Monday, April 08, 2013

8 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

NZ Red Admiral Butterfly in Wellington, New Ze...NZ Red Admiral Butterfly in Wellington, New Zealand Māori: Kahukura (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cover of the 1999 novel by UFO desk MoD operat...Cover of the 1999 novel by UFO desk MoD operative Nick Pope. In this novel Nick Pope speculated that alien bodies (EBEs), had been taken to Porton Down. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Steam-Water separator at 100MW Mighty...English: Steam-Water separator at 100MW Mighty River power station at Kawerau, New Zealand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
One of the domes collapsed at GCSB's Waihopai ...One of the domes collapsed at GCSB's Waihopai Spy Base after the 2008 Ploughshares attack (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Gate to Hell found in Turkey
    A “gate to hell” has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists have announced. Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin -- the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition. Historic sources locate ...
  • Glut trips NZ power privatisation
    NZ's offer of shares in Mighty River Power, which generates about 17 per cent of the country's electricity, is to open on April 15. However, the stock may struggle to live up to pricing expectations outlined in its prospectus as investors weigh risks, including the possible closure of a Rio T ...
  • Trotter: Friends In High Places
    For most of the Government Communications Security Bureau’s history (and that of its predecessors) its Directors have had very few distinguishing features. Which was entirely deliberate. Most governments do not want the people in charge of their national security apparatus to be household nam ...
  • Saudi prosecutor calls for crucifixion
    On 25 March 2013, at the first court hearing of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a Saudi prosecutor called for “death by crucifixion.” The prosecutor invoked haraba, a form of Islamic punishment enforced by the Saudi government, involving crucifixion and dismemberment. The cleric’s ...
  • Antarctic Melt = 3 x Global Average
    The length of the summer melt season in part of Antarctica has been getting longer, and increasing ice loss, for the last 60 years. The summer melting has been linked to the rapid break-up of ice shelves in the area and rising sea levels, the scientists said. Researchers with the British A ...

Independent - London

  • Venezuela’s President-elect Nicolas Maduro: Vo ...
    Venezuela’s President-elect Nicolas Maduro has claimed that a centuries-old curse will strike anyone who fails to vote for him in next week’s election.Related StoriesBeyonce and Jay-Z's Cuba trip sparks questions over US trade embargoPrison gang fights the law: Is the Aryan Brotherhood taking on ...
  • Coptic Christians under siege as mob attacks C ...
    Hundreds of Christians are under siege inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral as security forces and local residents, some armed with handguns, launched a prolonged and unprecedented attack on the seat of Egypt’s ancient church.Related StoriesBritons living in Somalia urged to leave country amid fears ...
  • Ever-growing threat in Egypt puts Coptic Chris ...
    The Egyptian state’s crackdown on Coptic Christian protesters 18 months ago was one of the most chilling attacks on the country’s Christian minority in recent years.Related StoriesKim Jong-un: The dictator’s night seems darkest immediately before the dawnCoptic Christians: The minority who are a ...
  • Coptic Christians: The minority who are an eas ...
    The Egyptian military’s crackdown on Coptic Christian protesters 18 months ago was one of the most chilling attacks on the country’s Christian minority in recent years.Related StoriesKim Jong-un: The dictator’s night seems darkest immediately before the dawnEver-growing threat in Egypt puts Copt ...
  • Sexism tag hounds Barack Obama after Kamala Ha ...
    He may have thought it a throwaway remark, but President Barack Obama’s decision to call California’s top law enforcement officer “the best-looking attorney-general in the country” has instead proved to be the political equivalent of a boomerang.Related StoriesBeyonce and Jay-Z's Cuba trip spar ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • What makes the French so unhappy?
    Why are the French so miserable? We are proud of our culture and our economy has fared better than most through the economic crisis. Yet the still-young discipline of happiness research confirms there seems to be something about life in France that makes people more anxious and less cheery than ...
  • Woman who found stolen BMA Renoir painting at ...
    New twists in an ongoing mystery over who owns a valuable painting that disappeared from the Baltimore Museum of Art nearly 60 years ago. Alex DeMetrick reports - the woman who says she bought it at a flea market for $7 is not who she originally claimed to be. Renoir painted a landscape on the ...
  • School faces new questions in Colorado massacre
    New questions confronted the University of Colorado, Denver on Friday amid disclosures that a psychiatrist who treated theater shooting suspect James Holmes had warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts. Court documents made publ ...
  • Google revolution isn't worth our privacy
    This is a future we would be wise to avoid, writes Evgeny Morozov Let's give credit where it is due: Google is not hiding its revolutionary ambitions. As its co-founder Larry Page put it in 2004, eventually its search function "will be included in people's brains" so that "when you think about ...
  • Anti-drone activists protest outside Boeing HQ
    Anti-war activists targeted Boeing's Chicago headquarters today protesting the company's role in drone warfare, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser. It is the "Day of the Drones' with protests across the country targeting drone manufacturers. About three dozen protestors chanted, marched, gave speeche ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Posturing . . .
    STEVIE LOVES UNIFORMS. Maybe he should visit and stay there, and take Airshow with him, too, come to think of it.
  • Priorities . . .
    STEVIE THINKS PANDAS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE, even those who have walked 1,600  kilometers.
  • Boris out...
    I started blogging here in April 2006 after Dave kindly offered me a space for my voice. Thank you Dave! That's pretty much SEVEN years ago. I'm not sure how that's happened, but there it is. I've had much less energy for blogging over the past while, my posts have gotten shorter and from my ...
  • On a positive note . . .
    INHABITAT reports that clever young people exist, with an article you should read, by Morgana Matus, "17-Year-Old Builds Algae Biofuel Lab in Her Bedroom to Win $100K Intel Science Talent Search Prize". Sara Volz
  • Dimmit . . .
    THE WORLD'S A MUCH brighter place when you're not too bright for it, according to the folks who make MinusIQ | The pill to lower your IQ permanently.

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Partisanship And Diversity On The Sund ...
    The four broadcast networks' Sunday morning political talk shows guests skewed right during the first quarter of 2013. MSNBC's two Sunday programs featured far greater gender and ethnic diversity in its guests than the broadcast programs and CNN's Sunday morning political talk show.Republic ...
  • Fox Covers Up Facts That Undermine Anti-Gun Re ...
    Fox News' The Five claimed that the U.S. has the lowest gun-related murder rate in the world and that public opinion is turning against President Obama on gun control, ignoring that the U.S. has a higher gun homicide rate than other developed nations, and that a vast majority of Americans favor ...
  • Fox's Doocy Ignores Problems With Texas Econom ...
    Fox News' Steve Doocy suggested that Obama look to Texas as a model for economic growth, ignoring the fact that the state's high job growth doesn't translate to economic success for many Texans. Texas' economic problems include a median wage below the national average, one of the largest minimum ...
  • Fox Mangles Positive Auto Sales Numbers To Bas ...
    Fox host Stuart Varney and guest Marc Morano falsely suggested higher truck sales in March translate into a rejection of more fuel efficient vehicles by American consumers. In fact, the driving force behind higher truck sales is a rebounding construction sector, and sales of more fuel effic ...
  • What Media Should Know About The Anti-Immigran ...
    Mainstream media outlets should be aware of damaging economic attacks leveled by anti-immigrant groups in an attempt to derail comprehensive immigration reform. In reality, research indicates that comprehensive immigration reform would improve the U.S. economy, create jobs and boost American wag ...

Global Research.ca

  • Who Will Save Social Security and Medicare?
    Before Social Security and Medicare existed, the elderly were either completely dependent on their children or were left to beg in the streets. These programs thus remain sacred to the vast majority of Americans. They allow the elderly dignity and…
  • States Fight Back Against MERS Mortgage Fraud
    MERS: The Center of the Mortgage Scam A prominent economist said about the 2008 financial crisis: “At the root of the crisis we find the largest financial swindle in world history”, where “counterfeit” mortgages were “laundered” by the banks. The…
  • U.S. Stealth Bombers in Dry Run Over S.Korea
    Global Research Editor’s Note The B-2 are equipped to launch B61-11 tactical bunker buster bombs with nuclear war heads. Their deployment over Korea is a clear act of provocation. (GR Ed. M. Ch.) U.S. stealth bombers conducted a mock bombing…
  • War Related Post Traumatic Stress: An Issue of ...
    by Dr. Hakim I believe the medical community has made a mistake in considering war-related post-traumatic stress a disorder. War related post-traumatic stress is a natural order, not a disorder. I speak as a general medical practitioner, not as a…
  • How can an Afghan Veteran of War Help us Under ...
    Below are excerpts of an interview of Nao Rozi, an Afghan National Army veteran, and now a member of the Afghan Peace Volunteers. Nao Rozi : “Veterans commit suicide from a good conscience” http://youtu.be/UVPLxl3QXxE Excerpts of Video Transcript Nao Rozi…

TPM Cafe

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

  • The Exxon Pipeline Spill: QUESTIONS THAT SHOUL ...
    This is a guest submission by Riki Ott, PhD. Dr. Ott is a marine toxicologist, author, and former commercial fisher. She was one of the first people on the scene during the Exxon Valdez oil spill, when millions of gallons of crude oil were discharged into the pristine waters of Prince William So ...
  • Pipeline spill in Arkansas calls into question ...
    On Good Friday, an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying Canadian Wabasca Heavy crude burst in Mayflower, Arkansas and was discovered—not by the pipeline company—but by a local resident.  According to the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), which referred to Wabasca as “oil sands” in ...
  • PACE is Good for Texas
    You may have never heard of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), but it has the potential to make a huge difference in adoption of distributed renewable energy systems, such as rooftop solar installations. PACE allows businesses to borrow money from local governments to work on energy efficien ...
  • Texas Clean Energy Goals Under Attack
    It wouldn’t be a Texas legislative session without some truly backwards bills.  Today we have House Bill 2026 by freshman Representative Sanford of Collin county that would eliminate our state renewable energy goals. In 1999, the state of Texas made a commitment to renewable energy in the ...
  • Texas House Energy Resources Committee to hear ...
    The House Energy Resources Committee is scheduled to hear Representative Dennis Bonnen’s bill, HB 2166, relating to the continuation, functions, and name of the Railroad Commission of Texas; providing for the imposition of fees, the repeal of provisions for the suspension of the collection ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Humanoid 'Petman' robot gets an upgrade
    The uncannily human-like Petman robot from Boston Dynamics has now been given a head and clothes. Well known for their impressive four-legged BigDog r...
  • How close is doomsday ?
    With all the talk of the cataclysm lately, is there a way to determine when the world will really end ? Much of the hype surrounding the notion that t...
  • Lost items reveal Roman bath activities
    Roman artifacts recovered from the drains of public baths have revealed new insights in to their history. To those who had access to them in ancient R...
  • City from 500 BC discovered in India
    A 2,500-year-old city in India is being hailed as one of the most important discoveries in over 50 years. Explorers have uncovered evidence of the anc...
  • Live fish found in tsunami debris
    An unlikely stowaway has been found aboard a boat that washed up on US shores after the Japan tsunami. A live fish was found on the 18ft skiff that is...

