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Scoop - NZ

  • Escobar: Chechens in an Orwellian America
    With still so many unanswered questions regarding what took place on the ground in Boston after the bombing, it's time to look at an extra, possible Top Ten list of lingering absurdities. And this without sidestepping other unanswered crucial questions, such as why a bomb drill - organized by Cr ...
  • Margaret Thatcher and the decline of the West
    The legend of Thatcher portrays her as a self-made woman, a greengrocer’s daughter from Grantham. In reality, the emergence of Thatcher was the work of a formidable political syndicate. One of Thatcher’s most important handlers was by any measure Lord Victor Rothschild (1910-1990), the third ...
  • Rogoff & Reinhart .. and the smell test
    Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff came as close to celebrity status as an economist can ever come, with their book, This Time Is Different. They claimed that 800 years (!) of financial history proves that high government debt ratios lead to low economic growth. Governments all over the world took h ...
  • Factory orders slide despite booming stock markets
    A rash of weak manufacturing data from America, Europe and Asia has cast serious doubts on the strength of the global economy and was starkly at odds with surging stock markets in the West. Markit’s PMI factory index for the US suffered the biggest one-month fall in almost three years as the ...
  • Krugman: The Jobless Trap
    F.D.R. told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won’t blame fear, per se. Instead, they’ll castigate our leaders for fearing the wrong things. For the overriding fe ...

Independent - London

  • Postcard from Cairo: An animal tale that was t ...
    By its own lofty standards, it had been a relatively slow news week in Cairo.    
  • Iceland re-elects centre-right political parti ...
    "Disappointing", "depressing", "embarrassing" and "shameful" were the words on the streets and in the trendy brunch bars of Reykjavik yesterday, as Icelanders voted even more overwhelmingly than predicted to return to government the centre-right political parties that oversaw their financial arm ...
  • Voices In Danger: Journalism in the line of fire
    It was the murder of Anna Politkovskaya that brought home to me the importance of journalistic freedom. Anna, who worked for my family’s campaigning newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was murdered at her block of flats in Moscow after running a series of exposés of Russian atrocities in Chechnya.Related ...
  • Three killed in French building collapse after ...
    A possible gas explosion ripped off the side of a five-story residential building in France's Champagne country on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring 14 others, officials said.Related StoriesTwo police officers shot near Italian prime minister's office as new government is sworn ...
  • Iraqi army losing hold on north to Sunni and K ...
    Soldiers are deserting a beleaguered Iraqi army as it struggles to keep its hold on the northern half of Iraq in the face of escalating hostility from Sunni Arabs and Kurds who dominate in the region.Related StoriesOmar Borkan Al Gala: Is this the man who is 'too sexy' for Saudi Arabia?They may ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Texas: Dead birds "falling from the sky" in Po ...
    Port Arthur resident Lara Comeaux says over the course of just two days she and her neighbors have found at least 7 dead birds in their yards along Shady Cove Lane. "We've never had anything like this before, maybe a baby bird falling out of a nest in the front once or twice, but never birds ju ...
  • Syria nerve gas claims undermined by eyewitnes ...
    Description of attack in which six rebels died adds to uncertainty about claims that sarin has been used in the conflict New questions have emerged over the source of the soil and other samples from Syria which, it is claimed, have tested positive for the nerve agent sarin, amid apparent incons ...
  • Hornless 'Frankencow': Genetic engineers aim t ...
    UK and US scientists are seeking to alter the genes of dairy cows in order to make them hornless. The modification is meant to make the livestock safer to deal with, and spare them the painful de-horning practice currently used by farmers. Scientists have managed to single out DNA that suppress ...
  • Invasion of the Micro-Drones!
    So there I was having just sat down to dinner in time to catch the beginning of the movie I've been waiting to see. I turned off the phone and computer so as to not have any unwanted distractions while I watched the latest new terminator franchise movie. The opening credits are just ending, whi ...
  • Phosphorescent sheep: Uruguay's Institute of A ...
    Montevideo, Uruguay - Scientists in Uruguay have announced the world's first genetically-modified phosphorescent sheep. Nine sheep were born in October of 2012 at Uruguay's Institute of Animal Reproduction, an experiment conducted in conjunction with the Institute Pasteur. The scientists used ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Like the Mask says . . .
    TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL! Just check out Matt Taibbi's article in Rolling Stone, "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Worth your time and attention. It's all about the big banks: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related cor ...
  • Conservative consequences . . .
    ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, but so do inactions. Conservatives are hard-wired to deny this, these days, it seems. Unlike, say, America's last great Republican, Eisenhower, who built things that people could use, like roads and highways. Compared to Ike, today's conservatives are mean, twisted, ...
  • Food fascists . . .
    THE CEO OF NESTLE is a nasty fascist. According to American Live Wire, "Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized – Not A Human Right". Check out the video. Myself, I will never buy anything from Nestlé or its subsidiaries.
  • Canadian creativity . . .
    CONSIDERING OUR CURRENT Stevie situation, this seems rather inspirational. According to a report from the CBC, we have "Canadian glow-in-the-dark toilet seats to light the way".
  • Thank-you . . .
    RIP, RITA. Thank-you for this incredible song, and a host of others. 

Media Matters for America

  • The Fox News Celebration Of The Bush Library D ...
    Fox News celebrated the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum by lionizing his administration and employing myths and falsehoods to defend his legacy. Fox News also conducted softball interviews with Bush (by his "biggest fan") and his former officials to rehab his ima ...
  • Myths & Facts Behind The Campaign To Attack Di ...
    Media outlets including NPR and Fox News are targeting federal disability benefits programs through a campaign deceptively portraying these programs as wasteful and unsustainable. In reality, these programs have low fraud rates and help the rising number of American ...
  • REPORT: Cable News Ignores TX Fertilizer Plant ...
    In reporting on the factory explosion in West, Texas, cable news virtually ignored the fertilizer company's storage of 270 tons of ammonium nitrate at the plant, which is 1,350 times the amount that is allowed to be stored without disclosure to the federal government.Reuters: Plant Had Been Stor ...
  • Boston Bombings Inspire New Lies On Immigratio ...
    Conservative media figures are using the Boston Marathon bombings to pressure lawmakers to halt attempts at immigration reform, the details of which were released last week by eight bi-partisan members of the Senate known as the "Gang of Eight." By suggesting that immigr ...
  • In The Wake Of Boston Marathon Attack, Fox Tur ...
    Fox News hosted a series of discredited anti-Islam activists to smear Muslims during Fox's coverage of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon.Frank Gaffney  Frank Gaffney On Fox News: FBI Cooperation With Muslim Communities Weakens National Security. In an April 20 appearance on Fox ...

Global Research.ca

  • Gold: Back to Money World
    There is a sign the world financial system is facing drastic changes, while numerous events related to gold are becoming part of contemporary life. There is a fundamental tendency taking shape against the diverse picture of events – gold gradually…
  • George W. Bush and the Bin Laden Family, Meeti ...
    According to the Washington Post,  the Carlyle Group met at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in NYC one day before 9/11. In attendance at this meeting were former president George H. W. Bush and  Shafiq bin Laden, the brother of Osama:…
  • Chemical Weapons Inspection in Syria stalled: ...
    Without hard evidence, American accusations of chemical weapons use in Syria fall short of UN proof standards, says a UN chemical inspector. And in the way proposed, a probe would only result in an Iraqi scenario, the Syrian information minister…
  • Terrorists R Us: The Boston Mass Casualty Atta ...
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  – Benjamin Franklin, 1759 The mass casualty causing attack during the Boston Marathon, together with the high profile arrest of two men…
  • Boston Terrorist Chase: Manhunt for the &#8220 ...
    Our nation of sleuths—a watershed scaled in our hunt for bad guys. I think it was the cheering on that Friday night which most disturbed me. With thousands of police spreading through tranquil neighborhoods, FBI massive search engines working overtime,…

