Sunday, April 21, 2013

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Wired - 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Palestine Studies TV: In-depth conversation on ...
    Palestine Studies TV host Omar Baddar sits down with Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University, and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, to discuss... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo ...
    The “Land of Israel” is barely mentioned in the Old Testament: the more common expression is the Land of Canaan. When it is mentioned, it does not include Jerusalem, Hebron, or Bethlehem. Biblical... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Amira Hass discusses her article defending Pal ...
    Journalist Amira Hass drew heavy criticism from Israeli media about her op-ed in last week defending the right of Palestinians to throw stones, and was accused of incitement to violence by the Yesha... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • APJP: Petition to Eduardo Souto de Moura to re ...
    [W]e were saddened to hear that you have been awarded the 2013 Israeli Wolf Prize for Architecture, not because you are not deserving of such awards, but that it is being offered to you by the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • WikiLeaks: US blamed Israel for peace delay in ...
    US diplomats: "Before talking about extermination, and before allowing either the Masada or the Samson complex to progress to obsession, the Israelis might usefully examine their own position and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Low-Dose Aspirin Stymies Proliferation of Two ...
    Regular use of low-dose aspirin may prevent the progression of breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., and the University of Kansas Medical Center. They will present their results at the Experimental Biology 2013 conference i ...
  • A Scientist on a Mission: Not Enough Is Being ...
    When thousands of researchers gather in Boston for the Experimental Biology 2013 conference this weekend, many of them undoubtedly will be presenting work related to the hunt for the next generation of antibiotics and how to battle back existing and emerging superbugs. But for one scientist from ...
  • Stem Cell Transplant Restores Memory, Learning ...
    For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember.
  • Hundreds of Potential Drug Targets to Starve C ...
    A massive study analyzing gene expression data from 22 tumor types has identified multiple metabolic expression changes associated with cancer, as well as hundreds of potential drug targets that could cut off a tumor's fuel supply or interfere with its ability to synthesize essential building bl ...
  • A Check on Tension
    A recent study published by Ludwig scientists in Nature upends the model for how dividing cells monitor the equal distribution of their chromosomes--a process that often runs awry in cancer. By targeting Aurora B kinase, their discovery has overturned the prevailing model of advanced cell division.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Why Kiobel’s Rejection of Universal Jurisdicti ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Our discussion of Kiobel has been fascinating, but it has been focused on the question of what exactly is left of the ATS in the future and what differences exist between the majority opinion and the various concurrences. In our contribution today to Forbes.com, John ...
  • Events and Announcements: April 21, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers We have launched our own call for papers aimed at LL.M, Ph.D and S.J.D. students as well as those practitioners/academics within the first five years post-degree to participate in our New Voices symposium starting in July. The deadline for 200-wor ...
  • Saif Gaddafi Gets a New Lawyer (For Now)
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Pre-Trial Chamber has granted the OPCD’s request to withdraw from the case and has appointed the OPCD’s chosen replacement, John RWD Jones QC, to represent Saif until such time as he is either able to choose his own lawyer or the ICC fina ...
  • Weekend Roundup: April 13 – 19, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, it was hard to miss our insta-symposium on the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. Ken beat Julian to the punch to break the news and link to the opinions. The core part of Chief Justice Roberts’ opin ...
  • Kiobel Insta-Symposium: Questions of Personal ...
    by Ishai Mooreville [Ishai Mooreville is an attorney at Baker & Miller PLLC, Washington, DC.  His forthcoming article on the 1795 Bradford Opinion regarding the Alien Tort Statute can be found here.] The opinions expressed in this article belong to the author alone, and the author has not ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Border Groups Say “Gang of Eight&#822 ...
    AZ Border Groups Say “Gang of Eight” Bill Promising PHOENIX – Immigrant rights advocates in Arizona say there's a lot to like about the so-called Gang of Eight immigration reform proposal, but also several areas for concern. Tucson immigration attorney Mo Goldman calls the me ...
  • Helping AZ Children Feel Safe After Boston Tragedy
    Helping AZ Children Feel Safe After Boston Tragedy PHOENIX - In the wake of the Boston tragedy, parents are being reminded how such events can emotionally traumatize young children. The images and stories splashed everywhere can have a negative impact on a child's well-being, said psychologist ...
  • Colorado Named America’s "Most Endangere ...
    Colorado Named America’s "Most Endangered" River PHOENIX - The Colorado River, which shrinks to a trickle near Yuma before reaching the sea, is the nation's most-endangered river, according to an annual report from American Rivers. Demand for its water now exceeds supply, and the situation ...
  • GYT (Get Yourself Tested) During STD Awareness ...
    GYT (Get Yourself Tested) During STD Awareness Month PHOENIX - This is STD Awareness Month and, for the fifth year, MTV, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Planned Parenthood and the Centers for Disease Control are partnering in the GYT Campaign - "Get Yourself Talking, Get Yourself Tested." Accord ...
  • Tax Professional Has Last-Minute Advice for Pr ...
    Tax Professional Has Last-Minute Advice for Procrastinators PHOENIX - For some people, this will be a busy day, gathering all the stuff they need to file their taxes. The deadline is midnight, and for Arizonans who waited until the last minute, it's often a mad dash to pull the appropriate docum ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • 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 ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • ‘Shelter In Place’ a poor substitute for resil ...
    These drills against atomic bombs protected about as much as Shelter in Place does now. Being ordered to sit at home helpless is no solution “Shelter in Place,’an awkward phrase devised by Homeland Security, means everyone except first responders must stay inside, presumably cowering ...
  • 8th grader arrested for wearing NRA t-shirt to ...
    Credit: theepochtimes.com/ Our public schools have degenerated into no-freedom zones where petty tyrants enforce arbitrary rules, like no NRA t-shirts, that would be unacceptable elsewhere. How anyone can get an education in a lock-down culture like this is beyond me. The real purpose of public ...
  • Texas fertilizer plant bomb kills more than Bo ...
    Credit: rt.com Does Homeland Security Apply to The Whole Homeland? Boston’s bombings have brought out all kinds of conspiracy theory and bigoted reactions, even though nobody knows anything with much certainty yet. The West Fertilizer Company explosion on April 17 resulted from an actual, Ameri ...
  • Immigration reform. Employer incentive to hire ...
    The Law of Unintended Consequences meets in the deeply convoluted intersection of immigration reform and Obamacare Under the immigration reform bill, some employers would have an incentive of up to $3,000 per year to hire a newly legalized immigrant over a U.S. citizen. In avoiding one controver ...
  • Conservative’s heads explode on Chechnya Whiteness
    Chechnya is in the Caucasus and most people there are indeed Caucasian. Chauncey at We Are Respectable Negroes ponders the ramifications of this. I joked on Twitter that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokar Tsarnaev are putting the status of Chechens as full members of the “white race” in ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • WAR ON MUSLIMS; RT Promotes Russia & US Work T ...
    The following RT propaganda piece further supports my article from earlier today suggesting that Russia and the US are joining forces to fight their “common enemy”… Muslims. RT likes to invoke “Chechen Terrorism”, and claims the Tsarnaev Brothers were “Chechen ...
  • Marathon runner survives Boston bombings then ...
    Marathon runner Joe Berti poses for a photo in Austin, Texas, Thursday, April 18, 2013. Berti had just finished the Boston Marathon seconds before two bombs exploded at the finish line. Two days later, he was in his home state of Texas when he saw a fertilizer plant explode near Waco. (AP Photo/ ...
  • Boston Black Ops: Manufacturing Terror
        by Stephen Lendman   Mounting evidence suggests state-sponsored terrorism. Expect more later to confirm it. Cui bono matters most. Powerful interests benefit hugely. Ordinary people lose out.   War on terror 2.0 looms. Innocent people will suffer. Expect more repressive l ...
  • WAR ON MUSLIMS; Russia To Officially Join US I ...
    The recent “Chechen Terrorists” Boston Bombings baloney has really solidified my belief in how things are going to play out on the world stage in terms of alliances and wars.  Please see my comments below followed by a supporting article…     I’ve had the belief ...
  • Hospital Denies Involvement In Leak Of Grisly ...
    A grisly post-mortem photo of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers appears to have been taken early today after medical personnel turned the body over to law enforcement officials. The image of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, began circulating online this afternoon after it was posted on popular ...

The Air Vent

  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...
  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...
  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: video ads, voice calling, lo ...
    Facebook video ad units could come with TV price tags – Facebook is reportedly prepping to sell its new video ads with an “upfront”-type marketplace and TV-like prices. According to AdAge, Facebook will have four daily summer...
  • Facebook careers: communications, client servi ...
    Facebook is looking for a product manager to work on the Instagram team. The listing added this week is one of six open jobs focused on the photo sharing service. Overall, Facebook added 33 new positions...
  • Facebook hires and departures: FBX creator lea ...
    Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia-Martinez, who spearheaded the social network’s moves into the retargeting space with the Facebook Exchange, this week had his last day with the company. Garcia-Martinez came to Facebook in April 2011 after his company...
  • Guest Post: One of Facebook’s Most Underestima ...
    This is a guest post by Mario Zelaya, Managing Director at Majestic Media, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer & digital marketing agency, specializing in custom apps and promotions for web and mobile. Facebook has been vigilant in...
  • Facebook brings Promoted Posts to mobile, test ...
    Facebook has brought its Promoted Posts feature for pages to its mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as m.facebook.com. At the same time, the company has begun testing different targeting options for page owners...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Boston and the Right-Wing Media's Collapse
    any in the far-right media worked to set news standards in mindless, awful behavior in the wake of the Boston attack. Faced with covering the most important American terror news story in a decade, too many players opted to just make stuff up. Prompting witch hunts, they cast innocents as would-b ...
  • Boston offers grim preview of coming attractio ...
    The Boston state of siege offers us a sort of "coming attractions" view of police state America, and the "Boston model" is likely to become normative going forward for police actions, warns TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
  • Joan Walsh's Analysis of What's the Matter wit ...
    In the new paperback edition of her election-year book WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH WHITE PEOPLE, Joan Walsh does not gloat about President Obama's re-election in 2012. But she recaps salient highlights of the 2012 election results. More importantly, she suggests that many white people who did not vot ...
  • Making the World a Better Place Through Inspir ...
    There was a fire in the forest and all the animals were running around going nuts.Then, a hummingbird went to the river and got a few drops of water in its beak and put it on the fire.Then, it got a few more drops of water.The lion saw the hummingbird and said, "Are you crazy, hummingbird? Why d ...
  • What to Do with G.W. Bush?
    A major bipartisan study confirms that George W. Bush's administration tortured detainees behind of a facade of legal excuses. The report recommends truth-telling and reforms. But the failure to hold Bush and his advisers accountable invites a replay of their criminal acts.

