the surface that appears to be a victory, but to any trained eye both the handling of the event, and its outcome, were a colossal f ...
  • A Summary of iOS and Android Usage Statistics
    So who is winning — iOS or Android?You had to ask, huh?On some level, it’s too crude a question to take very seriously. There are just too many ways to define “winning,” and neither platform leads in every area. But here’s the closest thing to an objective answer I can manage.“Android if you’re ...
  • Questions You Should Ask About Gun Control
    I saw a thread on Reddit recently about gun control laws and thought the gist was worth capturing here. If gun control legislation was actually effective, wouldn’t there be a ton of data we could point to as evidence of that fact? Not necessarily, but probably. There are many factors at pl ...
  • My Friend Writes Like This
    A bird hit my windshield on the freeway, on the way home from work this morning. I pulled over on the next exit, and picked it’s wrecked body out of my windshield wiper, and it opened its eye, and slowly closed it. I like to think that it opened its eyes one more time, and [...]Related Pos ...
  • If You’re Blogging on Facebook, Stop It
    I have a number of friends who actually post insightful ideas and comments on Facebook, and they do so semi-regularly. It’s an absolute waste of time and creative energy. If you’re actually writing anything you value, to any degree, and doing so consistently, you should be doing it o ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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  • Pilsen wins 1st Czech Stanley Cup
    Many people in Pilsen follow soccer as well as ice-hockey; our teams were great in recent years. A flag of HC Škoda Pilsen... Just minutes ago, HC Škoda Pilsen, the local ice-hockey club, defeated HC Zlín in the last, seventh match. At 96:15 (!!!), the captain and playing 40-year ...
  • Chechnyan terrorist's favorite videos
    An insane combination of ignorance of geography and PC The hunt for the Boston Marathon terrorists turned out to be faster, more efficient, and more dramatic than I expected. One of the results of the developments is that most Americans want my country to be bombed. ;-) The Huffi ...
  • Dirac's 1975 lectures
    Spiros found this remarkable 1-hour talk by Paul Dirac in New Zealand in 1975: Recall that Dirac was born in 1902 and died 1984; so he was 73 in the video above. He is a serious man but there's a lot of room for his memories as well as some jokes. There are actually four ...
  • Explosion in the Kolache Capital of Texas
    I am not sure whether the U.S. media dare to discuss such things at all but the town of West where the fertilizer plant explosion – a horror destroying a whole street and detected as a magnitude 2.1 earthquake – took place is an intrinsically ethnic Czech town (Google Maps). In fact, ...
  • Dark matter may be a complicated sector
    Among the hints of dark matter, I believe that the three apparently decidedly non-background-like events seen by CDMS II represent the strongest hint of a dark matter particle we have seen so far. However, there are other hints, too. Even though the AMS-02 folks haven't told us everything t ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Dead Boston bomb suspect had wounds ‘head to toe’
    A doctor involved in treating the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died in a gunbattle with police says he had injuries head to toe and all limbs intact when he arrived at the hospital. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Police v ...
  • Stuart Hameroff – How Does the Brain Produce C ...
    Lecture by Stuart Hameroff from 2003 on the functions of the brain in the production of consciousness. earn money watching videos This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Quantum Consciousness, Quantum Mind STUART HAMEROFF (P.2) Stuart Hameroff goes through a wide array of ...
  • West Carter Sophomore Spirit
    WCHS. earn money watching videos This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Solutions with Spirit – A Conversation with Thrive Movie’s Kimberly Carter Gamble Alexis Brooks talks with the producer/director and co-writer of Thrive... Spirit Doctors – Native Ame ...
  • Brandon Smith, of alt-market, Breaks Down the ...
    from NorthWestLibertyNews: Brandon Smith, of alt-market, said a few words about the gun debate at the Oath Keepers rally on April 19, 2013 SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Brando ...
  • Brandon Smith, of alt-market, Breaks Down the ...
    from NorthWestLibertyNews: Brandon Smith, of alt-market, said a few words about the gun debate at the Oath Keepers rally on April 19, 2013 SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Brando ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Stoltenberg fires up the troops
    Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg remains a popular prime minister in Norway, but his party has been lagging in the polls and his coalition government has lost hundreds of thousands of voters. That’s why he needed to spend his weekend firing up enthusiasm at the party’s national m ...
  • Stoltenberg fires up the troops
    Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg remains a popular prime minister in Norway, but his party has been lagging in the polls and his coalition government has lost hundreds of thousands of voters. That’s why he needed to spend his weekend firing up enthusiasm at the party’s national m ...
  • Skiers shot polar bear on Svalbard
    Two skiers with dogs said they felt forced to shoot a polar bear on Svalbard Thursday evening when it ran towards them while they were out trekking over a wide-open stretch of snow and ice. They viewed it as an attack, and shot the bear at close range. The shooting occurred at Isbukta, on the [...]
  • Skiers shot polar bear on Svalbard
    Two skiers with dogs said they felt forced to shoot a polar bear on Svalbard Thursday evening when it ran towards them while they were out trekking over a wide-open stretch of snow and ice. They viewed it as an attack, and shot the bear at close range. The shooting occurred at Isbukta, on the [...]
  • Carlsen ‘surprised’ by his influence
    UPDATED: Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, who ranks as the best chess player in the world, said he was “surprised” but “quite proud” that he’d landed on an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as chosen by Time Magazine. He didn’t seem to ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Letters from New Zealand – a Permaculture Food ...
    The home of Robert and Robyn Guyton stands amidst an abundance of food All photos © Craig Mackintosh Robyn Guyton stands in the Zone 5 area of her food forest Riverton is a quaint little windswept fishing settlement on the far-south coastline of New Zealand’s beautiful South ...
  • Free Permaculture Videos: “5 Acre Abundance on ...
    Geoff here again. When the USA Army Core of Engineers wanted to re-design the 15,000 acre Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant into an eco-industrial park, they asked me to help. When AECOM, a fortune 500 Civil Engineering company that turns over 8 Billion a year, wanted to do a sustainable desig ...
  • Just Label It! Tell Congress to Support the Ne ...
    In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA policy, we don’t have that choice when it comes to genetically engineered (GE) ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families. But thanks to your tireless support, Senator Barba ...
  • Healthy Planet and the Law of Ecocide – an Int ...
    The disappearing Amazon rainforest Photo: Cifor Marcin Gerwin: You propose introducing a new international law of ecocide as an amendment to the Rome Statute. Ecocide is defined as “an extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human ag ...
  • Carbon-Sequestering Perennial Industrial Crops
    This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices, and is part of a series promoting my kickstarter campaign to raise funds with which to complete the book. Rubber (Hevea bras ...

Pointman's

  • The difficult kind.
    My woman teaches the difficult young children. She does what’s called special needs and I think she was born to do it. She takes all the ones who’re a bit behind the pack and perhaps will always be, the ones who’re a bit lost, the silly hearts who’re still determined to s ...
  • The difficult kind.
    My woman teaches the difficult young children. She does what’s called special needs and I think she was born to do it. She takes all the ones who’re a bit behind the pack and perhaps will always be, the ones who’re a bit lost, the silly hearts who’re still determined to s ...
  • A postcard from warmer climes.
    As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...
  • A postcard from warmer climes.
    As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...
  • Optimism, blogging and the big green killing m ...
    I’ve been writing this blog for a number of years now. Before that, I used other and much less effective means to resist the rising tide of climate alarmism and its lethal political baggage. Canute would have slapped his thigh and laughed in delight at my ineffectual but earnest efforts. T ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
    This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: How did you get involve with VOTE? In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...
  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Blames Victims
    The New Orleans Police Department recently released a statement on "women and safety," that has outrage across the city and furthered the perception that this police department does not get it. They are more interested in blaming the victim than preventing assault. With absurd advice like "don't ...
  • Robert H. King responds to Louisiana Attorney ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Many thanks to all of you who have aided our cause and added your voices to our quest to free Albert from an obviously unjust imprisonment of more than 40 years. Please continue to make your voices heard and your dissent known, especially in light of the rece ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Anatomy of a terrorist attack: the Boston Mara ...
    Remains of the pressure cooker bomb believed to been packed with ball bearings Today's show focusses on the recent terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon. Our aim is to understand the underlying "message" behind this attack, and to deconstruct the MSM propaganda which seeks to portray this a ...
  • Introducing Nicole Bijlsma: building biologist ...
    Today it is my pleasure to welcome to the show Nicole Bijlsma, a best selling author with extensive knowledge on many health issues related to the toxic effects of ordinary things found in your home. Nicole joins us in the 2nd hour of today's show. Nicole's website provides information on th ...
  • Full body scanners now in full operation at Sy ...
    In today's show we re-visit the thorny issue of full body scanners and what they signal for your rights, your privacy, your health and human freedom generally. Full body scanners (millimitre wave) are now in operation at all international airports in Australia. The devices deployed in Australi ...
  • An unprecedented assault on media freedom
    In today's show we are joined by Josh Jackson to discuss highly controversial media reforms proposed by the Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy. We also take a look at the implications of the Cyprian crisis for internatinal banking, and the alternate non-centralised currency bitcoin. ...
  • Live show with current news and some callers - ...
    In today's show we take calls from TNRA listeners, as well as covering news and current topics of interest, including reflections on the death of Hugo Chavez. Related links What happens when you refuse a search in Parramatta