Grassroots

  • Haiti needs solidarity, not soldiers: First-ha ...
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  • If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sov ...
    Subheadline:  Farmers speak out at the World Social Forum in Tunisia seeds-india-yakshi.jpg Thousands of small farmers joined students, activists, unionists , human rights ...
  • Commemorating Palestinian Land Day
    palestine-boy_in_field.jpg  For 37 years, March 30 has been celebrated as Palestinian Land Day, a day of action for land rights.  On this date in 1976, Palestinians inside Israel mobilized to protest Israel’s plans to take 2,000 h ...
  • The True Costs of Industrialized Food
    brazil-agrotoxin_poster.jpg The real costs of the industrial food system on people’s lives and the planet are as extensive as they are hidden.  The article below by long-time Grassroots International friends, Beverley Bell and T ...
  • Supporting Women's Rights and Power
    janaina.jpg  “There are thousands upon thousands who weren’t as lucky as I was—I survived hunger....I probably would not have survived had it not been for the support and solidarity of groups like Grassroots International.”  Janai ...

Climate

  • International Energy Agency to Offer China Roo ...
    (Reuters) The International Energy Agency will invite China and other emerging economies to take part in key strategic talks, sources in the IEA said, in a bid to strengthen ties with non-members whose share in global oil demand has ra ...
  • U.S. Renews Funding for Biofuels Research Centers
    (The Detroit News) The U.S. Energy Department said Thursday it wants to extend funding for three bioenergy research centers for another five years as part of a $125 million proposal. read more
  • A Close Look at Fugitive Methane Emissions fro ...
    (The World Resources Institute) Natural gas is booming in the United States. Production has increased by 20 percent in the last five years, fueled largely by technological advances in shale gas extraction. Other countries–including Chi ...
  • Fukushima Cooling System Fails for Second Time ...
    (Guardian) The cooling system for a fuel storage pool at one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant has failed, Japanese regulators have said. There was no immediate danger from the failure, the second at the plant in a month, ...
  • Rush Limbaugh Gives iPad to 13-Year-Old Climat ...
    (The Hill) Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is giving an iPad to a 13-year-oldwho said he found evidence that human-induced global warming is a hoax through books at a local library. "It was really easy for me to find this eviden ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Douthat Loathes Himself
    Ross Douthat emerged from Harvard with some serious hang-ups. I don't know why. He grew up in New Haven, so it's not like Cambridge was a foreign planet. He graduated magna cum laude, which ain't too shabby. Yet, his first instinct upon graduation was to write a book ripping the place: Privi ...
  • On the DCCC's Strategy
    I hope it isn't true that the Democrats would need a +13 advantage on the generic ballot in order to win back the House of Representatives in 2014. Alan I. Abramowitz's analysis is solid and it's based on a model which looks at all 17 midterm elections since the end of World War Two. The probl ...
  • Black and Suburban
    I ran into something last night while I was trying to research something else. But I found part of it interesting and I want to share it with you. It's part of an article on "black flight" from Philadelphia. I think it gives some important perspective on what it's like to be black, well-educa ...
  • Rick Warren's Son Commits Suicide
    Matthew Warren was the 27 year-old son of famous evangelical minister Rick Warren, known for his invocation at the 2009 Obama Inauguration, his best selling book "The Purpose Driven Life," his antipathy toward LGBT people and his support of the anti-LGBT rights movement. Matthew died from a sel ...
  • Wanker of the Day
    George Will. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • 20 Amazing Pictures of Burrowing Owls
    As these photos show, with their large, yellow eyes, long, spindly legs, and underground burrows, Burrowing Owls are an unusual species indeed. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From lone survivors of airline disasters to business icons who bounced back from the sack, it's a mesmerizing mix of miscellany. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Penan Peace Park: A Bornean Tribe's Last S ...
    The Penan tribe of Sarawak, Borneo have been losing their rainforest to loggers and plantations for decades. The Penan Peace Park project offers them new hope. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Abandoned Steam Ship Transformed into Giant St ...
    Previously abandoned and left to rust, steamer the TSS Duke of Lancaster has been given a new life in a project aimed at making her the largest outdoor gallery in Europe. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    From bizarre stamp forgeries and audacious jailbreaks, to soberingly creative public health ads, this selection of links brings together some fascinating nuggets. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...
  • NEW VIDEOS: Interviews from Enbridge blockade ...
    Got a batch of videos here from the last week to check out. Glad to have a little chance to bring these interesting projects, including Idle No More MN & the Enbridge Blockade near Leonard MN (also known as the encampment) going strong since late February. All these videos are basically uned ...
  • LOL wow for the House of Cards: Cyprus bank co ...
    Admittedly this is a little bit speculative but it looks pretty big. lol wow I can't believe they are triggering a huge EU bank run in Cyprus by confiscating big slabs of bank accounts to satiate the European Central Bankers - it's blamed on rich Russians who 'deserve' to have their savings jack ...
  • Stay Fly: Holy Smokes
    Oh I dearly hope this is an authentic photo - isn't it easily the greatest news photograph ever? Floating around, see : Something Out of The Godfather... | E L V O M I T A R . C O M etc. Good luck to the Catholics, they need help like all of us. Regardless, there's no swag like Vatican swag. Th ...
  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...

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IntelNews

  • Ex-CIA analyst says North Korea will launch st ...
    A former senior analyst on North Korea at the United States Central Intelligence Agency believes that the communist state will launch limited strikes against the South before moving to de-escalate the ongoing crisis in the Korean peninsula.
  • Intelligence historian calls on MI6 to declass ...
    An historian whose book on British intelligence prompted the claim of Britain’s complicity in the 1961 assassination Patrice Lumumba has called for MI6 to declassify its secret files on the late Congolese Prime Minister.
  • News you may have missed #828
    Chinese researcher charged with stealing US drug. Turkish intelligence to 'oversee PKK retreat'. Analysis: Controversial Bush programs continue under Obama.
  • Did MI6, not CIA, kill Congolese Prime Ministe ...
    The 1961 abduction and murder of iconic Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was organized by British, not American, intelligence, according to a claim made this week by a British Labour politician and Life peer.
  • Spy equipment discovered near Russian military ...
    Sophisticated intelligence-collection devices hidden inside faux boulders have been discovered on an island situated across from a Russian naval base in Syria. The devices were found on Al-Naml, an uninhabited islet of only 150 square meters, which overlooks the Syrian port of Tartus, site of a ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Destabilizing Venezuela: Longstanding US Policy
      Destabilizing Venezuela: Longstanding US Policy   by Stephen Lendman   It doesn't surprise. It's likely happening ahead of Venezuela's April 14 presidential election. It'll continue when it's over.    Washington tolerates no independent governments. It demands pro-West ...
  • More Peace Process Hypocrisy
      More Peace Process Hypocrisy   by Stephen Lendman   On April 6, John Kerry began a multi-nation tour. He'll travel to Europe and East Asia. His first stop is Turkey. He'll meet with Netanyahu and Abbas. He wants peace talks restarted. More on that below.   Peace process dec ...
  • Visiting a Drone Kill Profiteer's House
  • Veterans for Peace: Don't Iraq Iran or Any Oth ...
    Veterans for Peace has just released the following statement: With the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq behind us, the task lies before us of preventing the next one. The Iraq war, like all wars, was launched on the basis of false answers to false questions. We are now being told to a ...
  • Veterans For Peace: Reject Military Spending o ...
    Veterans For Peace has just released this statement: With 47% of federal discretionary spending going into the cost of war preparations and wars in 2013, it is time once and for all that we forbid the common American practice of opposing taxes and supporting wars.* Veterans For Peace is joining ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman on C-SPAN’s In-De ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear live on C-SPAN’s In-Depth on Sunday, April 7th from 12-3 pm EST . In-Depth features a comprehensive, three-hour look at one author’s work, with questions from viewers via phone and e-mail. Goodman is the first journalist to recei ...
  • READ: "Digital Disconnect" Ahead of Democracy ...
    Democracy Now! will interview Robert McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy and others when we broadcast live Friday from the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver. Scroll down to read the introduction to his latest work. ...
  • 40 Years After Secret U.S. War in Laos Ended, ...
    Forty years ago, on March 29, 1973, the "secret" U.S. bombing that devastated Laos came to an end. By that point, the United States had dropped at least two million tons of bombs on Laos. That is the equivalent of one planeload every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years &mdas ...
  • Gun Control: It's Time for the Majority to Move
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan New federal gun-control legislation has been declared all but dead on arrival this week. Gridlock in the U.S. Senate, where a super-majority of 60 votes is needed to move most legislation these days, is proving to be an insuperable barrier to any meaningf ...
  • Watch: Amy Goodman with Vampire Weekend, Cyndi ...
    Stream live tonight! Amy Goodman joins the media panel on "Q in New York City," hosted by Jian Ghomeshi on CBC at 7pm ET. "Q in New York City" will be recorded live before sold-out audience of 600 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in Manhattan. You can watch the live video s ...

Solari

  • Property and the Lady
    [Note from CAF: The Economist is laying the philosophic basis for eminent domain actions on scale. Given the recent leads about the TransPacific negotiations and the President's proposal for private financing of infrastructure, combined with the efforts to push through gun control, get ready fo ...
  • Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sa ...
    “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” ~ Benjamin Franklin By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, I am headed over to Top of the World Farm to join Franklin Sanders for the Solari Report. After Money & Markets, Franklin will update us on the precious metals markets ...
  • Aloe Blacc – “I Need A Dollar”
    Related Reading: Aloe Blacc Official Website Aloe Blacc on Wikipedia
  • Cyprus – Banks In Europe May Now Seize D ...
    By Henry Blodget Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and economy will completely implode. The 10 billion euro deal requires Cyprus to drastically shrink its banking sector, which has grown to 8Xs the ...
  • 1st Quarter Wrap Up – April 4
    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness” ~ Charles Dickens By Catherine Austin Fitts This week on the Solari Report, please join me for our 1st Quarter Wrap Up. It’s been three months since we publish ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Renault Unveils Colorful Pavilion Made From 15 ...
    Read the rest of Renault Unveils Colorful Pavilion Made From 15 Shipping Containers on Ile Seguin, Paris Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Île Seguin, Cargotecture, Daylighting, green materials, Man Architecture, Paris, pavilion, recycled shipping containers, Renault&nbs ...
  • LIVE WEBCAST: Participate in ‘Design with a Co ...
    Interested in the intersection of car and building design? Wondering what happens when architects and automotive designers get together to talk about design innovation? Here’s your chance to learn more about what cars and buildings can teach each other and how they can help us push the bou ...
  • Contact 1: Incredible Space Age City Made From ...
    Read the rest of Contact 1: Incredible Space Age City Made From 200,000 LEGO Bricks Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: contact 1, eco design, green design, kickstarter, lego architecture, LEGOs, Mike Doyle, sustainable design
  • Play-Doh 3D Printer Would Bring iPad Designs t ...
    April Fools was almost a week ago, but we couldn’t resist sharing one of our favorite fake news stories of the week. ThinkGeek announced the release of a newPlay-Doh 3D printer that works in tandem with the iPlay-Doh 3D app that you download to your iPad to create any design you can dream ...
  • Whole Foods Announces Plans for 20,000 Sq. Ft. ...
    NYC foodies will soon be in for a real treat as Whole Foods has announced they’ll be operating a rooftop farm right atop their forthcoming Gowanus, Brooklyn store. The 20,000 sq. ft. greenhouse will produce fresh veggies and other greens to be delivered to the market below. Now that’ ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Hurrahs and Harrumphs for T-Mobile
    Many readers are thrilled by T-Mobile’s new policies. But there is, as always, a sizable crowd who object.
  • Great April’s Fools Pranks From Around t ...
    It's April Fool's Day, and companies from Google to Virgin Atlantic have put up great jokes on the Web. Check out Nokia's new line of microwave ovens and Twitter's decision to eliminate all vowels on its free service to pack more information into those 140-character messages.
  • An Easy Way to Capture Live Video of Your iPho ...
    A $13 program called Reflector transmits the video image from your iPhone, iPod or iPad to your Macintosh or PC for easy recording or projecting. It's a great help for anyone making videos or trying to conduct a presentation.
  • Addressing Fears About LED Light Bulbs
    A column about LED light bulbs generated a lot of reader e-mail, probably because LED represents change. And change is always scary. David Pogue addresses some reader concerns.
  • TiVo Explains Extra Charge for the Mini
    TiVo, a maker of digital video recorders, responds to David Pogue's criticism of its $6 monthly charge for its Mini device, which allows customers to access their TiVo content from a second TV.

