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Food Safety: The Kitchen is the Heart of the Home (Photo credit: Susan von Struensee)

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

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

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Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Shapeways. Cloud computing for 3D printing!
  Shapeways just raised $30 million to vastly expand their remote 3D printing capabilities  Their idea is simple. Users anywhere design a 3D object, upload the plans to them, they make it, then ship it to them. Call it cloud computing for 3D printing. No worries about buying and maintaining equipm ...
• Steven Spielberg’s “Obama”
  This is a hoot. It was created for 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner. Daniel Day Lewis IS Obama!
• Google wants hackers to crack Google Glass
  Stephen Lau, Technical Lead at Google Glass, says the rumors are true. Glass can be hacked. And that’s just how Google wants it. Not to bring anybody down… but seriously… we intentionally left the device unlocked so you guys could hack it and do crazy fun shit with it. I mean, ...
• Drones killing in Yemen, our presidential terr ...
  When Drones Kill, Who Are The Terrorists, And Can You Know One When You See One?  How is President Obama NOT a terrorist, like President Bush and other presidents before him? What does it mean to be a terrorist?  Isn’t someone who commits or colludes in a terrorist act quite simply a terrorist? ...
• New look and feel here at Polizeros. Woo Theme ...
  The new theme has a slider at the top for featured articles. The sidebar is a full column to begin with then splits into two smaller columns. Lots more too. Let me know what you think and if you notice any glitches. I went from the trusty Atahualpa theme, which I will continue to use [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• FASCISM RISING; Canada, Stalled Anti Terrorism ...
  Is it just a coincidence that Canada had another timely “foiled terrorism plot”, on queue, to help grease the skids for the passing of the stalled Combating Terrorism Act?  If people cannot see how obvious this is then they must be willfully blind or simply naive. I’m calling t ...
• The Jack Blood Show – April 26 2013
• Boston bombers ‘Uncle Ruslan’ was Halliburton ...
  The plot thickens! Madcow.com Out on the ragged bleeding edge of the former Soviet Union, Ruslan Tsarni had a decade-long business relationship with Halliburton, the multinational juggernaut run by Dick Cheney before  he became Vice President of the United States. Delving into the business conne ...
• Sacramento couple fights to get their baby boy ...
  SACRAMENTO, CA – A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. The young couple thought their problems were behind them after their son had a scare at the hospital, but once they got home their problems got even ...
• FBI temporarily “loses track” of M ...
  So They SWAT team the wrong guy, then lose the “right” guy? More pretend incompetence? Was this entire event staged? Most Americans will forget how this all went down…. Memory Hole disease. Washington Post The FBI temporarily lost track Thursday of a former martial arts instruc ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook roundup: board members, data centers, ...
  Jim Breyer to leave Facebook board – Accel Partners venture capitalist Jim Breyer announced today that he is stepping down from Facebook’s board of directors in June after holding a seat since April 2005. Breyer was recently elected to...
• What Graph Search needs to do
  Facebook’s Graph Search is a revolutionary new form of searching and finding information about ourselves, friends and the world. The problem is it’s too much work. Many have come away from trying Facebook’s new take on...
• Facebook careers: global brand design, executi ...
  Facebook added 14 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the sales operations, marketing and sales teams. One interesting role is for a Head of Global Brand Design to “invent and build...
• Facebook hires: corporate communications, cons ...
  Facebook removed 28 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of marketing, communications, account management and others. Manager, Data Warehouse Operations (Menlo Park) Safety and Security Engineer (New York) Latin...
• Facebook acquires Parse to offer mobile backen ...
  Facebook today announced an agreement to acquire Parse, a cloud-based platform providing tools for mobile app developers. Parse offers backend services, data storage, social integration tools and other features to make it easier for developers to build...

National Geographic | Environment

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

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Fracking Debris Considered Too Radioactive Eve ...
  The consequences of long-term exposure to Radium 226 are known, but the effects of specially formulated chemicals used at US fracking sites still remain widely unknown. With the Obama administration overlooking environmental concerns and distributing oil drilling rights without a comprehensive r ...
• Human Rights: Canada in the dock
  Canada is being investigated by the UN Human Rights Council, even as the government rams through an unjust security law and pursues a trumped-up terrorism case
• One of a Kind -John Muir
  Last year I had enjoyed watching a documentary on John Muir. This year I was happy to read about him in the Guidepost. I was now more enambored of his gifts because of this.
• Wars and Climate Change
  While the United States wastes trillions of dollars on wars and defense, much of it in the pursuit of energy security, the cost of building an sustainable energy infrastructure without nuclear energy as well would cost a small fraction of the money wasted on the continued use of fossil fuels. T ...
• Icelandic Election 2013. Afram Piratar!!
  Saturday night's historic vote for the Icelandic Parliament, and the Pirate Party who pulled out a small victory at the very end.

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Theorist of Torture and Arbitrary Detentio ...
  Hmmm, I wonder if John Yoo will use the Tsarnaev bombings as his latest example of how there’s nothing arbitrary detention can’t do? “Apparently the FBI interrogated the younger Tsarnaev for 16 hours,” wrote torture memo author John Yoo at National Review. “And then ...
• Jazz Notes/Thanks
  Knowing my fascination with rhythm sections, most valuable commenter Howard sent me this quite wonderful obscurity, Jo Jones’s The Drums.   Jones emulating and explaining the styles of different titans is that rare combination of educational and interesting, so thanks once again.  (Remembe ...
• This Day in Labor History: April 28, 1971
  On April 28, 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened its doors. The creation of OSHA proved to be one the greatest victory in American history for workplace health. Unfortunately, OSHA could never live up to its potential to revolutionize the workplace due to the organized ...
• “Now, [Wallace] said he was the best fri ...
  Shorter verbatim Dylan Byers: “The piece, as I wrote it, was not intended to be about gender. Indeed, in the final day of reporting, I contacted four of my 14 sources — both male and female — and asked, “Is it possible that the criticisms of Jill that we’ve discussed stem from ...
• It’s a Werewolf Bar Mitzvah! Spooky! Scary!
  I apologize in advance if you really thought this post was going to be a werewolf Bar Mitzvah. It’s actually going to be about my clearing the cobwebs out of head and putting fingers to keyboard so I can assemble a list of the best horror of the past few years.   Horror is a [...]

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Nissan’s Plans For China’s Growing Electric Ve ...
  Nissan is slowly rolling out its electric vehicle strategy into China as the nation gears up to bring more zero emissions vehicles onto its roads.
• Trump Wind Farm Ads In Scotland Get Tossed
  Ads puts up by Donald Trump's people against wind farms in Scotland were banned for being misleading.
• Small Hydro Turbines Offer Big Clean Energy Po ...
  Small turbines offer big opportunities to transform energy from flowing water into electrical current.
• Floating Wind Turbines With Undersea Energy St ...
  An MIT concept would connect deep-water wind turbines to concrete spheres at the seafloor that would take advantage of hydrostatic pressure to store energy.
• Citroen Seeing Green With Ruby Red DS Wild Rub ...
  At this year's Shanghai Motor Show, French automaker Citroen unveiled the DS Wild Rubis. A concept, the Rubis is crossover powered by a hybrid powertrain.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• THE SOUTHERN REPORT
  We look at the legal business climate in a dynamic, growing region.
• THE GLOBAL LAWYER: The zombification of alien ...
  Rather than kill the corporate alien tort outright, the court maimed all forms of alien tort by restricting their territorial reach.
• OPINION: A Matter for Congress
  Legislators, not the Supreme Court, should resolve confusion over drug and medical device law.
• OPINION: When Soldiers Go Social On Politics
  Although the Uniform Code of Military Justice criminalizes a servicemember's use of 'contemptuous words' against the president, some use social media to insult Obama.
• THE PRACTICE: After Boston: Security Is Every ...
  Lawyers and knowledgeable security professionals can combine to enhance risk-management efforts at public events.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Are US, China and Russia in Competition for In ...
  US thinks that China has quite an important role to play in Central Asia as well.
• Chinese Embassy Rejects Petition Against Force ...
  This refusal is symbolic of the way that the Chinese Communist Party turns a deaf ear to all those who criticize its human rights record.
• How the NRA Deliberately Helps Criminals-Part 1
  Based on the Center for American Progress Report Blindfolded, and with One Hand Tied Behind the Back First in a Multi-part Series
• Afghanistan Moving Closer to a Self-Governing ...
  US hopes that the elections next April will be a unifying moment for Afghanistan, one that advances a reconciliation process that ends the violence and brings peace to the region.
• Will US and Europe Benefit from 'The Transatla ...
  US indicates that US and EU will now benefit from the shaping of a great new trans-Atlantic endeavor of far-reaching significance from the jobs and investment that it will create and the strong new economic dimension it will add to the traditional s

environment 360

• NASA Test Flights Affirm Viability of Biofuel- ...
  In recent test flights, NASA researchers have confirmed that commercial airliners can safely fly on an alternative jet fuel blend and that under some conditions the biofuel mix produced 30 percent fewer emissions than NASAContrails from a NASA DC-8 aircraft typical jet fuel. After flying DC-8 ai ...
• Fires Burn More Fiercely As Northern Forests Warm
  From North America to Siberia, rising temperatures and drier woodlands are leading to a longer burning season and a significant increase in forest fires. Scientists warn that this trend is expected continue in the years ahead. BY DYLAN WALSH
• Metal Demand Could Increase Nine-Fold as Devel ...
  Global demand for metals could increase nine-fold in the coming years as the world’s developing economies continue to grow, a trend that could have profound negative environmental impacts, a new UN report says. As populations in these countries continue to adopt modern technologies, and nations ...
• New Web Site to Track CO2 Levels As Planet App ...
  As atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide approach the milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm), a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has launched a Website that will publish daily readings of CO2 concentrations, an online resource he hopes will drive home the urgent thre ...
• Conservation of Forests Can Prevent Malaria Sp ...
  The conservation of woodlands and biodiversity can actually help prevent the spread of malaria in tropical forests, a new study says. Using a mathematical model of different conditions in a forest region of southeastern Brazil, scientists found that the circulation of the parasite Plasmodium viv ...