Beacon

  • A Deaf Whale is a Dead Whale: Keep the Atlanti ...
    The government estimates seismic testing in the Atlantic will injure 22,809 common dolphins. ©Oceana Imagine living next to a construction zone, where every ten seconds, every day, for days to weeks on end, you are subjected to loud, disruptive explosions while you’re trying to eat, sleep and ...
  • Victory! Offshore Oil Drilling Stopped in Belize
    Belize's Great Blue Hole. Contracts to drill on reef like this declared null and void. Photo: USGS Yesterday, Belize’s Supreme Court declared offshore drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize (in 2004 and 2007) null and void, providing a dramatic and potentially definitive s ...
  • CEO Note: Maryland Takes the Lead
    Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless If you’re a Marylander like me, this is a time to be proud. The Old Line State has stepped forward, making ocean conservation a priority and providing an example that other states would be wise to follow. First, Maryland became a leader in developing offshore wind e ...
  • The Taiji Dolphin Slaughter: A Scientific Issue
    © OCEANA The dolphin drive hunt in Taiji, Japan has been at the center of animal activism for many years and now it has finally come to the center of science. The dolphin drive in Taiji involves the corralling of dolphins into a cove for slaughter or to be removed and then sold to representa ...
  • NOAA declares “Unusual Mortality Event” for Ca ...
    Sea Lions in rehab. Photo: Pacific Marine Mammal Center Beginning in January 2013, unusually high numbers of stranded California sea lion pups have been observed on the Southern California coast. Marine mammals naturally come ashore along our beaches if they are sick, wounded, or injured. Thi ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Convicting Suspect 2 in the Public Court
    Two powerful GOP senators are calling on the Obama administration to treat the captured suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings as an “enemy combatant” and deny him counsel even though he is reportedly an American citizen.mmSens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Dzhokhar Ts ...
  • BOSTON TERRORIST DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV IN CUSTODY, ...
    Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info. — Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013 IT’S OVER. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is alive and in custody, after a dramatic 20 hours in Watertown. Medics are on the scene. Thermal imaging led law enforcement ...
  • West, Texas Explosion: 12 Fatalities Confirmed ...
    The search process continues in West, Texas, where the explosion – and complete disintegration of – a facility which bought and sold fertilizer, resulted in a confirmed number of 12 deaths, about 200 injuries, and the destruction of “about 50 houses,” as well as a school, nursing home and apartm ...
  • Queer Talk: National Day of Silence Isn’t Just ...
    Today is the National Day of Silence, a “day of action” which began in 1996. In short, there’s a difference between being silenced, and using silence as a form of communication and education. About the Day of Silence: The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the co ...
  • Queer Talk: Boy Scouts Propose End to Ban on G ...
    A few months ago, the Boy Scouts of America leadership proposed ending the ban on gay Scouts and leaders. The backlash from some was swift and strong, and the leadership decided to do three months of study, research, surveys and conversations. Today’s announcement says that the proposal includes ...

Hudson New York

  • Belgium vs. Islamic Jihadists
    Belgian police have carried out dozens of raids and arrested six Islamists -- including the pugnacious ringleader of a Belgian Salafist group called Sharia4Belgium -- suspected of recruiting foreign fighters for the war in Syria. The crackdown reflects
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: February, 2013
    Reports of Christian persecution by Muslims around the world during the month of February include (but are not limited to) the following accounts. They are listed by form of persecution, and in country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to
  • Salam Fayyad and the "Major Blow" to Peace
    How can Salam Fayyad's resignation as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority be considered a setback for the peace process when he had never been involved in the negotiations with Israel in the first place? Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
  • Germany Cracks Down on Critics of Mega-Mosque
    The Bavarian branch of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), has placed under state surveillance German activists accused of fomenting hate against Muslims due to their opposition to the construction of a
  • The Islamic Paradise
    Paradise Lost To denigrate the achievement-rich West and glorify, as a role model, Islam, Islamic extremists compare the way of life in Europe and the United States to the pre-Islamic period of jahiliyya, the time of ignorance and violence swept away by

Urban Survival

  • Good Police Work Pays Off
    According to reports out of Massachusetts, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case is dead and there’s a man hunt on for the other (right).  This is one of several photos of the purported perp released early … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Understanding State Finances
    Reader John sent along a great story (not true, but making it’s rounds on the net) which reveals a profound truth about how different state governments work. “The California Coyote Tale… The Governor of California is jogging with his dog … Continue reading →
  • Obama-Banker Huddle on Window-Dressing Thursday
    There’s a first-class list of big-shot bankers due shortly at the White House to meet with president Obama.  Presumably they will be discussing what to do with the economy in light of lukewarm recovery data.  This is what’s called the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Psy Cofactors/Life Past Mudras
    Something has been swirling around the edges of georgebrain which finally passed the gates of consciousness this morning more as I awoke – as I often do – at precisely 4:59 AM.  That’s meaningful because the alarm doesn’t go off … Continue reading →
  • Turn-Around Tuesday and Another Hitt
    There was blood at every turn Monday as not only did the price of gold collapse, but also as the Dow blew off 265 points and bombs went off in Boston.  In that grisly attack, 140 were wounded and three … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Beleaguered Toll Road Agency Approves Illegal ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica Yesterday, at the end of a hastily arranged “special meeting” that afforded virtually no prior notice or opportunity for the public to comment, the Orange County Transportation Corridor Agency ...
  • Global Warming Emissions in US and China
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica The Wall Street Journal had a front page article today about how US global warming emissions have been going down. (Side note: The opening paragraph described car ...
  • It's time the State Department sees what every ...
    Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Advisor, Washington, DC The massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, under review by the State Department, would be one of the largest pipelines in the country, carrying nearly ten times the dirty crude that erupted from a f ...
  • It's More Important Than Ever for China to Dev ...
    Christine Xu, Program Assistant, China Program and Energy & Transportation Program , Washington, D.C. Those who have been following China’s pollution troubles are beginning to wonder whether China is killing itself in the process of pursuing r ...
  • Why We Save Whales
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City There are few places on Earth where the waters are warm enough, safe enough, clean, quiet, and abundant enough in food for gray whale mothers to raise their babies. Laguna San Ignacio, off the coast of ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Hackers Hijack CBS To Claim Obama Involvement ...
    Hacktivists expose media’s refusal to report on private operatives at Boston bombings. The mainstream media’s refusal to report on images showing private military operatives on the scene of the Boston bombings carrying heavy backpacks prompted hacking group the Syrian Electronic Army to take mat ...
  • Obama Deports Top Saudi Terrorist After Boston ...
    The Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is reporting today that President Barack Obama [photo top left bowing to Saudi king] has deported from the United States the top Saudi-linked terrorist responsible for the Boston Marathon Bombing citing “national security reasons” for the swift expulsion o ...
  • US deploys troops to Jordan, prepares to invad ...
    In testimony before the US Senate Armed Forces Committee on Wednesday, top US defense officials announced that they are deploying 200 troops of the 1st Armored Division to Jordan. They will establish headquarters near the Syrian-Jordanian border and plan for a rapid build-up, involving 20,000 or ...
  • North Korea issues ‘ultimatum’ to the South, w ...
    North Korea’s military supreme command has issued an ultimatum to South Korea demanding apologies for “all the major and minor hostile actions.” It has also threatened an immediate military response to any “insulting” action the South undertakes. “The supreme command of the Korean People’s ...
  • Two Explosions at Boston Marathon
    Two explosions have been reported in Boston, Massachusetts where thousands of runners are participating in the annual Boston Marathon. Preliminary reports suggest two explosions occurred near the finish line of the 26.2-mile event shortly before 3 pm local time, and the Boston Globe is reporting ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Electricity prices fall: renewable energy des ...
    By Dylan McConnell Dylan McConnell is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Let’s be honest: the relationship between renewable energy and the electricity market is complex. So what does the latest report from Australian energy research firm RepuTex tell us? Well, for a start, coal-fi ...
  • High-speed rail cost and timeline “laughable”
    April 11, 2013 Researchers who have performed their own analysis of the high-speed rail link from Melbourne to Brisbane have today questioned the governments announced 45-year timeline and $114 billion costing. “When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as ...
  • Solar panels reduce everyone's power bills
      May 10, 2013 Australia's one million (and counting) solar powered households could be keeping everyone else's power bills down, by suppressing wholesale electricity prices. That conclusion is drawn from a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Journal of Energy Policy. The paper ...
  • True size of solar subsidies exaggerated, rese ...
    By Peter Hannam The true cost to consumers of subsidies to solar energy has been “somewhat exaggerated” because regulators have excluded the full benefits of solar photovoltaic panels, according to energy researchers. While feed-in tariffs and upfront rebates have been criticised by officials a ...
  • Gas – is it a natural fit for buildings?
    By Richard Keech According to the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency website, old electric-element-style hot water systems (that about half of households still have) “produce up to three times the greenhouse gas emissions of low emission technologies such as gas, solar and hea ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Last 30 years were the warmest in the last 1,4 ...
    From 1971 to 2000, the world's land areas were the warmest they have been in at least 1,400 years, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. The massive new study, involving 80 researchers from around the world with the Past Global Changes (PAGES) group, is the first to look at continental ...
  • Mining company working with Indonesian govt to ...
    A Toronto-listed mining company says it is working closely with the Indonesian government to strip the protected status of some 1.2 million hectares of forest on the island of Sumatra. In a statement issued Tuesday, East Asia Minerals Corporation (TSX:EAS) claimed it is actively involved in the ...
  • Indonesian palm oil industry would support lan ...
    Indonesian palm oil companies would support land swaps as a means to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation while simultaneously expanding production, representatives from the country's largest association of palm oil producers told mongabay.com in an interview last month.
  • To win concessions in Aceh, mining company hir ...
    A Toronto Stock Exchange-listed mining company has hired an official being investigated for corruption under its effort to convince the Aceh provincial government to re-zone protected forest areas for a gold mine on Indonesia's Sumatra island, according to an alliance of Indonesian environmental ...
  • Bison return to Germany after 300 year absence
    Earlier this month, officials took down a fence allowing the first herd of European bison (Bison bonasus) to enter the forests freely in Germany in over 300 years, reports Wildlife Extra. The small herd, consisting of just eight animals (one male, five females and two calves) will now be allowed ...