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 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 ...
  • Towards a Sustainable Kansas
    Kimi Narita, MAP Energy Fellow , Chicago Recently, the national media and blogosphere has picked up the story about a bill in Kansas that would outlaw public funding of sustainable development.  Most of the stories have been of shock, frustra ...
  • State's failure to provide critical documents ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC Today, the State Department made a wrong decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. It refused to grant needed additional time for the American public to analyze and comment on the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • West Fertilizer Violated Federal Anti-Terror R ...
    Does it go too far to call the West Fertilizer Corporation a terrorist corporation for its actions that led to the explosion that has killed at least 14 people so far, a number that could still go higher, and destroyed much of the town of West, Texas? Perhaps it goes too far to use such [...]
  • Foreign Entanglements: A Very Special Foreign ...
    On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Laura Seay and Steve Saideman talk Twitter Fight Club, graduate school, and irredentism:
  • Paraguay
    As we should all have expected, the Paraguayan quasi-coup that forced Fernando Lugo out of office seems to have worked out pretty well for the oligarchs, likely ushering them back into power and making the poor cynical that any political movement could improve their lot.
  • Jesus as Ceiling Cat
    I found this graphic in my Facebook feed yesterday. It occurs to me that if Jesus is a ghostlike disembodied head the size of your house, you may have no choice but to make him welcome in your home.
  • Principles
    Principled conservative Ted Cruz calls federal relief for Hurricane Sandy pork, wants federal relief after fertilizer plant explosion in Texas.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New Solar Cell Process Achieves Record Efficie ...
    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they have achieved a major breakthrough in the conversion of sunlight into electricity, surpassing what was long believed to be an absolute limit to the efficiency of solar cell devices. While the process used in the typical phot ...
  • As Final U.S. Decision Nears, A Lively Debate ...
    In an online debate for Yale Environment 360, Elliot Entis, whose company has created a genetically modified salmon that may soon be for sale in the U.S., discusses the environmental and health impacts of this controversial technology with author Paul Greenberg, a critic of GM fish.
  • Reducing Short-Lived Pollutants Could Slow Sea ...
    Reducing the emissions of four critical pollutants in the coming decades could at least temporarily slow the rate of global warming and reduce projected sea level rise by as much as 50 percent, according to a new study. Building on previous research that found that reducing the emissions of four ...
  • Outdated Management, Drought Threaten Colorado ...
    Drought, mismanagement, and over-exploitation of its waters have made the Colorado River — the lifeblood of the arid Southwest and drinking water source for 36 million people — among the most vulnerable rivers in Pete McBrideE360 VIDEO: The Colorado River: Running Near Empty the U.S., accordin ...
  • Interview: Using Citizen Power To Fund a U.S. ...
    Billy Parish is the president of Mosaic, an Internet “crowdfunding” service that lets individual investors put their money into commercial solar projects and earn a rate of return that Billy Parish currently beats anything offered by a bank. This month, California regulators authorized M ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The world that only formerly-blind people can see
    They once were blind but now they see. Which begs the question — what exactly do people see when they gain sight for the first time? Often, it’s terrifying. One of the earliest-known cases of regained sight is Virgil, the Roman poet. At age fifty, he had cataract surgery and regained his sight. ...
  • Anzor Tsarnev, father of Boston bomb suspects ...
    Anzor Tsarnaev, father of the 2 suspects, spoke with the Associated Press over the phone from his home in southern Russian republic of Dagestan. "My son is a true angel," the elder Tsarnaev said speaking about his 19 yearold son who is still at large. He said his son was "an intelligent boy" who ...
  • ’Lucky’ Lottos and the Vatican – Part 1: Light ...
    Get a load of this, people… That’s lightning striking the very top of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Actually, it struck twice. And not just on any day. This happened on February 11th, 2013, a mere few hours after Pope Benedict became the first Pope in 600 years to resign. How very odd, th ...
  • Getting Smart About Your Choices: Third Uranus ...
    Getting Smart About Your Choices: Third Uranus/Pluto Square—May 20, 2013. During the first two Uranus/Pluto squares many people woke up, actually intensely feeling their real connections to others. This is the awakening of the human heart. Of course, with so many people lighting up, chaos is ram ...
  • Nano-Suit Protects Bugs From Space-Like Vacuums
    Put a fruit fly larva in a spacelike vacuum, and the results aren’t pretty. Within a matter of minutes, the animal will collapse into a crinkled, lifeless husk. Now, researchers have found a way to protect the bugs: Bombard them with electrons, which form a "nano-suit" around their bodies. The a ...

Not My Tribe

  • Our collective lockdown mentality, lest a sire ...
    LOCKDOWN. The term has become ubiquitous, though lifted easily out of context, being self-explanatory. Its predecessor “batten down the hatches” used to be too. Before the advent of recreational sailing it came from a work environment synonymous with incarceration, in the days of deb ...
  • De mortuis nil nisi bonum is well and good but ...
    It’s probably older than Latin. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” is a propriety imposed at death, as if to offer the deceased a false comfort that, however fraudulent the pretense of their reputation in life, they can take it with them. Well, most commonly, “Don’t speak ...
  • Teen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is diminishing excuse f ...
    We pick up yesterday’s story with Watertown and Boston under lockdown, it’s a prison term go figure, while paramilitary police conduct door to door warrantless searches to find an immigrant teen, college wrestler Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said to be armed and extremely dangerous, who fled f ...
  • “Turn off your cellphone” or polic ...
    STREAMING OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING DENOUEMENT: DID YOU KNOW that law enforcement can tell you “If you want to live, turn off your cell phone.”? That was shouted to an AP reporter tonight in Watertown, just before he heard officers shout “Fire in the hole&#822 ...
  • Crowdsourced Boston Marathon pics point to usu ...
    YES, MORE CSI DIY CROWDSOURCING PHOTO-ANALYSIS! If you could anticipate that criminologists would scrutinize surveillance videos for who left what at the scene, or who behaved oddly after a bomb blast, you could probably plan to evade detection, by, for example, bringing a larger bag to conceal ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The FBI Would Never Manufacturer any Terror, W ...
    To hear the way the Salon.com article, "Alex Jones is phoning it in - Alex, your latest theory is terrible -- we expect more from you," tells it, you would think everything coming from Infowars.com on the Boston boming is Bunkum. Take for instance, the article "Full Extent of FBI Role in Bo ...
  • US Turns Away 1000′s of Cancer Patients, but h ...
    Tony Cartalucci Infowars.com April 21, 2013 The US has announced that it will provide militants in Syria, now openly admitted to being Al Qaeda terrorists, with $123 million in military aid – while thousands of cancer patients at home are being turned away from clinics because of budget cuts. C ...
  • Another Terror Attack; Another Terror Drill
    April 17, 2013 Source: Reinvestigate 9/11 If whistleblower Ali Stevenson is correct, it appears that yet again a terrorist attack, this time the Boston bomb, occurred at the same time as an official exercise was taking place. The Norwegian attack, the London 7/7 bombings and the 9/11 attacks a ...
  • Putting Their Money Where Their Vote Is
    Thursday, April 18, 2013 Bilbo's Blog Apparently, 844 people in a recent poll think 9/11 had inside help. If each one of those people chipped in five bucks, it would be more than enough to cover the costs of Mark Basile's proposed study of the WTC dust. Better yet, there are 1,877 architect ...
  • Another Scientific Study for 9/11 Truthers to ...
    Sunday, April 14, 2013 Bilbo's Blog 9/11 Truthers have already performed tests on dust samples from the WTC buildings and published their results in the peer-reviewed paper, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe. There is controversy about ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
    Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...
  • Worldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project ...
    Protesters will carry placards symbolizing the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of t ...
  • Ban upheld: Avatar tribe ‘to decide’ future of ...
    India's Supreme Court has recognized the Dongria Kondh's right to worship their sacred mountain in a landmark decision.© SurvivalIn a landmark ruling, the Indian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgiri hills. In a complex judgement, the c ...
  • Brazil ignores deadline to save Earth's most t ...
    The Awá are scared to go hunting in the forest because they fear attacks by illegal loggers.© SurvivalBrazil’s authorities have ignored an urgent deadline by a federal judge to evict all invaders from the heartland of Earth’s most threatened tribe by the end of March. The Awá tribe i ...
  • Enxet Indians take back their land
    Convicted fraudster Heribert Roedel bought up ancestral Enxet territory in Paraguay – and then evicted the Indians. © H Roedel’s Facebook pageA group of Enxet Indians in western Paraguay have moved back to their homeland after waiting for almost 20 years by the side of a highway for their ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism and Vaccine Injury: It's a Mad Mad Mad ...
    This week Cathy Jameson shared her post as "Mamacita" from the Thinking Moms' Revolution. It's a "Mad Libs" take on well visits. Remember Mad Libs? The small flip over story books where one person asked another for a verb, noun,...
  • Weekly Wrap: Yes, Blame Government For the Ret ...
    By Dan Olmsted The British media and medical establishment can't get over Andy Wakefield's gall when he claimed, in a post published here, that an outbreak of measles in Wales is squarely the fault of British health officials. Has the...
  • Dachel Media Update: Wales Measles
    NEWS VIDEOS FROM WALES---Coverage on the measles outbreaks. ITV made an attempt at covering both sides of the MMR controversy, although it's clearly NOT BALANCED. Here a mother, seen with her severely autistic son, refuses to vaccinate her youngest child...
  • What Happens When You're Gone? Aging Out – ASD ...
    By Dan Burns Our ASD kids turn 21 or 22 and the school bus stops coming, “student services” are gone and social services dwindle to a trickle, but life goes on for them. How independent will your adult child be?...
  • Book Review: The Thinking Moms' Revolution
    By Anne Dachel After reading the Thinking Moms’ Revolution, I know one thing: this is our book. The twenty-three moms and one dad included in TMR tell all our stories to some degree. And they are THINKING. They question, they...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • GMOs in USDA Organic Food
    It seems that “organic” does not mean “safe from tampering.” What sorts of “business interruptions” justify using non-organically produced annual seeds? I’m willing to bet that the dramatic effects on crops due to drought from climate change easily warrant such activity, under this clause; howe ...
  • New Study: Glyphosate Enhances Damaging Effect ...
    This study shows that glyphosate, the active ingredient of roundup, enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins.
  • Off Grid and Lovin’ It
    Most of us have wondered what it would be like to pack bag and baggage, move to a remote area of the country, be able to cut all ties to the outside world if necessary and live off-grid. Quite a daunting task, and a bit scary. But it can be done, as evidenced by Bud and Judy who did just that ar ...
  • Monsanto Madness (Graphic)
    New Farm Wars Graphic - Monsanto Madness!!!
  • Terminator Seeds and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
    Why is it that people are spreading the word that the Terminator seed is being marketed by Monsanto? Could it possibly be that the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” strategy is being used to pave the way for Monsanto to release this technology on a complacent populace?