TPM Cafe

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

  • James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing ...
    The country's leading climatologist talks about what our future looks like if we continue along with business as usual -- and what we could do to prevent catastrophe. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.It’s hard to imagine anyone who has don ...
  • “Human Beings Have No Right to Water” and Othe ...
    Privatization of our natural resources is leading to the inevitable extinction of our species, and possibly all life on earth.  In the 2005 documentary, We Feed the World, then-CEO of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, shared some o ...
  • Get Ready for Higher Prices and Less Energy Se ...
    A deeply flawed study that ignores the harmful environmental and health impacts of gas drilling is being used to rally for exports. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Unlimited export of U.S. natural gas would have enormous implications on the future of ...
  • EPA Slams State’s Draft Impact Statement For K ...
    Here are the reasons EPA said that the State Department’s assessment needs more work. On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”Yesterday was ...
  • Sandra Steingraber's Moving Letter: From Jail ...
    Steingraber issued a letter from Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York after being jailed for civil disobedience. The following was letter was written from the Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York where Steingraber is serving a fifteen day sentence for blockading a gas compression riglas ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Houston community leaders and residents discus ...
    Hundreds of residents living near the Port of Houston attended a Town Hall meeting Thursday evening at Holland Middle School to learn about the changes coming to their communities with the expansion of the Port. “For far too long, the voices of community members living with the health and safety ...
  • As Country Honors West, Texas Victims in Memor ...
    Guest post by the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Texas Plant Disaster Shows Fragmented System of Oversight The specific cause of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant disaster is still being investigated, but one thing is clear: Tragedies like this shouldn’t happen in America. Our country can and ...
  • Keystone Opponents Say President Should Reject ...
    Keystone XL opponents are asking President Obama to reject the tar sands pipeline based on the new EPA report that assessed “environmental objections” and found that the State Department’s analysis included “insufficient information”. The State Department’s own Draft Environmental Impact Stateme ...
  • Texas Refinery Explosion Came After Limited Fe ...
    Statement of Keith Wrightson, Worker Safety and Health Advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division The West Fertilizer Company facility that exploded in a deadly blast Wednesday evening had not been inspected by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in ...
  • Nuclear Power Plant Disasters Are Forever
    Two years after the earthquake and accompanying tsunami that resulted in three of the reactors melting down at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, nuclear engineers are still grappling with how to bring the facility under control.  This plant was heavily damaged and to date, no one’s been able t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Planting Seeds of Sovereignty in Palestine
    5791704940_b295a9f9a2_n.jpg When you hear “seed bank” what comes to mind? Is it perhaps a vault or a deep freezer stocked with seeds? Yes, Grassroots International partner the Union of Agricultural Work Committees’ seed bank has those, but ...
  • Black Mesa Water Coalition resists coal, forge ...
    On this Earth Day, I’m inspired to share a story of the Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC). One of Grassroots International’s US allies, BMWC organizes in indigenous communities, going up against powerful corporate interests in the fossil fuel industry, and engaging in movement building toward a ...
  • Program Assistant, Part-time
    Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Program Team. The Program Assistant will provide administrative and other support to the team.  The position is part-time (20-24 hours per week) and will be based in Boston. Grassroots International ...
  • In the Crosshairs
    Subheadline:  Global Land and Water Rights Activists Face Increaced Violence mst-facing_guns.jpg Cicero Guedes, a former sugar cane cutter turned land rights activist, work ...
  • Presente! International Day of Peasants' Struggle
    32594_10151399658342756_1228163452_n.jpg On this International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, we recognize the courage, tenacity and absolute necessity of grassroots struggles across the world for rights to land, life and dignity.And we recogni ...

Climate

  • San Francisco and Seattle Lead U.S. Cities Agr ...
    (Guardian) The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government. The campaign group 350.org said on Thursday it ha ...
  • Some Worry Australia's Great Artesian Basin, O ...
    (PRI) Winton, population 954, sits in the heart of Queensland. There is not much to the town — just a crisscross of about a dozen streets in the vast Australian bush. But, in a way, Winton should not exist at all. Temperatures here r ...
  • Coast Guard: Spark From Cleaning Caused Fuel B ...
    (AP) MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Firefighters on Thursday extinguished a huge blaze that erupted hours earlier when two fuel barges exploded, leaving three people with critical burns and forcing the evacuation of crew from a nearby cruise&nbsp ...
  • Obama Campaign Launches Plan to Shame Climate ...
    (Guardian) The campaign group formed to support Barack Obama's political agenda has launched an initiative to shame members of Congress who deny the science behind climate change. In an email to supporters on Thursday, Organizing for ...
  • House GOP Moves to Shield Oil Companies From D ...
    (The Hill) A House GOP bill to implement a U.S.-Mexico offshore energy accord exempts oil companies operating under the pact from controversial federal rules that force energy producers to disclose their payments to foreign governments ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Trying to Suppress the Vote Backfired
    Hmm. [NAACP President Ben] Jealous says the 2014 midterm election will be the real bellwether for black turnout. Black turnout set records this year despite record attempts to suppress the black vote, he said. I think he meant last year. And I think we had record black turnout because o ...
  • A Dirty War, Indeed
    What? Afghanistan doesn't have direct deposit? A bank account in Cyprus won't do? While intelligence agencies often pay foreign officials to provide information, dropping off bags of cash at a foreign leaders office to curry favor is a more unusual arrangement. It's not really unusual t ...
  • Never Should Have Occupied Afghanistan
    I never had a problem with sending troops to Afghanistan to get the people who trained and financed the 9/11 attackers. But I always thought it was a bit crazy to think that we should build an Afghan military that is more expensive to maintain than any central government there could ever afford ...
  • Unhappy With The Administration
    I've rarely been as annoyed with the Obama administration as I am right now. Watching his weekly address this morning basically curdled my stomach. I mean, Jesus, please don't talk about the stupidity of the sequester and the inanity of trying to fix it with patches and band-aids when you have ...
  • Today We Celebrate DC Insider Culture
    Since it is Nerd Prom Day, it must be time for navel-gazing. Or, time to discuss the attempted preemptive strike Politico blasted at Mark Liebovich's soon-to-be-released book This Town: The Way It Works in Suck Up City. It appears that Mike Allen is defecating bricks. The defense that he and ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Hot Air Balloons Soaring Over Pushkar's Hill F ...
    From ground level, the ancient city of Pushkar in Rajasthan is a busy, dusty noisy city, but seen from a hot air balloon it is both tranquil and beautiful. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    This week, evil cigarette ads show vintage advertising to be badvertising, while some works of reverse graffiti put contemporary marketing methods in a far better light. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Incredible Ancient Cliff Dwellings
    Perched high on escarpments or carved into rock faces, these ancient cliff dwellings once offered security and comfort to the people who lived in them. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Theme Park on Drug Lord Pablo Escobar's Estate
    Hacienda Nápoles was once the ranch of notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, but today families visit to see exotic animals and climb the plaster dinosaurs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • GMOs: The Walking Dead of the Food Industry
    Some startling facts and figures about genetically modified organisms... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • “Game of Thrones” Recap: Flaming swords!
    Let’s start with the most substantial aspect of this episode: man butt. “Kissed by Fire” is the episode of “Game of Thrones” where the writers finally said, “OK, OK, we will dosomething about our show's gross nudity imbalance across genders.” So after ...
  • Amanda Palmer to Morrissey: Let me help you cr ...
    Dear Morrissey,I will tell you: I am a passionate admirer of your songwriting, your singing and your recordings.I've bought tickets to see you lots of times. You shaped my head and my heart as a teenager, and to this day continue to impact my various artistic forays.You helped open me, you taug ...
  • I’m doing my ex again — why?
    Dear Cary,I am a 38-year-old woman having a hidden affair with my ex-husband of 10 years ago. To be completely honest, we're just having sex, no seduction involved. Old feelings are welling up for me, some good but mostly bad, all with a huge side order of guilt and shame. I don't think my ex h ...
  • Heat complete playoff sweep but Celtics stay i ...
    LeBron James of the Miami Heat drives against Luc Richard Mbah a Moute of the Milwaukee Bucks in Game Four of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals during the 2013 NBA Playoffs at the Bradley Center on April 28, 2013, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Miami won 88-LeBron James scored 30 points to lead M ...
  • EU court to rule in Kosovo organ trafficking trial
    EU special prosecutor Jonathan Ratel arrives on February 7, 2012 at the Pristina district court for a trial on organ trafficking. An EU-led court in Kosovo is expected to deliver its verdict Monday in the trial of seven people accused of illegal organ harAn EU-led court in Kosovo is expected t ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Second US government official indicted in Cuba ...
    The United States has publicly unsealed for the first time the indictment of an American government official accused of spying for Cuba, in connection with former senior US military intelligence analyst Ana Belen Montes, who was jailed in 2002 for spying for Havana.
  • Israel spy agency has presence in Syria, says ...
    Israel is one of several countries that maintain a significant intelligence presence inside Syria, according to the top commander of the Syrian rebel forces.
  • Diplomat jailed in biggest Dutch spy affair in ...
    A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a diplomat to 12 years in prison for spying for Russia, in what security observers have called one of the worst espionage scandals in recent Dutch history.
  • News you may have missed #832 (foiled Canada t ...
    Two arrested in Canada terror plot. Canada foils 'al-Qaeda inspired' terror attack on train. Tip from Muslim community 'helped foil' al-Qaeda plot.
  • News you may have missed #831 (Boston Marathon ...
    Russia had warned FBI Tsarnaev had radical links. FBI interviewed dead Boston bombing suspect years ago. Ex-CIA/FBI official says Boston bombings were not terrorism. Ex-US Attorney General says Boston bombings were terrorism.