Sierra Express

  • Why President Koroma’s visit to the UAE was so ...
    I read about President Koroma’s visit to this region through news dispatches by our Saudi Press Attaché, M.B. Jalloh, in our online newspapers. The coverage was comprehensive, informative and timely.   (Photo: Ibrahim Sillah, author) For President Ernest Bai Koroma and his formidable entourage t ...
  • Single Leg Amputees Organise Football League
    The Single Leg Amputee Sport Association (SLASA) is organizing a nationwide league in Kenema city, eastern Sierra Leone. Speaking to this medium Mambud K Samai said that Kenema city has been selected for the 3rd hosting of the Nationwide Amputee Football League, which is currently underway at th ...
  • Equal Futures Partnership: From Promise to Pro ...
    Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister Calls for More Practical Help for Women Sierra Leone’s Finance and Economic Development Minister, Dr. Kaifala Marah has called on founding member States of  Equal Futures Partnership (United States, Australia, Benin, Bangladesh, Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Jordan ...
  • Makeni Council threatens to shut down business ...
    The Information and Communications Officer of Kenema City Council, Mohamed Arapha Kabbah, has revealed that the administration of the council has issued out stringent warning to owners of business houses to pay their taxes to the council or defaulters’ business houses will soon be shut down for ...
  • Ark of God Church Ministry Fundraising Drive
    Dallas Texas, U.S.A.  April 21, 2013 – Since its inception, the Ark of God International Ministry in Texas has been the center of a multicultural community that is vying to accommodate and preserve different cultures as a unified society. It is located at the east part of Dallas Fort Worth ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • New A2 infant formula ready for China
    NZX-listed alternative milk company A2 Corporation says the first consignment of its new infant formula brand will be shipped to the lucrative Chinese market next month, followed by distribution in New Zealand and Australian supermarkets...
  • Peak tipped for soaring dairy prices
    International dairy product prices may be close to their peak after an explosive run over the last 12 months, say economists.Prices rose 0.6 per cent on a trade-weighted basis at yesterday's GlobalDairyTrade auction, and are 86...
  • Dairy prices could offset drought
    The net cost to the economy of the drought could be close to zero thanks to the sharp gains in world dairy prices, say Westpac economists.Westpac said the drought that has gripped the North Island and parts of the South Island was...
  • World dairy price surge pauses (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products recorded their smallest gain this year, edging up to a new record while suggesting the New Zealand drought-fuelled surge is abating.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 0.6 per cent compared to the last sale...
  • Fonterra leaves out Northland organic farmers
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is shaking up its organics business to refocus supply in the central and lower North Island, leaving Northland organic farmers out in the cold. The cooperative will...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Man Jailed for Watching Cartoons Have Sex
    A New Zealand court has sentenced a man to three months in prison for downloading cartoon porn. Ronald Clark has previous convictions for sexually abusing a minor, but the Japanese hentai he watched didn’t involve drawings of people. From Stuff: Clark's lawyer Roger Bowden descr ...
  • Tom Steward on Property Rights Abuse
    Thanks to overreaching regulators at every level of government, property rights are increasingly under fire in the United States. Tom Steward reports on two recent cases of abuse, including one where an Iraq War veteran faces the loss of his home due to the arbitrary and unnecessary ...
  • Feds Save Beer Drinkers from the Possibility o ...
    On Friday, the Department of Justice called off its antitrust case against Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI), which had been poised to take over Grupo Modelo, the Mexico-based brewer of Corona. ABI will still take over most of Modelo, but the rights to sell the company’s brands in the U.S w ...
  • Peter Suderman on Brian K. Vaughan’s Brilliant ...
    The Facebook era has brought with it endless speculation about the end of privacy—a world in which everyone shares themselves and their lives freely. But what if what we think will be the end of privacy actually ushers in an era more private than ever? That’s the question behind com ...
  • Cathy Young on How Margaret Thatcher Advanced ...
    As Margaret Thatcher is laid to rest and the world continues to take stock of her life, the inevitable questions arise that would have no counterpart for a male leader: What did Thatcher and her legacy mean for women and for feminism? There was little love lost between the Iron ...

