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English: World Health Organisation headquarter...English: World Health Organisation headquarters, Geneva, north and west sides. Français : faces nord et ouest du siège de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, à Genève (Suisse). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Richie Havens at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Photo...Richie Havens at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Photograph by Kasra Ganjavi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Krugman: The Jobless Trap
    F.D.R. told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won’t blame fear, per se. Instead, they’ll castigate our leaders for fearing the wrong things. For the overriding fe ...
  • US banks revive CDO's, securitised loans ..
    The banks that created risky amalgams of mortgages and loans during the boom — the kind that went so wrong during the bust — are busily reviving the same types of investments that many thought were gone for good. Once more, arcane-sounding financial products like collateralized debt obligations ...
  • Richie Havens, Woodstock opener, dies at 72.
    Richie Havens, who marshaled a craggy voice, a percussive guitar and a soulful sensibility to play his way into musical immortality at Woodstock in 1969, improvising the song “Freedom” on the fly, died on Monday at his home in Jersey City. He was 72. Mr. Havens embodied the spirit of the ’60s ...
  • Holland: Huge Debt and a Burst Real Estate Bubble
    More than a decade ago, the Dutch central bank recognized the dangers of .. euphoria, but its warnings went unheeded. Only last year did the new government, under conservative-liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, amend the generous tax loopholes, which gradually began to expire in January. But now ...
  • Google chairman defends tax avoidance policies
    Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, has defended the search engine's tax avoidance policies, saying "we fully comply with the law" after paying just £6m in corporation tax in the UK. Schmidt's comments drew an angry response from a member of the parliamentary public accounts committee (PAC), who ...

Independent - London

  • Bird flu strain in China is ‘lethal’
    The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” flu viruses so far, and that it is more easily transmittable from poultry to humans than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around the world since 20 ...
  • For Farea Al-Muslimi, ‘the American’, the camp ...
    Farea Al-Muslimi stole the show when he appeared at a hearing in Washington this week on the fall-out from American drone strikes. But while he has welcomed the attention, he conceded that his campaign to force a re-examination of the use of unmanned aircraft has barely begun.Related StoriesBody ...
  • Duchess of Cambridge topless photos: publisher ...
    A magazine boss and a photographer have been charged by police investigating French magazine Closer's publication of topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge last year.Related StoriesEnrico Letta nominated as Italy's new prime ministerChurch versus Republic: Disturbing gay marriage protests ...
  • Publisher and photographer accused over Kate M ...
    A magazine publisher and a photographer have been placed under formal investigation in France for allegedly invading the privacy of the Duchess of Cambridge.Related StoriesEnrico Letta nominated as Italy's new prime ministerChurch versus Republic: Disturbing gay marriage protests stir old demon ...
  • World Cup hosts unveil caxirolas - a new infur ...
    Thought you’d heard the last of monotonous drones blasting out from the terraces? Think again.    

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Justice! Real creator of 'The Matrix,' Sophia ...
    This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!! A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Wa ...
  • MSM reaction to truth - disgusting! Facebook g ...
    Conspiracy junkies believe double-amputee veteran pretended to be marathon spectator whose legs were blown offGrowing movement accuses the U.S. government and a private security company of staging the April 15 massacreGrainy news footage and off-angle photos are evidence for claiming the Tsarnae ...
  • Oh Puhleeeze!! CIA sought to add Boston bomber ...
    The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Russian authorities contacted the CIA in the fall of 2011 and raised concerns that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was kill ...
  • Surreal! Two distinct realities - mass media h ...
    I think that 9/11 was the birth of two distinct realities emerging on Earth and beginning to separate. The mass-media/mass-hypnosis version of the world that we grew up in, and the alternative-media/_truth_-media that's growing evermore powerful. It all seems to be at some sort of breaking poin ...
  • Boston bombing is already being exploited to i ...
    I have no personal experience in the business of false flag terrorism, but I imagine that engineering a successfully staged terror attack to be blamed on innocent or semi-innocent parties with the goal of psychologically manipulating a population requires that one also be an accomplished storyte ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Conservative consequences . . .
    ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, but so do inactions. Conservatives are hard-wired to deny this, these days, it seems. Unlike, say, America's last great Republican, Eisenhower, who built things that people could use, like roads and highways. Compared to Ike, today's conservatives are mean, twisted, ...
  • Food fascists . . .
    THE CEO OF NESTLE is a nasty fascist. According to American Live Wire, "Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized – Not A Human Right". Check out the video. Myself, I will never buy anything from Nestlé or its subsidiaries.
  • Canadian creativity . . .
    CONSIDERING OUR CURRENT Stevie situation, this seems rather inspirational. According to a report from the CBC, we have "Canadian glow-in-the-dark toilet seats to light the way".
  • Thank-you . . .
    RIP, RITA. Thank-you for this incredible song, and a host of others. 
  • Thank-you . . .
    THANK-YOU, ANONYMOUS, for slapping one upside the head of the Keystone Kops. Really, the sound of a multitude of pickles being withdrawn from a multitude of orifices must have been quite deafening. Now, if I could ask you to take a look at something? Could you please h ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Cable News Ignores TX Fertilizer Plant ...
    In reporting on the factory explosion in West, Texas, cable news virtually ignored the fertilizer company's storage of 270 tons of ammonium nitrate at the plant, which is 1,350 times the amount that is allowed to be stored without disclosure to the federal government.Reuters: Plant Had Been Stor ...
  • Boston Bombings Inspire New Lies On Immigratio ...
    Conservative media figures are using the Boston Marathon bombings to pressure lawmakers to halt attempts at immigration reform, the details of which were released last week by eight bi-partisan members of the Senate known as the "Gang of Eight." By suggesting that immigr ...
  • In The Wake Of Boston Marathon Attack, Fox Tur ...
    Fox News hosted a series of discredited anti-Islam activists to smear Muslims during Fox's coverage of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon.Frank Gaffney  Frank Gaffney On Fox News: FBI Cooperation With Muslim Communities Weakens National Security. In an April 20 appearance on Fox ...
  • STUDY: Media Overlooked Keystone XL Risks Even ...
    A Media Matters analysis of news coverage of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline since the 2012 election shows that the media continue to largely ignore the risk of an oil spill, while promoting the economic benefits of the project. Meanwhile, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal have dismissed Ke ...
  • Another Obama Nominee With Civil Rights Enforc ...
    Right-wing media have a long history of leveling charges of anti-white bias at President Obama's nominees and appointees of color, smears that have now formed the basis of Republican attacks on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas E. Perez.House Republicans Allege "Mismanagement" And "Racism ...

Global Research.ca

  • Boston Truth: The Suspects – Who Is Behi ...
    The Boston Marathon bombings; the Chechen connection; media disinformation; US support of al Qaeda and the Chechen jihad; the consolidation of the American police state; the geopolitical implications of the bombings; home grown terrorism; two brothers accused of being the…
  • Canadian Government unveils “Terror Plot” as i ...
    Canadian authorities boasted Monday afternoon that, working in concert with the FBI and other US national security agencies, they had broken up a terrorist conspiracy involving an Iranian-based al-Qaeda cell. The announcement, made at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)…
  • US Ramps up Plans for Military Intervention in ...
    The United States and the major European powers are escalating plans for a direct military intervention in Syria. The aim of US maneuvers, including a flurry of diplomatic visits this week, is to secure the downfall of Syrian President Bashar…
  • BP Spills Coffee
    by UCB Comedy This is humor, but at the same time it tells us something important about corporate decision making and environmental degradation… A small spill on a very large table… Its encroaching on my map of Louisiana It will…
  • Was Boston Bomber “Radicalized” at ...
    Who Radicalized the Boston Bomber? Just as the U.S. supported Bin Laden and the precursor of Al Qaeda in order to fight the Soviets, the U.S. has supported Chechen terrorists in order to fight Russia. Today, Russian newspaper Izvestia alleges…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • “Human Beings Have No Right to Water” and Othe ...
    Privatization of our natural resources is leading to the inevitable extinction of our species, and possibly all life on earth.  In the 2005 documentary, We Feed the World, then-CEO of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, shared some o ...
  • Get Ready for Higher Prices and Less Energy Se ...
    A deeply flawed study that ignores the harmful environmental and health impacts of gas drilling is being used to rally for exports. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Unlimited export of U.S. natural gas would have enormous implications on the future of ...
  • EPA Slams State’s Draft Impact Statement For K ...
    Here are the reasons EPA said that the State Department’s assessment needs more work. On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”Yesterday was ...
  • Sandra Steingraber's Moving Letter: From Jail ...
    Steingraber issued a letter from Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York after being jailed for civil disobedience. The following was letter was written from the Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York where Steingraber is serving a fifteen day sentence for blockading a gas compression riglas ...
  • Yoko Ono Imagines a Future Without Fracking
    Ono's campaign against hydraulic fracking calls to New Yorkers through a dramatic window installation. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Artist Yoko Ono has an impassioned message for America: We don't have to poison our water supply to make money ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Keystone Opponents Say President Should Reject ...
    Keystone XL opponents are asking President Obama to reject the tar sands pipeline based on the new EPA report that assessed “environmental objections” and found that the State Department’s analysis included “insufficient information”. The State Department’s own Draft Environmental Impact Stateme ...
  • Texas Refinery Explosion Came After Limited Fe ...
    Statement of Keith Wrightson, Worker Safety and Health Advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division The West Fertilizer Company facility that exploded in a deadly blast Wednesday evening had not been inspected by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in ...
  • Nuclear Power Plant Disasters Are Forever
    Two years after the earthquake and accompanying tsunami that resulted in three of the reactors melting down at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, nuclear engineers are still grappling with how to bring the facility under control.  This plant was heavily damaged and to date, no one’s been able t ...
  • Texas Landowner to Testify Before Congress Abo ...
    Julia Trigg Crawford, a Texas landowner fighting a legal battle with TransCanada over the rights to her family’s farm, will be in Washington on Thursday to testify in front of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice during a hearing on the Private Property Rights Protection Act. M ...
  • Tide Turning on Austin Energy Governance Ordinance
    I was part of and witnessed an inspiring evening at Austin City Hall yesterday.  Engaged citizens came together to speak passionately about the importance of maintaining democratic leadership for Austin Energy, our city’s electric utility. Many people talked about wanting the right to vote ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Five Celtic warriors unearthed in France
    An Iron Age graveyard discovered in France is set to provide new insights in to the life of the Celts. The burial site was found in a field between a ...
  • Meteor explodes over Argentina
    Thousands of Argentinians reported witnessing the dazzling light display as the meteor exploded overhead. The fireball is believed to have been travel...
  • How will humans become extinct ?
    If we were to become extinct in the forseeable future, how exactly would such an event come about ? An international team of scientists and philosophe...
  • 'Bigfoot' mystery foot found in Massachusetts
    The decomposing foot of a mysterious creature has been discovered by two young boys in a forest. The find was reported to the Lakeville police who sen...
  • Threat of space debris collisions on the rise
    Top experts from across the globe are meeting to discuss ways to curb the amount of debris in orbit. Scientists estimate that there could be as many a...