War is a Crime.org

  • America's Addiction: Waging War on Humanity
      America's Addiction: Waging War on Humanity   by Stephen Lendman   America's business is war. Permanent wars reflect official US policy. They're glorified in the name of peace.    One nation after another is ravaged. Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel calle ...
  • Obamacare: Unaffordable Coverage
      Obamacare: Unaffordable Coverage   by Stephen Lendman   Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) co-founders Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein examined evidence on "skimpy health insurance among low-income, insured Americans."   A PNHP press release said: rea ...
  • Syria News Apr 28
      Russian envoy warns on chemical arms 'pretext' for intervention in Syria, “We must know the truth and have proof"  - Alarabiya.net  Chemical inspection stalled: UN team can’t be trusted ‘politically’ without Russian experts – Syrian information minister - RT News Syria: Chemical ...
  • Palestinian Prisoner Diaries
      Palestinian Prisoner Diaries   by Stephen Lendman   Israel's gulag is one of the world's worst. Palestinian political prisoners fill it. Their crime is wanting to live free from occupation. It's longstanding. It's ruthless. It's illegal.   read more
  • Heading towards a police state: Destroying Our ...
      By Dan DeWalt Has the "land of the free and home of the brave" decided to roll over in fear and concede defeat to terrorism? read more

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Terror in the West, Texas, Night
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath has dominated the nation’s headlines. Yet, another series of explosions that happened two days later and took four times the number of lives, has gotten a fraction of the coverage. It was the worst industrial ...
  • RIP Bob Edgar, Longtime Common Cause President ...
    Bob Edgar passed away suddenly this morning at his home in Northern Virginia at the age of 69, according to Common Cause, the democracy watchdog group for which Edgar served as president and CEO . "Bob will be remembered for his decency, kindness, compassion and humor. His deep commi ...
  • WATCH: Richie Havens Performs "Freedom" at 200 ...
    To mark the passing of legendary protest singer Richie Havens, we are sharing his performance of "Freedom" at the massive Feb. 15, 2003, demonstration against the Iraq War, which took place in New York City as millions filled the streets around the world. You may recall the song from ...
  • Read an Excerpt From Jeremy Scahill's "Dirty W ...
    Longtime Democracy Now! correspondant Jeremy Scahill’s new book, "Dirty Wars" was published this week by Nation Books. You can read one of the chapters below. Watch Part 1 of our interview with Scahill , and watch Part II on Wednesday. Below is an excerpt from Dirty Wars: T ...
  • WATCH: Translating Words: Democracy Now's Nerm ...
    Watch the recent talk given by Democracy Now! producer and weekly co-host Nermeen Shaikh at TEDxDanubia 2013, titled, Translating Words. Nermeen was previously managing editor at the Asia Society. She has interviewed hundreds of figures from the academic, foreign policy, business, activist, a ...

Solari

  • Creating Successful Conspiracies with Kimberly ...
    What is a thriving world? To me it is a world based on integrity, individual freedom, and voluntary cooperation. It’s a world where not just some, but everyone gets to live the fullest life possible.” -Foster Gamble By Catherine Austin Fitts This week on the Solari Report, I am joi ...
  • Collective Soul – “The World I Kno ...
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  • ‘Dead for now:’ CISPA Halted in th ...
    Photo Credit: Reuters/Gary Cameron [CAF Note: Kudos to the EFF and all those who have stopped a really bad idea dead in its tracks for now] By RT Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief as the controversial US Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) appears to be all but [...]
  • Feds Eye State, Local Pension Transparency Reform
    By Liz Farmer In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension transparency regulations for local and state governments, even as new disclosure requirements are already set to kick in this summer. Continu ...
  • Catherine Austin Fitts: Another Gold Smackdown ...
    By John Rubino Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet face-to-face. In the following excerpt from a much wider-ranging talk she explains the deeper, more sinister reasons for the rec ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • We Review the Self-Tending Click and Grow Smar ...
    Looking to grow some herbs or veggies in a limited space? Look no further than Click and Grow, a nifty kit that enables you to grow everything from tomatoes to veggies in a clever self-watering container. Available in several different varieties including    
  • Interview: David Maundrell of aptsandlofts.com ...
    If you live in New York City, you've probably encountered aptsandlofts.com, a go-to resource when searching for prime New York City real estate. We recently had a chance to pick the brain of aptandlofts.com founder and Brooklyn native David Maundrell about    
  • How to Buy Clothes that Don’t Harm Third World ...
    Last week's collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh has shone a bright light on working conditions that we have known for years are not sustainable. More than 300 people have died so that we can purchase cheap clothing, and families are mourning    
  • Lamacek Design Studio to Bring Funky Felt Crea ...
    Brooklyn-based design firm Lamacek Design Studio hauled in a BKLYN Designs award back in 2010 for producing a clever wall-mounted Deer Head Light, so we're especially excited to see what tricks the firm has up its sleeve this year. Designers Connie Lam    
  • MIT Developing Floating Wind Turbines That Pro ...
    Critics of wind power keep coming back to the same old complaint: what happens when there's no wind? A new design from researchers at MIT could finally offer a solution to this renewable energy conundrum. Engineers have conceived of an offshore wind turbine    

Pogue's Posts

  • Typing, Made Easy
    The BlackBerry Q10 has the classic BlackBerry design: half-height screen above, physical keyboard below.
  • The HTC One Deserves Its Place in the Spotlight
    HTC should grab the headlines with its newest phone, the One — the most beautiful Android phone you've ever seen.
  • Hurrahs and Harrumphs for T-Mobile
    Many readers are thrilled by T-Mobile’s new policies. But there is, as always, a sizable crowd who object.
  • Great April’s Fools Pranks From Around t ...
    It's April Fool's Day, and companies from Google to Virgin Atlantic have put up great jokes on the Web. Check out Nokia's new line of microwave ovens and Twitter's decision to eliminate all vowels on its free service to pack more information into those 140-character messages.
  • An Easy Way to Capture Live Video of Your iPho ...
    A $13 program called Reflector transmits the video image from your iPhone, iPod or iPad to your Macintosh or PC for easy recording or projecting. It's a great help for anyone making videos or trying to conduct a presentation.

The Progressive Realist

  • Dropping the Ball on the Climate-Conflict Nexus
    Last week the United States Institute of Peace hosted an event featuring the Administrator of the UN Development Program, Helen Clark, and a panel of experts to discuss building resilience and preventative capabilities in the face of growing social, economic and political pressures brought about ...
  • Sea Power in the Pacific, Drones in Lebanon an ...
    David C. Gompert, “Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific,” Rand Corportation, to be published June 3, 2013,  pp. 160-162. If we are indeed in for a change in the basic premise of sea power, the main reason would be that globalization is making cooperative maritime security more ...
  • Defying Gravity: Seeking Political Balance in ...
    Reuters The International Criminal Court is often accused of being “political” or “politicized” in its selection of situations and cases. What has become most problematic for the Court’s credibility and impartiality in this regard are the situations and cases that have not been selected, and th ...
  • Tough Times Ahead for New Mali Peacekeeping Mi ...
    The Security Council yesterday approved a 12,600 strong peacekeeping force in Mali, to deploy starting July 1. The mission has one big thing going for it: French military backing. Peacekeeping missions that have the backing of western military powers tend to be more successful than those made up ...
  • Top of the Morning: Chemical Weapons in Syria; ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest US Believes Chemical Weapons Used in Syria The evidence that Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people has been mounting, along with pressure on the US to do something concrete about it. What remains to be seen is what the Obama administration will choo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: D.C. Rager
    So if you want to get all the scuttlebutt from the dinner, you'll have to check in with Vanity Fair or CNN. But chances are you won't miss much if you don't bother. There hasn't been an interesting Correspondents' Dinner since Stephen Colbert ridiculed the press in 2006, saying, "Here's how it ...
  • A Lesson in Who Actually Matters to Washington
    Jamelle Bouie Last night, after just several days of complaints from flyers—who had to deal with airline delays—the Senate rushed to pass the Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013, which give the Federal Aviation Administration the power to avoid sequestration by shifting money and avoidi ...
  • Is Washington the Worst Place on Earth?
    Today we learn that New York Times Magazine reporter Mark Leibovich has penned a book called This Town: The Way It Works In Suck Up City, exposing all the awfulness of our nation's capital. As Politico reports, "Two people familiar with the book said it opens with a long, biting take on [Tim] R ...
  • The Xenophobe Party
    The xenophobia has already begun. Senator Rand Paul in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today urged him to reconsider immigration legislation because of the bombings in Boston. “The facts emerging in the Boston Marathon bombing have exposed a weakness in our current system,” Paul ...
  • The Scouts Ask: Gay or Nay?
    Last week, the Boy Scout leadership did something very smart: It announced its policy change on gays in Scouts during an overwhelming news week, when almost no one would pay attention.  Now let’s give it the ridicule it deserves. The Scouts say they will propose to the voting members of the Boy ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Ron Paul’s New Organization Reportedly Stacked ...
    Ron Paul, the libertarian former Texas congressman whose hard-line views are widely admired on the radical right but who claims to reject racism, has started a new organization stacked with a hodgepodge of far-right extremists. As The Daily Beast reported yesterday, the Ron Paul Institute for Pe ...
  • Texas’ Appleby Baptist Church Pushes Racist Do ...
    “The curse of Ham,” an old-time Biblical (mis)interpretation used to vilify black people and justify slavery and laws against racial intermarriage, is still alive and spreading bigotry in the United States. The Appleby Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, is among this country’s scattered, inde ...
  • Howard Phillips, Architect of the Religious Ri ...
    Howard Phillips, one of the main architects of the Moral Majority and, more generally, the American religious right, died Saturday at the age of 72. According to the Christian News Network, he had been suffering from dementia. Phillips had a long history in conservative and right-wing movements, ...
  • Extremists Blame Favorite Bogeymen for Boston ...
    Editor’s Note: We’ve corrected the attribution of a quote below suggesting that if the attackers were antigovernment they would have attacked a government target, rather than random Americans. The quote actually came from Mike Lackomar of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia. Hat ...
  • In Wake of ID of Boston Bombers, a Look at Jih ...
    With the news that the Boston Marathon bombers may have Chechnyan roots, attention is turning to the threat of “self-radicalized” Muslims in the United States. In the fall of 2011, the Intelligence Report ran a cover story and several sidebars on that phenomenon that may be useful to ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Keystone XL: What is Foggy Bottom Hiding?
    The State Department has denied Friends of the Earth’s request for expedited release of internal documents that could shed light on the web of lobbyists TransCanada and the Province of Alberta have hired in order to fast track approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.read more
  • Keystone XL: What is Foggy Bottom Hiding?
    The State Department has denied Friends of the Earth’s request for expedited release of internal documents that could shed light on the web of lobbyists TransCanada and the Province of Alberta have hired in order to fast track approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.read more
  • Senators Seek Support for Seniors
    Citing growing needs and rising costs for the nation’s rapidly expanding population of seniors, a group of two dozen senators on Friday called for a significant funding increase for Older Americans Act programs like Meals on Wheels.read more
  • Senators Seek Support for Seniors
    Citing growing needs and rising costs for the nation’s rapidly expanding population of seniors, a group of two dozen senators on Friday called for a significant funding increase for Older Americans Act programs like Meals on Wheels.read more
  • Advocates to Rahm Emanuel: No Coke Ads on Resi ...
    Calling it a dangerous precedent and an unprecedented commercial encroachment on private homes, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Chicago residents, and advocates across the country are demanding that Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel end a plan to put Coca-Cola ads on residential recycling ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Forced to Die: The Garment Workers at Rana Plaza
    Farida Akhter Rana Plaza, the eight-story building housing at least four garment factories in the building’s third to eighth floors, collapsed on the morning of April 24, 2013. It was not just an accident. The day before, the inhabita ...
  • Indigenous Rights are the Best Defense Against ...
    Martin Lukacs In a boardroom in a soaring high-rise on Wall Street, Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel is sitting across from one of the most powerful financial agents in North America.read more
  • Blowback and the Cycle of Violence
    Melvin Goodman The United States and the Central Intelligence Agency have never acknowledged the potential for “blowback,” or negative fallout, from their military and covert actions.  The Watergate burglary by the veterans ...
  • Farmworkers Dig Into the New ‘Blue Card’ Plan
    Michelle Chen Last week, immigrants’ rights groups finally got the papers they’ve been waiting for, an 844-page whopper of a bill that attempts to “fix” the immigration system by promising a little bit to everyone: b ...
  • Made in Bangladesh: The Terror of Capitalism
    Vijay Prashad In the rubble of Rana Plaza. (Photo: Taslima Akhter)On Wednesday, April 24, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost three thousand workers, the building colla ...