new geography

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

water.org

  • Building Her Future: Mrs. Chawda's Story
    Galalben Keshubhai Chawda, pictured in red, is 38 years old and lives in Thakkerbapa Nagar, Ahmedabad, India. She has worked incredibly hard to become a successful construction worker and has skills in masonry, plastering, tiling, flooring and stone cutting. Here is her story, in her own words.
  • Feeling Good in India
    It is a known fact that children learn and absorb knowledge better than adults. Because of this, the ASOMI WSH Project, a partner of Water.org’s, initiated the Children Health Club Programme to teach good hygiene practices to rural school children.
  • Jeanne Jacque's Story
    Once her town rallied together, and worked with Water.org to dig a well, everything changed for Jeanne Jacque and her children.
  • Do something for World Water Day
    As you might imagine, World Water Day is our favorite holiday. There's no shortage of ways you can jump in!
  • Happiness in Selvi’s House
    Selvi is 37 years old and lives in Karattai Village in Vannur block, in Tamil Nadu. She and her husband work as agricultural laborers and have two daughters in school.

Cryptogon

  • Shots Fired Overnight at Watts Bar Nuclear Pow ...
    [???] Via: WBIR: TVA Police along with other authorities are investigating after a shooting involving a TVA nuclear security officer at their Watts Bar plant. Officials at the plant say the shooting happened early Sunday morning just after 2 a.m. on the Tennessee River side of the plant property ...
  • World’s largest Ocean Thermal Energy Con ...
    Via: Gizmag: Lockheed Martin has been getting its feet wet in the renewable energy game for some time. In the 1970s it helped build the world’s first successful floating Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system that generated net power, and in 2009 it was awarded a contract to develop an OT ...
  • Apple and Google Keep Voice App Data for Two Years
    Via: Engadget: It’s no secret that Apple hangs onto your Siri data for some length of time (as other companies so with search data and the like), but it hasn’t been clear exactly how long it keeps that data sitting on its servers. Wired has now cleared that up somewhat, though, heari ...
  • U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passe ...
    Via: EFF: Today, Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the U.S. House of Representatives as that legislative body considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies t ...
  • Fitch Downgrades United Kingdom to ‘AA+& ...
    Via: Reuters: Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United Kingdom’s Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’. The Outlook is Stable.

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
    The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
  • History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
    Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...
  • Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire ...
    Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On Monday, the price of gold had fallen by more than 10 percent at one point.  It shocked investors all over the globe, ...
  • 100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Wa ...
    Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax?  Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.  ...
  • 11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW
    The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now.  Just like we saw back in 2008, it is taking stocks a little bit of extra time to catch up with economic reality.  But almost everywhere else you look, there are signs tha ...

Desertification

  • Desertification in the Russian Federation (Sli ...
    Slideshow : http://www.slideshare.net/GRFDavos/german-kust-assessment-and-geographical-zoning-of-desertification-in-the-russian-federation German KUST “Assessment and geographical zoning of desertification in the Russian Federation” by Global Risk Forum GRFDavos on Apr 14, 2013  
  • Problems and global solution for desertificati ...
    VIDEO : http://youtu.be/UGIoQjRB9ns Global vision + Desertification + Positive solution
  • Degradation of Global Agricultural Land (FAO / ...
    Read at : http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/sixty-per-cent-of-global-agricultural-land-being-degraded/137734/ Sixty Per cent of Global Agricultural Land Being Degraded Crusoe Osagie The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has disclosed that up to 60 per cent of all the land in the world ma ...
  • Why waiting for drought cheaper ? (AlertNet)
    Read at : http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/preparing-for-drought-cheaper-than-waiting-for-itun-agencies/ Preparing for drought cheaper than waiting for it – UN agencies By Megan Rowling LONDON (AlertNet) – U.N. agencies are calling on governments at a high-level meeting this week t ...
  • Scientists and the UNCCD (YOU TUBE)
    VIDEO : http://youtu.be/TZbBiptxR7w Communicating about desertification with Lene Poulsen Scientists should make greater efforts to turn information into messages about sustainable land management and the UNCCD that policy makers and the public can understand. Lene Poulsen independent expert, au ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Serena Williams pulls US even in Fed Cup
    DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Serena Williams evened the United States' Fed Cup World Group playoff match against Sweden, waiting out a long rain delay to beat Johanna Larsson 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday night. In the opening match, Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson beat Sloane Stephens 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. ...
  • Nina Wadia: 'I stopped watching EastEnder ...
    Former EastEnders star Nina Wadia has admitted that she hasn't watched the soap since quitting. The actress made her final appearance as Zainab Masood in February, but hasn't yet had time to catch up on the Albert Square action. © BBC "I haven't been able to watch the show at all since ...
  • Kirilenko wins, Russia narrows Slovakia's ...
    MOSCOW -- Maria Kirilenko beat Dominika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-1 in the first reverse singles Sunday as Russia narrowed...
  • Ivanovic tops Kerber, gives Serbia Fed Cu ...
    STUTTGART, Germany -- Ana Ivanovic has given Serbia a 2-1 lead over Germany in their...
  • Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: Israel, U. ...
    Facebook Follow @washtimes The FBI reportedly interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaeva two years ago. If true, will most Americans hold President Obama responsible? View results TEL AVIV (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary ChuckHagel said Sunday the United States and Israel see “exactly the same ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • The Google Graveyard
    It’s hard to lose a loved one, especially if that loved one is a Google service. That’s why we’re opening the gates of the Google Graveyard, a virtual space for grieving. Buried in these hallowed grounds are some of Google’s ill-fated services. Some, like Google Reader, l ...
  • Boston Marathon Couple Sees Carnage After Losi ...
    Melida and Carlos Arredondo were in the VIP bleachers at the Boston Marathon, waiting for the National Guard runners to finish, one with the name of their son, who had died in Iraq. The other son killed himself out of grief.   &#1 ...
  • Rice, No Bowl Needed
    Make a meal out of rice and vegetables with five new recipes from Martha Rose Shulman.
  • Research Reveals Sterilized Dogs Live Longer
    Many dog owners have their pets spayed or neutered to help control the pet population, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests the procedure could add to the length of their lives and alter the risk of specific causes of death...
  • Justices Permit Resale of Copyrighted Imports
    The court ruled that owners of goods from overseas can do what they like with them, just as they can with those bought in the United States.