Grassroots

  • Black Mesa Water Coalition resists coal, forge ...
    On this Earth Day, I’m inspired to share a story of the Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC). One of Grassroots International’s US allies, BMWC organizes in indigenous communities, going up against powerful corporate interests in the fossil fuel industry, and engaging in movement building toward a ...
  • Program Assistant, Part-time
    Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Program Team. The Program Assistant will provide administrative and other support to the team.  The position is part-time (20-24 hours per week) and will be based in Boston. Grassroots International ...
  • In the Crosshairs
    Subheadline:  Global Land and Water Rights Activists Face Increaced Violence mst-facing_guns.jpg Cicero Guedes, a former sugar cane cutter turned land rights activist, work ...
  • Presente! International Day of Peasants' Struggle
    32594_10151399658342756_1228163452_n.jpg On this International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, we recognize the courage, tenacity and absolute necessity of grassroots struggles across the world for rights to land, life and dignity.And we recogni ...
  • Haiti needs solidarity, not soldiers: First-ha ...
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Climate

  • Greenpeace Activists Board Ship Carrying Austr ...
    (Guardian) Six activists from Greenpeace have boarded a coal ship leaving Australian waters in a direct action aimed at curbing coal exports. read more
  • Work on 2015 UN Climate Deal Set to Start in Bonn
    (RTCC) UN talks to construct a legally binding climate change deal are set to start on April 29, amid warnings from scientists that greenhouse gas emissions are rising too far, too fast. Organizers say the ‘scope, structure and design ...
  • Nebraska Lawmakers Advance Climate Change Study
    (AP) Nebraska lawmakers gave first round approval Tuesday to a measure that would launch a state review of climate change. Lawmakers voted 35-0 to advance the proposal by Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm after a handful of lawmakers denounced ...
  • Court Backs EPA Veto of Mountaintop Mining Project
    (The Hill) A federal appeals court has upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to scuttle a previously issued permit for a big mountaintop removal coal mining project in West Virginia. Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Court o ...
  • With Natural Gas Costly, AEP Burning More Coal
    (The Columbus Dispatch) Rising natural-gas prices mean American Electric Power is burning more coal and less gas compared with a year ago, according to the company's chief executive. "Our coal generation has picked back up considerabl ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • The Senate Doesn't Represent America
    Pew Research conducted a poll on how people feel about the failure of the Senate to pass legislation that included background checks on gun purchases. They then broke the results down by party and by how each state's senators voted. Respondents were not asked specifically about the Manchin-Too ...
  • Take that, You Gay Agenda Judges!
    Iowa Republicans have introduced a bill to reduce the salaries of its State Supreme Court Justices by eighty percent (or 80% if you like numerals and symbols). But not all of the Iowa Supreme Court Justices - just the four who voted that a law depriving same sex couples of the right to marry wa ...
  • Nice Priorities
    The New York TImes editorial board isn't taking Republican hypocrisy lying down. With the sequester beginning to impact air travel by causing flight delays, John Boehner and Eric Cantor took to Twitter to blame the president. But drastic cuts in spending carry a heavy price. Republicans ce ...
  • So Long, Baucus
    Ed Kilgore: If someone ever develops a Mad Men-type television show focused on the lobbying biz, the [Max] Baucus Retirement will provide a major episode. Yes, Max Baucus announced his retirement at the end of his term, and people are mainly dancing in the streets. Democrats and progressi ...
  • Showdown in Hawai'i
    I used to have a white Hawai'ian roommate back in the early 90's when I was living in Los Angeles. His brother was a professional surfer. Somehow this fact has never before come up on this blog. In any case, pretty much everything I know about Hawai'ian culture that doesn't come from Hollywoo ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    This week, evil cigarette ads show vintage advertising to be badvertising, while some works of reverse graffiti put contemporary marketing methods in a far better light. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Incredible Ancient Cliff Dwellings
    Perched high on escarpments or carved into rock faces, these ancient cliff dwellings once offered security and comfort to the people who lived in them. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Theme Park on Drug Lord Pablo Escobar's Estate
    Hacienda Nápoles was once the ranch of notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, but today families visit to see exotic animals and climb the plaster dinosaurs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • GMOs: The Walking Dead of the Food Industry
    Some startling facts and figures about genetically modified organisms... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    This week, fun design comes to the fore in many shapes, while giant old computers and vintage ads for harmful drugs take us on a journey back in time. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Pentagon domestic operations switches from "pu ...
    This is an incredibly short period of time, he said, and it forces a change in the relationship between DOD and other agencies. The old paradigm was to have civil partners “pull assistance” from DOD, while now DOD will actually push assistance where it is needed. Defense.gov News Article: Offic ...
  • 2013: Boston, paper gold, Obama signs Stock Ac ...
    Hang tight folks, it looks like we are on the cusp of another 'burst of change' on a few fronts. You should probably double the watts going to your news radar for at least 10-14 days, if you possibly can. And all those cheesy "financial systems" are getting Extra Discontinuous as they usually do ...
  • Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of T ...
    I remember seeing Spook years ago on a rough videotape with horrible audio at the Soap Factory - shortly thereafter it was possible to obtain the DVD, based on a negative long-hidden in some film vault under a false name. Spook is one of those incredible movies - a 1973 narrative of a black CIA ...
  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...
  • NEW VIDEOS: Interviews from Enbridge blockade ...
    Got a batch of videos here from the last week to check out. Glad to have a little chance to bring these interesting projects, including Idle No More MN & the Enbridge Blockade near Leonard MN (also known as the encampment) going strong since late February. All these videos are basically uned ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • How can white Americans be free?
    "No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it." -- James BaldwinMeasure, measure, measure. We learn to measure first. We spend our days measuring. And when we count we start at one.Every number after is in relation to one. Two is one after one. Three ...
  • Could Tsarnaev have hid from infrared?
    Late last Friday a terrible week that began with the bombing of the Boston Marathon came to a satisfying, if somber, conclusion. The last alleged perpetrator of the horrific events at the marathon and MIT was arrested after a most dangerous game of hide and seek.To help bring Dzhokhar Tsarneav ...
  • How a Twitter hack sent the market plummeting
    NEW YORK (AP) -- For a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world's mightiest stock market to tremble.No sooner did hackers send a false Associated Press tweet reporting explosions at the White House on Tuesday than investors started dumping stocks - eventually unloading $ ...
  • Bombing suspects’ mother could be arrested if ...
    One of her sons is dead, and the other is in the hospital.Yet the mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has not returned to the United States from the Russian republic of Dagestan to bury the oldest boy or to care for the youngest — despite her claims they are innocent.The ...
  • Space preservation’s new frontier
    Some of the most historic sites of human history aren’t even on our planet. On the moon are the six lunar landing sites left from NASA’s 1969 to 1972 trips to the moon, and traveling somewhere out in the distance of the universe are interstellar objects like the Voyager ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Diplomat jailed in biggest Dutch spy affair in ...
    A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a diplomat to 12 years in prison for spying for Russia, in what security observers have called one of the worst espionage scandals in recent Dutch history.
  • News you may have missed #832 (foiled Canada t ...
    Two arrested in Canada terror plot. Canada foils 'al-Qaeda inspired' terror attack on train. Tip from Muslim community 'helped foil' al-Qaeda plot.
  • News you may have missed #831 (Boston Marathon ...
    Russia had warned FBI Tsarnaev had radical links. FBI interviewed dead Boston bombing suspect years ago. Ex-CIA/FBI official says Boston bombings were not terrorism. Ex-US Attorney General says Boston bombings were terrorism.
  • Is Ana Montes ‘the most important spy you’ve n ...
    An extensive article published today in The Washington Post Magazine revisits the largely forgotten case of Ana Belen Montes, a senior United States military intelligence analyst who was convicted in 2002 of spying for Cuba.
  • News you may have missed #830 (Boston bombings ...
    Despite WMD fears, terrorists still focused on conventional attacks. Why isn’t terrorism in the US a whole lot more frequent? Boston bomb investigators can’t decide: foreign or domestic? Smoke color is key clue to analyzing Boston Marathon bombs.