Water Privatization

  • Noy cuts lifeline of indigent patients with ho ...
    Gabriela Reps. Luz Ilagan and Emmi de Jesus yesterday deplored moves toward the privatization of the Philippines Orthopedic Center (POC) as a “heartless” act that threatens to cut the lifeline of indigent patients. “The privatization of Philippine Orthopedic Center...
  • Conservatives attack Bucks Republican over booze
    State Sen. Charles McIlhinney, R-Bucks, has introduced a bill to expand the number of liquor and wine stores by making a license available to each individual or company that currently holds a hotel or restaurant liquor license.
  • CUPE challenging Harper's water privatizat ...
    CUPE is at the United Nation in Geneva this week drawing international attention to the Harper Conservative's efforts to privatize Canada's municipal water and wastewater systems, and the threat this poses ...
  • Chileans Rise Up Against Privatization of Nati ...
    Major water shortages in Chile are a direct result of the free reign given to mining and logging companies by the Chilean government over the country's dwindling water supplies, more than 100 environmental, social and indigenous organizations and over 6,000 protesters warned at a rally in Sa ...
  • Soap Lake holds discussion on costs and repair ...
    SOAP LAKE – Soap Lake residents and stakeholders will soon have the chance to weigh in on a proposed rate increase for mineral water users.

Guardian

  • Politicians cannot fix economy, voters say, wi ...
    YouGov poll finds only 22% of Tory voters and 27% of Lib Dems think right policies can restore living standards in next few yearsMost voters, but especially coalition supporters, have lost faith in the ability of swift government action to restore living standards to the levels seen before the b ...
  • Bank lending to UK businesses predicted to ris ...
    The Ernst & Young ITEM Club expects lending to grow by 3% to £440bn this year, and by 8.5% to £447bn in 2014Bank lending to UK businesses will go up this year for the first time in four years as economic growth picks up, according to an influential forecasting group, in a boost to government att ...
  • Stephen Lawrence inquiry remains open, say police
    Scotland Yard appeals in edition of BBC's Crimewatch for any outstanding witnesses to come forwardPolice remain committed to pursuing all viable lines of inquiry in the Stephen Lawrence case, officers said on Sunday .The investigation was featured on the BBC programme Crimewatch programme on Sun ...
  • Police could use post offices as high street bases
    25% of police forces in England and Wales in talks with Post Office about replacing police stations with "cops in shops"A quarter of police forces in England and Wales are in talks with the Post Office about closing police stations to the public and moving front-desk operations on to the high st ...
  • Cabinet tensions surface as chancellor plans t ...
    Iain Duncan Smith appeals to richer pensioners to return perks in sign of pressure on government spendingGeorge Osborne is expected to include caps on the total housing benefit bill and on tax credits as part of a radical reshaping of how the Treasury controls expenditure.Individual departments ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Security stability are staples in Kajaki a for ...
    A Kajaki District Afghan Uniformed Police officer searches a motorcyclist at an AUP post March 30. The AUP have established checkpoints on Route 611 and search vehicles and pedestrians as they pass through the area. (Photo by Marine Sgt. Bobby J. ...
  • The Root of Afghan Corruption
    New York Times reports. "All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the C.I.A. to the office of President Hamid Karzai... Moreover, there is little evidence that the payments bought the influence the C.I.A. sought. Instead, some American officials said, the cash has fueled corr ...
  • 7 Army Reserve soldiers return home from Afgha ...
    Family and friends packed McGhee Tyson Airport this afternoon to welcome home a group of East Tennessee soldiers. With dozens of flags and signs, they gave them a hero's homecoming to remember. Seven Army Reserve soldiers deployed with the 449th Engineering Company out of Fort Thomas, Kent ...
  • U.S. identifies four American victims in Afgha ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon identified four U.S. victims in Saturday's crash of a surveillance aircraft in southern Afghanistan and said the incident appeared unrelated to Taliban ...
  • C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leaders Office
    KABUL, Afghanistan - For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan's president - courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. All told, tens of ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean Wins Appeal
     Today the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in MacLean v. Department of Homeland Security.  In 2003, Robert MacLean blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) plan to remove U.S. air marshals fr ...
  • Proposed Rule Would Increase Rewards to Medica ...
    On April 24, 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would increase rewards paid to Medicare beneficiaries and others whose tips about suspected fraud lead to the successful recovery of funds to as high as $9.9 million. Over the last three year ...
  • The Humane Society Speaks on Silencing Whistle ...
    Cathy Kangas, a Board member with the Humane Society of the United States, wrote a moving blog article yesterday about the importance of whistleblowers and why they should not be silenced. The article states the alarming fact that "In 2013, lawmakers in 11 states have introduced anti-whis ...
  • Senate Democrats put off vote on Labor nominee
    On April 24, Senate Democrats delayed a confirmation vote on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez. Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa was concerned that Republicans would use a threatened separate hearing as a forum to attack Perez in his absence. Read more. The Department of Labor&rsqu ...
  • OSHA Finds Metra Retaliated Against Whistleblower
    In an April 23, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it found that the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp., known as Metra, violated the Federal Railroad Safety Act.  The violation occurred when a sig ...

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    It was only a short news update, but nevertheless an important milestone: Iceland's supreme court upheld the ruling that ordered Visa to start processing payments for Wikileaks again. In that post, we asked how long it would take for US diplomatic pressure to start changing Iceland's attitude, a ...
  • Solution: The Copy Culture Cryptic Crossword
    Last Saturday, I posted The Copy Culture Cryptic Crossword, just in case there were any cryptic fans in the Techdirt audience. It turns out there are quite a few, including at least one AC who almost solved it in less than 24 hours. All in all it was a great response, and while I can't promise r ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Refining The Wheel
    Even up here in Toronto, winter is starting to give way to spring. Among other things, that means getting around is becoming a lot easier — and a lot more fun. It's the time of year that cities start to fill up with people on bikes, boards and blades, all of which are things that people ke ...
  • If Everything Is A Threat, Then Nothing Is
    The government's neverending quest to make America "safer" has turned on itself, making Americans less safe. This isn't solely an issue with the government's obsession with "security," although that is a large part of it. It's the constant onslaught of warning messages, applied to nearly every p ...
  • Native Advertising Is Advertising People Want
    In the internet media and advertising worlds these days, there's been a lot of talk about so-called "native advertising." This is advertising that is "native to the medium" or which fits within the framework of the site or service, rather than being off to the side, flashing away, hoping for at ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Yo Anarchists, Meet the Pastoralists
    I don’t know about you, but I know nothing about pastoralism. A few days ago, I had a chance to listen to Lalji Desai, a pastoralist from India. The whole time I was listening I kept thinking how much pastoralist ideology and culture reflects the kinds of values and goals that anarchists a ...
  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Faith-based skepticism on chemical weapons
    Faith-based skepticism might seem like a contradiction in terms and thus it never fails to amaze me the frequency with which doubt and blind faith are conjoined in some people’s minds when they think about Syria. The latest example comes in response to claims that chemical weapons have bee ...
  • Is American credibility really on the line?
    By claiming that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a “game changer,” President Obama seems to have boxed himself in and made intervention in Syria inevitable — or his word becomes worthless. Anne-Marie Slaughter writes: U.S. credibility is on the line. For all the t ...
  • Syria nerve gas claims undermined by eyewitnes ...
    The Observer reports: New questions have emerged over the source of the soil and other samples from Syria which, it is claimed, have tested positive for the nerve agent sarin, amid apparent inconsistencies between eyewitness accounts describing one of the attacks and textbook descriptions of the ...
  • No good military options for U.S. in Syria
    For Reuters, Phil Stewart and Peter Apps write: Despite President Barack Obama’s pledge that Syria’s use of chemical weapons is a “game changer” for the United States, he is unlikely to turn to military options quickly and would want allies joining him in any intervention ...
  • Islamist rebels create dilemma for U.S. on Syr ...
    The New York Times reports: In Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, rebels aligned with Al Qaeda control the power plant, run the bakeries and head a court that applies Islamic law. Elsewhere, they have seized government oil fields, put employees back to work and now profit from the crude they produce. ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Another negative climate feedback: more CO2 = ...
    Recall a couple of days ago that I posted on the aerosols released by trees: Those dirty trees: why hasn’t the EPA called for trees to be regulated? Now, from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis  comes a cause-effect … Continue reading →
  • Lysenkoism and Global Warming Theory
    From Forbes: The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under Josef Stalin.  He was an advocate of the theory that … Continue reading →
  • Stephan Lewandowsky ‘flees’ Austra ...
    People send me stuff. Amid complaints about the veracity and ethics of his psychological research trying to equate climate skeptics to conspiracy theory nuts and “moon landing deniers”, it seems that Professor Lewandowsky is no longer at the University of … Continue reading →
  • Claim: solar cells that produce two electrons ...
    From the I’ll believe it when I see it department comes this claim. From R&D magazine: Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight … Continue reading →
  • Hansen unleashed: people he disagrees with are ...
    Dr. James Hansen, now no longer on a leash under NASA policy, has started what I expect will be the first of many ugly comments and actions in his new role as activist. Niall from Canada writes in asking for … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