Mercury Rising

  • CP Best Blog: Sally Jo Sorensen’s Bluest ...
    For years and years and years and years now, I’ve been telling anyone I can run down and force to listen to me that Sally Jo Sorensen of Bluestem Prairie is the best blogger in Minnesota and one of its five best journalists. Now, it looks like she’s finally getting some long-overdue ...
  • Coleen Rowley on the presumed link in the Bost ...
    Coleen Rowley, The Consortium I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never seen any indication that Chechen extremists harbored ...
  • Rios Montt trial shut down by Guatemalan presi ...
    This is a government which the United States proudly supported when it was a dictatorship killing two hundred thousand Guatemalans–and still proudly supports. Then: ALLAN NAIRN: [In the 1980s] The [Guatemalan] army swept through the northwest highlands. And according to soldiers who I inte ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Not sure what credence to give this
    Al-Arabiya: Essam Elerian, vice chairman of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), wrote in a statement posted in Arabic on his Facebook account that the “events [i.e., Boston bombing] began with the sending of French battalions to Mali in a war against organizations that are said to ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
    George Takei offends strippers, legal sex assistants, a strap-o-string for his ding-a-ling, are bras bad for boobs, and more in this week's update.  Plus, this week's tumblr, DearCisPeople.  George Takei, prostitutes and parenting. (titsandass) Is legalizing sex assistants wrong if it ...
  • Psi in the News
    The Philip Experiment comes out of the archives, research into technologically aided telepathy continues apace, and the publication of books on NDE’s hits a new stride in this edition of psi in the news. read more
  • The Cycle of Terror
    In the wake of terror attacks, politicians are fond of proclaiming, "We will not be intimidated." By this they seem to mean that we won't cower in fear, but will boldly root out the terrorists, visit upon them the hand of justice, and hold them to account. "Make no mistake ...
  • The Bloom Series
      The Bloom, a ground-breaking new documentary webseries, illuminates the blossoming phenomenon of Transformational Festivals, immersive participatory realities that are having profound life-changing effects on hundreds of thousands of lives. The first episode, "Fundamental Frequ ...
  • The Meaning of Sacred Geometry, Part 3: Expan ...
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • "Reality"
    Some People find it distasteful to be talking about US bombings in other countries at a time like this. I say welcome to reality. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: trutherbot (trutherbot) on Twitter April 15, 2013
  • Canadian feminist activist receives death thre ...
    Reblogged from man boobz: And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate. Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One of the MRAs fil ...
  • The Crazy Day After
    Today is going to be kind of a busy day for Liberals across the country, as there are several relatively big events going on at the same time. I'll be covering at least a couple of them in at least some capacity. First off, of course, is figuring out what we do now. With Justin elected as our n ...
  • Justin's not so positive acceptance speech
    The full text of Justin Trudeau's speech can be found here. I wanted to highlight the section talking about the Conservatives and Stephen Harper. It is the first major section after thank you's, and while there are many positive things that come after this lengthy section, the gloves sure came ...
  • "Enemies" and "Civil Society"
    Attack on Seattle "Green" Development by "Some Anarchists" As originally posted on: Puget Sound Anarchists March 3, 2013 Just before midnight, Monday Feb 25, we strolled over to the townhouses under construction on 24th and Norman in the Central District. After slipping inside, we set one a ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Tanya Fields Introduces The Veggie Mobile Market
    Tonight, the CUNY SPS 2013 Commencement keynote speaker, Tanya Fields will discuss The BLK Projek’s latest plans for a new mobile food market, and you have an opportunity to join her. The BLK Projek was founded in 2009 to empower women and youth with the resources to rise out of poverty through ...
  • All-Star Celebrity Apprentice and the Day Trac ...
    Ever have one of those days? You know the kind. Roll out of bed after hitting the snooze 11 times. Run out of coffee. Run out and buy coffee. Make coffee and think ah that was the worst of it only to realize no cream! And then something incredible happens and no not the kind [...]
  • Nominations Now Open for SPS Governing Council ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • CUNY Disability Awareness Month
    April is officially Disability Awareness Month throughout CUNY and to celebrate our commitment to enabling students, faculty, and staff with disabilities to excel in their studies, research, and work there are a series of events throughout the university. Whether you are interested in learning m ...
  • Featured Student: Denise Lewis
    Denise Lewis is a current student at The CUNY School of Professional Studies, enrolled since Spring 2010 in the Online Bachelor’s Degree in Business. As a single parent she raised three children, often working two jobs to support her family, while maintaining an excellent GPA. Each of her childr ...

Dissident Voice

  • Memo: Digicide:
    Submitting Agent: Dr. Octavius Spaeiouk, Special Advisor Contract Protocol: analysis per Limited On Assignment Notice (LOAN) Contract Company Sponsor: Departments of Human Resource Management Executive Warning Brief: Don’t be Brief Executives Downsize. Lateralize. Outsource. A photograph ( ...
  • US National Security State Fails in Boston
    The American National Security State failed to protect the American people yet again, this time in Boston, Massachusetts. Twelve years of ramping up federal, state and local venues with billions of dollars worth of anti-terrorism training, intelligence fusion centers, and equipment was for nough ...
  • Terrorism of the State
    The interview is one of the journalist’s best tools. If done right, an interview provides a considerable amount of information about the views of the interviewee and interviewer, while also informing the reader about the subjects covered. Certain journalists made the interview an art form in its ...
  • Gun Lobby Wet Dreams: The Senate Stalls on Gun ...
    It had to stutter and even fall at some point. The signs were already showing last Sunday when the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced it would withdraw support for the Manchin-Toomey bill. The argument of members was that the original bill had retained, among others ...
  • American Buffet
    As Jefferson set the table and Washington carved the bird we braced for war. Armed with a pellet gun, I did my thing: extinguished a Limey and his red coat cousins. Then in the future, on a distant planet, I did the natives, though I’m not sure why. The excitement made me giddy. Up. I [...]

Nick Turse

  • killanythingthatmoves:One of a group of “lim ...
    killanythingthatmoves: One of a group of “lime gatherers” in South Vietnam’s Binh Long Province killed in August 1970 by soldiers from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division.  Photo from: Buy the book: Also available as an ebook:
  • pulitzercenter:On Monday, a front-page New Y ...
    pulitzercenter: On Monday, a front-page New York Times article profiled a Afghan man who sold his daughter into child marriage to repay a debt (The man now says an anonymous donor repaid the debt was paid before the article ran).  Every year, throughout the world, millions of young girls are f ...
  • "It is said, Lewis Lapham tells us, that Abbot ...
    “It is said, Lewis Lapham tells us, that Abbot John Trithemius of Sponheim, a...
  • 6th Avenue at 30th Street, West side to Northw ...
    6th Avenue at 30th Street, West side to Northwest, Manhattan (09/07/40)
  • "Pakistan cannot afford to be entering into an ...
    ““Pakistan cannot afford to be entering into an arms race with India. We can never match them,...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • An End to a Cold War?
    On Apr. 19, Serbia and Kosovo put years of animosity aside when their prime ministers Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci initialled the first ever agreement between Belgrade and Pristina that should lead to normalisation of relations between the two former enemies. The 15-point agreement, signed in Br ...
  • Poachers Close in on Last Rhino Retreat
    The year 2013 opened on a disastrous note for the one-horned rhinoceros of the northeastern Indian state of Assam. At the beginning of April, officials in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), one of the last retreats left in South Asia for these endangered creatures, reported that 17 rhinos had be ...
  • Global Campaign to Ban Killer Robots Models La ...
    When international human rights groups launch a global campaign next week to ban “fully autonomous weapons”, they will follow in the footsteps of the highly-successful 1990s collective worldwide effort to ban anti-personnel landmines and blinding lasers. The new campaign, to be launc ...
  • World Bank Urged to Include Human Rights in Sa ...
    Backed by the German government and prominent civil society voices, United Nations experts are calling for the World Bank to explicitly incorporate international human right standards into its “safeguards” to minimise negative impacts of bank financing on vulnerable communities and e ...
  • Learn From the Children
    Gordon Brown, U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of Britain, writes that our failure to reach the marginalised is a result of universal development goals that do not explicitly target resources on the most vulnerable populations. Without corrective remedies, unequa ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • How the West missed a chance to make peace wit ...
    Summary: It is reasonable to conclude that the EU states were not interested in devising “objective guarantees that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes”. So what is going on? Why all the anger, the endless barrage of rhetoric and the ruthless drive to isolate Iran, ...
  • Iran’s Nuclear Odyssy by Vaez and Sadjadpour
    Summary: My critique of "Iran’s Nuclear Odyssy", by Vaez and Sadjadpour published by the Carnegie Endowment: -- this was posted but in a highly edited form on the Gulf200 Listserve so I thought people should have a chance to read the full version. source: Iran Affairsread more
  • Clapper: Iran Still Not Building Nukes; Sancti ...
    Summary: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee today and reiterated the same assessment regarding Iran as was delivered last month. source: W ...
  • Influential report questions the wisdom of the ...
    Summary: A report from a bipartisan cast of official Washington was issued today, this one on the Obama administration's Iran policy. Although it affirms the DC convention that Iran is some sort of serious threat to the US - a prerequisite for being viewed as Serious among its target audience ...
  • The Strategic and Moral Bankruptcy of U.S. San ...
    Summary: The Obama administration and other sanctions advocates claim that U.S.-instigated sanctions against the Islamic Republic are meant to achieve a range of objectives (changing Iran’s “nuclear calculus,” getting Iran “back to the negotiating table” and making it “negotiate in good faith ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Undetected Galaxies of the Universe --"90% of ...
                     Astronomers have realized they may have underestimated the number of galaxies in some parts of the universe by as much as 90 percent, according to a study in 2011 by Matthew Hayes of the University of Geneva's observatory, who led the investigation using the world's m ...
  • A Moment of Zen: Albert Einstein Plays Mozart ...
                 
  • Image of the Day: Stunning Views of the 'Pilla ...
             Two of the European Space Agency's (ESA) orbiting observatories captured spectacular views of the gas pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16) that were the subject of the iconic 1995 Hubble images dubbed "Pillars of Creation," which became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century ...
  • Stunning New Hubble Image of the Horsehead Nebula
                In this new Hubble image, the backlit wisps along the Horsehead's upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just out of view. Along the nebula's top ridge, two fledgling stars peek out from their now-exposed nurseries. Scientists know a hars ...
  • Image of the Day: Cosmic Water Geysers --Reach ...
                   The radio image above shows the water masers and the continuum emission in NGC 1052 --an elliptical galaxy that shows evidence of nuclear activity -- to detect motions of masers and continuum "blobs".  Three new water masers have been discovered in the Milky Way in rec ...