The Progressive Realist

  • Conflict Prevention, Cyber War, Conspiracy The ...
    Claudette Roulo, “Dempsey Arrives in Afghanistan to Assess Progress,” American Forces Press Service, April 6, 2013. “Any conflict in history, when it is resolved, is resolved through some form of reconciliation,” [Gen. Martin Dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staff] said. “I su ...
  • Iran and the US: Deadly Embrace or Suicide Pact?
    During the Cold War, the thermonuclear standoff between the United States and Soviet Union was often described as two scorpions in a bottle. The notion was that both scorpions would sting the other to death no matter which struck first. Of course, the prospect of the scorpions being of the oppos ...
  • The Military Isn't Going to Change Anytime Soon
    In his first major policy address as Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel called for a radical overhaul of our armed forces -- "not just tweaking or chipping away at existing structures and practices." While the goal is bold and laudable, history tells us that achieving it is unlikely. ...
  • Forgiving Syria
    AP Photo On March 15, the war in Syria passed another unhappy milestone, raging for two long years. As the conflict continues, the truth of what is happening on the ground is hard to find. Journalists cannot move freely, and even humanitarian aid agencies struggle to operate. The positions of ...
  • Top of the Morning: Food Aid Finally Reaches B ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. War on Hunger Still Marches On We are beginning to see a lot more dialogue and rhetoric from major organizations as the deadline for the Millenium Development Goals draws near and the international community considers future directions. “National leadership a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Obama's Imaginary Washington
    Having won re-election comfortably and with poll after poll showing majority support for most parts of his agenda, President Obama will soon submit a budget to Congress that features significant cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Why? Well, they are "entitlements," and all right-thinking peo ...
  • Destroying the Economy and the Democrats
    AP Photo/Susan Walsh President Barack Obama speaks at the Police Academy in Denver yesterday. Job creation slowed to just 88,000 in March, signaling a sluggish economy. And President Obama, with unerring timing, picked this moment to put out an authorized leak that he is willing t ...
  • Martin Luther King and Today's Gun Advocates
    Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago yesterday, and one of the interesting little sidelights to the debate over guns that you might not be aware of is that gun advocates claim King as one of their own. You see, King had armed guards protect his family, and at one point applied ...
  • The Horrible Youth Labor Market
    One of my pet peeves about the coverage surrounding the plight of young people in America is that it focuses heavily, and at times exclusively, on how well recent college graduates are doing. Why people focus on this is a mystery to me. I suspect it is because the chattering classes are almost ...
  • Sunday Shows Continue Long Tradition of Suckage
    The Sunday political talk shows—your "Meet the Press," your "This Week," your "Face the Nation"—embody just about everything that's wrong with American politics, with Washington, D.C, and with the media. Every Sunday, you can flip between them and watch one party hack or another mindlessly deli ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • American Renaissance Speakers Call for White H ...
    Over 150 white nationalists gathered yesterday at Montgomery Bell State Park outside Nashville, Tenn., for the American Renaissance conference. This year’s event featured new speakers and a noticeably younger audience, with half the crowd raising their hands after Jared Taylor, emcee of the even ...
  • Major White Nationalist Conference Opens in Te ...
    Jared Taylor, the man behind the racist American Renaissance journal that is at the heart of the white nationalist movement, kicks off his latest annual conference tonight at Montgomery Bell State Park, just outside Nashville, Tenn. This is the second year the event has been held at the park, af ...
  • Charges Dropped Against Most Defendants in Ame ...
    Criminal charges have been dropped against nine of 13 people arrested last year in Florida for allegedly participating in paramilitary training with the American Front, described by authorities as a well-armed, militia-style white supremacist group. Only its leader, Marcus Faella, 39, still face ...
  • Army Charges Alleged Terror Ring Leader With M ...
    Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, the alleged ringleader of a murderous antigovernment group, was charged today by the United States Army with killing his wife, who was several months pregnant when she was found dead in their home on the Fort Stewart military base in Georgia nearly two years ago. The 21-year- ...
  • White Supremacists React With Glee to Texas Pr ...
    The assassination-style killings of two prosecutors in Texas are precipitating the postings of vile, anti-Semitic, almost-gleeful public comments by assorted racists and white supremacists. Investigators aren’t publicly commenting on who they think was responsible for last weekend’s murder of Ka ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Sanders Statement on Obama Cuts in Social Secu ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement on President Obama’s proposal to cut benefits for Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and others: “I am terribly disappointed and will do everything in my power to block President Obama’s proposal to ...
  • Sanders Statement on Obama Cuts in Social Secu ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement on President Obama’s proposal to cut benefits for Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and others: “I am terribly disappointed and will do everything in my power to block President Obama’s proposal to ...
  • Jobs Report Shows “Little Change” at a Time of ...
    “The weak recovery is now floundering in the face of harsh headwinds,” said Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America’s Future, reacting to this morning’s release of unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Borosage argues, “It is time for t ...
  • Jobs Report Shows “Little Change” at a Time of ...
    “The weak recovery is now floundering in the face of harsh headwinds,” said Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America’s Future, reacting to this morning’s release of unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Borosage argues, “It is time for t ...
  • Time to Open the Books on the Political Intel ...
    We urge Congress to resume the legislative effort to shine a light on the activities of Wall Street consultants and lobbyists who lurk on Capitol Hill seeking valuable information they can use to cash in on the stock market. Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued its long-await ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the “Stonewall” of ...
    Bill McKibben A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the “Selma and Stonewall” of the ...
  • The Corporate Betrayal of America
    Paul Buchheit Multinational corporations have built their businesses on the backs of American taxpayers. They've depended on government research, national defense, the legal and educational systems, and our infrastructure.read more
  • Coming Out as an Activist
    Frida Berrigan The fast-attack submarine USS Seawolf sails past downtown New London, Conn., as it makes it way out of the Thames River and into the Long Island Sound. (Flickr/Marion Doss)I trudged down the side of the road carrying a small ...
  • Obama’s Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call
    Richard Eskow No jobs. No growth. Falling income. Unaffordable colleges. A dying middle class. Young people without hope.  The greatest economic inequality in modern history.read more
  • WikiLeaks and the 2014 Sochi Olympics
    Jules Boykoff Dow-branded bobsled for the 2014 Sochi Olympics (Photo by secretlondon123, 2012, Wikimedia Commons)Precisely ten months from today, the 2014 Winter Olympics will open in Sochi, Russia.read more