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

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Frankenapple: Bad News No Matter How You Slice It
    Thanks to the biotech industry’s relentless quest to control our food, McDonald’s, Burger King and even school cafeterias will soon be able to serve up apples that won’t turn brown when they’re sliced or bitten into. A new, almost entirely untested genetic modification technology, called RNA int ...
  • Why Genetically Engineer Trees?
    Genetic engineering (GE) of our food supply amounts to a massive science experiment being performed on mankind, without consent or full disclosure. Although the biotech industry continues to claim GE products are safe, the truth is that no one knows what the long-term effects will be, because no ...
  • 'We Speak for the Bees': Marchers Urge EU-Wide ...
    Ahead of an expected EU vote on Monday that will determine a possible ban on a class of pesticides that scientists say are killing off the continents' bees and other pollinators, a coalition of beekeepers, conservationists, gardeners, and environmental activists marched on Parliament in London o ...
  • Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms
    Turns out that when a barely regulated industry injects highly pressurized wastewater into faults, things can go terribly wrong. Click here to read this article
  • Study: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Linked to ...
    The active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide may be "the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment," being responsible for a litany of health disorders and diseases including Parkinson's, cancer and autism, according to a new study.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Salmon, Poultry, Coal, and More
    Think of Lucille Ball packing chocolates on the assembly line, but replace the chocolates with faster moving chickens being sprayed by caustic chemicals to kill the bacteria in the fecal veneer on the birds headed toward your table. The humor gets dark, doesn’t it?
  • Earth Day and Green Blue Jay Awards
    Monday, April 22, was Earth Day. At JHU, this Earth Day was special—it marked the presentation of the first ever Green Blue Jay Awards. These awards were given to individuals, groups, and departments across the University that had demonstrated the sustainable ideals toward which the University s ...
  • Superbugs, Chicken Farmers, Explosions and More
    Ever wonder what is behind this unholy alliance between conservative politicians and industrial food animal producers to keep consumers in the dark about factory farming?
  • Who will protect our poultry farmers?
    Senator Mikulski is a strong voice with a history of supporting farmers, both small and large. We are disappointed that she did not intervene.
  • Celebrate Earth Day (and Week!) at Hopkins
    In the words of the great Wendell Berry, “The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”

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My Care2 Picks

  • Genetically-Modified Corn Contains Practically ...
    A breakthrough report on the nutritional density of genetically-modified (GM) corn crops demolishes all existing claims that GMOs are substantially equivalent to non-GMOs. Nutrient deviations are shocking. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...
  • NASA Study Proves Carbon Dioxide Cools Atmosphere
    A recent NASA report http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/ throws the space agency into conflict with its climatologists after new NASA measurements prove that carbon dioxide acts as a coolant in Earths atmosphere. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...
  • Climate Change: The Folly of "Demanding" Action
    At a recent Washington climate change rally, who is demanding action?... organized by the very corporate-financier special interests that have been wreaking terrible havoc on both the human population and the environment of this planet for decades. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle & ...
  • US-Canada Claim Iran-Al Qaeda Ties Despite US ...
    As the FBI reels from what now appears to be revelations it was directly involved in the Boston Marathon bombings : a deluge of FBI "success" stories have been splashed across Western headlines. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Corporate Profit Trumps Public Health in Color ...
    I went there to testify in favor of a bill, House Bill 1275. It was a modest bill. It simply asked that data on Front-Range citizen complaints about fracking be collected and examined by an independent body of scientists and health professionals. Submitted by Stefanie S. to Environment  | ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Monsanto Wet Dream
    In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer struggles to survive. When he resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders he risks everything.
  • 2081 Universal Absurdity
    A dystopian future in which everyone is "finally equal...."
  • “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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'Iran already past nuclear red line,' expert says
    ShareThis'Iran already past nuclear red line,' expert says --Former IDF intel chief says Tehran will be able to break out to the bomb this summer; calls for drastic increase in sanctions 23 Apr 2013 Iran has essentially crossed the "red line" set by Israel for its nuclear activity, and the comi ...
  • 'Police State' Registry System Being Set Up to ...
    ShareThis'Police State' Registry System Being Set Up to Track Your Vaccination Status 26 Apr 2013 The Centers for Disease Control has been quietly rolling out a nationwide program called the Immunization Information Systems (IIS), registering your vaccine information into a database. This effo ...
  • AT&T-Yahoo blocking the CLG Newsletter again
    ShareThisAT&T-Yahoo blocking the CLG Newsletter again 28 Apr 2013 AT&T/Yahoo is blocking the CLG Newsletter again. The following AT&T-controlled domains did NOT receive today's CLG Newsletter, because AT&T is blocking the mail server of CLG's webhoster, MayFirst: yahoo.com, at ...
  • Muslim group says spray-painting of Oklahoma m ...
    ShareThisMuslim group says spray-painting of Oklahoma mosque may be Boston backlash 27 Apr 2013 Police said Saturday they were investigating what a Muslim advocacy group described as an act of vandalism against an Oklahoma City mosque that may have been part of a backlash after the Boston Marath ...
  • Justice Breyer Has Shoulder Surgery After Bicy ...
    ShareThisJustice Breyer Has Shoulder Surgery After Bicycle Accident 28 Apr 2013 According to Supreme Court spokesperson Kathleen Arberg, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery for a proximal humerus fracture at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital on th ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Video Interview: CIA, Caucasus & Tsarnaev Brothers
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Leonard Cohen – “The Future” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music pick is Leonard Cohen’s The Future. This was a suggestion from Sibel and with all that’s been going on in Boston and the aftermath, seriously apropos for both mood and state of mind. The lyrics are pos ...
  • BFP BREAKING NEWS: Boston Terror, CIA’s Graham ...
    Graham Fuller: Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege, FBI Gladio-B Target, Handler-Sponsor of Turkey’s Imam GulenA major break in the Boston Terror CIA Connection took place last night when I came across a post outing CIA Operative Graham Fuller as the father of the woman married to Boston terror sus ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 26 ...
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  • BREAKING NEWS: Russia’s FSB Detains 140 in Mos ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Vindicated in Its Analyses of Boston Terror & Predictions Over a week ago I began my interview and analyses series on hidden connections and intended objectives in the Boston Terror Case. In our Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener Report with James Corbett I offered two connected ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Veteran Israeli TV Political Reporter Accused ...
    Walla published an article yesterday about a veteran Israeli TV reporter accused of repeated instances of sexual harassment of female colleagues.  A former Channel 2 newscaster, Gadi Sukenik, aired the charge and said it involved a “most serious case” of serial harassment: “Eve ...
  • Jerusalem to Name Street for Sheldon Adleson
    In a distinct departure from custom, the Jerusalem municipality announced that it would name a street for American casino magnate, Sheldon Adelson.  In Israel, streets are named after individuals after they pass away.  So perhaps this may’ve been the expression of an unconscious wish to sp ...
  • Israeli Judicial Review Finds Jail Personnel N ...
    In perhaps the closing chapter of the sad tale of Ben Zygier, the judge tasked by the State to investigate the suicide of the Mossad agent, released (and Hebrew) her hitherto partially censored investigative report (Hebrew) in his case.  She found at least six prison officials guilty of severe n ...
  • CIA Placed Tsarnaev on Terror Watch List
    They finally read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights and appointed him a lawyer.  He’s been accused of using a weapon of mass destruction in the Boston bombings.  Ironically, Pres. Obama will face no such charge for the 3,000 Muslims he’s ordered killed in countries throughout the ...
  • Israeli Attorney General Endorses Airport Secu ...
    Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, in response to a complaint filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, gave legal approval for Ben Gurion airport security (operated by the Shabak) to demand access to the email accounts of foreign tourists as a condition for entry to Israel. I ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Syria - No Word Yet on the Fate ...
    For the first time in their history, the patriarch of the Antiochian Orthodox Church has asked Christians to adorn their traditional Palm Sunday processions with black ribbons tied on candles rather than the usual white ribbons expressing their sadness over the fat of two abducted church le ...
  • Defense on Edge - Doing More with Zero
    Last month, in a show of force, President Obama sent America’s most advanced aircraft here to the Korean peninsula. The same week, U.S. Air Force officials began grounding one-third of America’s combat fleet, thanks to budget cuts imposed by the president and Congress. Air Combat Command, wh ...
  • Oil Addiction - Indonesia Braces for Rising Fu ...
     Indonesian authorities are expected to slash fuel subsidies next month by 44 percent, sending fuel costs soaring. Economists say the subsidies are a costly expense that increases Indonesia’s reliance on foreign oil imports. But they remain politically popular and politicians are worried ...
  • The Economy on Edge - Atlanta Can Flourish in ...
    "The economic foundation of cities is trade," proclaimed the great urbanist Jane Jacobs in her book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Jacobs’ statement remains just as – if not more – relevant for cities and metropolitan areas as it was a half-century ago.The Great Recession ...
  • South Sudan on Edge - South Sudan Returnees St ...
    About two million people have returned to South Sudan since a 2005 peace agreement ended decades of civil war that is estimated to have killed around the same number. But since South Sudan became a nation 18 months ago, tens of thousands of people who have wanted to enter South Sudan from the no ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • New Psychiatric Study: You Gotta Be Crazy NOT ...
    According to a new psychiatric study people who have a belief in God are more likely to respond to do significantly better in short-term psychiatric treatment than those without, regardless of their religious affiliation "Belief was associated with not only improved psychological well-being, ...
  • UH-Oh RINOs Start Drive To Force Christie Down ...
    It's beginning, the liberal wing of the GOP who gave us John McCain and Mitt Romney are beginning their drive to give us another loser in 2016, New Jersey governor Chris  Christie (seen above showing off his new tattoo.  Chris Christie is not the candidate to ignite the ba ...
  • U.S. Policymakers Have Learned Very Little Abo ...
    By Barry Rubin Consider this quotation: “Israeli pessimism seems largely if not entirely unwarranted. It seems based on an extraordinary lack of understanding of what happened in the Arab world in the last year and a half. Rather than girding their loins for the fifth, sixth, seventh ...
  • Obama Needs to Learn Some Common Sense About T ...
    By Barry Rubin "I know what the world thinks of us, we are Communists, and of course I have said very clearly that we are not Communists; very clearly."   --Fidel Castro, 1959 U.S. policy toward Syria has changed but it is too late. A senior State Department official said at the meeti ...
  • Obama's Planned Parenthood Speech Demonstrates ...
    Earlier today, President Obama spoke at the national conference of an organization originally formed by a woman who was anti-Abortion but wanted to make sure that Black Women had birth control so there wouldn't be to many of those inferior people in the country.  That woman was Margaret S ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...
  • Journalism curriculum, and the hands-in-the-ai ...
    It’s hard work making sure a journalism curriculum remains relevant. Here are “four essential components to the new curriculum for teaching news and communication,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of The Elements of ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 5: How to us ...
    If you want to design the future, learn to code. That’s how I concluded the last post in this series. So far, I’ve discussed HTML and CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, the command line, and software and CMSs. The vast majority of journalists out there are probably not going to stick with ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Buying the courts in North Ca ...
    North Carolina's innovative public financing program for judicial races has dramatically reduced the amount of special-interest money flowing into judges' campaigns and served as a model for other states, but it's now under threat from conservative politicians. read more
  • What went wrong in West, Texas - and where wer ...
    Seven different agencies regulate fertilizer plants in Texas, but none of them have authority over how close they are to homes and schools. read more
  • How renewable energy won in North Carolina
    A bill that would have ended North Carolina's renewable energy program appears dead in the water. How did the program's defenders prevail in the state's current archconservative environment? read more
  • School vouchers: A pathway toward fraud and ab ...
    Vouchers, scholarship grants, and similar programs providing public support for private schools have become popular in recent decades -- but they've also become notorious for fraud and other serious problems. read more
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Al Qaeda terror plot foiled after Canadian pol ...
    Mail Online – Canadian security forces have thwarted an al-Qaeda-backed terrorist plot to derail a New York City-bound passenger train as it crossed the Niagara River, just a few miles from Niagara Falls. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday arrested Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montre ...
  • Bloomberg: New Yorkers will ‘never know ...
    RT – New York City police officials intend to expand the already extensive use of surveillance cameras throughout town. The plan, unveiled Thursday, comes as part of a drive for increased security around the US following the Boston Marathon attack. New York City Police Department Commissio ...
  • Washington Legislature approves social media rules
    Associated Press – The Washington Legislature wants to prevent employers from snooping in the social media accounts of workers. State senators voted unanimously on Saturday to establish laws around the handling of social media in the workplace. The bill was a product of deliberations betwe ...
  • RPT-Fitch affirms City of Madrid at ‘BBB ...
    Reuters – (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Fitch Ratings has affirmed the City of Madrid’s Long-term foreign and local currency ratings at ‘BBB’. The Outlook is Negative. Fitch has also affirmed the Short-term rating at ‘F2′. KEY RAT ...
  • U.S. might not hit debt limit until October, n ...
    LA Times – The U.S. might not hit its debt limit until October because of improved economic growth and higher tax revenue this year, according to a new estimate released Friday. The projection by the Bipartisan Policy Center would give Congress and the White House more time to wrestle with ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

