24 April - RSS SnapShot! III

English: The diagram above represents a generic framework for risk management. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Genetic Engineering (Photo credit: Eugene of Norway)

English: Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. HT = herbicide tolerance. BT = insect resistance. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Official logo of the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: logo of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Medicine for Bleak Mornings
  Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
• Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
  The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
• Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
  I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
• Escape your demons and make art now!
  Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
• Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
  I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...

Green Times

• UN Indigenous Peoples' Forum
  Slow Food President Carlo Petrini spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) on May 14 on the right to food and food sovereignty.
• Genetic safety in numbers, platypus study finds
  Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.
• UN Indigenous Peoples' Forum
  Slow Food President Carlo Petrini spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) on May 14 on the right to food and food sovereignty.
• Genetic safety in numbers, platypus study finds
  Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.
• Luminous Festival _ Opera House
  Sydney will once again be transformed into a lovely lights show ... Luminous Festival starts today at 6:00 pm at Sydney Opera House so come see light art sculptures and join us to fight against global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html)! For further information, click here (http://www ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• New climate change study shows Antarctic melt ...
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• Another fisk of Ken Perrott – the climate deni ...
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• Climate change expert quits NASA, pushes nucle ...
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• New global warming scandal hits climate science
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• Global warming – did we get it wrong?
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Push for clean energy stalls, energy as dirty ...
  The Intermountain Power Plant in Utah provides coal power to Los Angeles Credit: geology.utah.gov The International Energy Agency says the average unit of energy is about as dirty as it was twenty years ago. Wind and solar power have made great advances yet this is offset by increasing amounts o ...
• Boston bombing, Islamists, and systematic recr ...
  Credit: Wikipedia After joining a far-left group, I discovered they’d been recruiting me in an organized, systematic manner for months. The same process happened to the Boston bombing brothers. The media says the Tsarnaev brothers were self-recruited via websites (with help on the ground f ...
• Europe cap and trade a failure, easily gamed
  I’m sure you’re as gobsmacked as I am that cap and trade in Europe is a failure. Who could have ever conceived a cobbled-together system with massive structural flaws would be exploited, gamed, and rendered useless? Carbon credits are now so cheap in Europe that companies can easily ...
• 3D printing livers. You read that right
  It seems science fiction but is not. A company is now 3D printing livers for use in testing drugs. The livers are tiny yet mostly functional. One goal is to have fully functional 3D printed livers available for transplants. San Diego-based bioprinting company Organovo has successfully created f ...
• Metallurgist: More bolts could snap on new San ...
  Screenshot showing bolt locations. Credit: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com 32 of 96 bolts on the new, as yet-unopened span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge snapped in March. A retired metallurgist and “expert in his field” says more could break and puts the blame on Caltrans. “It is v ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Russian, Romanian Press – Tamerlan Tsarn ...
  During Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s trip to Russia, he received ‘terrorist training’ from the Georgia Caucasus Fund -an organization created, funded and run by the Jamestown Foundation. The Caucasus Fund would train young Muslims to carry out terror attacks to destabilize Russia, says a ...
• BOSTON BOMBINGS; Carjacking Victim Describes O ...
  The carjacking victim will not identify himself, and does not actually speak… all we know is he’s of Chinese origin. The victim says that on April 18th, at around 11PM, a carjacker came to his passenger window brandishing a gun.  Then the victim claims: “The man asked if I knew ...
• Suspected Elvis ricin mailer released from cus ...
    RT The Mississippi Elvis impersonator who was briefly suspected of sending poisoned letters to US President Barack Obama and members of Congress has been released from jail, with the Justice Department dropping all charges against him. A US attorney’s motion to dismiss without preju ...
• Boston Bombers – The Official Story, By Liam S ...
    April 23, 2013 by Liam Scheff Read the whole story LiamScheff.com (BUY HIS BOOK! Its Great!) For the record, I no longer believe the official story about the Boston bombings (No, I never did, but I was holding out hope for some decent resolution of events, as a former and often resident o ...
• This Day In History – April 24
  1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy. 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts. 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to pu ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook News Feed now shows whether friends a ...
  Facebook has added a new icon to News Feed posts to indicate whether the user is available to chat. If a user is online, a green dot will appear next to their name along with their...
• Platform industry update: Salesforce launches ...
  Salesforce brands paid media offering as Social.com Salesforce.com today introduced Social.com, a social advertising application to create and optimize social ad campaigns at scale. Salesforce has Facebook and Twitter Ads API access through its acquisition of Buddy...
• Facebook hires team behind cross-platform mobi ...
  Facebook has hired the team behind Spaceport, a framework for developers to publish their games across platforms, a company spokesperson tells us. Spaceport also announced the news today on its website. Spaceport, which is part of Sibblingz,...
• Facebook redesigns mobile business pages
  Facebook today released a new mobile layout for business and fan pages, which gives users more actionable information up top but pushes unpinned page posts further down the screen. The redesign better optimizes pages for the...
• ‘Watched’ and ‘want to watch’ buttons come to ...
  With the launch of the new Timeline sections, Facebook users have new options to engage with paid and organic stories about movies, TV shows, books and music in more authentic and structured ways, including being able...

National Geographic | Environment

• Reshaping Flight for Fuel Efficiency: Five Tec ...
  The Boeing Dreamliner 787, poised to retake the skies soon, was one approach to more efficient flight. But aviation is looking to geared turbofan engines and radically new shapes and materials for deeper cuts in fuel consumption.
• Rare Picture: Male Leopard Kills, Eats Cub
  Pictures of a leopard killing a cub may look gruesome, but infanticide in nature is relatively common, scientists says.
• Earth Day: When It Is, How It Began, What to Do
  Learn how Earth Day became a global environmental event that will include a billion people on April 22.
• Earth Day: When It Is, How It Began, What to Do
  Learn how Earth Day became a global environmental event that will include a billion people on April 22.
• First Person: My Uncle Was First to Fly Over E ...
  A love of aviation runs in the family of the man who made the first flight over Mount Everest.

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Is the Press Fair to Palin?
  The former Alaska governor likes to criticize the "lamestream media." Does it hold her to a different standard?
• Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
  The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb
• Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
  After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information
• Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
  American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter
• Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
  The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again.

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Do We Give Too Much Attention to Terrorist Att ...
  We may be sending a dangerous message to those who'd love to make as big a splash as those two young Chechen immigrants: if if you want to completely capture the attention of the world's leading nation for days on end, just come and blow up a few of us.
• In The Days Before...
  I have reached that stage in life where I am ready and willing to accept the title of "Old Crone" and to try to educate our people of "the days before." In this case specifically, of the days before many of the political and social programs which affect our lives today.
• Kerry Forgot Rule Number One: Never Question t ...
  Secretary of State John Kerry connected the deaths aboard the Mavi Marmara with the dead and wounded in last week's Boston Marathon explosions. Both experiences brought grief and anger to their respective nations. Kerry's response was personal, an expression of compassion from a Bostonian to the ...
• F-35 Plans Attack Civilians
  While it's too soon, perhaps, to say that the over-budget, overdue, and under-performing F-35 joint strike fighter is in a political tailspin, having its biggest Senate booster accused of pushing for political pork at the expense of his poorer constituents hasn't made the controversial stealth b ...
• And God Created Woman
  Organic food conglomerate Eden Foods is suing the Obama administration over the Affordable Care Act, because it specifies coverage for birth control pills, which are nothing but instruments of the devil if you listen to CEO Michael Potter.

Switchboard

• New England Is Leading the Way in Regional Oce ...
  Ali Chase, Policy Analyst, New York Last week, the National Ocean Council released its final ocean action plan—a to-do list for our federal agencies to work together to address some of our oceans' biggest threats. From ocean acidification ...
• Keystone XL Spill Risk: A Reanalysis of the En ...
  Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. This is a guest blog post by David Malitz, Ph.D. David is a consultant living in Austin, Texas with over 30 years of experience in statistical analysis. As a statistician, I expected the Keystone XL draft ...
• As Flooding Risks Rise, Communities Can Take S ...
  Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. This post is part of a blog series for Getting Climate Smart, a joint effort by NRDC and American Rivers to guide state action on climate and water preparedness.  Across much of the Midwest, ri ...
• Nonlethal Tools: Good for Livestock, Good for ...
  Zack Strong, Wildlife Conservation Fellow, Livingston, Montana                                 ...
• FDA's wasting time while continuing to put ant ...
  Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco Instead of actually dealing with the problem of routine and widespread misuse and overuse of antibiotics in livestock, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday came out with an attack on a recent pi ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• And a White Man Shall Lead Them
  Piggybacking on my earlier post, here is an encore presentation of an entry I wrote awhile back about white male saviors in cinema. Re-watching bits of Avatar now has me seeing the flaws I missed when I was glamored by all the movie magic the first time I saw it in the theater. First of [...]
• Things In Politico That Will Make Charles Pier ...
  Shorter Dylan Byers: “Dean Baquet punching a wall proves that Jill Abramson is too flighty and hot-tempered to be a boss.  A chick in a position of authority is unnatural, as anyone not brainwashed by the air-breathing urban elite would know.   And to think that if there were a couple para ...
• James Taranto’s Anti-Choice Trooferism
  James Taranto makes an argument that has become increasingly common as opponents of legal abortion try the essentially impossible task of making supporters of legal abortion responsible for Kermit Gosnell’s illegal abortion clinic.   His strategy is to try to make the disgraceful regulator ...
• Holding Corporations Responsible for Workplace ...
  We don’t hear too many stories anymore like last week’s fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, where the death toll has now risen to 15. This is because we have outsourced our industrial risk to Asia and Latin America. An 8-story building containing a clothing factory in Dhaka, B ...
• “You Know That One Star Player You Had? ...
  Lame ducks don’t get much lamer than Rex Ryan. If you’re going to tank, you should tank right — MORE TEBOW. I think this year they should really try to revolutionize the NFL by making Tebow the starter and having Sanchez and two other terrible QBs line up as wideouts on every p ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI scientists help reconstruct 2,000-year-lon ...
  In a new study, published this week in Nature GeoScience, DRI hydro-geologists and atmospheric scientists, led by Joe McConnell, Ph.D., analyze past climate variability using ice cores from West Antarctica. 
• DRI and GreenPower sponsor Nevada’s first Indo ...
  On April 24th, a myriad of business vendors, farmers, investors and industry professionals on the forefront of solving water resource concerns in Southern Nevada, will gather in Downtown Las Vegas to discuss improving local food production and boosting the state’s food supply in the desert throu ...
• KC King, Apr. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
  Meet Kristen "KC" King, a Ph.D. student in the atmospheric sciences program.  She is a part of the EPSCoR Climate Change project, on the climate modeling team, and interested in climate models’ ability to correctly forecast teleconnections seen in the western U.S. in temperature and precipitatio ...
• DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
  Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
• DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
  A new joint contract between the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Development and IBM will support innovation and economic development.

