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  • Israel gives up white phosphorus, because &#82 ...
    By Idan Landau A certain air of nostalgia dominated Maariv’s headline last Thursday: “Due to criticism in the world, IDF parts ways with white phosphorus”: just like the old Galil assault rifle and the old two-way radios that generations of soldiers grew familiar with. A couple of years ago we l ...
  • Creeping dispossession destroys Palestinian ag ...
    The existence of the illegal Adei Ad settlement outpost harms Palestinians not just physically but also financially, and leads to the abandonment of Palestinian villages. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz The Israeli media stopped, in recent years, paying attention to assaults of Palestinian ...
  • WATCH: IDF soldier screams at Israeli activist ...
    Israeli Ta’ayush activists who were accompanying Palestinian shepherds in the southern West Bank village Umm al Amad on Saturday were confronted by a soldier who lost his cool, to say the least. According to Guy, the Israeli activist who filmed the video below, this is private Palestinian ...
  • Complete control: On the unquestioned authorit ...
    Israel’s judges rarely question whether the Interior Ministry may not actually be an expert on immigration matters, or whether it might be making decisions without asking the right questions – even when someone’s life is on the line. The courts generally accept any, or nearly a ...
  • Egyptian, Israeli activists make joint call to ...
    In what is likely the first statement of its kind, Egyptians and Israelis call upon their governments to exempt conscientious objectors from mandatory military service. A small group of young Egyptians gathered in downtown Cairo for a vigil yesterday, the likes of which have probably never befor ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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.”

k2p blog

  • The Green mantra of “No we can’t&# ...
    The Greens - no doubt - mean well. ..... I prefer to focus on what to do and not on what others should not do. ... Green is also the colour of decay.
  • Disconnect between man-made CO2 and atmospheri ...
    Despite a sharp 25% increase in man-made CO2 emissions since 2003, the growth rate in atmospheric CO2 has slowed sharply since 2002/2003.
  • Flying bullets: DHS uses four times as many bu ...
    On average, each of the approximately 70,000 Department of Homeland Security agents fires 4.3 bullets every day. Army soldiers fire less than a bullet a day.
  • Cameron’s War: Syria + Sarin = Iraq + WMD?
    The weapons industry needs a new war. France has Mali. But the US and the UK desperately need a new war. Cameron needs a new war for purely domestic reasons. It could be happening again in Syria. Cameron really needs to reinvent himself and if it takes a war to do that - then so be it. This ti ...
  • Criegee intermediates further unsettle climate ...
    Far from being a "settled" science, global warming in particular and "climate science" in general are looking decidedly shaky these days! A new paper provides new evidence of how Criegee intermediate molecules in the atmosphere could help in aerosol and cloud formation and contribute to cooling ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • What Are America’s Most Damaged Brands R ...
    How mighty brands fall. Bad leadership, bad planning, a run of bad products: any of these can damage a brand in a short amount of time, and it can take years to recover: if, indeed, the brand recovers at all. What brands are the most battered in the United States right now? 24/7 Wall Street roun ...
  • LivingSocial Hacked, 50 Million Names, Emails, ...
    LivingSocial, the daily deals site partially owned by Amazon, has been hacked, with 50 million customer names, emails, birth dates, and encrypted passwords accessed. An internal memo from CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy says both the database that stores customer credit card information and the database t ...
  • Home Depot Sells Consumer Reports A Used Chain ...
    If you’ve ever questioned why our lab coat-loving cousins at Consumer Reports use secret shoppers to buy the things they test for the magazine, here’s a perfect example. CR recently sent a secret shopper to a Home Depot in New Jersey to pick up a Homelite UT10589A chainsaw, presumabl ...
  • Flying The Friendly Skies Friday: Papa’s ...
    Around these parts, we hear our share of the frustrating, the woeful and the all-out angry. But when we catch hold of an idea that brings out the happy and rewarding stories of customers, we like to celebrate it. This week in Flying The Friendly Skies Friday: Hey, that’s my bag!; Grandpa g ...
  • Hawaiian Lawmakers Asking Airlines To Play Saf ...
    When you think of a vacation in Hawaii, you probably picture pristine waters filled with colorful marine life, days spent sunning on the beach and leisurely swims in the sunshine. But it’s not all sea turtles and gentle spray, say state lawmakers. In an effort to curb a spike in drowning d ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Chemical Use at Chicken Plants Blamed for Heal ...
    Washington Post: At Chicken Plants, Chemicals Blamed for Health Ailments are Poised to Proliferate The front page of today's Washington Post features a story on the use of chemicals in poultry plants and the health risk they pose. These issues may worsen as chemical use is likely to increase ...
  • Bush Presidential Library Has an Annex at Guan ...
    Originally Posted on DailyKos.com Anyone who wrote a book critical of the G.W. Bush administration should donate a copy to George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum 2943 SMU Blvd. Dallas, TX 75205. As Bush celebrates the opening of his presidential library, there's an annex at Gitmo com ...
  • USDA Whistleblowers: Chemical Use in Poultry P ...
    Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is releasing evidence it has gathered from federal poultry inspector whistleblowers about chemical use in the industry and its health impacts. GAP is making publicly available affidavits from two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors ...
  • Ridenhour Prizes Coverage: Daily Whistleblower ...
    MSNBC: For Whistleblowers, Fraying Protection James Hansen, 2013 Ridenhour Prize Winner This opinion piece by George W. Bush administration whistleblower Joseph Wilson and POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian discusses the current state of whistleblower protections in the context of yesterda ...
  • Don't Confuse Truth-Tellers with Traitors: Dai ...
    Washington Post: Don't Confuse Truth-Tellers with Traitors Today is the 10th anniversary of the Ridenhour Prizes, an event that celebrates truth-telling in the public interest. This op-ed explains the importance of rewarding whistleblowers rather than punishing them, which has unfortunately b ...

UK Progressive

  • The Boston Marathon Bombers and the Theory of ...
    by Tina Dupuy My working theory—you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works—is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness could explain it. Call it Occam’s Armc ...
  • Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica Among the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment, and torture, of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The investigation began in 2009 ...
  • Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
    by Tina Dupuy The Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell was one of the few places in the state to provide late-term abortions. From witness accounts the clinic smelled of cat urine. There was a free-roaming, flea-infested feline that reportedly def ...
  • The Dis-Uniting of America (2): Social Issues ...
    by Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported by 90 percent of Americans, was to be furious at the spinelessness of t ...
  • Boston Strong!
    by Janet Landry-Borden On March 5, 1770 three men were killed on the streets of Boston in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. Two more died later from their injuries, and several more were wounded. It took five years for the British to begin to feel the tremors of the outrage of that [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Royal Society calls Lewandowsky “outstan ...
    Professor Stephan Lewandowsky Over Easter, psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky moved from Perth to Bristol  (lucky UK). He’s the psychologist who is expert in an imaginary group of humans called “Climate deniers”. Neither he, nor anyone else has ever met one but he discovered thei ...
  • The Stem Cell revolution: growing brain cells ...
    Voting closes on Tuesday. Look for “Jo Nova“. Click “next” until you get the chance to click Finish, or Submit. Thanks! Overseas votes welcome. This week in stem cell news one research group announced they’d accidentally figured out a way to easily convert human bon ...
  • One million useless solar panels
    Only five years ago Australia had a mere 20,000 solar systems installed on homes across the country. Now thanks to a Gonzo-Big-Daddy-Government we have over one million solar systems, almost all of them producing electricity that could have been made for something like a fifth of the price with ...
  • Bugs produce diesel on demand
    The irony: the answer to “clean” energy might not be the glossamer sun or the lilting breeze, but an infectious germ. [Science Daily] …a team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the tech ...
  • Australian conservatives going Labor lite &#82 ...
    What were they thinking? Tony Abbott has a plan to try to convince China and the US to sign up for the “global climate change deal.” As if the world’s number one and two economies, with a population of 1.6 billion combined, will be waiting for instructions. And as if the global ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • 15% Chance of X-Flares Today
    Usually  NOAA forecasters tells us that the odds of an X-flare (the highest category of solar flares) is less than 1%, even at what is supposedly the peak of the solar cycle. Today they say 15%, and 40% chance of a lesser M-Flare, due to a very large sunspot pointing at us. Read more at SpaceWea ...
  • Satellites at Risk from Mega Space Storm
    We are protected from solar storms by a cloud of charged particles, or plasma, that normally surrounds Earth out to a distance of four times the planet’s radius. Each Earth-directed solar outburst damages the cloud to some degree, and with time it repairs itself. A 2003 storm reduced the c ...
  • Further Evidence for a Dec 2012 End Date
    I find it a little odd, but not at all surprising, that 2012 debunkers are now seizing on evidence that Dec 21 2012 was the end of the Long Count calendar (now that the world didn’t end). Of course last year that were latching on to anything that suggested 2012 was not the year. For me tho ...
  • Fancy Living in Belize?
    Many people don’t even know where Belize is, so look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize (hint: it borders Mexico and Guatemala, and the Maya live there) So, why would you want to live there? Well, if you are happy with your current life, family and employment – and you have fa ...
  • 2012 Sex / Model Story
    I’m sure I missed lots of stories during those last, hectic weeks of 2012 – like this one: A sexy swimsuit model and countless other lusty New Yorkers say tomorrow’s predicted Mayan apocalypse is a great reason to have sex, and are turning to social media and doomsday-themed parties ...

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 ...