  • ‘I have a bad dream…’
    From the high point of Martin Luther King's March on Washington to lowly modern campaigns to ban 'sexist' ladies' nights in bars and clubs - how far the civil-rights ideal has fallen.
  • It’s the public sector we should reform, ...
    A new book challenges Britain’s bureaucratically endorsed culture of entitlement and dependency, but the author’s behaviour-changing solutions are just as paternalistic.
  • How to get filthy rich in Asia
    Mohsin Hamid’s new novel, written as a self-help guide for Asians who want to make a killing in their new economies, casts light on the social impact of Asia’s breakneck growth.
  • Biblical miserabilism disguised as science
    No wonder Andrew Simms and other greens are always fantasising about Earth’s end: they can't stand Earth’s inhabitants.
  • The next killer app: personalised healthcare
    Will our smartphones one day tell us if a heart attack is on its ways, and nanosensors in our bodies dispense the medicine to deal with it? Eric Topol thinks so.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Tales from the Crypt – Twilight Saga and ...
    Her name is Stephanie Meyer, author of the best-selling “Twilight” vampire and werewolf romanticism novels par extraordinaire.   Although her “religion” is Mormon and she was educated at Mormon-owned BYU, Meyer’s “bloodline” is Yiddish, originating in Ea ...
  • Leonard Horowitz and His “Royal Bloodlin ...
    I have had a bellyful of Mr. Horowitz’ hypocrisy and fraud.  I have been patient long enough with these vindictive deceivers. Here’s an offer for you, Horowitz – if you and your home-breaking girl friend Ms. Kane will cease and desist telling LIES about me, (drop your defamator ...
  • Hacked Again – I am Done Blogging
    For the record – this site was VICIOUSLY hacked once again despite numerous changes to my password. I received a rather urgent call from a concerned friend who knows me very well.  He was appalled at what he saw on my blog.  Going into my “dashboard” and looking at what I actua ...
  • Are You Just a Believer, Or Do You Think?
    Great expose, here.   It brings up some very important points. True Are You Just A Believer Or Do You THINK? Posted by BMan ⋅ April 20, 2013 I’ve studied and graduated EMT-B certification with the state of Oregon. I’ve been on calls with heavy arterial bleeds, internal bleeding, fatalities, doa’ ...
  • A Letter to “Pastor Jim”
    “Pastor Jim” Catlin directs the small, non-denominational Christian “Main Street Church” in Brigham City, Utah.   He is a wonderful teacher, and I love and support him as a Brother in Christ.  In the hope that it may help other Christians, I am publishing an e-mail letter ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Flat Roof Remodel Stage2 Benton Rehab
    Scotts Contracting Green Team celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project.  Replacing the water damaged roof on the Benton Warehouse. We celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project. Photos of Day 1: Prepped ceiling for removal of old damaged lumber a ...
  • Flat Roof Remodel Stage2 Benton Rehab
    Scotts Contracting Green Team celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project.  Replacing the water damaged roof on the Benton Warehouse.   We celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project. Photos of Day 1: Prepped ceiling for removal of old damaged l ...
  • Pt1 Spray Foam Insulation-St Louis Brick Buildings
    Cost Effective:Energy Conservation for StLouis Brick Buildings As a provider for Free Green Estimates and Advice in regard to Green Building for St Louis Homes.  I get many requests for my opinion on various construction related home and business requests for: improvements, retrofits, rehabbing ...
  • Pt1 Spray Foam Insulation-St Louis Brick Buildings
    Cost Effective:Energy Conservation for StLouis Brick Buildings As a provider for Free Green Estimates and Advice in regard to Green Building for St Louis Homes.  I get many requests for my opinion on various construction related home and business requests for: improvements, retrofits, rehabbing ...
  • Do you know a Mother that has lost a child in ...
    No parent should EVER be forced to walk this lifetime journey alone! If you would like to join our special group, please contact us at angelmomsoverstlouis@yahoo.com or at the Facebook Links below We are: ” Angel Mom’s Surviving Together ”  ♥♥♥♥ Loss of a Child-No parent should ...