Earth Techling

• Irish Eyes Smile On Wave And Wind Combo
  A concept combining an offshore wind turbine with a wave energy device is reportedly headed for development in Ireland.
• Bullitt Center Called ‘Greenest Building’ On E ...
  On a sunny Earth Day in Seattle, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the new Bullitt Center, which is being called the “greenest commercial building” in the world.
• One Green-Friendly Aircraft Comes To Ground Fo ...
  NASA commissioned the X-48C in order to develop more environmentally-friendly aircrafts of the future. Now the tests are done, the unmanned plane is being retired.
• Honda Begins Pre-Orders For NSX Hybrid Supercar
  Honda has begun taking pre-orders for its upcoming NSX hybrid supercar.
• Chevy Spark EV Nets EPA Estimated Range Of 82 ...
  GM has unveiled EPA estimated range data for the upcoming Chevy Spark EV, noting it is now among the most efficient of its kind in the nation.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• In Dispute with Congress, DOJ Asks Judge to Ke ...
  For months, the U.S. Justice Department has argued the judiciary should play no role in a spat between Congress and the department over access to internal documents about Operation Fast and Furious, the controversial gun trafficking sting in which federal agents allowed firearms to flow freely i ...
• Supreme Court Urged to Curb Employment Retalia ...
  Four years ago, a divided U.S. Supreme Court raised the bar for proving claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. On Wednesday, employers urged the justices to impose the same high standard for retaliation claims under the nation's major job bias law--Title VII--and under similarly ...
• Post-Bombing, Two Apply for 'Boston Strong' Mark
  The "Boston Strong" catchphrase coined following the Boston Marathon bombings to describe the city's resiliency is at the center of a trademark tug of war.
• Public Defenders for Boston Suspect Facing Fur ...
  As the federal public defender office in Boston prepares to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old charged in the Boston Marathon bombings, the lawyers involved face an added challenge: managing the case in the midst of furloughs.
• Beekeepers Allege Companies Mislabeled Chinese ...
  Three U.S. beekeeping companies have filed a class action against two honey producers, alleging they illegally imported and mislabeled honey into the United States from China to avoid paying antidumping duties.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• April Yields Snow, More Cold Weather On The Way
  It is still cold in western Canada, and cooler air may still be unleashed over the northern Plains at times into May, according to AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Forecaster Paul Pastelok.
• Bad News Guys - Women Say Size Does Matter
  The Age old argument, not in the drawing room, but from bars to locker rooms to girls night out finally has a scientific answer. Women do prefer men with bigger members.
• Massive Poaching Threatens Wildlife in Kaziran ...
  In addition to numerous species of resident birds, it serves as the winter visiting ground for many migratory birds. Kaziranga is located at the intersection of both the Australasian and the Indo Asian flyways,
• Reggie Littlejohn Condemns Gendercide and Sex- ...
  WRWF's Reggie Littlejohn To Condemn Gendercide at U.S. Capitol Screening of 'It's a Girl' Documentary
• Zooniverse - 2B Museum Labels in Scribble
  Do real science online - help museums create digital records for billions of specimens.

environment 360

• New Web Site to Track CO2 Levels As Planet App ...
  As atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide approach the milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm), a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has launched a Website that will publish daily readings of CO2 concentrations, an online resource he hopes will drive home the urgent thre ...
• Conservation of Forests Can Prevent Malaria Sp ...
  The conservation of woodlands and biodiversity can actually help prevent the spread of malaria in tropical forests, a new study says. Using a mathematical model of different conditions in a forest region of southeastern Brazil, scientists found that the circulation of the parasite Plasmodium viv ...
• Green Energy Investments to Triple by 2030, An ...
  Annual investment in renewable energy is predicted to triple between now and 2030, according to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. In an analysis of several factors shaping the global energy future — including economic conditions, market demands, and the evolution of technologies — the gr ...
• Will Electric Bicycles Get Americans to Start ...
  Electric bicycles are already popular in Europe and in China, which has more e-bikes than cars on its roads. Now, manufacturers are marketing e-bikes in the U.S., promoting them as a "green" alternative to driving. BY MARC GUNTHER
• New Solar Cell Process Achieves Record Efficie ...
  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they have achieved a major breakthrough in the conversion of sunlight into electricity, surpassing what was long believed to be an absolute limit to the efficiency of solar cell devices. While the process used in the typical phot ...

Red Ice Creations

• Ancient Europeans mysteriously vanished 4,500 ...
  The genetic lineage of Europe mysteriously transformed about 4,500 years ago, new research suggests. The findings, detailed Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, were drawn from several skeletons unearthed in central Europe that were up to 7,500 years old. "What is intriguing is that the ...
• Mini-robot finds surprise in Mexico’s ancient ...
  A diminutive robot helped researchers make a substantial discovery during preliminary tests conducted in a tunnel running under the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, the team said Monday. The team expected to find only one chamber in the last section of the tunnel ...
• Brain Scans Reveal That Humans Definitely Feel ...
  While creating an empathetic robot is a long-held dream, understanding whether humans genuinely empathize with robots should—in theory—be easier. Now, a team of scientists have analyzed fMRI brain scans to reveal that humans have similar brain function when shown affection and violence being inf ...
• Watch the Media Fumble Around For Terror Conne ...
  BIG HEADLINES! AL QAEDA! BOSTON! TERROR! In Spain today two men were arrested: Nou Mediouni and Hassan El Jaaouani. The media has been reporting this, widely describing the two men as having "similiar profiles to Boston suspects". Read: Spanish police arrested two men they said may have ties to ...
• The most mystifying things the Tsarnaev brothe ...
  On Monday, it became official: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with "use of a weapon of mass destruction" and "malicious destruction of property resulting in death" for his alleged role in last Monday’s bombing of the Boston marathon. The federal criminal complaint comes three days after police ca ...

Not My Tribe

• Threat of Atmel plant closure prompts city cou ...
  ATMEL KILLS SOLAR IN COLORADO SPRINGS –I told the gentleman from Atmel who trolled the city council meeting today, this would be my headline. Prompted by his threat to ship Atmel jobs to Malaysia if a 0.25 percent utilities rate hike went into effect, the Colorado Springs City Council vote ...
• Our collective lockdown mentality, lest a sire ...
  LOCKDOWN. The term has become ubiquitous, though lifted easily out of context, being self-explanatory. Its predecessor “batten down the hatches” used to be too. Before the advent of recreational sailing it came from a work environment synonymous with incarceration, in the days of deb ...
• De mortuis nil nisi bonum is well and good but ...
  It’s probably older than Latin. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” is a propriety imposed at death, as if to offer the deceased a false comfort that, however fraudulent the pretense of their reputation in life, they can take it with them. Well, most commonly, “Don’t speak ...
• Teen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is diminishing excuse f ...
  We pick up yesterday’s story with Watertown and Boston under lockdown, it’s a prison term go figure, while paramilitary police conduct door to door warrantless searches to find an immigrant teen, college wrestler Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said to be armed and extremely dangerous, who fled f ...
• “Turn off your cellphone” or polic ...
  STREAMING OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING DENOUEMENT: DID YOU KNOW that law enforcement can tell you “If you want to live, turn off your cell phone.”? That was shouted to an AP reporter tonight in Watertown, just before he heard officers shout “Fire in the hole&#822 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Salon blames Infowars and "conspiracy theories ...
  Just when you thought the attacks couldn't get more ridiculous... Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan: "Tamerlan “took an interest in Infowars,” according to Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan’s sister. He was also apparently interested in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was ...
• Why is George W Bush being honored with #BushC ...
  Join CODEPINK in sharing this message together at the same time - automatically. https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2005-and-justice-for-all Related: Ladies in Pink Slips: 10 Years of CODEPINK Creativity Prison for a poem? Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots?
• Drones protest gains local and national support
  stopwar.org.uk · 020 7561 9311 · 23 April 2013 1) Drones protest gains local and national support 2) Shaker Aamer - parliamentary meeting & demonstration 1) Drones protest gains local and national support   The news of the Ground the Dron ...
• The FBI Would Never Manufacturer any Terror, W ...
  To hear the way the Salon.com article, "Alex Jones is phoning it in - Alex, your latest theory is terrible -- we expect more from you," tells it, you would think everything coming from Infowars.com on the Boston boming is Bunkum. Take for instance, the article "Full Extent of FBI Role in Bo ...
• US Turns Away 1000′s of Cancer Patients, but h ...
  Tony Cartalucci Infowars.com April 21, 2013 The US has announced that it will provide militants in Syria, now openly admitted to being Al Qaeda terrorists, with $123 million in military aid – while thousands of cancer patients at home are being turned away from clinics because of budget cuts. C ...

Fooducate

• Do You Want Your Child to Drink Artificially S ...
• Woohoo!!! Weight Loss Surgery for All, Coming ...
• One Thing You Should Do on Earth Day
• Reflecting on Bias in Nutrition Research
• Coke Covers Your PM Hours with New Caffeine Fr ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
  Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...
• Indonesian military ‘development’ program spre ...
  The military presence in West Papua is almost always accompanied by human rights violations such as killings, arbitrary arrests, rape and torture. © Survival InternationalPapuan leaders have voiced their concern at plans for more than a thousand Indonesian soldiers to build 1,500 km of new roads ...
• Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
  Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...
• Worldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project ...
  Protesters will carry placards symbolizing the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of t ...
• Ban upheld: Avatar tribe ‘to decide’ future of ...
  India's Supreme Court has recognized the Dongria Kondh's right to worship their sacred mountain in a landmark decision.© SurvivalIn a landmark ruling, the Indian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgiri hills. In a complex judgement, the c ...

