Monday, April 08, 2013

8 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • million to settle a lawsuit filed ...
  • Radack in NYC for Book Release Party – Justice ...
    A book-release exhibition tonight in New York City will feature GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack. The new book, “Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution,” is by esteemed photographer Mariana Cook. The work is a compilation of first hand accounts and photogr ...
  • GAP Files Amicus in Suit Taking On Rumsfeld: D ...
    GAP Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief as Detained, Tortured Whistleblowers Take on Rumsfeld Last month, GAP filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Vance v. Rumsfeld. In that case, Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel worked as private security contractor ...
  • Whistleblower Exposes Watered Down Beer at Anh ...
    The Columbus Dispatch: Anheuser–Busch Punishing Him, Whistleblower SaysAnhesuer–Busch Brewery in St. Louis The brewing giant Anheuser–Busch is allegedly punishing a former employee with a lawsuit, in response to his claim that the company sells watered down beer. According to the whistleblower ...
  • UN Whistleblower Wasserstrom to Speak in NY; L ...
    Pioneer UN whistleblower James Wasserstrom will speak at a press conference next Monday, April 8, about a recent decision in his landmark whistleblowing case. Wasserstrom will travel from his post in Afghanistan to New York for the event. That morning he will also announce, and make available to ...

UK Progressive

  • Tired of Squeaky Wheels? Then Ignore Them
    This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell For two weeks the media oxygen has been sucked dry by a 29 year old megalomaniac Korean man-child dictator threatening the USA and most of his neighbours with nuclear annihilation to prove he indeed has a member inside his pants, regardless of size. H ...
  • The Ascendancy of Women
    by Carl Matthes In 720 BC, at the founding of the all-male Roman Senate, historians documented, “Women were kept out of positions of power. They were not allowed to be senators, governors, lawyers, judges or any of the other official positions. Women were also not allowed to vote in elections. A ...
  • Lasting Damage: A Rogue Prosecutor’s Final Case
    by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica Among the thousands of prosecutors who have tried cases in the name of the people of New York City, Claude Stuart came to hold a handful of unfortunate distinctions: • He was a serial abuser of his authority. State appellate courts reversed three convictions based on ...
  • Can a Judge Really Block the SEC’s Settlement ...
    by Theodoric Meyer ProPublica Judge Victor Marrero last week became the latest federal judge to question a time-honored tactic of federal regulators: negotiating settlements in which companies pay millions of dollars in penalties without admitting or denying that they’ve actually done anyt ...
  • The Big Stall
    by Robert Reich Bad news on the economy. It added only 88,000 jobs in March – the slowest pace of job growth in nine months. While the jobless rate fell to 7.6 percent, much of the drop was due to the labor force shrinking by almost a half million people. If you’re not looking for [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Is the media waking up? Global warming: time ...
    Tic, tic, tic. The sleeping MSM is stirring. Headlines no one could imagine seeing a few years ago are popping up on a regular basis. The backdown is beginning. For those who have not gone-over-the-falls and chained their reputation to a big-Green-rock, there is time to backtrack. This is a good ...
  • Rupert Wyndham ponders the wanton hypocrisy of ...
    Rupert Wyndham is an eloquent treasure. For those who have not already seen this (and I’ve received many emails about it) — Enjoy! — His turn of phrase is something to behold: the damning indictments carefully understated, yet laid bare. That the Royal Society President has bee ...
  • Jobs and junkets are on the line. Abbott could ...
    Tim Flannery No wonder Flannery and co. are playing double or nothing. While headlines have shouted for years that vested interests of the fossil fuel players dominate this debate, few journalists point out that the renewables industry, carbon trading markets, and the climate-scary-science-campa ...
  • Mafia caught laundering $1.7b through “r ...
    Real markets have real customers, who notice when things don’t add up. Fake markets are an invitation to criminals. The state forced payments from citizens for the wrong reasons, to solve a non-problem with the wrong method. In this case, state organized crime meets independent organized c ...
  • IPCC plays hot-spot hidey games in AR5 — ...
    The classic hot spot prediction (A) compared to 28 million weatherballoons (B). Click to enlarge. You won’t see this in the new report. It was a major PR failure in 2007. The IPCC won’t make the same mistake again. They’ve dumped the hot-spot graphs. In AR4 they put in two gra ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • 2012 Sex / Model Story
    I’m sure I missed lots of stories during those last, hectic weeks of 2012 – like this one: A sexy swimsuit model and countless other lusty New Yorkers say tomorrow’s predicted Mayan apocalypse is a great reason to have sex, and are turning to social media and doomsday-themed parties ...
  • Solar Explosion Cycle: Hitting us in 2071?
    Although almost every 2012er focused on the end date of the Long Count calendar, few considered that it might be related to a cyclical phenomena. Even though every ancient Meso-American calendar is/was cyclical… It has become muddled, but according to the ancient Maya and Aztec peoples, we ...
  • 6 Top Quality Survival Products
    I found this at the Daily Mail, but it looks like they have scanned it from a magazine like Popular Mechanics and didn’t credit it… Anyway, this picture could save you a thousand SHTF hours if you buy them all: Your're reading 6 Top Quality Survival Products by Robert Bast, and orig ...
  • Japanese Methane Extraction Could Trigger Tsunami
    Japan is where the word tsunami originated – because they get more than their fair share. Just over 2 years ago the Tōhoku tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster. You could be forgiven for thinking that is as bad as it can get – but the reality is muc ...
  • Pope Francis: Not Peter, Not Roman…But
    The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn’t his middle name, and he hasn’t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn’t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stu ...

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • China and BRICS: Upgrading Global Agenda
    A few weeks have passed since the Chinese fifth generation leaders came to power. The first impression is really strong. Newly elect Chairman Xi Jinping has visited Moscow and has taken part in the Durbin top level BRICS event; he has received US Secretary of Treasure and Henry Kissinger in Beij ...
  • US’ policy towards Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline (I)
    One of the aspects of change in the mode of warfare, which has come to prominence after World War II, is the non-military aggressive tool of ‘economic strangulation’ through which the powerful states try to politically subjugate their target countries. Unfortunately the development and applicati ...
  • Human Rights and the Sri Lankan Pinochet
    70 years ago, during the WWII, when Japan bombed Madras and Cyclone, the ethnic divide between the Tamils and Sinhalese was hardly pronounced. Both were victims of great power politics that was being played out in the region. In the 1980s the hegemonic politics once again attacked the region. Th ...
  • BRICS: New Geopolitical Model and Russia’s For ...
    Another annual BRICS summit wrapped up on March 27 in South Africa. A cycle of top level events taking place by turns in the member states capitals is over. This time it was of special importance for Russia. In early February Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new Foreign Policy Conce ...
  • Qatar’s Great Power Games
    The recent Arab League summit, which illegally decided to provide military aid to the Syrian opposition under pressure from Doha, has once again demonstrated that there is a new power balance in the Arab world where the traditionally powerful countries like Egypt, Algeria and Iraq have again pro ...

BlogHer

  • 20 Ways to Reuse Old Tires
    [Editor's Note: I love a good list with lot's of pictures. Kim from Too Much Time On My Hands has the perfect one on her blog with Earth Day right around the corner. 20 great uses for old tires from furniture to planters even a bathroom sink. - Jen]Main Ingredient Monday- Old TiresKim has a w ...
  • http://www.blogher.com/video-are-you-ready-mad-men-returns-tonight-and-were-playing-guess-year
    The gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Price is back, and as usual tonight's two hour season premiere is rumoured to be more build up than action, but with the anticipation of the style and swagger of the 60s (I'm assuming it's still the 60s, but more on that in a minute) the show brings along with ...
  • Navigating Career & God: Produced by Faith
    Is your faith integrally involved with your career choices? How do you navigate the waters of career in a way that aligns with having a desire for a deeper relationship with God? Those are a few of the questions considered in this post from A Diva State of Mind about her own career in fashion in ...
  • Must Read Blogs: Grandma Got STEM
    I'm smitten with a blog. There, I said it. The blog is Grandma Got STEM and it's a new effort to document stories about the many women who have been working in STEM fields for decades. The particular story I'm suggesting you read first is by Sharon Richardson. Sharon's story stands out for two ...
  • Five Dating Tips For Women in Their 20s
    Editor's Note: I didn't watch Sex and the City. I saw a few episodes and was bored to tears and occasionally offended. I think, however, that the show had a great impact on young women and their ideas about dating, sex, and love. This piece speaks not only to women in their 20s, but to any woman ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, April 5, 2010
    Three years ago this afternoon, an explosion tore through Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va. Twenty-nine coal miners died and two others were seriously injured. For many of us, it’s just another day. At best, it’s a time to revisit the disaster and a ...
  • Three years after the Upper Big Branch Mine Di ...
    Mine helmets and painted crosses sit at the entrance to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch coal mine Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in Montcoal, W.Va. The memorial represents the 29 coal miners who were killed in an explosion at the mine. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) Friday will mark the 3rd anniversary ...
  • More on the UMWA’s latest Patriot rally
    There’s more in today’s Gazette about the big United Mine Workers of America rally against Patriot Coal here in Charleston, including the above video by Doug Imbrogno, a story by Rusty Marks about the arrests of 16 UMWA members and supporters, and this piece by Dr. Paul Nyden, headli ...
  • Patriot fairness: UMWA brings huge rally for m ...
    I’m just back from listening to a few of the speeches and watching a little bit of the action at the huge United Mine Workers of America rally today in downtown Charleston. Thousands of miners, family members and various supporters attended the event, held as part of the UMWA’s ongoi ...
  • Friday roundup, March 29, 2013
    A house-sized dump truck hauls dirt and rock Tuesday March 26, 2013 at the Black Thunder coal mine in northeast Wyoming’s Powder River Basin near Wright, Wyo., source of almost 40 percent of the nation’s coal production. The federal government says it is withholding $110 million in m ...