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Hollande denies covering up for disgraced form ...
    French president says Jerome Cahuzac's actions 'unforgivable' as he announces reforms to lessen impact of scandalThe French president, François Hollande, has vowed he had not covered-up for his disgraced former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, whose shock confession to having hidden €600,000 from ...
  • Manchester police to record attacks on goths a ...
    Decision follows campaign by Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity set up in memory of girl fatally attacked in 2007Police in Manchester have said they will begin recording offences against members of alternative subcultures in the same way they do attacks based on race, religion, disability, s ...
  • Afghan suicide attack on provincial courthouse ...
    Suicide squad dressed as soldiers leaves 44 people dead and over 100 injured in deadliest day for civilians in more than a yearNine suicide attackers disguised as Afghan army soldiers stormed a provincial courthouse and then battled security forces for hours, killing 44 people and injuring over ...
  • Amazon tribe threatens to declare war amid row ...
    Munduruku leaders hit out at 'betrayal' after government pushes on with dam construction without community's consentAn Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by dam builders.The Munduruku indigen ...
  • Assets worth €1.3bn seized from Italian busine ...
    Vito Nicastri, known as the 'king of wind' for his renewable energy interests, loses companies, property, cars and boatsAnti-mafia investigators in Italy have made their largest confiscation of assets to date: €1.3bn (£1.1bn) worth of property, cash and alternative energy companies owned by a ma ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Bomb hits Afghan bus kills nine
    GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AFP) - A roadside bomb exploded under an Afghan bus southwest of Kabul on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 others in an attack blamed on Taliban militants, officials said.The bus bombing in the flashpoint province of Wardak came as Afghanistan endures a b ...
  • US diplomat killed in Afghanistan was doing wh ...
    CHICAGO - A young diplomat from River Forest, Ill., was among five Americans killed Saturday in an explosion in Afghanistan, according to her family and the U.S. State Department. Anne Smedinghoff was 25, said her father Tom Smedinghoff, who was reached by phone. "She was doing what she ...
  • Taliban likely to remain threat in parts of Af ...
    A top US military officer has said that the Taliban is likely to remain a military threat in some parts of Afghanistan long after American troops complete their combat mission in 2014. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is cautiously optimistic that the Afgh ...
  • Bus bomb kills nine injures 22 in Afghanistan
    At least nine civilians were killed and 22 others injured when a roadside bomb hit a public bus in a volatile province bordering Kabul, Afghan officials said today.Deputy Wardak provincial police chief General Abdul Razaq Quraishi said blast happened in the Sayed Abad district.Wardak is located ...
  • Afghan officials Bomb kills at least 9
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has hit a public bus in a restive province bordering Kabul, killing at least nine civilians and wounding ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • UN adopts Arms Trade Treaty
    On April 2nd, the UN General Assembly voted to approve a draft treaty to control the global arms trade. The proposed treaty leaves it largely up to the arms exporters themselves to determine the appropriateness of their exports. But groups working to control the arms trade are hopeful that by es ...
  • Drones update from Ottawa
    Thousands of emails and postcards are being sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other party leaders, and we are more than halfway to our goal of delivering 10,000 messages to Parliament. But there is a lot more work to be done.
  • Canada pulls out of UN drought pact
    The Harper government is taking another giant leap towards making Canada the least-green country on the planet -- by withdrawing from the international convention to combat desertification.
  • Thank you, Kevin Page
    March 22 was Kevin Page's last day as Parliamentary Budget Officer, and Ceasefire.ca would like to thank him for consistently demanding transparency from the Harper Government.
  • Drone strikes in Pakistan visualized
    Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a stunning interactive graphic by Pitch Interactive, shows all known drone strikes in Pakistan, beginning with the first strike recorded in 2004.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Everything You Know About Money Is Wrong
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comEverything You Know About Money Is Wrong By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com We Can’t Fix What We Don’t Understand Bloomberg notes this week that the conventional theory of why money was created is wrong: T ...
  • French foreign minister ‘absolutely’ denies ‘r ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFrench foreign minister absolutely denies rumor of Swiss bank account Raw StoryBy Agence France-Presse   AFP – France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius denied a “rumor” in a newspaper report ...
  • The Lessons of the Global South
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ron Jacobs Vijay Prashad is fast becoming the historian of the Global South. His books and articles discussing the relationships between the oligarchs of global capitalism and ...
  • Obama in Palestine: In Their Shoes
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comObama in Palestine: In Their Shoes – Obama‘s feet were in Palestine. His head was in Israel. Antiwar.comUri Avnery It started from the first moment. The President of the United States came to Ramallah. He vis ...
  • Israel Admits Nuclear Cancer Cases
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsrael Admits Nuclear Cancer Cases By Roy TovSunday, April 7th, 2013 Israel Admits Nuclear Cancer Cases — Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beas ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Deadly Raid: 11 Kids Killed in US Airstrike in ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday- Apr 7, 2013 At least 11 children are reported to have been among 18 people killed today in the latest airstrike by U.S. led forces in Afghanistan. The raid was allegedly called in by troops on the ground, after bitter fighting nearby. RT’s Tariq Muhi-yuddin rep ...
  • The Hijacking of Human Rights by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig April 8, 2013 The appointment of Suzanne Nossel, a former State Department official and longtime government apparatchik, as executive director of PEN American Center is part of a campaign to turn U.S. human rights organizations into propagandists ...
  • Imperial Recipes for a Burnt Planet by Chris W ...
    Dandelion Salad by Chris Williams SocialistWorker.org April 2, 2013 Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, explains the critical connection between imperialism and ecological destruction. AT THE turn of the 19th century, industrialist and weap ...
  • Corporate India–Violence in the Name of ...
    by Graham Peebles Writer, Dandelion Salad London April 4, 2013 Consistent with the unjust, decaying economic model of our deficit times, the commodification of everything and everyone proceeds apace in India. The commercialisation of the land is shattering the lives of millions of India’s poores ...
  • Glen Ford: U.S. Imperialism Hopping on Just On ...
    Dandelion Salad strugglevideomedia -Apr 6, 2013 Glen Ford of Black Agenda Reports speaks at Trinity College (Hartford) March 2013. *** Journalist Says “Lords of Capital” Dominate U.S. Political Life Trinity College March 4, 2013 [...] Although Ford, whose program airs on the Progressive Radio Ne ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Best of Pioneer: A Look at Mankind’s First Enc ...
    Though not well remembered, Pioneer 10 and 11 were the first spacecraft to ever pass through the asteroid belt and encounter the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Here, we take a look at some of these exploratory probes' best images ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Intricate Gas Sc ...
    This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. At the centre of the ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Saturn and Titan
    The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north polar hood can be seen on Titan (5,150 km across or 3,200 miles) ...
  • Video: New Giant Tarantula Species on the Move
    On Apr. 2, we reported the discovery of a presumptive new species of tarantula in Sri Lanka, set apart from its relatives by unique markings on its abdomen and legs. Now, there's a video of the arachnid superstar, shot by ...
  • Starving Sea Lion Pups Still Washing Up by the ...
    There’s no indication the ocean plans to stop littering Southern California’s shores with the tiny bodies of starving sea lion pups any time soon. After three months, roughly 1,100 pups have entered marine mammal rehabilitation centers in the area. Now, ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Arab funding for Jerusalem come ...
    Assuming the Arab League makes good on its commitment ... the fund will serve only to highlight the very problems it seeks to alleviate... The reality is that Mr Abbas and the Arab League are at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Nadia Hijab: Obama and Abbas’ fig leaf
    Unfortunately for Abbas, Obama used his remarks in Ramallah to insist the Palestinians enter direct negotiations without preconditions, not even the settlement freeze he himself had urged. At the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Awad Abdel Fattah: Just another Shin Bet inter ...
    We are struggling not only to liberate the Palestinian people from the occupation and from Israel’s racist apartheid regime, but also to liberate you from the illness of racism, so you can stop... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Chris Hedges resigns from human rights organiz ...
    Chris Hedges: The suffering of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation and the plight of those caught up in our imperial wars in countries such as Iraq are not abstractions to me. Nossel’s... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Boycott resolution passed by York University’s ...
    The resolution demands that the university administration “abides by the BDS call” and urges York to “withdraw its investments from Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Amphenol and other companies that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Microalgae Produce More Oil Faster for Energy, ...
    Scientists today described technology that accelerates microalgae's ability to produce many different types of renewable oils for fuels, chemicals, foods and personal-care products within days using standard industrial fermentation. The presentation was part of the 245th National Meeting & Expos ...
  • Communicating the Science of the '6x deg.C Egg ...
    Why does the "65-degree egg" and its "6X deg.C" counterparts continue to entice chefs and diners at chic restaurants, when the science underpinning that supposed recipe for perfection in boiling an egg is flawed?
  • Reducing Waste of Food: A Key Element in Feedi ...
    Families can be key players in a revolution needed to feed the world, and could save money by helping to cut food losses now occurring from field to fork to trash bin, an expert said here today. He described that often-invisible waste in food -- 4 out of every 10 pounds produced in the United St ...
  • Do Cells in the Blood, Heart and Lungs Smell t ...
    In a discovery suggesting that odors may have a far more important role in life than previously believed, scientists have found that heart, blood, lung and other cells in the body have the same receptors for sensing odors that exist in the nose. It opens the door to questions about whether the h ...
  • Some Patients with Incurable Tumors and BRCA M ...
    Dana-Farber scientists find when given together, two orally available experimental drugs -- sapacitabine and seliciclib -- worked together to elicit antitumor effects in patients with incurable BRCA-deficient cancers.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, April 8, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey There are reports stating that North Korea is preparing to carry out a fourth nuclear test based on intelligence coming out of South Korea.  In the face of the rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, Foreign Policy offers advice about how to stop a nuclear ...
  • China and Sovereignty Under International Law
    by Julian Ku As regular readers of this blog might have noticed, I have become more and more interested China and its engagement with international law issues.   Last year, I proposed to the ASIL Planning Committee that we put together a panel of leading U.S. China law scholars.  But the ASIL ...
  • Events and Announcements: April 7, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for papers In case you haven’t seen it yet, we have just launched our own call for papers aimed at LL.M, Ph.D and S.J.D students to participate in our New Voices symposium starting in July.      Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2013. The Forced Migra ...
  • New Voices: Call for Papers
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Are you an international law student or a recent graduate with an idea that you’d like you tell our readers about? Then we at Opinio Juris want to know about you! This July, we are planning to launch a new feature called New Voices: a two-month online symposium to ...
  • Weekend Roundup: March 30 – April 5, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we brought you the latest round in the Goodman-Heller debate on capture v kill, in which Ryan Goodman responded to Kevin’s comments on this blog a few weeks ago. Kevin started his week by pointing to turmoil in Sweden’s prose ...

Public News Service

  • Mercury Thermostat Collection Programs Failing ...
    Mercury Thermostat Collection Programs Failing in Arizona, U.S. PHOENIX - Voluntary efforts to keep old mercury thermostats out of the trash in Arizona and nationwide are failing, according to a new analysis. Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project, said the programs run by manufa ...
  • Consumer Warning: Identity Thieves Trolling fo ...
    Consumer Warning: Identity Thieves Trolling for Your Tax Refund PHOENIX – Consumer advocates warn that identity thieves are working overtime this year, trying to get people to reveal personal information by email and phone in order to steal tax refunds. Harold Moldoff is a volunteer "Frau ...
  • Farm Bill Progress Still Stalled in Washington
    Farm Bill Progress Still Stalled in Washington PHOENIX, Ariz. - Progress on a new five-year Farm Bill has ground to a halt in Washington, D.C. The bill, which expired last fall, has been temporarily extended by Congress. ...(Read More)
  • U.S. Divorce Rate Continues Downward Trend
    U.S. Divorce Rate Continues Downward Trend PHOENIX - The divorce rate in the U.S. continues to fall, but a large percentage of couples still call it quits despite their vows of "for better or worse." The reasons can vary as much as the individuals involved, although experts say there are ways to ...
  • Analysis – Ryan Budget Would Cost Big For AZ
    Analysis – Ryan Budget Would Cost Big For AZ PHOENIX – An in-depth analysis of the recently passed U.S. House Republican budget shows it would shift huge costs to Arizona state programs and taxpayers. At a time when the Legislature has already cut several key health and education p ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Pensieve

  • 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 ...
  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...

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

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • 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 ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Stealth Wear: new designs for countersurveillance
    Building off previous work with CV Dazzle, camouflage from face detection, Stealth Wear continues to explore the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge authoritarian surveillance. Presented by Primitive at Tank Magazine are a suite of new designs, made in collaboration ...
  • Jim Klinge, ‘Hunter Thompson of Real Estate’, ...
    Jim Klinge, Jim The Realtor, in San Diego first got noticed during the real estate crash with his gonzo videos of homes for sale, drolly and sarcastically pointing out flaws in homes that often had been trashed by the foreclosed. Things have calmed out a bit since then, with the San Diego marke ...
  • Slaughter of horses
  • Small farm saves milking cow, imagines idyllic ...
    Keeping the Farm chronicles in a delightful manner how getting Thistle, a milking cow, didn’t turn out exactly as planned. Like so many other prospective cow owners, I imagined that perfect relationship with an affectionate, motherly cow who wanted nothing more than to nourish me and my f ...
  • Lot of companies want to change the world. Hom ...
    Credit: you-are-here.com Father Gregory Boyle founded Homeboy Industries in 1992 as a way to rehabilitate gang members. It has grown into a $12 million a year business with a bakery, clothing line, farmer’s market, catering, and more. He has helped thousands leave their pasts and start new ...

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

  • ‘They want me dead!’ Venezuelan president clai ...
    Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro believes there is a US plot to assassinate him during his election campaign. He called on his followers to be “vigilant” and warned conspirators want to prevent his victory in next week’s election. Presidential candidate Maduro pointed the finger at the ...
  • Pope orders Vatican officials to tackle child ...
    Pope Francis has directed the Vatican to act decisively on ecclesiastic sex abuse cases and take measures against paedophile priests, saying the Catholic church’s credibility was on the line. The announcement was quickly dismissed by victims’ advocates as just more talk. “Once ...
  • This Day In History – April 8
    217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. 1832 – Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans. 1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers’ ...
  • Income Tax Protester / Activist Wesley Snipes ...
    IT WILL BE INTERESTING to see If Mr Snipes has been properly reeducated about his place at the table and the issue of “Voluntary” Taxes. If he starts working in propaganda films – we will have your answer. Good Luck Wesley – stay away from the light!   Wesley Snipes ...
  • North Korean attack on Austin would be Obama&# ...
    by Mario Andrade 4/6/2013 DeadlineLive.info As the wacky and almost comical war rhetoric between North Korea and the United States escalates, the U.S. corporate media outlets have recently reported that Kim Jong Un is making preparations to ‘hit U.S. mainland targets.’ One of those a ...

The Air Vent

  • 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 ...
  • Cryosphere – Sea Ice Video
    I wanted to see the 2012 ice loss in the Arctic so I updated the video’s.    The first video is full length, the second is just a clip of more recent years.   I repeated the result for the Antarctic which has seen increases in sea ice. . . .
  • Cryosphere at the Air Vent
    All data provided by NSIDC gridded satellite. Compilation by me so errors are mine.  All Y axis units Km^2. The Antarctic had the second highest sea ice area minimum summer level in 35 years while the Arctic set a record lowest sea ice area minimum this year. Arctic Minimum Arctic Maximium Antar ...
  • Priceless Entertainment from SKS
    John Cook continued his path of self destruction at “Skeptical Science”.   I’ve often wondered if the blog title was meant as a sarcasm.  Today, we know neither word can apply accurately to their work in any other sense.  When others noticed that Richard Betts of the met office ...
  • Lewandowsky – Strike Three!! What a riot!
    H/T Reader Skiphil again… Update: Barry Woods or Geoff Chambers seem to have found the quote. So the good docktor finally got his contribution to scientific understanding past the rigorous peer review of Frontiers of Psychology.   I have to say, I’m actually pleased with his improved ...