War is a Crime.org

  • A Time to Turn Away from Violence
    By Sally McMillan As we work through our shock and grief over the bombings at the Boston Marathon, as we express our admiration for the courageous response of the people of Boston to this tragedy, as we watch the ongoing tv broadcasts about the manhunt, as we praise the work of police, FBI, fire ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Pentagon Professor Says the ...
    Gregory D. Foster is Professor of Political Science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., where he previously has served as George C. Marshall Professor and J. Carlton Ward Distinguished Professor and Director of Research. Foster says the ...
  • Is your 15-year-old son a terrorist?
    Is your 15-year-old son a terrorist? Of course, according to the TSA. Heck, we're all terrorists. Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Time to Renounce the “War on Terror”
    By Norman Solomon As a perpetual emotion machine -- producing and guzzling its own political fuel -- the “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death. Ongoing warfare has become a matter of default routine, pushed along by mainline media and the le ...
  • Free Lynne Stewart Now
      Free Lynne Stewart Now   by Stephen Lendman   Lynne's wrongfully imprisoned. She's one of America's best. For 30 years, she defended its poor, underprivileged, unwanted, and forgotten. Without advocates like her, they're denied due process and judicial fairness.   read more

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • RIP Bob Edgar, Longtime Common Cause President ...
    Bob Edgar passed away suddenly this morning at his home in Northern Virginia at the age of 69, according to Common Cause, the democracy watchdog group for which Edgar served as president and CEO . "Bob will be remembered for his decency, kindness, compassion and humor. His deep commi ...
  • WATCH: Richie Havens Performs "Freedom" at 200 ...
    To mark the passing of legendary protest singer Richie Havens, we are sharing his performance of "Freedom" at the massive Feb. 15, 2003, demonstration against the Iraq War, which took place in New York City as millions filled the streets around the world. You may recall the song from ...
  • Read an Excerpt From Jeremy Scahill's "Dirty W ...
    Longtime Democracy Now! correspondant Jeremy Scahill’s new book, "Dirty Wars" was published this week by Nation Books. You can read one of the chapters below. Watch Part 1 of our interview with Scahill , and watch Part II on Wednesday. Below is an excerpt from Dirty Wars: T ...
  • WATCH: Translating Words: Democracy Now's Nerm ...
    Watch the recent talk given by Democracy Now! producer and weekly co-host Nermeen Shaikh at TEDxDanubia 2013, titled, Translating Words. Nermeen was previously managing editor at the Asia Society. She has interviewed hundreds of figures from the academic, foreign policy, business, activist, a ...
  • Maratón de Boston: patriotas y activistas por ...
    Publicado el 19 de abril de 2013 Amy Goodman El lunes fue el Día del Patriota en Massachusetts, que conmemora el comienzo de la Guerra de la Independencia de Estados Unidos en 1775 en dos batallas celebradas en ese estado. También es el día en que se celebra la maratón anual de Boston, ...

Solari

  • Solari Stories – Trusted Sources
  • In Celebration: Richie Havens, Legendary Guita ...
    By Jim Farber Richie Havens, a seminal member of the New York folk scene of the ’60s, died Monday morning from a sudden heart attack. He was 72. Continue Reading
  • Transcript of “Equity Overview with Chuck Gibs ...
    Transcript of Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson: Yields and Volatility of Stocks vs. Bonds is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine Austin Fitts: And now we turn to the “Second Quarter Equity Market Review.” In a moment I’m going to bring in Chuck Gibson, who is someone wh ...
  • Crowd Sourced Surveillance
    [CAF Note: Geez - why allow our taxes to pay for the police state, when consumers can fund directly?] Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter Google Glass on Wikipedia
  • Bulls Hit
    By Grant Williams I am a seller of gold. Just not yet — and certainly not anywhere close to this price. One day, long into the future, it will be time to sell gold — or, more likely, to exchange it for something you want more; but it just ain’t time yet, folks [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • With a 119 MPGe Rating, the 2014 Chevy Spark E ...
    General Motors has released the official EPA ratings for the 2014 Chevy Spark electric vehicle, which goes on sale this summer in California and Oregon. The 2014 Spark EV has a driving range of up to 82 miles when fully charged and an EPA-estimated combined    
  • Dillon Marsh’s “Invasive Species” Photo Essay ...
    When cell towers starting popping up in the '90s, they were signs of progress, but then as more sprouted they became an eyesore. Even worse was when they were planted in a neighborhood and towered over friendly suburban houses. In an attempt to make them blend    
  • Henning Larsen Architects Unveils Plans for Ne ...
    In addition to providing office space, the new Microsoft campus will include student housing and retail space. The mixed-use development will play an integral role in the Lyngby-Taarbæk City of Knowledge and Urban Development 2020 plan, which aims    
  • Personal Panther 3D Printer is Made from High- ...
    The Singapore-based team behind the Portabee 3D printer recently launched a new personal Panther 3D printer made from parts of CNC machines. Touted as a “personal 3D printer that takes personal 3D manufacturing to the next level,” the cheap, entry-level    
  • Clock Shadow Building Supports the Community a ...
    The developers of this underutilized parcel in Milwaukee's Walker’s Point neighborhood wanted a building that achieved a mission of economic improvement, social justice, environmental restoration, and cultural celebration. On the ground floor sits an ice    

Pogue's Posts

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Bahrain Blocks UN Human Rights Investigator
    So this happened: An independent United Nations expert today urged the Government of Bahrain to honour its international commitments and allow him in to assess whether torture and ill-treatment are taking place in the country, after repeated postponements of planned visits. “This is the second t ...
  • Preventing a Clash in the East China Sea
    CFR’s Senior Fellow for Japan studies, Sheila A. Smith, published a new CFR Contingency Planning Memo (CPM), “A Sino-Japanese Clash in the East China Sea.”  In it, she argues that the United States should encourage peaceful dispute resolution to the avoid further escalation in tension between Ch ...
  • Top of the Morning: Bombing of French Embassy ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Bombing of French Embassy in Libya Smacks of Mali Retribution No one was killed in an early morning attack on the French Embassy early yesterday morning, and no group has claimed responsibility. But…”Scrutiny now falls on militant Islamist groups active in Lib ...
  • Beware of "Ties"
    Something to think about as we learn more in the coming days about both Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his deceased brother Tamerlan. Everything investigators have released so far suggests that they acted alone, and you can easily find instructions to make the kind of bomb they used on the Internet. But ...
  • White House Transparency and Targeted Killings
    In February, President Obama declared during a Google+ Fireside Hangout: “This is the most transparent administration in history, and I can document how that is the case.” Obama did acknowledge: “When it comes to how we conduct counterterrorism there are legitimate questions there, and we should ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Are the Koch Brothers Getting in the Newspaper ...
    If you ask ten conservatives what they think of The New York Times, seven or eight of them would probably tell you that it's an organization whose primary purpose is advancing a sinister liberal agenda, and journalism just happens to be the tool it uses to accomplish that goal, though they'd be ...
  • Rhode Island's Bipartisan Gay-Marriage Coup
    Same-sex marriage advocates have had their eyes on Rhode Island for a long time. Wednesday afternoon, they’ll very likely see the last barrier to marriage equality fall away, as the state Senate is scheduled to vote on a measure legalizing same-sex marriage. It’s already passed the House, recei ...
  • The GOP Still Can't Quit George W. Bush
    Tech Sgt. Craig Clapper, USAF Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush give a final farewell wave to the crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered on Andrews Air Force Base, Md., to wish them a fond farewell before their final departure aboard Air Force One. This we ...
  • Five Reasons Boston Has Nothing to Do with Imm ...
    AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on immigration reform yesterday. Shortly after Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonated bombs near the finish line at the Boston marathon, killing 3 people and ...
  • Coming Out of the Locker Room
    AP Photo/Matt York Phoenix Mercury's Brittney Griner, the number one overall pick of the WNBA draft, laughs during a news conference in Phoenix earlier this week. It was in the locker room and on the field where Wade Davis felt most at peace with himself, which doesn’t sound unus ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Howard Phillips, Architect of the Religious Ri ...
    Howard Phillips, one of the main architects of the Moral Majority and, more generally, the American religious right, died Saturday at the age of 72. According to the Christian News Network, he had been suffering from dementia. Phillips had a long history in conservative and right-wing movements, ...
  • In Wake of ID of Boston Bombers, a Look at Jih ...
    With the news that the Boston Marathon bombers may have Chechnyan roots, attention is turning to the threat of “self-radicalized” Muslims in the United States. In the fall of 2011, the Intelligence Report ran a cover story and several sidebars on that phenomenon that may be useful to ...
  • Extremists Blame Favorite Bogeymen for Boston ...
    Who was responsible for the deadly Boston terrorist attack? The Muslims did it. No, it was an illegal immigrant. Think again – it was a gay guy. Wait, you missed the key signs: Our own government once again pulled off an act of covert terror to promote its nefarious aims. Fingers have been point ...
  • Judge Sentences Mosque Arsonist, Likens Crime ...
    The “American psyche” was damaged when an armed arsonist set fire to a Toledo mosque, much like the impact of Monday’s bombings in Boston, a federal judge said in sentencing an Indiana man to 20 years in prison. Randolph Linn, 52, of St. Joe, Ind., was also ordered to pay restitution of more tha ...
  • White Supremacists Arrested in Tennessee Murde ...
    Two white supremacists are in custody and two more are being sought in the beating death in Tennessee of a volunteer firefighter who authorities say was affiliated with the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations. At least one of the four suspects is reportedly a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a prison-based, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Strike Wave by Fast Food and Retail Workers Sp ...
    Hundreds of workers at Chicago’s largest fast food and retail chains walked off their jobs today, calling for $15 an hour and the right to form a union free from retaliation. The unprecedented combined fast-food and retail walkout – hitting major national stores like McDonald’s ...
  • 10 Questions for the Corporate Witnesses at To ...
    The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance is holding a hearing on the TPP today and the four witnesses presenting testimony all represent associations of the official U.S. corporate trade advisors who, unlike the press and public, have access to the secret TPP texts. The Honorable Karan Bhatia, Vice ...
  • Court Upholds EPA’s Power To Protect Communiti ...
    Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s legal authority to veto a mining permit that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had issued. The decision reverses the lower court’s contrary ruling, and is a major blow to the coal i ...
  • Court Upholds EPA’s Power To Protect Communiti ...
    Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s legal authority to veto a mining permit that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had issued. The decision reverses the lower court’s contrary ruling, and is a major blow to the coal i ...
  • Court Orders EPA to Move Forward on Power Plan ...
    The nation’s second highest court issued a decision today that ensures the Environmental Protection Agency will have to meet a court-ordered deadline to issue regulations that finally clean up power plant water pollution.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • A Recession for the 93 Percent, Good Times for ...
    Mijin Cha read more
  • The Kilburn Manifesto: Our Challenge to the Ne ...
    Stuart Hall The crisis in the global economic system triggered by the banking collapse of 2006-08 has precipitated a new moment in the evolution of global capitalism. But its novelty is not generally understood.After Neoliberalism: The Kilb ...
  • The High Price of Our Fertilizer Addiction
    Jill Richardson Aerial photos above the fertilizer plant in West, Texas in the aftermath of an explosion that killed 14 people, more than 200 injured, and many homeless. (Photo: Getty Images)My heart aches for the people of West, Texas, the ...
  • Tackling "Monoculture of the Mind"
    Vandana Shiva Nature has given us a cornucopia of biodiversity rich in nutrients. Malnutrition and nutrient deficiency result from destroying biodiversity. The Green Revolution has spread monocultures of chemical rice and wheat, driving out ...
  • The Same Motive for Anti-US 'Terrorism' Is Cit ...
    Glenn Greenwald A banner reading 'United We Stand For Peace on Earth' outside the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photograph: Allen Breed/AP)News reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US i ...