Red Ice Creations

• Mystery Malady Kills More Bees - Will We Rebui ...
  While it isn’t looming large on the public radar, the ongoing ’bee crisis’ continues to trouble scientists, keepers, and farmers alike. The science community continues to search for clues to solve the riddle of Colony Collapse Disorder, but an ultimate solution hasn’t yet been found, and the bee ...
• Basilica of the Holy Blood: Christ’s Blood Pre ...
  Christ’s blood preserved in a Belgian town The Basilica of the Holy Blood (Basiliek van het Heilig Bloed) is a 12th century chapel, in the medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, which houses a revered phial containing cloth stained with the actual blood of Christ. Or so it is believed. While the chap ...
• Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing ...
  The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe y ...
• We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Soun ...
  During the years I spent in the company of Alexander Graham Bell, at work on his biography, I often wondered what the inventor of the world’s most important acoustical device—the telephone—might have sounded like. Born in Scotland in 1847, Bell, at different periods of his life, lived in England ...
• What If We Lost Our Moon?
  Today I was asked a question that was motivated by the new movie Oblivion: What would happen to the Earth if the moon was destroyed? “I dunno,” I replied, “What does happen when the moon is destroyed?” When the expected why-the-chicken-crossed-the-road response didn’t come, I decided I’d better ...

Not My Tribe

• BIDDER 70 doc reduces super-activist Tim DeChr ...
  BUMMER. I was thrilled a documentary would tell the world about Tim DeChristopher. You might think his achievement would be more widely know. It’s a testament of the power he’s up against, added to the meager support he has received, that even here I have to explain who he is and wha ...
• Threat of Atmel plant closure prompts city cou ...
  ATMEL KILLS SOLAR IN COLORADO SPRINGS –I told the gentleman from Atmel who trolled the city council meeting today, this would be my headline. Prompted by his threat to ship Atmel jobs to Malaysia if a 0.25 percent utilities rate hike went into effect, the Colorado Springs City Council vote ...
• Our collective lockdown mentality, lest a sire ...
  LOCKDOWN. The term has become ubiquitous, though lifted easily out of context, being self-explanatory. Its predecessor “batten down the hatches” used to be too. Before the advent of recreational sailing it came from a work environment synonymous with incarceration, in the days of deb ...
• De mortuis nil nisi bonum is well and good but ...
  It’s probably older than Latin. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” is a propriety imposed at death, as if to offer the deceased a false comfort that, however fraudulent the pretense of their reputation in life, they can take it with them. Well, most commonly, “Don’t speak ...
• Teen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is diminishing excuse f ...
  We pick up yesterday’s story with Watertown and Boston under lockdown, it’s a prison term go figure, while paramilitary police conduct door to door warrantless searches to find an immigrant teen, college wrestler Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said to be armed and extremely dangerous, who fled f ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Paper Accepted and Published at Scientific Met ...
  I’m happy to announce that I’ve successfully had a paper accepted and published at the website Scientific Method 9/11. It’s an updated version of my paper Other Collapses in Perspective. In it, I present scientific explanations for why other steel structure fire-induced collapses are not compara ...
• Fukushima's Catastrophic Aftermath Continues ( ...
  In her book titled No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 - 2012) said: Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse t ...
• Salon blames Infowars and "conspiracy theories ...
  Just when you thought the attacks couldn't get more ridiculous... Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan: "Tamerlan “took an interest in Infowars,” according to Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan’s sister. He was also apparently interested in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was ...
• Why is George W Bush being honored with #BushC ...
  Join CODEPINK in sharing this message together at the same time - automatically. https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2005-and-justice-for-all Related: Ladies in Pink Slips: 10 Years of CODEPINK Creativity Prison for a poem? Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots?
• Drones protest gains local and national support
  stopwar.org.uk · 020 7561 9311 · 23 April 2013 1) Drones protest gains local and national support 2) Shaker Aamer - parliamentary meeting & demonstration 1) Drones protest gains local and national support   The news of the Ground the Dron ...

Fooducate

• Top 10 Calorie Sources in Kids’ Diets, and an ...
• Colored Icing: Don’t do it!
• Ambushed by Big Soda on the Soccer Field
• GMO Labeling Momentum Grows
• Do You Want Your Child to Drink Artificially S ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
  Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
• Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
  Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...
• Indonesian military ‘development’ program spre ...
  The military presence in West Papua is almost always accompanied by human rights violations such as killings, arbitrary arrests, rape and torture. © Survival InternationalPapuan leaders have voiced their concern at plans for more than a thousand Indonesian soldiers to build 1,500 km of new roads ...
• Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
  Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...
• Worldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project ...
  Protesters will carry placards symbolizing the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of t ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Are We Done Yet?
  By Cathy Jameson As we draw a close to another autism awareness month, I’ll admit I am not sad that this month is over. Why? While looking up the history of the autism awareness campaign and when it started, I...
• Dachel Media Update: More Awareness, Services, MMR
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary after the jump. April 25, 2013, The Province: YouDocs: Absolutely no link between vaccines and autism, so get you and your children inoculated April 25, 2013, NBC 6 South Florida: Miami-Dade County Public Schools...
• Weekly Wrap: Autism Science, Doing Autopsies o ...
  By Dan Olmsted When the mainstream media and medical establishment talk about autism long enough, they end up babbling incoherent nostrums about early detection, greater awareness, the joys of disability and, finally, pure noise. The "news" product that gets extruded...
• Nancy Snyderman's Latest Panic: It's a Cin-namon.
  By Katie Wright According to the new issue of “Pediatrics” there is a terrifying new health crisis gripping American kids: “The Cinnamon Challenge!” Thank God for Dr. Nancy Synderman for alerting parents like me of this pediatric health crisis sweeping...
• April 27 Health Freedom and Vaccination Exempt ...
  Celebrating Health Freedom in DC, MD & VA Vaccine Exemption Rights, Parent Observations, Informed Consent with special guest, internationally renowned academic gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield Saturday April 27th 1:00-3:00 p.m. McLean Community Center 1234 Ingleside Avenue McLean, Vir ...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Monsanto Wet Dream
  In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer struggles to survive. When he resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders he risks everything.
• 2081 Universal Absurdity
  A dystopian future in which everyone is "finally equal...."
• “Stunning” Difference of GM from non-GM Corn
  A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM corn.
• GMOs in USDA Organic Food
  It seems that “organic” does not mean “safe from tampering.” What sorts of “business interruptions” justify using non-organically produced annual seeds? I’m willing to bet that the dramatic effects on crops due to drought from climate change easily warrant such activity, under this clause; howe ...
• New Study: Glyphosate Enhances Damaging Effect ...
  This study shows that glyphosate, the active ingredient of roundup, enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins.

new geography

• Visions of the Rust Belt Future (Part 1)
  “Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing”--Aesop There are interesting developments being played out in the Rust Belt. Some cities, like Detroit, seem to be embarking whole hog down the creative class path. Others, like Pittsburgh, have their own thing going on, a ...
• Job Dispersion in Major US Metropolitan Areas: ...
  The continuing dispersion of employment in the nation's major metropolitan areas has received attention in two recent reports. The Brookings Institution has published research showing that employment dispersion continued between 2000 and 2010, finding job growth was greater outside a three mi ...
• The Sound and the Fury In Chicago
  The Second City syndrome is alive and well. An anti-Chicago essay masquerading as a book review in the New York Times provides the latest example of the truth of that.  Rachel Shteir, a former New Yorker now living in Chicago, notes the various ills in the Windy City that should come as a su ...
• Genealogy Of Rust Belt Chic
  Some people don't like the term "Rust Belt". Others absolutely hate the word "chic". Please don't call the shifting mesofacts of dying Great Lakes cities "Rust Belt Chic". Given the reaction, a lot of it negative, I decided to blog about how I came up with Rust Belt Chic. Way back in 2006, ...
• The 2012 Metro Year in Jobs
  Last month the BLS put out the first official release of annual job data for metropolitan areas, so I wanted to take a brief look at this for large metro areas (more than one million in population, based on old metro area definitions that the BLS still uses). Here are the top 10 cities ...

water.org

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

Cryptogon

• Baby Taken from Parents Who Wanted 2nd Doctor& ...
  Madness. Via: KSDK: A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. Research Credit: alvinroasting
• Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions in April
  Thank you. Pookie $75 CB $50 EO $30 DK $25 Anon BTC1.10518649
• Post 9/11 Domestic Security Spending Exceeds C ...
  Via: CNN / Fortune: Video surveillance is already big business. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, expect it to get even bigger. … In response to security concerns after 9/11, Americans witnessed the growth of a massive domestic security apparatus, fueled by federal largesse ...
• Boston Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Caugh ...
  He was on the U.S. watch lists, which means that NSA definitely had all of his comms.: The picture emerging Wednesday was of a counterterrorism bureaucracy that had at least four contacts with Russian spy services about Mr. Tsarnaev in the year before he took a six-month trip to Russia in 2012, ...
• Spain Is Beyond Doomed
  Via: The Atlantic: Spain is in a great depression, and it is one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. Five years after its housing boom turned to bust, Spanish unemployment hit a record high of 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013. It’s almost too horrible to comprehend, bu ...

The Economic Collapse

• UNPRECEDENTED Shortages Of Ammo, Physical Gold ...
  All over the United States we are witnessing unprecedented shortages of ammunition, physical gold and physical silver.  Recent events have helped fuel a "buying frenzy" that threatens to spiral out of control.  Gun shops all over the nation are reporting that they have never seen it this bad, an ...
• Child Hunger Is Exploding In Greece – An ...
  The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children.  If you want to get an idea of what America is going to look like in the not too distant future, just check out what is happening in Greece.  At this point, [...]
• America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Pro ...
  What is happening to you America?  Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast.  Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most v ...
• America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, O ...
  The United States is a deeply unhappy place.  We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.  It isn't just our economy that is falling apart - the very fabric of society is starting to come apart at the seams and it is because of what is happening to us [...]
• Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens ...
  What in the world is happening to America?  Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.  And without a doubt, the Boston Marathon bombing was a great national tragedy.  I ...