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: Home privacy, stock price, h ...
    Facebook addresses privacy questions about Home – Facebook today shared its answers to common privacy questions users might have about Home, the social network’s latest development for Android. Home is optional software that makes Facebook features...
  • Facebook careers: product marketing, internal ...
    Facebook added 29 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the communications, user operations, marketing and sales teams. New listings added to Facebook’s careers page: Solutions Engineer (London) Corporate FP&A Manager (Menlo...
  • Facebook hires: data editor, UX researcher, cr ...
    Facebook removed 34 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after filling roles in the areas of marketing, sales, UX research and others. Also noteworthy this week, Instagram hired Emily White as director of operations. White...
  • Facebook brings ‘watched,’ ‘want to read’ and ...
    With the new Timeline, Facebook users can share richer stories about the books, movies, TV shows and music in their lives. The social network is beginning to get to the vision it set out at the expansion...
  • Facebook tests ‘boost’ and ‘advertise’ buttons ...
    Facebook is testing new language to encourage page owners to buy Promoted Posts. Instead of “promote,” some users are seeing a “boost post” or “advertise post” button on their page content. This seems to be purely...

National Geographic | Environment

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

  • Destabilizing Venezuela: Longstanding US Policy
    It doesn't surprise. It's likely happening ahead of Venezuela's April 14 presidential election. It'll continue when it's over.
  • More Peace Process Hypocrisy
    On April 6, John Kerry began a multi-nation tour. He'll travel to Europe and East Asia. His first stop is Turkey. He'll meet with Netanyahu and Abbas. He wants peace talks restarted.
  • The Hijacking of Human Rights
    The current business of human rights means human rights for some and not for others. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, the Peace Alliance, and Citizens for Global Solutions are all guilty of buying into the false creed that U.S. military force can be deploye ...
  • Mayflower Oil Spill: Exxon's Shady Secrets Unc ...
    What is Exxon trying to hide?
  • In the time it took Adam Lanza to reload, 11 c ...
    "We learned, the way that no other parents should learn, that the most dangerous, dangerous part of an assault weapon is the magazine," Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan, 6, was killed Dec. 14, said at a press conference with other parents at the Capitol Monday morning.

Switchboard

  • A new transportation option
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Right now, you really only have two levels of transportation options: high cost, high flexibility, high comfort, high pollution OR low cost, low flexibility, low ...
  • The Kids Aren't Alright
    Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Beijing                                &n ...
  • Green cities explained in a fun cartoon video ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Two days ago, I published Lee Epstein’s summary of the essential elements of green cities.  Many of those are on display in the fast-moving cartoon video below, cre ...
  • NBA Teams Play Green In Celebration of Green W ...
    Alice Henly, Research Fellow, New York The NBA stands alone as the only major professional sports league in the world to host an annual weeklong celebration of environmental stewardship—NBA Green Week, April 4th to 12th. The league and many of ...
  • NBA Launches Environmental Data System During ...
    Alice Henly, Research Fellow, New York Today, in conjunction with opening day of NBA Green Week 2013, the National Basketball Association is launching a league-wide online tool designed to measure their environmental impact. In partnership wit ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Obligatory Musical Interlude
    R.I.P.
  • The Non-Elite Workplace
    First-rate reporting by Alana Semuels. Read the whole etc., but the bottom line as a teaser: The relentless drive for efficiency at U.S. companies has created a new harshness in the workplace. In their zeal to make sure that not a minute of time is wasted, companies are imposing rigorous perform ...
  • Mad Men: Now, where were we exactly?
    To celebrate what’s going to be a very Mad Men week here — at least two posts by me and a podcast starring an illustrious cast of thousands — I thought it’d be good to remind everyone where we left off. (And by “everyone” I probably mean “me,” as I ...
  • Les Blank, RIP
    The great documentarian is no more.
  • Extremely Rare Recommendations
    Recommending a Ross Douthat column is like seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. You know that it is probably impossible, but theoretically one could emerge once every century. Amazingly, today is the day, as Douthat writes about the Ivy League existing to reproduce privilege. Of course, Douthat se ...

Desert Research Institute

  • 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.
  • 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 tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
    This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.
  • Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate S ...
    Meet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Which law schools are tops for jobs?
    The American Bar Association breaks down the types of jobs law school graduates have landed and whether they are full-time, long-term or short-term positions, and identifies the three states where graduates of each law school were most likely to find work.
  • Midsize Hot List
    We showcase 20 of the nation's top midsize law firms based on business strategies that have delivered noteworthy cases and prominent deals to their doors. Winning a spot on the list are law firms that, for their clients' purposes, are not too big, not too small, but just right.
  • THE PRACTICE: Expect more government antitrust ...
    With Baer at the helm, DOJ's Antitrust Division will likely continue aggressive enforcement actions; FTC is harder to predict.
  • OPINION: Deep divisions over symbolic boundary
    Courts have ruled the 'eruv' a free exercise accommodation; critics say it entangles religion with public property.
  • OPINION: Gay marriage won't stop gay bashing
    Even our federal government — which opposed DOMA at the high court — regularly puts immigrants waiting for hearings in solitary confinement if they are gay.

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

  • City of Patterson Goes Green With Chevron
    This collaboration will save taxpayers an estimated US$6 million over the life of the project. It will also make neighborhoods in the city safer by replacing streetlights with more efficient LED fixtures.
  • US Stays 'Calm' Amid Hot War Rhetoric From Nor ...
    With the war rhetoric reaching an unprecendented level from North Korea against US and South Korea, the United States of America responded with calmness and reiterated its readiness of defending itself and its allies.
  • As Prices of Corn Fall, Ethanol Producers See ...
    The corn market took off nearly $1 a bushel since the March 28 USDA Grain Stocks report that put March 1 corn stocks at 5.40 billion bushels in all positions. The inventory numbers were significantly higher than the expected 4.99 billion bushels.
  • United Nations and Turkcell Partners in Techno ...
    The technology partnership is due to Turkcell's network initiatives and its employees dedicated efforts during the 2011 earthquake that took place in the City of Van in Easter Turkey.
  • US Increasing Role of Women in The Arab World
    She says the US government must continue to work to support democratic, peaceful and prosperous outcomes for women everywhere.

environment 360

  • Probing the Reasons Behind The Changing Pace o ...
    A consensus is emerging among scientists that the rate of global warming has slowed or stalled over the last decade. While they are still examining why, many researchers believe this phenomenon is linked to the heat being absorbed by the world’s oceans. BY FRED PEARCE
  • South Africa Game Reserve Poisons Rhino Horns ...
    Officials at a private game reserve in South Africa say they have injected into the horns of more than 100 rhinos a parasiticide that will make humans sick if they ingest the horns. As the rhinos’ death toll continues to escalate in South Africa, where nearly 700 animals were Rodger Bosch/AFP/Ge ...
  • U.S. Company Shelves Solar Thermal Plant as Ut ...
    U.S.-based BrightSource Energy has shelved its second major solar thermal project this year as the company and Pacific Gas and Electric terminated the utility’s contract to buy power generated by the plant in south-central California. In an email, a BrightSource spokesman said the $2.9 billion H ...
  • Blocked Migration: Fish Ladders On U.S. Dams A ...
    Fishways on rivers in the U.S. Northeast are failing, with less than 3 percent of one key species making it upriver to their spawning grounds, according to a new study. The researchers’ findings provide a cautionary tale for other nations now planning big dam projects. BY JOHN WALDMAN
  • Arctic Air Pressure System Causes Unusual Marc ...
    A pronounced shift in Arctic air pressure systems has triggered unusually cold temperatures across North America, Europe, and northern Asia, while allowing a Click to enlarge NASA Surface temperature anomalies, March 2013 flood of warmer air into Greenland and northeastern Canada, accor ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Sunken Treasure: Egyptian Artifact Find Is Lar ...
    This port of entry, known as ‘Thonis’ by the Egyptians and ‘Heracleion’ by the Greeks, was where seagoing ships are thought to have unloaded their cargoes to have them assessed by temple officials and taxes extracted before transferring them to Egyptian ships that went upriver. In the ports of t ...
  • Saffron: Ancient Healing Powers Confirmed by S ...
    Clearly there is something magical about the Crocus sativus flower, from which the spice saffron is derived. If its striking beauty does not immediately cast a spell on its beholder, often it simply takes experiencing the spice to fall into full enchantment with it. While saffron is exceptionall ...
  • Non-Embryonic Stem Cells: The Dawning of a Ne ...
    Ethical worries have slowed medical research into applications for stem cells. But scientists like Robert Lanza have developed less controversial ways to derive stem cells from normal body cells rather than embryos and are already launching the first clinical trials. Stem cell researcher Robert ...
  • Teenager astounds scientists by building a DN ...
    A teenager has astounded scientists by building a DNA testing machine in his bedroom in an attempt to discover why his brother is ginger. Fred Turner, 17, built the machine from items he found around his house, including an old video player, after becoming fascinated by why he has straight brown ...
  • Bold Claims: UFO documentary reveals “humanoid ...
    A new documentary on UFOs, extraterrestrials, and advanced clean energy, hopes to provide evidence that the government has figured out how UFOs operate and are hiding advanced technology that can provide clean energy. The film also features the discovery of an alleged humanoid body whose DNA has ...

Wind Watch

  • State says no to turbine funds; Selectmen to r ...
    The headline should read ‘State does not support the Town of Falmouth,’” Chairman of the Falmouth Board of Selectmen Kevin E. Murphy said last night following a joint meeting with his board and the finance committee at Falmouth Town Hall. The session was held to provide clarifi ...
  • Will they site them on the beaches? D-Day for ...
    For nearly 70 years, visitors to the D-Day beaches have stared out to sea and recalled the moment when one of the largest fleets ever assembled emerged from the Channel mist on 6 June 1944. Within a couple of years that view could be changed forever by an immense off-shore wind-farm. As The Inde ...
  • Residents across Ireland up in arms over turbines
    To many they have become the scourge of 21st Century Ireland. Families around the country are being driven from their homes by the noise and disruption of windfarms. Those living close to the turbines claim their lives have been ruined by the noise, vibrations and light flicker from the giant ma ...
  • Court date set for Right-to-Know petition agai ...
    ANTRIM — Town officials will appear in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester on Wednesday to answer a lawsuit filed against the town in July 2012 by residents who allege the Select Board conducted illegal meetings with Antrim Wind Energy LLC., in violation of the state’s Right-To-Know ...
  • Wind farm effect “could cause rate rise& ...
    Loss of values for properties close to wind farms could force a rise in rates to maintain Council revenue. Cr. Malcolm Barlow made this claim in a presentation to last meeting of Upper Lachlan Council. Cr. Barlow said that recent concerns had been raised, particularly in Victoria, which the loss ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • List of requirements for a digital story designer
    The job title given in the advertisement is “digital news developer.” These are the requirements: College degree Minimum of 2 years programming experience Advanced command of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (including jQuery) Light Ruby or Python for data mining, Web scraping Comfort w ...
  • 10 examples of bespoke article design and scro ...
    Have you been noticing all the pretty sliding/scrolling articles that are popping up around the Internetz? My students think they’re wonderful, and so do I. So let’s look at a roundup of some great ones. Of course we’ll begin with Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Th ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
    This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
    So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
    I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...