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Nuclear Energy Innovation: NuScale Achieves Un ...
    Two years after the Fukushima event, NuScale is introducing a safety system for our nuclear reactor that is a revolutionary solution to one of the biggest technical challenges for the current fleet of nuclear energy facilities.
  • Renewables Aren’t Yet Cleaning Up the Global E ...
    Despite big drops in the cost of renewable energy systems and strong growth in deployment around the world, the fossil fuel industry remains unchallenged in its dominance, pushing global carbon emissions without any signs of stopping.
  • Innovative Device Boils Water and Produces Ele ...
    Power Practical, a company that sprang out of research from the University of Utah, has developed a pot that can charge wireless devices through a USB connection while boiling water.
  • Three Years After Deepwater Horizon, Congress ...
    So, three years after the BP Gulf oil catastrophe, what has changed? Are government and industry leaders taking steps to reduce the risk of another destructive spill or blowout? The answers are decidedly mixed.
  • Facts on Fracking: Three Things You Need to Know
    Like any method of recovering fossil fuels, hydraulic fracturing does do damage to the environment. But, even accounting for methane leakage during extraction, the total carbon cost of natural gas is less than that of coal or oil.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • What the Gosnell abortion trial really shows us
    Mary Shaw The Philadelphia murder trial of late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has now made the national news. Gosnell is accused of murdering seven preterm infants who were born alive during attempted abortions, as well as a pregnant Nepalese woman who died from an overdose of a sedative ...
  • Anatomy of a False Flag
    by Stephen Lendman False flags are an American tradition. They go way back. The Boston bombings appear the latest. More on that below. Notable earlier false flags or incidents approximating them include: In 1845, America lawlessly annexed Texas. It was Mexican territory. President Jame ...
  • Venezuela's Maduro Inaugurated
    by Stephen Lendman Latin American and other heads of state attended Maduro's inaugural ceremony. Earlier he accused opposition forces of triggering post-election violence. "We have stopped a coup in its first stage," he said. "They are beaten, but they are coming back with a new attack." On ...
  • Where did they find the money to send troops t ...
    Michael Collins That's your Sunday moment of Zen. We have sent troops to Jordan, specifically to the Jordan - Syria border. The United States budget is in an state of disarray. The crazies and the sleepwalkers in Congress can't engage in rational analysis and planning, so we're forced into ...
  • When Will We Ever Learn?
    Franklin Lamb This observer has no idea if the American Ambassador here in Beirut, Maury Connolly or Secretary of State John Kerrey has ever listened to Marlene Dietrich’s classic October 1965 performance of Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All The Flowers Gone,” still stunni ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Alternate Routes journal
    The Alternate Routes journal publishes methodologically-sound political economy research that is of interest to labour researchers. The article Toby Sangster referred to on the TURC listserver is in this issue: Great-Recession Proof? Shattering the Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism. You can g ...
  • New fact sheets: health care and housing for B ...
    Our seniors care researcher Janine Farrell is creating a series of fact sheets on issues for seniors in BC, distilling CCPA-BC research in this area into key points and suggested questions for candidates in the provincial election. The fact sheets will be translated into multiple languages and p ...
  • Youth and Unions
    Are unions doing a good job of connecting with young workers and teaching them about their rights in the workplace? A TURC (Trade Union Research Collective) member provided us with this article on the challenges of getting youth engaged with the labour movement - something we all need to fi ...
  • Labour Symposium in Ontario
    CCPA Ontario is holding a one-day symposium featuring leading union researchers and communicators on Monday April 22, 2013.  Speakers include: Janet Schaffer, AFL-CIO; Brynne Sinclair-Waters, OFL,  Jim Stanford, CAW, and more.  Unfortunately all the spaces are taken, but we late ...
  • Push back on Bill C-377
    TURC members have been responding to Armine's posting about the debate heating up in the Senate on Bill C-377. It is heartening that the odd Senator has the sense and the conviction to push back on this proposed legislation. This link will take you to Senator James Cowan's address to the Senate ...

World Wide Hippies

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Nuclear Energy Innovation: NuScale Achieves Un ...
    Two years after the Fukushima event, NuScale is introducing a safety system for our nuclear reactor that is a revolutionary solution to one of the biggest technical challenges for the current fleet of nuclear energy facilities.
  • Renewables Aren’t Yet Cleaning Up the Global E ...
    Despite big drops in the cost of renewable energy systems and strong growth in deployment around the world, the fossil fuel industry remains unchallenged in its dominance, pushing global carbon emissions without any signs of stopping.
  • Innovative Device Boils Water and Produces Ele ...
    Power Practical, a company that sprang out of research from the University of Utah, has developed a pot that can charge wireless devices through a USB connection while boiling water.
  • Three Years After Deepwater Horizon, Congress ...
    So, three years after the BP Gulf oil catastrophe, what has changed? Are government and industry leaders taking steps to reduce the risk of another destructive spill or blowout? The answers are decidedly mixed.
  • Facts on Fracking: Three Things You Need to Know
    Like any method of recovering fossil fuels, hydraulic fracturing does do damage to the environment. But, even accounting for methane leakage during extraction, the total carbon cost of natural gas is less than that of coal or oil.

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Viacom Loses Again--Viacom v. YouTube
    Persistence is a virtue, but stubbornness is a sin. I'm pretty sure Viacom has sinned a lot in its six years of litigation against YouTube. How many things have to go wrong for Viacom before it wakes up and smells the hummus? It's now lost twice in the district court, it's created a bunch of pre ...
  • Bringing Out The Worst In Us
    These are the times that test us. Will we prove ourselves worthy? No one can dismiss that efforts of law enforcement in the capture of alleged Boston Marathon Bomber, murderer of 26-year-old MIT campus police officer Sean Collier, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. They resisted the opportunity of killing him ...
  • USPTO Comments on Patent Application Preparation
    The following comments have been submitted in response to Request for Comments on Preparation of Patent Applications published in the Federal Register at 78 Fed. Reg. 2960 (Jan. 15, 2013). [PJ: There are more, but here's Red Hat's [PDF]; and here's Morrison & Foerster [PDF]. Red Hat's is w ...
  • Old, new media botch breaking news
    Breaking news is broken. That's the clearest lesson you can draw about the media from the last week, when both old- and new-media outlets fell down on the job. By now you've likely heard the lowlights. CNN and the AP incorrectly reported on Wednesday that a Boston Marathon suspect had been arres ...
  • Reporter Covers China Earthquake In Her Weddin ...
    A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck a rural area of southwestern China Saturday, claiming at least 100 lives and injuring approximately 2,000. The earthquake also happened to interrupt the marriage ceremony of a Chinese journalist, who got right to work reporting from the scene - still donned in h ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • ‘Shelter In Place’ a poor substitute for resil ...
    These drills against atomic bombs protected about as much as Shelter in Place does now. Being ordered to sit at home helpless is no solution “Shelter in Place,’an awkward phrase devised by Homeland Security, means everyone except first responders must stay inside, presumably cowering ...
  • 8th grader arrested for wearing NRA t-shirt to ...
    Credit: theepochtimes.com/ Our public schools have degenerated into no-freedom zones where petty tyrants enforce arbitrary rules, like no NRA t-shirts, that would be unacceptable elsewhere. How anyone can get an education in a lock-down culture like this is beyond me. The real purpose of public ...
  • Texas fertilizer plant bomb kills more than Bo ...
    Credit: rt.com Does Homeland Security Apply to The Whole Homeland? Boston’s bombings have brought out all kinds of conspiracy theory and bigoted reactions, even though nobody knows anything with much certainty yet. The West Fertilizer Company explosion on April 17 resulted from an actual, Ameri ...
  • Immigration reform. Employer incentive to hire ...
    The Law of Unintended Consequences meets in the deeply convoluted intersection of immigration reform and Obamacare Under the immigration reform bill, some employers would have an incentive of up to $3,000 per year to hire a newly legalized immigrant over a U.S. citizen. In avoiding one controver ...
  • Conservative’s heads explode on Chechnya Whiteness
    Chechnya is in the Caucasus and most people there are indeed Caucasian. Chauncey at We Are Respectable Negroes ponders the ramifications of this. I joked on Twitter that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokar Tsarnaev are putting the status of Chechens as full members of the “white race” in ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • General debate, April 22, 2013
  • Farrar wrong on renewables
    As you might have caught we have (alongside Labour) announced a plan to cut excessive profits from the Electricity Sector and return the money to households. David Farrar over on Kiwiblog yesterday posted about the total cost of Electricity Production claiming that renewable options – which we p ...
  • Akaroa Harbour marine reserve welcome news
    Gareth has previously posted about the Dan Rogers marine reserve in Akaroa Harbour.  Living on Banks Peninsula and having helped promote the reserve I wanted to share my thoughts and thank and congratulate the reserve applicants, Kathleen and Brian Reid and the Akaroa Harbour Marine Protection S ...
  • MPs said ‘we do’ to marriage equality
      We are all celebrating today at Parliament after an amazing night in which love was the winner.   A huge number of people came to watch the marriage equality debate and vote. The queue stretched around the building and people were bubbling with excitement to see such happy history be ...
  • Before we fix water quality we need to stop al ...
    The Prime Minister bragged about how much money his Government is spending on water clean-ups today, but he failed to admit that the money required for clean-up of our rivers and lakes will increase because of his policies. Nearly every study on water quality shows that land use intensification ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Dr. Christiane Northrup’s Top Tips for Women’s ...
    Click HERE to view the entire interviewBy Dr. Mercola Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among American women between the age of 40-55, and the high prevalence has spawned a very lucrative industry; from mammography and other dangerous or invasive testing methods, to “pr ...
  • Ripe for Change Documentary
    By Dr. Mercola Ripe for Change, a 50-minute documentary film, gives a concise yet poignant glimpse into farming trends and traditions in California. Unfortunately, as is happening with agriculture all over the US, many family farms have been coerced into the use of toxic conventional farming ...
  • Can Large-Scale Environmental Devastation Real ...
    By Dr. Mercola Throughout centuries of farming, animal grazing and deforestation, the earth’s natural resources have been exhausted. Deserts are encroaching into previous lush areas and water is becoming alarmingly scarce. Our soil is depleting 13% faster than it can be replaced, an ...
  • How to Address Allergies and Asthma Symptoms a ...
    By Dr. Mercola Spring allergies affect an estimated 25 million Americans, and according to the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, we’re looking at one of the worst allergy seasons in a long time, thanks to a number of climactic factors.1 The Asthma and Allergy Foundation's annua ...
  • Blood Lead Levels High in 535,000 Kids in the USA
    By Dr. Mercola More than half a million US kids aged 1 to 5 years have blood lead levels higher than 5 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL), the “level of concern” at which health problems may occur. The new data comes from a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
    Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...
  • Worldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project ...
    Protesters will carry placards symbolizing the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of t ...
  • Ban upheld: Avatar tribe ‘to decide’ future of ...
    India's Supreme Court has recognized the Dongria Kondh's right to worship their sacred mountain in a landmark decision.© SurvivalIn a landmark ruling, the Indian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgiri hills. In a complex judgement, the c ...
  • Brazil ignores deadline to save Earth's most t ...
    The Awá are scared to go hunting in the forest because they fear attacks by illegal loggers.© SurvivalBrazil’s authorities have ignored an urgent deadline by a federal judge to evict all invaders from the heartland of Earth’s most threatened tribe by the end of March. The Awá tribe i ...
  • Enxet Indians take back their land
    Convicted fraudster Heribert Roedel bought up ancestral Enxet territory in Paraguay – and then evicted the Indians. © H Roedel’s Facebook pageA group of Enxet Indians in western Paraguay have moved back to their homeland after waiting for almost 20 years by the side of a highway for their ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Fight to Patent Human Genes Heard by Supreme Court
    from activistpost.com: On Monday, the Supreme Court heard Myriad Genetics plead their case on why they want to patent human genes. According to the biotech company, it discovered the gene linked to higher risks in breast and ovarian cancer and plans to further its research. Related:&nbs ...
  • Duke Professor Suggests Simple Solution to Cou ...
    from activistpost.com: Arguably, animal rights activists are the most tenacious; so much so, that they have routinely been labeled anarchists and terrorists by various governmental organizations the world over. Yet, beyond the general demonization campaign of anyone who professes sympathy for th ...
  • Call to Action as Portland, Oregon Readies to ...
    from mercola.com: Water fluoridation is considered one of the most notable advancements in public health, and cities around the US spend millions adding fluoride to communal water supplies each year.  But, as stated in the video above, 99 percent of that fluoridated water ends up on your la ...
  • Fukushima: Massive Leaks Continuing On a Daily ...
    from washingtonsblog.com: You may have heard that Tepco – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive water. You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month. This is ...
  • BOOMTOWN 2: Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion ...
    from breitbart.com: Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs—a figure slightly less than the national debt. In 1969, just 2.8 million Americans received food stamps. Today, over 47 million ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
    The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
  • History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
    Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...
  • Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire ...
    Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On Monday, the price of gold had fallen by more than 10 percent at one point.  It shocked investors all over the globe, ...
  • 100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Wa ...
    Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax?  Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.  ...
  • 11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW
    The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now.  Just like we saw back in 2008, it is taking stocks a little bit of extra time to catch up with economic reality.  But almost everywhere else you look, there are signs tha ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Israeli Airlines Stroke by War on Terror
    AMANPOUR: …can you look at the parents of a dead American soldier and say this was worth it? MAKIYA: No, I can’t. I can’t. But you know, one has to have — the truth is I can’t. I would have to lower my eyes and say — and just be quiet, be ashamed… This text [...]
  • Boston Lockdown, Chechen Blowback & Illuminati ...
     by Dean Henderson   The excessive and well-televised show of force in Boston following the Marathon bombing serves to bolster the US police state and the ongoing shredding of the Bill of Rights.  While much remains to be known about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, RT news reports that thei ...
  • “False-flag meme goes mainstream on Bost ...
    Glenn Beck finally admits he has been keeping his mouth shut about 9/11 controlled demolition. What's up with that?
  • Money for Nuttin—Debt for Free
    by   Preston James Fiat based fractional reserve central banking, it’s the greatest covert weapon of war ever deployed against the American Republic and the American People. And once it runs its course and reaches its end-game, it takes no prisoners. If you liked the infamous stories of the Red ...
  • Boston Black Ops: Manufacturing Terror
    Mounting evidence suggests state-sponsored terrorism. Expect more later to confirm it. Cui bono matters most. Powerful interests benefit hugely. Ordinary people lose out.