Daniel Miessler

  • This Guy Has Balls
    Related Posts:More Support for Google Being a Pure Ad CompanyBranson on Delegation | The Next WebRegex DOS Attacks | AbeMiester.comAutomated Penetration Testing with White-Box Fuzzing |…Left vs. Right-side Navigation: Which Big Sites Use Which?
  • Why You Should Consider Avoiding Consumer Netw ...
    If you have a job where security is important to you, and your home network and/or computers are a big part of that job, you should probably consider upgrading to a prosumer or professional grade firewall. Why? This is why. In short, Linksys is just one of many consumer-grade options for protect ...
  • Trying Tempo for iOS
    I’m giving Tempo a try as my main main calendar app on iOS. There are a few major advantages to it, but here are the major ones I’ve found so far: Auto-parsing and dialing of conference codes in meetings Location awareness and weather information LinkedIn integration for information ...
  • New FortifyMyApp Video
    This is a cool new video someone did within my group at work. It’s easy to do these poorly, and I think this one was quite strong.Related Posts:This Drummer is Into ItA Guy Talking About LifeA Talk on Parenting You Should SeeHow to Handle BullyingA Happy Commercial
  • All Six Star Wars Movies Playing Simultaneously
    Related Posts:This Drummer is Into ItHow to Handle BullyingA Happy CommercialA Talk on Parenting You Should SeeA Guy Talking About Life

Fitwatch

  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing since Democritus
    Guest blog by the man who is Shtetl-Optimized It's an exquisite, delicious, life-changing honor to be invited to guest-blog on Luboš Motl's Reference Frame. In terms of The Big Bang Theory, imagine Sheldon (to whom Luboš likes to compare himself) inviting Howard Wolowitz to guest-post. Lo, ...
  • Percival Zhang: cheap hydrogen fuel from any plant
    Joseph S. has sent me links to articles (e.g. UPI, Forbes) about an energy breakthrough claimed by Percival Zhang, a bio-engineer from Virginia Tech. He claims to have completed a system of biotechnologies that produce a large enough amount of hydrogen out of plants. He ...
  • Obama, beauty, and sexism
    I had to laugh when I learned that Barack Obama who has often benefited from political correctness has been caught to the PC trap himself. A very loud third of the Americans – the batshit crazy Americans – apparently think that the following comment about Kamala Harris is "sexist". “You have t ...
  • Dyson: Climatologists are no Einsteins
    The New Jersey Star Ledger printed a nice interview with Freeman Dyson: Climatologists are no Einsteins, says his successor (Star Ledger) Beginning in the GWPF (Benny Peiser et al.) They mention that when Einstein was still around, Dyson was hired by the Institute for Advanced Studies in P ...
  • Holy week with the EU: an insane EU propaganda ...
    The iDNES.cz news server and other Czech media have brought us a trailer of a new movie funded by the national branches of the top EU institutions. The movie is called "Holy Week With The EU" and it describes the EU from the viewpoint of high school students preparing for the GCSE (final) exam. ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Louisiana SINK HOLE UPDATE: 3 More Acres in th ...
    from idahopicker: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Louisiana SINK HOLE UPDATE: 3 More Acres in the hole from idahopicker: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver,... Important S ...
  • Louisiana SINK HOLE UPDATE: 3 More Acres in th ...
    from idahopicker: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Louisiana SINK HOLE UPDATE: 3 More Acres in the hole from idahopicker: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver,... Important S ...
  • Thank You Exxon: Mayflower, Arkansas’ New Oil Lake
    [Ed. Note: Wait for the punch line, or punch in the collective face of humanity, at 1:25.] from LeakSourceNews: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Peter Schiff: Think the Obama Recovery was bad? Just wait un ...
  • North Korea allegedly preparing fourth nuke test
    North Korea could perform a fourth underground nuclear weapons test at Punggye-ri, the site of its previous test. Pyongyang appeared to be making preparations for the test,… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: North Korea says it has carried out nuke test No ...
  • David Chalmers on Consciousness as the Biggest ...
    An excerpt from “The Thinking Ape: The Enigma of Human Consciousness” featuring philosopher David Chalmers. The New York Academy of Sciences Wednesday, Octob… Video Rating: 5 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: David Icke – Consciousness & ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Crews located avalanche victims
    Search crews aided by the Norwegian military finally found the bodies of two of the three men believed caught in an avalanche on Senja during the Easter holiday week. More bad weather forced an end to the weekend search, but it was due to resume on Monday. After blasting their way through mounds ...
  • Center Party keen to close borders
    Norway’s rural-oriented Center Party (Senterpartiet, Sp) shocked even its sister party in Sweden over the weekend when it voted to promote withdrawal from the so-called “Schengen agreement” that has opened borders among various European countries. The party also wants to replac ...
  • Overtime mediation averted strike
    Norway’s labour federations LO and YS came to terms with national employers’ organization NHO at around 3am on Monday, after three hours of mediation in overtime that ultimately averted a major strike. Their agreement provides modest pay raises across the board, plus a special wage b ...
  • New theories emerge into tragedy on board the ...
    Persons other than the truck driver accused of setting a fire on board the cruise ferry Scandinavian Star may have been responsible for the tragedy that killed 159 persons during a voyage from Oslo 23 years ago. New theories are emerging from a working group that’s conducted its own probe ...
  • Tiny party in the spotlight again
    NEWS ANALYSIS: More than 90 percent of Norwegian voters don’t support Liv Signe Navarsete’s small, rural-oriented Center Party (Senterpartiet, Sp), yet its top politicians and their upcoming annual meeting this weekend have been grabbing headlines and topping newscasts. Outsiders can ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Thanks For Your Patience
    A little (no more than 2cms long!) tree frog adds to the diversity of Zaytuna Farm Photos © Craig Mackintosh It’s been a rewarding time here at Zaytuna Farm. I’ve been busy taking footage, and a few photos too (like our little friend above — and thanks to eagle-eyed Ge ...
  • International Permaculture Day at the PRI’s Za ...
    The graphic says it all. We hope to see you here!
  • Rocky Resources
    Every geographic area has a resource waiting to be used. I want to talk about areas that have stone easily accessible. Rocks can seem to be a huge obstacle to design and productivity, but there are some valuable advantages that come with having usable stone. Some advantages to using stone in a d ...
  • New Map of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar ...
    Click here for more details Most folks familiar with permaculture understand how zones are used in the design of a piece of property. Depending on slope, contour, house placement, hydrology, and functional use, amongst other criteria, zones are never created as concentric circles like a bulls- ...
  • Writing “Toolkit for Climate Stabilization wit ...
    I’m writing "Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices" To save the planet we may need to turn it into an edible paradise… help me write the book that explains how and why. Perennial crops and re ...

Pointman's

  • Optimism, blogging and the big green killing m ...
    I’ve been writing this blog for a number of years now. Before that, I used other and much less effective means to resist the rising tide of climate alarmism and its lethal political baggage. Canute would have slapped his thigh and laughed in delight at my ineffectual but earnest efforts. T ...
  • Climategate 3, the goon squad and going nuclear.
    One of the climate establishment’s new coping mechanisms in handling what is effectively the third release of the climategate emails, is to put pressure on the people who were sent the decryption key, rather than looking for the identity of the leaker. The leaker goes by the name FOIA and ...
  • Climategate 3. FOIA’s accompanying email.
    Since I put up the email from FOIA that accompanied the second climategate release here, I thought I might as well be consistent and put up the email that accompanied the third. It makes for interesting reading, if only as a basis for some intriguing speculation. Pointman. ********************** ...
  • La, la, la. I can’t hear you, I’m ...
    I’ve been watching the slow and gory deconstruction of the latest attempt to rehabilitate the hockey stick, otherwise known as the Marcott et al paper. It’s a bit voyeuristic, but you just can’t help yourself in the end. Within the context of the skeptic blogosphere, it’s ...
  • Well, at least one of the bastards is behind bars.
    It’s been a very big week in the war against climate alarmism. FOIA revealed the password, which now gives access to all the emails contained in the CG2 release. Given that the archive contains something like 220,000 emails, you can expect a bit of a lull on the blogging front, simply beca ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Blames Victims
    The New Orleans Police Department recently released a statement on "women and safety," that has outrage across the city and furthered the perception that this police department does not get it. They are more interested in blaming the victim than preventing assault. With absurd advice like "don't ...
  • Robert H. King responds to Louisiana Attorney ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Many thanks to all of you who have aided our cause and added your voices to our quest to free Albert from an obviously unjust imprisonment of more than 40 years. Please continue to make your voices heard and your dissent known, especially in light of the rece ...
  • Global Left Converges in Tunisia – Day One
    Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia and neighboring nations, but there was substantial representat ...
  • Mayor Landrieu and Ronal Serpas Wage War Again ...
    Mayor Mitch Landrieu ran for office on a promise of reform of the city's police department. He promised a national search for a new police chief as his first major initiative as mayor. Then the members of his search team began quitting, saying the process was rigged. When Landrieu "national sear ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Guilty until proven innocent - the oppressive ...
    In tonight's show we take a look at the travesty of justice known as the Apprehended Violence Order (AVO). An AVO is a restraining order which compels an 'alleged' violent person to stay away from an 'alleged' victim. In a strange exception of the norms of criminal justice , when an AVO is iss ...
  • Dissent against water fluoridation sweeps thro ...
    In today's show we cover the astonishing story of how 9 Queensland councils (with more considering) have rejected water fluoridation. This avalanche of dissent was triggered by a decision by the State Premier Campbell Newman in 2012 to allow councils to decide individually whether to fluoridate ...
  • Round table discussion with studio guests Damo ...
    In today's show we take a look at some of the challenges to unconstutional laws which have been rolled out in Australia, with a close look at speeding fines. I am joined in studio for the discussion by Damon Crowe and Chris Tolland. In part 2 of the show we play you some highlights from a re ...
  • Malcolm Roberts exposes deceptions of the IPCC ...
    Malcolm Roberts is an indefatigable warrior for truth, reason and science, rationally opposing the evolving feudal super state which is now being formed around the world from the broken remnants of western (former) democracies. In today's show Malcolm shares some of his new research into the C ...
  • Child abuse in foster care and orphanages is a ...
    Forgotten Australians National Day of Action - 6 Feb 2013 With all the news we have heard over the years about the abuse of children in various Church organisations you may have drawn the conclusion that everything is now out in the open and, the worst is behind us and the wheels of justice ar ...