Facing South

  • NC attorney general asked to probe possible fr ...
    The environmental advocacy group Food & Water Watch has called on North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate apparent financial conflicts of interest involving state officials responsible for fracking oversight. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The South under the gun
    With a new study showing that weak gun laws lead to higher levels of gun violence, what does that mean for the South, which has some of the nation's loosest gun regulations? read more
  • Will hog farmers save renewable energy in Nort ...
    An effort to kill North Carolina's renewable energy law is meeting resistance from a politically powerful rural constituency. Listen to this story via SoundCloud:  read more
  • Art Pope-backed lawmaker leads push for new vo ...
    Over the last week, GOP lawmakers have unleashed a flurry of bills that would make sweeping changes to North Carolina elections. They share a common message -- and a common sponsor, backed by one of the state's biggest political donors. read more
  • The nationwide war on state renewable energy s ...
    A hearing is set for tomorrow on legislation to repeal North Carolina's renewable energy standard -- part of a nationwide attack on such laws being mounted by groups with fossil-fuel industry ties. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
    1) Almost everything you have more than someone else is because of where you were born, and who your parents were, including your genetic endowment and your life experiences.  Whether you believe in nature, nurture, or both, you don’t “deserve” squat. 2) Justification for havin ...
  • Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
    1) Almost everything you have more than someone else is because of where you were born, and who your parents were, including your genetic endowment and your life experiences.  Whether you believe in nature, nurture, or both, you don’t “deserve” squat. 2) Justification for havin ...
  • Overruling NYC’s Ban on Large Sodas
    A judge has overruled this.  I’m not a lawyer, so I won’t comment on the legality, what I will say is that in this case, I actually support Bloomberg.  High doses of sugar and fructose contribute to obesity and the diabetes epidemic: they kill a lot of people.  A lot more people than ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • North Korea tension prompts US missile test delay
    BBC – It could be postponed till May, in what correspondents say will be portrayed by Pyongyang as a victory. North Korea has issued a series of unusually strong threats since it was sanctioned by the UN in March for carrying out a third nuclear test. Read article
  • Germany ‘tracks down 50 suspected Auschwitz gu ...
    RT – Fifty alleged former Auschwitz guards may face prison terms in Germany, sixty-eight years after the end of World War II, local media have reported. The former Auschwitz guards, who’ve never faced prosecution for their posts, were tracked down by the Central Office for the Investigatio ...
  • UK – Vegans and druids to gain workplace ...
    Telegraph – Vegetarian or vegan employees with deeply held beliefs should be allowed to exert their rights in the workplace by refusing to sit on leather chairs or clean out office fridges containing meat or dairy products, according to new guidance. A document published for employers by t ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – Nuclear Weapons
    “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One…I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.” Nuclear weapons may not be in the news these days as much as they were in the Cold War but they are still out there. To find ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Changes In Mea ...
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L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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libcom

  • Boycott OARS
    This is a call-out to anarchists across the world, asking comrades to break all friendly relations with OARS, the Anarchist Organization for Social Revolution (La Paz, Bolivia). The reasoning is simple: they are snitches, and they ope ...
  • Police represses anti-fascists on the eve of u ...
    At 8:00 a.m. 3rd of April, the officers from the Centre Against Extremism came with a search warrant to 4 adresses of Kazan antifascists. The searches were carried out with clear violations. There was no any documents to substaniate t ...
  • Circuits of recomposition: towards and beyond ...
    BF5wHzfCYAA4ciE.jpeg Can the #22M logistics workers’ strike be a first step towards the generalization of struggles? Rethinking strike, finding the functional equivalent of the ...
  • Strike threat at the University of Sussex
    BHFQzwICUAAaCOx[1].jpg The three recognised trade unions at the University of Sussex are conducting a co-ordinated indicative ballot for strike action, against plans to outsource 235 campus jobs. ...
  • March of discontent: lessons in work struggles ...
    sciopero-22.jpg Reflections on the escalation of workers' struggles in Italy in the wake of the large logistics workers' strike of March 22. The working class is awake ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • U.N. Passes Small Arms Treaty
    Listen up, Friends: You must understand, this issue is not about “gun” control – it is all about PEOPLE control. You must also understand the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, signed by the POTUS and then ratified by the Senate supersede and trum ...
  • Proof that the Book of Mormon is Pure Fiction ...
    In the field of modern Quantum Physics, the word ETHER is defined as: “a very rarefied and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space, including the interstices between the particles of matter, and to be the medium whose vibrations constituted light and other electrom ...
  • Apotheosis – Man Becoming God – Th ...
    Apotheosis is a Greek word literally meaning man becoming a God THROUGH HIS WORKS.   This is the ultimate end goal of the Gnostic secret societies since the days of Adam.   Gnosticism literally means secret knowledge.  Why has this knowledge been so “secret” and hidden for thousands ...
  • Why Mormonism (LDS Inc.) is a Satanic Masquera ...
    I had to laugh at today’s Salt Lake Tribune front-page story.  The entire article pointed an accusatory, holier-than-thou  finger at the FLDS (Fundamentalist LDS) “Big Brethren” spycams positioned pretty much everywhere in the twin FLDS enclave towns of Hilldale and Colorado Ci ...
  • The God of This World – (The God of Morm ...
    The author’s name is John Bertrand (J.B.) Phillips, and his seminal book is titled: “Your God is Too Small”.   It was written and first published in the year 1953 – but Phillips’ words and message are never more relevant and meaningful than they are today.   TRUTH i ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • What about Green and Cost Effective Decks?
    Here’s my thoughts Answering : What about Green and Cost Effective Decks?  Asked by: BentonPark West  When I build anything my goals are that the Project will be: Low Maintenance User Friendly Meet any Must Have conditions for the Client Green, Eco Friendly, and Sustainable As far as Lumbe ...
  • DIY Flat Screen TV Mount
    Rather than spend $200 for 2 TV Mounting Brackets.  I fashioned these  Flat Screen TV Mounts for the New Bar Design. Every Design Build Project has a Must Have.  The Must Have for this part of the New Bar Design were: Adjustable Mounting to accommodate future TVs Forward Tilt of TV Screen to acc ...
  • All About Comfort
    Simple Comparison of Clothes to a Buildings Envelope Author:Scotty, Scotts Contracting-StLouis Renewable Energy 4/2/13 If you are reading this I’m going to assume that you aren’t a google bot or bing bot and wear clothes in your daily activities.  You are an actual human being who we ...
  • Renewable Energy-Energy Conservation and MO Le ...
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: We need more petition signers for the RES Complai ...
  • Renewable Energy-Energy Conservation and MO Le ...
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: We need more petition signers for the RES Complai ...

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Time to Stop Community College Privatization
    Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (A week ago, I posted Weil’s three part article about the aggressive campaign by the Gates and Lumina Foundation, in concert with the Obama administration, private for-profit colleges and notable corporate neoliberals, to privatize Santa Monica C ...
  • How Big Corporations Avoid Tax
     A Tax Shelter   Film Review The Tax Free Tour VPRO-Marijee Meerman   The Tax Free Tour is an hour long Dutch documentary (in English) about the highly specialized field of corporate tax avoidance. I found it astounding how many US corporations use overseas tax havens to avo ...
  • Is the US Deliberately Thwarting Korean Reconc ...
    Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae Jung   According to the Radio New Zealand website Dr Tim Beal, a retired lecturer in Asian studies at Victoria University, the US may be using its current military exercises in South Korea to deliberately thwart that country’s efforts to strengthe ...
  • You're Next: Don't Let Them Do a Cyprus on New ...
    Please sign petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Reform_the_banking_system_so_that_no_more_bailouts_are_ever_needed/?cHHSRcb Readers may be aware of an effort by the New Zealand’s government to re-jig the Reserve Bank’s Open Banking Resolution to permit failing banks to ...
  • Follow the Money at Santa Monica College
    The mission statement of Alex Abramoff in his bid for student body president of Santa Monica College in California Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 3 of a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa Monica College. While thi ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...
  • Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun V ...
    These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Pane ...
  • Hold Your Own 10th Anniversary 'Bowling for Co ...
    Please check this page frequently for updates all week This coming Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine' winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary. To mark the date, Michael is hosting a screening of the film in New York City &nda ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Debut of the Wall Street Journal Energy Panel
    Last week I made my debut as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) new feature The Experts: Journal Reports. The idea is that the WSJ poses questions to the panel, and each panel member provides a response of 300 words or so. The first 4 questions that were asked — and ans ...
  • Protesting Keystone XL While Rome Burns
    I started to go with “Fiddling While Rome Burns” in the title, but I know many people who would take great exception to the notion the Keystone XL protesters are fiddling. Indeed, they do not believe they are fiddling. They believe they are standing up for the most important cause of ...
  • First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in U ...
    It will continue to be true that as long as the US government incentivizes these ventures, companies will continue to pursue them. But it is also true, says Robert Rapier, that every gallon of production they make will be produced at a significant per gallon loss.
  • Why Environmentalists are Wrong on Keystone XL
    Bill McKibben and and other protestors are being naive in choosing this particular battle. They won't make any meaningful impact on climate change even if they manage to stop Keystone XL. The reason that is important is that they could be channeling their energy into things that could potentiall ...
  • How Oil Can Improve Our Long Term Energy Situation
    Environmentalists are generally opposed to opening up areas to additional drilling, while on the other side are people who believe that underneath U.S. territory lies an ocean of oil, waiting to be tapped -- if environmentalists would only get out of the way.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 4 Disturbing Facts about Pesticides
    When you see an airplane spraying a field with a cloud of pesticides, or when you squirt a roach with an over-the-counter insecticide, you'd like to think that someone, somewhere has studied the ingredients to make sure they're safe. Turns out, that's not always the case. A new report from the ...
  • How to Avoid GMOs
    GMO is becoming a household word, and more and more, one that parents are trying to keep out of their homes. A new U.S. survey found one-third of residents buy organic food specifically to avoid foods with GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, that is, foods that have been inserted with gene ...
  • Higher Grocery Bills? Blame Insecticides
    Grocery bills are expected to climb as beekeepers watch honeybee hives continue to crash in catastrophic numbers. The connection between the troubled winged critters and your wallet? Honeybees offer upwards of $20 billion worth of free services to farmers each year as they pollinate fruit, vege ...
  • Approval of "Monsanto Rider" in Senate Budget ...
    Between 80 and 95 percent of Americans want genetically modified foods labeled—an unprecedented agreement in a nation of political polar divides. And yet, in defiance of the overwhelming majority of the public, the Senate just gave what amounts to a "free pass" for biotech companies p ...
  • The Best Reason to Clean Your Office
    Admit it: You've never dusted your office and you really just hope that the cleaning staff comes in to vacuum every once in a while. But here's one reason you might want to pay closer attention to how clean that office of yours really is: Researchers recently found that office workers carried h ...

big think

  • For Your Eyes Only: Henry Kissinger's Dirty La ...
    Julian Assange had a lot of time on his hands while being holed up at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. So the Wikileaks founder did what he does best: he prepared classified material for release.  "With nothing to do but work on WikiLeaks material," as his mother put it, Assange spent h ...
  • Chess Should Be Required in U.S. Schools
    Rook to B8. Checkmate. There's nothing quite like the feeling of defeating a worthy opponent in a game of chess: the ultimate battle of the wits. Of course, it's not a feeling I have very often, since I'm not very good at chess. On the other hand, my father is officially an "Expert" and ...
  • We Need an Einstein for the 21st Century
    We do at this point in time need a new Einstein.  The one thing that Einstein did, which is so powerful and important in the history of physics is with special relativity he found a way to unify Newton’s laws of motion and Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism. And then he found a way to unify ...
  • Your Social Life: Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog?
    The ancient Greek poet Archilochus said that the fox knows many things about a little, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin used the fox and hedgehog distinction in his brilliant essay about Leo Tolstoy’s view of history and his longing for a unifying insight and ... ...
  • Alas, Brain-Training Games Do Not Work
    What's the Latest Development? In America, brain-training games have become a multi-million dollar industry that has infiltrated schools and nursing homes, i.e. our most vulnerable citizens. A meta-analysis of the most robust studies on brain games has reached, however, a disturbing conc ...