electric politics

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

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Stop NATO

  • UN Silent On U.S./NATO Crimes, Targets Small N ...
    Lankaweb April 20, 2013 UN silent on US/NATO crimes but goes after Third World nations and leaders Shenali Waduge ==== The former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in an interview in 1998 summed up exactly what the US thinks of the UN : “The UN plays a very important role. But if we don’t li ...
  • Persian Gulf Buildup: NATO Strengthens Militar ...
    Arabia News Service April 21, 2013 BDF, Nato to boost ties Manama: The Kingdom of Bahrain and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) have agreed to boost cooperation and expand relations to serve common interests…in the region. Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) Commander-in-Chief Field Ma ...
  • Kosovo: Clearest Example Of West Flaunting Int ...
    Voice of Russia April 21, 2013 Kosovo is Serbia, territorial integrity must be respected John Robles ==== States that have supported and promoted the secession of Kosovo from Serbia should, in reality, face sanctions from the UN and member countries. However the United Nations has shown, time an ...
  • Rasmussen Formalizes NATO’s Push Into Ea ...
    U.S. Department of Defense April 19, 2013 NATO Secretary General Details Asia Trip, Foreign Ministers’ Meeting By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. ==== “This was the first-ever trip by a NATO secretary general to the Republic of Korea,” he said. “I met with President Park [Geun-hye], m ...
  • Pentagon, NATO Allies View Missile Test Over N ...
    The Post-Standard April 19, 2013 Pentagon, NATO allies witness missile defense test in skies over Central New York By Mark Weiner ==== MEADS and Lockheed Martin officials said they could not release photos or videos of the test because of the classified nature, nor could they disclose the names ...

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Intel Hub

  • Evidence Potentially Not Admissible as Boston ...
    Shepard Ambellas | Some question if the suspect will even be brought to trial as the authorities failed to read him his miranda rights.The post Evidence Potentially Not Admissible as Boston Bombing Suspects Miranda Rights Not Read appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Psyops: Mind Control Marathon and Boston Bombings
    Press TV | “Mind control is being taken into a theater, shoved into a seat, and hearing the doors lock behind you. Then the play on the stage is all you’re allowed to see. That’s politics. The leaders are the leaders. The army is the army. The enemy is the enemy. The media that report all t ...
  • Video: Boston Globe Tweets About Controlled Ex ...
    Joe Martino | On the day of the bombings during the Boston Marathon, The Boston Globe tweeted “Officials: There will be a controlled explosion opposite the library within one minute as part of bomb squad activities.”The post Video: Boston Globe Tweets About Controlled Explosion Before It Ha ...
  • Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons
    Coleen Rowley | The revelation that the family of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings was from Chechnya prompted new speculation about the attack as Islamic terrorism. Less discussed was the history of U.S. neocons supporting Chechen terrorists as a strategy to weaken Russia, a ...
  • West Texas Explosion Might Have Been Triggered ...
    Shepard Ambellas | Independent video of the tragic explosion that devastated the small town of West shows that the plant was likely detonated from an outside source, and/or a possible bomb or missile.The post West Texas Explosion Might Have Been Triggered by Militarized Blast, Eyewitness Sa ...

FRS

  • Greek pensioners march through Athens in prote ...
    ITN April 19, 2013 — Thousands of pensioners from across Greece flood the capital to demonstrate over cuts to their pensions. A sea of old age pensioners from across Greece flooded into Athens on Friday (April 19) to protest against pension cuts.  Aristides Manikas, protester, said “ ...
  • India: Intense Revolutionary Struggles for Li ...
    No revolution without the annihilation of caste, no annihilation of caste without revolution!! The only way of paying true homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar is to fight back the caste atrocities and caste oppression! by Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 18 April 201 ...
  • India: Intense Revolutionary Struggles for Li ...
    No revolution without the annihilation of caste, no annihilation of caste without revolution!! The only way of paying true homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar is to fight back the caste atrocities and caste oppression! by Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 18 April 201 ...
  • Protests, hunger strikes mark Palestinian Pris ...
    [Palestinians gather to commemorate Prisoners' Day in Nablus on April 17, 2013. Palestinians across the territories are attending marches and rallies as a show of solidarity with prisoners from the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza held in Israeli facilities, whose numbers according to Israeli ...
  • Protests, hunger strikes mark Palestinian Pris ...
    [Palestinians gather to commemorate Prisoners' Day in Nablus on April 17, 2013. Palestinians across the territories are attending marches and rallies as a show of solidarity with prisoners from the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza held in Israeli facilities, whose numbers according to Israeli ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Obama Justified in Criticizing Senators Over B ...
    Many U.S. senators who voted against increasing background checks for gun purchases may have inadvertently handed their next challengers powerful fodder in campaign battles.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 18, 2013
  • How Misinformation Could Help the Boston Bomb ...
    When terrorism strikes the United States, whether in Boston, New York City, Atlanta or Oklahoma City, there’s a rush to tell the audience who is responsible, often getting the wrong person and hampering the investigation.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 16, 2013
  • Actually, Americans are Overtaxed
    A slew of studies come out around April 15 every year to remind us how we have a much lower tax burden than other countries have, but is that really the case. It depends on whether you are a corporation or a personal income taxpayer.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 15, 2013
  • College Stabbing Instantly Becomes Gun Control ...
    The "Internet community" in general has decided it's OK to take a story about innocent people getting stabbed and make it all about gun control. Here's why it's not.Contributor: Trent Sandusky Published: Apr 09, 2013
  • 'We Don't Want the Money' a Bad Sign for Korea ...
    Giving up good strategy is a sign that things may get violent, one side having determined that a show of brute strength, no matter how unwise, is preferable to a never-ending game of chess. North Korea has closed its final link with South Korea.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 08, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • The Week In Numbers: Homes For Boston Marathon ...
    5,037: the number of Massachusetts residents who offered their homes to people stranded after the Boston Marathon bombing 5 microns: the width of the pixels used by a tiny new camera from DARPA 1938: the year Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD for the first time 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit : the temp ...
  • What Drugs You Like Depends On Where You Go Da ...
    A graphical look at clubgoers' preferences in the US and UK MixMag's annual Global Drug Survey came out yesterday, and it has the breakdown. The survey asked 22,000 people about their drug use habits, and MixMag packaged the data in this nice little infographic. Maybe not surprisingly, the drug ...
  • Pick An App Just By Thinking About It With Sam ...
    For when touchscreens will be *so 2010s* One of my friends already thinks that people look silly holding up tablets to take photos, so I'm not sure what he'd think of using a tablet with a wire-covered EEG cap on. The experience might be worth the side-eyes, though: Samsung is researching a sys ...
  • BigPic: What's This Smoky-Looking Photo From S ...
    Mysterious blue-and-white marbling These are swirls of ice photographed off the northern coast of Japan. This image was taken from the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who tweeted it on April 19, 2013.     
  • Shark Attacks On Humans Vs. Human Attacks On S ...
    You seriously have no idea how many more sharks are killed by people than people are killed by sharks. Sharks have been mythologized in our culture as ruthless brutes and hunters, but the truth is humans are way, way more of a threat to sharks than sharks are to us. About 100 million sharks ar ...