One News Page

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

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Ties That Bind Washington to Chechen Bombers
    To scan the list of major American supporters of the Chechen secessionist movement, which at some points can hardly be distinguished from Chechen terrorists financed by U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, is to be reminded of some of the most notorious U.S. Cold War players. Evidence is mounting ...
  • Russian Caucasus in Focus of US «Terror Fighters»
    As the first agitation caused by Boston marathon event is coming down, the question of what really happened is coming to the fore. Internet users were attentive enough to pay attention to the fact that some pictures were clearly a part of staged show. But these voices are barely heard as yet. Lo ...
  • Forget Pueblo, remember the 52,246 dead Americ ...
    In mid April, when the English protestors were celebrating the death of Margret Thatcher, singing, “Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is Dead” – the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Beijing, humming, ‘Pyongyang, Pyongyang! Kim Jong Un’ is damned’ – discussing with the top Chinese ...
  • Boomerang Effect
    Those who are acquainted with the life in the United States have no doubt that the Big American Show is on. The perpetrators of the Boston tragedy are known. According to official reports, they are the Tsarnaev brothers of Chechen origin. It’s a long time they live in the United States. One of t ...
  • Evolving Strategic Competition in the Indian Ocean
    “The Indian Ocean area will be the true nexus of world powers and conflict in the coming years. It is here that the fight for democracy, energy independence and religious freedom will be lost or won.”             (Robert D. Kaplan) The Indian ocean once regarded as a ‘neglected ocean’ has, today ...

BlogHer

  • What Happened to Common Courtesy?
    [Editor's Note: Is it just me or does it seem like common courtesy left the scene with analog television? It seems the deeper we get into technology, the further away from common courtesy, personal connection, and general pleasantries we get. I love technology, but nothing beats actually engagin ...
  • You Need to Know the Dangers of The Cinnamon C ...
    Are you aware of the dangers of the game called The Cinnamon Challenge? Tara Haelle from Double X Science explains all about it in Don't Take the Cinnamon Challenge. The Cinnamon Challenge is a dare-taking game played mostly by teens, and as Tara explains, What these dare-takers may not realize ...
  • Wait -- You Mean Parenting Just Keeps Getting ...
    As a mom of young elementary aged kids, I sometimes feel overwhelmed with all we have going on right now. It kind of pushes my buttons when moms of older children get all, "Just wait," on me -- even though I know they're right. Adrienne Kerman at Mints in My Mother's Purse shared how she once co ...
  • An Enduring Romance and Lasting Friendship
    My husband and I started dating in 1980. I knew him through a group of mutual friends but it wasn’t until one night (September 9, 1980 to be exact – I remember those things) that we had our first planned date. After that, he called me daily at work and asked, “What are you doing tonight?” and th ...
  • The Hunt: Fashion’s Newest Way to Help You Fin ...
    Editor's Note: Bridgette Raes: Style Expert knows you love window shopping, browsing for ideas on Pinterest, and looking at great fashion ideas. She's found an app, called The Hunt, that can make it easier, faster, and more social to do all that looking and dreaming – and even buying. She explai ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 26, 2013
    In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, photo, a Norfolk Southern Railroad train pulls transport cars full of coal near Goodfield, Ill. Norfolk Southern Corp. reports quarterly financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) This week started with still more ...
  • Coal’s ARIES project: Who gets to sit at ...
    Joe Solomon and David Baghdadi locked together disrupting the opening plenary of the ARIES symposium. Police cleared the room. Photo via RAMPS. It’s been more than a week since the end of the Charleston symposium that brought together researchers from the coal industry-funded ARIES project ...
  • Fair play: Should all government decisions be ...
    In this aerial photo, part of the work already done at the site of the Spruce Mine can be seen alongside Pigeonroost Hollow, at right. Photo by Vivian Stockman, flyover courtesy of Southwings. It’s certainly not surprising that the Daily Mail and Hoppy Kercheval both pounced earlier this w ...
  • Do we really want to wait until a slurry impou ...
    Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce You’ve got to give Roger Calhoun some credit. When a dozen or so citizens showed up outside the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s Charleston field office, the local director didn’t hide inside. He came out — twice ...
  • OSM study: Coal dams fail compaction tests
    Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. Well, a coalition of citizen groups had scheduled a press conference tomorrow morning, to release some leaked results of a key federal safety study of coal industry waste impoundments. But the ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Increasing Creativity By Clearly Separating Yo ...
    Image from Fanpop I think a lot about creativity and how to maximize it, and one of my latest ideas has been to clearly define time you’re taking in ideas versus time you’re creating and exploring them. Consuming news sources like Reddit, Hacker News, etc. is the worst kind of input, ...
  • The Reason Google is Terrified of Facebook
    Image from achievedstrategies.com Most who follow the tech industry know that Google and Facebook are in the throes of mutual combat, but few seem to see the strategic reason that Google is so deathly afraid of Facebook. Google is Google, right? They’re invincible! Who could possibly threa ...
  • An Interesting Approach to Contract Negotiation
    In general, you can use this approach unilaterally but you are going to have to teach the other side how to give in the context of negotiation.Think about what you would want if you were on the other side and ask them to think about the same thing.Write down the most you are willing to [...]Rela ...
  • New Artificial Intelligence Approach Based on ...
    The new research proposes that entropy is directly connected to intelligent behavior. "[The paper] is basically an attempt to describe intelligence as a fundamentally thermodynamic process," said Wissner-Gross. The researchers developed a software engine, called Entropica, and gave it mo ...
  • Dear Conservatives: 1984 Was Written by a Soci ...
    Image by Ronald Grant If I hear another right-wing idiot with a book phobia talking about how 1984 was a warning and not a user guide, I’m going to fucking bite someone. George Orwell was a socialist. His novel promoted the human right to privacy. He was against out of control nationalism ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Gordon Kane: Supersymmetry and Beyond
    You may pre-order Gordon Kane's book, Supersymmetry and Beyond, that will be released on May 14th. It has about 200 pages, a foreword by Edward Witten, a glossary, and recommendations from Brian Greene and David Gross. An appendix discusses the prediction of the Higgs mass from compactified ...
  • New Czech president attacks EU regulation
    A way to summarize why I have been decided for quite some time to vote for Miloš Zeman as Václav Klaus' successor is to say that among the candidates who had a significant chance, he was the most right-wing one. He was the clearest for of the green politicians and NGOs; he was the most candid on ...
  • Hyundai ix35 unfit for suicide by CO2
    All the media have informed about the following Hyundai ad that was quickly suspended: The man tries to commit suicide by inhaling the gases from the exhaust pipe. But Hyundai ix35 only has "water emissions", whatever it exactly means, so he fails. Understandably, some p ...
  • Democritus on the QM operating system
    This reading report will be much more favorable than the previous one, one on minds and machines. Chapters 5, 6, 7 etc. are dedicated to the classes of problems that may be solved in a reasonable time. They are full of arguments showing that if one type of a problem may be solved [at all AN ...
  • New accurate gravitational wave data
    A new pulsar and his white dwarf pal confirm Einstein's GR again The 1993 Nobel prize in physics was given for the discovery of a binary pulsar, i.e. a rotating neutron star, whose orbiting frequency was changing exactly as predicted by the general theory of relativity which says that ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Condoleezza Rice defends torture, confirms Bus ...
    by Madison Ruppert, End The Lie: In a video for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Condoleezza Rice defends the United States’ torture program and confirms the role of Bush in the program itself. The fact that Bush authorized waterboarding is not just now being ...
  • Police State Euphemism: “Shelter In Place”
    by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars: Philadelphia, home of the Constitution, has issued instructions on how to “shelter in place” following the successful police state lockdown in Boston. “During last week’s events in Boston, residents were told to ‘shelter in place,’ which raises the question, would you kn ...
  • Alasdair Macleod – What COMEX Default?
    from AltInvestorshangout: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Bill Murphy Says, “The Cartel is Finished!” — Is He Right? from AltInvestorshangout: SGTreport – The Corporate Pr ...
  • America has devolved into a nation of welfare ...
    by Mike Adams, Natural News: If you want to look where America is headed, look no further than the recent activist video released by Mark Dice. He attempted to gather signatures for a petition that demanded America become a Nazi-style Orwellian police state, complete with forced mercury injectio ...
  • Gold-Stock Panic Levels
    by Adam Hamilton, Gold Seek: Gold stocks have to be the most despised sector in all the markets. Mainstreamers barely even know they exist, while even the vast majority of so-called contrarians scorn them. The sheer contempt for this sector is amazing considering gold stocks were almost certainl ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Farmers demand huge pay hike
    Norway’s powerful farmers’ organizations handed over a demand on Friday for nearly NOK 2 billion in increased income this year, mostly in the form of higher prices for meat and more direct support in the state budget. The demand amounts to around NOK 47,000 (USD 8,000) per farmer, mu ...
  • Higher marks with mom at home
    New research indicates that the older children of mothers who opted to stay home with their youngest children, instead of putting them in Norway’s subsidized day care centers, did better in school than their peers who attended after-school programs or came home to an empty house because bo ...
  • More turbulence for local airlines
    Norway’s airline industry was caught in more turbulence this week as the country’s labour organizations intensified their conflict with Ryanair, and the country’s own low-fare carrier Norwegian Air threatened to flag out aircraft and operations. A new low-fare airline, meanwhil ...
  • Higher marks with mom at home
    New research indicates that the older children of mothers who opted to stay home with their youngest children, instead of putting them in Norway’s subsidized day care centers, did better in school than their peers who attended after-school programs or came home to an empty house because bo ...
  • Small party holds big new wildcard
    NEWS ANALYSIS: Another small political party has suddenly emerged this week as the joker on the non-socialist side of the government drama heading into the fall national elections. As the Christian Democrats (Kristelig Folkeparti, KrF) gathered in Trondheim for their national meeting this weeken ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • “Urban Permaculture: The Micro Space” is LIVE
    Trailer only. Click link below to watch the full movie. Hi it’s Geoff, At last, my "Urban Permaculture: The Micro Space" video is here: Click to watch now! Nothing beats the productive capacity of the small Urban Permaculture backyard. It’s more productive per square foot th ...
  • A Quick Reflection on the Internship at the PR ...
    OMG! That is internet speak for Oh My Goodness! The first day at the internship was something no one could prepare me for: the open air, the cattle, the horses, chickens, food forests, pasture, correctly built structures that harmonize with the sun, swales, ponds, dams, and embarking on a jou ...
  • Greening the Desert (the ‘Sequel’ Site) Projec ...
    It’s spring time for the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka "Greening the Desert – the Sequel"), the lowest place on earth (400 metres below sea level) and one of the hottest and driest, and our trees and gardens are full of produce. During the internship that was held a ...
  • Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over ...
    by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Politicians, lobbyists, and tourists alike can ride bicycles along a specially marked lane between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, part of the 115 miles of bicycle lanes and paths that now crisscross Washington, DC. In Copenhagen, commuters can rid ...
  • Suckled on Lies
    The case for banning advertisements aimed at children is overwhelming. by George Monbiot How many people believe this makes the world a better place? A company called TenNine has hung advertising hoardings in the corridors and common rooms of 750 British schools(1). Among its clients are Nike, ...