Desertification

• Legal frameworks regulating the land rush (IIS ...
  Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List Accountability in Africa’s land rush: what role for legal empowerment Emily Polack, Lorenzo Cotula, Muriel Côte In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in acquiring farmland for agricultural investments ...
• Lack of location-specific scientific data on l ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.trust.org/item/?map=data-dearth-impeding-fight-against-desertification Data dearth impeding fight against desertification The lack of location-specific scientific data on the degradation of land, and the dearth of networks through which ...
• UNCCD – 2nd Scientific Conference (Googl ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://portal.unu.edu/calendar/?go=event.page&id=6425 2nd UNCCD Scientific Conference in Bonn, Germany: Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of, arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas The United Na ...
• Desertification in Africa (Google / Project Un ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://projectunitednations.com/the-issue-of-desertification-in-africa/ The Issue of Desertification in Africa Topic Overview: The desertification of the vegetation and cultivable soil in Africa is threatening the livelihood of the people and conti ...
• UNCCD-COP 11 in Namibia, Sept. 2013 (Google / ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2013-04/27/content_28677658.htm Namibia to host UN desertification meeting Xinhua, April 27, 2013 Namibia will hold the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11) in September this year. COP 11 is a United Nations C ...

News Blaze

• Are US, China and Russia in Competition for In ...
  US thinks that China has quite an important role to play in Central Asia as well.
• Chinese Embassy Rejects Petition Against Force ...
  This refusal is symbolic of the way that the Chinese Communist Party turns a deaf ear to all those who criticize its human rights record.
• How the NRA Deliberately Helps Criminals-Part 1
  Based on the Center for American Progress Report Blindfolded, and with One Hand Tied Behind the Back First in a Multi-part Series
• Afghanistan Moving Closer to a Self-Governing ...
  US hopes that the elections next April will be a unifying moment for Afghanistan, one that advances a reconciliation process that ends the violence and brings peace to the region.
• Will US and Europe Benefit from 'The Transatla ...
  US indicates that US and EU will now benefit from the shaping of a great new trans-Atlantic endeavor of far-reaching significance from the jobs and investment that it will create and the strong new economic dimension it will add to the traditional s

Worldnews

• Simeone laments 'missed opportunity' agai ...
  The Argentine believes that his side played admirably against their cross-city rivals but regrets their failure to take their chances in front of goal Diego Simeone praised the efforts of his Atletico Madrid players but was left frustrated by their inability to score at least a second agains ...
• Two police officers shot as Italian gover ...
  ROME (Reuters) - Two Italian police officers were shot and wounded on Sunday outside the prime minister's office in Rome at the same as Prime Minister Enrico Letta's new government was being sworn in just a kilometer (mile) away. It was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to ...
• Mirren, Rylance up for London's Olivier a ...
  LONDON — Helen Mirren is a favorite to reign at London's Olivier theater awards Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience." Mirren is a best-actress nominee for the awards, the British equivalent of Broadway's Tonys. She stars in Peter Morgan&# ...
• Ken Clarke Brands UKIP Politicians 'Clown ...
  Conservative Cabinet minister Ken Clarke has dismissed UKIP's politicians as "clowns" and some of its supporters as racist in a scathing attack on the party. He said UKIP had no positive policies and was merely a protest party "against" foreigners and immigrants. Speaking ahead of ...
• Clegg on Duncan Smith call for rich to re ...
  There was a "difference of approach" between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats over plans for welfare reform, Nick Clegg has said. He did not agree with a...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Understanding Human Thought, Behavior, Conscio ...
  The newly proposed scientific project to understand the most complicated 3 pounds of material in the world - the human brain - is the topic of an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientifi ...
• Identifying Risk Factors For Potentially Prolo ...
  Most children who suffer from sports-related concussions recover within a few days. However, in a small number of children, symptoms can last for a month or more. Although there have been numerous theories as to what might predict a longer recovery time, there is no definitive answer as to why i ...
• Stem Cell Transplant Restores Memory, Learning ...
  For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember. A study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then hea ...
• Oregon's Math Problem: How To Measure Health?
  How hard can it be to measure the health of a population? Oregon is finding out it's difficult to decide even what to track. But the state received almost $2 billion in federal funds to improve the health of its residents and to cut costs. The state faces substantial fines if it can't prove it h ...
• [News & Analysis] U.S. Immigration Reform: Mor ...
  A bipartisan group of U.S. senators unveiled an overhaul to the nation's immigration policies that hopes to create new funding streams to strengthen STEM education. Authors: David Malakoff, Jeffrey Mervis

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• Expanding Efforts to Attract Young Nuclear Ene ...
  Young attendees were invited to contribute their ideas. In particular, this meeting focused on ways that the symposium could better serve and attract a new generation of nuclear energy organizers, leaders, and participants.
• Energy Earnings, Taxes and the Right Path for ...
  The oil and natural gas industry sends about $85 million a day to the federal government every day in the form of rents, royalties, fees and income taxes. It is the federal government’s largest taxpayer.
• Citizens Urge EPA to Finalize Cleaner Fuel Sta ...
  A broad group of citizens and other stakeholders are calling on the U.S. EPA to act now to reduce smog pollution caused by cars and light trucks. The strong support for the so-called “Tier 3” standards is nearly unanimous.
• Climate Change: Extreme Weather, Insurance Com ...
  The costs of extreme weather events in 2012 totaled one percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Insurance companies are “under water” in more ways than one and the US taxpayer is being squeezed.
• Renewable Energy Standards: North Carolina 1, ...
  Clean energy advocates in North Carolina have won a major battle in the opening stages of a nationwide fossil fuel-funded war against renewable energy standards in America.

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• LaRouche on the Charge Assad Used Chemical Wea ...
  Larouche Pac The release of a letter from the Obama White House, solicited by Senators John McCain and Carl Levin of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has put the United States a huge step further on the course toward launching an illegal war against Syria, on the concocted excuse the Assad ...
• Zionists and Gulf Monarchs Ponder…. Pus ...
  by FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut “This is one damn fine idea, what took us so long to see a simple solution that was right in front of our eyes for Christ’s sake”, Senator John McCain of “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” and “no-fly zones for Syria” notoriety, reportedly ...
• Evaluating The Grim And Finding Viable Solutions
  By Vincent L. Guarisco "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." ~~Sun-tzu I know it has not been easy all these years enduring the many dramatic events and horrific imbalances thrust upon us at home and abroad. There's no denying that our nation is undergoing tremendous changes ( ...
• Obamacare: Unaffordable Coverage
  by Stephen Lendman Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) co-founders Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein examined evidence on "skimpy health insurance among low-income, insured Americans." A PNHP press release said: "(E)xtensive data (show) that tens of millions of insur ...
• Fukushima's Catastrophic Aftermath Continues
  by Stephen Lendman In her book titled "No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth," nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 - 2012) said: "Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world a ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

• Expanding Efforts to Attract Young Nuclear Ene ...
  Young attendees were invited to contribute their ideas. In particular, this meeting focused on ways that the symposium could better serve and attract a new generation of nuclear energy organizers, leaders, and participants.
• Energy Earnings, Taxes and the Right Path for ...
  The oil and natural gas industry sends about $85 million a day to the federal government every day in the form of rents, royalties, fees and income taxes. It is the federal government’s largest taxpayer.
• Citizens Urge EPA to Finalize Cleaner Fuel Sta ...
  A broad group of citizens and other stakeholders are calling on the U.S. EPA to act now to reduce smog pollution caused by cars and light trucks. The strong support for the so-called “Tier 3” standards is nearly unanimous.
• Climate Change: Extreme Weather, Insurance Com ...
  The costs of extreme weather events in 2012 totaled one percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Insurance companies are “under water” in more ways than one and the US taxpayer is being squeezed.
• Renewable Energy Standards: North Carolina 1, ...
  Clean energy advocates in North Carolina have won a major battle in the opening stages of a nationwide fossil fuel-funded war against renewable energy standards in America.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
• Receive up to $50 of personalized Pexagon Tech ...
• This Seasons Biggest Blow-out Sale! 74% off Au ...
• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

• Google's Eric Schmidt and the New Digital Age
  [PJ: The video on the linked page, page 2 of the article, is interesting. It's a tour of computer history, showing the old computers that Google has in its NY office. The Commodore is there, for example, and it's fun to watch, if you like that sort of thing. Which I do.] - CBS News
• What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole In ...
  You probably haven't heard of HD Moore, but up to a few weeks ago every Internet device in the world, perhaps including some in your own home, was contacted roughly three times a day by a stack of computers that sit overheating his spare room. "I have a lot of cooling equipment to make sure my h ...
• My two-week review of Google Glass: it all dep ...
  Here's my review after having Google Glass for two weeks: 1. I will never live a day of my life from now on without it (or a competitor). It's that significant. 2. The success of this totally depends on price. Each audience I asked at the end of my presentations "who would buy this?" As the pr ...
• GitHub Graciously Helps Female Programmers Cow ...
  In an effort to help increase female participation in open source development, the Ada Initiative recently announced they had entered into an agreement with social programming site GitHub, wherein any female who requested a private repository on the service could receive one free of charge (a fe ...
• Apple's WWDC sells out in under 3 minutes
  Last year, buyers snapped up all WWDC tickets in about two hours, a major acceleration from 2011, when Apple exhausted supplies in 12 hours, and 2010, when tickets were available for eight days.... Although WWDC has filled up, registered Apple developers will be able to access offsite, on-demand ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