Water Privatization

  • Chileans Rise Up Against Privatization of Nati ...
    Major water shortages in Chile are a direct result of the free reign given to mining and logging companies by the Chilean government over the country's dwindling water supplies, more than 100 environmental, social and indigenous organizations and over 6,000 protesters warned at a rally in Sa ...
  • Soap Lake holds discussion on costs and repair ...
    SOAP LAKE – Soap Lake residents and stakeholders will soon have the chance to weigh in on a proposed rate increase for mineral water users.
  • K-Water indicates willingness to pay full amou ...
    The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) is set to issue soon the certificate of effectivity (CoE) which shall finally call on the payment of the $440.88 million winning bid for the 218-megawatt component of the privatized Angat hydropower facility.
  • K-Water inches closer to bagging Angat plant deal
    Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-Water), the leading water resources and power firm in South Korea, on Thursday signified its agreement to the water protocol governing the operations of the 246-megawatt Angat hydropower plant in Bulacan.
  • Agus, polangui hydropower plants hold privatiz ...
    Business groups in Mindanao are supporting proposals to temporarily stop the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) from divesting the remaining government power assets in the area.

Guardian

  • Dhaka: 119 die as building housing factories t ...
    Hundreds of garment workers feared dead at plant in Bangladesh where staff were 'told to return to work' despite crack in wallHundreds of garment workers employed in factories that supplied high-street shops in the west, including Primark, the high street discount clothing store, , are feared de ...
  • Online fraudsters 'offered services through Fa ...
    Facebook removes group which included list of stolen identities, apparently obtained by group memberOnline fraudsters have been found offering access to credit card details, networks of hacked computers, and other fraud "services" through Facebook, according to security researchers.Posts on a Fa ...
  • Ukip's popularity will hit Tories hardest, say ...
    Professor John Curtice says about 16% of Tory supporters at last election would now vote for Nigel Farage's partyNigel Farage, the UK Independence Party leader, presents the "most serious fourth party incursion" into English electoral politics since the second world war – with the Tories as the ...
  • Federal court clears way for execution of ment ...
    Warren Hill 'deeply disappointed' after court lifts stay for procedural reasons, claiming Hill is not eligible for reconsiderationA federal appeals court that had blocked the scheduled February execution of a Georgia man whose lawyers say is mentally disabled has lifted its stay, clearing the wa ...
  • Police did nothing about Dowler phone hacking ...
    Official report by police watchdog says Surrey police force missed chance after chance to raise alarmSurrey police were told the phone of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked by the News of the World in 2002, but did nothing about it for nearly a decade, an official report by the poli ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistans female police officers fight for ...
    A new female recruit of the Afghanistan police force during a training session south of Herat, in the west of the country. Photograph: Raheb ...
  • Kerry hopeful after meeting with Afghan Pakist ...
    John Kerry reported progress following a meeting with Afghan and Pakistani leaders on relaunching talks between the two countries. After a three-hour meeting Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels involving Kerry, Afghan ...
  • Moderate Earthquake Strikes Eastern Afghanistan
    The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.7-magnitude earthquake was 65 kilometers deep and struck 25 kilometers northwest of Jalalabad, the main town in eastern Afghanistan which is close to the Pakistani border. Pakistan's meteorological office put the magnitude at 6.2. Ahmad Zia Abdulz ...
  • Afghanistan hit by deadly earthquake
    thus far, according to CNN figures, in an earthquake that hit Afghanistan Wednesday, its epicenter 24 kilometers northwest of Jalalabad. Dozens of people were injured and homes destroyed after the tremor ...
  • Afghan earthquake kills 11
    /enpproperty--> JALALABAD, Afghanistan - At least 11 people were killed and 114 were wounded Wednesday afternoon after a 6.2- magnitude earthquake hit eastern Afghan provinces bordering Pakistan, authorities said. In Nangarhar province 120 km east of capital Kabul, eight people were killed a ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Citizen Science
    The funding for "big science" is subject to all kinds of political whim, so maybe it's time to bolster the efforts of small science projects that might still contribute to the world's scientific knowledge. (And, hopefully, citizen scientists won't waste too much time or resources on perpetual mo ...
  • Japan The Latest Country To Mistakenly Say Goo ...
    Following on similar results in France and Italy, a court in Japan has ridiculously ordered Google to change its autocomplete results after a guy there got upset that when people searched for his name, one of the autocomplete results involved his name and a criminal act which he did not commit. ...
  • Winning But Losing: Lessons From An Internet S ...
    "Justice prevails" is often declared when a court case ends, honoring a system that produces the right result. Right, however, is not always just. The judicial system needs to address the exorbitant costs that accompany litigation, or a situation can happen when a company is sued by a deeper poc ...
  • Bob Goodlatte Calls For Copyright Reform, Leav ...
    In a press release issued today, Rep. Bob Goodlatte made a call for comprehensive copyright reform and announced series of hearings on copyright before the House Judiciary Committee. Of course, this isn't the first indication that Congress is interested in copyright reform — they heard Mar ...
  • Kardashians Allegedly Arguing Copyright Gives ...
    We've seen copyright law abused and misused so many times that it's rarely a surprise anymore to hear of some wacky story. But this one's new. Kenichi Tanaka points us to an article about how the Kardashian kids -- Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob Kardashian -- are apparently suing their stepmothe ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Time to talk about the war on Islam
    A 60 Minutes report which aired on Sunday provided a glimpse of the 9/11 Museum in New York, currently under construction and scheduled to open next year. The report underlined the degree to which 9/11 has become a pillar in America’s national mythology. For many Americans the events of th ...
  • Syrian city embodies absurdity of civil war
    Christoph Reuter reports: In peacetime, 40,000 people lived in Zabadani, Muslims and Christians. Only 3,000 remain — out of defiance, fear or because they’re defending the city. Anyone left stays in the basements or on the ground floors. All buildings are abandoned above the first fl ...
  • Hezbollah’s strategy in Syria will accelerate ...
    Hassan Hassan writes: Fears that the Syrian conflict may spill over the country’s borders are being realised, but in reverse: the Lebanese conflict is coming to Syria. Ahmed Al Aseer, an influential Lebanese Sunni cleric, declared on Monday that jihad in Syria is now mandatory for all capa ...
  • Syria used chemical arms, Israel says
    The Wall Street Journal reports: The Syrian army has used lethal chemical weapons during the country’s civil war, Israel’s top military intelligence analyst said Tuesday, heightening pressure on the White House to intervene more directly against strongman Bashar-al Assad. “Acco ...
  • Video: Israel’s occupation outsourced to the P ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Three years of the Sun in three minutes
    Spectacular three year time lapse video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the … Continue reading →
  • Spencer slays with sarcasm
    Heh. In response to a ridiculous claim making the rounds (I get comment bombed at WUWT daily with that nonsense) which I debunked here: A misinterpreted claim about a NASA press release, CO2, solar flares, and the thermosphere is making … Continue reading →
  • Some sense about sensitivity
    Excerpts from The Register, coverage of the Nic Lewis paper. This graph below from Bishop Hill shows that it isn’t just one paper, but several now that show lower climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2. =============================================================== More and more … ...
  • More than a feeling…
    You may recall this story:  Climate Craziness of the week – with the physical signature of UHI staring them right in the face, Mann & Borenstein go with their ‘gut’ instincts Josh writes: With several questions from MPs recently, see here, here and here, … Continue reading →
  • Imagine What Would Happen If We Didn’t Have A ...
    This is a cross post of my post titled El Niño-Southern Oscillation Then and Now. I’m presenting this for those who look for patterns. I see it only as a curiosity—nothing more. I am not suggesting that future ENSO events … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