Pointman's

  • It’s an ill wind.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Electricity is available to many people at the touch of a button, so more people live in greater comfort and security than ever before in mankind’s time on earth.  Without electricity life is very basic ...
  • The difficult kind.
    My woman teaches the difficult young children. She does what’s called special needs and I think she was born to do it. She takes all the ones who’re a bit behind the pack and perhaps will always be, the ones who’re a bit lost, the silly hearts who’re still determined to s ...
  • A postcard from warmer climes.
    As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...
  • Optimism, blogging and the big green killing m ...
    I’ve been writing this blog for a number of years now. Before that, I used other and much less effective means to resist the rising tide of climate alarmism and its lethal political baggage. Canute would have slapped his thigh and laughed in delight at my ineffectual but earnest efforts. T ...
  • Optimism, blogging and the big green killing m ...
    I’ve been writing this blog for a number of years now. Before that, I used other and much less effective means to resist the rising tide of climate alarmism and its lethal political baggage. Canute would have slapped his thigh and laughed in delight at my ineffectual but earnest efforts. T ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...
  • Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
    This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: How did you get involve with VOTE? In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...
  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Blames Victims
    The New Orleans Police Department recently released a statement on "women and safety," that has outrage across the city and furthered the perception that this police department does not get it. They are more interested in blaming the victim than preventing assault. With absurd advice like "don't ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Success on South Beach!
    Team Oceana poses victorious after setting dual performance records in raising funds for the oceans! Every spring, the Nautica South Beach Triathlon gives us reason to smile. There’s the energetic crowds, the celebrity entrants, and the warm-but-not-too-brutally-hot April weather on Miami Bea ...
  • Happy World Penguin Day!
    Clockwise from upper left: Chinstrap, Emperor, Gentoo, Southern Rockhopper, Adélie. Courtesy of Pew Environment. Though penguins are known for their impeccable black tie fashion, they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles, and personalities.  From the little penguin in Australia to ...
  • A Deaf Whale is a Dead Whale: Keep the Atlanti ...
    The government estimates seismic testing in the Atlantic will injure 22,809 common dolphins. ©Oceana Imagine living next to a construction zone, where every ten seconds, every day, for days to weeks on end, you are subjected to loud, disruptive explosions while you’re trying to eat, sleep and ...
  • Victory! Offshore Oil Drilling Stopped in Belize
    Belize's Great Blue Hole. Contracts to drill on reef like this declared null and void. Photo: USGS Yesterday, Belize’s Supreme Court declared offshore drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize (in 2004 and 2007) null and void, providing a dramatic and potentially definitive s ...
  • CEO Note: Maryland Takes the Lead
    Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless If you’re a Marylander like me, this is a time to be proud. The Old Line State has stepped forward, making ocean conservation a priority and providing an example that other states would be wise to follow. First, Maryland became a leader in developing offshore wind e ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • At Press Nerd Prom, Conan Aims at NRA
    “These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be.” – President Barack Obama THE nerd prom was held last night, otherwise known as the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, with President Obama ...
  • Obama Slams Antiabortion State Laws [Video -Fu ...
    Obama — the first sitting president to address the group in its nearly 100-year history – took aim at North Dakota’s law, which bans abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at around six weeks. “A woman may not even know that she’s pregnant at six weeks,” he said. As long as [... ...
  • Political Power: Incumbency, Partisanship and ...
    These are familiar words related to political power in the U.S.: incumbency (and its power); partisanship (party over policy); and though perhaps a bit less familiar, corporate dominated systems (the Corporate Duopoly / Legacy Parties; or as I still think makes sense, the Two Party Front for the ...
  • Queer Talk: Grassroots Leadership Electeds, an ...
    Both Electeds, and LGBTs, maybe especially at national levels, could learn a lot from grassroots leadership. I read a post on Facebook last night that made me think about this again. It was written by someone I know, and on behalf of an organization I’ve known – as a then resident of Nashville – ...
  • Country Singer George Jones Passes
    THERE ARE few country singers who haven’t tried to imitate George Jones, but there was only one, an authentic, legendary country singer. “Not everybody needs to sound like a George Jones record, but that’s what I’ve always done, and I’m going to keep it that way — or try to.” – Alan ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinian Journalists Declare War On Israeli ...
    Palestinian journalists have declared an intifada against their Israeli colleagues. In recent weeks, Israeli journalists who cover Palestinian affairs have been facing increased threats from Palestinian reporters. On a number of occasions, the threats
  • European Union Spending Millions to Silence Cr ...
    The European Union (EU) is pouring millions of pounds into organizations that advocate state control of the press. For many, the funding -- uncovered recently by Telegraph journalist Andrew Gilligan -- is yet further evidence of the EU's increasingly
  • Call It What It Is: Islamic Terrorism
    A growing problem, the radicalization of Muslim youth, all too often gets brushed off as a Western problem: specifically, being racist toward Muslims, and making them feel alienated and angry . Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police [RCMP] have thwarted
  • The Honey-Trap of Moral Equivalence
    Today, in an age that often seems of pragmatism and managerial-ism in politics, if there is a way not just to honor the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's memory but to continue her legacy it should be to encourage and praise those rare individuals
  • Britain's Sharia Courts: "You Cannot Go Agains ...
    A new documentary secretly filmed inside several of the 85 Islamic Sharia Law courts operating in Britain has exposed the systematic discrimination that many women are suffering at the hands of Muslim jurists. The documentary, Secrets of Britain's Sharia

Urban Survival

  • Congress Wakes Up–At least partly…
    I’m not suggesting you hold your breath, but there is some sign that Congress is waking up to some of the really bad sh*t that we’ve been talking about for a long time around here, like the DHS ammo scammo … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Prepper Insurance Notes
    Although I’m considered by most to be a bad-ass prepper, I don’t talk too much about what we do – and don’t do –although when you think about it the most “prepped” places on earth are likely the small farms … Continue reading →
  • A YAB-YAC Yack
    America’s a bit slow to learn on the Bush family…already the MSM hype machine is ramping up  YAB YAB…. yet another Bush.  You can get on the gerbil treadmill of tax-generation this morning secure in the knowledge the corporate money-installed … Continue reading ...
  • Coping: Quake Dreams and Time Machines
    I’m sorry to have taken so long to review and approved pending dreams over at my www.nationaldreamcenter.com site.  I would use the excuse busy, but I’m sure you wouldn’t approve of my use of your excuse, lol. Anyway, there are … Continue reading →
  • National Sales Tax Coming
    Harry Reid and crew are at it again…trying to get more money out of your wallet and the way to do it will be an Internet Sales Tax.  But effectively, it will be a national sales tax since internet use … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Climate Policy Benefits Californians Any Way Y ...
    Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco Next 10’s latest annual Green Innovation Index report assessing the state of California’s green economy shows once again that climate policy and a healthy econom ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile's Pascua Lama ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. April 20-25, 2013 Chile Daniel Fernández, the Executive Vice P ...
  • EPA Study Confirms, Again, That Pebble Mine Wi ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California The science is out…again! Today the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) re-released its Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment, which still fin ...
  • A Brighter Blue Budget
    Alexandra Adams, Oceans Advocate, Washington, D.C. It’s budget time in Washington and everyone is crunching the numbers. As we are learning from a painful sequestration, every decimal point means real impacts for Americans. From the Ryan Bud ...
  • Some Things Never Change: The Chemical Industr ...
    Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC This month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand introduced the Safe Chemicals Act, for the new Congress.  The bill would repair a badly broken federal law ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Earth to moon in 8 years, Melbourne to Brisban ...
    By Gerard Drew When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as quickly as humanly possible, and in eight years Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon. On the other hand, our federal transport minister would have us believe building a high-speed railway from ...
  • Electricity prices fall: renewable energy des ...
    By Dylan McConnell Dylan McConnell is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Let’s be honest: the relationship between renewable energy and the electricity market is complex. So what does the latest report from Australian energy research firm RepuTex tell us? Well, for a start, coal-fi ...
  • High-speed rail cost and timeline “laughable”
    April 11, 2013 Researchers who have performed their own analysis of the high-speed rail link from Melbourne to Brisbane have today questioned the governments announced 45-year timeline and $114 billion costing. “When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as ...
  • Solar panels reduce everyone's power bills
      May 10, 2013 Australia's one million (and counting) solar powered households could be keeping everyone else's power bills down, by suppressing wholesale electricity prices. That conclusion is drawn from a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Journal of Energy Policy. The paper ...
  • True size of solar subsidies exaggerated, rese ...
    By Peter Hannam The true cost to consumers of subsidies to solar energy has been “somewhat exaggerated” because regulators have excluded the full benefits of solar photovoltaic panels, according to energy researchers. While feed-in tariffs and upfront rebates have been criticised by officials a ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Great tits unaffected by warmer springs
    The population of a widely dispersed bird species is relatively unaffected by warmer springs, indicating that some species may be adapting to shifts caused by climate change, reports a study published in the journal Science.
  • Probe confirms Singapore-based palm oil compan ...
    An independent investigation has shown that First Resources Ltd, a palm oil plantation company and member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), failed to obtain proper consent from local communities before clearing rainforests for plantations in Indonesian Borneo, an Indonesian indig ...
  • With addition of smog, trees may generate air ...
    In 2004 scientists found that isoprene, a compound produced by trees to protect their leaves from oxidation and temperature fluctuations, plays a role in the production of particulate matter, tiny particles that can cause lung damage, asthma, and other health problems. The finding — which ...
  • Indonesian palm oil giant clearing peat forest ...
    A major Indonesian palm oil producer continues to clear rainforests in Sumatra despite being a prominent member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), casting doubts on the body's effectiveness in limiting deforestation, alleges a new report from Greenpeace.
  • Rhinos now extinct in Mozambique's Limpopo Nat ...
    Poachers have likely killed off the last rhinos in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park, according to a park official.