• Shapeways. Cloud computing for 3D printing!
  Shapeways just raised $30 million to vastly expand their remote 3D printing capabilities  Their idea is simple. Users anywhere design a 3D object, upload the plans to them, they make it, then ship it to them. Call it cloud computing for 3D printing. No worries about buying and maintaining equipm ...
• Steven Spielberg’s “Obama”
  This is a hoot. It was created for 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner. Daniel Day Lewis IS Obama!
• Google wants hackers to crack Google Glass
  Stephen Lau, Technical Lead at Google Glass, says the rumors are true. Glass can be hacked. And that’s just how Google wants it. Not to bring anybody down… but seriously… we intentionally left the device unlocked so you guys could hack it and do crazy fun shit with it. I mean, ...
• Drones killing in Yemen, our presidential terr ...
  When Drones Kill, Who Are The Terrorists, And Can You Know One When You See One?  How is President Obama NOT a terrorist, like President Bush and other presidents before him? What does it mean to be a terrorist?  Isn’t someone who commits or colludes in a terrorist act quite simply a terrorist? ...
• New look and feel here at Polizeros. Woo Theme ...
  The new theme has a slider at the top for featured articles. The sidebar is a full column to begin with then splits into two smaller columns. Lots more too. Let me know what you think and if you notice any glitches. I went from the trusty Atahualpa theme, which I will continue to use [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

• Hawke’s Bay irrigation saga gets murkier
  The inherent problems with one arm of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) promoting the mega Ruataniwha dam and irrigation scheme while another arm attempts to act like a regional council, came to the fore in a tangled council meeting last week. I attended a presentation by newly established ...
• General debate, April 28, 2013
• Waste fund flowing offshore
  On Wednesday, the government announced it will use the Waste Minimisation Fund to finance a programme to deal with a type of hazardous waste from material that was banned from use in New Zealand nearly 10 years ago. While we absolutely agree with cleaning up hazardous waste we do have some conce ...
• Toxic agenda bad for farmers
  I recently had an opinion piece published in the Straight Furrow newspaper. Here is what I wrote. (note: corrected from earlier post) Toxic agenda erodes green brand Our clean green brand is something we need to fiercely protect, but this Government is effectively eroding it instead. National ha ...
• Toxic agenda bad for farmers
  I recently had an opinion piece published in the Straight Furrow newspaper. Here is what I wrote. Toxic agenda erodes clean green brand Our clean green brand is something we need to fiercely protect and one of the ways to do that is through strong environmental legislation, but that’s what this ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• NMR Lipoprofile—the Most Important Test to Det ...
  By Dr. Mercola The incorrect idea that high cholesterol causes heart disease has led to the demonization of entire categories of extremely healthful foods (like eggs and saturated fats), and cholesterol has been falsely blamed for just about every case of heart disease in the last 20 years ...
• GE Trees May Be Even More Damaging to the Envi ...
  By Dr. Mercola Genetic engineering (GE) of our food supply amounts to a massive science experiment being performed on mankind, without consent or full disclosure. Although the biotech industry continues to claim GE products are safe, the truth is that no one knows what the long-term effects w ...
• Why Your Brain Craves Music
  By Dr. Mercola If you’re a music lover, you already know that turning on the tunes can help calm your nerves, make stress disappear, pump up your energy level during a workout, bring back old memories, as well as prompt countless other emotions too varied to list. Even if you’re ...
• How to Improve Your Health By Freeing Yourself ...
  By Dr. Mercola The connections between stress and physical health are being explored at greater frequency these days. For example, recent news items have reported the links between emotional distress and physical pain,1 chronic inflammation2 and even stillbirths.3 In fact, pregnant wome ...
• How to Protect Your Mental Health and Avoid an ...
  By Dr. Mercola If you physically over-tax your body, say by overexerting yourself on a hot day or staying up for 24 hours with no sleep, you probably wouldn’t be surprised if it suddenly “breaks down.” We avoid such pitfalls by tending to our physical health, resting and dr ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

• 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
  Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
• Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
  Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...
• Indonesian military ‘development’ program spre ...
  The military presence in West Papua is almost always accompanied by human rights violations such as killings, arbitrary arrests, rape and torture. © Survival InternationalPapuan leaders have voiced their concern at plans for more than a thousand Indonesian soldiers to build 1,500 km of new roads ...
• Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
  Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...
• Worldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project ...
  Protesters will carry placards symbolizing the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of t ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

• At 95, Hitler's Food Taster Talks Paranoia, Po ...
  from montrealgazette.com: They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler' ...
• Fight to Patent Human Genes Heard by Supreme Court
  from activistpost.com: On Monday, the Supreme Court heard Myriad Genetics plead their case on why they want to patent human genes. According to the biotech company, it discovered the gene linked to higher risks in breast and ovarian cancer and plans to further its research. Related:&nbs ...
• Duke Professor Suggests Simple Solution to Cou ...
  from activistpost.com: Arguably, animal rights activists are the most tenacious; so much so, that they have routinely been labeled anarchists and terrorists by various governmental organizations the world over. Yet, beyond the general demonization campaign of anyone who professes sympathy for th ...
• Call to Action as Portland, Oregon Readies to ...
  from mercola.com: Water fluoridation is considered one of the most notable advancements in public health, and cities around the US spend millions adding fluoride to communal water supplies each year.  But, as stated in the video above, 99 percent of that fluoridated water ends up on your la ...
• Fukushima: Massive Leaks Continuing On a Daily ...
  from washingtonsblog.com: You may have heard that Tepco – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive water. You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month. This is ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• UNPRECEDENTED Shortages Of Ammo, Physical Gold ...
  All over the United States we are witnessing unprecedented shortages of ammunition, physical gold and physical silver.  Recent events have helped fuel a "buying frenzy" that threatens to spiral out of control.  Gun shops all over the nation are reporting that they have never seen it this bad, an ...
• Child Hunger Is Exploding In Greece – An ...
  The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children.  If you want to get an idea of what America is going to look like in the not too distant future, just check out what is happening in Greece.  At this point, [...]
• America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Pro ...
  What is happening to you America?  Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast.  Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most v ...
• America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, O ...
  The United States is a deeply unhappy place.  We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.  It isn't just our economy that is falling apart - the very fabric of society is starting to come apart at the seams and it is because of what is happening to us [...]
• Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens ...
  What in the world is happening to America?  Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.  And without a doubt, the Boston Marathon bombing was a great national tragedy.  I ...

CASSE

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

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

• 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 ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

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

Tech Drive In

• Left 4 Dead 2 beta Coming to Linux Next Week!
  Long before the official arrival of Steam for Linux client, we had a report revealing Valve's ambitious plans which also included a Linux port of their popular title Left 4 Dead 2 aka L4D2 (further read: 20 most exciting Linux games for 2012). Rumor-mills can all rest now. Valve has offic ...
• Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 with GNOME 3.6 Released
  As far as I am concerned, this is a very important release. Ubuntu GNOME (previously called Ubuntu GNOME Remix) has one of the best implementations of GNOME Shell desktop. And as we've already seen in our earlier Ubuntu GNOME review, if you want the best of Ubuntu and pure GNOME in a single pa ...
• And like Clockwork, 18th Stable Ubuntu Version ...
  While big-league players like Microsoft finds it hard to release even their core products on time, Canonical has just released the 18th stable version of Ubuntu, namely Ubuntu 13.04 aka "Raring Ringtail", right on schedule. When you look back at the history of Ubuntu, you'll be amazed to find ...
• Don't Starve: Refreshing Survival Game in Now ...
  After popular titles such as Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ) and Shank 2, Don't Starve becomes the latest entrant into the Linux gaming scene. And as always, Steam for Linux facilitated the arrival. Don't Starve is basically an endless wilderness survival game. Game's goal is to&nbs ...
• GNOME 3.8 in a Nutshell
  GNOME 3.8 looks incredibly slick and balanced. I can't wait to take Ubuntu GNOME Remix for a spin with latest GNOME 3.8 on it. We were in the process of reviewing the brand new GNOME 3.8. And then I saw this animated video on GNOME 3.8. Probably the best (and really quick) "what's new" vi ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• 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.

Veterans Today

• Israel to issue “White Money”
  At certain moments, it gets embarrassing. Why should I make public my past links with these people? Why should I throw dirt on my own name? Yet, if not doing that, I would be promoting violence and racism.
• Allison in Wonderland
  BOLDLY GOING NOWHERE   WITH VETERANS CLAIMS When a “progressive” newspaper like the Washington Post speaks out, or permits others to use their fishwrap,  against the ruling Administration and one of his cabinet hirelings,  you just know the King’s new invisible finery is going ...
• The Warrior Saw, Suicides After War
  “These programs could undermine coping mechanisms developed by the troops who already successfully handle stress.”
• Boston Bombs Over Syria
    by Dean Henderson   One cannot help but notice that the timing of the Boston Marathon false flag attack serves the Illuminati banksters goal of regime change in Syria.  As a new wave of anti-Muslim fear swept the idiocracy, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, relying heavily on Israeli Mo ...
• The CIA Hoax Report
  A phoney CIA report on Israel is being distributed by a notoriously iffy Canadian website. The problem is its conclusions may be right for all the wrong reasons. We'll dive into those reasons as soon as we divest ourselves of this purported "study."

electric politics

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

PR News

• Muscular Dystrophy Association names Ford CCO
  TUCSON, AZ: The Muscular Dystrophy Association has appointed Steven Ford as EVP and chief communications and marketing officer.
• Kaiser plans 'Thrive' 2013 as exchanges take shape
  OAKLAND, CA: Kaiser Permanente is planning the 10th season of its "Thrive" campaign, which will launch in August. It will differ from previous iterations because Kaiser will compete with other companies via healthcare exchanges.
• Publicis appoints Ardaillon-Poirier SVP
  PARIS: Publicis Groupe has named Elisabeth Ardaillon-Poirier SVP and Anne-Gabrielle Heilbronner general secretary.
• Marcomms integrations put spotlight on PR
  The increasingly popular move to combine marketing and communications departments into one unit at major corporations will benefit the PR industry as a whole, say experts.
• Hunter PR names Hanson partner
  NEW YORK: Hunter Public Relations has appointed Erin Brennan Hanson an agency partner.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