Natural News

  • Monsanto lies through their teetrh
    By now, most of us are aware of the controversy surrounding genetically modified crops that are horrendously sprayed with Monsanto's herbicide Roundup Ready with its active ingredient glyphosate. We know that the main GMO crops are soy, corn, cotton, sugar beets,...
  • Sound stimulation during sleep can boost memory
    Scientists from the University of Tubingen, Germany, have discovered a technique to improve both sleep and memory at the same time by playing sound waves attuned to the frequencies of the brain's oscillations, according to a study published in the journal Neuron. ...
  • Tired of insomnia? Research shows acupuncture ...
    According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 40 percent of U.S. women and 30 percent of U.S. men suffer from insomnia, a condition characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep. Fortunately, the traditional Chinese medical therapy...
  • Surgical errors too profitable to stop!
    When I wrote Death by Modern Medicine I was appalled at the level of abuse in the hospital industry leading to 783,936 deaths annually due to medical iatrogenesis. An April 17, 2013 Harvard School of Public Health study published in JAMA adds an even more macabre level...
  • Opinion: The U.S. Founding Fathers might (surp ...
    It is said frequently today, "Our founding fathers would roll over in their graves to see what is happening in America today." This may, indeed, be correct. The framers of our revolutionary country went to battle with the pen and the musket to live in liberty and justice...

Threat Level

  • Juror Jailed For Texting During Trial
    A 26-year-old Oregon man serving as a juror in an armed-robbery case was ordered jailed for two days after he was caught texting during the trial, the Marion County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday. When prosecutors were playing a video-taped interview ...
  • YouTube Prevails in Viacom Copyright Suit — Again
    Media giant Viacom lost yet another legal salvo today toward getting as much as $1 billion from Google for allegedly violating music and video copyrights on the YouTube video service.
  • Reddit Cofounder Calls on Google’s Larry Page ...
    The cofounder of the popular social news site Reddit has called on the leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter to help defeat a controversial cybersecurity bill that would compromise the privacy of their users if passed by lawmakers.
  • ACLU Asks Government to Investigate Phone Carr ...
    A complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission accuses wireless phone carriers with leaving millions of Android phone users vulnerable to attack from hackers by failing to distribute fixes for known security flaws in a timely manner.
  • Pirate Bay Cofounder Indicted on Hacking Charges
    The Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm was indicted today on hacking charges unrelated to his one-year prison sentence for running the world's most notorious and illicit file-sharing service.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rick Perry: Use Texas Rainy Day Fund to Pay fo ...
    Two weeks ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his state would forego billions of dollars in expanded federal Medicaid funding that could help provide health insurance for 1.5 million of his lower-income residents. Rejecting an estimated $90 billion over the next decade for his 46th ranked ...
  • Scarborough, Burnett Attack Obama over Tax Return
    Just in time for Tax Day, President Obama released his 2012 return to the IRS. And right on cue, conservative commentators blasted the President for paying only 18.4 percent ($112,000) of his $609,000 in income to Uncle Sam. Predictably, while CNN's Erin Burnett slammed Obama's payment to the ...
  • Raising Payroll Tax Cap is the Best Fix for So ...
    The United States may have serious longer-term fiscal problems, but Social Security is not chief among them. After all, the Social Security Trust Fund has a $2.7 trillion surplus and will continue to grow until 2021. Even though the population of Americans over 65 will grow by a third over the ...
  • Bush, Obama Tax Cuts Five Times Larger Than Pr ...
    Despite slashing the national debt by an additional $1.8 trillion over the next decade, President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget was received with two predictable talking points by Republican leaders. House Majority Eric Cantor, who previously complained about being called a "hostage ...
  • Will Max Baucus Betray Democrats on Taxes Again?
    At the very start of his political career back in the 1970's, Montana Senator Max Baucus asked New Deal veteran James Rowe Jr., "Do you think I should run as a Republican or a Democrat?" Rowe's uneasy answer--"I sure hope you'll be a Democrat"--has defined Baucus' career ever since. After all, ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Earth Day Infographic
    A friend of ours recently shot over this Earth Day infographic below for… Earth Day. It’s quite an interesting “green” growth and development over the years. Have a stroll: For more details on various events included in the Earth Day timeline, check out the Kars4Kids page ...
  • The Great Green Wall Of Africa — A 4,000 Mile ...
    One of the most unique large-scale international climate change projects is underway in Africa. A 4,000 mile “wall of trees” is being constructed across the east-west axis of the continent as a defense against rapid, expanding desertification of the Sahara. 11 nations — Maurita ...
  • Golden Zebra, Albino And Amelanistic Zebras, A ...
    Have you ever seen a Golden Zebra? If you haven’t, then it’s a good thing that you’ve found your way here, because they are awesome, as the pictures make clear. The term Golden Zebra refers alternately either to: an albino zebra, an amelanistic zebra, or as a type of zebroid kn ...
  • Horsehead Nebula Imaged By NASA’s Hubble Space ...
    The Horsehead Nebula was recently photographed in infrared by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in celebration of the 23rd anniversary of the famous telescope’s launch on April 24, 1990. The Horsehead Nebula is a cloud of thick dust, located just to the south of the bright star Alnitak. ...
  • Earth Day 2013, Free Funny eCards For Earthday
    For those looking to celebrate Earth Day with a bit of humor, and perhaps realism, I’ve gathered together some the funniest free ecards on the subject. Some of them are quite dead on… For a bit of background on the holiday, Earth Day is a holiday held annually on April 22, that is ce ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Cheney the Interrogator
  • I Understand The Strategy, But Obama May Be Ma ...
    I've taken a lot of time to weigh the pros and cons of President Obama's proposal for a "chained CPI" to bring about cuts in Social Security, etc. I've read a piece in defense of it, from the Democratic perspective. And, of course, it's not hard to find plenty of excoriations from the left. I've ...
  • Winning a ringside seat to terror atttack
    (Note: The following story on the traumatic experience of my wife's employees during the attack on the Boston Marathon on Monday appeared in one of our local newspapers, The Attleboro Sun Chronicle, yesterday. My wife was also interviewed on the day of the attack by phone by my brother, Bob Frie ...
  • They Messed With The Wrong City
    By @TedFrier The phone rang a little before 3:00. "Are you watching the news?" asked my mother-in-law, frantically. I wasn't. "Then turn on the TV. Two bombs just went off near the finish line at the Boston Marathon." There was good reason for my mother-in-law's tone of urgency. Though my wife w ...
  • The Crisis of Zionism, Conservatism
    By @TedFrier Before there was Governor Rick Scott's defiance of the US Justice Department's order to stop purging Hispanics and other dark-skinned Democrats from the Florida voter rolls, there was Avigdor Lieberman, foreign minister in Israeli leader Bibi Netanyahu's ruling Likud coalition, who ...