Sierra Express

  • 52nd Sierra Leone Independence Celebration – S ...
    Four Sierra Leonean UK based footballers have confirmed they will be attending the Salone Beats Festival Concert and After Party. Kei Ansu Kamara (in photo) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who plays for Norwich City in the English Premier League on loan from Sporting Kansas City of USA Major Leag ...
  • Sierra Leone born Chalobah keeps Watford alive
    Sierra Leonean born Nathaniel Chalobah (in photo), wonder striker in the first-half against Leicester on Friday, has kept the Watford race for automatic promotion alive in the Npower English premier league. The 18-year-old midfielder, on loan from Chelsea, smashed home a 30-yard drive two minute ...
  • Celebrating Sierra Leone’s 52nd Independence A ...
    The Sierra Leone Embassy in Riyadh in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Nationals’ Union (SLNU) offered special prayers for their beloved country Friday, 26th April, 2013, a day before the 52nd Independence Anniversary celebrations. On display for the evening’s occasion was an assortment of br ...
  • CSOs in Ghana should help combat drug trafficking
    Accra, Ghana – His Lordship, Justice Resolu John Bankole-Thompson, a Sierra Leonean judge who served as a judge of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone and member of the West Africa Commission on Drugs (WACD) has encouraged civil society organisations (CSOs) in Ghana to join efforts in t ...
  • African Partners Gather to Discuss HIV Viral L ...
    CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April 26, 2013/ – More than 120 HIV clinicians, policy makers, and laboratory scientists gathered in Cape Town, South Africa from 18-20 April 2013 at the invitation of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) (http://www.aslm.org), the World Health Organi ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy industry booms
    Capital projects worth more than $1 billion are either under way or on the drawing board as the dairy industry gears up for increased demand from Asia for our milk powder, cheese, UHT milk and baby formula.At Waitoa, in Waikato,...
  • Baby formula beats drug arrests at Hong Kong b ...
    Arrests of infant formula smugglers have surpassed those of heroin and other drug runners at Hong Kong's border since it introduced new laws on March 1 restricting how much baby milk - much of which is made in New Zealand - can be...
  • Ben Dalton: Maori land bursting with farm pote ...
    Primary industries generate over 70 per cent of New Zealand's merchandise exports.You'd be forgiven then for thinking that every last hectare of rural land is producing at its maximum. But you'd be wrong.It has been known for...
  • China baby food story upsets NZ exporters
    A stoush has erupted in the lucrative infant formula export industry after Chinese media outlets published articles stating the only "genuine" New Zealand-made formula brands were those belonging to members of a newly formed export...
  • Farmers hope for good growth
    Rain has fallen in most of the nation's dairying areas over the last week or so, but Fonterra chairman John Wilson said it would take six weeks to determine whether the drought that hit most of the country had caused any lasting damage.He...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Anchorage to Consider Weakening the City's Tax ...
    Assembly members in Anchorage, Alaska are considering legislation that would open the city’s taxi market up to more competition by adding 10 permits a year for the next 10 years. Those permits now cost $150,000 on the secondary market—a steep barrier to entry that current permit hold ...
  • Peter Suderman on Whether the GOP Is Serious A ...
    After the 1994 mid-term elections, Republicans took over the House of Representatives for the first time in four decades. In the wake of President Bill Clinton’s failed attempt to overhaul the nation’s health care system, they vowed to cut government down to size. But as Peter Suderm ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Liberty, Security, and Terr ...
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” It would be nice if Benjamin Franklin’s famous aphorism were as widely believed as it is quoted, writes Sheldon Richman. But the increased calls for government surv ...
  • Sports Cronyism: The NFL and Other Pro Leagues ...
    Yesterday, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced legislation to kill off a particularly ridiculous bit of corporate welfare that allows professional sports leagues to dodge millions in taxes. The National Football League, National Hockey League, Pro Golfers Association, and the Ladies ...
  • Adam Thierer on Evgeny Morozov
    Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything, Click Here effectively pricks the bubble of irrational exuberance that has always accompanied new digital technologies, Adam Thierer reports. But Morozov refuses to quit while he’s ahead. Instead, he unsuccessfully labors to convince us that the ...

Mercury Rising

  • Filabot: 3D Printing For All While Recycling P ...
    So you think that 3D printing is pretty cool, my friend? How about 3D printing that let you use clear food container film and other seldom-recycled plastics as feedstocks? That’s what Filabot does: Filabot is a desktop extruding system, capable of grinding various types of plastics, to mak ...
  • Scoring the Media on Coverage of the West Fert ...
    All roads lead to Charles and David. Hugh Kaufman of the EPA in an interview with FAIR HK: I think the worst [coverage] was the New York Times. The New York Times claimed that the company notified EPA that they had 270 tons of this explosive ammonium nitrate, but they did not notify EPA of [...]
  • Lots Of Good News On The Solar Power Front
    Check out these links: Microgrids in India US Senators Re-Introduce MLP Act to Level Playing Field for Renewable Energy Anonymous Donors Fund Solar Projects Across the U.S. DOE Selects Four Pilot Projects for Military Drop-in Biofuels Development
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • The decline of American influence: Venezuelan ...
    Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian, via t/o Washington’s efforts to de-legitimise the [Venezuelan] election mark a significant escalation of US efforts at regime change in Venezuela. … But the Obama team’s effort failed miserably. On Wednesday, the government of Spain, Washington&#821 ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Shamanism and Curanderismo: The Approach to He ...
      The following is excerpted from Cactus of Mystery: The Shamanic Power of the Peruvian San Pedro Cactus, published by Inner Traditions.  read more
  • Psi in the News
    Did Anna Kingsford, a 19th Century Theosophist, kill vivisectionists with her mind? Is consciousness a function of chaos? What does ecology have to do with non-locality? Will TED’s Chris Anderson or Deepak Chopra get the last word on consciousness studies? These questions and more in this week ...
  • This is Why I Don't Date Straight Guys
    Straight Guys: [streyt gayhz], n.; men who don't believe in astrology, archangels or crop circles; who watch television, eat processed mind control food, and don't know the difference between the Pleiades and Sirius B; and who think it's weird that I wash my crystals in moonlight ...
  • An Interview with Visionary Artist Thijme Termaat
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  • Aligning Minds: My Heart is Love
    Aligning Minds’s newest album, My Heart Is Love, has been described as an ethereal future city. They say it wasn’t a conscious construction, but listening to the album now, I feel myself floating in a dream; swimming through a Miyazaki film or a Philip K. Dick novel—underwater undulating breat ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • "Corporate Spies" and "the Government"
    CISPA is about the government stripping away your personal privacy using corporate spies. #EndCISPA #CISPABlackout by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (YourAnonNews) on Twitter April 20, 2013
  • "Corporations and Govts"
    CISPA puts whistleblowers and journalists in the sights of corporations and govts. #StopCISPA #CISPABlackout by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (YourAnonNews) on Twitter April 20, 2013
  • Coalition Government Cure For what Ails Quebec
    The PQ's inauspicious eight-month tenure as government hasn't exactly inspired a rousing vote of confidence from the public, even amongst supporters, who like the rest of us are somewhat dismayed by the amateur hour performance of those charge with directing the ship of state. Watching Pauline ...
  • "Your Congress"
    Your congress doesn't even read the bills they vote for! #voteharder by "Archibald Bareassol" As originally posted on: Archibald Bareassol (mantis8585) on Twitter January 30, 2013
  • "Reality"
    Some People find it distasteful to be talking about US bombings in other countries at a time like this. I say welcome to reality. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: trutherbot (trutherbot) on Twitter April 15, 2013

Press TV - Middle East

  • Reps urge military intervention in Syria
    US Republican lawmakers have urged President Barack Obama to intervene militarily in Syria in order to ‘resolve’ the crisis in the Arab country.
  • 'US, some allies blamed for Syria crisis'
    Delegates at an international peace conference in Turkey have blamed the United States and some of its allies in the Middle East for creating the crisis in Syria, Press TV reports.
  • Chemical arms pressure tactic: Syria
    Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar al-Jaafari says Western states have raised the issue of possible use of chemical weapons in Syria as a pressure tactic against his country.
  • Syria kills militants at Lebanon border
    Syrian Army soldiers have attacked a large number of foreign militants trying to enter Syria from Lebanon and killed and wounded many of them.
  • Yemenis demand national salvation govt.
    Yemenis have staged a mass demonstration in the northern province of Sa’ada to demand the formation of a national salvation government.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • From Victim to Survivor
    Let me tell you about the first time someone mentioned domestic violence and me in the same sentence. Over ten years ago during what I thought was an innocent conversation with an acquaintance from my kids’ school she dropped the bomb. She missed my son’s birthday party but not the gossip that f ...
  • Tanya Fields Introduces The Veggie Mobile Market
    Tonight, the CUNY SPS 2013 Commencement keynote speaker, Tanya Fields will discuss The BLK Projek’s latest plans for a new mobile food market, and you have an opportunity to join her. The BLK Projek was founded in 2009 to empower women and youth with the resources to rise out of poverty through ...
  • All-Star Celebrity Apprentice and the Day Trac ...
    Ever have one of those days? You know the kind. Roll out of bed after hitting the snooze 11 times. Run out of coffee. Run out and buy coffee. Make coffee and think ah that was the worst of it only to realize no cream! And then something incredible happens and no not the kind [...]
  • Nominations Now Open for SPS Governing Council ...
    We are now accepting nominations for students to join the School of Professional Studies Governing Council.  The Governing Council considers proposals for new courses, degrees, certificates and programs that will be offered by the School.  Two students and two alternates are needed to serve on t ...
  • CUNY Disability Awareness Month
    April is officially Disability Awareness Month throughout CUNY and to celebrate our commitment to enabling students, faculty, and staff with disabilities to excel in their studies, research, and work there are a series of events throughout the university. Whether you are interested in learning m ...