Beacon

  • NOAA declares “Unusual Mortality Event” for Ca ...
    Sea Lions in rehab. Photo: Pacific Marine Mammal Center Beginning in January 2013, unusually high numbers of stranded California sea lion pups have been observed on the Southern California coast. Marine mammals naturally come ashore along our beaches if they are sick, wounded, or injured. Thi ...
  • Infographic: Shark Attacks
    A new study published earlier this year in Marine Policy put the number of sharks slaughtered each year at 100 million, or roughly three sharks caught per second. Outraged by these shocking numbers, Joe Chernov and Robin Richards created an infographic to put the figures in perspective. While s ...
  • Victory! 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline Protected ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads face thre ...
  • Victory! More than 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate more than 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads ...
  • Grins and Fins: Meet the Sociable False Killer ...
    This false killer whale flashes a (real) killer smile. Photo: Doug Perrine/Hotspot Media American photographer Doug Perrine, 60, captured this priceless image of a false killer whale mid-grin off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Less commonly known than the killer whale (or orca), the false killer ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Maureen Dowd’s “Hillsteria” Derangement
    The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details ...
  • Queer Talk: Sen. Landrieu (D) Says She’s Evolv ...
    That’s not exactly how Louisiana Mary Landrieu put it, that she’ll “follow” her constituents, but it’s clear she isn’t ready to lead. She remains among the last of the Democratic Senators – all four of them – who haven’t expressed support for marriage equality. At Joe My God: Landrieu told CNN N ...
  • Tyler Perry’s “Temptation” One of the Worst Mo ...
    THIS MOVIE seems obviously made for the segment of culturally frozen individuals who actually believe organized religion is the only thing standing between sexually adventurous women, including those who cheat on their husbands, and hell or the local HIV/AIDS hospice, which Tyler Perry equates a ...
  • Top Story — Obama Moves Grand Bargain Into the ...
    “You can’t call yourself a Democrat and support Social Security benefit cuts. The president is proposing to steal thousands of dollars from grandparents and veterans by cutting cost of living adjustments, and any congressional Democrat who votes for such a plan should be ready for a ...
  • Obama Says Environmental Politics Are “Tough,” ...
    President Obama told a group of California donors that the politics of the environment “are tough.” No doubt. But I’ll bet if your backyard was covered in crude oil, that would be even “tougher.” The photo is of such a backyard in Mayflower, Arkansas, the result of break in the Exxon Pegasus Pip ...

Hudson New York

  • Mashaal Cannot Change Hamas
    The re-election last week of Khaled Mashaal as Hamas leader has been interpreted by some Arab and Western analysts as a sign of the radical Islamist's desire to march toward "moderation and pragmatism." Hamas, according to political analyst Ahmed Rafik
  • Moses' Gift: Israel Could Use Gas to Its Advantage
    Golda Meir once quipped that Moses could have done the Jewish people a better service. "He took us 40 years through the desert," she said, "to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil." Today, Golda Meir's quip has lost its punch. Last
  • Europe: Mosque Building Shifts into High Gear
    From Belgium to Greece and Spain to Germany, 2013 is shaping up to be another banner year for the construction of mosques in Europe. In Belgium, work is about to begin on the construction of a mega-mosque in Liège, the third-largest city in the country.
  • Burning Down the Palestinian House
    Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to "suspend unilateral action" against Israel for some indefinite period of time. It is, his spokesman says, to "give a sufficient chance for [US Secretary of State John] Kerry's efforts to succeed."
  • Saudi Arabia and Qatar's Idea of "Aid"
    Many journalists, instead of letting facts speak for themselves, frequently seem partial to making idealistic predictions and sweeping statements about the Middle East. Although no newspaper or government predicted the "Arab Spring," once it happened,

Urban Survival

  • Unemployment Up, Reported Flat
    Last month’s unemployment report showed a 7.6% unemployment rate, but that was again accomplished withy smoke and mirrors, specifically by reducing the workforce numbers and tweaking the labor participation rate.  The fact of this morning’s report is that in March … Contin ...
  • Coping: Housing’s Recovery vs. Virtual T ...
    Some parts of the country are experiencing a real housing price recovery and as Elaine noted the other day after listening to the radio on the way home from town “Did you know house-flipping secrets ads are on the air … Continue reading →
  • Kippers and Nukes
    We continue holding our odds on war between North and South Korea at 40% this morning because, as one reader points out, Kid Korea is going to run out of lines to draw in the sand pretty quick.  And, says … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Answers at the Wrong End of Time
    A reader out in Aridzona sent in this marvelous link to a paper available online here which wonders if there’s a ‘signal’ in terrestrial genetic coding.  The abstract (which is fair game report) goes like this from a couple of … Continue reading →
  • UrbanSurvival Banned in China!
    Got this from a reader who just went there:   “yes George, feel Honoured, because urbanSurvival was chosen by Chinese authorities to be blocked.! As I found out this weekend, returning to China for 2 months as I live here … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Northern Cyprus Sees Hope in Water Pipeline
    “Even as the Cypriot government struggles to ward off financial disaster, the authorities in the northern part of the divided island are quietly pushing ahead with a project to link their territory, physically and economically, more closely with Turkey, their powerful neighbor and protecto ...
  • China’s Massive Water Diversion
    “This month, a hundred years after the completion of the Panama Canal, China is expected to finish the first phase of its gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project, known in Chinese as Nanshui beidiao gongcheng — literally, “to divert southern water north.” The phrase evokes the suggesti ...
  • California’s small snowpack raises chills
    “The sprinklings of rain and dustings of snow that will fall on California over the next few days are not going to make up for three of the most remarkably dry months in state history, water resources officials said Thursday. “The mountains of the Sierra, which were buried in giant m ...
  • EPA Survey Finds More Than Half of the Nation’ ...
    “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the results of the first comprehensive survey looking at the health of thousands of stream and river miles across the country, finding that more than half – 55 percent – are in poor condition for aquatic life. “The health of our Nat ...
  • Ontology, Ethics and Epistemology in the Nexus
      Ontology, Ethics and Epistemology in the Nexus by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbright. Today I ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • OK … water people … where’s ...
    …quite revealing our “give-a-sh*t-factor” relative to the truth about WATER in Arizona… … you don’t see CAP or SRP or any public or for-profit-water purveyor revealing anything but smiley bullsh*t info about how SECURE water is in Arizona … Remember the old Wendy’s TV commercial … OK … water peo ...
  • in this day and age what they want … the ...
    …not yet … but that’s what America’s military-industrial-corporate-congressional-complex wants … and in this day and age what they want … they get … U.S. official: We are ‘not on the brink of war’ with North Korea 04-04-2013  •  The RawStory.com After weeks of intensifying warnings fro ...
  • consider these same elected dupes want to arm ...
    … Do you really find this difficult to believe … consider these same elected dupes want to arm teachers … allow anyone to “carry” on school property – oops – make that university sites … … But protecting guns allow our “press” to report SECURE border…? …if you still have questions … just follow ...
  • SECURE … can you say bullshit …
    …SECURE… …depends solely upon how one chooses to define that word … … Arbitrarily dividing people does not secure make … … In the end all we accomplish to invite increased hostility … We need remember Arizona and much of the southwest was once part of Mexico … that heritage and legacy remains de ...
  • you will drink … bathe … wash your ...
    …flush the pollutants you create down the drain leave it for your neighbor … town … community … others to attempt to remove … though you need understand that is NOT possible … you will drink … bathe … wash your clothes … make your kids kool-aid in the water you polluted … Wash Radiation, [...]

Popular Technology

  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • 2016: Obama's America
    2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Investigation clears APP of deforestation alle ...
    Two logging companies that supply Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) with timber have not violated the Indonesian forestry giant's new zero deforestation commitment, according to a field investigation by The Forest Trust, a conservation group. The investigation was a direct response to allegations rais ...
  • Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaug ...
    Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). The numbers are staggering: a single park in Gabon, Minkebe National Park, has seen 11,100 ...
  • Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare b ...
    Ringed with forested mountains forming the borders with Laos and Vietnam, the northeast corner of Cambodia has been an intriguing blank spot among my extensive travels through the country. Nestled up against this frontier is Virachey National Park, created in 1993. I began searching for a way to ...
  • Harnessing religious teachings about stewardsh ...
    Many religious groups have taken on the role of environmental custodians, citing scriptures that urge living in harmony with plants and animals. Representatives of nine world religions pledged in 2009 to develop environmental programs. The Sikh religion’s contribution to that effort is cal ...
  • Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
    Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Scientists' feathers ruffled over Jurassic Par ...
    Palaeontologists are "pissed off" that the dinosaurs in the upcoming Jurassic Park film will not have feathers.Evidence has been piling up since the first Jurassic Park film came out in 1993 that many dinosaurs were in fact...
  • Tsunami warning: Waiting on siren sound may ca ...
    Every time Steve Morris takes his two young daughters to the local beach, signs of tsunami danger surround him.The Tauranga father wonders how the grassy sand hills that drop down from Papamoa Domain were once formed; he hopes they'd...
  • Tsunami warning: Auckland facing multiple menace
    As one of the world's most tsunami-threatened countries, New Zealand faces the triple menace of distant-source tsunami, regional tsunami and local-source tsunami.Civil Defence says there is a low likelihood of a local-source tsunami...
  • Tsunami sirens of limited benefit
    Tsunami warning sirens that sounded across Auckland in a test-run at the weekend are not favoured by our national emergency agency.Yesterday, sirens based around Rodney and throughout Waitakere on Auckland's north and west coasts...
  • Antarctic team digs deep to predict climate future
    Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to obtain ice that records our climate's past and could point to its...