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Boston Bombers: All in the CIA Family
    According to Daniel Hopsicker in MadCow Morning News, it turns out Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of the two alleged Boston bombers, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller. Uncle Ruslan, in turn, had a decade-long business relationship with Halliburton, the oil company ...
  • The Government Attacks the Price of Gold
    It’s hard to read any investment or economics blogs without being bombarded with recommendations to buy gold. The conventional wisdom is that it’s the only safe investment when banks stop paying interest and stock prices vastly overinflated the current Wal ...
  • How the US Tried to Steal the Venezuelan Elections
    BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast published a fascinating article in Vice Magazine this week (Nicolas Maduro Did Not Steal the Venezuelan Election) about being hired by Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro in 2004 to investigate the possibility the US might tamper with Venezuela’s elec ...
  • Ex-Reagan Budget Director Slams Crony Capitalism
      An attack on “crony capitalism” David Stockman, Reagan’s former budget director, published in the the March 31st New York Times has come in for major attack from both the right and left. Given the piece provides a fairly accurate analysis of America’s current ...
  • Lady Gaga Backs Anti-Fracking Campaign
    In October 2012, Lady Gaga joined a coalition of 200 artists started by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon called Artists Against Fracking. She simultaneously urged her 90 million Facebook and Twitter fans to support the organization and sign a petition asking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban f ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

  • Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways Stude ...
    Tags: freetech4teachers, science, space, explorationby: Dean Mantz
  • Let Them Be Heard - Home
    Comments:Great resource site via DEN Guru presentations.  - Dean MantzTags: publishing, ebooks, creativity, ipads, icabby: Dean Mantz
  • Google Apps Meets Common Core Online Resources ...
    Tags: GoogleApps, commoncore, ebook, integrationby: Dean Mantz
  • VideoNot.es
    Comments:Here is the site for you when having studnets watch YT videos or other videos.  http://www.videonot.es You can watch video and take notes at the same time to the right of the video.  All notes are synchronized to the video and save to gdocs. - Dean MantzTags: notetaking, youtube, Google ...
  • Why (And How) Students Can Get Excited About S ...
    Comments:Well done infographic on reasons why students should become excited about STEM courses and careers.  - Dean MantzTags: students, stem, infographicsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • The Most Powerful Way to Change the Food System
    Despite the rise of the Food Network, cooking shows and competitions on virtually every channel, and celebrity chefs who have turned restaurants into a new form of dinner theater, Americans are more disconnected from their food than ever. Forget our admiration for celebri-chefs. The amount of ...
  • Congress Introduces GMO Labeling Bill
    In America, we value our rights—things like free speech and the right to vote. Now, members of Congress are trying to bring another basic right to your dinner table—the right to know what you're eating. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) have sponsored new federal le ...
  • The Natural Ingredient You Should Ban from You ...
    Sometimes eating something natural isn't good for you. A completely unnecessary ingredient derived from red seaweed hides out in a lot of your favorite foods, causing inflammation, gut irritation, and potentially, cancer. Many food manufacturers—even some makers of commercial organic foods—are ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Deter Garden Bugs Naturally
    Even the most organic of gardeners wants to deter insects or a creeping case of plant spots. Luckily, you can keep away pesky garden visitors with a simple, inexpensive, homemade—and most importantly, nontoxic—spray that won't harm you, your pets, or your plants. Safe as these remedies are, it' ...
  • The Cleanest (And Dirtiest) Veggies You're Eating
    Eating a 100-percent organic diet is the best way to keep healthy, combat climate change, and vote for a more equitable food system. But that's little comfort if you happen to live in an organic-food desert, where certified-organic options are hard to come by. For those who are organically cha ...

big think

  • Can Science Lead to Faith in God?
    What's the Latest Development? While most scientists are non-believers, a few influential researchers have recently written in favor of a new harmony between theology and science. "Jürgen Schmidhuber, a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence, calls for what he has dubbed 'comput ...
  • New Study: How to Overcome Even the Best Poker ...
    What's the Latest Development? Even professional poker players who have spent careers mastering an expressionless face, no matter the stakes, are apt to indicate the quality of their hand to their opponents. According to a scientific study out of Stanford University, body language is a s ...
  • Can Neuroscience Conquer Obesity?
    What's the Latest Development? The neuroscience of eating is a budding field that may have profound implications for how we understand, and ultimately defeat, the public health menace that is obesity. Regulating our food intake may require a better understanding of the brain's pleasure c ...
  • Why I care about celebrities
    Many readers have often asked me why I care about celebrities and Bieber’s latest activity is a good illustration. Justin Bieber, the incredibly popular and famous teen pop idol, wrote in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House that he hoped the teenage Holocaust victim would be "a belieber" (the ...
  • We Don't "Know It All." But Here's What's Wort ...
    I've tried to write about the remarkable discoveries in science over the last 40 years because I think that's really what motivated me.  I want to communicate these amazing revelations about the universe.  And it is true that I argued that they suggest the universe could come from nothing withou ...

Information Liberation

  • Bill Maher & Jimmy Kimmel Agree US 'Becoming A ...
    Bill Maher commenting on the police's reaction to the Boston bombings points out how the US is now police state, to which Jimmy Kimmel and another guest agree. His other two guests, a random politician and a news media propagandist, say it's a ...
  • Officials: Boston Suspect Had No Firearm When ...
    Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing had no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement officia...
  • What's Bad About a House-to-House Search?
    Unless the search passes certain legal criteria, it is illegal. The search in Boston set a precedent, which means that such searches can be generalized to other places in America and to other situations, unless whoever authorized the Bos...
  • No charges for NYPD cops filmed punching, pepp ...
    Two New York City Police officers will not face charges after the Manhattan District Attorney decided that widely circulated videos of them punching and pepper-spraying protesters amounted to insufficient evidence that they had done so. Anthony Bo...
  • Ron Paul on Gold: No One Knows Value; I'm Buyi ...
    April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Ron Paul, Former Congressman from Texas, discusses his views on gold, central banks, and the weakened Republican Party. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg)...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Of Human Dregs And Piano Legs
    Everyone else seems to be talking about sex this week, so I’ll devote a dedicated post to a topic raised by Luton Ian on the last thread. I’m going to try to avoid sniggering here about New Zealand and the … Continue reading →
  • Bushfire Update
    G’day everyone, Sorry I haven’t had much time for blogging lately; getting the property and my business back to normal has occupied all of my calendar for the last couple of months. Farmerbraun asked me earlier today to put up some … Continue reading →
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Free Online Version of EndNote Biographic Mana ...
    Thomson Reuters http://endnote.com/basic [Infodocket] EndNote Basic includes storage for two gigabytes of attachments and 50,000 references, as well as the top 20+ most frequently used styles. In addition, there are intangible benefits including “the fact that we are publisher and publishing-mod ...
  • Renewables Global Futures Report
    REN21 | Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies http://www.ren21.net/REN21Activities/GlobalFuturesReport.aspx [From a Climate Wire article by Nayantara Narayanan, sub. req'd] The future is mostly bright for the renewable energy sector, according to Eric Martinot, author of the “Rene ...
  • FutureGen 2.0: Draft Environmental Impact Stat ...
    Dept. of Energy http://1.usa.gov/10FYhDU This EIS evaluates the environmental impacts of a proposal to provide approximately $1 billion in Federal funding (most of it appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act)  for the FutureGen 2.0 program. The FutureGen 2.0 program would provi ...
  • Infrastructure, Energy, and Natural Resources ...
    Comm. on Finance, US Senate http://1.usa.gov/YVlZoY [The Hill's E2 Wire]   A Senate Finance Committee white paper on possible federal tax code changes for energy suggested establishing a carbon tax in place of most or all energy tax incentives. The paper offered the carbon tax with a range of ot ...
  • Gone for Good: Fracking and Water Loss in the West
    Western Organization of Research Councils http://bit.ly/YXwnwE Dickinson Press [North Dakota] A scathing report issued Thursday by the Western Organization of Research Councils says water used in the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is reaching a crisis point in Western states. The ...