Veterans Today

  • Israeli Airlines Stroke by War on Terror
    AMANPOUR: …can you look at the parents of a dead American soldier and say this was worth it? MAKIYA: No, I can’t. I can’t. But you know, one has to have — the truth is I can’t. I would have to lower my eyes and say — and just be quiet, be ashamed… This text [...]
  • Boston Lockdown, Chechen Blowback & Illuminati ...
     by Dean Henderson   The excessive and well-televised show of force in Boston following the Marathon bombing serves to bolster the US police state and the ongoing shredding of the Bill of Rights.  While much remains to be known about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, RT news reports that thei ...
  • “False-flag meme goes mainstream on Bost ...
    Glenn Beck finally admits he has been keeping his mouth shut about 9/11 controlled demolition. What's up with that?
  • Money for Nuttin—Debt for Free
    by   Preston James Fiat based fractional reserve central banking, it’s the greatest covert weapon of war ever deployed against the American Republic and the American People. And once it runs its course and reaches its end-game, it takes no prisoners. If you liked the infamous stories of the Red ...
  • Boston Black Ops: Manufacturing Terror
    Mounting evidence suggests state-sponsored terrorism. Expect more later to confirm it. Cui bono matters most. Powerful interests benefit hugely. Ordinary people lose out.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Of Profits & Reconciliation: Kaesong Industria ...
    They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that certainly seems to be the case here: opened in 2004 as a manifestation of the late Roh Tae Woo's "sunshine policy" of South towards North Korea, it was hoped Kaesong Industrial Complex would herald closer economic ties between the ...
  • Arab Spring F1 (Ep III): 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix
    For a third consecutive year, we have controversy over whether the Bahrain Grand Prix should proceed. In 2011, it was famously cancelled despite attempts by F1 bigwigs to insulate this event from the turmoil that engulfed the region via the Arab Spring of protests against authoritarian regimes ( ...
  • LDC Marketing Lessons Selling to Brokebank Yanks
    Here's an interesting feature I somehow missed given my interest in the intersection between marketing and international political economy. Nowadays the "American Dream" is a punch line to a sick joke only the most delusional and gullible of USA#1 cheerleaders actually fall for. (And the joke's ...
  • The IMF is Unfair (Duh): Japan v Egypt
    That the IMF has special and differential treatment for developed countries over developing countries is an unoriginal criticism of the institution. For whatever reason, rich donor countries do not get long sermons about fiscal profligacy, burgeoning deficits, and the need for belt tightening. O ...
  • "Overfinance": Iceland, Cyprus...Now Luxembourg?
    The modern world has enabled many things to grow far larger than they ought to be through rather unnatural processes. Below is an alleged photo of a 30 pound "goldfish" supposedly caught in a lake in France. I still cannot believe my eyes so many weeks after first seeing this photograph, but if ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
    The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
  • History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
    Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...
  • Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire ...
    Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On Monday, the price of gold had fallen by more than 10 percent at one point.  It shocked investors all over the globe, ...
  • 100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Wa ...
    Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax?  Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.  ...
  • 11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW
    The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now.  Just like we saw back in 2008, it is taking stocks a little bit of extra time to catch up with economic reality.  But almost everywhere else you look, there are signs tha ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into murd ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the murder of Ecuadorian journalist Fausto Valdiviezo Moscoso and called for an investigation into the crime.
  • UN report suggests social conflict in Latin Am ...
    The Latin American countries afflicted by the greatest amount of social conflict are also those suffering from broad inequality and limited capacity to manage unrest, according to a United Nations report launched today.
  • Ban calls Boston marathon bombing senseless, a ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the bombing at the Boston Marathon, calling "this senseless violence… all the more appalling for taking place at an event renowned for bringing people together from around the world in a spirit of sportsmanship and harmony."
  • Prosecuting past crimes provides hope to survi ...
    A senior United Nations official today welcomed the efforts of Guatemalan authorities to investigate crimes of sexual violence that occurred during the country&#39s 36-year internal conflict, and urged authorities to ensure a fair trail and protections for the witnesses and others involved.
  • Prosecuting past crimes provides hope to survi ...
    A senior United Nations official today welcomed the efforts of Guatemalan authorities to investigate crimes of sexual violence that occurred during the country&#39s 36-year internal conflict, and urged authorities to ensure a fair trail and protections for the witnesses and others involved.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.
  • Monsanto Gets Immunity to Law – Can Plan ...
    (NaturalNews) President Barack Obama campaigned on promises to end secret prisons, decriminalize marijuana, balance the budget, honor the Second Amendment and make health care affordable. But what really unfolded was an explosion in the national debt (now $16 trillion and climbing), the signing ...

Rewilding Institute

  • EARTH DAY 2013: TAKE ACTION FOR THE MANED WOLF
    Project at a glance:  Due to rapid habitat destruction, the Maned wolf in Bolivia is now facing extinction. To protect this endangered species, WLT-US is seeking funds to buy the 15,711-acre Santa Anita Ranch for $29 an acre. The purchase will more than double the size of 11,555-acre Barba Azul ...
  • TrekWest – A Coalition’s Campaign for Connectivity
    Original post, April 15, 2013 on Defenders of Wildlife by Matt Clark, Southwest Representative  If you are anything like me, you might get to feeling pessimistic sometimes because of all of the alarming news we hear about the growing extinction crisis, climate change and a plethora of other wild ...
  • Wrenched: A Feature Documentary by ML Lincoln
    Watch the trailer for “Wrenched,” coming soon. “Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who will carry Abbey’s legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Rise ...
    Nature reserves [are] the little fragments of landscape where Man expects to preserve nonhuman life…. Nature reserves are the most valuable weapon in our conservation arsenal. –Michael Soulé and Bruce Wilcox  Steve McCormick, the President of TNC in 2005, wrote, “We need to move past the p ...
  • Film Premier for “The Current” in Durango April 10
      While the southwest is primarily a desert, more than 30 million people live here. In a few decades the region’s population will double while the amount of available water will decrease. Most of these 30 million people use water without thinking about where it came from or where it’s going ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Tamerlan Tsarnaev... Video Shows Him NAKED an ...
    Tamerlan Tsarnaev... NAKED, Walking and Alive. This UNCONFIRMED video which we are told appeared on Brazilian TV earlier today appears to have been shot at the scene of the Boston Police Dept’s arrest of suspect bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. ~ Photo - Videos read more
  • The Boston Marathon Bombing Hoax
    Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has identified Tamerlan (26 years old) and Dzhokhar (19 years old) Tsarnaev as the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon Bombing (BMB). The picture being painted about these boys is that they were confused about their c ...
  • Supreme Court Votes 5-4... Warrants Required f ...
    Law enforcement can’t routinely skip obtaining a warrant before forcing uncooperative drivers suspected of being under the influence to take a blood test, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week. ~ Noel Brinkerhoff read more
  • What Ever Happened to the Constitution?
      Absolutely brilliant! Judge Andrew Napolitano... Recorded 29 July 2010 in Auburn, Alabama at the 2010 Mises University. ~ Definately worth watching! - Video read more
  • Pennsylvania Police Chief Mark KesslerTargeted ...
    Police Chief Mark Kessler is being targeted for assassination after sparking a nationwide resistance among law enforcement officers against draconian laws to disarm the citizenry. In an exclusive interview the Chief speaks out about why it is so important for Americans to take up the resistan ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Post SHTF; Walking Along Railroad Tracks
    Walking along railroad tracks is a dangerous thing in more ways than one. But just like roads, railroads crisscross the nation from one town to another; often unseen or unnoticed by most people as their mostly hidden tentacles weave their way from here to there. These rails may provide an altern ...
  • The Highest Threat Volcanoes in the United States
    In the years since the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens, scientific and technological advances in volcanology have enabled new models of volcanic risks and assessment. One such assessment and monitoring model proposed by the USGS, the ‘National Volcano Early Warning System’, ...
  • Yellowstone Super Volcano Much Larger Than Thought
    Image: National Park Service A mega disaster waiting to happen. A Yellowstone ‘super volcano’ eruption. As though this in itself isn’t troublesome enough, it has just been revealed that Yellowstone’s underground volcanic plumbing is much bigger and better connected than s ...
  • Survival Kit: Signal Mirror
    A signal mirror is one of the many items that you could choose to add to your survival kit. It is a tool that could save your life. A signal mirror is, you guessed it, a mirror – but it’s design and purpose is to alert others of your location. While an ordinary reflective mirror [...]
  • Inventory For Home Owners Insurance
    Home Owners Insurance; it’s not just about paying your premiums… Your home is your castle; however it is at risk from a number of disaster circumstances such as fire, severe weather related events, or home burglary, just to name a few. These are reasons why nearly all of us have home ...