Greg Palast

• Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine - Leer el artículo en español aquí. The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers ...
• 3 Years ago Today Deepwater Horizon Explodes
  By Greg Palast The Hidden Truth - Watch the Film
• My Apologies to the Family of Mrs. Thatcher
  By Greg Palast I strenuously object to the dissemination of this scurrilous doggerel, falsely attributed to me, on the passage of an iconic stateswoman: Naggie Hatchet dead and gone Ruled her Empire State like Queen Kong Stomping on us little peeps Just to sell our Jewels to creeps. And lost the ...
• Bradley Manning & The Deepwater Horizon
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Three years ago this month, on the 20th of April, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizondrilling rig blew itself to kingdom come. Soon thereafter, a message came in to our office's chief of investigations, Ms Badpenny, from a person I dare not name, who was floating some ...
• How Bush won the war in Iraq - really!
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine If you thought it was "Blood for Oil"--you're wrong.  It was far, far worse. Because it was marked "confidential" on each page, the oil industry stooge couldn't believe the US State Department had given me a complete copy of their secret plans for the oil fields ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Guardian UK This Comment Removed By A Moderator
  "Anne Dachel 22 April 2013 6:28pm This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted." Here is the comment that was published and then removed. The essence of Ms...
• Autism Community Action Alert for Rep Darrell Issa
  As Autism Awareness Month winds down, let’s ask for some action in Congress. Please contact Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, with the following messages: 1) Thank him for holding a great hearing...
• April's Autism Images
  By Kim Stagliano Autism awareness month has been overshadowed by recent news events. The blue glow of landmarks and skyscrapers has faded away for most Americans. Even those of us touched by autism have put aside the month's label for...
• SaneVax: How Gardasil Changed My Life
  Managing Editor's Note: Below is the story of Kirstie, who became "one less" at the age of 12, and whose life was changed. Kirstie, a young woman who reminds me of our own Natalie Palumbo with her spirit, positive attitude...
• Andrew Wakefield: More Questions for David Sal ...
  Direct YouTube Link "Dr. Andrew Wakefield More Questions For David Salisbury"

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• “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!!!

new geography

• Genealogy Of Rust Belt Chic
  Some people don't like the term "Rust Belt". Others absolutely hate the word "chic". Please don't call the shifting mesofacts of dying Great Lakes cities "Rust Belt Chic". Given the reaction, a lot of it negative, I decided to blog about how I came up with Rust Belt Chic. Way back in 2006, ...
• The 2012 Metro Year in Jobs
  Last month the BLS put out the first official release of annual job data for metropolitan areas, so I wanted to take a brief look at this for large metro areas (more than one million in population, based on old metro area definitions that the BLS still uses). Here are the top 10 cities ...
• Fracking Offers Jerry Brown a Watershed Moment
  The recent announcement that Jerry Brown is studying "fracking" in California, suggests that our governor may be waking up to the long-term reality facing our state. It demonstrates that, despite the almost embarrassing praise from East Coast media about his energy and green poli ...
• CSI Switzerland: Anatomy of an iPod Theft
  When my seventeen year old son was mugged this year, coming home on a late weekend tram, he lost his iPod along with his Beats headset. I felt sympathetic, but not shocked, that he had been shaken down, even though we live in a quiet village on the outskirts of Geneva. The city has been exp ...
• Richard Florida's Federal Fantasy
  Urbanist Richard Florida, in a New York Daily News op-ed, has called for President Obama to define his legacy not only by focusing on gun control, immigration and climate change, but by zeroing in on an even more important issue: America’s urbanization. This is because today, he explains, the ...

water.org

• A shorter journey in Ethiopia
  Wereda Gulo-Mekeda is located on the northern part of the Tigray regional state characterized by mountainous landscape with a limited supply of potable water. People there were suffering from this challenge, which was forcing them travel long distances to collect water.
• Building Her Future: Mrs. Chawda's Story
  Galalben Keshubhai Chawda, pictured in red, is 38 years old and lives in Thakkerbapa Nagar, Ahmedabad, India. She has worked incredibly hard to become a successful construction worker and has skills in masonry, plastering, tiling, flooring and stone cutting. Here is her story, in her own words.
• Feeling Good in India
  It is a known fact that children learn and absorb knowledge better than adults. Because of this, the ASOMI WSH Project, a partner of Water.org’s, initiated the Children Health Club Programme to teach good hygiene practices to rural school children.
• Jeanne Jacque's Story
  Once her town rallied together, and worked with Water.org to dig a well, everything changed for Jeanne Jacque and her children.
• Do something for World Water Day
  As you might imagine, World Water Day is our favorite holiday. There's no shortage of ways you can jump in!

Cryptogon

• ‘After Boston, Lawmakers See Case for Us ...
  Via: U.S. News and World Report: In the aftermath of the Boston bombing standoff that ended last Friday, lawmakers have changed their tune on whether a drone should ever be used to target an American citizen on U.S. soil. The use of drones to kill American citizens is not “inherently illeg ...
• After Death Experiences: ‘The Data Sugge ...
  Via:Wired: Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medicine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead — and some return with stories. Their tales could help save lives, and even challenge traditional scientific ideas about the nature of consciousness. “The evidence we have so far is t ...
• U.S. Sues Novartis, Alleging Kickbacks to Phar ...
  Via: Reuters: The U.S. government filed a civil fraud lawsuit against Novartis AG on Tuesday, accusing a unit of the Swiss drug maker of causing the Medicare and Medicaid programs to pay tens of millions of dollars in reimbursements based on fraudulent, kickback-tainted claims. U.S. Attorney Pre ...
• Top French Lawyer Olivier Metzner’s Body ...
  Via: Guardian: One of the giants of the French legal system was found dead near his private island in Brittany on Sunday morning. A suicide note was discovered at his home nearby. Olivier Metzner, 63, nicknamed the “gangsters’ lawyer”, was a larger-than-life figure known for hi ...
• The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination ...
  Via: Democracy Now: The Obama administration’s assassination of two U.S. citizens in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old Denver-born son Abdulrahman, is a central part of Jeremy Scahill’s new book, “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.” The book is based on years of reportin ...

The Economic Collapse

• America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Pro ...
  What is happening to you America?  Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast.  Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most v ...
• America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, O ...
  The United States is a deeply unhappy place.  We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.  It isn't just our economy that is falling apart - the very fabric of society is starting to come apart at the seams and it is because of what is happening to us [...]
• Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens ...
  What in the world is happening to America?  Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.  And without a doubt, the Boston Marathon bombing was a great national tragedy.  I ...
• 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
  The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
• History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
  Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...

Desertification

• Food security is an environmental issue (RYOT)
  Read at : http://www.ryot.org/combating-hunger-by-caring-for-the-earth-why-food-security-is-an-environmental-issue/ Combating hunger by caring for the Earth: Why food security is an environmental issue By Annelise Battles,  Plant With Purpose Today, one in eight people[1] around the world will g ...
• Drought-tolerant bamboos for combating deserti ...
  Carlo DEFEND is a young Italian doing some research on the possibility to cultivate a drought-tolerant species of bamboo, namely Oxytenanthera abyssinica in the regioin of Karamoja in Uganda.  Carlo contacted me after reading my former posting on this subject … Continue reading →
• Education for change in agriculture (Farming M ...
  Read at : Farming Matters Magazine Farming Matters : Call for articles – Education for change Deadline: June 1st, 2013 Family farmers face climate change, limited water availability, rising fuel costs and unknown market opportunities, while their lands are coming … Continue reading & ...
• UNCCD – CRIC 11 (IISD Reporting Services)
  Read at : http://www.iisd.ca/desert/cric11/   SUMMARY OF THE ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE UNCCD COMMITTEE FOR THE REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION 15-19 APRIL 2013 The eleventh session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention … Continue reading →
• Capacity building and UNCCD-CRIC 11 (IISD)
  Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/unccd-launches-capacity-building-marketplace/ UNCCD Launches Capacity Building Marketplace On the sidelines of the eleventh session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 11), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification ...

News Blaze

• April Yields Snow, More Cold Weather On The Way
  It is still cold in western Canada, and cooler air may still be unleashed over the northern Plains at times into May, according to AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Forecaster Paul Pastelok.
• Bad News Guys - Women Say Size Does Matter
  The Age old argument, not in the drawing room, but from bars to locker rooms to girls night out finally has a scientific answer. Women do prefer men with bigger members.
• Massive Poaching Threatens Wildlife in Kaziran ...
  In addition to numerous species of resident birds, it serves as the winter visiting ground for many migratory birds. Kaziranga is located at the intersection of both the Australasian and the Indo Asian flyways,
• Reggie Littlejohn Condemns Gendercide and Sex- ...
  WRWF's Reggie Littlejohn To Condemn Gendercide at U.S. Capitol Screening of 'It's a Girl' Documentary
• Zooniverse - 2B Museum Labels in Scribble
  Do real science online - help museums create digital records for billions of specimens.

Worldnews

• European recession hits major car makers
  DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer= FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's stubborn recession cut deeply into profits at major automakers Ford, Volkswagen and Daimler, first-quarter results showed Wednesday as the industry began reporting earnings. Germany's Volkswagen AG said its first-quarter net pro ...
• Ban could force Suarez out, fears Houghton
  The former Republic of Ireland international believes the Reds' controversial Uruguayan striker could quit the club after he was banned for 10 games EXCLUSIVE By Russell Stoddart Former Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton has called Luis Suarez’s 10-game ban for biting “excessive&rdquo ...
• Ivanovic beats Petkovic in Stuttgart
  Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic defeated Andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday in the first round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. Ivanovic needed just under 73 minutes to dispatch the 25-year-old Petkovic, who is struggling to regain her form after injury setbacks. “I’m really annoyed with myse ...
• Apple profit falls for first time in nearly a ...
  Apple reported on Tuesday that its quarterly profit dipped for the first time in nearly a decade as it squeezed less money from its champions in the competitive smartphone and tablet markets. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macintosh computers stepped in to bolster its stock price by anno ...
• Gold prices vulnerable to further downside risk
  Indians are known to be savvy investors in gold. They have continued to import /buy the yellow metal for the last 10 years or so in enormous quantities at relatively low prices. If anything, volumes have been rising with every rise in price; and such price rise created wealth. In 2005, 10 gm of ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Tackling Diet, Exercise Together Produces Best ...
  If you have to choose one at a time, hit the gym first, researchers add (Source: WebMD Health)
• Sickle Cell Disease Research Among Top 10 Clin ...
  Pioneering research led by Johns Hopkins scientists on the use of partially matched bone marrow transplants to wipe out sickle cell disease has been selected as one of the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievements of 2012 by the Clinical Research Forum.
• Improved Detection Test Developed To Identify ...
  Sales of chicken products in China plummeted recently during an outbreak of a deadly new strain of bird flu. From bird flu to mad cow disease, numerous food scares have made global headlines in recent years. A technique developed by University of Missouri Professor of Engineering Shubhra Gangopa ...
• Mushrooms can provide as much vitamin D as sup ...
  Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine found that mushrooms transform UV light into the vitamin and continue to do so even after they are harvested. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
• The Enduring Technology of Coal
  Despite the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the burning of coal has only been accelerating.