The Bovine

  • “Fresh Milk, Food Politics” summary
    From Hella Delicious  on yesterday’s conference in Vancouver: “Michael Schmidt who Jackie called “Our stubborn German” was up next and he gave us some of his personal background with growing up with the rise of the Nazis and his history of … Continue reading →
  • Why today’s politicians don’t matter
    Embattled raw milk advocate and accused sheep-napper Michael Schmidt breaks radio silence with a missive to readers of The Bovine: Having been through enough court proceedings where material from the Bovine has been submitted as evidence, I am honored to … Continue reading →
  • Go ask Alice — interview with BC raw mil ...
    The Bovine: There’s a major raw milk symposium in Vancouver April 6th and you’re one of the speakers, Alice. Could you tell us a little about what you’re going to be sharing with the participants at that event? Alice Jongerden: I will … Continue reading →
  • Go ask Alice — interview with BC raw mil ...
    The Bovine: There’s a major raw milk symposium in Vancouver April 6th and you’re one of the speakers, Alice. Could you tell us a little about what you’re going to be sharing with the participants at that event? Alice Jongerden: I will … Continue reading →
  • Montana Jones, Michael Schmidt, Shropshire she ...
    From Cecilia Nasmith, on Northumberland Today.com “COBOURG - Justice Robert Graydon pledged that the four defendants in the April 2012 case involving missing Shropshire sheep will be tried with dispatch, even if it means he has to work on a Saturday. Charges … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • EU Warns Portugal on Austerity Measures; Portu ...
    As expected, Brussels rejected the Inane Plan "B" Measure to Pay Workers in T-Bills following a Portuguese court ruling that certain austerity measures are unconstitutional. Reuters reports Portugal must stick to agreed budget targets to get loan extension. And so Portugal faces fresh ...
  • Portugal Considers Paying Workers in T-Bills t ...
    Last week, ahead of a ruling by the Portuguese Constitutional Court on whether or not the austerity measures it approved were legal, Portugal's PSI stock market took a dive. PSI Stock Index On March 25 the index was at 6023. It closed at 5637 on April 5 a decline of 6.4% Cou ...
  • Netherlands, the Next Chip to Fall?
    Most attention lately has been on Cyprus, Spain, and Italy. Long-time troubles have been brewing in Portugal and I have an update coming up shortly. First consider Underwater: The Netherlands Falls Prey to Economic Crisis. The Netherlands, Berlin's most important ally in pushing for gre ...
  • Incentivized to Cheat
    On Wednesday, Salon interviewed Jim Chanos, an early detector of Enron's fraudulent practices, on our dysfunctional banking system. I met Jim at the Wine County Conference on Friday. Everyone who attended had a great time. Rather than excerpt the interview, I simply suggest you read We’re ...
  • Thoughts From "Wine Country"
    The Wine County Conference was a big success. We had about 90 attendees counting speakers and guests. All of the speakers gave excellent talks and presentations. Conference Speakers John P. Hussman Michael Pettis James Chanos John Mauldin Chris Martenson  Mish It was ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Oh, the Humanity
    “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “look at that, you son of a bitch.” – Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut Five years ago, the eminent astrophysicist [...]
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Annie Lennox – “Walking on Broken Glass” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist Annie Lennox performing Walking on Broken Glass at the Prince’s Trust Concert at the Tower Of London on May 20, 2006. Lennox has b ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 23
    “Imperialism & Islamophobia” with Dr. Chandra Muzaffar This week, Eric sits down with Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, scholar, academic, and President of the International Movement for a Just World. Eric and Dr. Muzaffar discuss the current political landscape in Malaysia as the country moves toward ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Asian ‘Pivot’ In 2011, the Obama administration announced a ‘pivot’ to Asia in its geopolitical strategy for imperial domination of the world. This includes an increased US military and naval presence in the region, with troops in Australia, new bases in Southeast Asi ...
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Corporate Pow ...
    TPP – Wall Street’s Wet Dream & Washington’s Answer to its Own Dwindling Economic Performance One of the least discussed and least reported issues is the Obama administration’s effort to bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to the forefront, an oppressive plurilateral US-led free tr ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • AMVER Assists Rescue Of Ocean Rowers
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Coast Guard rescue crews combined efforts Saturday with the 800-foot Panamanian flag automobile carrier, Heijin, and the 600-foot Russian flag chemical-tank ship, Tanais Leader, to rescue [...]
  • Transporting The World’s Largest Digger [UPDATE]
    Over the weekend the Seattle waterfront was lined with spectators welcoming a heavy lift ship offloading a hulking giant: Bertha, the five-story-tall, 6,700 ton, world record winning tunneling machine that [...]
  • Maersk Invests 800 Million In Unmanned North S ...
    A new unmanned platform in the Danish North Sea has been approved by partners of the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC). The USD 800 million investment is expected to add reserves [...]
  • Maritime Monday for April 8, 2013: Reichsflotte
    Sail-Frigates Eckenförde  (captured Danish SMS Gefion; 1852) and Deutschland 1849 Reichsflotte The Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) was the first all-German Navy, founded on 14 June 1848. The German Confederation, founded in [...]
  • A Glance at the Near Future of Naval UAVs
    (Reuters) – The Navy plans to carry out the first catapult takeoff of its new X-47B unmanned plane from an aircraft carrier next month and other shipboard tests despite mandatory [...]

Press TV

  • Iran, Nicaragua eye more ties
    The Islamic Republic of Iran and Nicaragua have called for the further expansion of economic and political relations between the two countries.
  • UK FM urges calm over N. Korea
    British Foreign Secretary William Hague has called for calm over the stand-off in the Korean Peninsula saying London is “concerned” about a “miscalculation” by North Korea can be dangerous.
  • Canada urged to end Armenian policy
    Turkish ambassador to Canada says the Ottawa government’s 2004 move to term the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide has damaged trading relationship between the two countries.
  • WHO art contest names Iranian winners
    The Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization (WHO) has released names of Iranian winners of the year’s art competition.
  • Afghans slam US-led airstrike in Kunar
    Afghans in Kunar Province have held a demonstration to condemn a US-led airstrike that killed at least eleven children and two women in the eastern province, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Obama's brain science funding
    The transcript of this item will be available shortly......
  • Baldness-heart disease link
    Balding men may be at greater risk of heart disease, a new study has revealed. Writing in BMJ Open, University of Tokyo scientist Tomohide Yamada and his colleagues analysed data collected previous...
  • Can computers read our dreams?
    Scientistshave developed the first system which is able to predict what objects are appearing in peoples' dreams. The team, led by Tomoyasu Horikawa of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Labora...
  • New drug knocks insomnia on the head
    A new drug that can overcome insomnia without leaving users feeling hungover the following day is being tested in the US. Although the average doctor's medicine bag is full of drugs capable of sendi...
  • Lithium Batteries Get a Sulphur Makeover
    German scientists have designed a high-efficiency, low-cost lithium-sulphur battery, which they believe will increase the use of electric vehicles in Germany and beyond. Earlier this year, the UK gov...

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Ethiopia Leads the Bamboo Revolution
    A combination of an abundance of bamboo and eager foreign investment is making Ethiopia a frontier for the bamboo industrial revolution in Africa, according to this country’s government. “Ethiopia has the resources, the investment, a rapidly-developing manufacturing industry and a strong demand ...
  • Water Shortage Hits Pacific Women
    The Solomon Islands, a developing island nation in the south-west Pacific Islands, has one of the highest urbanisation rates in the region, and the basic service infrastructure is struggling to cater for the influx of people from the provinces to the capital, Honiara. Thirty-five percent of the ...
  • Moving on from Rwanda’s 100 Days of Genocide
    Bernard Kayumba, the mayor of Karongi district in western Rwanda, remembers just what it was like to be caught up in the genocide that claimed the lives of almost one million people in 100 days 19 years ago. While there are no conclusive figures of the number of people killed, it is estimated th ...
  • These Kids Have Won Already
    Oblivious to the cloud of dust they have kicked up in just a few minutes, panting and sweating, moving lithely, this way, then that, they jostle the ball smoothly until one team scores a goal. There’s a loud cheer. Wiping the sweat off his brow, young Iman Hussain throws up his hands in fr ...
  • Q&A: Leaving Youth on the Streets Creates a &# ...
    Mathieu Vaas interviews CARL SICILIANO, executive director of the Ali Forney Centre, a shelter for homeless LGBT youth in New York City

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Russia: P5+1 talks with Iran definitely a ste ...
    Summary: ALMATY, April 6 (RIA Novosti) – The latest round of talks between six world powers and Iran on its nuclear program has been “definitely a step forward,” although it has ended with no clear breakthrough, Russia's top negotiator on Iran said on Saturday. source: RIA Novostiread more
  • Iran's final statement on Almaty 2 talks
    Summary: Iran has released a statement following the conclusion of the second round of Almaty 2 talks in Kazakhstan to shed light on the comprehensive negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the the P5+1 group. source: Press TVread more
  • The pain of following Iran in U.S. media Read ...
    Summary: One of the most annoying aspects of spending time in the United States, as I have just done during a month’s working visit there, is to follow news coverage of Iran in the mainstream American media. Well, calling it “news” coverage is a bit of a stretch, because the mainstream media ...
  • The BBC and war propaganda: learning nothing f ...
    Summary: The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq was marked in Baghdad with a wave of deadly bombings that killed at least sixty people and injured over two hundred. In Britain the anniversary brought on a wave of retrospectives and handwringing recollections by the likes of the BBC’s J ...
  • Reflections on Obama’s Nowruz Address as Hafez ...
    Summary: Four years ago, President Barack Obama quoted the beloved 13th century Persian poet Sa’di in his first Nowruz message to the Iranian people. The address, with its veneer of peace and diplomacy, was a well-received gesture to both civil society and the leadership in Tehran, recognizin ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 260,000!
                   Join the 262,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations ...
  • 'Kepler Mission 2.0' to Launch in 2017 --Thous ...
                      With Kepler's successor TESS, it will be possible to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars. TESS will provide prime targets for furt ...
  • Ancient Spiral Red-Giant Star --Cloaks a Hidde ...
                      This past October, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile's Atacama Desert discovered a totally unexpected spiral structure in the material around the old star R Sculptoris. This is the first time that such a structure, a ...
  • Europa's Weird Surface Chemistry --"Could it H ...
                        A new study led by NASA researchers shows that hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. The study concludes that if the peroxide present on the surface of Europa mixes into the ocean below, it could be an important energy s ...
  • Milky Way's Central Black Hole --An Engine of ...
                    Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. If confirmed, this would be the first time that star forma ...

Natural News

  • College student invents device capable of char ...
    Building upon a concept originally hatched by the famous Serbian inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla, a German university student has come up with a novel way to harvest stray radio waves and wifi signals and turn them into usable energy. As reported by Activist Post...
  • Experiencing an erection of collectivism lasti ...
    Bye-bye daddy, bye-bye mommy: MSNBC discovers who children really belong to. Finally. This burning question has been answered. What a relief. Melissa Harris-Perry, a university professor and weekend host at MSNBC shares the wisdom: "We have never invested as ...
  • Miracle fungus naturally produces cancer-fight ...
    Researchers from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville have discovered that a species of fungus naturally produces nanoparticles capable of boosting the immune system and killing tumors. Their findings were published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. ...
  • The globalization of GMOs: How genetic enginee ...
    Globalization affects everyone. The shrinking world brings people in the United States closer to ideas and cultures from all corners of the earth. Likewise, other countries are introduced to many facets of the American life and that way of life includes genetically modified...
  • After Obamacare coercion, now feds want to for ...
    For years the progressive political Left in America anguished over the fact that it was losing the gun control issue, as the so-called "assault weapons" ban was allowed to sunset on the federal level and state after state passed measures into law permitting concealed...