Dissident Voice

  • In the Wake of Last Year’s “Soft C ...
    Paraguay’s April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy “tobacco magnate,” rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of “state capture” by powerful drug cartels linked to US in ...
  • Human Rights: Canada in the Dock
    The world is taking note of the ruling Conservatives’ shameful betrayal of Canada’s once admirable reputation as a fair country, sincerely working on the world stage to improve the lot of the disadvantaged and suffering. In the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, Canada was crit ...
  • Pharaoh Said Murder
    Youth! But then so serious: so wicked dead-on lifeless, hostile. Creeps we beat on in the school-yard (impossible to just ignore) now rule the world and they are MURDERERS beyond the pale, beyond imagining, beyond whatever adolescent cruelties, spiked with erotic longing, hot mocking desire &#82 ...
  • Methane Outbreak Alert!
    A cadre of the world’s top climate scientists have seen enough evidence of prospective runaway climate change that they are now sounding the alarm, putting the world on notice that an extinction event may be in the cards. The principal actor in this macabre tragedy: Methane. The following is a q ...
  • Oh, That’s What the Boy Scouts Mean by Being & ...
    Harry Strausser III owns a successful small business with 25 employees in Bloomsburg, Pa. As an undergraduate, he was a national champion in several forensics categories, and represented the Boy Scouts of America in national competitions sponsored by the Reader’s Digest. As a graduate student, h ...

Nick Turse

  • nickturse:Who knows the hidden history of th ...
    nickturse: Who knows the hidden history of the Vietnam War better than Daniel Ellsberg?  Not only did he observe the conflict firsthand from the field, but he read the the military’s secret documents and then allowed us all to do the same by releasing the “Pentagon Papers.”  As such, I was a l ...
  • killanythingthatmoves:A truly humbling quote ...
    killanythingthatmoves: A truly humbling quote about my forthcoming book, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by retired Army colonel and Vietnam veteran Andrew Bacevich.
  • silentcuriosity:Life in 1900’s Tenements, Im ...
    silentcuriosity: Life in 1900’s Tenements, Immigrants on Mulberry Street NY
  • 10 Obscure Punctuation Marks That Should Reall ...
    10 Obscure Punctuation Marks That Should Really Get More Play – Flavorwire
  • In the Field: Arrested in Belarus
    In the Field: Arrested in Belarus: pulitzerfieldnotes: “The jail cell is about 10-feet long and...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S. Activists Outraged Over So-Called ‘ ...
    Food safety advocates are outraged over revelations that U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama approved an act that includes a provision purporting to strip federal courts of the ability to prevent the spread of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The provision in the Consolidated and Furt ...
  • Christians Feel the Heat of Religious Intolerance
    Younas Gill, a self-employed tax accountant, sits on the pavement in Joseph Colony, Lahore, staring at the place where, until about a month ago, his home had stood. It was burnt to ashes on Mar. 9, when a mob of Muslims tore through this Christian neighbourhood in the Badami Bagh district of Lah ...
  • U.S. Cities Joining Push to Dump Fossil Fuel I ...
    Nearly a dozen U.S. cities have announced their interest in withdrawing municipal investments from fossil fuel companies, joining a fast-growing movement among colleges and universities that supporters say is allowing citizens concerned with environmental degradation and global climate change to ...
  • No Consensus on Judicial Reforms in Argentina
    Comprehensive judicial reforms pushed by the government of Argentina on the argument that they will democratise the justice system are moving ahead in Congress in the midst of staunch resistance by the opposition, heated debate, and threats of future lawsuits challenging them as unconstitutional ...
  • U.N. Task Force Purges Stigmas on Sexual Rights
    Ishita Chaudhry spent the past 36 hours listening to U.N. delegates discuss population growth and development. She noticed that on “controversial” topics, such as sexual and reproductive rights, young people’s voices often get lost. “For us as young people, it’s really not as controversial as it ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • I, too, am responsible for sanctions on Iran
    Summary: "Sometimes I wonder where the uproar is over "crippling sanctions" imposed on almost 80 million people? What has happened to all Iranian expatriates (activists, university professors, "experts", etc) who rushed to American and European television channels in the aftermath of the la ...
  • Syria descending into hell aided and abetted b ...
    Summary: The alliance of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Jordan and the western powers has in its sights the taking out of Syria as a key ally of Iran, and with it Hezbollah in Lebanon. source: Stop The War Coalitionread more
  • Chorus grows against Obama administration's sa ...
    Summary: America’s nuclear negotiators with Iran got it all wrong, according to a growing chorus of critics arguing that over-reliance on pressure and sanctions may be jeopardizing a diplomatic deal. The Obama administration has implemented a host of crippling sanctions on Iran targeting its ...
  • Flynt Leverett: U.S. is Engaged in a Dirty Wa ...
    Summary: I hope that my country will not engage in overt military aggression against the Islamic Republic. If, however, the United States is so foolish as to launch another war in the Middle East, to disarm yet another Middle Eastern state of weapons of mass destruction it does not have, I be ...
  • A Dangerous Delusion: Why the West is Wrong Ab ...
    Summary: In 2013 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event, risking war, bloodshed and global economic collapse. In this passionate, but rationally argued essay, the authors attempt to avert a potential global ca ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Comment of the Day --"ET Search and the Speed ...
                  "So given that we cannot see past the limitation of the speed of light, how can we make any reasonable guess about what could be going on in the most ancient galaxies? There could be thousands of intelligent species running around, and we would never know because the only ...
  • Giant Elliptical Galaxies of the Early Univers ...
                 By studying how distant starburst galaxies are clustered together, astronomers in early 2012 found that they eventually become so-called giant elliptical galaxies -- the most massive galaxies in today's universe. The galaxies are so distant that their light has taken arou ...
  • The Weekend Image : Andromeda Galaxy's Superma ...
                   The Hubble Space Telescope image below centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other giant galaxy in the loca ...
  • Dark Matter --"The Tip of an Iceberg of Anothe ...
                     Answering the observation that the dark matter particle might not be detectable at a colloquium organized by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, Michael Turner, a theoretical cosmologist trained in both particle physics and astro ...
  • The "Icarus Comet" --Hubble Snaps Newly-Discov ...
                            he NASA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their clearest view yet of Comet ISON, a newly-discovered sun grazer comet that may light up the sky later this year, or come so close to the Sun that it disintegrates. A University of Maryland-led research t ...

Natural News

  • America has devolved into a nation of welfare ...
    If you want to look where America is headed, look no further than the recent activist video released by Mark Dice. He attempted to gather signatures for a petition that demanded America become a Nazi-style Orwellian police state, complete with forced mercury injections...
  • Obama administration openly pushing food stamp ...
    Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal the Obama administration is actively marketing the federal food stamp program (SNAP) to illegal immigrants. A Spanish-language flyer obtainer by Judicial Watch says, "You need not divulge information...
  • Brian Williams, Scott Pelley, and Diane Sawyer ...
    (NaturalNews)I think, at the very least, YouTube should censor them. Well, wait a minute. Not censor, but put up a notice on all their videos: "It's come to our attention that these three characters are as annoying as a bad case of fleas. Caution: watch and listen at your own...
  • Dark matter research shows there could be para ...
    Our entire universe may exist alongside another universe composed of dark matter, complete with an alternate Milky Way, physicists have suggested. "There could be a mirror world where interesting things are going on," said dark matter researcher James Bullock of the...
  • Heart rejuvenation - two simple practices
    Cardiovascular diseases kill more Americans than cancer and motor vehicle accidents combined. Most of our aging baby-boomer population will be brought down by problems located in the heart and cardiovascular system. Even so, we can significantly increase heart longevity...