Scientific American - News

  • More States Blow the Whistle on High School Fo ...
    Spring football practice started this month for high schools across the country, and teams are drawing up game plans for the heat as well as this fall's opponents. [More]
  • DNA at 60: Still Much to Learn
    This week's diamond jubilee of the discovery of DNA's molecular structure rightly celebrates how Francis Crick, James Watson and their collaborators launched the 'genomic age' by revealing how hereditary information is encoded in the double helix. Yet the conventional narrative - ...
  • Liver Hormone Offers Hope for Diabetes Treatment
    Biologists have found a hormone in the liver that spurs the growth of insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas, a discovery they hope will lead to new treatments for diabetes. [More]
  • Crowdsourcing in Manhunts Can Work
    The social news website Reddit was left red-faced last week after misidentifying suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon in Massachusetts, raising questions about whether crowdsourcing might do more harm than good in during a manhunt. But work by an international team of scientists sugge ...
  • Electric Vehicle Market Looks for a Recharge
    U.S. electric car pioneer Fisker Automotive once posted a manifesto on its Web site: “New isn’t easy.” Not for them, it wasn’t. Now their site is defunct and the company is scrambling to find a funder or face bankruptcy. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Day 36: Hunger strike ends after 36 days
    VANCOUVER, Coast Salish Territories, April 26—'Homeless' Dave called off his hunger strike tonight after a five-week bid for social housing.  Dave and some of his supporters made the announcement outside the Pidgin Restaurant in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) where he first laun ...
  • Day 36: Hunger strike ends after 36 days
    VANCOUVER, Coast Salish Territories, April 26—'Homeless' Dave called off his hunger strike tonight after a five-week bid for social housing.  Dave and some of his supporters made the announcement outside the Pidgin Restaurant in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) where he first laun ...
  • Report back from the (En)gendering Resistance ...
    Community accountability was the buzzword of this year's School of Public Interest, titled '(En)gendering Resistance: Exploring the possibiliti ...
  • Report back from the (En)gendering Resistance ...
    Community accountability was the buzzword of this year's School of Public Interest, titled '(En)gendering Resistance: Exploring the possibiliti ...
  • Report back from the (En)gendering Resistance ...
    Community accountability was the buzzword of this year's School of Public Interest, titled '(En)gendering Resistance: Exploring the possibilities of gender, resistance and militancy.' ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Hats off, It's Ella Fitzgerald's birthday
    The greatest singer of the Great American Song Book was born on the 25th of April 1917 With Count Basie Gershwin by God One Note Samba ... Delirium
  • Boston and the dilemma of "homegrown" terrorism
    David Seaton's News LinksAs the Spanish and British can attest since the Madrid and London attacks of 2004 and 2005, homegrown terrorism is tougher to anticipate than plots from outside. Edward Luce - Financial TimesThe word "homegrown" is not really applicable to Islamic terrorism. Islam even i ...
  • The bombs and bombers of Boston
    David Seaton's News LinksFederal investigators are hurrying to review a visit that one of the suspected bombers made to Chechnya and Dagestan, predominantly Muslim republics in the north Caucasus region of Russia. Both have active militant separatist movements. Members of Congress expressed conc ...
  • Bombs in Boston
    I live in Madrid, Spain, and at this moment we are enjoying a (momentary?) respite from nearly 40 years of constant terrorist attacks, mostly by Basque separatists, with the one monumental attack by Al Qaeda in March 2004 with nearly 200 dead.I remember once, many, many years ago, being in an of ...
  • Thoughts on the New technology and privacy in ...
    David Seaton's News Links When I was a child, back in the 1950s, I spent many a summer in my grandmother's tiny village about 1/2 hour's drive from Hannibal Missouri on the Illinois side of the Big Muddy.Neighbors would come into your house without knocking... they'd suddenly be there without a ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 26 April 2013
    I'm told that this quilt is an Amish pattern and uses Amish colors. However, it's the one quilt in the house that Marian didn't make herself (she won it as a door prize, I think), so we're not sure. In any case, the colors are so Domino-like that you might not even know she was there if I hadn ...
  • Cap-and-Trade in Europe is Working Just Fine
    Several years ago Europe instituted a continent-wide cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions called ETS. It was decidedly imperfect, and has gone through several revisions since it started. Recently, however, energy demand has declined, which has left Europe awash in carbon permits. As a res ...
  • Pigford II and the Eternal Problem of How to P ...
    The New York Times has an epic piece today about fraud in a government program originally designed to compensate black farmers who had been unfairly denied Agriculture Department loans in the 80s and 90s. The original compensation program, usually called Pigford after the class-action lawsuit ...
  • Chart of the Day: Unfortunately, GDP Growth is ...
    Analysts were hoping that GDP would grow about 3.5 percent last quarter. Instead, it grew 2.5 percent. Should we be surprised? Take a look at the chart below and decide for yourself.
  • Today in Conservatism
    Apparently this is serious, not just some weird leftover from April 1: The Heritage Foundation and Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity presented the second annual Breitbart Award to Michelle Malkin, syndicated columnist and Fox News Channel contributor....The Breitbart ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 393: Fuck Newark
    UFC 159 Live The Best Chinese Food Fuck Newark Why you don’t serve hard liquor at UFC events Cities aren’t that fun Mount Rushmore = Greatest ‘Fuck You’ example of White Privilege Upcoming movies: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel Thor 2 trailer Remembering bad childhood TV shows ...
  • IC 392: Manly Shit
    Good Sci-Fi The problem with Defiance Patt Oswalt’s awesome idea for Star Wars Episode VII White weddings are awesome Gender Roles can be fine Doing manly shit Some people deserve to die Pulling guns for chicken Share with your friends:
  • IC 391: Morning Wood Syndrome
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips joins Kriss & Kev Laughing at mental illness….until its not funny Being offensive Rick Ross outrage revisted The difference between Eminem & Rick Ross Going all in with being offensive Bringing awareness to Morning Wood Syndrome Women’s MMA B ...
  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...
  • IC 389: Double Agent
    NWFO back together Trolling relationship experts on Twitter Operation Make AskCheyB quit Tiger Woods is a black double agent Hating on Tiger because of adultery Openly gay in the NFL in between homophobia and full support of gays the Fallon Fox/Transgender issue North Korea gotta go The Wolverin ...

Simple Climate

  • The climate scientist whose world spun on thro ...
    Milutin Milanković calculated his way through imprisonment and bombings to show how Earth’s movement helped drive ice ages, revealing how far we’ve strayed from the path we should be following into the next global freeze.
  • Probabilities reveal shape of climate change
    David Stainforth from the London School of Economics and his colleagues have developed a new way to analyse weather data and understand whether temperatures have warmed evenly on a local level, showing European trends with less than a 2% chance of happening at random.
  • Alternate histories back unique modern warmth ...
    Creating and averaging thousands of slightly different historic temperature records shows that Northern hemisphere 21st century temperatures are almost certainly unique in the last 600 years, according to Harvard University’s Martin Tingley.
  • Temperature patterns produce perplexing Plioce ...
    Failure to model a climate fingerprint from 5 million years ago thought to be similar to what we can expect in the warmer future must be resolved, say Lafayette College’s Kira Lawrence and University College London’s Chris Brierley
  • Diving deep into ocean data uncovers ‘missing ...
    Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven’t been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps explain current surprisingly slow surface warming, and invalidates simple climate models.

e!Science News

  • Tracking gunfire with a smartphone
    You are walking down the street with a friend. A shot is fired. The two of you duck behind the nearest cover and you pull out your smartphone. A map of the neighborhood pops up on its screen with a large red arrow pointing in the direction the shot came from. read more
  • Using mobile phone apps in weight-loss programs
    Mobile phones using text messaging and monitoring have been shown to be useful additions to health programs. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a weight-loss intervention delivered by a smartphone app that supported individuals embarking on a diet and that was evidenced-base ...
  • Scientists discover new way protein degradatio ...
    Proteins, unlike diamonds, aren't forever. And when they wear out, they need to be degraded in the cell back into amino acids, where they will be recycled into new proteins. Researchers at Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have identified a new way that the cell's pr ...
  • New excavations indicate use of fertilizers 5, ...
    Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outside the town of Falköping, Sweden. The researchers have for example tried to identify parts of the inhabitants' diet. Right now they are looking for evid ...
  • Astronomer studies far-off worlds through 'cha ...
    A University of Washington astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may host. read more

unEarthed

  • Driller Seeks to Overturn Roan Plateau Victory
    Natural riches at stake in Colorado plateau area The Roan Plateau has been ranked as one of the four most biologically rich areas in Colorado.  (Michael Freeman) ...
  • Friday Finds: Seafood S.O.S.
    Climate change may ruin your next seafood night Photo courtesy of quinn.anya Seafood lovers hooked on $1 oyster nights may soon have to find a new source of c ...
  • Victory: Court Upholds EPA Authority to Protec ...
    Unanimous panel of judges rule for EPA in coal industry lawsuit Yesterday, citizens in Appalachia celebrated a huge victory in their fight to protect their families and communities from harmful mountaintop removal mining. In a sh ...
  • Arctic Athabaskans Urge Black Carbon Reduction ...
    Grand Chief Ruth Massey shares eyewitness account of climate change "We are witnessing the strangest of weather patterns." Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
  • EPA's Mixed Bag of Options on Power Plant Wate ...
    One option protects waters from toxic pollution; other options fall far short Power plant water discharges are filled with toxic pollution.  (EPA) Coal-f ...

Brave New Climate

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

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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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Republicans are a Disease

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    According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...
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Appalachia Rising

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    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
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    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!
  • A Crowd Gathers in Philly at EPA Region 3 Offices
    Dustin White of Boone County explaining mountaintop removal to a group of 4th graders outside the EPA Dist 3 office in Philadelphia — at Appalachia Rising: Stand Up and Demand EPA End Mountaintop Removal.
  • Join Appalachia: Call EPA Region 3!
    Take action with Appalachia–Call EPA Region 3 now: (215) 814-5000. Appalachians and their allies are taking action right now in Philly at EPA region 3 Headquarters! The EPA has the power to ban the dumping of mine waste into our … Continue reading →
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    Contact: Delta Merner For Immediate Release Phone: 304-896-9437 Email: organizeapprising@gmail.com COMMUNITIES LOCKED TO DIRTY WATER The EPA Holds to Key to Clean, Healthy Water for Communities in TN, WV, VA & KY April 15, 2013– Appalachian citizens and allies from … Continue re ...

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    Evanston Ecology Center celebrates Earth Day, Arbor Day
    Daily Northwestern
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    SILive.com
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    LiveScience.com
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    Best BPA-free water bottles
    Fox News
    Good news! Americans are finally drinking more water than the sugary drinks, like soda, we've grown accustomed to. We can't argue with more people drinking water, but as more and more consumers are finding alternatives to pricey, not-so-eco-friendly ...
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