Care 2

  • As Final U.S. Decision Nears, A Lively Debate ...
    Elliot Entis, whose company has created a genetically modified salmon that may soon be for sale in the U.S., discusses the environmental and health impacts of this controversial technolog Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • King of Extinction? Lions Could Be Gone in 10 ...
    Today there may be as few as 20,000 lions left. And if the situation doesnt change dramatically, we could be looking at extinction within 10 to 20 years. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • As of March 2013 ALF Members have destroyed ov ...
    The traps were snares and Conibears intended to murder beaver, rabbits and other innocents. Tragically we were too late for two rabbits and one raccoon, whose bodies and internal organs had already been eaten into by snares. Submitted by roxie H. to Animals  |   Note-it!  | ...
  • Heads Up! Media Buy-Out! Conservative Koch Bro ...
    Koch Industries, is exploring a bid to buy the Tribune Companys eight regional newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Orlando Sentinel and The Hartford Courant. Submitted by roxie H. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Ad ...
  • Demand an End to Animal Testing at Imperial Co ...
    End Animal Testing Imperial College London Submitted by marie jones to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Terrorist Targeting and Anti-Muslim Hysteria–U ...
    The hysteria bandwagon is up and running. Leading the crazy crowd are the likes of Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham. They are all for foregoing Constitutional protections in the name of fighting terrorism. See, in their bizarre world, the threat posed by Hitler’s Germany, Stalin&#82 ...
  • Boston Marathon Was a Revenge Attack
    It is now clear why Tamerlane planned and carried out the attack in Boston–he was angry over the rejection of his application for US Citizenship. While he sought solace and training in the ranks of Chechen muslim extremists, the triggering event came in the aftermath of being charged with ...
  • Understanding the Chechen Link
    President Putin and his national security team, out of public view, probably are chortling over the karmic justice being visited upon the United States. In Russia, Putin and his team considered the folks we dubbed “Chechen separatists” as terrorists. And with good reason. The terrori ...
  • Chechen Immigrants Did the Deed–Open Thread
    Kiss immigration reform, along with gun control, goodbye. All thanks to two despicable Chechen immigrants who decided it would be a swell idea to set off two bombs at the Boston Marathon. Too bad for the liberal meme. These guys were not Tea Party supporters. They were not registered Republicans ...
  • BOO HOO OBAMA
    Boy. What a display of crocodile tears by Barack Obama in the wake of the gun control debacle in the Democrat controlled Senate. He was a tad bit testy. The dishonesty of Obama, Joe Biden and Harry Reid on the issue is startling. Not one damn thing they pushed would have prevented the horror tha ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • WV's King Coal Highway Authority want $248M fr ...
    WV's King Coal Highway Authority want $248M from feds State Journal West Virginia has enlisted coal companies to help build the road — a move that has angered environmental groups that claim the partnership effectively subsidizes mountaintop removal mining. Through the public-private partner ...
  • An Earth Day for Tennessee - The Tennessean
    An Earth Day for Tennessee The Tennessean Mountaintop removal has been a major issue in the state for years. Environmentalists are trying a new tack. / Shelley Mays / File / The Tennessean. A TDOT sign on Interstate 24 warns of poor air quality. Upgrades. Purchase Image Zoom ... and mo ...
  • Coal-backed research takes on mining health st ...
    Coal-backed research takes on mining health studies Charleston Gazette Scientists backed by a $15 million industry-funded research project are picking apart -- and trying to disprove -- a series of studies that found coalfield residents near mountaintop-removal mining operations face greater ris ...
  • King Coal Highway Authority want $248M from fe ...
    King Coal Highway Authority want $248M from feds Martins Ferry Times Leader West Virginia has enlisted coal companies to help build the road — a move that has angered environmental groups that claim the partnership effectively subsidizes mountaintop removal mining. Through the public-private par ...
  • Appalachia's Bright Future Conference is this ...
    Appalachia's Bright Future Conference is this weekend - WKYT.com WKYT Officials with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth say mountaintop removal is the only type of coal mining they do not support. "We really need to do something about the pollution and effects of a certain type of coal mi ...

Memeorandum

  • Boston Police commissioner on marathon investi ...
    Chris Wallace / Fox News: Boston Police commissioner on marathon investigation; Feinstein and King talk War on Terror; ‘Big Brother’ the solution to homeland security?  —  Special Guests: Commissioner Ed Davis, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Peter King, Commissioner Cha ...
  • Offer Ends Soon, Act Now: Keystone Pipeline Pu ...
    Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress: Offer Ends Soon, Act Now: Keystone Pipeline Public Comment Period Closes On Monday  —  Worried that the disaster-for-the-climate Keystone XL pipeline will get construction approval to pump 51 coal plants' worth of carbon into the atmosphere?&nbsp ...
  • Jon Huntsman Holds His Ground as Republicans C ...
    David Catanese / The Daily Beast: Jon Huntsman Holds His Ground as Republicans Come Around to His Views  —  His 2012 primary bid fell flat, but the party may be moving toward where Huntsman is already standing, reports David Catanese.  —  Jon Huntsman's 2012 pres ...
  • A Day of Terror - I always know it's my birthd ...
    Ruth O'Brien: A Day of Terror  —  I always know it's my birthday when things start blowing up.  A close friend from Germany would telephone, and for the life of me, I was flattered and impressed: How did she remember?  That was until I recalled that the New York Times ...
  • Americans who distrust Muslims are likelier to ...
    Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog: Americans who distrust Muslims are likelier to back the war on terror  —  Poli-Sci Perspective is a weekly Wonkblog feature in which Georgetown University's Dan Hopkins and George Washington University's Danny Hayes and John Sides offer an empirical pe ...

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China Dialogue

  • 教训惨痛:中&#222 ...
    中国企业越来越不愿在动荡地区承包工程，开始把重点转向欧美市场。2008年，中国水&#21 ...
  • 环境外交：&#2615 ...
    全球在环境上的期望和中国所面临的现实问题是一对不可避免的矛盾，在环境外交上 ...
  • 整镇迁移：&#2001 ...
    为了给秘鲁的一个采矿项目让路，中国投资商搬迁了整个城镇及其全部人口，这代表 ...
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    中国是众多发展中国家以很低成本获取所需投资的参照，西方国家在这一方面还有许 ...
  • 中国地球工&#3124 ...
    为了应对干旱，中国政府加大了人工增雨的力度。然而，不少专家对此却持怀疑态度 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Unbelievable! Bowles and Simpson Release New D ...
    The deficit duo tries to poison the public with more bad policy based on bad math. On April 19, just after I had written about how the key academic research used to bolster austerity policies was exposed by a 28-year-old grad student at U Mass, Amherst, I got a surprise in my email box.In the ...
  • What Will Inspire You to Take Action? 5 Earth ...
    What will it take before we have a critical mass to move us toward a sustainable future? This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Since 2011, when I first read Deep Green Resistance by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Aric McBay I’ve been haunted by a ...
  • Resource Shock: How Resource Scarcity and Clim ...
    Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, b ...
  • Bill Moyers: A Mother's War Against Toxic Tres ...
    With government captured by the very industries it’s supposed to regulate, the time for direct action is now. From Billmoyers.com.BILL MOYERS: Welcome.This week in the streets of Boston, we were reminded once again that civilization is too often a thin veneer stretched across the passio ...
  • The Boston Bomber Brothers Got the Attention T ...
    The suspects were nobodies who wanted to spread fear. A citywide lockdown and media hysteria helped them do that. A major American city was largely shut down for an entire day because of the hunt for someone who, based on initial reports, was quite possibly a confused, apolitical teenager, wh ...

Threat Level

  • Juror Jailed For Texting During Trial
    A 26-year-old Oregon man serving as a juror in an armed-robbery case was ordered jailed for two days after he was caught texting during the trial, the Marion County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday. When prosecutors were playing a video-taped interview ...
  • YouTube Prevails in Viacom Copyright Suit — Again
    Media giant Viacom lost yet another legal salvo today toward getting as much as $1 billion from Google for allegedly violating music and video copyrights on the YouTube video service.
  • Reddit Cofounder Calls on Google’s Larry Page ...
    The cofounder of the popular social news site Reddit has called on the leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter to help defeat a controversial cybersecurity bill that would compromise the privacy of their users if passed by lawmakers.
  • ACLU Asks Government to Investigate Phone Carr ...
    A complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission accuses wireless phone carriers with leaving millions of Android phone users vulnerable to attack from hackers by failing to distribute fixes for known security flaws in a timely manner.
  • Pirate Bay Cofounder Indicted on Hacking Charges
    The Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm was indicted today on hacking charges unrelated to his one-year prison sentence for running the world's most notorious and illicit file-sharing service.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Let your Food Safety Voice be heard
    Food Safety News has been up and running now for four years now.  We are seeing millions of visitors a year and have over 25,000 subscribers.  We are proud that... Continue Reading
  • Food Safety News Wins Five Washington Press As ...
    Food Safety News writers, Cookson Beecher and James Andrews were at the Washington Press Association Awards luncheon today and scored big – taking home a total of five awards. Here’s what Cookson took... Continue Reading
  • Foodborne Illness Rates Continue to Fall – And ...
    Work at Marler Clark has been a bit slower in both 2011 and 2012 – and, that really is a good thing.  Less work translates into less illnesses – and,... Continue Reading
  • Poisoned coming out in paperback in May
    I got a call this morning from Jeff Benedict, author of Poisoned, that the book is coming out in paperback in a few weeks.  Hard to believe that in has... Continue Reading
  • A Washington Salmonella Virchow Outbreak Heads ...
    In early October 2012, the Clark County Public Health Department (“the health department”) received the first reports of a cluster of Salmonella Virchow infections occurring in the county.  Additional reports... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...
  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Parents of Boston Marathon bombing suspects de ...
    James Legge The father of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers has revealed that the FBI questioned the older of the two brothers two years ago, about possible terrorist links. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan, are suspected of carrying out Monday’s bombing, which ki ...
  • BOSTON BOMBING – Did you notice this? &# ...
    BOSTON BOMBING – Did you notice this? – YouTube.
  • PROOF! Boston Marathon Bombing is Staged Terro ...
    PROOF! Boston Marathon Bombing is Staged Terror Attack – YouTube.
  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | An Open Letter t ...
    By Visible I know you have a lot on your plate at the moment; probably do at any moment but… someone just thrashed one of your most enduring traditions, The Boston Marathon. It’s the oldest tradition of it’s kind. It was a surgical strike, professionally delivered but… gi ...
  • Some “hard lessons” from the Boston bombing | ...
    by Jim Fetzer “The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?”—Trevor Aaronson In a performance that would have made the Marx Brothers proud, DHS and the FBI managed to turn themselves in an international jok ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Span of 30 D ...
    Also known as the Tarantula nebula, 30 Doradus is a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud and is one of the most active areas of star formation in the night sky.
  • Watch Live: Second Launch Attempt for Orbital ...
    Watch a live rocket launch as Orbital Sciences Corp. tries to send their new Antares vehicle into space. NASA’s coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. PST/4:30 p.m. EST with the launch scheduled for a half hour later, 2 p.m. PST/5 p.m. ...
  • The Art of Physics: Winning Photos of Giant Pa ...
    Physics laboratories around the world house amazing machines that probe the heart of matter and unlock the secrets of the universe. Incredible as their scientific work is, these particle accelerators, heavy ion colliders, gamma ray detectors, and neutrino experiments are ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Farthest Sup ...
    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion of our suns. The beacon of radiation arrived at Earth 10 billion years later ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Horsehead Nebula ...
    Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