Threat Level

  • CISPA Is Dead. Here’s Why (and How) to Resurre ...
    For all the heated rhetoric surrounding the CISPA legislation -- predictions of an impending Digital Pearl Harbor matched by dire warnings of Big Brother surveillance -- the controversy was almost entirely unnecessary. Americans have grown so accustomed to hearing about ...
  • Law Requiring Warrants for E-Mail Wins Senate ...
    A Senate committee today backed sweeping privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the package on a voice vote ...
  • DoJ Secretly Granted Immunity to Companies tha ...
    The Justice Department plans to give internet service providers participating in a new cybersecurity monitoring program legal authorization to intercept communications traffic, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
  • Man Convicted of Hacking Despite No Hacking
    Culminating a two-week trial in which no hacking in the traditional sense occurred, a California man was convicted Wednesday under the same hacking statute internet sensation Aaron Swartz was accused of before he committed suicide in January.
  • How to Prevent the ‘Do Not Track’ Arms Race
    If people don’t want to be tracked across multiple sites, then they should be able to indicate that choice through their browser settings: “Do Not Track.” Sounds simple enough. But it’s not. The devil lies in the details of implementation, ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Thanks W!
    This week, the Republican Party asked Americans to join in the celebration marking the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. In addition to offering "Thanks W" stickers (fittingly available only in black and white), visitors to the GOP.com web site can sign an e-card thanking Pres ...
  • Government Cutbacks Holding Back U.S. Economic ...
    Friday's news that U.S. gross domestic product grew by only 2.5 percent came as a disappointment. After all, that performance not only fell short of the consensus expectation of three percent GDP growth, but was aided by a one-time bump for inventory expansion deferred from the last quarter of ...
  • George W. Bush's Magic Calendar Returns
    In the run-up to today's celebration at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, America's 43rd President declared that "history will ultimately judge" his tenure in the White House. And that is precisely the problem for the custodians of Bush's legacy. After all, the slaughter of 3,000 people ...
  • UK Triple Dip is Latest Blow for Reinhart-Rogo ...
    Thanks to graduate student Thomas Herndon, economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart are now the stuff of pop culture legend. (Even Stephen Colbert is getting in on the act.) But the epic failure of their Excel spreadsheets is no laughing matter. In the United States and across Europe, aus ...
  • Eric Rudolph and the Rights of American Terrorists
    The Attorney General of the United States branded him a "terrorist," and with good reason. His bombings killed two people and wounded over 150 others. "Radicalized" as a child, his acts of terror were motivated by his extremist religious ideology. Armed and dangerous, he eluded a massive fede ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks On Sunday May ...
    The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will be peaking next Sunday, May 5, 2013. The nights preceding and for a few days afterwards will also be good for watching. In fact, the Eta Aquarids have actually already begun, if you were to go out tonight you’d probably get a decent show (depending on th ...
  • Bioengineers Create Genetic ‘Bio-Transistor’ – ...
    Stanford University scientists working in the new discipline of synthetic biology have devised a “genetic transistor” that mimics the classic three terminal transistor found in many electronic devices and computers. The new device is intended to have broad applications for a variety ...
  • Black Rhino Still Near Extinction, Western Sub ...
    The black rhino, also known as the hook-lipped rhinoceros, is a critically endangered species of rhinoceros, that was previously endemic throughout much of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa, and also to certain regions in West Africa. The species has seen a dramatic drop in population number ...
  • Goblin Shark Facts, Video, and Pictures
    The goblin shark is a very rare, poorly understood, species of deep-sea shark. They are known primarily for their somewhat strange specialized “catapulting” jaws, which they use when feeding. When in action they look quite a bit like the alien from the movie Alien. It almost looks li ...
  • New Low-Cost, Long-Life Flow Battery Design Ma ...
    A new low-cost, long-life flow battery has been created by researchers at the DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University that has the potential to help address some of the perceived issues with intermittent sources of power such as solar and wind energy. The researc ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Let the George W. Bush Legacy Project Begin
    By @TedFrier Joseph Curl, who was Washington Times White House reporter for 10 years and is now editor of the Drudge Report, says he hates incivility and divisiveness. And he says so in a Washington Times column under the headline: "W Outclasses Barack and Bill, Without Even Trying." Republicans ...
  • License Bureau Blues
  • The Positive Side of Paternalism
    By @TedFrier Anyone with teenagers will tell you: Paternalism gets a bum rap. If parents had their way, these boiling, bundles of raging hormones would be locked away in some dark place only to emerge years later, cicada-like, as fully-formed human beings. But that is not going to happen for the ...
  • Cheney the Interrogator
  • I Understand The Strategy, But Obama May Be Ma ...
    I've taken a lot of time to weigh the pros and cons of President Obama's proposal for a "chained CPI" to bring about cuts in Social Security, etc. I've read a piece in defense of it, from the Democratic perspective. And, of course, it's not hard to find plenty of excoriations from the left. I've ...

Care 2

  • Protect Birminghams Drinking Water from Coal M ...
    The Black Warrior River is a major source of drinking water for Birmingham, Alabama. Drummond Companys Shepherd Bend Mine would discharge polluted wastewater into the Black Warrior Rivers Mulberry Fork only 800 feet from the Birmingham Water Works Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |&nbs ...
  • Let the Flint River Flow ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    The Flint supplies water to about one million people from southern metropolitan Atlanta through west and southwest Georgia. It also supports many billions of dollars worth of urban, agricultural, and recreational economic activity. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-i ...
  • I Cant Do Anything Without My Cats Help -- I M ...
    Do you ever wonder whether our kitties know just how much they're NOT helping when they help? Submitted by Katka Oelmann to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Congress Makes Sure they Have No Flight Delays ...
    A flight delay is inconvenient, not being able to receive your cancer treatment is a matter of life and death. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Truth about the Cost of Eating Healthy
    Two studies released this week examining the cost of healthy foods show the gap between perception and reality. ShopSmart magazine conducted a national poll of women about eating healthy. Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Miranda Rights Hysteria
    If you ever wondered the effect of emotional distress upon intellect, simply gaze at the visage of John McCain or Lindsey Graham or the myriad of Fox anchors fuming and sputtering over the audacity of a Federal judge to impose the 4th Amendment protection on a suspected terrorist who also just h ...
  • Why Conservatives and Fox News Threaten Our Li ...
    I will admit that the title of this piece is deliberately provocative. But it is not far off the mark. I consider myself a traditional conservative, i.e., one who embraces the notion that my ancestors (19 of them) who fought in the American revolution fought against tyranny. As Boston and Americ ...
  • Benghazi Blood is On Hillary’s Hands, She Won’ ...
    As someone who supported Hillary’s campaign for President in 2008, I am not happy to write this. I admired the woman I met in her Washington, DC Senate office when I had the chance to brief her on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the fall of 2007. But I am shocked and ashamed [...]
  • The Bizarre and the Unanswered Issues Surround ...
    A desperate media scrambles for a new story on the terrorism bombing of the Boston Marathon and is coming up with a hefty dose of garbage and misinformation. Example? Spreading the nonsense that this attack was ginned up solely on line by Tamerlane and Dzokhar, who reportedly read Al Qaeda&#8217 ...
  • The Absurdity of the Tsarnaev WMD Terrorism Charge
    We have entered the tortured, Orewellian world of Animal Farm with the charges filed today against Dzokhar Tsarnaev in Boston: The Justice Department said Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. It sa ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Home Run! Appeals Court Upholds EPA Action to ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Home Run! Appeals Court Upholds EPA Action to Stop Giant, Polluting ... Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Recall that EPA vetoed the dumping associated with the monstrous Spruce Mine in West Virginia, a mountaintop removal operation that would' ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Mining Gets Big Blow - Sus ...
    SustainableBusiness.com Mountaintop Removal Mining Gets Big Blow - SustainableBusiness.com SustainableBusiness.com In 2011, EPA, for the first time, revoked a permit for mountaintop removal. It was for Spruce Mine, the biggest, most destructive project proposed to date. The permit would have all ...
  • In Huge Win On Mountaintop Removal With Big Im ...
    ThinkProgress In Huge Win On Mountaintop Removal With Big Implications, Court Upholds EPA ... ThinkProgress [The] decision upholds essential protection for all Americans granted by the Clean Water Act. Communities in Appalachia can finally breathe a sigh of relief knowing that EPA always has the ...
  • A turning point for mountaintop removal? - The ...
    Facing South A turning point for mountaintop removal? - The Institute for Southern Studies Facing South There were two important developments this week on mountaintop removal mining that represent setbacks to the Appalachian coal industry and a boost to groups fighting the controversial practice ...
  • Physicians and scientists call for moratorium ...
    WFPL Physicians and scientists call for moratorium on mountaintop removal - CoalGuru CoalGuru.com Mr Steven B Wing Wing commission member is associate professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina said that "The evidence shows that mountaintop ...

Memeorandum

  • Democrats ask: What debt crisis? (Politico)
    Politico: Democrats ask: What debt crisis?  —  Call them the debt crisis dissenters.  —  The two parties are miles apart on how to cut the deficit and national debt: Republicans want to slash spending even more.  Democrats want to raise revenue.  &mdash ...
  • Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy ...
    Ben Hubbard / New York Times: Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy  —  CAIRO — 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 gov ...
  • Gun control reform still possible, Manchin say ...
    Bobby Cervantes / Politico: Gun control reform still possible, Manchin says  —  Sen. Joe Manchin was optimistic on Sunday that the Senate could take another shot at passing a narrow gun control bill that focuses specifically on mental health and criminal background checks.  ...
  • McCain: 'Angry and bitter' Syrians need Americ ...
    Kevin Liptak / CNN: McCain: ‘Angry and bitter’ Syrians need America's help  —  (CNN) - The people of Syria, beleaguered by war and potentially being attacked by chemical weapons, are “angry and bitter” that the United States has not played a more leading ...
  • Obama Mocks MSNBC, CNN, Fox, BuzzFeed, His Lib ...
    Noah Rothman / Mediaite: Obama Mocks MSNBC, CNN, Fox, BuzzFeed, His Liberal Critics And Himself In Correspondents Dinner Speech  —  President Barack Obama took the stage on Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner night where he fired off a number of quips at his expens ...

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China Dialogue

  • 投资者瞄准&#2012 ...
    韩国进出口银行（KEXIM）发行了亚洲第一支“绿色债券”，这标志着投资者对中国及其&#370 ...
  • “雾都”治理 ...
    成功摘掉“雾都”帽子的伦敦，是许多中国人心目中治理空气知耻而后勇的典型。但&# ...
  • 弱势群体更&#2613 ...
    一项新的分析认为，中国环境法庭只顾打“苍蝇”，不去打“老虎”。目前中国的环&#22 ...
  • 发展可再生&#3616 ...
    台湾不应该修建更多的核电站，而是应该学习大陆过去十年中的经验，大力支持可再 ...
  • 英国能源巨&#2283 ...
    在宣示了多年的绿色雄心之后，BP悄无声息地卖掉了所有可再生能源资产，专注于化&#3070 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • What Happens When the Woman Wants Sex More Tha ...
    The stereotype is of a frigid wife, but plenty of women find themselves the more desiring partner  Once in bed at night, Cathy’s boyfriend would almost instantly curl up in the fetal position facing away from her and begin breathing heavily as though asleep. “But if I put my ...
  • We Are in the Middle of a Global Civil War
    From Washington's Asian "pivot", to regime change in Iran, to Western fear of China, to the growth of neo-fascism in Europe and the pauperization of the Western middle class. This is an abridged version of a lecture this week at the 13th Seminary of Political Solidarity Don Juan ...
  • Rand Paul Proved Himself This Week to Be Spine ...
    I thought he was a joke, but after he filibustered over drones, I wondered if I'd been wrong. Nope.  I was on vacation when Rand Paul staged his filibuster to get more answers about drones from the Obama administration, or else I probably would have embarrassed myself by praising him ...
  • Bill Moyers & Glenn Greenwald on the High Cost ...
    Columnist Glenn Greenwald explains what the Boston bombings and U.S. se of government power. This first appeared on BillMoyers.com.BILL MOYERS:Welcome. In the aftermath of the Boston bombings and the massive manhunt which led to the death of one suspect and the arrest of another, both of ...
  • Congress Makes Sure they Have No Flight Delays ...
    A flight delay is inconvenient, not being able to receive your cancer treatment is a matter of life and death. As they were rushing to board their flights home for the weekend, Senators and members of Congress pushed through a bill to allow the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to reshuffl ...