Fast Company

  • Is Budweiser’s Bow Tie Can The Coca Cola Of Beers?
    Taking a page from Coca Cola, Budweiser has debuted a bow tie metal can that could become their new standard. 15 years ago, Dean launched the “chug” bottle, a plastic reimagining of the traditional milk carton. They spent millions on its advertising, but the gamble paid off. Sa ...
  • Emebedding The Rights Of Nature In Our Legal Code
    A new movement seeks to change laws to give our ecosystem legitimate legal protection. With Earth Day around the corner, it’s a good time to step back and see how we’ve been doing since the first Earth Day in 1970, when 20 million people took to the streets to protest rivers on ...
  • A Stylish Cane That Begs To Be Carried
    Top & Derby’s redesigned cane is as much a fashion accessory as it is a walking aid. You never really think about someone buying a cane. I guess it just seems like one of those objects that’s magically around when you need it--like one day you get old, or one of your legs g ...
  • The Future Of Opera Is An FX Extravaganza
    New York City Opera’s latest work reimagines the static backdrop as a surreal LED atmosphere. One moment it’s the Egyptian desert. Another it’s somewhere deep in space, and another an ink drop unfurling in water. Then, the illusion of environments shrinks away completely, ...
  • Is Reality TV Star and Olympic Himbo Ryan Loch ...
    A look at the roots of our love of reality airheads and at the question: Is Lochte an idiot, or does he just play one on TV? In the trailer for Olympic gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte’s new reality show, “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?,” the sculpted athlete says “emphad ...

Jadaliyya

  • البنية التحتية للاستعمار الاستيطاني الإسرائيلي ...
    منذ تأسيسها، دأبت السلطات القضائية الإسرائيلية بفرعيها المدني والعسكري على التمييز بين الأشخاص بناء على الدِّين. فعلى امتداد إسرائيل في أراضي 48 والأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة التي تتضمن الضفة الغربية بما فيها القدس الشرقية وقطاع غزة تطبق إسرائيل مجموعة من القوانين على سكانها اليهود تختلف عن تلك ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (April 19)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • Bassem Sabry on Social Media in Egypt
    [This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.] Jadaliyya (J): What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting and Twitter? Bassem ...
  • Beyond the Western Saharan Debate
    Following the French military intervention in Mali earlier this year in January, and the hostage crisis in Algeria that soon followed, major world powers briefly oriented their regional focus towards the Maghreb and Sahel regions. In the midst of the escalating conflict in Mali, pundits pointed ...
  • A Non-Nuclear Conversation: An Interview with ...
    Iranian activists, journalists and human rights advocates have been coming under increasing pressure by the Iranian government; at a time when the international news media is fixated on Iran's nuclear program. This week, Malihe Razazan speaks with Hadi Ghaemi, Executive Director of th ...

mediagazer

  • Comedy Central to Host Comedy Festival on Twit ...
    Amy Chozick / New York Times: Comedy Central to Host Comedy Festival on Twitter  —  Next week, Comedy Central will host a five-day comedy festival that includes a lineup of legends like Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner alongside popular young comics like Amy Schumer and the director P ...
  • When Everyone is an Eye-Witness, What is a Jou ...
    Mark Little / Storyful Blog: When Everyone is an Eye-Witness, What is a Journalist?  —  I thought a lot about one of my journalistic heroes this past week.  In fact, I think of Ernie Pyle any time I need reassurance about journalism.  —  His World War II dis ...
  • Online media: AOL's second life (Economist)
    Economist: Online media: AOL's second life  —  MOST Thursday afternoons at AOL's New York headquarters a bell rings to announce “happy hour”, and staff flock to a keg in a meeting room.  They hope they at last have cause to celebrate.  “If you look at ...
  • Ad-blockers, the games press, and why sexy cos ...
    Ben Kuchera / Penny Arcade Report: Ad-blockers, the games press, and why sexy cosplay galleries lead to better reporting  —  We're going to talk about ad-blocking software, online publishing, and why much of the game media is the way it is.  If you block ads, I'm not going ...
  • Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Ne ...
    Amy Chozick / New York Times: Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers  —  Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Serena Williams pulls US even in Fed Cup
    DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Serena Williams evened the United States' Fed Cup World Group playoff match against Sweden, waiting out a long rain delay to beat Johanna Larsson 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday night. In the opening match, Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson beat Sloane Stephens 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. ...
  • Nina Wadia: 'I stopped watching EastEnder ...
    Former EastEnders star Nina Wadia has admitted that she hasn't watched the soap since quitting. The actress made her final appearance as Zainab Masood in February, but hasn't yet had time to catch up on the Albert Square action. © BBC "I haven't been able to watch the show at all since ...
  • Kirilenko wins, Russia narrows Slovakia's ...
    MOSCOW -- Maria Kirilenko beat Dominika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-1 in the first reverse singles Sunday as Russia narrowed...
  • Ivanovic tops Kerber, gives Serbia Fed Cu ...
    STUTTGART, Germany -- Ana Ivanovic has given Serbia a 2-1 lead over Germany in their...
  • Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: Israel, U. ...
    Facebook Follow @washtimes The FBI reportedly interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaeva two years ago. If true, will most Americans hold President Obama responsible? View results TEL AVIV (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary ChuckHagel said Sunday the United States and Israel see “exactly the same ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/19/13 - Portion Sizes: How Big or Small Shou ...
    obesity.procon.org Portion Sizes: How Big or Small Should They Be? - Going out to dinner? One baked potato should be the size of a computer mouse, a steak the size of a deck of cards, and a dinner roll the size of a yo-yo with a Scrabble tile's worth of butter. See how your meal ...
  • 4/19/13 - Which topic should we pick next?
    www.procon.org - - Which topic should we pick next? – Please take our brief survey and let us know which issues you would like ProCon.org to research next.
  • 4/18/13 - Educators in over 3,750 schools in a ...
    www.procon.org - – Educators in over 3,750 schools in all 50 US states and 56 countries use ProCon.org. 819 elementary and middle schools, 1,926 high schools, and 1,010 colleges and universities use our free nonpartisan research to stimulate critical thinking. The newest international schools us ...
  • 4/16/13 - Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Origin ...
    borngay.procon.org – Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Origin of Sexual Orientation Since 1990 – In our selection of 18 studies, researchers found anatomical and genetic differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals (different brain structures, inner ear anatomy, smell sensitivity, chromosom ...
  • 4/16/13 - Should people become vegetarian?
    vegetarian.procon.org - Should people become vegetarian? - Read our updated pro and con arguments in this popular debate.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New Solar Cell Process Achieves Record Efficie ...
    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they have achieved a major breakthrough in the conversion of sunlight into electricity, surpassing what was long believed to be an absolute limit to the efficiency of solar cell devices. While the process used in the typical phot ...
  • As Final U.S. Decision Nears, A Lively Debate ...
    In an online debate for Yale Environment 360, Elliot Entis, whose company has created a genetically modified salmon that may soon be for sale in the U.S., discusses the environmental and health impacts of this controversial technology with author Paul Greenberg, a critic of GM fish.
  • Reducing Short-Lived Pollutants Could Slow Sea ...
    Reducing the emissions of four critical pollutants in the coming decades could at least temporarily slow the rate of global warming and reduce projected sea level rise by as much as 50 percent, according to a new study. Building on previous research that found that reducing the emissions of four ...
  • Outdated Management, Drought Threaten Colorado ...
    Drought, mismanagement, and over-exploitation of its waters have made the Colorado River — the lifeblood of the arid Southwest and drinking water source for 36 million people — among the most vulnerable rivers in Pete McBrideE360 VIDEO: The Colorado River: Running Near Empty the U.S., accordin ...
  • Interview: Using Citizen Power To Fund a U.S. ...
    Billy Parish is the president of Mosaic, an Internet “crowdfunding” service that lets individual investors put their money into commercial solar projects and earn a rate of return that Billy Parish currently beats anything offered by a bank. This month, California regulators authorized M ...