PakAlert

  • Why does Boston celebrate Martial Law with cha ...
    Last night in Boston, following the apprehension of a 19 year old student suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, crowds poured on to the streets of Watertown and surrounding boroughs, celebrating what they believe was an end of their terrible ordeal which began on Monday
  • FBI Casting Set Stage for Boston Marathon Bomb ...
    CBS reveals in their report, "CBS News: FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 Years Ago," that the FBI initially attempted to deny any contact prior to the Boston bombings with slain suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It was only after Russia's RT publicly pursued the story that the FBI finally admitted o ...
  • Cancer risk chemical acrylamide is found in KF ...
    Raised levels of a chemical linked to cancer have been found in a range of foods from KFC meals to breakfast cereals. Food watchdogs identified the increased quantities of acrylamide in 14 popular products. The chemical is formed when foods are roasted, toasted or fried at very high temper ...
  • North Korea Won’t Give Up Nuclear Weapons, Pyo ...
    North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a U.S. condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss disarmament. North Korea, in a sign of a possible end to weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula, offered the United ...
  • Washington may exploit Boston blasts for milit ...
    An analyst tells Press TV that the US administration will use the Boston bombings as an excuse to tighten security within its borders by increasing military presence in the US cities

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo Hunger Strike: Clive Stafford Smith ...
    As the prison-wide hunger strike continues at Guantánamo, and even the authorities are admitting that 84 of the remaining 166 prisoners are on hunger strike (edging ever closer to the figure of 130 cited by the prisoners themselves), it remains imperative that those of us who are committed to th ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantána ...
    The hunger strike in Guantánamo, which is now in its 74th day, continues to draw attention, although it is important that everyone who cares about it keeps publicizing the story — and keeps reminding the mainstream media to keep reporting it — or it will be lost in the hysteria emana ...
  • “It’s Going to End in Men Dying&#8 ...
    As the hunger strike continues to rage at Guantánamo, with at least 130 of the remaining 166 prisoners involved, I’m delighted to have the opportunity to cross-post an interview with Carlos Warner, an attorney with the Office of the Federal Defender for the Northern District of Ohio, who r ...
  • Fog, Prison and the Sea: Photos of the Isle of ...
    Fog, Prison and the Sea: The Isle of Portland at Night, a set on Flickr. Last week, I was in Dorset for a four-day holiday with my family, staying in a rather magical, liminal place — Chiswell, a little village on the eastern end of Chesil Beach, on the Isle of Portland. Chesil Beach is [...]
  • “Kindness is Better than Greed”: P ...
    “Kindness is Better than Greed”: A Response to Margaret Thatcher on the Day of Her Funeral, a set on Flickr. To paraphrase William Shakespeare, I came to bury Margaret Thatcher, not to praise her. However, due to a hospital appointment, I missed the procession and only arrived at St. ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Getting the garlic blues
    Pickler Andrew Dalby responded to one of my recent tweets about not cooking asparagus in lemon juice because it discolours it. He had found that his garlic cloves turned blue when he pickled them in spiced malt vinegar. The discolouration doesn’t mean that the pickles are inedible. Now pla ...
  • What if Greg House MD were on twitter?
    What if Dr Gregory House were on twitter? Hungardian doctor Berci Meskó MD PhD ‏knows his medical communities and uses the internet like a pro in his practice: “We must include digital literacy in the medical curriculum,” he tells TEDxNijmegen ;-) What if Greg House MD were on twitte ...
  • Get Deceived Wisdom audio book free
    You can grab a copy of my book Deceived Wisdom, as narrated by actor Kris Dyer (Radio 2, Nice Mum, Edinburgh Fringe etc), for free with the Audible introductory offer. Sign up for a free trial here, download my book and listen on your iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone or any of more than 500 ...
  • Science mob to attack austerity
    Austerity measures – cutbacks in other words – are taking their toll on science. A special issue of The Euroscientist brings together an analysis of the impact of austerity on scientists and their research and the growing brain drain. The magazine is also encouraging other scientists ...
  • The Daily Fail
    Periodically I receive links to stories in the British “tabloid” newspaper, The Daily Mail, from Sciencebase readers. I am yet to see anything in that paper that is worth the ink or electrons. Moreover, I wouldn’t even deem it fit to be torn up into squares and hung from a stri ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama Accused of Nuclear U-Turn as Guided Weap ...
    Barack Obama has been accused of reneging on his disarmament pledges after it emerged the administration was planning to spend billions on upgrading nuclear bombs stored in Europe to make the weapons more reliable and accurate. Under the plan, nearly 200 B61 gravity bombs stockpiled in Belgium, ...
  • US Admits 16 Guantanamo Detainees Being Force-Fed
    "A hunger strike was my only chance to get out of this hell." - Guantánamo detainee (Photo: Justin Norman)Half of the 166 detainees as the Guantánamo Bay prison are on hunger strike and 16 of them are being force-fed, a US military official stated Saturday, a further acknowledg ...
  • Denial of Boston Suspect's Rights 'Yet Another ...
    Civil liberties groups are decrying "yet another erosion of the Constitution" following reports from officials that the main Boston bombing suspect would not be read his Miranda rights before being questioned. As CNN reports: rea ...
  • US Resumes Trend of Drone Attacks on Yemen
    A US drone strike in Yemen killed two people described in corporate media as suspected al Qadeda militants on Sunday, the second such attack in the country in less than a week. The strike hit a house in Wadi Adeeda in the Marib province, east of the capital, which was reportedly storing weapons. ...
  • Little Oversight at Texas Fertilizer Plant Tha ...
    The fertilizer plant in West, Texas that exploded on Wednesday night killing 14 people was last inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1985, and had failed to disclose to the Department of Homeland Security that it was storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium ...