Threat Level

  • CISPA Is Dead. Here’s Why (and How) to Resurre ...
    For all the heated rhetoric surrounding the CISPA legislation -- predictions of an impending Digital Pearl Harbor matched by dire warnings of Big Brother surveillance -- the controversy was almost entirely unnecessary. Americans have grown so accustomed to hearing about ...
  • Law Requiring Warrants for E-Mail Wins Senate ...
    A Senate committee today backed sweeping privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the package on a voice vote ...
  • DoJ Secretly Granted Immunity to Companies tha ...
    The Justice Department plans to give internet service providers participating in a new cybersecurity monitoring program legal authorization to intercept communications traffic, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
  • Man Convicted of Hacking Despite No Hacking
    Culminating a two-week trial in which no hacking in the traditional sense occurred, a California man was convicted Wednesday under the same hacking statute internet sensation Aaron Swartz was accused of before he committed suicide in January.
  • How to Prevent the ‘Do Not Track’ Arms Race
    If people don’t want to be tracked across multiple sites, then they should be able to indicate that choice through their browser settings: “Do Not Track.” Sounds simple enough. But it’s not. The devil lies in the details of implementation, ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Why Retailers in Colorado are Ultimately Respo ...
    There were no “Innocent Sellers” in this tragedy.  Retailers in Colorado have both a moral and legal responsibility to those who were sickened, and the families of those who died,... Continue Reading
  • Farm Rich Brand Frozen Food Products E. coli O ...
    Five additional ill persons have been reported from California (1), Colorado (1), Florida (2), and Ohio (1). The CDC announced an addition five ill, bringing the total to 32 individuals... Continue Reading
  • Tricar Sales imported the Salmonella Cucumbers ...
    If I buy a book on Amazon, I can track it from purchase to delivery.  We can not do the same with cucumbers?  So, where were the tainted cucumbers sold... Continue Reading
  • How to Prevent a Salmonella Cucumber Outbreak ...
    The cucumber that is. With Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin leading the way,... Continue Reading
  • Raw Milk Queso Fresco Sickens 12 in Minnesota
    Food Safety News reports that twelve people in Minnesota have fallen ill with Salmonella poisoning after eating unpasteurized, homemade queso fresco, a Mexican-style cheese, according to a joint statement released... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Was 9/11 landing gear found beside mosque lowe ...
    5-foot piece of landing gear from one of the planes from 9/11 was discovered just blocks from Ground Zero Found near 51 Park Place, the site of the Islamic center Park51 Lawyer for mosque developer calls the part discovery a ‘gimmick’ Police probing whether the piece was intentionall ...
  • Are Bachelor’s Degrees Worth It? – ...
    By JEFFREY J. SELINGO May 1 is fast approaching, and with it the deadline for high-school seniors to commit to a college. At kitchen tables across the country, anxious students and their parents are asking: Does it really matter where I go to school? Several websites allow easy comparisons of th ...
  • Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal in Many States
    Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, [...]
  • JPMorgan Accounts For 99.3% Of The COMEX Gold ...
    by Mark McHugh from Across The Street Jamie Dimon Has Issues When just one firm accounts for 99.3% of the physical gold sales at the COMEX in the last three months it’s not what most of us on this side of the rainbow would consider “broad-based” selling. Of course discovering this kind of releva ...
  • Boston Marathon Witness Interview: Police Told ...
    Boston Marathon Witness Interview: Police Told Us Bomb Drill Was ‘Training Exercise’ – YouTube.

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Icy Face of Ence ...
    This face-on colour view of Enceladus was taken by the international Cassini spacecraft on 31 January 2011, from a distance of 81,000 km, and processed by amateur astronomer Gordan Ugarković.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Rude, Crude ...
    Earlier this week, the internet was captivated by an old picture from NASA's Spirit rover appearing to draw a big ol' dick in the Martian sand with its tracks. Now that everyone's tired of looking at that, we can all ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Butterfly in the Sky
    Butterfly in the sky I can go twice as high Take a look It's in a book A Reading Rainbow.... (this is a portion of a song from a Television program for children...starring Levar Burton of STNG fame)
  • Strongest Evidence of Animal Culture Seen in M ...
    Until fairly recently, many scientists thought that only humans had culture, but that idea is now being crushed by an avalanche of recent research with animals. Two new studies in monkeys and whales take the work further, showing how new ...
  • The Week’s Most Bizarre Interactions Between H ...
    A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

PakAlert

  • FBI Created 17 False Flag Terrorist Attacks
    According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, in the past 10 years, there’ve been 20 Terrorist plots against the US. Three of those plots were real but were discovered and stopped by private Americans. The other 17 were created–and then stopped–by the FBI. The apparent purpose of these false flag o ...
  • Tsarnaevs’ mother ‘on terror watch list’, accu ...
    The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, had been added to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack, according to US officials. The news comes after she accused US police of murdering her son
  • Florida conspiracy theory professor who said t ...
    The Florida college professor who sparked controversy after saying that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School may not have taken place is now infuriating even more people by saying that the Boston Marathon bombings were an inside job
  • Is GPS Technology Now a Threat to National Sec ...
    GPS tracking and positioning technology was brought to us by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), commonly known as the "mad science" element of military development. Apparently, DARPA has done such a good job thoroughly embedding GPS into military applications, as well as perm ...
  • Most Humans Are Dying From A Lack of This Vita ...
    Linus Pauling discusses the vital importance of vitamin C in human health and disease, and why scurvy (vitamin D deficiency) is the most prevalent health problem of our time, underlying even heart disease as the #1 killer in the developed world

Andy Worthington

  • This was the Week the NHS Died, and No One Cares
    Save the NHS: A Protest Outside Parliament, and a Public Meeting in Lewisham, a set on Flickr. On Wednesday April 24, the House of Lords voted by 254 votes to 146 to dismiss a motion, proposed by the Labour peer Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, a shadow health minister, to prevent the passage of regula ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: A Warning from Guantánamo – F ...
    I have just received a brief message from a credible source inside Guantánamo, about the situation in the prison today, which I wanted to make available because it exposes how four prisoners are close to death, as a result of the prison-wide hunger strike that is on its 80th day, and yet the gua ...
  • Return Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo: The Full ...
    On April 24, 2013, eleven years, two months and ten days after Shaker Aamer, a British resident, arrived at Guantánamo, his case was finally the subject of a Parliamentary debate. The trigger for this was an e-petition to the British government, calling on ministers to “undertake urgent ne ...
  • Free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo: Photos of a ...
    Free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo: Protest Outside Parliament, April 24, 2013, a set on Flickr. On April 24, 2013, campaigners calling for the release from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, held a demonstration outside Parliament following a Parliamentary debat ...
  • “It is Indisputable that the United Stat ...
    “It is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practise of torture.” These powerful words are from “The Report of the Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment,” a 600-page report involving a detailed analysis of the treatment of prisoners f ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Activists Outraged Over So-Called ‘Monsanto ...
    Food safety advocates are outraged over revelations that U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama approved an act that includes a provision purporting to strip federal courts of the ability to prevent the spread of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The provision in the Consolidated and Furt ...
  • Israeli Air Force Launches Strike Against Gaza
    (Photo: AP)Early Sunday, the Israeli air force launched three air strikes in the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian witnesses, two strikes hit the southern town of Khan Yunis while the third hit near the southern town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border. ...
  • US Plans to Drop Protections for Gray Wolves i ...
    Federal authorities are preparing legislation to remove endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Lower 48 states. According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service draft legislation obtained by The Los Angeles Times, control of wolves would be transferred to state wildlife agencies. Res ...
  • 900 Still Missing Among Rubble as Fires Break ...
    Update: The Associated Press is reporting that a fire has broken out in the rubble of the collapsed Bangladesh factory, forcing rescue efforts to stop. They continue: Officials say the fire broke out because of sparks generated as rescuers tried to cut through a steel rod to reach a survivor. F ...
  • 100 Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Now Recognized ...
    The United States military has come out Saturday and acknowledged that 100 inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison are taking part in the hunger strike. However, defense attorneys for the striking inmates have, for the past month and a half, said that 'over 100' inmates were partaking in the pr ...