Information Liberation

  • Cops Who Chased Down Man Filming Police Abuse ...
    The recent incident where police chased a man who filmed police abuse into his own home and dragged him out to arrest him on trumped up charges may have never seen the light of day if it wasn't for a bystander across the street secretly filming the...
  • Nationalizing Children
    We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. * Instructions given at a congress of Soviet educators in 1918 (cited in Separating School & State: How to Lib...
  • MSNBC Host: Your Kids Belong to the Collective
    In the video below, college professor and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says your children are not yours -- they are owned by the community. She says public education has failed because we have not allowed the state to confiscate more of our money....
  • California Court Rules It Illegal To Check Map ...
    For years, we've discussed the problematic nature of "distracted driving" laws that seek to outlaw things like talking on your phone or texting while driving. It is not that we don't think these behaviors are dangerous. It seems clear that those ac...
  • 7-Year-Old Faces Two Felony Charges for Shooti ...
    ...and America is safe again....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →
  • The Thirty-Second Version
    That’s all the time I’ve got to compose this post… Sorry about the absence, but you all know why. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this with you, courtesy of Zero Hedge and the blogger known as Gannicus. Learned … Continue reading →
  • Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
    Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The Daily Fail
    Periodically I receive links to stories in the British “tabloid” newspaper, The Daily Mail, from Sciencebase readers. I am yet to see anything in that paper that is worth the ink or electrons. Moreover, I wouldn’t even deem it fit to be torn up into squares and hung from a stri ...
  • Let me introduce Professor Risk and Professor Risk
    I met David Spiegelhalter at a conference a while back, a very engaging and charismatic chap with the real stats and the data to tell you all about true risk. His proper title is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge. He is in two minds literally about play ...
  • H7N9 bird flu
    Is another bird flu on the rise? Report from Nature on H7N9 type A influenza virus and reported outbreak in China. Scientists and public health officials worldwide are on alert after China announced on 31 March that two people had died and a third had been seriously sickened from infections with ...
  • Does eating fish really extend your life?
    NHS Choices critiques tabloid claims for recent research on fishy life extension. “…study has found that higher levels of omega-3 in blood at the start of the study were associated with a 27% reduction in risk of death from any cause, and a 35% reduction in risk of death from heart d ...
  • Buckyball discovery
    Science is often portrayed as a fixed set of rules, impersonal, and devoid of emotions. It is not, as can be seen from the discovery of fullerenes, or more specifically buckminsterfullerene, the molecule that became known as the buckyball and on which I must have written a hundred articles over ...

RFF Library

  • Water Governance in the 21st Century: Lessons ...
    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy By Shiney Varghese http://www.iatp.org/documents/water-governance-in-the-21st-century As water insecurities increase globally, there is an increasing emphasis on demand management approaches, which for the most part emphasize market mechanisms as a mean ...
  • Clearing the Air: Reducing Upstream Greenhouse ...
    World Resources Institute / by James Bradbury, Michael Obeiter, Laura Draucker, Amanda Stevens, Wen Wang http://www.wri.org/publication/clearing-the-air Key Findings Fugitive methane emissions from natural gas systems represent a significant source of global warming pollution in the U.S. Reducti ...
  • Managing for the Future in a Rapidly Changing ...
    Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska http://on.doi.gov/YVgaec [Alaska Public Media] Dozens of federal, state and local agencies have a say on how development happens in arctic Alaska. A report released today (Thursday, April 4th) makes ...
  • The Next Frontier in United States Unconventio ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ / by Meagan Mauter, Vanessa R. Palmer, Yiqiao Tang, A. Patrick Behrer http://hvrd.me/11xwcMi The unconventional fossil fuel extraction industry—in the U.S., primarily shale gas and tight oil—is expected to continue expanding dramatically in coming deca ...
  • Natural Gas Liquids: The “Other” Driver of the ...
    Brookings Institution / by Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/04/01-natural-gas-liquids-ebinger-avasarala The fundamental changes in the U.S. hydrocarbon production landscape are now widely acknowledged. Analysts and pundits liberally discuss ...

Scientific American - News

  • Red Meat Clogs Arteries Because of Gut Bacteria
    From   Nature magazine. [More]
  • Can Soil Replace Oil as a Source of Energy? [E ...
    Excerpted from The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance , by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Copyright © April 16, 2013, North Point Press. [More]
  • Linked Renewables Could Help Germany Avoid Bla ...
    LONDON – Critics of renewables have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers of electricity and need fossil fuel plants as back-up to make them viable. But German engineers have proved this is not so. [More]
  • Quantum Noise-Beating Technique with Entangled ...
    Technologies that rely on ‘quantum-weirdness’ phenomena, such as electrons being in two places at the same time, are inherently delicate: the smallest disruption can make such uncertain states ‘collapse’ into well-defined outcomes. Now, however, physicists have shown that ...
  • Does Tar Sand Oil Increase the Risk of Pipelin ...
    An oil flood through an Arkansas subdivision on March 29 is just the most recent example of pipeline problems in the U.S. In recent weeks, months and years diesel has leaked from a pipeline into wetlands near Salt Lake City; oil has spilled into the Yellowstone River in Montana; and about 20,000 ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Burns Lake Band members evicted from their blo ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 7, 2013 Burns Lake Band members evicted from their blockade by armed riot police. On day 14 of a non-violent protest held at the Burns Lake Band office, approximately 50 or more riot police, many with shotguns drawn evicted three adults and one 12 year old child. 92 ...
  • Stories from inside the kettle
    The SPVM put on another show I’m embarrassed to admit that, for the past month, I have let the circus of P-6 intimidate me out of going to protests. That ended on Friday, April 5th. P-6 is a municipal bylaw declaring protests illegal ...
  • First Guatemalan Genocide Trial of Former Dict ...
    Interview with Benjamín Manuel Jerónimo, President of the Asociación para la Justicia y la Reconciliación and Massacre Survivor This interview is in Spanish. Former US-backed Guatemalan dictator and retired army general Efraín Ríos Montt, a ...
  • Topless activists show solidarity with threate ...
    A group of six women and three men protested in the Tunisian Embassy and around downtown Montreal yesterday condemning the death threats a 19-year old woman received for posting semi-naked pictur ...
  • Militarized Police from Coast to Coast
    An Open Letter and a request for info about RCMP Tactical Armoured Vehicles Dear VMC and Media Co-op readers: I'm looking into this issue elsewhere and would appreciate hearing f ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A collection of press snippets
    David Seaton's News LinksI began my journalistic endeavors by simply juxtaposing snippets from the press in an electronic collage, hoping that in the end result the total effect would be more than just the sum of the separate clippings. With the quotes below I return to my origins...According ...
  • My solution to the North Korean crisis
    David Seaton's News Links This is all much simpler than it looks. Dennis Rodman has shown us the way! Here is the secret: Kim Jong Un is secretly in love with the USA and all things American. You'd really have to be madly in love with the idea of America to invite a freak like Dennis Rodman to ...
  • North Korea puts its armed forces on a war footing
    David Seaton's News Links "As we have learnt again and again in this long period of turmoil, the impossible can become inevitable without even passing through improbable." Anatole Kaletsky - The TimesWe seem to be immersed in a period of cumulative disasters, rather similar to the astrological i ...
  • Obama's triumphal entry into Jerusalem... yada ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe US is hoping that Obama's positive first trip will reinvigorate peace efforts, though most settlers are not worried. They see the composition of the new Israeli cabinet as a reassurance that Israeli policy will move away from peace negotiations. Christian Science Mon ...
  • America's central question
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking on ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • How Yellowstone Businesses Kept the Snowplows ...
    The LA Times reports today that the superintendent of Yellowstone Park, in a last ditch effort to deal with budget cuts caused by the sequester, decided to delay snowplowing for two weeks, a savings of about $400,000. Local businesses, afraid that this would hurt the tourist trade, decide ...
  • Some Ideas on Reforming the Mortgage Interest ...
    The richer you are, the more the home mortgage deduction helps you. Partly this is because you can only take the mortgage interest deduction if you forego the $12,000 standard deduction (for a married couple filing jointly), and that's a much bigger deal for working class families than wealthi ...
  • Con Men Love Tax Havens
    The Washington Post wins April's Least Surprising Headline of the Month award with this entry today: On a serious note, it's actually an interesting piece. The Post worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which somehow obtained 2.5 million records cre ...
  • Crime Is Down in Los Angeles (And Everywhere E ...
    Hey, guess what? With the first quarter of 2013 in the books, crime in Los Angeles has so far continued its decade-long decline, according to statistics released Friday. OK, first off: can we please stop talking about LA's "decade-long" crime drop? I know I've mentioned this often e ...
  • Yes, Disability Payments Are Up, But It's Noth ...
    Last week I blogged about a Planet Money story on the steady increase in Social Security disability payments over the past couple of decades. The story was more nuanced than I think its critics gave it credit for, but there's no question that the big takeaway for most people was the notion tha ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...
  • IC 389: Double Agent
    NWFO back together Trolling relationship experts on Twitter Operation Make AskCheyB quit Tiger Woods is a black double agent Hating on Tiger because of adultery Openly gay in the NFL in between homophobia and full support of gays the Fallon Fox/Transgender issue North Korea gotta go The Wolverin ...
  • Best of The Insanity Check: Side Chicks Don’t ...
    The 2nd “Best of the Insanity Check”. Side Chicks Don’t Have Rights: Gloria Allred thinks Tiger Woods owes his side chicks apologies Mel Gibbson’s mixtape,Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel & the “Rules of Ryce” More Mel Gibbson Share with your friends:
  • IC 388: Religious Rapers
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment Great sith council assignment in real life Religious rapers don’t know “No Means No” Door-to-Door Salesmen Savages Part 2 Ford makes a really bad decision with an Ad Teaser for Riddick Upcoming movies Upcoming Video Games BioWare says goodbye ...
  • IC 387: Savages
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment St. Patrick’s Day = White People Get Drunk Day Kriss & Kev don’t like the way GSP fights Greek Soccer Player gets what he deserves The Steubenville rape trial We’re too easy on rapists Men don’t need to be taught not to rape, those ...