Common Dreams

• Privatized Water System is 'Sowing Death' in C ...
  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, protesters urged in Santiago this week. read more
• Senator's Proposal a Nudge, Not an Assault, on ...
  A new bipartisan bill introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) on Wednesday is designed to curtail—though by no means end—the possibility of future taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street financial firms like the ones that followed the financial collapse in 2008. ...
• 'More Industrial Mass Murder' as Scores Dead i ...
  (AFP)A large building that houses several garment factories in Bangladesh collapsed on Wednesday, leaving at least 87 people dead, and more than a thousand injured, with the final death toll yet to be told. read more
• Report: Wealthy Thrive and Poorest Dive as Sur ...
  The great wealth divide in the United States has only become more exacerbated since the recession, as national policies have buoyed only the wealthiest Americans while the remainder have been left adrift. read more
• Low Wage Workers Strike in Chicago for 'Dignit ...
  Twitpic: @Molly_O / Molly O'Gorman Developing... Low wage fast food and retail workers have joined forces in Chicago on Wednesday in an unprecedented strike calling for $15 an hour and the freedom to form unions without retaliation. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• 20th Century Temperatures the Hottest in 1400 ...
  Global average temperatures were the hottest in 1400 years in the 20th century, more specifically during the period 1971-2000, according to a first-of-its-kind scientific study.
• Climate Change: New Report Offers Principles f ...
  The Arctic may be a rugged place, but it is also fragile. A new report from the Obama Administration sets the stage for moving in the right direction, but now the government must take concrete steps.
• New EPA Guidelines for Response to Radioactivi ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just released a draft Protective Action Guideline that sets standards and makes recommendations for the response to a large release of radioactive material into the environment.
• Portraits of the Solar Energy Market: How Key ...
  A look at how states' solar energy markets are faring. With more than 3.1 gigawatts of capacity installed last year, the U.S. market seems healthy and continues to grow. However, some states are in better shape than others.
• EPA Slams State Department's Draft Impact Stat ...
  On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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Peoples Voice

• Sharing a Story from My Father: In Commemorati ...
  by chycho I. Introduction Growing up I was always reminded of the Armenian genocide, of my ancestral history. It was so normal to hear the elders talk about it that it didn’t really faze me, not until I wrote a research paper on it in university. That’s when it hit me, and it ...
• 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. She was targeted for representing clients prosecutor ...
• Target Syria: Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use
  by Stephen Lendman New allegations claim Syrian chemical weapons use. We've heard similar ones before. Obama calls using them a "game changer." He also said their use crosses a "red line." Syrian officials are unequivocal. Weeks earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad spoke for ot ...
• This Earth Week: Stop the Extraction Economy, ...
  By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese This week is Earth Week, and while many are saying “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” we think key topics should be the extraction economy and the corporate-controlled political system that permits destruction of the environment. We live on a finite planet ...
• EARTH DAY: “ANOTHER GOVERNMENT IS POSSIB ...
  by The Green Shadow Cabinet Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and vice-presidential nominees, marked the beginning of Earth Week by announcing a new Green Shadow Cabinet that will serve as an independent voice in U.S. politics, putting the needs of people and p ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Without change in public policy, Canada's gend ...
  The coming weeks will see women and men graduating in nearly equal numbers from schools across Canada. By the time those women and men reach their 30s, they will see the gap between their incomes and their share of paid work widen. This pattern will continue throughout their working lives. The w ...
• Full List of Canadian Companies Authorized to ...
  The Globe and Mail has published a list of all Canadian companies authorized to use the Temporary Foreign Workers program. Companies on this list are not necessarily using TFWs, but the fact that the list is 475 pages long tells us something about the popularity of the program. 
• Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights
  The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) is a national voice devoted to promoting labour rights as an important means to strengthening democracy, equality and economic justice here in Canada and internationally. CFLR provides a forum for its members to promote and publish their independ ...
• Canadian Foundation of Labour Rights Internati ...
  Toronto (27 March 2013) – More than 160 people gathered in Toronto to discuss the critical role labour rights and unions play in reducing income inequality, advancing democracy, and promoting the social well-being of all Canadians.  The three-day conference, "Labour Rights and Their Impact ...
• Alternate Routes journal
  The Alternate Routes journal publishes methodologically-sound political economy research that is of interest to labour researchers. The article Toby Sangster referred to on the TURC listserver is in this issue: Great-Recession Proof? Shattering the Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism. You can g ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

• 20th Century Temperatures the Hottest in 1400 ...
  Global average temperatures were the hottest in 1400 years in the 20th century, more specifically during the period 1971-2000, according to a first-of-its-kind scientific study.
• Climate Change: New Report Offers Principles f ...
  The Arctic may be a rugged place, but it is also fragile. A new report from the Obama Administration sets the stage for moving in the right direction, but now the government must take concrete steps.
• New EPA Guidelines for Response to Radioactivi ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just released a draft Protective Action Guideline that sets standards and makes recommendations for the response to a large release of radioactive material into the environment.
• Portraits of the Solar Energy Market: How Key ...
  A look at how states' solar energy markets are faring. With more than 3.1 gigawatts of capacity installed last year, the U.S. market seems healthy and continues to grow. However, some states are in better shape than others.
• EPA Slams State Department's Draft Impact Stat ...
  On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”

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Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

• The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt
  More important is that the Redditors faced a simple, but insuperable, obstacle when it came to identifying the Tsarnaevs, namely that the two brothers were not, as far as I can tell, in any of the photographs that were widely available before Thursday morning. The footage that convinced investig ...
• Security pro on Twitter hacks: "No patch for h ...
  "It comes back to the same old advice -- whether it was phishing or malware -- the only way you can be safe from that is never click a link and never enter a password. Only way to be safe is to always be suspicious," Wisniewski says. Although companies may release security patches or offer addi ...
• Google accelerates push to replace passwords b ...
  Amid a growing consensus that passwords are not adequately secure, the group of tech companies working to supplant them with something stronger has gained a significant new ally. The FIDO Alliance said today that Google, which has shown a strong interest lately in making user authentication more ...
• The Devils in the Cloud, Part II: New Year's D ...
  As realization spread that the nations were under attack, their governments and militaries struggled to understand what had happened, and to react. But the drones had already reached their destinations. Off shore, still under cover of darkness, the crews of the container ships sped off in small, ...
• Microsoft signs patent deal with Chinese phone ...
  The deal grants ZTE a license to Microsoft's worldwide patent portfolio for ZTE phones, tablets, computers, and other devices that run Android and Chrome OS. Microsoft did not disclose if ZTE would pay royalties, or the amount it would pay, under the agreement.... "Much of the current litigation ...

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Politics in the Zeros

• Push for clean energy stalls, energy as dirty ...
  The Intermountain Power Plant in Utah provides coal power to Los Angeles Credit: geology.utah.gov The International Energy Agency says the average unit of energy is about as dirty as it was twenty years ago. Wind and solar power have made great advances yet this is offset by increasing amounts o ...
• Boston bombing, Islamists, and systematic recr ...
  Credit: Wikipedia After joining a far-left group, I discovered they’d been recruiting me in an organized, systematic manner for months. The same process happened to the Boston bombing brothers. The media says the Tsarnaev brothers were self-recruited via websites (with help on the ground f ...
• Europe cap and trade a failure, easily gamed
  I’m sure you’re as gobsmacked as I am that cap and trade in Europe is a failure. Who could have ever conceived a cobbled-together system with massive structural flaws would be exploited, gamed, and rendered useless? Carbon credits are now so cheap in Europe that companies can easily ...
• 3D printing livers. You read that right
  It seems science fiction but is not. A company is now 3D printing livers for use in testing drugs. The livers are tiny yet mostly functional. One goal is to have fully functional 3D printed livers available for transplants. San Diego-based bioprinting company Organovo has successfully created f ...
• Metallurgist: More bolts could snap on new San ...
  Screenshot showing bolt locations. Credit: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com 32 of 96 bolts on the new, as yet-unopened span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge snapped in March. A retired metallurgist and “expert in his field” says more could break and puts the blame on Caltrans. “It is v ...

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Just World News

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frogblog

• Al Morrison’s replacement
  You might have spotted that DOC Director General Al Morrison is moving on. After overseeing job cuts and setting DOC on the track to commercialisation, he is moving on to fill the newly created role Deputy Commissioner Corporate Centre at the State Services Commission. There he will be overseein ...
• Open letter to McDonald’s
  Last week McDonalds United Kingdom announced they are going to source 100 percent of their pork products from Freedom Food’s producers certified by the RSPCA, so I sent this letter to the Managing Director of McDonald’s New Zealand today. We are looking forward to McDonald’s New Zealand ma ...
• Pacific Parliamentary Forum
  Parliament has been blessed with the presence of political leaders from all around the Pacific for the last few days. We had some great debates and discussions. I just want to gloat about one – the motion to liberalise trade was voted down in favour of an amended motion in support of sustainable ...
• Julian Savea and his rugby management
  I’m not going to say much. I feel for Julian’s partner and don’t want to make this any more of a public event than what it is now. I do want to challenge his managers though. According to the story on Radio NZ this morning, his managers defended their decision to let Julian play by [...]
• Blinkering the watchdogs
  The Government’s decision to freeze funding for the Human Rights Commission (HRC) until 2020 has resulted in a proposal to cut 15% of staff at the Commission. New Zealand has very few checks on the power of Government and minimal tools to fight discrimination. By the response to the marriage equ ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S ...
  By Dr. Mercola Gleevec, a drug used to treat leukemia, costs $70,000 a year in the US but only $2,500 in India. This costly gap exists thanks to US patents that prevent competitors from making and selling lower cost versions. Such patents do not exist to the same extent in India, and, i ...
• Plastic and Cancerous Compounds in Tea Bags—A ...
  By Dr. Mercola I’ve long advocated drinking tea in lieu of coffee, but the downside of modern food technology is again rearing its ugly head and causing brand new health concerns over this otherwise healthful brew. A recent article in The Atlantic1 raises questions about the safety ...
• New GMO Wheat May ‘Silence’ Vital Human Genes
  By Dr. Mercola Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a type of genetically modified (GM) wheat that may silence human genes, leading to disastrous health consequences. Last year, University of Canterbury Professor Jack Heinemann releas ...
• Despite Doctor’s Order, School Bans Girl for N ...
  This is a Flash-based video and may not be viewable on mobile devices. By Dr. Mercola A story that should serve as a wakeup call to all American parents is currently making headline news: A Staten Island kindergartner has been barred from attending school because she hasn’t been vacc ...
• 10 Easy Ways to Prevent Cancer at Home
  By Dr. Mercola Cancer is the disease Americans fear most,1 and understandably so since it’s responsible for nearly one out of every four deaths in the US.2 Adding to its stigma, cancer diagnosis and treatment are the moneymakers in this industry – and also the focus of most govern ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
  Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...
• Indonesian military ‘development’ program spre ...
  The military presence in West Papua is almost always accompanied by human rights violations such as killings, arbitrary arrests, rape and torture. © Survival InternationalPapuan leaders have voiced their concern at plans for more than a thousand Indonesian soldiers to build 1,500 km of new roads ...
• Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
  Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...
• Worldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project ...
  Protesters will carry placards symbolizing the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of t ...
• Ban upheld: Avatar tribe ‘to decide’ future of ...
  India's Supreme Court has recognized the Dongria Kondh's right to worship their sacred mountain in a landmark decision.© SurvivalIn a landmark ruling, the Indian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgiri hills. In a complex judgement, the c ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Truth and reconciliation - from pas ...
  Many non-aboriginal Canadians remain all too ignorant of the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools, whose damaging legacy continues to be felt in aboriginal communities across the country.
• Editorial: In fighting terror, vigilance takes ...
  The RCMP announcement Monday that it has thwarted a terror plot targeting train travel near Toronto highlights not only the value of diligent police work, but also the value of human intelligence sources in foiling such plots.
• Editorial: Common sense prevails in Lachine Ho ...
  Health Minister Réjean Hébert has accepted the view of people in the community who saw in the transfer an upgrade of their health services, not a threat.
• Editorial: Finding hope in the Lisée-Parizeau ...
  The PQ government’s language policy is driven by hardliners, but there is hope for moderation in light of tolerant attitudes in the greater francophone community.
• Hockey deal augurs poorly for rebirth of Nordiques
  With a new collective bargaining agreement in place, National Hockey League play resumed on the weekend. The enthusiastic fan reaction suggests that the four-month lockout will not result in any significant fan blowback in the short term.