Lifehacker

  • Build Your Own Long-Armed, Reusable Duster to ...
    Dusting is nobody's favorite chore, but you can make it a lot easier with this DIY duster.Read more...    
  • Depressurizer Tidies Up Your Steam Library
    Windows: If you've been using Steam for a few years, chances are you have an unwieldy list of games in your library's sidebar. While you can categorize them into folders within Steam manually, Depressurizer helps automate the process.Read more...    
  • "I'm going to buy some craft beers. Any sugges ...
    I'm going to buy some craft beers. Any suggestions?Am I the only person who thinks that to-do list tools are awesome for groups?Where have the "Remains of the Day" posts gone?I bought a cheap boombox, and want to put a Raspberry Pi inside.What is up with stock android dialer not using t ...
  • Integrate a Wireless Charger Into Your Nightstand
    If your phone supports wireless charging, but you don't want to clutter your nightstand with an ugly charging pad, you can build it straight into the furniture.Read more...    
  • Hold Nails with a Bobby Pin to Spare Your Fingers
    Even for skilled craftsmen, hammering nails always carries some risk of smashing a finger. Next time you pull out the toolbox, bring some bobby pins with you too.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Entering a resource-shock world
    Climate change will wreak its havoc on us by constraining our access to the basics of life: vital resources like food.
  • World enters a resource-shock era
    Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the United States intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you're on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced.
  • Will water supplies provoke World War III?
    Extreme climate change and a global scarcity of vital resources could prove to be an explosive combination        
  • Entering a Resource-Shock World
     Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock...
  • Michael T. Klare: Entering a Resource-Shock Wo ...
    By Michael T. Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of The Race for What's Left . Originally published in TomDispatch. Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • In 2012 Election, African American Voters Surp ...
    Though Republican election officials in battleground states sought to dampen voter turn out of traditionally Democratic voters through by instituting identification requirements and limiting early voting hours, a new analysis of census data by the Associated Press shows that African Americans &# ...
  • Schoolchildren May Soon Wear Bulletproof Milit ...
    Post-Newtown, sales for bulletproof backpacks and whiteboards have soared as parents and school districts seek to take children’s safety into their own hands. The reaction is along the lines of what the National Rifle Association has promoted for months: that armed guards, and not gun regu ...
  • Gun Group Holds Rally With AR-15s To Congratul ...
    A group of gun activists armed with AR-15s and handguns held a rally at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Indiana on Saturday to thank Congress for voting down gun safety measures, including a proposal to expand background checks for guns sales. Indiana Moms Against Gun Control organized the e ...
  • NOAA: In 2012, Waters Off Northeast U.S. Coast ...
    A new “Ecosystem Advisory” from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) reports, “Sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years.” The Ecosystem extends from Cape Hatteras, N.C. to the Gu ...
  • Solar Jobs Beat Out Ranchers In Texas, Actors ...
    California, the state that the Hollywood film industry calls home, can boast 43,700 paying jobs in the solar industry in 2012, versus only 32,300 paid actors. Texas clocked in with 3,200 solar jobs, in comparison to the state’s 270 to 2,410 ranchers. And across the entire nation, 119,000 A ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Torture is Still a Crime
    Just in case anyone has forgotten. Just in case the shamelessness of our current political culture has caused you to lose your moral and legal bearings. Beating people until they answer questions, driving people mad through sleep deprivation, systematically humiliating powerless human beings, mu ...
  • Al Qaeda Via Arrestees
    Nothing important. Just a thought: The stupid, anti-democratic harpercon scum say that since there's no evidence that anyone didn't vote as a result of the calls sending people to non-existent polling stations, there wasn't a crime,and we all should just drop it.* They ought to be saying that si ...
  • Political-Economy
    Fordist mass-production required armies of unskilled workers and provided more work for skilled workers. It also destroyed some sectors of craft production. Imperialism helped provide emigration and free land as an outlet for Europe's surplus populations. Farming was mechanized, increasing yield ...
  • A Stark Choice (A Reply to PLG)
    Purple Library Guy spaketh thusly: If I thought that the collaboration thing was both necessary and sufficient to get proportional representation, I'd certainly support it. I'm skeptical for tactical reasons. At a minimum, I'd like to see non-Conservative parties get together in a sort of j ...
  • thwap's mail-sack and (maybe) etc.,
    Back when blogs used to be a more hep, groovy and "with it" kinda scene, the used to attack more idiots. So I really filtered the old comments section. As a result, I've gotten a couple of emails from people not registered with google. Here they are - - - "Kip" writes: Good evening Thwap,I rea ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Get rid of the nukes, part two!
    According to a recent New York Times report, the United States is "quietly urging" Britain to abandon its "independent nuclear deterrent".
  • Canada and missile defence
    Canadian missile defence supporters are back in the news, arguing once again that Canada should join the U.S. missile defence system to protect against the North Korean Nuclear Threat.
  • Get rid of the nukes!
    A delegation from the Abolition 2000 network visited the Clyde Naval Base in Faslane, Scotland on April 19th and released the Faslane Declaration, which calls on the UK to remove the nuclear weapons based in Scotland, abandon nuclear deterrence, and join negotiations for global nuclear abolition.
  • How would you spend the money?
    Today is the Global Day of Action On Military Spending. How would you spend the money wasted wasted on weapons and war?
  • Arctic ships a titanic blunder
    A new report examining the government’s plans to build Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • In the Wake of Last Year’s “Soft Coup” against ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Tom Burghardt Paraguay’s April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy “tobacco magnate,” rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of launderi ...
  • Israel to issue “White Money”
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsrael to issue “White Money” By Roy TovSunday, April 28th, 2013 Israel to issue “White Money” There is neither Jew nor Greek Galatians 3:28 At certain moments, it gets embarrassing. Why should I ...
  • Police officers shot outside Italian prime min ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPolice officers shot outside Italian prime ministers office Raw StoryBy John Hooper, The Guardian   The ministers in Italy‘s new left-right coalition cabinet were sworn in on Sunday as gunfire broke out in the ...
  • Millions of users abandoning Facebook as newer ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMillions of users abandoning Facebook as newer services pop up Raw StoryBy Juliette Garside, The Guardian   Facebook has lost millions of users per month in its biggest markets, independent data suggests, as alterna ...
  • Muslim congressman confronts Peter King: Profi ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMuslim congressman confronts Peter King: Profiling is ineffective law enforcement Raw StoryBy David Edwards   Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who is a Muslim, told Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on Sunday that he was making a mi ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Dance on Thatcher’s Grave, but Remember, ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger http://johnpilger.com 25 April 2013 In the wake of Thatcher’s departure, I remember her victims. Patrick Warby’s daughter, Marie, was one of them. Marie, aged five, suffered from a bowel deformity and needed a special diet. Without it, the pain was excr ...
  • Don’t Ignore How Others See Us by Ralph Nader ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 25, 2013 In watching the massive media coverage and the reaction to the brutal bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the wise poem “To A Louse…” composed in 1785 by the Scottish poet Robert Burns came to me: “O wad some Pow’r the [...]
  • Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! CSPAN on Apr 27, 2013 President Obama at 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. *** CSPAN on Apr 27, 2013 From C-SPAN coverage, Conan O’Brien remarks at the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. *** House of Cards at 2013 White House Corre ...
  • US, UK Diabolic Lie: Syria Used Chemical Arms ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV April 27, 2013 You have to admit it. The Americans and British do make a formidable double-act – of deception and criminality. Where one party has the firepower, the other has the liar-power. The diabolic duo ...
  • Who’s To blame As Hundreds Die In Bangladeshi ...
    Dandelion Salad My condolences to all the families of those killed and injured. by Kathy Durkin Workers World April 26, 2013 In Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, at least 300 workers, mostly women, died at the Rana Plaza garment factory building collapse on April 24. In ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Icy Face of Ence ...
    This face-on colour view of Enceladus was taken by the international Cassini spacecraft on 31 January 2011, from a distance of 81,000 km, and processed by amateur astronomer Gordan Ugarković.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Rude, Crude ...
    Earlier this week, the internet was captivated by an old picture from NASA's Spirit rover appearing to draw a big ol' dick in the Martian sand with its tracks. Now that everyone's tired of looking at that, we can all ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Butterfly in the Sky
    Butterfly in the sky I can go twice as high Take a look It's in a book A Reading Rainbow.... (this is a portion of a song from a Television program for children...starring Levar Burton of STNG fame)
  • Strongest Evidence of Animal Culture Seen in M ...
    Until fairly recently, many scientists thought that only humans had culture, but that idea is now being crushed by an avalanche of recent research with animals. Two new studies in monkeys and whales take the work further, showing how new ...
  • The Week’s Most Bizarre Interactions Between H ...
    A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Malaga Statement
    Statement of representatives of 13 Palestinian, Israeli, and international organisations, and a number of international lawyers and legal experts, who held a meeting in Malaga, Spain, to discuss the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Tony Blair’s tangled web – the ...
    Tony Blair stepped down as British prime minister in 2007 and immediately assumed the position of representative to the Quartet, the international body overseeing the Israeli-Palestinian peace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israel tourists face email inspections
    Israeli security officials given approval to search email accounts of 'suspicious' travellers despite petition over invasion of privacy. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much mor ...
  • Chris Hedges: The persecution of Lynne Stewart
    Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is one of its martyrs. A 73-year-old lawyer who spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the despised,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Palestine Studies TV: In-depth conversation on ...
    Palestine Studies TV host Omar Baddar sits down with Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University, and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, to discuss... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Events and Announcements: April 28, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers We have launched our own call for papers aimed at LL.M, Ph.D and S.J.D. students as well as those practitioners/academics within the first five years post-degree to participate in our New Voices symposium starting in July. The deadline for 2 ...
  • Leiden Wins ICC Moot
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller From the Court’s press release: Today, 26 April 2013, Leiden University won the final round of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Competition, English version, held in ICC Courtroom I in The Hague (Netherlands). Osgoode Hall Law School of ...
  • Troubling Development in the Kenyatta Case (Up ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I cannot find the relevant document on the ICC website, but Kenya’s CapitalFM is reporting that Judge Christine van den Wyngaert, sitting in the Trial Chamber, has withdrawn from the case against Uhuru Kenyatta because of concerns about the prosecu ...
  • Weekend Roundup: April 20 – 26, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we continued last week‘s Kiobel Insta-Symposium. Quoting from his and John Yoo’s Forbes contribution, Julian argued that the rejection of universal civil jurisdiction is common sense because it leaves the decision on foreign ...
  • China Updates its Talking Points on the Philip ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Professor Craig Allen of University of Washington alerts me to this excerpt from the press conference held yesterday at China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  It is the first time, as far as I know, that a Chinese government spokesman has offered a detailed expla ...

Public News Service

  • Advocates for VOCA Get Vocal on Capitol Hill
    Advocates for VOCA Get Vocal on Capitol Hill PHOENIX – Congress is getting visits from people concerned that funding for child abuse survivors and investigators is falling by the wayside in federal budget negotiations. The Victims of Child Abuse Act, or VOCA, has been eliminated in Presi ...
  • C-Sections Increasing Despite Possible Long-Te ...
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