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backofthebook

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Canadians Aren’t Buying the Banksplaining
    So, am I the only parent of small children struck by the familiar tone of RBC’s Temporary Foreign Worker damage control message fiasco? In a CBC interview that was basically a clinic for how not to do PR, Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji’s attempt at banksplaining sounded suspiciously ...
  • Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?
    An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events ...
  • Federal Budget 2013: stubbornness and hidden s ...
    Reactions to the federal budget presented in March differed in Québec in comparison with the rest of the provinces. In this text we will first review the budget as whole before zooming into measures which caused a big uproar in Québec. In its latest budget, the government brought to the fore an ...
  • Climate justice and BC’s political moment
    The following is based on a talk at the Bring Your Boomers election forum on April 3 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, the fourth in a series of intergenerational dialogues from Gen Why Media, and was co-sponsored by the CCPA, Get Your Vote On, LeadNow and Vancity credit union. I was asked to set ...
  • Fiscal debate in Québec: myth busting and flak
    Some myths are just so hard to debunk. For instance, people in Québec generally assume that they are the most taxed in North America. IRIS tackled the well-rehearsed allegation in a recently published socio-economic notice. The reply resounded of what Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky have prese ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Communicating water science to policymakers: a ...
    “A recent article from The Guardian Higher Education Network blog entitled “How academics can engage with policy: 10 tips for a better conversation” provided ideas to help scholars better convey research to policymakers. It explained appropriate times for sharing academic information, how ...
  • Gap Dumping Toxic Wastewater
    “Gap, Brooks Brothers and other fashion brands are dumping toxic wastewater in Indonesia waterways, Greenpeace says. In its latest report, Toxic Threads: Polluting Paradise, Greenpeace investigates the PT Gistex factory, located near Bandung in West Java, with 60 percent of production loca ...
  • Mexico Lacks Water to Frack for Shale Gas
    “Mexico plans to expand shale gas exploration this year, but it could run into a shortage of water, which is essential to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the method used to capture natural gas from shale rocks. “In Mexico there isn’t enough water. Where are they going to get it to extrac ...
  • Energy, Food Interests Compete for Water in Dr ...
    “A drought in Vietnam has uncovered tensions between water users in the country’s energy and agricultural sectors, Radio Free Asia reported. Despite a directive from the Prime Minister, the operator of a hydropower dam has refused to send more water downstream to drought-hit farms. “ ...
  • Zambia: Electricity for All but Those the Kari ...
    “Lusitu, Zambia — Indigenous people who were displaced from the Zambezi Valley almost six decades ago for the construction of the Kariba Dam say they have not benefited from the development they made way for. The building of the Kariba hydroelectric dam was supposed to usher in a bright fu ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • Administration Lied About Who Drones Kill
    … of course it is only Obama that allegedly lies to Americans … not …”W” Bush … not Clinton … not Bush 1 … not Nixon … not Reagan … not Mr. Peanut (Carter) … not  ??? … what … you mean they all did …?   Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administration Lied About Who [...]
  • whatever happened to innocent until proven gui ...
    …whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty by a jury of peers…   GOP SENATOR: Boston Suspect Should Be Held As ‘Enemy Combatant’ 04-19-2013  •  Business Insider U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement Friday that the Obama administration should de ...
  • it will be legal because Congre$$ and “b ...
    …it will be legal because Congre$$ and “big-pharma” can’t stop it… Is Hemp Legalization on the Horizon? Current Congresspeople Think the Answer is Yes   It’s still a fairly bold prediction, considering lawmakers’ track record on the issue. …  April 19, 2013  |&#16 ...
  • and for this “we” pay a high price
    …we choose to buy-into “speed” … fast … in the moment … up to the minute … delivery of information “stuff” … we have been educated not to ask any questions … to accept … and for this “we” pay a high  price … The media’s marathon meltdown By: Dylan Byers Many trusted outlets raced [...]
  • water purveyors will trot out their glib slick ...
    …be assured Arizona water guru’s employed by CAP and SRP and private as well as public water purveyors will trot out their glib slick “mouthpieces” and deny all aspects of this article … but … they will not offer one incontrovertible fact to prove their claim … Most endangered … Colorado River w ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Fighting deforestation—and corruption&#8 ...
    The basic premise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program seems simple: rich nations pay tropical countries for preserving their forests. Yet the program has made relatively limited progress on the ground since 2007, when the concept got tentative go-ahead du ...
  • Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New ...
    New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) is facing a backlash over plans to aerially drop a controversial poison, known as 1080, over the habitat of two endangered, prehistoric, and truly bizarre frog species, Archey's and Hochsetter's frogs, on Mount Moehau. Used in New Zealand to kill po ...
  • Investigation clears APP of deforestation alle ...
    Two logging companies that supply Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) with timber have not violated the Indonesian forestry giant's new zero deforestation commitment, according to a field investigation by The Forest Trust, a conservation group. The investigation was a direct response to allegations rais ...
  • Harnessing religious teachings about stewardsh ...
    Many religious groups have taken on the role of environmental custodians, citing scriptures that urge living in harmony with plants and animals. Representatives of nine world religions pledged in 2009 to develop environmental programs. The Sikh religion’s contribution to that effort is cal ...
  • Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaug ...
    Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). The numbers are staggering: a single park in Gabon, Minkebe National Park, has seen 11,100 ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Green promises are often not met
    A "troubling" new study has suggested that a third of resource consent holders are breaking environmental promises, with agriculture operations proving the worst offenders.The study by a University of Waikato researcher and former...
  • Ears adapt to high noise levels - research
    The temporary hearing loss from an outing at a noisy nightclub may not indicate damage to our ears as traditionally thought, new research shows.University of Auckland scientists and colleagues overseas have found that the temporary...
  • Plan puts volcano views at risk
    Sweeping views of Auckland's volcanic cones risk being violated by new planning rules, critics say.They fear long-protected view shafts to Mt Eden, One Tree Hill and Rangitoto and other peaks will be interrupted if council planners...
  • Probing secrets of earth's plates
    Scientists from across the world have come here to examine how to unlock secrets hidden within our offshore tectonic plate boundaries over the next decade, potentially resulting in multi-million dollar projects.Around 160 leading...
  • Brian Rudman: Snail-pace action on volcanoes
    In March 2007, the Crown declared the Auckland volcanic field was top of its list of potential Unesco World Heritage Sites.Tomorrow, Auckland councillors are finally being asked to help fund a year-long "evaluation that will inform...

The Bovine

  • BC ready to experiment with pot reform; So how ...
    From Allison Griner, in The Tyee: “In 2009, three gunshot-wound patients were wheeled into Wood’s emergency room at Vancouver General Hospital, all victims of gang violence. Wood had to ask himself: why? As he began to pore over research about … Continue reading →
  • Setting the record straight on the economics o ...
    From Lindsey Lusher Shute on TakePart.com: “In the past year, the mainstream media featured more than a few stories critiquing America’s local and organic foods movement. The New York Times and others swallowed the findings of a Stanford study debating the value of organic foods hook, &#82 ...
  • “Fresh Milk Food Politics” — Raw Milk My ...
    Thanks to Raoul Bedi, BASc, for writing up these detailed summaries of the proceedings from the April 6th “Fresh Milk Food Politics” event in Vancouver. I – Introduction: In Part 1 of this report  about the recent “Fresh Milk Food … Continue reading →
  • “Fresh Milk Food Politics” — Raw Milk My ...
    Thanks to Raoul Bedi, BASc, for writing up these detailed summaries of the proceedings from the April 6th “Fresh Milk Food Politics” event in Vancouver. I – Introduction: In Part 1 of this report  about the recent “Fresh Milk Food … Continue reading →
  • Video interviews with Fresh Milk Food Politics ...
    Via Rawmilkconsumer.ca These interviews are from the April 6th Fresh Milk Food Politics conference in Vancouver BC. The interviews are by Kari Simpson of Road Kill Radio.com: Michael Schmidt Nadine Ijaz Other interviews with lawyers Jason Gratl and Karen Selick, … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Netherlands on Edge of Economic Crisis; Unempl ...
    Netherlands is underwater in more ways than one. Der Spiegel reports Underwater: The Netherlands Falls Prey to Economic Crisis More than a decade ago, the Dutch central bank recognized the dangers of [the housing] euphoria, but its warnings went unheeded. Only last year did the new government ...
  • Minister of Spain's Housing Board Cites "Mortg ...
    The Minister of Public Works and Housing of the Government of Andalusia, Elena Cortes Jimenez, advocates a Reduction in Mortgage Debt for All Spanish Families. Here is a Mish-modified synopsis. Elena Cortes Jimenez, Minister of Public Works, claims eviction proceedings lead to further ...
  • Italy Stalemate Broken, Napolitano, 87, Electe ...
    In a move that cannot possibly solve anything Italian Lawmakers, Re-elect President to Second Term. In a bid to quiet growing political chaos, Italian lawmakers on Saturday elected President Giorgio Napolitano to a second term, turning to him as the last best hope to break a profound deadl ...
  • Understanding German Politics
    Inquiring minds in the US note the upcoming German election and may be wondering about the platforms of the major political parties. Reader Bernd from Germany explains. Die Linke (The Left): Die Linke is made up of the former SED/PDS (The East German Communist Ruling Party), some former Wes ...
  • Explosive Video on Ending Fractional Reserve L ...
    At an economic conference at the Philadelphia Fed, academics gathered to discuss fixing the banking system, including ending fractional reserve lending. The video is quite entertaining to say the least. Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University really lays into the banking system a few ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • USA: The Creator & Sustainer of Chechen Terrorism
    Boston Terror: Don’t Let the Media Fool You … Again- Climb Up the Chain and Meet the Real Masterminds of Global Terror. Here we go again- Déjà vu. Out of the blue we have a ‘terror event,’ a couple of pop-terrorists, and a new buzz-word nation-Chechnya. There they go again: USA Media tales made- ...
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  • Iran’s Gas Pipelines
    “Ultimately, in context of Eastern Mediterranean natural gas supplies, Syria is about China.” The conflict in Syria has insistently been tied to the interests of Iran and, to a lesser degree, to Russia. Little, however, has been said about China. Beijing has a major stake in the entire Syrian ve ...
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  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    An Economic NATO Have you heard of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership? It’s been discussed for a few years by top-level politicians, corporate associations and think tanks, and was formally announced by President Obama in February of this year. Still haven’t heard of ...

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

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

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    The risk of HIV spread between a breastfeeding mother and her infant is strongly linked to weaning, new research has shown. About 6% of the babies of untreated HIV-positive mothers will test positiv...
  • Chemical ear defenders
    Australian researchers have identified a chemical signal that shuts off hearing to protect against loud sounds. Manipulating this same system might be a way to combat age related and occupational deaf...

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