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Pro ...
  What is happening to you America?  Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast.  Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most v ...
• America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, O ...
  The United States is a deeply unhappy place.  We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.  It isn't just our economy that is falling apart - the very fabric of society is starting to come apart at the seams and it is because of what is happening to us [...]
• Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens ...
  What in the world is happening to America?  Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.  And without a doubt, the Boston Marathon bombing was a great national tragedy.  I ...
• 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
  The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
• History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
  Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...

CASSE

• Maybe It’s Time to Offend a Few Folks
  Alexandra Paul says it's time to put aside politeness when it comes to opening a dialogue about overpopulation.
• The Lurking Inconsistency
  Herman Daly suggests that changing the economy will require more than new policies; it'll require a substantial change in worldview.
• China’s Infinite-Growth Haze
  China is playing a dangerous game based on a seductive (but faulty) economic theory.
• How I’ve Responded to the Financial Crisis
  Maybe pirates had a good idea about burying their loot -- see how to disentangle yourself from the too-big-to-fail financial system.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis Unveils Three New ...
  GDI, CCI, and FEI -- Three new economic measures that are worth shouting about.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

• 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Visible Origami | The Dung Beetles from Armage ...
  by Visible The alternative news is filled with the outrageous and transparent doings of the criminal and fascist nation which attacked the Boston Marathon, under the direction and control of Israel. Yet one more time they ran a training exercise. during an obvious false flag event, whose intent ...
• Activist Post: Aluminum in Vaccines Linked to ...
  Kenny Valenzuela Activist Post When examining the cornucopia of toxic chemicals that saturate the environment in which all human life exists, aluminum has become the weapon of choice for the current population reduction program being facilitated by vaccinations and immunizations. Aluminum, liste ...
• Principia Scientific Intl | New Discovery: NAS ...
  Written by H. Schreuder & J. O’Sullivan A recent NASA report throws the space agency into conflict with its climatologists after new NASA measurements prove that carbon dioxide acts as a coolant in Earth’s atmosphere. NASA’s Langley Research Center has collated data proving ...
• Nestle CEO seeks to control the world’s ...
  by: Lance Devon (NaturalNews) Gun control may be a hot topic, but what about water control? Recent comments from Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck imply that the world’s water will soon come under the control of corporations like his. Brabeck makes the astonishing claim that water is not a human ri ...
• The America We Thought We Lived In No Longer E ...
  Friends, patriots, I came to a realization today. I heard the photo of a naked and tortured elder Chechen boy, Tamerlan, had been circulating on the Internet. I didn’t want to see it. While on my ‘net travels I inadvertently glimpsed a tiny thumbnail, and I looked away. I didn’t want to see it. ...

Veterans Today

• The Brothers Tsarnaev: The Lee Harvey Oswalds ...
  The Tsarnaev-Oswald parallels are so striking, it's almost like a diabolical inside joke - at our expense.
• Boston Bombing – DHS Contracted Security out t ...
  - Our corporate media completed censored any mention of the huge security failure and the Israeli ties with Craft Security
• Old Women Derail US, Cyber Ops Spending, New B ...
  $4.7 billion is budgeted for 2014 – up about 17 percent or $800 million from last year. Hackers have stolen an estimated $400 billion in trade secrets from the United States in recent years.
• Terrorists “R” Us
  State-sponsored terrorism defines US policy. Doublespeak duplicity conceals it. Doublethink manipulates public opinion to ignore inconvenient truths.
• A Canadian Indian Stands Up for Her Aboriginal ...
  This communication is in response to the tele-court proceedings involving you and I and Mr. Finn Jensen QC on Monday April 15 and Friday April 19.

electric politics

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

PR News

• Media tries too hard to keep up with Twitter, ...
  Following a number of major errors by prominent news outlets covering the bombing at the Boston Marathon and the following investigation, traditional media should focus on accuracy rather than "competing" with social media, say industry experts.
• Netflix turnaround shows power of listening
  Netflix has rebuilt its reputation among customers and investors by listening to consumers and focusing on original content, communications leaders say.
• UNESCO brings on Wyatt Brand for cultural project
  NEW YORK: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has hired Wyatt Brand to work with One Story Productions on a global awareness-building campaign for the International Fund for Cultural Diversity.
• McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union taps Crenshaw
  NEW YORK: McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union has selected Crenshaw Communications as its PR agency following a competitive review.
• Marketing software company selects Trevelino/K ...
  ATLANTA: Social marketing software company Insightpool has hired Trevelino/Keller as its communications AOR.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Alberta Again Violates Caribou Policies With T ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 24 Apr 2013 “Alberta Energy promotes caribou habitat disturbance by selling leases that drive new well sites, ignoring technology options to red ...
• Call for Delegates: Electricity Framework Revi ...
  Initiative:  Electricity Framework Review Project Team Position:  ENGO Members (4 delegates) ...
• Call for Delegates: Odour Management Project T ...
  Initiative:  Odour Management Project Team Position:  ENGO Member (3 delegates) ...
• Contract Opportunity: Fund Development & Progr ...
  Position:  Fund Development & Program Manager Organization:  Alberta Environmental Network ...
• Earth Day Celebration: Small is Beautiful
  Edmonton Earth Day Festival Earth's General Store 20 Apr 2013 - 11:00 - 16:00 Earth's General Store is working with the Edmont ...

Stop NATO

• Romania: U.S. Leads Bilateral Military Exercises
  U.S. Air Force April 24, 2013 Ramstein Airmen train with Romanian counterparts By Airman 1st Class Hailey Haux 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany: More than 80 Airmen from Ramstein participated in exercise Carpathian Spring in Romania April 12 through 21. The exercise wa ...
• H.G. Wells: Massacres of boys! That indeed is ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts H.G. Wells: Selections on war ==== H.G. Wells From Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916) Certain things had to be forced upon Mr. Britling because they jarred so greatly with his habits of mind that he would never have accepted them ...
• Pentagon Official Receives Ronald Reagan Missi ...
  U.S. Department of Defense April 24, 2013 Deputy Defense Secretary Receives Missile Defense Award Ground-based midcourse interceptor missile system launch WASHINGTON: Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter received the 2013 Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award yesterday for his contributions in adva ...
• Georgia Offers NATO Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway ...
  Civil Georgia April 24, 2013 Georgian FM Visits Brussels Tbilisi: Georgia’s Foreign Minister, Maia Panjikidze, participated in the NATO and ISAF partner nations’ foreign ministerial meeting on Tuesday and will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday in Brussels. Panjikidze said that ...
• Hungary: NATO Backs World’s First Multin ...
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Tranformation April 23, 2013 SACT on visit to Hungary: A key NATO ally in Central Europe Written by ACT PAO General Paloméros praised Hungary as “…an invaluable member of the Alliance that has shown its full capability to fulfil dutie ...

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Intel Hub

• Boston Bombings: Official Stories Change Like ...
  Shepard Ambellas | Some say that the FBI should have been notified sooner by DHS as there are many holes and unanswered questions that still remain regarding the Boston Marathon bombings, others think DHS is hiding something.The post Boston Bombings: Official Stories Change Like Fairy Tales ...
• US Oligarch & New York Daily News: Propaganda ...
  Avalon | Mainstream Media campaigns and their influence on public perception can sometimes be propaganda campaigns orchestrated by Dark Forces.The post US Oligarch & New York Daily News: Propaganda Campaign? appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• The Doctrine of Kimilsungism
  Nile Bowie | Each year on April 15th, North Koreans pay homage to the founder of their nation, Kim il-Sung – the most revered figure in the North Korean psyche.The post The Doctrine of Kimilsungism appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Farm Supports and Social Welfare
  James Hall | The planting season is in full swing as is the transfer of subsidies to big agriculture and social welfare food stamps. The post Farm Supports and Social Welfare appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Missouri State Government Collecting Concealed ...
  Derrick Broze | The Missouri Department of Revenue has been making electronic copies of people’s personal documents such as birth certificates and concealed gun permits.The post Missouri State Government Collecting Concealed Carry Information appeared first on Intellihub.com.

FRS

• The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
  [Lynne Stewart, a lifelong activist and people's lawyer-advocate, is a Federal political prisoner serving a ten year sentence in a Texas prison.  73 years old, she is suffering from terminal (stage 4) cancer--and not receiving the medical care she needs.  Her continued incarceration is nothing b ...
• US: FBI, the Manufactured “Official Sto ...
  [The Official Story as told by FBI spokespeople, and repeated by the uncritical media, is "White House defends FBI query into Boston suspect (Associated Press, 22 April 2013) -- The White House is defending the FBI's performance in its 2011 inquiry into Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) one of ...
• US: FBI, the Manufactured “Official Sto ...
  [The Official Story as told by FBI spokespeople, and repeated by the uncritical media, is "White House defends FBI query into Boston suspect (Associated Press, 22 April 2013) -- The White House is defending the FBI's performance in its 2011 inquiry into Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) one of ...
• Greek pensioners march through Athens in prote ...
  ITN April 19, 2013 — Thousands of pensioners from across Greece flood the capital to demonstrate over cuts to their pensions. A sea of old age pensioners from across Greece flooded into Athens on Friday (April 19) to protest against pension cuts.  Aristides Manikas, protester, said “ ...
• Greek pensioners march through Athens in prote ...
  ITN April 19, 2013 — Thousands of pensioners from across Greece flood the capital to demonstrate over cuts to their pensions. A sea of old age pensioners from across Greece flooded into Athens on Friday (April 19) to protest against pension cuts.  Aristides Manikas, protester, said “ ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• U.S. on Hot Seat: Israel Calls 'Red Line,' Say ...
  The U.S. declared that use of chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian civil war would be a "red line" action that could provoke American military intervention. Now top U.S. ally Israel is formally alleging that Syria's ruling regime used sarin gas.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 23, 2013
• Alleged Boston Bombers Not like Bad Guys in th ...
  After seeing "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," in the wake of the Boston bombings, I couldn't help but think how much easier it is to pick out the bad guys in the movies.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Apr 22, 2013
• Obama Justified in Criticizing Senators Over B ...
  Many U.S. senators who voted against increasing background checks for gun purchases may have inadvertently handed their next challengers powerful fodder in campaign battles.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 18, 2013
• How Misinformation Could Help the Boston Bomb ...
  When terrorism strikes the United States, whether in Boston, New York City, Atlanta or Oklahoma City, there’s a rush to tell the audience who is responsible, often getting the wrong person and hampering the investigation.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 16, 2013
• Actually, Americans are Overtaxed
  A slew of studies come out around April 15 every year to remind us how we have a much lower tax burden than other countries have, but is that really the case. It depends on whether you are a corporation or a personal income taxpayer.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 15, 2013