• Interview: NATO’s Global Expansion Unpar ...
  Voice of Russia April 27, 2013 NATO’s global expansion unparalleled in history and fraught with catastrophe – Rozoff Recorded on April 21, 2013 AUDIO US-controlled NATO dangerously and relentlessly continues its global expansion, “something unparalleled in history and something fraug ...
• NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-C ...
  NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold World Era Rick Rozoff One of the most significant developments of the post-Cold War era, and certainly the most ominous, is the transformation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military bloc created by the United States during t ...
• Persian Gulf: U.S. Leads Multinational War Gam ...
  U.S. Department of Defense April 26, 2013 Eagle Resolve Promotes Gulf Region Cooperation, Interoperability By Donna Miles WASHINGTON: The field training segment of U.S. Central Command’s three-part Eagle Resolve exercise is slated to kick off this weekend, bringing together participants from 12 ...
• Henri Barbusse: “You understand, I&#8217 ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray “You understand, I’m against all wars.” “All wars! But there’s times when war’s good. There&#8 ...
• NATO Grooms Georgia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Monten ...
  Civil Georgia April 24, 2013 Georgian FM Visits Brussels Tbilisi: Georgia’s Foreign Minister, Maia Panjikidze participated in NATO and ISAF partner nations’ foreign ministerial meeting on Tuesday and will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday in Brussels. Panjikidze said that Geor ...

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Intel Hub

• 20 U.S. Cities that Receive the Most Homeland ...
  All Gov | You would think that when the U.S. government determines how much money should be spent to protect various cities and metropolitan areas, it would take into account not just the size of the city, but also its history as a target.The post 20 U.S. Cities that Receive the Most Homela ...
• The Top 5 Regrets of The Dying
  Joe Martino | A palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and put her findings into a book called ‘The Top Five Regrets of The Dying.’The post The Top 5 Regrets of The Dying appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Canada Passes New Anti-terrorism Bill Passes, ...
  Joe Martino | The House of Commons passed the new anti-terrorism bill on April 24th 2013 and received royal assent on the 25th. The bill revived provisions from the Anti-terrorism Act passed just after the Sept. 11 attacks and adds some new ones that can very easily violate civil rights.The ...
• US Teenager Snared in FBI ‘Terror’ ...
  Aljazeera | Young man from Chicago suburbs arraigned on terrorism charges after trying to join al-Qaeda-linked group on FBI website. The post US Teenager Snared in FBI ‘Terror’ Sting appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Spilled Tar-Sands oil Could be Creeping Toward ...
  Grist | Rocker Neil Young wanted to see for himself the damage from ExxonMobil’s ruptured Pegasus oil pipeline, which recently spewed reeking, black goo into small-town Mayflower, Ark.The post Spilled Tar-Sands oil Could be Creeping Toward the Arkansas River appeared first on Intellihub.com.

FRS

• NGOs, weapons of “populist/humanitarian& ...
  [From the Crusades and in the earliest years of colonialism, conquests and conquistadores arrived with more than guns and swords and armies.  They brought Bibles, and missionaries, and, in time, Christian charities, anthropologists, humanitarians and investors, intelligence operatives of CIA and ...
• India: Government officials ordered to learn l ...
  [The inability of government officials to communicate with millions of adivasi (tribal) people has long been a feature of the non-existent relations over the great divide in India.  The communication gap is rooted in the officials' lack of language skills, and in their political disdain for the ...
• Bangladesh garment factory collapse kills hund ...
  [Bangladesh’s garment industry, the second-largest exporter of clothing after China, has a notoriously poor fire safety record. Since 2006, nearly 1000 Bangladeshi workers have died in factory fires and building collapses, according to Clean Clothes Campaign, an anti-sweatshop advocacy group in ...
• How Occupied Kashmiris “Celebrate” ...
  Jashn-e-Azadi (How We celebrate Freedom) a film by Sanjay Kak (2008) Synopsis It’s 15th August, India’s Independence day, and the Indian flag ritually goes up at Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir. The normally bustling square is eerily empty – a handful of soldiers on ...
• South Africa: Grassroots activists mourn UnFr ...
  Friday 26 April , 2013 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA — Press Statement UnFreedom Day in Durban Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA, a democratic and membership based organization, has held its UnFreedom Day event in Durban every year since 2006. This year UnFreedom Day will be held in Du ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up i ...
  According to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 26, 2013
• U.S. on Hot Seat: Israel Calls 'Red Line,' Say ...
  The U.S. declared that use of chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian civil war would be a "red line" action that could provoke American military intervention. Now top U.S. ally Israel is formally alleging that Syria's ruling regime used sarin gas.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 23, 2013
• Alleged Boston Bombers Not like Bad Guys in th ...
  After seeing "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," in the wake of the Boston bombings, I couldn't help but think how much easier it is to pick out the bad guys in the movies.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Apr 22, 2013
• Obama Justified in Criticizing Senators Over B ...
  Many U.S. senators who voted against increasing background checks for gun purchases may have inadvertently handed their next challengers powerful fodder in campaign battles.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 18, 2013
• How Misinformation Could Help the Boston Bomb ...
  When terrorism strikes the United States, whether in Boston, New York City, Atlanta or Oklahoma City, there’s a rush to tell the audience who is responsible, often getting the wrong person and hampering the investigation.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 16, 2013

Popsci - Science

• Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Big-Eared ...
  Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: We have a winner! So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey ...
• Inside The Mind Of A Scientist Who Made Up Mor ...
  Cheating in science When you hear about well-regarded scientists making up data in their studies, it's easy to wonder, What were they thinking? A New York Times Magazine piece has one answer. The magazine profiled Diederik Stapel, a psychologist, former dean of the School of Social and Behavior ...
• Largest Current Study Of AIDS Vaccine Shut Dow ...
  In fact, patients injected with the vaccine actually developed HIV more often than those who were given a placebo. Eep. The largest current study of a potential AIDS vaccine, a $77 million project led by a Columbia University doctor, has been shut down due to "futility." The patients will be mo ...
• Does Summer Always Get You Down? You Might Be ...
  For nocturnal rodents, long days prompt long faces. During the short, dark winter days, many humans suffer from seasonal affective disorder, in which they experience symptoms of depression that subside come springtime (and recent research suggests all mental illnesses, not just depression, mig ...
• A City Made From Chewing Gum And Other Amazing ...
      

Veterans Today

• Israel to issue “White Money”
  At certain moments, it gets embarrassing. Why should I make public my past links with these people? Why should I throw dirt on my own name? Yet, if not doing that, I would be promoting violence and racism.
• Allison in Wonderland
  BOLDLY GOING NOWHERE   WITH VETERANS CLAIMS When a “progressive” newspaper like the Washington Post speaks out, or permits others to use their fishwrap,  against the ruling Administration and one of his cabinet hirelings,  you just know the King’s new invisible finery is going ...
• The Warrior Saw, Suicides After War
  “These programs could undermine coping mechanisms developed by the troops who already successfully handle stress.”
• Boston Bombs Over Syria
    by Dean Henderson   One cannot help but notice that the timing of the Boston Marathon false flag attack serves the Illuminati banksters goal of regime change in Syria.  As a new wave of anti-Muslim fear swept the idiocracy, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, relying heavily on Israeli Mo ...
• The CIA Hoax Report
  A phoney CIA report on Israel is being distributed by a notoriously iffy Canadian website. The problem is its conclusions may be right for all the wrong reasons. We'll dive into those reasons as soon as we divest ourselves of this purported "study."

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
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Internat'l Political Economy

• Egypt's World Beggary Tour 2013 Goes On
  The rise and millennia-long fall of the Egyptian Empire continues apace. From the giddy heights of empire catalogued in the Bible to its present penury, Egypt has come a long way--down, that is, with no end in sight. The latest humiliation of course is being flat broke after the "Arab Spring" br ...
• EU-US FTA & the Lameness of 'Cultural Exception'
  There is already a certain desperation to the idea that trade can significantly be boosted between the US and EU FTA when they already have exceptionally low tariff levels. What more substantial trade barriers can be removed? Are these dynamic and growing markets? The answers, of course, are "fe ...
• Of Profits & Reconciliation: Kaesong Industria ...
  They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that certainly seems to be the case here: opened in 2004 as a manifestation of the late Roh Tae Woo's "sunshine policy" of South towards North Korea, it was hoped Kaesong Industrial Complex would herald closer economic ties between the ...
• Arab Spring F1 (Ep III): 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix
  For a third consecutive year, we have controversy over whether the Bahrain Grand Prix should proceed. In 2011, it was famously cancelled despite attempts by F1 bigwigs to insulate this event from the turmoil that engulfed the region via the Arab Spring of protests against authoritarian regimes ( ...
• LDC Marketing Lessons Selling to Brokebank Yanks
  Here's an interesting feature I somehow missed given my interest in the intersection between marketing and international political economy. Nowadays the "American Dream" is a punch line to a sick joke only the most delusional and gullible of USA#1 cheerleaders actually fall for. (And the joke's ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• UNPRECEDENTED Shortages Of Ammo, Physical Gold ...
  All over the United States we are witnessing unprecedented shortages of ammunition, physical gold and physical silver.  Recent events have helped fuel a "buying frenzy" that threatens to spiral out of control.  Gun shops all over the nation are reporting that they have never seen it this bad, an ...
• Child Hunger Is Exploding In Greece – An ...
  The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children.  If you want to get an idea of what America is going to look like in the not too distant future, just check out what is happening in Greece.  At this point, [...]
• America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Pro ...
  What is happening to you America?  Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast.  Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most v ...
• America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, O ...
  The United States is a deeply unhappy place.  We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.  It isn't just our economy that is falling apart - the very fabric of society is starting to come apart at the seams and it is because of what is happening to us [...]
• Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens ...
  What in the world is happening to America?  Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.  And without a doubt, the Boston Marathon bombing was a great national tragedy.  I ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2013-04-24 WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
  WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE Wed Apr 24 17:24:44 BST Milestone Supreme Court Decision for WikiLeaks Case in Iceland Today's decision marked the most important victory to date against the unlawful and arbitrary economic blockade erected by US companies against WikiLeaks. Iceland's Supreme Court upheld ...
• 2013-02-04 Julian Assange receives Yoko Ono Le ...
  On 3 February 2013 at a private dinner at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, attended by more than 150 guests, Julian Assange will receive the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 2013 for his WikiLeaks work including, amongst other releases, Collateral Murder. This award is ...
• 2013-02-02 Exclusive: CIA Drug Money Plot to O ...
  WikiLeaks Central presents an exclusive interview with Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, who claims the CIA has been actively plotting to destabilise or even assassinate Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, after US anger over decisions such as the granting of political asylum to Julian Assange an ...
• 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
  Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 14 January 2013 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of statements made by members of the Swedish Executive and government officials on the Assange case. read more
• 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
  Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 28 November 2012 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of links to evidence relating to the existence of a criminal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks. read more