  • EPA dreams of rivers and streams
    Having spent years collecting data on the condition of rivers and streams, and found these bodies of water needing additional “protection’ and “restoration,” the agency is making the case for action under the Clean Water Act (CWA). This four-decade-old statute already gives EPA vast powers to i ...
  • Poor being thrown off Ugandan land for carbon ...
    When you think about the effects of global warming hysteria, you might think of higher electricity prices, not people being thrown off their land and having their homes burned down. . . [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5113.mp3]
  • “Greeny Lying Bastards” are in it ...
    “Greedy Lying Bastards producers spent nearly $2 million to complain about climate skeptic money, in yet another Big Green attack on anyone who disagrees with the climate fanatic industry which is, itself , a multi-billion-dollar enterprise that seeks to impose anti-energy policies in the name ...
  • Environmentalism’s seven deadliest, most ...
    Congressman Steve Stockman was a member of CFACT's delegation to the COP 15, the UN climate conference in Copenhagen. Steve gives us a rundown on the damage done by seven of radical environmentalists worst initiatives.
  • FDA’s poisons the well for fruit tree fa ...
    To the horror of growers from Florida to Oregon, the FDA is proposing strict new food-safety standards that many growers are convinced will put them out of business.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Washed in Space: Astronaut’s Washcloth Video G ...
    When a group of high school students asked an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) what happens when a wet washcloth is wrung out in space, the Canadian commander put their question to the test - and shot a video of what turned out to be a remarkable demonstration of the oddities o ...
  • Russia Massacre Suspect Protests Innocence
    A suspect in the massacre of six people in the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod who was captured by police on Tuesday said he was innocent and refused to give a statement to investigators, the Investigative Committee said on Wednesday.    
  • Russian Space Freighter Heads to ISS Despite A ...
    The unmanned Russian Progress-M19M cargo spacecraft is continuing its journey to the International Space Station (ISS) despite its failure to deploy one of its navigation antennas, Russia’s Mission Control said on Wednesday.    
  • Duma Bans Overseas Accounts for Public Officials
    The lower house of the Russian parliament passed a bill in its third and final reading on Wednesday banning public officials, lawmakers and judges from having foreign bank accounts or holding stocks or bonds abroad.    
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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Washed in Space: Astronaut’s Washcloth Video G ...
    When a group of high school students asked an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) what happens when a wet washcloth is wrung out in space, the Canadian commander put their question to the test - and shot a video of what turned out to be a remarkable demonstration of the oddities o ...
  • Mammoth 'Zhenya' On Way to St. Petersburg for ...
    The carcass of a male mammoth unearthed in Siberia this summer has been sent to the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg for tests, a deputy director of the institute said on Sunday.    
  • Russia’s Progress Cargo Spacecraft to Be ‘Buri ...
    The Progress M-17M cargo spacecraft, which undocked from the International Space Station on April 15, will be "buried" in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, Russia's Mission Control said.    
  • Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk
    Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have completed a spacewalk, Russia’s Mission Control Center reported on Saturday.    
  • International Space Station

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Newly Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movem ...
    Yesterday, after 21 months in federal custody, climate activist Tim DeChristopher approached the pulpit at his church in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a free man. The First Unitarian congregation rose in uproarious applause, tears streaming down more than a few faces.Click here to read this article
  • Gagging on Ag-gag Laws
    In most state legislatures today, "off the wall" has become the political center, and bizarre bills are no longer unusual. Still, it seems strange that legislators in so many states - including Arkansas, California, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Vermont - have simultaneously been pushing ...
  • Pressure Mounts to Remove Genetically Engineer ...
    Cornucopia, WI - Shareholders of Abbott Laboratories will vote on whether the manufacturer of Similac, a leading brand of infant formula, should adopt a policy of sourcing ingredients that have not been genetically engineered.Click here to read this article
  • Nestle CEO: Water is Not a Human Right, Should ...
    Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from starvation due to their lack of financial wealth? According to the former CEO and no ...
  • Minority Groups Backing Fluoride Were Paid $14 ...
    The campaign advocating fluoridation of Portland's drinking water has trumpeted the support it's received from minority organizations, ranging from the Urban League of Portland to the Latino Network.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Chagos Islands: open secrets â â⦠inhabitants ...
    A recent Guardian article and editorial highlight the latest attempt by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to suppress the truth about its motivation for the creation of a Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Islands, by insisting that Submitted by Joseph M. to US Politics & Gov& ...
  • Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee ...
    Examining the federal governments policies and actions related to the capture, detention and treatment of suspected terrorists during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ten Years On...
    Riverbend has finally made an update note on her famous blog about her family in Baghdad at the time of the US invasion Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • US belittles Iran's nuclear offer
    Herding Iran to violate the NPT through abridging the 3rd Pillar of the NPT as per the NPT TRAP ( Transcend Media, where disarmament proponents are 'the real danger' say nuclear armed nations ) in a propagandized semi-covert and economic war ( sanctions ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Engineering Consent Through Propaganda
    The dominant framework is entirely political in that it dominates by excluding and marginalizing dissenting evidence. Ecosystems around us are crashing and we do not see the roles of synergy and interdependence, bio-accumulation, and bio-magnification: Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wel ...

Angry Indian News

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  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • “Stunning” Difference of GM from non-GM Corn
    A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM corn.
  • 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!!!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Baucus retires, a grateful nation cheers
    ShareThisBaucus retires, a grateful nation cheers 24 Apr 2013 With one glorious stroke Max Baucus has made it possible for two of America's more interesting politicians to play bigger roles on the national stage... Never has a politician done so much to lift the prospects of the republic simp ...
  • Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when ...
    ShareThisOfficials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place 24 Apr 2013 Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect [patsy] in the Boston Marathon bombings had no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was ...
  • Senate hearing blasts Obama's refusal to share ...
    ShareThisSenate hearing blasts Obama's refusal to share details of drone program 23 Apr 2013 Democratic and Republican senators joined a former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday in urging the Obama administration to make public more information about its top-secret target ...
  • Taiwan confirms first H7N9 bird flu case outsi ...
    ShareThisTaiwan confirms first H7N9 bird flu case outside China 24 Apr 2013 Taiwan on Wednesday reported the first case of the H7N9 bird flu outside of mainland China. The man, who had been working in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, showed symptoms three days after returning to Taiwan via ...
  • Boston bombing suspect put on terrorist watch ...
    ShareThisBoston bombing suspect put on terrorist watch list at CIA request --Officials said Tsarnaev's name was added to the database but it's unclear which agency added it. 24 Apr 2013 The CIA asked the main U.S. counterterrorism agency to add the name of one of the suspected Boston Marathon b ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Boston Terror Updates & Developments-April 24, ...
    CIA MO Not the FBI, Contradictions from Dagestan, Recent Shooting Incident in Dagestan, Georgia-NATO-Russia & More   I have been repeatedly emphasizing the importance of going outside the US mainstream and quasi-alternative media outlets for information and new developments on the Boston Ter ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Institutional Insanity Corporate executives might be insane. At least, that’s what you’d think after listening to an interview with the chairman of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation. By looking at Peter Brabeck of Nestlé, examining his views and thinking, one co ...
  • If You Want To Go To Heaven, You Had Better Ge ...
    The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in “liberated” Iraq, the ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 23 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The EyeOpener- Sibel Edmonds on the Boston Bom ...
    FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com editor Sibel Edmonds joins us to discuss the recent Boston bombing hysteria and the potential geopolitical implications of the American public’s “discovery” of Chechen terror. We discuss Sibel’s work exposing the US/NATO roots of ...