Popsci - Science

• Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Game Theo ...
  Teaching people game theory is good. Making them live it is even better, says UCLA professor Peter Nonacs. On test day for my Behavioral Ecology class at UCLA, I walked into the classroom bearing an impossibly difficult exam. Rather than being neatly arranged in alternate rows with pen or penc ...
• Humans Can Feel Empathy Toward Robots
  Brain scans show we feel bad for robots when they're mistreated. Humans feel bad when they see other humans being mistreated, but do we feel the same way about robots? A team of researchers tested that by being first sweet and then really, really cruel to a poor little innocent dinosaur robot. T ...
• New Bird Flu Spreads: What You Need To Know
  The deadly H7N9 has advanced beyond mainland China. The avian H7N9 virus keeps spreading in China and even beyond the mainland, with one case confirmed in Taiwan April 24. We updated you on April 12 about the state of the outbreak. Since then, more people have gotten sick and died, and scientis ...
• A Library Of Every Drug That Could Ever Exist
  Drug researchers go along on a stochastic voyage. Billions of billions of billions of maybe-helpful molecular compounds remain to be discovered, and used for targeting a whole host of medical problems. But who has the time to conjure a novemdecillion drugs? (That number is a 1 with 60 zeroes af ...
• New Chemical Trick To Make Fertilizer That Won ...
  It turns out another industry's trash is fertilizer's lifesaver. The same chemical that makes fertilizer so useful also makes it really cheap bomb fuel. Researchers at Sandia labs in Albuquerque wondered if they could render the explosive properties of fertilizer inert while still keeping the b ...

Veterans Today

• The Brothers Tsarnaev: The Lee Harvey Oswalds ...
  The Tsarnaev-Oswald parallels are so striking, it's almost like a diabolical inside joke - at our expense.
• Boston Bombing – DHS Contracted Security out t ...
  - Our corporate media completed censored any mention of the huge security failure and the Israeli ties with Craft Security
• Old Women Derail US, Cyber Ops Spending, New B ...
  $4.7 billion is budgeted for 2014 – up about 17 percent or $800 million from last year. Hackers have stolen an estimated $400 billion in trade secrets from the United States in recent years.
• Terrorists “R” Us
  State-sponsored terrorism defines US policy. Doublespeak duplicity conceals it. Doublethink manipulates public opinion to ignore inconvenient truths.
• A Canadian Indian Stands Up for Her Aboriginal ...
  This communication is in response to the tele-court proceedings involving you and I and Mr. Finn Jensen QC on Monday April 15 and Friday April 19.

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
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• In the big freeze - but for how long?
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• January 2nd warmest globally on record
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• Arctic ice and the possible implications for s ...
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Internat'l Political Economy

• EU-US FTA & the Lameness of 'Cultural Exception'
  There is already a certain desperation to the idea that trade can significantly be boosted between the US and EU FTA when they already have exceptionally low tariff levels. What more substantial trade barriers can be removed? Are these dynamic and growing markets? The answers, of course, are "fe ...
• Of Profits & Reconciliation: Kaesong Industria ...
  They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that certainly seems to be the case here: opened in 2004 as a manifestation of the late Roh Tae Woo's "sunshine policy" of South towards North Korea, it was hoped Kaesong Industrial Complex would herald closer economic ties between the ...
• Arab Spring F1 (Ep III): 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix
  For a third consecutive year, we have controversy over whether the Bahrain Grand Prix should proceed. In 2011, it was famously cancelled despite attempts by F1 bigwigs to insulate this event from the turmoil that engulfed the region via the Arab Spring of protests against authoritarian regimes ( ...
• LDC Marketing Lessons Selling to Brokebank Yanks
  Here's an interesting feature I somehow missed given my interest in the intersection between marketing and international political economy. Nowadays the "American Dream" is a punch line to a sick joke only the most delusional and gullible of USA#1 cheerleaders actually fall for. (And the joke's ...
• The IMF is Unfair (Duh): Japan v Egypt
  That the IMF has special and differential treatment for developed countries over developing countries is an unoriginal criticism of the institution. For whatever reason, rich donor countries do not get long sermons about fiscal profligacy, burgeoning deficits, and the need for belt tightening. O ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Pro ...
  What is happening to you America?  Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast.  Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most v ...
• America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, O ...
  The United States is a deeply unhappy place.  We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.  It isn't just our economy that is falling apart - the very fabric of society is starting to come apart at the seams and it is because of what is happening to us [...]
• Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens ...
  What in the world is happening to America?  Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.  And without a doubt, the Boston Marathon bombing was a great national tragedy.  I ...
• 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleas ...
  The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.  So precious meta ...
• History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Cr ...
  Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.  History tells us that when the price of gold ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• Guatemala: UN adviser calls on judges to ensur ...
  A senior United Nations official today urged judicial authorities in Guatemala to ensure that legal proceedings continue without interference against the country's former head of State and former head of intelligence who stand accused of atrocities committed in the Central American nation over 3 ...
• UNESCO chief calls for investigation into murd ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the murder of Ecuadorian journalist Fausto Valdiviezo Moscoso and called for an investigation into the crime.
• UN report suggests social conflict in Latin Am ...
  The Latin American countries afflicted by the greatest amount of social conflict are also those suffering from broad inequality and limited capacity to manage unrest, according to a United Nations report launched today.
• Ban calls Boston marathon bombing senseless, a ...
  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the bombing at the Boston Marathon, calling "this senseless violence… all the more appalling for taking place at an event renowned for bringing people together from around the world in a spirit of sportsmanship and harmony."
• Prosecuting past crimes provides hope to survi ...
  A senior United Nations official today welcomed the efforts of Guatemalan authorities to investigate crimes of sexual violence that occurred during the country&#39s 36-year internal conflict, and urged authorities to ensure a fair trail and protections for the witnesses and others involved.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
  Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
• Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
  The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
• Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
  Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
• Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
  Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
• September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
  And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Whose Side is the Reserve Bank of Australia on
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Not the citizenry, it appears
• Vietnam Seeks to Restart Economy
  • (http://twitter.com/share) But entrenched interests are likely to get in the way
• Is Tourism the Most Destructive Enterprise?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Tourism explodes with globalization, enriching lives but destroying nature and culture
• Did China Cover Up A Mining Disaster?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Evidence suggests killer landslide was manmade
• Is a New Stage Coming for the Koreas?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Faint signs of compromise

We Know the Lies

• The Last President of the United States ... Ba ...
  The end of the line... The United States of America was started by Puritans with the Holy Bible who made a covenant with God for the new nation. America at its inception in 1776 was a wonder to behold. read more
• Is This The Same Guy?... You Decide
  Police have said that the naked man was the carjack victim, not Tamerlan, and that he was ordered to strip as a precaution before eventually being let go. However, in earlier images a fully clothed man ordered to lie face down in the street by police does not appear to be the same individual ...
• No Thinking Allowed!... "Don't Make Up Your Mi ...
  In a speech over the weekend Obama said that people should not think independently about the Boston terror attacks, but rather wait until the government comes forward with their official version of events. ~ JG Vibes read more
• The Craziness of Michael Bloomberg... ''The ' ...
  “You’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days”... New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg read more
• 'Department of Homeland Security Must Surrende ...
  On Saturday March 23, Terry M. Hestilow, a retired Army officer with nearly 30 years of service under his belt, posted this letter he sent to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) this week. Hestilow wants DHS to hand over their war weapons to the Department of Defense. read more

Tarpley

• Thatcher Milk Snatcher and the Decline of the West
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 23, 2013 Margaret Thatcher’s first high-profile political job came in 1970 when she was appointed to serve as education and science minister in the cabinet of the liberal Tory Edward Heath. She imposed a series of brutal budget cuts, the most infamous of ...
• CIA’s Historical Sponsorship of Chechen ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com April 23, 2013 [download audio]
• Netanyahu Threats to Syria, Obama Meeting with ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 18, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• NATO’s Reliance on Al Qaeda as Its Irreg ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 17, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• Political Fight Against Bipartisan Austerity R ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com April 16, 2013 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Tips For Cost Effective Grocery Shopping
  The cost of food and feeding your family is one of the most expensive aspects to your budget. For those looking for tips to save money at the grocery store and stretch your food budget further, you can save lots of money grocery shopping if you follow any or all of these tips…   Make ...
• Big Brother, Big Government, Big Data
  The next big threat to your privacy is… the new mammoth NSA spy center in Bluffdale Utah, 25 miles south of Salt Lake City. And it’s almost complete…   The spy center is nearly complete, and the NSA says the center will have a major focus on cyber security, while critics s ...
• Tornado Myths
  image: stormchasing.ca Over the years there have been many myths about tornadoes. The reality of a few of them listed here, are good to know for your own safety…   MYTH: If a tornado is approaching, opening windows will equalize pressure and prevent your house from exploding. REALITY: ...
• Boston Bombers, U.S. Double Agents Gone Rogue
  While conspiracy theories proliferate the internet, people are grasping for the truth of the Boston bombing and the events that followed. It is a natural thing to want the truth, particularly when something horrible has happened. People also instinctively know when things aren’t adding up ...
• Post SHTF; Walking Along Railroad Tracks
  Walking along railroad tracks is a dangerous thing in more ways than one. But just like roads, railroads crisscross the nation from one town to another; often unseen or unnoticed by most people as their mostly hidden tentacles weave their way from here to there. These rails may provide an altern ...

Fast Company

• A Modular Mirror System That Reflects An Alter ...
  Tokujin Yoshioka applied his magic touch with materials to Mirage, a new collaboration with Lema. Tokujin Yoshioka is, plain and simple, a master of materials. The Japanese designer has transformed a slim stack of whisper-light paper into the fully functional Honey Pop chair; he’s ma ...
• How That Beer You’re Drinking Is Helping Cure ...
  It’s not because they’re giving some money away. An ingredient in the beer-making process has just been reengineered to produce a key malaria-fighting ingredient that used to be prohibitively expensive. The next time you open a beer, think about this: there are life-saving ingr ...
• At Euro Music Fest, Revelers Party Under A Buc ...
  Denmark’s Roskilde has adopted the architectural oddity as a festival centerpiece. Would Buckminster Fuller have been a Bon Iver fan? We’ll never know. But while the world will never see Mr. Fuller enjoying a can of lukewarm beer and feeling the groove at a summer music festiva ...
• Mapping Your Brain To Predict Your Dreams
  Researchers who closely tracked people’s brains were able to determine what people would then dream about with astounding accuracy, opening up an enormous set of questions about human consciousness. The content of dreams provides a complicated, hazy window into a person’s mind: ...
• How “Cyberspace” Became A Household Word
  William Gibson explains how he came up with his most famous phrase. The advent of computers and digital communications gave rise to all sorts of new terminology. These weren’t just new technologies and new products but a whole new world of concepts, and they demanded new words. In th ...