U N News

• Ban welcomes peaceful elections in Paraguay
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed peaceful general elections in Paraguay that attracted wide participation, reiterating the United Nations' willingness to work with the newly elected authorities and people in the South American country.
• Ahead of Assembly hall renovation, UN honours ...
  With an extensive renovation of the great General Assembly Hall imminent, United Nations officials today paid tribute to architect Oscar Niemeyer and other members of the UN board of design in a ceremony that revisited the inception of the iconic Headquarters project.
• Guatemala: UN adviser calls on judges to ensur ...
  A senior United Nations official today urged judicial authorities in Guatemala to ensure that legal proceedings continue without interference against the country's former head of State and former head of intelligence who stand accused of atrocities committed in the Central American nation over 3 ...
• UNESCO chief calls for investigation into murd ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the murder of Ecuadorian journalist Fausto Valdiviezo Moscoso and called for an investigation into the crime.
• UN report suggests social conflict in Latin Am ...
  The Latin American countries afflicted by the greatest amount of social conflict are also those suffering from broad inequality and limited capacity to manage unrest, according to a United Nations report launched today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Congressional testimony of Dr. Dominik Kulakow ...
  On April 11, 2013 Dr. Dominik Kulakowski, Assistant Professor at Clark University, testified before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation of the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives. His testimony was sent to us by George Wuerthner ...
• Nationwide walks for wolves this weekend
  Walk for Wolves has been organized to raise awareness about the threats affecting the wolf population throughout the United States. In addition to losing their habitat, the most detrimental threats come from government bills allowing hunting and trapping an indiscriminate number of wolves by met ...
• EARTH DAY 2013: TAKE ACTION FOR THE MANED WOLF
  Project at a glance:  Due to rapid habitat destruction, the Maned wolf in Bolivia is now facing extinction. To protect this endangered species, WLT-US is seeking funds to buy the 15,711-acre Santa Anita Ranch for $29 an acre. The purchase will more than double the size of 11,555-acre Barba Azul ...
• TrekWest – A Coalition’s Campaign for Connectivity
  Original post, April 15, 2013 on Defenders of Wildlife by Matt Clark, Southwest Representative  If you are anything like me, you might get to feeling pessimistic sometimes because of all of the alarming news we hear about the growing extinction crisis, climate change and a plethora of other wild ...
• Wrenched: A Feature Documentary by ML Lincoln
  Watch the trailer for “Wrenched,” coming soon. “Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who will carry Abbey’s legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American ...

Asia Sentinel

• China's Imperial New Consumers
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The world's salesmen, take note
• Why Can't Jakarta Build a Road?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Vital elevated roadway on hold as the city and the contractor blame each other
• End Game for the Korean Peninsula
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New approaches needed
• Instant Media's Got Malaysia
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The current campaign bypasses the biased mainstream
• Solar Powered Computers for Off-Grid Schools
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A precocious youth succeeds with a precocious idea

We Know the Lies

• Cover-Up In Progress! ... Why Are Police Stopp ...
  While all eyes are on the Boston 'bombing', the police in West Texas are stopping anyone who is trying to investigate the explosion that happened at the nearby fertilizer plant? What's being covered up or hidden? ~ Fire Department Audio - Videos read more
• 'Bilderberg Hound' James (Jim) P. Tucker, Jr. ...
  James P. Tucker, Jr. (12/31/1934 – 4/26/2013), famed Bilderberg Hound, author of Jim Tucker’s Bilderberg Diary, passed away yesterday due to complications he suffered following a fall. read more
• Doctors Walk Out During National Obamacare Imp ...
  According to live tweets and images sent from ophthalmologist Dr. Kris Held, nearly all doctors had walked out in protest and disgust of Obamacare implementation talks at a prominent national health care meeting. ~ Lance Devon read more
• No Bank Deposits Will Be Spared from Confiscation!
  Bank depositors in the UK and USA may think that their bank deposits would not be confiscated as they are insured and no government would dare embark on such a drastic action to bail out insolvent banks. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong that confiscation of bank deposits is legalized dayli ...
• Five-Step Plan to Ban Guns in the US Within 10 ...
  I currently provide consulting services to major global corporations. One effective way to do battle with a competitor is to place yourself in their shoes and plan out your own demise – exactly what I will do here today. Below is my concise strategy to completely ban firearms in the US withi ...

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• 2nd Coldest Start To Spring In The USA
  image: www.hprcc.unl.edu We have been experiencing one of the coldest Spring seasons ever recorded in the United States as temperatures across the country have been the lowest on average since 1975, the 2nd lowest ever…   You may have noticed… winter has been slow to loosen its ...
• Survive A Shipwreck
  One moment they were reeling in a fish, and the next they were in the sea as their boat sank to the bottom. Shipwrecked. 12 miles from shore. Would you survive?   Dan and Kate Suski were on a weekend fishing trip on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia when their charter boat sank, and [...]
• Shootout At Nuclear Power Plant
  image: knoxnews.com I just came across this news report of a shootout at a nuclear power plant in Tennessee, a recent event which apparently has not made the news… which I find odd. Given the recent bombing in Boston, and the fact that the FBI is involved with this new incident, I thought ...
• Systemic Risk
  The term ‘systemic risk’ is usually a reference to finance, although it can be applied to many systems. In finance, systemic risk is the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or entire market, as opposed to risk associated with any one individual entity, group or component o ...
• Tips For Cost Effective Grocery Shopping
  The cost of food and feeding your family is one of the most expensive aspects to your budget. For those looking for tips to save money at the grocery store and stretch your food budget further, you can save lots of money grocery shopping if you follow any or all of these tips…   Make ...

Fast Company

• AOL Shutters Several Music Properties, Includi ...
  AOL has unofficially announced it's shuttering several of its music-related editorial units, through the Twitter feeds of several employees who were laid off Friday afternoon. Properties including Spinner.com, The Boombox, and Noisecreep have effectively ceased operations. Just lost my job. Ac ...
• Making Renting A Store As Easy As Booking A Ho ...
  PopUpInsider matches potential short-term leasers with landlords sitting on idle real estate space. In an age of pop-up stores and poor prospects for long-term tenants, could it be a shot in the arm for commercial real estate? Opening a business can cost a lifetime of savings--$30,000 on a ...
• Berg’s “Inception”-Like Map of NYC Gets A Reprint
  Since its debut, Here and There has found its way into MoMA’s permanent collection, and maybe even inspired one of film’s most memorable visual effects. There’s no shortage of interesting cartography to be found on the web, but rarely do you come across a map that gives y ...
• Epcot’s Iconic Globe Has Been Possessed By Pix ...
  In a promotional effort for Disney and the forthcoming "Monsters Inc." sequel, "Monsters University", Sully and Mike scale the face of Spaceship Earth. In the movie Monsters Inc., Billy Crystal and John Goodman’s monsters are out to scare humans one at a time. On April 25th, however, ...
• The Best Teachers For Autistic Children: Robots
  NAO is a robot whose job it is to help autistic children overcome their difficulties with early learning--and it’s having a lot of success. We normally think of robots as being inferior communicators. But in the case of a robot called NAO, it’s the automaton that’s breaki ...

Jadaliyya

• مَن يُحاسِب؟ ومَن يُحاسِب مَن؟
  لأول مرة في تاريخ العالم العربي الحديث نجحت انتفاضات شعبية سلمية في إطلاق مسارات أفضت إلى تنحي أربعة رؤساء دولة عن الحكم. ولأول مرة في التاريخ ذاته، أحيل هؤلاء الرؤساء إلى المحاكمة، وجاهياً أو غيابياً، بتهم تتعلق بالأمر بالقتل والتعذيب والفساد ونهب الأموال العامة.  والآن تلوح مؤشرات إ ...
• The Pitfalls of Democratic Elections in Palestine
  In the post-colonial era, struggles for democracy have increasingly been seen and presented as necessary to fulfill the aborted promises of national liberation. Particularly since the end of the Cold War, electoral democracy has come to be viewed as the most effective mechanism to confront the u ...
• "صادق جلال العظم يحسم أمره وينتقل إلى التنظير ...
  صادق جلال العظم يحسم أمره وينتقل إلى التنظير العلني للسُّنة ولفكر "الإسلام السياسي البزنسي" ألقى صادق جلال العظم في 8 آذار/مارس 2013 محاضرة في برلين ضمن ندوة نظمتها مؤسسة ابن رشد تحت عنوان "العلمانية والمسألة الدينية، تركيا نموذجًا" تحدث فيها العظم عن إيجابيات التجرب ...
• Salman al-Awdah: In the Shadow of Revolutions
  There is nothing that prompts us to encourage revolution as it is enshrined in danger...It just comes when profound reform has stumbled.— Salman al-Awdah Like all of us watching the Arab world in the last two years, Saudi Islamists (I refer throughout to the Salafi Islamists) were taken by surp ...
• Thinking Citizenship in a Revolutionary Arab W ...
  The ongoing Arab uprisings that began in Tunisia in late 2010 have demonstrated that citizenship in the Arab Middle East is a subject in need of much critical scholarship and intervention. Many scholars, working from an archive of political philosophy that begins with Rousseau's social contract, ...