Threat Level

  • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
  • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
    Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...
  • Aaron Swartz Prosecutors Threatened and Hacked ...
    Massachusetts federal authorities involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz have received threatening e-mail and snail mail, the Justice Department said in a court filing, and the lead prosecutor in the case had his Facebook page hacked.
  • FTC Announces Winners of Death-to-Robocalls Ch ...
    The Federal Trade Commission gets about 200,000 calls monthly from consumers complaining about robocalls, those illegal prerecorded messages hawking everything from timeshares in the Bahamas to free money. Because the commission's "do-not-call" registry was simply not able to handle the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Hostage Taker Boehner Accuses Obama of Hostage ...
    On the federal budget as with so much else, Republicans won't take yes as an answer from President Obama. On Friday, the White House rolled out its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal cutting projected deficits by $1.8 trillion in part by adopting the means testing of Medicare benefits and the "ch ...
  • 10 Reasons Why Uncle Sam Needs More Tax Revenue
    The Obama administration on Friday lifted the covers on its compromise budget proposal for fiscal year 2014. But despite slashing the national debt by a projected $1.8 trillion over the next decade (bringing the total reductions since 2011 to $4.3 trillion) through painful changes to Social Sec ...
  • Big Business Turns Against Corporate Tax Reform
    If there is one area where the White House and Congressional Republicans are in some agreement, it concerns corporate tax reform. President Obama has proposed slashing the statutory rate from 35 to 28 percent while recouping lost revenue through the elimination of corporate tax breaks costing t ...
  • For Many Republicans, Every Day is Confederate ...
    While April Fool's Day is over, Confederate Heritage Month is just beginning. Every year, the seven states of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia and Georgia remember the Lost Cause with proclamations, reenactments and other historical events. But Americans didn't need th ...
  • GOP Fights to Keep Texas Health Care Among Nat ...
    On Monday, Texas Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn joined Governor Ricky Perry to present a united front against the expansion of Medicaid in the Lone Star State. While Perry called Medicaid a "broken system," Cruz warned accepting Obamacare's massive federal assistance "will worsen ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Dengue Infection Is Three Times More Common Th ...
    Global levels of dengue infection are more than three times higher than previous estimates from the World Health Organization, according to new research just published in the journal Nature. The new research has resulted in the creation of “the first detailed and up-to-date map of dengue d ...
  • Air Pollution Stunts Coral Growth, Research Finds
    A new study has found that Air pollution stunts coral growth, new research from the University of Exeter has found. The fine particulate matter that is released into the air as a result of fossil fuel burning, amongst other things, effectively “shades” the coral and subsequently cool ...
  • Arsenic In Your Beer? Commonly Used Filtering ...
    Elevated arsenic levels have been detected in some brands of beer sold in Germany in recent years, but the cause has remained somewhat unclear, until now. New research from the Technische Universität in Munich appears to have found the cause, a commonly-used filtering material, diatomaceous eart ...
  • Sunken Ancient Egyptian Port-City Reveals Some ...
    The ancient Egyptian sunken port-city of Thonis-Heracleion is now having some of its secrets revealed thanks to new research from the University of Oxford. The port-city served as the obligatory gateway to Egypt sometime around the first millennium BC, being the place where incoming cargo from o ...
  • Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks On April 22 2013
    The Lyrid meteor shower will be peaking this year on April 22, 2013. The annual meteor shower typically puts on a good show, averaging about 10-20 meteors an hour, but sometimes featuring “surges” of activity that peak as high as 100 meteors an hour. The Lyrids also tend to produce r ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Regressive Mr. Jones
  • Sequester Begins To Bite
    By @TedFrier This week I met the federal budget sequester up close and personal.   On Wednesday, I was on hand alongside hundreds of others at Worcester Regional Airport as JetBlue President David Barger touched down in the newest JetBlue plane in his fleet, an Airbus 320 nicknamed the "Blu ...
  • It's a Boy!
    By @BGinKC Both Moms and baby are doing fine after he entered screaming at about 2:25 this afternoon, weighing ten pounds, eleven ounces and 20 1/2 inches long. His name is Jonathan Jacob and he's perfect in every way. His Mom came into the world with the same cocked eyebrow and look of skeptici ...
  • Jim Carrey's Video Is Hysterical
    http://www.funnyordie.com/vide... This hilarious video is no longer available on You Tube because too many people have been violating copyright laws. But it's well worth it to visit the address I've published above. You can also get the lyrics of Jim's parody song at democraticunderground.com As ...
  • New Pope Airing Out Stuffy Catholic Church
    By @TedFrier In all my years of church-going, I do not ever recall hearing what I heard at Easter Mass last Sunday: a congregation putting its hands together, not in prayer, but to applaud a priest for his sermon. The surprise ovation might have been due to the homily's decidedly political messa ...

Care 2

  • most distant supernova may shed light on dark ...
    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spied a supernova ten billion light-years from Earththe most distant stellar explosion of its kind ever detected, a new study says. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Jin Xing has a one-of-a-kind Biography.
    Jin Xing born a man rose to rank as colonel in the Chinese army transgendered to a woman and became one of the first in China to be so recognized. She is well known actress, talks show host, and one of the world's greatest dancers and choreographers. Submitted by Dandelion G. to Society & C ...
  • Audio:Environmental Group Fights Delay In Marb ...
    An environmental group has stopped an agreement between the timber industry and federal wildlife officials that would have delayed new protections for a threatened seabird. Submitted by JL A. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 'Operation Crash': Chinese Business Exec Plead ...
    "Wei was arrested on February 2nd, 2013, at JFK airport en route to China shortly after he was questioned by USFWS agents at the Original Miami Beach Antiques Show." Submitted by Kevin A. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 10 accidental inventions that changed the worl ...
    The course of human evolution has been punctuated by a long succession of chance discoveries and accidental inventions; and in fact, experts estimate that between 30 and 50 percent of of all scientific discoveries are in some way accidental. Submitted by Tamara Hayes to Offbeat  |  &n ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • North Korea Posturing for War
    Although the saber rattling bombast and threats emanating from North Korea’s boy ruler, Kim Jung Un, are grounded in North Korea’s domestic politics, they are producing an unsettling international reaction that carries the growing risk of sparking a war. A war between North and South ...
  • The Unemployment Holocaust
    The latest dismal job numbers tell a dark and disturbing story. The labor force has shrunk dramatically by more than 10 million people since 2008. According to BLS statistics, the number of people no longer in the labor force at the end of 2008 waas 79,501,000. Today? That number stands at 89,96 ...
  • The CIA Playing Hardball on Benghazi
    When I first heard of this from a friend who had first hand knowledge, I was still skeptical. What did I hear? The CIA is conducting weekly polygraphs of officers who work in paramilitary activities (I knew it as Special Activities Division back in my day) and were involved in supporting the ope ...
  • Cyprus Continues to Reverberate in the Global ...
    It is fascinating to watch the implosion of the Greek Cypriot economy. Despite the fact that Cyprus is a tiny country with a tiny economy, it is having a gigantic effect on the Euro and global confidence in the European banking system. The headlines in today’s Financial Times tell the stor ...
  • Death Knell for Global Warming Hysteria, Al Go ...
    Rising temperatures, broiling deserts, surging oceans. Cats and dogs–living together. The apocalyptic predictions that the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be accompanied by soaring temperatures–i.e., man made global warming–has proven to be a delusion and a dark, ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Students support legislation against mountaint ...
    Students support legislation against mountaintop removal Richmond Register Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition delegate Carol Hinds talks with EKU professor Elaine Waters about the affects of mountaintop removal Wednesday. Waters signs the petition that will be sent to legislators to encour ...
  • Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-rem ...
    Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-removal mining at UNCA event ... Mountain Xpress Junior Walk, a West Virginia native who travels the country speaking out against mountaintop-removal mining on behalf of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, i ...
  • LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop remo ...
    LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop removal York Dispatch Here's a better idea: Let's demand Congress pass the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act, H.R. 526. The Act will place a moratorium on new mountaintop removal "mines" until the science demonstrates th ...
  • Stop mountaintop removal mining - Columbia Star
    Stop mountaintop removal mining Columbia Star As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too late. Mountaintop removal no ...
  • Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining ...
    Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining Akron Leader Publications As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too la ...

Memeorandum

  • Margaret Thatcher dies: Politics blog (Andrew ...
    Andrew Sparrow / Guardian: Margaret Thatcher dies: Politics blog  —  Rolling coverage of reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher.  —  Sort by:  —  1.09pm BST  —  David Cameron has issued his first tribute. … 1.08pm BST&nb ...
  • Gun legislation's prospects improve (Washingto ...
    Washington Post: Gun legislation's prospects improve  —  If Manchin succeeds in striking a deal, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) plans to move quickly to include that language in the bill, according to top aides.  Those aides caution that Republicans could for ...
  • Insurance and Freedom - President Obama will s ...
    Paul Krugman / New York Times: Insurance and Freedom  —  President Obama will soon release a new budget, and the commentary is already flowing fast and furious.  Progressives are angry (with good reason) over proposed cuts to Social Security; conservatives are denouncing th ...
  • Gabby Giffords: Join the fight for safer U.S. ...
    Gabrielle Giffords / NY Daily News: Gabby Giffords: Join the fight for safer U.S.  —  We must make pols hear our nation's cry: Pass tougher laws for guns purchases NOW!  —  Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D.-Ariz.) delivers opening remarks while seated next ...
  • Portugal Seeks New Options for Budget (Patrici ...
    Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: Portugal Seeks New Options for Budget  —  LISBON—Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said he would look for fresh spending cuts to keep Portugal's €78 billion ($101 billion) international bailout program on track following a Con ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, South Sandwich Islands region
    Sunday, April 7, 2013 14:22:21 UTC Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:22:21 PM at epicenterDepth: 19.40 km (12.05 mi)
  • M 5.4, Mariana Islands region
    Sunday, April 7, 2013 01:31:18 UTC Sunday, April 7, 2013 11:31:18 AM at epicenterDepth: 31.60 km (19.64 mi)
  • M 5.1, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
    Saturday, April 6, 2013 12:27:56 UTC Saturday, April 6, 2013 10:27:56 PM at epicenterDepth: 118.60 km (73.69 mi)
  • M 5.1, Tonga
    Saturday, April 6, 2013 12:27:01 UTC Sunday, April 7, 2013 01:27:01 AM at epicenterDepth: 77.40 km (48.09 mi)
  • M 5.3, Crete, Greece
    Saturday, April 6, 2013 11:26:07 UTC Saturday, April 6, 2013 02:26:07 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