Jadaliyya

• من يكتب أدب الثورة؟
  لكل ثورة أدباؤها ولكل حدث بديع في تاريخ الإنسانية من يشتغلون على تدوينه، بشتى الوسائل المتاحة، حتى يخلد ويبقى إرثاً لا تطاله أيادي التقادم. ولأن رسالة الأدب، في المحصلة، تتجاوز الحيز الجغرافي الذي يُولَدُ فيه، ليعانق الانشغالات الإنسانية بمعزل عن المكان الذي احتضنه واللغة التي أُنتج بها والثقافة ...
• Tadween Roundup: News and Analysis from the Pu ...
  [The following is a roundup of the latest news and analysis from the publishing world that relates to pedagogy and knowledge production. It was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more updates, follow Tadween Publishing on Faceboo ...
• O.I.L. Media Roundup (April 24)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...
• New Texts Out Now: Chouki El Hamel, Black Moro ...
  Chouki El Hamel, Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Questions by Brahim El Guabli Brahim El Guabli (BEG): Why Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam? Chouki El Hamel (CEH): Written history about Morocc ...
• Egypt Media Roundup (April 23)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...

mediagazer

• When straight-keeper in chief Jill Abramson ge ...
  Tom McGeveran / Capital New York: When straight-keeper in chief Jill Abramson gets the tabloid treatment  —  Has Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, “lost the newsroom”?  —  A story posted last night by Politico's Dylan Byers charac ...
• CQ Roll Call Offers Buyouts (Betsy Rothstein/F ...
  Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: CQ Roll Call Offers Buyouts  —  This just in...  As part of the transition from print to digital, CQ Roll Call has announced that it's offering a “small handful” of employees in editorial voluntary buy-out packages.  In order t ...
• Jill Abramson and the wholly sexist narrative ...
  Emily Bell / Guardian: Jill Abramson and the wholly sexist narrative of the woman in power  —  The New York Times executive editor is apparently stubborn and snappy.  Why must we focus on women's character traits?  —  Happy newsrooms are all alike.  Eve ...
• DirecTV's Siri Clone Brings Familiar Voice to ...
  Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: DirecTV's Siri Clone Brings Familiar Voice to Remote-Control App  —  When DirecTV (DTV) customers download the satellite-TV company's new remote-control application to their smartphones, they'll hear a familiar voice.  —  The app, which ...
• Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box (Bra ...
  Brad Stone / Businessweek: Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box  —  Amazon (AMZN) is making e-readers, tablets and will likely soon introduce a smartphone.  As it works to build all types of connected devices, that leaves a natural next step: a television set-top box.& ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• European recession hits major car makers
  DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer= FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's stubborn recession cut deeply into profits at major automakers Ford, Volkswagen and Daimler, first-quarter results showed Wednesday as the industry began reporting earnings. Germany's Volkswagen AG said its first-quarter net pro ...
• Ban could force Suarez out, fears Houghton
  The former Republic of Ireland international believes the Reds' controversial Uruguayan striker could quit the club after he was banned for 10 games EXCLUSIVE By Russell Stoddart Former Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton has called Luis Suarez’s 10-game ban for biting “excessive&rdquo ...
• Ivanovic beats Petkovic in Stuttgart
  Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic defeated Andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday in the first round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. Ivanovic needed just under 73 minutes to dispatch the 25-year-old Petkovic, who is struggling to regain her form after injury setbacks. “I’m really annoyed with myse ...
• Apple profit falls for first time in nearly a ...
  Apple reported on Tuesday that its quarterly profit dipped for the first time in nearly a decade as it squeezed less money from its champions in the competitive smartphone and tablet markets. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macintosh computers stepped in to bolster its stock price by anno ...
• Gold prices vulnerable to further downside risk
  Indians are known to be savvy investors in gold. They have continued to import /buy the yellow metal for the last 10 years or so in enormous quantities at relatively low prices. If anything, volumes have been rising with every rise in price; and such price rise created wealth. In 2005, 10 gm of ...

no frakking consensus

• Earth Day an Oil Industry Scam?
  According to 1960s radicals, the environmental movement has been funded and orchestrated by fossil fuel interests.
• Earth Day 1970 (The Drama Queen Files, Exhibit #4)
  The language being used in 1970, the year Earth Day was born, hasn't changed much: Crisis. Catastrophe. Endangered. Extinction.
• What Rick Mercer Didn’t Tell Us About th ...
  Why weren't the profound limitations of the ZENN car the butt of a comedian's jokes?
• Latest from the WWF: Eco-Indoctrination of Slu ...
  In Pakistan, the WWF is enlisting university students to develop an "environmental conscience" among the poorest of the poor.
• A Few Crumbs of Pastry: More Nobel Nonsense
  What happens when you slice half a pie into 9,000 pieces? You get a few crumbs of pastry.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

TVNZ

• Boston bombs detonated with toy car remote
  The Boston Marathon bombs that killed three and wounded 264 were detonated with toy car remote control.
• Five killed in Illinois shooting
  Five people have been killed and a six-year-old girl injured in a shooting in Illinois.
• Anzac Day marked around the world
  Thousands have attended dawn services to celebrate Anzac Day, not only in New Zealand and Australia but throughout the world
• Canada train plot suspect disputes law
  One of two men accused in an alleged al Qaeda-backed plan to derail a passenger train in Canada disputed the authority of Canadian law to judge him.
• Nearly 100 killed in Bangladesh factory collapse
  A block of garment factories that collapsed in Bangladesh has killed 95 people.

environment 360

• New Web Site to Track CO2 Levels As Planet App ...
  As atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide approach the milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm), a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has launched a Website that will publish daily readings of CO2 concentrations, an online resource he hopes will drive home the urgent thre ...
• Conservation of Forests Can Prevent Malaria Sp ...
  The conservation of woodlands and biodiversity can actually help prevent the spread of malaria in tropical forests, a new study says. Using a mathematical model of different conditions in a forest region of southeastern Brazil, scientists found that the circulation of the parasite Plasmodium viv ...
• Green Energy Investments to Triple by 2030, An ...
  Annual investment in renewable energy is predicted to triple between now and 2030, according to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. In an analysis of several factors shaping the global energy future — including economic conditions, market demands, and the evolution of technologies — the gr ...
• Will Electric Bicycles Get Americans to Start ...
  Electric bicycles are already popular in Europe and in China, which has more e-bikes than cars on its roads. Now, manufacturers are marketing e-bikes in the U.S., promoting them as a "green" alternative to driving. BY MARC GUNTHER
• New Solar Cell Process Achieves Record Efficie ...
  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they have achieved a major breakthrough in the conversion of sunlight into electricity, surpassing what was long believed to be an absolute limit to the efficiency of solar cell devices. While the process used in the typical phot ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

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Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Muslims Dancing In Streets After Boston Terror ...
  Islamophobes recycle old picture to create impression that "Muslims were celebrating the Boston Bombings."
• Coulter: Boston suspect’s widow ‘ought to be i ...
  “She ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab. This immigration policy of us, you know, assimilating immigrants into our culture isn’t really working. They’re assimilating us into their culture. Did she get a clitorectomy too?”
• Bomber Motivated by Religion?: Media Regurgita ...
  Americans once again wonder, "why do they attack us?" Is Islam really the reason?
• Anti-Muslim campaign threatens renewed tension ...
  Anti-Muslim conspiracy theories in Sri Lanka fueling Islamophobic violence.
• The “Burmese Bin Laden”
  Buddhist mok is flaming socials tensions in Myanmar by advocating violence against Rohingyas.

Energy News

• TV: Shock as expert says tar sands oil is flow ...
• Gov’t: Vegetables from inside Fukushima ‘no-go ...
• Newsweek: Excruciating, bizarre, grotesque ail ...
• Xenon detected in Japan — Consistent with nucl ...
• New flyover of giant sinkhole — Oil shee ...

Japan Times

• Tohoku Electric, Tepco in nuclear compensation ...
  Tohoku Electric begins talks with Tokyo Electric on compensation for dropping electricity sales in Fukushima Prefecture.
• H7N9 defense measures prepared
  To prepare for an H7N9 bird flu outbreak, governors will be authorized to "strongly advise" that suspected carriers be hospitalized or banned from work, the ...
• Israeli military says Syria used chemical weapons
  A senior Israeli military official says it is "quite clear" Syria has used chemical agents, which U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "red line" ...
• Kyoto team finds faster way to turn iPS cells ...
  A Japanese research team has found a more efficient way to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells into mature myocytes, or muscle cells, it said ...
• In front and behind closed temple doors
  While largely beneath the contemporary-art radar, painting for Japanese temples by the stars of the postwar art world is a relatively common activity, though largely ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• Politics on TV: Joe Oliver goes to Washington
  The three things you need to see
• What’s hot at Hot Docs
  A messy family tale in Guelph, a single mom turned jewellery thief, and other hits from the 20th annual festival
• 70-year old letters discovered: A young J.D. S ...
  Nine letters to the young women help to bring the elusive author vividly to life
• The Commons: The silly and the hallowed
  An hour and a half in the life of the House of Commons
• The QP clip: Nathan Cullen and Peter MacKay ta ...
  The exchange you couldn't miss during this afternoon's Question Period.