mediagazer

• Mary Thom Dead: Former Ms. Magazine Editor Die ...
  Associated Press: Mary Thom Dead: Former Ms. Magazine Editor Dies In NY Crash  —  YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was killed, her nephew s ...
• Al-Jazeera banned by Iraq over 'sectarian bias ...
  Guardian: Al-Jazeera banned by Iraq over ‘sectarian bias’ in coverage  —  Qatar-based channel and nine other stations have licences revoked as government claims they fuel bloodshed  —  The Iraqi authorities announced on Sunday that they had revoked th ...
• Can Politico spot gender issues? (Erik Wemple/ ...
  Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Can Politico spot gender issues?  —  Politico on Tuesday night told of a dire situation at the New York Times.  Executive Editor Jill Abramson, says the story by Dylan Byers, is “on the verge of losing the support of the newsroom” ...
• The newsonomics of the Koch Brothers and the s ...
  Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of the Koch Brothers and the sales of U.S.' top metros  —  It almost makes wary Tribune watchers pine for Rupert Murdoch.  —  In what is shaping up to be the biggest sale of metro U.S. newspapers in history, wit ...
• Obama slings arrows, jokes at White House Corr ...
  Patrick Gavin / Politico: Obama slings arrows, jokes at White House Correspondents' Dinner 2013  —  The White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night provided President Barack Obama with a chance to take some shots at those things in Washington that rub him th ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Simeone laments 'missed opportunity' agai ...
  The Argentine believes that his side played admirably against their cross-city rivals but regrets their failure to take their chances in front of goal Diego Simeone praised the efforts of his Atletico Madrid players but was left frustrated by their inability to score at least a second agains ...
• Two police officers shot as Italian gover ...
  ROME (Reuters) - Two Italian police officers were shot and wounded on Sunday outside the prime minister's office in Rome at the same as Prime Minister Enrico Letta's new government was being sworn in just a kilometer (mile) away. It was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to ...
• Mirren, Rylance up for London's Olivier a ...
  LONDON — Helen Mirren is a favorite to reign at London's Olivier theater awards Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience." Mirren is a best-actress nominee for the awards, the British equivalent of Broadway's Tonys. She stars in Peter Morgan&# ...
• Ken Clarke Brands UKIP Politicians 'Clown ...
  Conservative Cabinet minister Ken Clarke has dismissed UKIP's politicians as "clowns" and some of its supporters as racist in a scathing attack on the party. He said UKIP had no positive policies and was merely a protest party "against" foreigners and immigrants. Speaking ahead of ...
• Clegg on Duncan Smith call for rich to re ...
  There was a "difference of approach" between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats over plans for welfare reform, Nick Clegg has said. He did not agree with a...

no frakking consensus

• Secret Climate Meetings
  Confronted with what some believe is a house on fire, Canadian Members of Parliament retire to the shadows and whisper to each other in secret.
• How Climate Scientists Think
  Nobel-winning work about self-delusion and flawed judgment applies to all of us - even climatologists.
• Lab Coats Don’t Make You Infallible (Oli ...
  Scientists who step into the political arena deserve to be challenged. This isn't an attack on science - it's an exploration of competing political perspectives.
• Earth Day an Oil Industry Scam?
  According to 1960s radicals, the environmental movement has been funded and orchestrated by fossil fuel interests.
• Earth Day 1970 (The Drama Queen Files, Exhibit #4)
  The language being used in 1970, the year Earth Day was born, hasn't changed much: Crisis. Catastrophe. Endangered. Extinction.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

TVNZ

• Greece passes reform law to unlock more rescue ...
  Greek lawmakers have approved a reform law to unlock about 8.8 billion euros ($NZ13.5b) of rescue loans.
• Fire breaks out in Bangladesh building where 3 ...
  Fire broke out in a garment factory that collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital, complicating attempts to find any survivors.
• Obama shows off funny side in annual speech
  US President Barack Obama has poked fun at the media, his critics and himself at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
• Boston bomb suspects' parents cancel US trip
  The parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have retreated to a Russian village.
• Gunshots fired near Italy prime minister's office
  Gunshots were fired in front of the Italian prime minister's office.

environment 360

• NASA Test Flights Affirm Viability of Biofuel- ...
  In recent test flights, NASA researchers have confirmed that commercial airliners can safely fly on an alternative jet fuel blend and that under some conditions the biofuel mix produced 30 percent fewer emissions than NASAContrails from a NASA DC-8 aircraft typical jet fuel. After flying DC-8 ai ...
• Fires Burn More Fiercely As Northern Forests Warm
  From North America to Siberia, rising temperatures and drier woodlands are leading to a longer burning season and a significant increase in forest fires. Scientists warn that this trend is expected continue in the years ahead. BY DYLAN WALSH
• Metal Demand Could Increase Nine-Fold as Devel ...
  Global demand for metals could increase nine-fold in the coming years as the world’s developing economies continue to grow, a trend that could have profound negative environmental impacts, a new UN report says. As populations in these countries continue to adopt modern technologies, and nations ...
• New Web Site to Track CO2 Levels As Planet App ...
  As atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide approach the milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm), a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has launched a Website that will publish daily readings of CO2 concentrations, an online resource he hopes will drive home the urgent thre ...
• Conservation of Forests Can Prevent Malaria Sp ...
  The conservation of woodlands and biodiversity can actually help prevent the spread of malaria in tropical forests, a new study says. Using a mathematical model of different conditions in a forest region of southeastern Brazil, scientists found that the circulation of the parasite Plasmodium viv ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

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Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Pilgrimage to ancient Tunisia synagogue begins
  The pilgrimage to the ancient Ghriba synagogue on Tunisia’s resort island of Djerba began on Friday.
• Mykyta Panasenko charged with having explosive ...
  Carrying bombs on the train...I guess he was just mentally ill, right?
• IDF Chief Rabbi Endorses Book that Says Non-Je ...
  On rules about Mezuzahs and the equality of non-Jews in Israel.
• Zionism and Islamophobia: Initial Encounters w ...
  Zionism viewed Muslims/Arabs as essentially different in their very being to European Jews.
• WSJ Op-Ed Pushes Controversial NYPD Surveillan ...
  Fox News writes highly speculative op-ed claiming NYPD would have prevented the Boston bombing.

Energy News

• Highest fallout levels in Tokyo since soon aft ...
• ‘Great wall of Fukushima’ to be built undergro ...
• Anonymous Insider: “Something grossly wrong” a ...
• TV: Clay sheet used for Fukushima nuclear wast ...
• Article: Fukushima Daiichi plant “did amazingl ...

Japan Times

• Dreamliner conducts first Japan flight since g ...
  A Dreamliner carrying Boeing and All Nippon Airways execs lands safely at Haneda airport to assure Japanese travelers that its new batteries are safe.
• Takeda loses cancer suit over Actos
  Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug ...
• LDP’s pick heads for victory in Upper House by ...
  Exit polls show former Shimonoseki Mayor Kiyoshi Ejima clinching a by-election in Yamaguchi Prefecture, tying the LDP with the DPJ in the House of Councilors.
• Crown Prince, Princess depart for Netherlands
  Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako leave for the Netherlands to attend the coronation of the new Dutch king in her first official overseas ...
• Struggling Hollywood yields to China’s growing ...
  Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• The ‘Kate effect,’ charity edition
  The duchess of Cambridge makes her first ever video message to appeal for charity support
• Book review: The Art of Controversy: Political ...
  Victor S. Navasky's new book on images that sting worse than words
• Prince Philip in Toronto
  New military Colours, a spiffy fedora and then back to Britain it is
• The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story
  The only boring part of Catherine Fletcher's new book is the title. Here's our review.
• The only thing liberated was their wallets
  Patients are left with costs as discredited MS therapy circles the drain, writes Colby Cosh

Making It Count - CCPA

• National Day of Mourning: Past Sacrifice, Pres ...
  Weekends aside, there’s still a lot to thank unions for. Maternity leave top-up. Employment Insurance. Child labour laws. Numerous studies—past, and more recent—have identified the degree to which unions have contributed to more equitable, safer societies, and jobs where the normally stubbornly ...
• Tall Tales at Tax Time: Meet Thomas and Colleen
  There is a nice little story tucked in to the pages of Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2013. It’s a sweet tale of Thomas and Colleen and their two children. (I like to imagine those little stick-figure stickers on the back of their mini-van waving hello to their friends in happy economic-action-pl ...
• Crowley’s Red Hot Labour Market
  Brian Lee Crowley’s latest column shows he’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. We shouldn’t be worried about unemployment because a) it’s old-fashioned, b) Boomers had it worse (and now they’re getting old) c) we’re doing better than the U.S., and d) it’s rea ...
• Canadians Aren’t Buying the Banksplaining
  So, am I the only parent of small children struck by the familiar tone of RBC’s Temporary Foreign Worker damage control message fiasco? In a CBC interview that was basically a clinic for how not to do PR, Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji’s attempt at banksplaining sounded suspiciously ...
• Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?
  An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