China Dialogue

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    甲玛矿区发生的山体滑坡悲剧之后，质疑西藏矿业扩张的声音越来越大。中国矿产企 ...
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    养耕共生和温室大棚等新老技术使城市农业在一些大城市落地生根。城市农业在媒体 ...
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    摄影记者杰克·库尔茨通过镜头展示了，中国投资在老挝人日常生活中留下的印记。 ...
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    环保人士认为供给中国城市的水力发电需要俄罗斯付出社会和生态代价，称其为“环& ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Real Problem with Education Today? Kids Ha ...
    The following is a Q&A with Peter Gray about his new bookFree to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, which argues that students learn better when they are free to play, explore and teach themselves.1. ...
  • The Corporate Betrayal of America -- Ripping o ...
    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.Yet they've turned around and mocked us with declining tax payments. They've cut work ...
  • What We Can Learn From Cable's Most Popular Sh ...
    The following article first appeared inthe Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for theiremail newsletters here.The number-one show on cable had its Season 3 finale Sunday night—and if you needed a reminder of why this series is a staggering hit, you got it Tues ...
  • America's Hired Death Squads and Torture Teams ...
    Death squads, torture, secret prisons in Iraq, and General David Petraeus are among the featured atrocities in a recently-released new British documentary – James Steele: America’s Mystery Man in Iraq – the result of a 15-month investigation by Guardian Films and BBC ...
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    In the small coal towns of southern West Virginia, the poorest patch of Appalachia, the police blotters these days read like big-city tabloid fodder. Last month, a 23-year-old man received up to 25 years in prison for wheeling a quadriplegic to a house against his will, carrying him inside, b ...

Threat Level

  • BitTorrent Site isoHunt Demands Jury Trial
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and on the hook for what could be millions of ...
  • Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Se ...
    Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.
  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...
  • Aaron Swartz Prosecutors Threatened and Hacked ...
    Massachusetts federal authorities involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz have received threatening e-mail and snail mail, the Justice Department said in a court filing, and the lead prosecutor in the case had his Facebook page hacked.
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    The Federal Trade Commission gets about 200,000 calls monthly from consumers complaining about robocalls, those illegal prerecorded messages hawking everything from timeshares in the Bahamas to free money. Because the commission's "do-not-call" registry was simply not able to handle the ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • 239 (including 31 Alta employees) Get Hepatiti ...
    CNN reports that more than 200 people received hepatitis A vaccinations over the weekend after learning that a Manhattan restaurant employee handling sweets was infected with the virus, according to... Continue Reading
  • Sushi, Salmonella and Arkansas 2006
    Sushi is not what I think about when I am in Arkansas. On February 13, 2006 a physician in Benton County, Arkansas reported 4 cases of gastroenteritis among area residents... Continue Reading
  • Hepatitis A, Not a Virus to Take Lightly
    While dessert patrons of New York’s Alta’s Restaurant line up for preventative vaccines, it is wise to recall a bit of history. Pennsylvania State health officials first learned of a... Continue Reading
  • Hepatitis A Vaccinations Urged After Dinning A ...
    In response to a case of Hepatitis A in a food handler at Alta restaurant in the West Village, the Health Department today urges patrons who ate dessert at the... Continue Reading
  • Farm Rich Products Test Positive for E. coli O ...
    A total of 27 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O121 (STEC O121) have been reported from 15 states.   81% of ill persons are 21... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...
  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • The great recycling con trick: How your carefu ...
    By Steve Doughty PUBLISHED: 16:01 EST, 5 April 2013 | UPDATED: 04:30 EST, 6 April 2013 Comments (584) Share Millions of tons of household rubbish painstakingly sorted by families for recycling is being dumped abroad. Whitehall has admitted that waste from recycling bins is being shipped to ...
  • Police Tie Up Tourist And Kill Him With Pepper ...
    by Alton Parrish No doubt you’ve heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it. The photo shows the Ohio man restrained inside the Lee County Jail with his body covered in pepper spray. “This p ...
  • One drug to rule them all! Scientists find tre ...
    New York Post Researchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with, the New York Post reported. The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a “do not eat” signal to [...]
  • Report: Authorities Seize $50 Million In Gold ...
    Mac Slavo April 6th, 2013 SHTFplan.com After the theft of up to 40% of deposit accounts in Cyprus, a move that was approved and applauded by EU finance ministers, many Europeans who understand that the government will soon be coming for their savings as well are rapidly moving to extricate thems ...
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Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The Truth and Beauty of Madrid and Lombardia ( ...
    Summary: The fate of Europe depends on many factors, not least on the support of the people in Europe’s periphery for the European Union. Today we have an excerpt from Truth & Beauty that gives an accurate picture of conditions in this pivotal region, with a comparison to Russia’ ...
  • The March jobs report shows continued slow gro ...
    Summary:  The news media focuses on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consist mostly of noise. Strong months confirm the optimists; weak months confirm the pessimists. The trend of growth remains the real story, with the US economy near stall speed — supported only (like ...
  • Should we expect another war in Korea?
    Summary:  Our military and national security gurus love crises for like that now in Korea. As does the news media, which overflows with fear-mongering laced with war-mongering. Both feed modern America’s defining characteristic: bellicose insecurity. Here we review some general lessons fro ...
  • Do we want to bring back traditional marriage? ...
    One of my co-authors pointed out that the previous post was incomplete:  Should we thank the Court as it rescues us from our bad laws? Or just bow?. It included a quote that was absurdly incorrect. Although peripheral to the point of the post, a correction is required. It’s this from “Gay ...
  • Should we thank the Court as it rescues us fro ...
    Summary:  America remains locked in a battle between Left and Right. Each fights to protect the Constitution — or the pieces of it they value. Neither cares for the Constitution as other than a tool to advance their interests. The Constitution, torn between them, slowly withers. The Americ ...

WIRED Magazine | 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, ...

PakAlert

  • Biden calls for ‘new world order’
    At a banking conference on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden called for the creation of a “new world order” with new financial institutions, updated global rules, a level playing field, and a prosperous China
  • Feds Identify 300,000 Americans as Terrorists
    Do you hate paying taxes? Are you fighting foreclosure? Do you feel like no one should be allowed to commit violence against you and don't always blindly follow the commands of the authorities? Do you film encounters with police or believe gold makes better currency than Federal Reserve Notes? W ...
  • Charles Krauthammer ’s Obama Comment Shocks Fo ...
    Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer brought momentarily silence, and not the kind that is out of respect, to a Fox News panel on “Special Report” after National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg said that Obama will not get a vote on the majority of new gun control legislation that he wants. ...
  • 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. “We have to break through our private idea ...
  • It No Longer Pays To Go To Work
    For the first time in years, I recently entered the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and was dumbfounded by what I saw. Presently, I live in a nice neighborhood and am employed in a highly educated and sophisticated environment. I was not prepared for what I saw on that day when I received muc ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Talks About the US Authoritie ...
    Since a hunger strike began at Guantánamo two months ago, I have been endeavoring to play my part to keep it in the public eye, because the news of the hunger strike has finally awakened significant interest in the prison, after many years in which almost the whole world had lost interest in the ...
  • As Hunger Strike Continues, Tom Wilner Calls f ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Revolution Interview: Andy Worthington Discuss ...
    Last week, Frank Harper, an activist with the campaigning group World Can’t Wait interviewed me by phone (via Skype) for Revolution newspaper. An edited version of the transcript of that interview has been published on Revolution‘s website, and is published in the latest issue of Rev ...
  • The Tories’ Cruelty Is Laid Bare as Mult ...
    Ever since the Tories came to power in May 2010, aided by the Liberal Democrats, who, sadly, demonstrated that everything they professed to believe in could be discarded if it meant being in government, the very fabric of civil society in the UK has been faced with extinction. This is a country ...
  • From Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer Tells His Lawyer ...
    As part of my coverage of the huge, ongoing hunger strike at Guantánamo, I’m delighted to make available the full text of a statement (actually an affidavit) made by Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, based on a phone conversation that Cli ...

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Big Businesses Beef Up on 'Revolving Door' Lob ...
    As Congress members prepare a rewrite of the nation's tax code, the New York Times reports Saturday that tax-evading corporations are taking advantage of the endless revolving door between government and big business by beefing up their arsenal of former aides turned lobbyists to ensure thei ...
  • 'All Risks, No Reward': New Ad Campaign Calls ...
    A coalition of environmental groups in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline launched a new national TV ad campaign on Sunday morning, hitting many of the morning talk shows, to tell a broad audience that Keystone is “putting us at risk, while big oil gets the rewards." ...
  • 11 Afghan Children Among Dead in Latest US/NAT ...
    NATO has not confirmed any civilian casualties, many of them children, resulting from its latest air strike. (Photo: Reuters)At least ten children are among the dead in easteren Afghanistan, according to officials in the country, following a NATO bombing overnight. ...
  • Activists Take Protest to the Heart of the 'Dr ...
    Anti-drone protesters made their presence known in one of the epicenters of the drone technology industry, San Diego, Calif., over the weekend—protesting in several locations including the home of Neal Blue, chief executive officer of General Atomics which manufactures the Predator drone. ...
  • Teachers Signal 'War Cry' Against Corporate Reform
    Teachers and education activists from near and far descended on the Department of Education in Washington D.C. this weekend to announce their "war cry" against the corporate-based school reform movement currently enacting a stranglehold on public education. Following a march to the Whi ...