Lifehacker

  • Wear Socks to Fall Asleep Easily
    If you're having trouble getting to sleep, the problem might not be in your head. In fact, it might be in your feet.Read more...    
  • Monotony Adds RSS Feeds to Your Mac's Notifica ...
    OS X: If you want to be notified as soon as our favorite web sites are updated, Monotony is a simple, free solution for your Mac.Read more...    
  • I need a creative way to propose to the love o ...
    I need a creative way to propose to the love of my life. Any ideas?Does anybody rip Blu-Ray discs on their mac? What external drive / software do you use?Let's say Email was no longer a free commodity. How much would you pay for it?I have a laptop with a broken screen. How can I make it "he ...
  • Keep Your Hands Clean with a Pop-Up Pringles Can
    The iconic Pringles can is great for keeping your chips from breaking, but it becomes a grease trap once you've eaten half the can and you have to jam your hand down the tube. Luckily, there is a clever DIY solution to keep your chips intact and your hands clean.Read more...   &n ...
  • Wash New Jeans with Vinegar to Increase Their ...
    You don't need to wash jeans as often as some of your other clothes, but when you do, a little vinegar can help keep them the right shade of blue.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Water Wars: Court ruling may affect hundreds o ...
    After seven years of litigation, a state water court judge has issued a ruling finding that the Pondera County Canal and Reservoir Co. has been trading, selling and exchanging water rights inappropriately for 40 years.
  • HART: Water Wars: Don’t mess with Tennessee
    Published: Friday, April 19, 2013 at 17:29 PM. “It is feared that if today they come for our river, tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniel’s or George Dickel.”
  • Saturday letters to the editor
    As a senior citizen who has lived through many an Orange Crush on the south end of Tybee Island, I feel I am qualified to comment on Dick Smith's Letter to the Editor on April 17, "Protecting our town.
  • Editorial: Accelerating Corpus Christi water r ...
    Anyone who thinks the city is jumping the gun by imposing stage 3 water restrictions a month early needs to Google “water wars.” It’ll reveal a history of serious skirmishes — between ranchers and the city of Los Angeles in the early 20th century, between Georgia and Tennessee now
  • VIDEO: Water wars: US states fight over Rio Gr ...
    Texas and New Mexico are locked in a dispute over the Rio Grande River, and it could end up being decided by the US Supreme Court

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Let’s Rename Earth Day
    Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. In 2008, I wrote a piece for Salon about renaming ‘Earth’ Day. It was supposed to be mostly humorous. Or mostly serious. Anyway, the subject of renaming Earth Day remains more relevant than ever in ligh ...
  • Second-Degree Murdoch: Pollutocrat Kochs Targe ...
    The NY Times reports today that the Koch brothers are hoping to become media moguls like Rupert Murdoch: Now, Koch Industries, the sprawling private company of which Charles G. Koch serves as chairman and chief executive, is exploring a bid to buy the Tribune Company’s eight regional newspapers, ...
  • Arkansas Republicans: Shoot Lawmakers For Expa ...
    Republicans in Benton County, Arkansas are not happy that their state legislators have agreed to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. In this month’s newsletter, columnist Chris Nogy encouraged his fellow Republicans to utilize their 2nd Amendment rights to make sure that lawmakers — particula ...
  • Top Conservatives Admit Boston Bombing Suspect ...
    On Friday, while the manhunt for suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continued, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) published a series of tweets suggesting that he wanted to revive the George W. Bush-era debates about whether terrorism suspects can be denied many constitutional rights and tried ...
  • Koch Brothers Plan To Buy Up Eight Major Newsp ...
    The billionaire oil moguls Charles and David Koch are pushing ahead with their plans to purchase several news outlets across the United States, according to a detailed report in the New York Times on Sunday. At a recent seminar in Aspen, one attendee reported that the brothers — infamous f ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Oh Yeah; Cooperation, Followed by Proportional ...
    The not-anti-democratic, constitutional parties should cooperate to defeat harper, hold him accountable, and implement proportional representation. After that, they can get back to hating each other all they want. [I think I'll stick to posting silent-screen starlets for my ironicalist "eye-ca ...
  • First-past-the-post + divided opposition = har ...
    This sanctimonious, falsehood-filled, ethically bankrupt article is good for something. harper will probably win the next election if things continue as they are going. And, no. I don't want to go to a street corner somewhere and pointlessly protest something for an hour or so. I wish we spent ...
  • Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Obama Liberals
    President Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan (like he said he would), attempted to prolong the occupation of Iraq past the exit date negotiated by bush II, supported the TARP bail-outs, presides over the torture of Bradley Manning, failed at his promise to transfer the prisoners at Guantanamo ...
  • Remember Afghanistan? It Was In All the Newspa ...
    I wouldn't begrudge Canada's paying over one-billion dollars a year to free a country of 30 million people from tyranny. Seriously. But I do kinda resent Canada's having spent almost $20 billion since 2001 in Afghanistan to impose one brutal tyranny on that country, rather than another one. S ...
  • An Islamic Bomb
    Philosopher Sam Harris has the dubious honour of sharing fellow "New" Atheist Christopher Hitchens' bigotry against Muslims. (Richard Dawkins appears to think that Islamic fundamentalism is the worst sort of fundamentalism but I'm not sure that he supports the US-backed invasions of their countr ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • How would you spend the money?
    Today is the Global Day of Action On Military Spending. How would you spend the money wasted wasted on weapons and war?
  • Arctic ships a titanic blunder
    A new report examining the government’s plans to build Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
  • Responses from political parties
    On March 3rd Ceasefire.ca supporters and allies responded en masse to Be Heard – No Attack Drones! Nearly 6,000 letters have been sent so far! Ceasefire.ca has received responses from the Green Party and the NDP.
  • UN adopts Arms Trade Treaty
    On April 2nd, the UN General Assembly voted to approve a draft treaty to control the global arms trade. The proposed treaty leaves it largely up to the arms exporters themselves to determine the appropriateness of their exports. But groups working to control the arms trade are hopeful that by es ...
  • Drones update from Ottawa
    Thousands of emails and postcards are being sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other party leaders, and we are more than halfway to our goal of delivering 10,000 messages to Parliament. But there is a lot more work to be done.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • The Flu Season Is Upon Us
    Here are a few of my personal recommendations for avoiding the flu this holiday season. These recommendations are also the best way to slow, or potentially reverse, the aging process, making you look and feel younger than you have in years. In general terms the way to eradicate any and all illne ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
    Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-22-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind Subway’s false and misleading advertising, body scanner radiation vs. airplane radiation, and even Your Wish Is Your Command! Self Help: Protect You & Your Family Grass Fed Beef & Dairy Change The Way You Think Health: Your PC, TV or Cell Phone May B ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • Get Ready
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Jon Taylor For the day when Man goes to judgment having destroyed himself and the planet he lived on, and the assembly of the risen turns as one to view this creature - some f ...
  • Compensation talks over flotilla raid a key te ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCompensation talks over flotilla raid a key test for Turkey-Israeli relations Raw StoryBy Agence France-Presse   AFP – Israeli and Turkish officials meet on Monday for talks on compensation over a deadly Israe ...
  • Mayor says police may not be able to interroga ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMayor says police may not be able to interrogate surviving Boston bomb suspect Raw StoryBy Karen McVeigh, The Guardian   The surviving Boston bombings suspect is so seriously injured that investigators may struggle ...
  • Israeli Airlines Struck by War on Terror
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsraeli Airlines Struck by War on Terror By Roy TovSunday, April 21st, 2013 Israeli Airlines Struck by War on Terror Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it Psalms 34:14 AMANPOUR: …can you look at ...
  • Glenn Beck’s Info on Obama Bombing Coverup Rel ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comForeign reports link Saudi with Islamic terrorists Prison Planet.com April 21, 2013 Glenn Beck’s big story tomorrow will likely revolve around the Saudi person of interest, 20-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi&#821 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Richard Wolff: Obama Preaches Stimulus to Euro ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews – Apr 20, 2013 Richard Wolff: Low wages, cheap money, and cheap equipment are driving higher profits and the politics of austerity. see Social Security Belongs To The Workers by Kathy Durkin Rep. Keith Ellison’s “Inclusive Prosperity Act” by Ralph Nader Richard Wolff ...
  • Social Security Belongs To The Workers by Kath ...
    Dandelion Salad by Kathy Durkin Workers World April 20, 2013 What will happen to our Social Security benefits? This question is being asked by the program’s 56 million recipients in response to the Obama administration’s proposal to cut the annual cost-of-living raise for all who receive these m ...
  • Postal Cutbacks Blocked by Melissa Rakestraw
    Dandelion Salad Postal worker Melissa Rakestraw reports on a retreat in the attack on the post office. SocialistWorker.org April 16, 2013 A PLAN to eliminate Saturday mail delivery and slash postal jobs has been canceled for now, according to an April 10 statement from the U.S. Postal Service Bo ...
  • Sandra Steingraber: The Toxic Assault on Our C ...
    Dandelion Salad http://billmoyers.com BillMoyers.com http://vimeo.com/64370007 April 19, 2013 Biologist, mother and activist Sandra Steingraber joins Bill to explain why she was willing to go to jail — and did — for blocking access to the construction of a storage and transportation facility inv ...
  • Rep. Keith Ellison’s “Inclusive Prosperi ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 17, 2013 Citizens concerned about our national debt and wheeling and dealing on Wall Street should energetically support Rep. Keith Ellison’s (D-Minn.) “Inclusive Prosperity Act.” The “Inclusive Prosperity Act” would enact a speculation tax tha ...

Your New Reality

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

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