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Tikun Olam

  • After Kerry Calls Erdogan Visit to Gaza Untime ...
    John Kerry and Chuck Hagel have been continuing the Obama administration love fest with Israel that began with the President’s visit a few weeks ago. Hagel on his visit bore the gift of a $10-billion arms deal, among which were armaments for Israel, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. A ...
  • Website Issues
    Some readers have periodically told me since I moved to my new web host that they’ve not been able to access the blog, getting an error saying there were “too many redirects.” If you ever receive such an error message or cannot access the site for any reason, please let me know ...
  • FBI Intelligence Failure in Vetting Tsarnaev
    Today, the L.A. times reported chillingly that the FBI had received a report on Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamist proclivities from the Russian intelligence service before his 2012 trip to that country’s restive Muslim republics, Dagestan and Chechnya. Yet after examining his back ...
  • Boston Marathon Suspect Wounded, Arrested
    The worst appears over for the city of Boston as police arrested their final second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. He is 19 year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen of Chechen heritage.  He’d taken refuge in a covered boat in a Watertown backyard.  After another shootout, he ...
  • Possible Boston Marathon Suspects in Running G ...
    Tonight, there appears to be a major development in the Boston Marathon bombing case. Several hours ago, someone shot and killed an MIT security guard. This set off a vast manhunt for the killers. They apparently carjacked several vehicles including a State Police SUV, from which they threw expl ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How a Computer Can Organize Thousands of Docum ...
    Before computers, all document-driven stories started with a big stack of paper. Often, the first task was to organize all that paper, by sorting individual documents into piles by type. This gives journalists a high-level idea of "what's in there" and helps them decide what to read more closely ...
  • Behavio Updates the Funf Open-Source Project
    The Behavio team is very happy to announce a major version update to Funf, our open-source mobile sensing framework, accompanied by respective updates to Funf's two user-facing components (Funf Journal and Funf In A Box). In the time since our last major version update (Funf 0.3) last year, w ...
  • OpenNews Revamps Code Sprints; Sheetsee.js Win ...
    Back at the Hacks/Hackers Media Party in Buenos Aires, I announced the creation of Code Sprints -- funding opportunities to build open-sourced tools for journalism. We used Code Sprints to fund a collaboration between WNYC in New York and KPCC in Southern California to build a parser for electio ...
  • Why Media Sites Should Adopt Responsive Design
    Responsive design is the big buzz of 2013. If 2012 was foretold to bring prosperity based on the Chinese zodiac, Mashable's prediction for 2013 forecast a big year for responsive design, presenting a significant paradigm shift in the web design and development world where previously we were rest ...
  • The School of Data Journalism: Europe's Bigges ...
    The International Journalism Festival will take place April 24-27 in Perugia, Italy. We are excited to announce that the School of Data Journalism will be held for the second time at the festival. The workshop will be run by the School of Data team at the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Europe ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Boston Massacre - Bidden Rails Against "Tw ...
    Vice President Biden on Wednesday railed against the “twisted, perverted, knock-off jihadists� alleged to have planted the bombs that killed three and injured hundreds at the Boston Marathon last week.Biden made the comments at the memorial service for Sean Collier, the MIT officer allegedly ...
  • The Edge of Mental Health - Cook County Sparks ...
    In the late 1990s, Northwestern University scholar Linda Teplin launched a groundbreaking study to examine the mental health status of young people in Cook County’s juvenile lock up. The study began a century after the county became the first jurisdiction in the world to create a separate cour ...
  • The Defense Edge - Pentagon Claims $757 Millio ...
    The Pentagon allowed a private firm providing food and water to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to overbill taxpayers $757 million and awarded the company no-bid contract extensions worth more than $4 billion over three years, according to the Pentagon’s chief internal watchdog and congressional in ...
  • Obama and Israel - The Secretary's Epiphany
    As a U.S. senator, Chuck Hagel went to great lengths to assure people he was not the "Senator from Israel," and HE seemed surprised when people objected to his remark, "The political reality is ... that the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here."  It was never clear who should ha ...
  • Venezuela on Edge - Venezuela Answers Fraud Ch ...
    One of the Hugo Chavez-era ministers retained in the new cabinet of Nicolas Maduro is Iris Varela, who holds the portfolio for Venezuela’s rotting prison system. This morning, she repaid Maduro’s vote of confidence in her by threatening to incarcerate Henrique Capriles, the opposition leader ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Judge to Obama- You MUST Deport Illegal Immigrants
    Chalk up one for Justice and the Constitution! A federal Judge in Texas told the Obama administration that they did NOT have the discretion to pick and choose which laws to enforce. They must deport illegal immigrants...er... criminally trespassing aliens. The lawsuit was brought by Ice ...
  • KARMA'S A BITCH! White House Knew Fisker Autom ...
    When one looks at the front grill of a Fisker  Karma, the first model luxury electric car made by Fisker Automotive (see picture above), it seems to be laughing.  It's as if it were saying "ha, ha, I got your money!" Indeed it did as the company received a major part of its fundi ...
  • If Obama Truly Wished To Turn Around The Econo ...
    During the recent election campaign President Obama had it both ways.  He would go from campaign stop to campaign stop announcing that he supports the construction of the final segment of the Keystone pipeline (the segment going from mid-Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico) ...
  • Top UN Human Rights Official--The US DESERVED ...
    In the twisted world of the United Nations where fair is foul and foul is fair, Richard Falk is the perfect man to lead the Human Rights Council's continuing efforts to de-legitmize Israel and find fault in whatever the United States says or does. By perfect I mean they found someone w ...
  • Newsbusted: Morning After Pill To Be Made in S ...
    Ask any kid, "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?" and they will scream back at you Sponge-Bob Square-Pants. That lovable yellow creature created by Nickelodeon years ago. In an exclusive report  by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that that Sponge Bob is about to take a new fo ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbines have reduced property values, co ...
    An Ontario court says that landowners near a proposed wind farm have suffered diminished property values. A lawyer for the landowners says the decision will clear the way for more actions against both wind developers and those who lease their land for wind turbines. But a spokesman for the wind ...
  • $4-million turbine fire at Kibby Mountain puts ...
    A fire destroyed a multimillion-dollar wind turbine at the Kibby Mountain wind farm in northern Franklin County, which has generated concern about the safety and reliability of turbines, and the process by which these fires are reported to government officials and the public. Companies that oper ...
  • Regulators, advocates, opponents of wind energ ...
    A fire has destroyed a multimillion-dollar wind turbine at the Kibby Mountain wind farm in northern Franklin County, which has generated concern about the safety and reliability of turbines, and the process by which these fires are reported to government officials and the public. TransCanada, th ...
  • Wildlife researcher pleads guilty to unlawful ...
    United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that a Julian resident pled guilty today to the unlawful taking of a Golden Eagle, in violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, before the Honorable David H. Bartick, United States Magistrate Judge. At the time of the plea, wildlife re ...
  • Hunger protest against wind turbines continues
    Residents from Miaoli County’s Yuanli Township (苑裡), on the 11th day of a hunger strike, rallied yesterday outside the Executive Yuan, protesting against a project to build wind turbines near their homes. “I want to stress that we are not against green energy solutions. In fact, we fully support ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Journalism curriculum, and the hands-in-the-ai ...
    It’s hard work making sure a journalism curriculum remains relevant. Here are “four essential components to the new curriculum for teaching news and communication,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of The Elements of ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 5: How to us ...
    If you want to design the future, learn to code. That’s how I concluded the last post in this series. So far, I’ve discussed HTML and CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, the command line, and software and CMSs. The vast majority of journalists out there are probably not going to stick with ...
  • List of requirements for a digital story designer
    The job title given in the advertisement is “digital news developer.” These are the requirements: College degree Minimum of 2 years programming experience Advanced command of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (including jQuery) Light Ruby or Python for data mining, Web scraping Comfort w ...
  • 10 examples of bespoke article design and scro ...
    Have you been noticing all the pretty sliding/scrolling articles that are popping up around the Internetz? My students think they’re wonderful, and so do I. So let’s look at a roundup of some great ones. Of course we’ll begin with Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Th ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
    This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...

Facing South

  • A turning point for mountaintop removal?
    There were two big developments this week in the fight to end mountaintop removal, with a federal appeals court upholding the EPA's authority to revoke permits for such coal mining operations, and a group of scientists calling for a moratorium on the practice. Is the end of blowing up Appalachia ...
  • Three years after the BP disaster, an urgent c ...
    More than 30 Gulf Coast advocates have signed a letter sent to six federal agencies outlining ongoing human health problems from the Deepwater Horizon disaster and calling for immediate action. read more
  • The South, still ruled by 'the handful'
    As the South's hard-right pols block expanding Medicaid to a population in need, they show that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer's description of the region's government as "with the handful, for the handful, by the handful" remains true today. 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Boston is the end result of a broken system
    Now that the events in Boston have come to a conclusion, of sorts, let’s look at some why what happened, happened. First, the most contentious part, and something I can’t prove yet.  The two kids who did the bombing were known to the FBI.  One had been interviewed by the FBI, the mot ...
  • Boston is the end result of a broken system
    Now that the events in Boston have come to a conclusion, of sorts, let’s look at some why what happened, happened. First, the most contentious part, and something I can’t prove yet.  The two kids who did the bombing were known to the FBI.  One had been interviewed by the FBI, the mot ...
  • Brief Comments on the Boston Bombing
    “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” - Unknown That’s most of the necessary commentary, as Boston has already said they’ll be doing random backpack checks (unconstitutional on the face) tomorrow. I ...
  • Brief Comments on the Boston Bombing
    “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” - Unknown That’s most of the necessary commentary, as Boston has already said they’ll be doing random backpack checks (unconstitutional on the face) tomorrow. I ...
  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • US: Indicted social media journalist fired
    San Fransisco Chronicle – A social media journalist indicted in March for allegedly helping hackers break into the Los Angeles Times’ website was fired Monday by his employer, the news service Thomson Reuters. In a tweet Monday, Matthew Keys, 26, of Secaucus, N.J., wrote, “Just ...
  • Greece’s second-largest bank to escape n ...
    DW – Greece’s Piraeus Bank has said a recapitalization scheme has been agreed among shareholders. If fully implemented, it would ensure the lender’s solvency and prevent it from being nationalized. Piraeus Bank of Greece reported on Tuesday that its shareholders had approved a ...
  • Napolitano: Immigration bill would boost security
    Associated Press – Sweeping immigration legislation would improve U.S. security by helping authorities to know who is in the country, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday, as supporters of an immigration overhaul marshaled arguments against opponents trying to slow it ...
  • Greek former defence minister denies money lau ...
    Associated Press – A former Greek defence minister strongly denied felony charges of money laundering against him Monday, the first day of a corruption trial against him and another 18 defendants, including his immediate family. Akis Tsochadzopoulos, his wife Vicky Stamati, daughter Areti ...
  • Alzheimer’s: Could coconut oil treat the illness?
    Mirror – Standing outside the register office in her wedding dress, nervous bride Rashi Parmar turned to her dad for reassurance. But the man who was about to walk her down the aisle stared blankly back at her. He had no clue he was at a wedding, no idea he was father of the bride. Read ar ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Bay Area air pollution reaches Devils Postpile ...
    That fresh, pine-scented mountain air that you happily breathe in the Sierra Nevada could be hazardous to your health.
  • Yosemite's Tioga Road to reopen May 11
    Officials at Yosemite National Park say snow plows will begin clearing Tioga Road next week and hope to reopen the highway by May 11.
  • Feral cats killing endangered Hawaiian birds, ...
    Academic researchers and federal scientists have for the first time come up with direct evidence of feral cats killing endangered Hawaiian petrels. The study, by scientists from the University of Hawaii, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, confirms what has been widely susp ...
  • Freeway air pollution travels farther in early ...
    Two years ago researchers outfitted an electric Toyota RAV4 with a set of test instruments and drove back and forth near four Los Angeles County freeways between 4:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., sampling the air.
  • Western gray wolf numbers fall
    The number of gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountain region declined about 7% last year, the first significant population drop in the region since wolves were reintroduced in 1995.