Lifehacker

  • Send Links to Friends In Three Taps with Launc ...
    iPhone: We've discussed using Launch Center Pro to navigate through apps quickly on your iPhone, but that's just scratching the surface of what the app can do. A little javascript can pull up the app to send links to friends instantly. More »
  • Automate Pet Care with a Raspberry Pi-Powered ...
    Whether you're going away for a night or just don't feel like getting out of bed on Saturday morning, this Raspberry Pi-powered contraption can take over your pet feeding obligations. More »
  • Any tips on how to make our office's complimen ...
    Any tips on how to make our office's complimentary coffee better? I got a great deal on Amazon, but now they want to buy the item back. What do I do? More »
  • Highlight Intangibles in Your Job Interview Ba ...
    When you're at a job interview, it's important to meet all the listed requirements, but US News & World Report notes that it's just as critical to emphasize the "intangibles" needed to succeed. More »
  • Toss Frozen Grapes in Your Wine to Cool It Down
    Most wine is best served between 45 and 60 degrees, so if you pull a bottle off your wine rack, it'll take awhile to lower the temperature in the fridge. It's much quicker to cool down individual glasses of wine, and a stash of frozen grapes is the only tool you need. More »

Water Wars

  • Water wars : Tennessee, Georgia locked in batt ...
    Ga. lawmakers authorize state's attorney general to sue Tenn. for access to Tennessee River's drinking water
  • Safety on tap
    Summer is here and Lakshmi Krupa tells you simple ways to get potable water at home
  • Talks avoid water war and come up with bill
    House Bill 1440 sets out a procedure for resolving disputes over water when cities grow into areas served by rural water districts.
  • MLC warns of Maharashtra water wars
    BJP MLC Ashish Shelar at the Legislative Council meeting on Monday said that a circular was issued by the additional director general of police, Ahmed Javed, stating that with the ongoing water crisis across the state, the likelihood of an impending water war is high.
  • Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by H ...
    The snow is falling in Helsinki as the Tiger tries to escape his past in this short story from Hassan Blasim He woke, and before the last traces of the nightmare had faded he made up his mind: he'd take him out to the forest and finish it. Fifteen years ago, before he shot him, the man said, "Do ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Fail To Distort Or ...
    Advocates in Oregon are working to amend the state’s constitution to allow same-sex marriage through a ballot initiative in 2014. Opponents are already trying to disrupt this process by challenging the language for the proposed initiative. The Oregon Family Council argued that the proposal ...
  • National Security Brief: Kerry Stresses Diplom ...
    The Wall Street Journal reports that the international community should continue a diplomatic approach with Iran in efforts to curtail its nuclear program, despite a lack of progress in talks this weekend between the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, and Iran. &# ...
  • Majority Leader Reid Threatens Second Round Of ...
    In an interview with a public radio station in Nevada Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) indicated that the weak-tea filibuster reforms Senate Republicans agreed to last January may not be the last round of reforms during the current Congress — at least if Senate Republicans ...
  • Kansas Is Poised To Become The Latest State To ...
    Last week, Dr. George Tiller’s former abortion clinic re-opened its doors to the Kansas public, a huge victory for the women in Wichita who haven’t had access to a nearby clinic since Tiller’s murder in 2009. One the heels of that step forward, however, the state’s anti-a ...
  • ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: “Dark Wings, Dark Words”
    This post discusses plot points from the April 7 episode of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones, in keeping with its title, spends much of its time meditating on how people maneuver to acquire power. Whether it’s dragons, whispers, sex, or brute force, the show does an excellent job exploring ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Resisting the State - Chapter 5
    This was maybe the most problematic chapter of Scott Neigh's Talking Radical:Resisting the State for me. It's about Don Weitz of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement. Now, I've heard of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement before. And I get that mental institutions were, and remain, frightening places where hor ...
  • Resisting the State: "I Call It Surviving"
    Chapter 4 of Scott Neigh's Resisting the State deals with Lynn Jones,  a black, female trade union and community activist from Truro Nova Scotia. My Mom's family settled in Truro when she was a girl. We went down east once on a visit and my Aunt was driving us around and referred to one pa ...
  • I Don't Want To Be An Old Man Who Can't Stop M ...
    There's the example of the guy in the second video at this post. Then, ... at a talk that I gave (wherein, this middle-aged white guy got himself FORMALLY INCLUDED on the schedule) a respondent, .... a successful in life, now retired, older white guy, went off on a series of extended rants about ...
  • Elections Canada: The Farce Continues
    Shorter Elections Canada: "We're useless." Read the comments at the link. Canadians are fed up. (Except for the pathetic harpercon hacks and trolls who vote down inarguable statements about the importance of electoral integrity and democracy.)
  • Boris, Alison and Moi
     A little while ago, in the comments section of one of her posts, Alison at Creekside was asked why she isn't blogging so much anymore. She replied that there didn't seem to be much point to blogging in the face of official sanction for an illegitimate government.(I don't remember which pos ...

on Government Oversight

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    It's another week with one big winner, this time coming in on our popular post about the DJ who was suspended for pulling the classic "dihydrogen monoxide" prank on his listeners. Gareth soared past the competition in both the insightful and funny categories, because our readers don't seem to th ...
  • Mike C's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Prenda, prenda, prenda... (hat tip to Jan Brady). What... you thought I'd lead with something else? Ohhhhh, fine! So here we are at the end of another week and what a week it was. We started off Monday with April Fool's Day and there were a couple of fools to be found. How Viacom expects th ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Lasers, Infrared And Photons
    Another week, more awesome crowdfunding projects. No need to waste time with the intro, let's get right to it. Lasertag has been around for a while but a bunch of students (high school?) have tried reinventing it for the modern era, using infrared devices that are more stealthy and have some ...
  • 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 activities can take one's attention away from dr ...
  • Icelandic Politicians Ignore Crowdsourced Cons ...
    Techdirt has been following the fascinating saga of Iceland's crowdsourced constitution for nearly two years. Back in October 2012, we noted that Icelandic citizens gave it a pretty big thumbs up. Reflecting that, it really looked like Iceland's parliament might pass the associated bill, and g ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
  • Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
    According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...

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War in Context

  • Bill McKibben: How do you solve a problem like ...
    At 72, climate scientist James Hansen is retiring as head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies to work even more actively on climate-change issues. Keep in mind that, in congressional testimony in 1988, he first put climate change on the national map.  “It is time to sto ...
  • How the fear of war crimes charges led the CIA ...
    Mark Mazzetti writes: Nek Muhammad knew he was being followed. On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud compound in South Waziristan, speaking by satellite phone to one of the many reporters who regularly interviewed him on how he had fought and humbled Pakistan ...
  • Israel’s draconian system of arrest and detention
    Sandy Tolan writes: Imagine being confined to a small sliver of land, in plain view of a wider homeland that you cannot touch. Your house is in a refugee camp, surrounded by fine red-roofed homes built by and for strangers who seized your territory without warning or permission. The strangers, p ...
  • Syria’s massive rape crisis
    Lauren Wolfe writes: One day in the fall of 2012, Syrian government troops brought a young Free Syrian Army soldier’s fiancée, sisters, mother, and female neighbors to the Syrian prison in which he was being held. One by one, he said, they were raped in front of him. The 18-year-old had be ...
  • Vali Nasr dissects Obama’s foreign policy failings
    Robert E. Hunter writes: Publication this month of Vali Nasr’s The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, could not have been better timed. The US and the NATO allies are in the process of disengaging from Afghanistan — however they choose to describe the process — without first ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Hansen finally ‘Muzzled’ by Obama?
    Hansen’s resignation from NASA GISS may not be what it seems Guest Post by Chris Horner, CEI So, NASA’s in-house celebrity activist James Hansen says the following in explaining his departure from a lucrative perch — salary alone: $180k per … Continue reading →
  • Marcott – 3 spikes and you are out
    Guest post by Nancy Green Tamino claims he has added 3 spikes to the Marcott et al proxy data and the Marcott et al process detects them. Source: http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/many_vs_unpert.jpg This, he then proposes, is proof that there are no 20th … Continue reading →
  • Hockey Bazinga
    Jean S (writing at Climate Audit) spots the ultimate fib from Dr. Mann, and the placement of it could not be more hilarious. No researchers in this field have ever, to our knowledge, “grafted the thermometer record onto” any reconstruction. … Continue reading →
  • The battle of the pointless Nuremberg insults: ...
    We don’t need either side of the climate debate invoking Godwin’s Law on any level, as it is ugly and pointless, yet here we are again. I’m growing weary of this. OK here’s the story, James Delingpole ran an essay: … Continue reading →
  • Good news about coral reefs – they recov ...
    Back in 1998, when we had the super El Niño, some of the warm water pooled east and west of Australia (seen in the 1998 image below) and damaged coral reefs there, setting off a cottage industry for noisy alarmy/worry … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Painted turtle gets DNA decoded
    Scientists have decoded the genome of the western painted turtle, one of the most abundant turtles on Earth, finding clues to their longevity and ability to survive without oxygen during long winters spent hibernating in ice-covered ponds. Understanding the natural mechanisms turtles use to prot ...
  • Study Points to New Culprit in Heart Disease
    Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic, who led the study, and his colleagues had accumulated evidence for a surprising new explanation of why red meat may contribute to heart disease. And they were testing it with this early morning experiment. The researchers had come to believe that what d ...
  • Rally for Medical Research
    The Rally for Medical Research will unite millions of Americans across the country to call on our nations policymakers to make life-saving medical research funding a national priority. This unified call to action will raise awareness about the critical need for a sustained investment in the Nati ...
  • Bacteria find key to treating obesity without ...
    Weight loss after gastric band surgery may be partly caused by changes to micro-organisms that live in the gut, say US researchers.A study in mice has shown that surgery causes different types of bacteria to colonise the gut.Transferring samples of those bacteria into healthy mice caused them to ...
  • Scientists Inject Human Brain Cells Into Mice, ...
    And you thought it was all about the neurons. In an experiment that might seem like something only a mad scientist would conjure, researchers injected human brain cells into the brains of mice to see how it would affect the way the mice thought. It did: the mice got smarter. But the cognition bo ...

CFACT

  • Monckton dismisses global warming alarm on New ...
    Lord Christopher Monckton is on a speaking tour in New Zealand this month, and appeared on New Zealand's Channel 3 News today to discuss whether global warming ought to be a concern.
  • Gas guzzlers lead March auto sales surge
    CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appeared on Fox News yesterday to discuss why trucks, SUVs, and other "gas guzzlers" are responsible for last month's surge in auto sales.
  • Cooling, not warming, kills civilizations!
    Eugene Linden knows exactly nothing about the forces that have killed off every culture prior to our own—most of them for centuries at a time and many of them permanently. With few exceptions, the hundreds of failed cultures collapsed in the “little ice age” phases of the natural 1,500-year Dans ...
  • Cold kills more than heat & the Hockey Stick t ...
    Morano appeared on Canda's Sun TV to discuss why winter cold is killing many times more Britons than heat. He also addresses the stunning admission that a widely publicized study claiming unprecedented warming in the past 100 years was not "statistically robust"--another way of admitting that th ...
  • Regulations: crony capitalism’s tool
    Soros was instrumental at the least, integral at the most, in writing Obama’s 2009 Stimulus Bill that put nearly $100 billion into various Green energy companies and projects. Additionally, there is a little-publicized connection between Soros, Green energy advocacy, and the White House.... Lak ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • UK Ex-PM Thatcher Dies at 87
    Former UK Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher died on Monday aged 87 following a stroke, her spokesman said, according to the BBC.    
  • Moscow Hails US Decision to Delay Missile Test
    Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised the US decision to postpone an intercontinental ballistic missile test in order to avoid further escalation of the conflict on the Korean Peninsula.    
  • EU Welcomes Kiev Pardon For Tymoshenko Allies
    European Union officials have welcomed the pardoning of Ukraine's former Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko and former Environmental Protection Minister Georgy Filipchuk, and called on Kiev to address more cases of what it sees as selective justice.    
  • Maximum Range of North Korean Missiles
    North Korea has redeployed missiles to the country’s eastern coast and said that it is ready to launch a “merciless” attack on the United States. This infographics shows how far North Korea’s missile systems can reach.    
  • Defense Minister Slams Cash Up Front Procurement
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Monday criticized as totally unacceptable the existing practice of 100 percent prepayment for state defense contracts.    