Making It Count - CCPA

• Crowley’s Red Hot Labour Market
  Brian Lee Crowley’s latest column shows he’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. We shouldn’t be worried about unemployment because a) it’s old-fashioned, b) Boomers had it worse (and now they’re getting old) c) we’re doing better than the U.S., and d) it’s rea ...
• Canadians Aren’t Buying the Banksplaining
  So, am I the only parent of small children struck by the familiar tone of RBC’s Temporary Foreign Worker damage control message fiasco? In a CBC interview that was basically a clinic for how not to do PR, Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji’s attempt at banksplaining sounded suspiciously ...
• Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?
  An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events ...
• Federal Budget 2013: stubbornness and hidden s ...
  Reactions to the federal budget presented in March differed in Québec in comparison with the rest of the provinces. In this text we will first review the budget as whole before zooming into measures which caused a big uproar in Québec. In its latest budget, the government brought to the fore an ...
• Climate justice and BC’s political moment
  The following is based on a talk at the Bring Your Boomers election forum on April 3 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, the fourth in a series of intergenerational dialogues from Gen Why Media, and was co-sponsored by the CCPA, Get Your Vote On, LeadNow and Vancity credit union. I was asked to set ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

• Thirsty States Take Water Battle To Supreme Court
  “On Tuesday, Oklahoma and Texas will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court. The winner gets water. And this is not a game. The court will hear oral arguments in the case of  Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, et al. The case pits Oklahoma against Texas over rights to water from the ...
• Communicating water science to policymakers: a ...
  “A recent article from The Guardian Higher Education Network blog entitled “How academics can engage with policy: 10 tips for a better conversation” provided ideas to help scholars better convey research to policymakers. It explained appropriate times for sharing academic information, how ...
• Gap Dumping Toxic Wastewater
  “Gap, Brooks Brothers and other fashion brands are dumping toxic wastewater in Indonesia waterways, Greenpeace says. In its latest report, Toxic Threads: Polluting Paradise, Greenpeace investigates the PT Gistex factory, located near Bandung in West Java, with 60 percent of production loca ...
• Mexico Lacks Water to Frack for Shale Gas
  “Mexico plans to expand shale gas exploration this year, but it could run into a shortage of water, which is essential to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the method used to capture natural gas from shale rocks. “In Mexico there isn’t enough water. Where are they going to get it to extrac ...
• Energy, Food Interests Compete for Water in Dr ...
  “A drought in Vietnam has uncovered tensions between water users in the country’s energy and agricultural sectors, Radio Free Asia reported. Despite a directive from the Prime Minister, the operator of a hydropower dam has refused to send more water downstream to drought-hit farms. “ ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• OMG … we can’t let the public
  …OMG … we can’t let the public know about what regulators do behind closed doors… Filed under: Blogroll
• I surmise this “sharing” about whi ...
  … in confess I have not read the article … but I surmise this “sharing” about which they express concern does not include you and me… Senators talk about intelligence By: Seung Min Kim Republicans say they are concerned that intelligence on terror is not being shared properly. more: http://www.p ...
• just what the hell is wrong with this guy &#82 ...
  …just what the hell is wrong with this guy … doesn’t he understand that corporate America controls our judicial system … what he thinks he really has freedom of speech…   Tim DeChristopher Speaks Out After 21 Months in Prison for Disrupting Oil Bid  …  Tim DeChristopher disc ...
• take charge of every aspect of our food system ...
  …this article notes precisely where accountability and responsibility should reside… Seeds of Change: Shifting National Agricultural Policies   http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15865-seeds-of-change-shifting-national-agricultural-policies Residents speak to the Springfield, Massachusetts c ...
• wherever did U get the mistaken understanding ...
  …wherever did U get the mistaken understanding that FDA was looking after your best interest …? FDA Approved New Drug Despite Ongoing Investigation of Lab Misconduct   i Last week, ProPublica reported that the Food and Drug Administration allowed dozens of medications to stay on t ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• The river of plenty: uncovering the secrets of ...
  Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite this, little is known about the biodiversity and ...
• Letting nature do the talking this Earth Day ( ...
  Instead of writing a special article for this Earth Day, we are instead letting nature's beauty do the talking. The photos below were taken by the Mongabay.com team — Rhett Butler, Jeremy Hance, and Tiffany Roufs — in the twelve months since Earth Day 2012. Countries in this set incl ...
• Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New ...
  New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) is facing a backlash over plans to aerially drop a controversial poison, known as 1080, over the habitat of two endangered, prehistoric, and truly bizarre frog species, Archey's and Hochsetter's frogs, on Mount Moehau. Used in New Zealand to kill po ...
• Fighting deforestation—and corruption&#8 ...
  The basic premise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program seems simple: rich nations pay tropical countries for preserving their forests. Yet the program has made relatively limited progress on the ground since 2007, when the concept got tentative go-ahead du ...
• Forests under fire: Australia's imperiled sout ...
  In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and faun ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Entries open for Prime Minister's Science Prizes
  Entries are now open for the prestigious Prime Minister's Science Prizes, and a former winner says New Zealand scientists need to put aside fears of Tall Poppy Syndrome and take a shot at the $1 million on offer.The prizes, launched...
• Green promises are often not met
  A "troubling" new study has suggested that a third of resource consent holders are breaking environmental promises, with agriculture operations proving the worst offenders.The study by a University of Waikato researcher and former...
• Ears adapt to high noise levels - research
  The temporary hearing loss from an outing at a noisy nightclub may not indicate damage to our ears as traditionally thought, new research shows.University of Auckland scientists and colleagues overseas have found that the temporary...
• Plan puts volcano views at risk
  Sweeping views of Auckland's volcanic cones risk being violated by new planning rules, critics say.They fear long-protected view shafts to Mt Eden, One Tree Hill and Rangitoto and other peaks will be interrupted if council planners...
• Probing secrets of earth's plates
  Scientists from across the world have come here to examine how to unlock secrets hidden within our offshore tectonic plate boundaries over the next decade, potentially resulting in multi-million dollar projects.Around 160 leading...

The Bovine

• Eco-village loses a beloved milk cow
  Story and pictures from ourecovillage.org Introduction (and pictures at bottom) by Raoul Bedi (www.biofield.ca ): It is refreshing, and even somewhat mind-expanding, to read about how the community at OUR ecovillage  had bonded with their recently departed cow “Bossy” to the … ...
• What if you drank only lukewarm raw milk, and ...
  Former Home on the Range agister, raw milk advocate, and speaker at the recent Vancouver conference “Fresh Milk, Food Politics”, Alice Jongerden, has decided to go on a milk fast. It seems that a milk fast is a diet in … Continue reading →
• BC ready to experiment with pot reform; So how ...
  From Allison Griner, in The Tyee: “In 2009, three gunshot-wound patients were wheeled into Wood’s emergency room at Vancouver General Hospital, all victims of gang violence. Wood had to ask himself: why? As he began to pore over research about … Continue reading →
• Setting the record straight on the economics o ...
  From Lindsey Lusher Shute on TakePart.com: “In the past year, the mainstream media featured more than a few stories critiquing America’s local and organic foods movement. The New York Times and others swallowed the findings of a Stanford study debating the value of organic foods hook, &#82 ...
• “Fresh Milk Food Politics” — Raw Milk My ...
  Thanks to Raoul Bedi, BASc, for writing up these detailed summaries of the proceedings from the April 6th “Fresh Milk Food Politics” event in Vancouver. I – Introduction: In Part 1 of this report  about the recent “Fresh Milk Food … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Utopian Union Fantasy: What If Every Californi ...
  This is a guest post written by Ed Ring, editor of UnionWatch, a project of the California Public Policy Center. Ed Ring asks What If Every Worker Made What City of Irvine Workers Make? Everything that follows is from Ed Ring. “Jennifer Muir, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Empl ...
• Spain's GDP Contracts at 2% Annualized Rate in ...
  According to the Bank of Spain and as reported by Libre Mercado, Spain's GDP Drops at 2% Annualized Rate in First Quarter The Spanish economy fell 0.5% in the first quarter and declined 2% year on year, according to economic bulletin of the Bank of Spain , which estimates a fall of 4.5% of em ...
• U.S. Mint Runs Out of Smallest American Eagle ...
  Demand for gold coins has surged following the record price plunge in gold last week. Demand is so high that the U.S. Mint Runs Out of Smallest American Eagle Gold Coin. The U.S. Mint ran out its smallest American Eagle gold coin after demand surged following the biggest drop in futures pr ...
• Germany Private Sector Output Declines First T ...
  As expected in this corner, the Markit Flash Germany PMI® shows German private sector output declines for first time since November 2012. Key Points: Flash Germany Composite Output Index(1) at 48.8 (50.6 in March), 6-month low. Flash Germany Services Activity Index(2) at 49.2 (50.9 in ...
• Wine Country Conference "Opening Remarks" Vide ...
  My opening remarks for the Wine Country Conference are available at Wine Country Conference Speaker Presentations. Unlike the speaker presentations, my opening speech is a short 7 minutes or so. We are making a couple of video presentations available each week for three weeks. Jo ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• WATCH: Fishing Trawler Rams Docked Canadian Wa ...
  How does this even happen?
• Ship Photo of The Day – Operation Spring Restore
  Every Spring, 1,281 aids to navigation throughout the Great Lakes region need to be checked and restored.
• Inside Look: Salvaging the MV Danio from UK’s ...
  There's aground, and then there's HARD AGROUND. In the case of the M/V Danio, it was most definitely the latter.
• Anchored Fleet of Iranian Tankers Could Hold 2 ...
  By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) – Iran is storing millions of barrels of oil on tankers in its territorial waters as Tehran struggles with tougher Western sanctions on [...]
• Greenpeace Activists Board Australia-Bound Coa ...
    SYDNEY (Reuters) – Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian [...]

Press TV

• Peshawar attack injures 4 Pakistanis
  At least four people have been injured in a bomb attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
• Landslide claims 14 lives in Ecuador
  At least 14 people have been killed after a landslide triggered by heavy rains struck a village in northern Ecuador, officials have said.
• Cyprus ministers approve bailout deal
  Cyprus's cabinet has approved a 10-billion-euro bailout agreement that the government has concluded with its international lenders to save the Mediterranean island nation from bankruptcy.
• 200 Swede troops to stay in Afghanistan
  Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says his country plans to keep about 200 soldiers in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of most US-led combat troops in 2014.
• Iran ready to engage with P5+1: Baqeri
  The deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says Tehran is ready to engage with the P5+1 group to find a solution to all the outstanding issues between the two sides.

SciDev.net

• Open access is the future for Africa's science ...
  Brains Network editor Marc Mcilhone backs open sharing in the second article on how to support online science journalism in Africa.
• Drug and a syphilis test offer hope of yaws er ...
  A diagnostic test targeting syphilis and an oral antibiotic could be used together to help eradicate yaws disease, a WHO meeting was told.
• Women are 'key drivers' in climate change adap ...
  Involving women and marginalised communities in ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change is essential, according to an expert meeting.
• UNESCO commits to support open access in Latin ...
  UNESCO has announced that it will support a number of initiatives aimed at boosting a culture of open access to science research in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• A culture of plagiarism is harming Africa's jo ...
  In the first of two articles on how to support African science journalism online, Research Africa editor Linda Nordling takes on plagiarism.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• The Trouble with Biofuels
  TBiofuels - often suggested as low or no carbon alternatives to fossil - may not be as green as they seem. The promise is attractive: can we use plants to make fuel? If we could, we would be taking ...
• Strange properties observed
  Transcript will be on the site shortly...
• Insects surviving extreme conditions
  Transcript will be on the site shortly...
• Other habitable planets?
  Transcript will be on the site shortly...
• HIV in breastmilk
  The risk of HIV spread between a breastfeeding mother and her infant is strongly linked to weaning, new research has shown. About 6% of the babies of untreated HIV-positive mothers will test positiv...

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