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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libcom

  • We need Zizek's 'Thatcher of the left' like a ...
    rot-in-hell.jpg Slavoj Zizek, the philosopher, says we need a 'Thatcher of the left'. Gabriel Levy responds that we will emancipate ourselves, without big leaders The ...
  • Anarchist activist seriously wounded in a Nazi ...
    In the evening of 14th of April, social activist V.N. was seriously wounded in Kiev. He was assaulted by 5 Nazis in the area of metro station Dorozhichi. Young patriots used knives and cutted three times arteries in the legs of the activist. V.N. also lo ...
  • Like father, like son: Fascists of the 3rd Mil ...
    alemanno-celtica1.jpg Two policemen are under investigation for covering up a fascist brawl that involved Rome’s Mayor’s son, Manfredi Alemanno. According to Rome’s Public Prose ...
  • Mythbuster: "strivers v skivers"
    welfare-spending.PNG Excellent document from the New Economics Foundation debunking government and media rhetoric about benefit "skivers" and showing that only 2.6% of welfare spending is on ...
  • Fighting the Bedroom Tax in Huddersfield and t ...
    battle of Barcleys 2.jpg The battle against the bedroom tax in Huddersfield has commenced resulting in a near riot outside Barclays bank. The battle against the bedroom tax and ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Scotts Contracting

  • Flat Roof Remodel Stage2 Benton Rehab
    Scotts Contracting Green Team celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project.  Replacing the water damaged roof on the Benton Warehouse.   We celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project. Photos of Day 1: Prepped ceiling for removal of old damaged l ...
  • Pt1 Spray Foam Insulation-St Louis Brick Buildings
    Cost Effective:Energy Conservation for StLouis Brick Buildings As a provider for Free Green Estimates and Advice in regard to Green Building for St Louis Homes.  I get many requests for my opinion on various construction related home and business requests for: improvements, retrofits, rehabbing ...
  • Do you know a Mother that has lost a child in ...
    No parent should EVER be forced to walk this lifetime journey alone! If you would like to join our special group, please contact us at angelmomsoverstlouis@yahoo.com or at the Facebook Links below We are: ” Angel Mom’s Surviving Together ”  ♥♥♥♥ Loss of a Child-No parent should ...
  • DIY Energy Audits and the A-Hah Moment
    In the preceding post on-Less Weight Equals More Horsepower I used the comparison on how the US Automakers figured out how to make our Automobiles use less gas by lightening the vehicles weights which increased horsepower which equates into less Petrol needed for operation and how the same princ ...
  • DIY Energy Audits and the A-Hah Moment
    In the preceding post on-Less Weight Equals More Horsepower I used the comparison on how the US Automakers figured out how to make our Automobiles use less gas by lightening the vehicles weights which increased horsepower which equates into less Petrol needed for operation and how the same princ ...

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • How the US Tried to Steal the Venezuelan Elections
    BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast published a fascinating article in Vice Magazine this week (Nicolas Maduro Did Not Steal the Venezuelan Election) about being hired by Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro in 2004 to investigate the possibility the US might tamper with Venezuela’s elec ...
  • Ex-Reagan Budget Director Slams Crony Capitalism
      An attack on “crony capitalism” David Stockman, Reagan’s former budget director, published in the the March 31st New York Times has come in for major attack from both the right and left. Given the piece provides a fairly accurate analysis of America’s current ...
  • Lady Gaga Backs Anti-Fracking Campaign
    In October 2012, Lady Gaga joined a coalition of 200 artists started by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon called Artists Against Fracking. She simultaneously urged her 90 million Facebook and Twitter fans to support the organization and sign a petition asking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban f ...
  • Would You Donate to Stop a Saudi Execution?
    No, this isn’t spam. It’s actually a novel form of crowdfunding, the latest fad in raising funds for new movies and community projects. The Philippine government is asking for “kind hearted individuals” to assist in raising the 512,066.35 Saudi Arabian Riyals (appro ...
  • The Criminal Nature of Austerity
      Guest post by Steven Miller (This is the last of three guest posts laying out the real story about the role of Wall Street banksters in the recent bankruptcy of Stockton California. In this post Miller lays out the extra-legal, criminal nature of government austerity measures.) If the O ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

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SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Test Your International Oil IQ
    In last week’s column, we examined some oil production trivia involving US states. This week, we look at some international oil trivia covering the 5-year period 2007-2011, as well as some individual trivia from 2012. In this case, the data sources are the 2012 BP Statistical Review of Wor ...
  • Test Your Oil IQ
    As a result of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) revolution, US oil and natural gas production have been rising for several years. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), US oil production has risen by 27% over the past 5 years. In reviewing the data for individual states, I ...
  • Ethanol Lobby Agitates for E15 Mandate
    History of U.S. Ethanol Policy In 1978 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a gasohol waiver that set the maximum legal limit of ethanol in motor gasoline at 10 percent denatured anhydrous ethanol. 27 years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 created a Renewable Fuel S ...
  • Debut of the Wall Street Journal Energy Panel
    Last week I made my debut as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) new feature The Experts: Journal Reports. The idea is that the WSJ poses questions to the panel, and each panel member provides a response of 300 words or so. The first 4 questions that were asked — and ans ...
  • Protesting Keystone XL While Rome Burns
    I started to go with “Fiddling While Rome Burns” in the title, but I know many people who would take great exception to the notion the Keystone XL protesters are fiddling. Indeed, they do not believe they are fiddling. They believe they are standing up for the most important cause of ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • VideoNot.es
    Comments:Here is the site for you when having studnets watch YT videos or other videos.  http://www.videonot.es You can watch video and take notes at the same time to the right of the video.  All notes are synchronized to the video and save to gdocs. - Dean MantzTags: notetaking, youtube, Google ...
  • Why (And How) Students Can Get Excited About S ...
    Comments:Well done infographic on reasons why students should become excited about STEM courses and careers.  - Dean MantzTags: students, stem, infographicsby: Dean Mantz
  • Top 10 tools to share secure your files in the ...
    Comments:What cloud tool do you like more to keep your files secure in the cloud ? Leave a comment after you read article - LUCIAN DUMATags: curation, tools, cloud, elearning, apps, lucianeuratorby: LUCIAN DUMA
  • 4 Stages: The Integration Of Technology In Lea ...
    Comments:Nice flowchart of the progression from using technology to the ultimate goal of self-directed learning.  - Dean MantzTags: stages, technology, learning, integration, infographicsby: Dean Mantz
  • Flow of Professional Development in School Inf ...
    Comments:Mike Fisher of http://www.digigogy.com/ developed this infographic addressing the flow of professional development externally and internally.  - Dean MantzTags: professionaldevelopment, education, workflow, infographic, infographics, howto, MikeFisherby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • The Crazy New Research on Roundup
    America's favorite weed killer could be the driving force behind some of modern society's most common health ailments, according to new research examining more than 300 studies. The new review looked at research investigating glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular herbicide Roundup. ...
  • The New Hair Dye Risk
    If you've ever experienced a rash on your scalp, neck, and chest after dying your hair, don’t be surprised: allergens in hair dyes are more common than you think, according to research presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the American Contact Dermatitis Society. That's right, hair dye irrita ...
  • The 5 Riskiest Meats You're Eating
    Never again order your steak medium-rare, and treat any meat you bring home as "hazardous material." Those are the conclusions of a new report that ranks cuts of meat based on the probability they could make you sick—or, worse, possibly kill you. The report, published by the Centers ...
  • How to Cultivate Compassion
    How do we increase our compassion? In our fast-paced lives, it's helpful to have some simple practices that we can use to calm our own minds, release our self-focused anxieties, and increase our sense of connectedness with others. Many ancient traditions have such practices, which include vario ...
  • Time to Rethink Your Ginkgo Supplement?
    Ginkgo trees are often called "living fossils" because they bear a striking similarity to trees that grew more than a 100 million years ago. So it shouldn't be surprising that such a tree has been found, over its million-year existence, to be a wonderful healing aid, recommended for e ...

big think

  • Man Who Planted A Forest By Himself Begins Another
    What's the Latest Development? Jadav "Molai" Payeng is a farmer living in northern India who, as a 16-year-old in 1979, began planting vegetation in a dried-out sandbar near his home after seeing many dead and dying reptiles there. More than 30 years of single-minded effort later, that s ...
  • New Observatory Brings Ocean Life To Your Web ...
    What's the Latest Development? Starting this summer, scientists and the public will be able to access real-time views and data on the Pacific Ocean thanks to an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation. The Regional Cabled Observatory consists of sensors and fiber-optic cable ...
  • Altruism Gets You Killed
    The idea of true altruism in evolutionary biology applies pretty well to bats.  We are not bats. There is not much evidence of true altruism among the homo sapien population.   I don’t deny that there is some true altruism, but among folks who aspire to high office or political power, th ...
  • Group Altruism Pays, Literally
    I’m from Cleveland. At the beginning of a downturn in 2008, there were two car dealerships on Mayfield Road. One was Toyota, one was Honda.  Business started to deteriorate and one dealership decided to do furloughs.  So the salesmen and staff just took that afternoon off a week, unpaid.  But .. ...
  • The Shakespeare of the Future Will Be a Bot
    This is becoming the central paradox of the Information Age: the easier it is for humans to create content and information on their digital devices, the more likely it is that robots and online bots will eventually take over the job of creating content and information for those digital devices. ...