Simple Climate

  • Temperature patterns produce perplexing Plioce ...
    Failure to model a climate fingerprint from 5 million years ago thought to be similar to what we can expect in the warmer future must be resolved, say Lafayette College’s Kira Lawrence and University College London’s Chris Brierley
  • Diving deep into ocean data uncovers ‘missing ...
    Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven’t been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps explain current surprisingly slow surface warming, and invalidates simple climate models.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
    In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.

e!Science News

  • Global burden of dengue is triple current esti ...
    The global burden of dengue infection is more than triple current estimates from the World Health Organization, according to a multinational study published today in the journal Nature. read more
  • Air pollution stunts coral growth
    A new study has found that pollution from fine particles in the air -- mainly the result of burning coal or volcanic eruptions -- can shade corals from sunlight and cool the surrounding water resulting in reduced growth rates. read more
  • Adhesive force differences enable separation o ...
    A new separation process that depends on an easily-distinguished physical difference in adhesive forces among cells could help expand production of stem cells generated through cell reprogramming. By facilitating new research, the separation process could also lead to improvements in the reprogr ...
  • Cleveland Clinic researchers discover new link ...
    A compound abundant in red meat and added as a supplement to popular energy drinks has been found to promote atherosclerosis -- or the hardening or clogging of the arteries -- according to Cleveland Clinic research published online this week in the journal Nature Medicine. read more
  • New emissions standards would fuel shift from ...
    The cost of complying with tougher EPA air-quality standards could spur an increased shift away from coal and toward natural gas for electricity generation, according to a new Duke University study. read more

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Flying High on Flame Retardants
    Plus: Climate changes coffee and oil industry handouts Studies have shown that airline cabins contain high levels of flame retardants. Photo courtesy of chinaoffseason (Flickr) ...
  • Wave Heights Will Wane From Climate Change
    Study predicts a decrease in the size of surf Photo courtesy of Dunedin NZ (Flickr) “Surf’s up!” These two words have sparked countless scenes of surfers wor ...
  • EPA Shares Water Priorities, Action Timelines ...
    Highlights from the EPA’s chief of water policy Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that 55 percent of U.S. streams and rivers are in “poor” ...
  • Renowned Scientist Quits NASA Over Climate
    Dr. Hansen exits 46-year career to fight for carbon controls In recent years, Dr. Hansen has become more vocal and active in his quest for national solutions to climate change. (Arnold Adle ...
  • Happy Birthday, Cesar E. Chavez
    Injustices plague farmworkers while administration turns a blind eye The agriculture industry relies heavily on the use of pesticides, which are highly toxic chemicals that farmworkers and surrounding communities are frequently exp ...

Brave New Climate

  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...
  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...
  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
  • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
    In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...
  • Two decades and counting…
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicanism Is A Disease
    You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
  • Fuck You Bill O’Riley
    Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...
  • Will Texas And Arizona Be Blue In 2016?
    According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...
  • Woodward Trying To Make Nice
    Bob Woodward will be remembered for two things. Watergate, and not reporting the identity of the Valerie Plame leakers before the 2004 election when he knew who they were. I am assuming “they” told Woodward who the leakers (traitors) were because they knew ‘ol Bob was a Bush su ...
  • Ann Romney Happy To Blame Media Bias
    It appears that Ann Romney thinks the media was biased during the campaign, and treated President Obama better than her husband. Here is a transcript from a Fox Lies interview: “Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?” the Fox News host wondered. Ann’s response: “Anytime y ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
  • Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

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  • From Yom Hashoah to the Holocaust Experience
    The Holocaust lends itself perfectly to Israel’s two reigning ‘isms’ – nationalism and emotionalism.  Aren’t historic events supposed to diminish in their impact over time? Not the Holocaust, not in Israel. Today’s Holocaust Remembrance Day just seems bigger, ...
  • Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel: Something ...
    With Holocaust Remembrance Day upon us once again in Israel, I am republishing a piece I wrote four years ago. I’ve decided not to make any changes because not that much has changed and the spirit of the piece remains true to today. This year, I dedicate it to the people of Syria, may someone [...]
  • I Don’t Know Arabic, but I do. And yet d ...
    Watching an Arabic movie every Friday throughout my childhood. Nearly 30 years would pass before I discover that my grandmother and Farid al-Atrash were friends. I have no idea, it goes under my radar. And yet they are there, the words. By Tamar Kaplansky (Translated from Hebrew by Orna Meir-Sta ...
  • Activists hold first protest against Israeli F ...
    Roughly 200 demonstrators gathered last night (Saturday) in front of new Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s north Tel Aviv home in protest of planned cuts to social services and benefits. The protesters demanded that the finance minister cover budget deficits by taxing the highest-earning Israe ...
  • Palestinians and the Syrian Revolution: Lesson ...
    One writer asserts that even if it were in the Palestinian’s interest for Assad to remain in control, they should not ask that of Syrians in the midst of a civil war. By Talal Alyan The lapse of support for the Syrian revolution amongst some segments of the Arab left will in retrospect be ...

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Bees, Monsanto, Free Trade ...
    Sadly, President Obama signed the bill protecting Monsanto, further tarnishing the environmental record of his administration.
  • State agencies sometimes send mixed messages t ...
    Each state has an agency that advises people not to consume certain recreationally caught fish, because of health concerns. Each state also has an agency that aims to prevent certain species from being overfished. Unfortunately, in many cases these two agencies are sending mixed messages to the ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Rivers, Slow Food, ADUFA, a ...
    Rep. Louise Slaughter (D–NY) said, “This study ends any debate. The extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock is endangering human health."
  • Coursera Wrap-Up
    The most cited reason that students felt compelled to change their own approach to food was how the food system impacts the environment.
  • CLF Week in Links: Soda, Chicken Waste, Bills ...
    The support from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association for campaigns against the Mayor’s program and sugar taxes proposed around the country is reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s disinformation campaign during the long struggle to expose the lethal effects of cigarette s ...

k2p blog

  • Could Russian money from Cyprus be fuelling th ...
    In the last 6 months the value of the "virtual" currency the Bitcoin has jumped from $9.7 to $149. It is thought that much of the Russian money stashed away in Cyprus - especially the "black" money - left Cyprus before all the restrictions came into effect. That money must have gone somewhere an ...
  • Could Russian money from Cyprus be fuelling th ...
    In the last 6 months the value of the "virtual" currency the Bitcoin has jumped from $9.7 to $149. It is thought that much of the Russian money stashed away in Cyprus - especially the "black" money - left Cyprus before all the restrictions came into effect. That money must have gone somewhere an ...
  • Portugal moves closer to a Red Euro
    Portugal's constitutional court on Friday rejected four out of nine contested austerity measures in this year's budget in a ruling that deals a blow to government finances.
  • Portugal moves closer to a Red Euro
    Portugal's constitutional court on Friday rejected four out of nine contested austerity measures in this year's budget in a ruling that deals a blow to government finances.
  • Idiot science? Urban vegetation decreases viol ...
    Vegetation in urban areas reduces violent crime!

Left Foot Forward

  • Why it’s right to extend hate crime legislatio ...
    Hate crime is when someone is targeted because the assailant hates ‘what’ that person is or what the assailant perceives them to be. In some quarters, there has been an expression of dismay that Manchester Police will now record criminal acts against subcultures as hate crimes, where there is ...
  • This week’s most read: The Daily Mail, P ...
    The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
  • Is the Daily Mail killing children?
    No. Obviously not. Saying such a thing would constitute sensationalist reporting of the crudest kind, and I'm not going to resort to that. But remember this:
  • Just how out of touch is George Osborne?
    While I don't believe the criticism Osborne has received is in any way a distraction from the wider issues (if anything it's an indictment of his inability to empathise with disabled shoppers), I thought it worth a quick look at just how out of touch this government is policy wise.
  • Tax avoidance and the myth of trickle down wealth
    The files released from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) may finally put faces to the offshore accounts scandal whose numbers are quite astounding. A recent report by the Tax Justice Network found that the equivalent to the total combined GDP of U.S. and Japan ...

Consumerist

  • EA Admits It “Can Do Better” But B ...
    Video game giant EA is on the precipice of having to repeat as grand champion in the Worst Company In America tournament, so one might think this would be a time for EA to make nice with the customers who feel like they are being mistreated. And in an EA.com blog post, Chief Operating Officer Pe ...
  • Microsoft Apologizes For Loudmouthed Creative ...
    Earlier this week, a Microsoft Studios creative director stepped into a huge, flaming virtual bag full of doo-doo when he decided to make his case for always-online gaming, and possibly gave away information about the next generation of Xbox in the process. Today, Microsoft has had to issue a &# ...
  • Flying The Friendly Skies Friday: Treating Mom ...
    Around these parts, we hear our share of the frustrating, the woeful and the all-out angry. But when we catch hold of an idea that brings out the happy and rewarding stories of customers, we like to celebrate it. This week in Flying The Friendly Skies Friday: Treat your mother right and when giv ...
  • Beauty Brands Pushing Anti-Aging Hair Care Pro ...
    As if women aren’t already freaked out enough about aging, the beauty industry is now messing with our heads even more. Along with the various anti-aging creams, serums, balms, wrinkle smoothers, moisturizers and treatments for your skin, the latest trend in product pushing comes in the fo ...
  • Rothbury Farms Crunches One Ounce Off Bags Of ...
    Croutons are so light and crunchy that you probably won’t notice a missing ounce. At least, that’s what they’re probably hoping at Rothbury Farms. Alert reader and crouton-eater John sent in this comparison of their old and new bags of croutons, where a lighter color and the sa 

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    Huffington Post
    The study, led by researchers from Stanford and Cornell universities, provides a theoretical road map to how New Yorkers could rely on renewable energy within 17 years. It would require massive investments in wind turbines, solar panels and more from ...
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    Mystery of storing renewable energy cracked?
    WND.com
    Third and perhaps most significant is the fact that renewables have yet to bridge the 24/7 reliability gap – the wind doesn't always blow, the sun goes down – at which point most utilities fall back on – you guessed it – traditional fossil fuel plants ...
    Think Tank Takes: North Carolina rethinking renewable energy standard
    Washington Examiner
    North Carolina legislators are considering repealing the state's renewable portfolio standard. The RPS requires utilities to obtain a specified percentage of their power from renewable sources by a certain date. Twenty-two of the 29 states with such ...
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    Dome: GOP bill would pull plug on renewable energy while administration touts ...
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    It could be awkward if McCrory signs a bill weakening the state's program to promote renewable energy in light of the fact that his commerce department last week sent out a news release touting the 10th Sustainable Energy Conference later this month in ...
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    Blue Ridge-Berryessa partnership plans April 12 fire ecology, restoration panel
    Lake County News
    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The Blue Ridge-Berryessa Partnership, a group of regional stakeholders working together to conserve and steward the Blue Ridge-Berryessa Natural Area, will host a fire ecology and restoration panel discussion in Yountville on ...
    Annual figures from Ecology bolster case for ethical banking
    Blue & Green Tomorrow
    Sustainable finance institution Ecology Building Society has revealed that it increased its net profits by 8% in 2012 – a figure that comes just two weeks after a study showed profits from the big five banks were nullified by past fines and mistakes ...
    Sustain ecology while developing Sunderbans, says expert
    Hindu Business Line
    Asked about the sustainability of the single-largest tidal mangrove forest, Pachauri said, “As a society, we have to be responsible for that very fragile ecology. We have to be very careful about the economic activity that we introduce over there.” He ...
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    Ecology orders removal of Helena Star from Hylebos Waterway
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA - The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) today issued an emergency enforcement order (order) requiring those responsible for the Helena Star to remove the vessel from Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma's Commencement Bay. The 167-foot ...
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    Slaking a Region's Thirst While Cleaning Its Beaches
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    LOS ANGELES — Surfers here have long lived by a simple rule: When it rains, no matter how good the waves may be, stay out of the water. Those who do head out to the Venice Pier on a rainy day might have their bravery (or naïveté) repaid with pinkeye, ...
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    CHELLANEY: China's great water wall
    Washington Times
    India has water-sharing treaties with both the countries located downstream from it: the Indus pact with Pakistan guarantees the world's largest cross-border flows of any treaty regime, while the Ganges accord has set a new principle in international ...
    IBM analytics saves water at Arizona golf community
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    This allows Desert Mountain -- which buys about 1 billion gallons of water per year (a large portion of that reclaimed from the municipal water department) -- to proactively reduce water purchases, adjust watering schedules or reallocate supplies among ...
    Japan Nuclear Plant Finds New Leaks
    Wall Street Journal
    About 400 tons a day of contaminated water is produced by the cooling operations needed to keep fuel from overheating and reacting at the plant. While radioactive cesium is removed from the water after use, other radioactive materials remain in it ...
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