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Deputy PM Says Cooperation with CERN I ...
    Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets visited on Friday the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva and confirmed Russia’s intention to cooperate with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN.    
  • Roscosmos Plans to Join NASA in Asteroid Captu ...
    Russia’s space agency Roscosmos may join NASA’s ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit for exploration, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said.    
  • Facebook Unveils ‘Home’ Mobile Software
    Facebook unveiled Thursday new software tailored specifically to mobile devices that CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would make networking on the go more about people and less about technology.    
  • Russia Clarifies Status of SA Space Tracking S ...
    The space tracking station that is being built in South Africa as part of Russia’s astrophysical project RadioAstron can only be used with the radio telescope, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
  • Russia Clarifies Status of SA Space Tracking S ...
    The space tracking station that is being built in South Africa as part of Russia’s astrophysical project RadioAstron can only be used with the radio telescope, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

  • Most recent vintage of eulogies for rock music ...
    I’m a big rock music fan, so a couple recent articles on it have stuck with me. The first was from a couple weeks ago, and for the life of me I can’t track it down now. The gist of it was that the era of great guitarists is passing. The most celebrated are all old in rock and roll ...
  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...
  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Sen. Roy Blunt: Monsanto's Man in Washington
    As I reported a couple of weeks ago, a recent Senate bill came with a nice bonus for the genetically modified seed industry: a rider, wholly unrelated to the underlying bill, that compels the USDA to ignore federal court decisions that block the agency's approvals of new GM crops. I explained in ...
  • Big Businesses Offer Revolving Door Rewards
    During former Citigroup executive Jack Lew's recent confirmation as Treasury Secretary, some people were surprised and troubled to learn that the big bank had promised him special financial awards if he left to take a job in the government. His employment contract was seen as rewarding him for p ...
  • The Future of Chocolate
    Back in the Mayan age, around 1100 BCE, cacao was recognized as a “super” food, traded as a precious currency with a value on par with gold and jewels Bythe 17th century the Spanish added sugar (cane) to sweeten it and the rest is history. As other European countries clamored to get in on the a ...
  • The Conspiracy to Kill Martin Luther King Jr: ...
    On April 4, 1968, the government was part of a successful conspiracy to assassinate MLK, a jury concluded. Click here to read this article
  • GMO Free USA Rallies Against Kellogg’s on Eart ...
    GMO Free USA, a national consumer advocacy group, will take their fight to The Kellogg Company’s doorsteps on Earth Day. After nine months of actions targeting Kellogg’s, GMO Free USA will stage rallies across the USA to raise awareness of Kellogg’s use of genetically modified ingredients.Cli ...

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Red meat + wrong bacteria = bad news for hearts
    Bacteria in the human gut convert a common nutrient found in beef into a compound that may speed up the build-up of plaques in the arteries. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Why and When the Use of Drones is Unconstitutional
    'instant justice' via drones is an evil, pernicious, insidious, undemocratic outrage to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, specifically the Fourth Amendment:use of a drone means that the people are NOT '...secure in their persons, houses Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Doctors Respond to the Sydney Diet Heart Study
    LA plus alcohol is destructive to the liver. Linoleic acid is omega 6 fatty acid - causes weight gain and inflammation. Omega 3 fats have the opposite effect. Animals fattened on grain contain only omega 6 - zero omega 3 Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it ...
  • Vulture Banking Meets Its Maker
    The FED has unlimited buying power to bankrupt the bond traders. Keep the stock market high so everything looks hunky dory with cheap money and screw bond yields and the retirees who have their money in fixed returned investments. Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |   Note ...
  • Maasai face eviction from ancestral lands to m ...
    Tanzania plans to reduce Maasai areas by 40 percent, citing 'overgrazing.' A mass protest fell apart this week, but Maasai women took up the cause and organized their own sit-in. Submitted by Shaheen N. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Terminator Seeds and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
    Why is it that people are spreading the word that the Terminator seed is being marketed by Monsanto? Could it possibly be that the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” strategy is being used to pave the way for Monsanto to release this technology on a complacent populace?
  • New GMO Gene Silencing Technology – Backdoor T ...
    An unregulated GM technology is ready to replace the old, and this technology appears to be exactly what is needed for implementation of the Terminator.
  • Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
    Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.
  • The Last Heirloom Seed
    I am the last of my kind. That last of the truly pure here on earth. I have struggled long and hard to maintain my integrity, as did all of my brothers and sisters in a war we did not start, but were force into. In this war, we have been systematically overtaken by hostile genetically engineered ...
  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • ATF Wants 'Massive' Online Database to Find Ou ...
    ShareThisATF Wants 'Massive' Online Database to Find Out Who Your Friends Are 05 Apr 2013 The ATF doesn't just want a huge database to reveal everything about you with a few keywords. It wants one that can find out who you know. And it won't even try to friend you on Facebook first. According ...
  • Afghan officials say roadside bomb kills 9 civ ...
    ShareThisAfghan officials say roadside bomb kills 9 civilians riding on a public bus 08 Apr 2013 Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has hit a public bus in a restive province bordering Kabul, killing at least nine civilians and wounding 22. Deputy Wardak provincial chief police Gen. Abdul Ra ...
  • France 'to buy US drones'
    ShareThisFrance 'to buy US drones' 07 Apr 2013 In the midst of France's Operation Serval in Mali, Paris is considering buying US-made unarmed surveillance drones to boost its military capabilities, a source from the defence ministry told AFP on Friday. According to French weekly newspaper La T ...
  • NATO air strike kills 11 Afghan children, offi ...
    ShareThisAnother day, another US/NATO war crime: NATO air strike kills 11 Afghan children, officials say 07 Apr 2013 A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed 11 children, officials said Sunday, the latest case of civilian casualties which provoke great anger in the war-torn country. ...
  • Democrats lose fight in Montana Senate over ba ...
    ShareThisDemocrats lose fight in Montana Senate over ballot measures 06 Apr 2013 Over loud objections from Democrats, Montana's Republican-controlled Senate on Friday voted to put proposals on the 2014 ballot that would tighten voter registration and restrict the rights of third parties to compe ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Ammunition Atmospheric in America
    04 April 2013 I posed a question on Facebook about ammunition availability across the United States.  About 150 answers have come in so far: My Facebook Page
  • Stalking Soldier Arrested, Disarmed by Texas P ...
    28 March 2013 US Army Master Sergeant CJ Grisham: This Soldier has a Top Secret clearance. Over the past couple of years, I repeatedly warned the US Army that Master Sergeant Christopher “CJ” Grisham is a lethal threat.  These warnings were ignored. Grisham has harassed a long list of pe ...
  • Tragedy in Thailand
    27 March 2013 Burma neighbors Thailand on the west.  For 65 years, a war against and between ethnic groups in Burma has been on.  The conflicts created many internally displaced refugees, while others have crossed into Thailand.  Thailand has allowed this incursion for humanita ...
  • USAF and American Flags Atop Mt. Everest
    25 March 2013 Written by: Rob Marshall Family and Friends, I've been meaning to write this email for some time now.  I thought it would be better to hold off until the big event was close, but I didn't expect it to be just a few days away when I sent this!  As you can tell, I'm about ...
  • Seven Myths About “Women in Combat"
    17 March 2013 Published here with permission from the author. Written By: G.S. Newbold, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.) Marine photo / Cpl. Jennifer Pirante Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michelle Berglin trains for an upcoming deployment at Camp Pendleton in January. Myth #1 – “It’s about women in ...

The Killing Train

  • To break a siege: A review of Nirmalangshu Muk ...
    [First published at kafila.org] http://kafila.org/2013/04/03/to-break-a-siege-justin-podur/#more-17722 This is a review by JUSTIN PODUR of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege (Pluto Press 2012) read more
  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...
  • Why the Taliban is unlikely to win
    KABUL – Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai two days ago. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the open. Ultimatel ...
  • Kerry in Kabul
    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a joint press conference in Kabul this evening. There were three main issues discussed. The first was an agreement for the US Forces to make a phased withdrawal from Wardak province. Announced five days ago, Wardak has been ...
  • Foreign-imposed ideologies and report wars
    It's raining in Kabul so I spent a quiet day indoors, reading and watching television, surfing the 30 some Afghan channels. Yesterday the winner of Afghan Star (basically Afghan Idol), Sajed Jannati, sang a song for New Year's. Another New Year's concert took place today, and the singer was Farz ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Activists launch anti-racism campaign in Burma
    A group of youth activists distributed t-shirts and stickers promoting religious harmony on Friday, as part of a grassroots campaign to counter the growing threat of Buddhist extremism
  • Telecom firms battle for a piece of Burma’s fr ...
    Vodafone , China Mobile and an investment fund linked to billionaire George Soros are among 22 bidders vying to enter Burma, one of the world's last unexplored mobile telephone markets
  • Shan farmers demand halt to Shwe pipeline
    A group of farmers from Shan state issued a public call on Friday demanding that Burma's government remove sections of the Shwe gas pipeline built on their land
  • How the media and govt continue to politicise ...
    Following a fire at an Islamic school in downtown Rangoon, the mainstream media's reporting on the event may have helped inflame already tense relations between Muslims and Buddhists in the country
  • Will there ever be trust in Meikhtila?
    The government said it would rebuild all of the houses that were destroyed during the Meikhtila riots. But once the new houses are built - can the two communities live peacefully together again?

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
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