• Kenya Fights Floods and Drought
    “Kenya has been experiencing heavy rains since early March. Rivers have burst their banks and flooded villages, washing away homes, crops and bridges. Buildings have collapsed, vehicles been swept away and children buried alive in landslides. “The semi-arid northern lands, whe ...
• Fracking debris considered too radioactive eve ...
  “A truck carrying drill cuttings from a fracking site set off a radiation alarm at a landfill in Pennsylvania. Emitting gamma radiation ten times higher than the permitted level, the waste was rejected by the landfill. “After the alarm went off, the MAX Environmental Technologies tru ...
• Senators Urging Against Clean Water Progress
  “Yesterday’s letter to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe from over two dozen Republican Senators urges EPA to perpetuate the stalemate which is leaving drinking water sources without Clean Water Act protection. “We hope this letter has the oppo ...
• De-silvering the Mirror: Mining for Film in th ...
  “It is a little-known and poignant fact that some of the silver and chemicals to produce the films that made Hollywood the global center of the movie industry were extracted from the Owens Valley and environs. As if it weren’t enough that Los Angeles drained water from the Eastern Si ...
• Thirsty States Take Water Battle To Supreme Court
  “On Tuesday, Oklahoma and Texas will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court. The winner gets water. And this is not a game. The court will hear oral arguments in the case of  Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, et al. The case pits Oklahoma against Texas over rights to water from the ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• the1% is absolutely ecstatic and euphoric
  …actually it is only the 99% who feel as Bill Moyers describes … the1% is absolutely ecstatic and euphoric…   The Worst Congress Money Can Buy   Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company:… Read the Article  If you want to see why the public approval rating of Congress ...
• Q. What’s a lawyer to do when he isn&#82 ...
  …this is Arizona … the wild, wild west… Q. What’s a lawyer to do when he isn’t allowed to be a lawyer? A. Run for governor, of course. Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas says he wants to be Arizona’s next governor to combat crime and border violence. He filed the pap ...
• nothing more need be said
  …absolutely brilliant … nothing more need be said … Filed under: Blogroll
• what value is there in having the CIA “f ...
  …tell us just what value is there in having the CIA “flag” anyone thought to be violent…   Filed under: Blogroll
• IF… this is true … what are we sup ...
  …IF… this is true … what are we supposed to believe and conclude…   CONFIRMED: Both FBI & CIA Watched Boston Bombing Suspects for Years 04-26-2013  •  http://www.prisonplanet.com, Tony Cartalucci FBI & CIA now admit to putting Boston bombing suspect on 2 “watch lists,” dir ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Aquatic ape theory supporters give idea fresh ...
  It is one of the most unusual evolutionary ideas yet proposed: humans are amphibious apes who lost their fur, started to walk upright and developed big brains because they took to living by the water's edge.Although treated with...
• It's true: Monkey-see, monkey-do
  You don't have to be a teenager to want to fit in at the school lunchroom. Some wild animals seem to follow similar monkey-see, monkey-do behavior to follow the crowd and find the best eats, new research finds.South African monkeys...
• CERN scientists find asymmetry in particle decay
  Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher have found further reasons for the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe.A team working with data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider says it has discovered a particle that decays...
• Charlotte Martin: Change your diet to fit your ...
  Nutrigenomic research ultimately aims to unravel the interactions between nutrients and genes. The father of Western medicine Hippocrates famously said: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food", arguing that disease was...
• Entries open for Prime Minister's Science Prizes
  Entries are now open for the prestigious Prime Minister's Science Prizes, and a former winner says New Zealand scientists need to put aside fears of Tall Poppy Syndrome and take a shot at the $1 million on offer.The prizes, launched...

The Bovine

• From Quebec: “The Impossible Farm”
  While we do our best, here at the Bovine, to cover the Canadian raw milk scene, along with other food politics and food rights stories, we don’t often get much news from Quebec. Now we’ve heard how fewer French people … Continue reading →
• How the CFIA defines “local”, &#82 ...
  Remember the story that was in the news April 2nd about that Alliston gourmet burger restaurant that ran afoul of the CFIA when someone apparently complained that their “advertised as local” burgers weren’t local enough. How was local described there? … Continue reading & ...
• How the CFIA defines “local”, &#82 ...
  Remember the story that was in the news April 2nd about that Alliston gourmet burger restaurant that ran afoul of the CFIA when someone apparently complained that their “advertised as local” burgers weren’t local enough. How was local described there? … Continue reading & ...
• Eco-village loses a beloved milk cow
  Story and pictures from ourecovillage.org Introduction (and pictures at bottom) by Raoul Bedi (www.biofield.ca ): It is refreshing, and even somewhat mind-expanding, to read about how the community at OUR ecovillage  had bonded with their recently departed cow “Bossy” to the … ...
• Eco-village loses a beloved milk cow
  Story and pictures from ourecovillage.org Introduction (and pictures at bottom) by Raoul Bedi (www.biofield.ca ): It is refreshing, and even somewhat mind-expanding, to read about how the community at OUR ecovillage  had bonded with their recently departed cow “Bossy” to the … ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Who Won? the 93% or the 7%? Why?
  Economic trends since 2009 show A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93%. During the first two years of the nation’s economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth distribution rose by an estimated 28%, while the mean net worth of househ ...
• Is Capitalism Killing Our Morals and Economy?
  In one of the most hopelessly incorrect collections of drivel that I have ever seen, Paul Farrell of MarketWatch writes Capitalism is killing our morals, our future. Yes, capitalism is working ... for the Forbes 1,000 Global Billionaires whose ranks swelled from 322 in 2000 to 1,426 recent ...
• Jim Chanos: China: The Edifice Complex - Wine ...
  Jim Chanos' speech, "China: The Edifice Complex", is available at Wine Country Conference Speaker Presentations. Click on the link and scroll down to find the correct video. Allow 45 minutes or so for viewing. The videos are the actual presentations, and we are making a couple of them ...
• Moving Ahead with "Pension Progress"
  Buried in a transportation bill that President Obama signed on July 6, 2012, was a change to make it appear pension plans are better funded than they really are. The bill was called Map-21 "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act". Here is a catchy logo and stated goals. ...
• Consumer Prices Dip Another .9% in Japan; Will ...
  In spite of fact the Yen is down about 12% on the year, consumer prices in Japan are still falling and some are already clamoring for still more monetary stimulus. Please consider Bank of Japan Sees Inflation Nearing Target in 2015. Consumer prices excluding fresh food slid 0.5 percent ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Video Interview: CIA, Caucasus & Tsarnaev Brothers
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Leonard Cohen – “The Future” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music pick is Leonard Cohen’s The Future. This was a suggestion from Sibel and with all that’s been going on in Boston and the aftermath, seriously apropos for both mood and state of mind. The lyrics are pos ...
• BFP BREAKING NEWS: Boston Terror, CIA’s Graham ...
  Graham Fuller: Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege, FBI Gladio-B Target, Handler-Sponsor of Turkey’s Imam GulenA major break in the Boston Terror CIA Connection took place last night when I came across a post outing CIA Operative Graham Fuller as the father of the woman married to Boston terror sus ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- April 26 ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• BREAKING NEWS: Russia’s FSB Detains 140 in Mos ...
  Boiling Frogs Post Vindicated in Its Analyses of Boston Terror & Predictions Over a week ago I began my interview and analyses series on hidden connections and intended objectives in the Boston Terror Case. In our Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener Report with James Corbett I offered two connected ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Sinopec, China Shipping, MOL Joint Venture Ord ...
  In a stock exchange filing today, 6 Hong Kong-based investment holding companies jointly owned by Sinopec Kantons, China Shipping Development, and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines announced a USD $1,510,000,000 new build [...]
• Giant Head Found in the Hudson River
  And in other news on this Friday evening, a giant head was found floating in the Hudson River.
• Death Penalty Sentence Looms for Enrica Lexie ...
  An Indian anti-terrorism agency will investigate the case of two Italian marines accused of murdering two Indian fishermen, raising the possibility once more of the men facing the death penalty.
• ClassNK Certifies Iino Marine ECDIS Training C ...
  Tokyo-based classification society ClassNK announced that it has certified the Type Specific ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) training course provided by Iino Marine Service Busan Co., Ltd., an [...]
• Delayed Deliveries Hit Cargotec’s Marine Unit
  Cargotec has been struggling to improve profitability for the past few years as global economic uncertainty and a glut of vessels have made shipping companies hesitant about adding new ships.

Press TV

• Fire erupts in Dhaka collapsed building
  A blaze has erupted in a collapsed garment factory building in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, amid efforts to save remaining survivors of a disastrous incident that claimed at least 377 lives.
• 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.
• Rafsanjani doesn’t rule out competing
  Iranian former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says he does not rule out the possibility of his competing in the country’s upcoming presidential election.
• Iran predicts rise in earnings
  Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi says the Islamic Republic’s foreign exchange earnings will increase by about five billion dollars by starting gas exports to Iraq.

SciDev.net

• Chemical weapons convention fails to address k ...
  A conference fails to address the use of chemicals to disable civilians, as indications of chemical weapons' use in Syria emerge.
• WCSJ2013 urged to find new funding model for c ...
  A plan is needed to protect critical science journalism as media incomes fall, heard a meeting ahead of the World Conference of Science Journalists.
• Men blamed for hindering female Arab scientists
  Female researchers in Arab nations are being hampered by a lack of support from research bodies and male scientists, a conference has heard.
• Nanowire device may help tackle malaria drug r ...
  A diagnostic device no bigger than a smartphone harnesses nanotechnology to detect the specific type of malaria a patient is infected with.
• Middle East synchrotron seeks peace through co ...
  A research centre in Jordan aims to boost science and foster peace through international collaboration, reports Rehab Abd Almohsen.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Quickfire Science: Gonorrhoea
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• Proving Theories of Gravitation
  Observations of a massive neutron star in a compact stellar binary in outer space confirm general relativity theory in a previously untested regime, a new study reports. General relativity (GR), ...
• Sounding Sexy
  Marilyn Monroe and Barry White had it sussed decades ahead of the science. Marilyn's breathy vocals takes many men's breath away. And Barry's deep crooning has left millions of women swooning. But why...
• The Trouble with Biofuels
  TBiofuels - often suggested as low or no carbon alternatives to fossil - may not be as green as they seem. The promise is attractive: can we use plants to make fuel? If we could, we would be taking ...
• Reducing the Droop in LED Efficiency
  A team from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have answered an important question in LED performance - called 'efficiency droop' - which has limited the development of high-performanc...

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