Information Liberation

  • What's Bad About a House-to-House Search?
    Unless the search passes certain legal criteria, it is illegal. The search in Boston set a precedent, which means that such searches can be generalized to other places in America and to other situations, unless whoever authorized the Bos...
  • No charges for NYPD cops filmed punching, pepp ...
    Two New York City Police officers will not face charges after the Manhattan District Attorney decided that widely circulated videos of them punching and pepper-spraying protesters amounted to insufficient evidence that they had done so. Anthony Bo...
  • Ron Paul on Gold: No One Knows Value; I'm Buyi ...
    April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Ron Paul, Former Congressman from Texas, discusses his views on gold, central banks, and the weakened Republican Party. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg)...
  • Second Video Surfaces Of Police In Watertown O ...
    If you had any questions whether the first video showing police ripping a family from their home and treating them like terrorists was unique or par for the course, this video should assuage all doubts. This videos shows definitively police di...
  • 'Boston Strong': Marching in Lockstep with the ...
    *Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.**C.S. Lewis Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Pale Blue Dot
    The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched 1977) when it reached 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from Earth in 1990. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. Th ...
  • Getting the garlic blues
    Pickler Andrew Dalby responded to one of my recent tweets about not cooking asparagus in lemon juice because it discolours it. He had found that his garlic cloves turned blue when he pickled them in spiced malt vinegar. The discolouration doesn’t mean that the pickles are inedible. Now pla ...
  • What if Greg House MD were on twitter?
    What if Dr Gregory House were on twitter? Hungardian doctor Berci Meskó MD PhD ‏knows his medical communities and uses the internet like a pro in his practice: “We must include digital literacy in the medical curriculum,” he tells TEDxNijmegen ;-) What if Greg House MD were on twitte ...
  • Get Deceived Wisdom audio book free
    You can grab a copy of my book Deceived Wisdom, as narrated by actor Kris Dyer (Radio 2, Nice Mum, Edinburgh Fringe etc), for free with the Audible introductory offer. Sign up for a free trial here, download my book and listen on your iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone or any of more than 500 ...
  • Science mob to attack austerity
    Austerity measures – cutbacks in other words – are taking their toll on science. A special issue of The Euroscientist brings together an analysis of the impact of austerity on scientists and their research and the growing brain drain. The magazine is also encouraging other scientists ...

RFF Library

  • Statement for the Record on the Status of the ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44093 Statement for the Record by Sarah Puro, Analyst for Surface Transportation Programs, for the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives This statement provides information about CBO’s projections of future spending from ...
  • The Health Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Mini ...
    Center for Health, Environment & Justice http://bit.ly/ZlNqgm [Charleston Gazette] …a report from the Center for Health, Environment and Justice [reviewed] existing studies [on] mountaintop removal and public health. The center, founded by well-known activist Louis Gibbs, also had a gr ...
  • Legal Fractures in Chemical Disclosure Laws: W ...
    Harvard Law School, Environmental Law School / by Kate Konschnik, with Margaret Holden and Alexa Shasteen http://hvrd.me/17gbfam [Business Week]  FracFocus, the website used by Exxon Mobil Corp. and other energy companies to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, fails as a compliance ...
  • Oil Sands: Environmental Monitoring Informatio ...
    Government of Canada http://www.jointoilsandsmonitoring.ca/ [From a Greenwire article by Nick Juliano, sub. req'd]  The Canadian government today is launching a new online information portal collecting data on air and water pollution associated with development of Alberta’s oil sands. The  ...
  • Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted Capital and Str ...
    Carbon Tracker Initiative for the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment http://www.carbontracker.org/wastedcapital [Huffington Post] According to a recent report by Carbon Tracker…most oil, gas and coal reserves could be worthless in a few years time as nations ...

Scientific American - News

  • Europe Set to Vote on Pesticide Ban to Save Ho ...
    Across the globe, hives of honeybees are dying off in a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. Among the proposed culprits are pesticides called neonicotinoids, which are supposed to be less harmful to beneficial insects and mammals than the previous generation of chemicals. [More] ...
  • Will the H7N9 Avian Flu Spread to People Outsi ...
    Scientists do not yet fully understand how the H7N9 avian influenza virus is spreading in China, or why the pattern of sporadic human cases looks like it does. But mapping the risks of known factors in the past geographical spread of avian flu viruses and human infections might provide some clue ...
  • Obama Praises Future Scientists at White House ...
    WASHINGTON--With the third annual White House Science Fair as his backdrop, Pres. Barack Obama announced plans Monday to recruit one million new science, technology, engineering and math mentors from the private and public sectors to inspire many more students to pursue advanced educations and c ...
  • Follow That Bike!
    From Simons Science News ( find original story here ). [More]
  • House Built by Evolutionary Theorist Alfred Ru ...
    The house built by Alfred Russel Wallace after he returned from his exotic travels is about to come on the market. [More]

First Truths

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

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    LORIS: Expanding opportunities for renewable energy
    Washington Times
    It's always tough to get a new business off the ground. It has proved extraordinarily tough for renewable energy companies, despite all the subsidies. Congress could help. It could allow renewable energy companies to organize as Master Limited ...
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    Push to end NC's renewable energy program dies in committee
    News & Observer
    RALEIGH — The push to terminate North Carolina's renewables program is over for the foreseeable future after a House committee in the state legislature defeated the measure with the help of key Republicans. The vote in Raleigh was closely watched by ...
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    Renewable Energy Bill Clears 1 Hurdle In Colorado
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    DENVER (AP) – A bill that would dramatically raise renewable energy requirements for Colorado's rural cooperative electric associations has cleared a hurdle in the state House. The bill requires the electricity co-ops to get 25 percent of their energy ...
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    Senators advance renewable energy tax incentive bill
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    Another renewable energy bill (LB402) introduced by Omaha Sen. Heath Mello, is making its way to first-round debate and would encourage more local ownership of renewable energy projects. It would allow a sales tax exemption on materials used in the ...
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    UF wildlife ecology students merge science, art in project with Harn Museum
    University of Florida
    Students in the class, An Introduction to Tropical Ecology and Conservation, examined five prints – each portraying three to five birds and a plant species upon which the birds are perched. And while some of the birds were labeled by Descourtilz, none ...
    Ecology starts review and seeks comment on Island County's proposed ...
    Access Washington
    BELLEVUE – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) seeks public comment on Island County's recently updated shoreline master program. The proposed updated shoreline program will guide construction and development on the county's 210 ...
    Business school and School of Human Ecology to open collaborative laboratory
    Wisconsin State Journal
    The School of Human Ecology and the Wisconsin School of Business opened a collaborative laboratory Tuesday to create a research and learning community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a university statement. The lab, named the ...
    EKG for the planet: New ecology network to monitor Earth's health
    Mother Nature Network
    Called the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), the program encompasses a series of monitoring stations that will measure the health of ecosystems by taking snapshots from strategically chosen locations across the country — analogous to the ...
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    Washington, DC under water: what sea level rise looks like
    Washington Post (blog)
    The longer term concern is that if warming causes the collapse of the Greenland and/or Antarctic ice sheets, seas could rise tens of feet, although it is thought a rise of that magnitude would take hundreds of years. Nickolay Lamm, a 24-year-old ...
    Water begins slow retreat in central Illinois as Midwesterners survey soggy ...
    Washington Post
    Fast-moving currents were testing makeshift protections around Dutchtown, Mo., where the Mississippi was expected to rise well above flood stage later this week and potentially send water into the scattered homes and businesses that comprise the tiny, ...
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    Denver Fest Aims To Involve Public In Water Issues
    CBS Local
    The Denver-based nonprofit group Water For People is presenting the Festival for Water at Civic Center Park on June 9 in collaboration with sponsors, partners and the Denver-based American Water Works Association, whose annual conference kicks off that ...
    Alaska villages cope with shortages of treated water
    Anchorage Daily News
    FILE - This Sept. 11, 2006, aerial file photo released by the Northwest Arctic Borough shows the village of Kivalina, Alaska. Two Native villages on Alaska's western coast are coping with shortages of treated water brought on by failures of their ...
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