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Scoop - NZ

  • Google Glass: Beginning of Wearable Surveillance
    .. imagine that millions of Americans walk around each day wearing the equivalent of a drone on their head: a device capable of capturing video and audio recordings of everything that happens around them. And imagine that these devices upload the data to large-scale commercial enterprises that a ...
  • Obama: Guantánamo 'not in our best interests'
    "The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are. It is contrary to our interests and needs to stop," he said. "Now that is a hard case to make because I think for a lot of Americans the notion is: out of sight, out ...
  • Cultural Cleansing in Iraq
    Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-inv ...
  • The new Libor scandal.
    The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics ow ...
  • The Illuminati were amateurs: The new Libor sc ...
    The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics ow ...

Independent - London

  • Rome's ice-cream 'mafia': The family dynasty w ...
    The glory of Italy is that for £15 you can eat a delicious dinner that knocks spots of a meal in London costing three times as much. But last weekend while on holiday in Rome, a group of British tourists managed to spend almost as much per head on four ice-creams. The huge helpings probably mad ...
  • 'They slapped us if we argued. We wiped our te ...
    Tuesday 23 April began began like every day. I woke up around 7am, helped my mother prepare breakfast, kissed my two sisters and baby brother goodbye and left our house near the hospital in Savar. Related Stories'I never dreamed I'd see the daylight again': Woman pulled alive from rubble in Ban ...
  • Tributes paid to British Olympic gold medallis ...
    Officials from the world’s most famous sailing competition are investigating how a British Olympic gold medal-winner came to be trapped underwater in his capsized boat for up to ten minutes, as team-mates and competitors alike tried to come to terms with the death of Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson.Relat ...
  • Gang steals $45m in world's 'biggest ATM fraud'
    Investigators in the US and several other countries, including Britain, have cracked open a vast cash machine scam which yielded $45m (£29m) for its perpetrators scattered around the globe, making it one of the largest and most brazen bank heists ever seen.Related StoriesVideo: US high school s ...
  • Corruption, power shortages, terrorism...Can a ...
    Fauzia Talat was buying clothes for her children in a market in the centre of Rawalpindi. She was not sure of which of the two outfits she held up to buy, but she was certain about the problems facing Pakistan as she prepared to cast her vote today.Related Stories'I never dreamed I'd see the da ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Video of huge meteor over England and Wales
    A fireball streaking across Britain left stargazers stunned last night. The green-tinged meteor shot over England and Wales in a northerly direction at around 9.45pm. Experts believe the meteor might have formed from debris from Halley's Comet. Many observers took to Twitter to report the phenom ...
  • Experience leads to the growth of new brain cells
    A new study examines how individuality develops. The DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden - Cluster of Excellence at the TU Dresden (CRTD), the Dresden site of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin played a ...
  • Social connections drive the 'upward spiral' o ...
    People who experience warmer, more upbeat emotions may have better physical health because they make more social connections, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research, led by Barbara Fredrickson of the Univ ...
  • NASA confirms 'serious' leak from Internationa ...
    Nasa said in a bulletin on its website that while the rate of ammonia leaking from the section of the cooling system has increased the crew were in no danger. Nasa has insisted that the crew of the International Space Station are safe despite a radiator leak in its power system. The six-member ...
  • Water on moon, Earth came from same primitive ...
    The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found. Evidence ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Lumberjack Commandos . . .
    THESE FINE MEN AND WOMEN deserve better civilian management than what they've suffered in recent years. Getting rid of Stevie should go a long way towards achieving that.
  • Penny-wise . . .
    Got an appeal for money from the Oakville Ontario PC's this week, on behalf of the latest chooch to give it a try. What was interesting about it was the stamps on the envelope, two "A" postage and a surprise, a 1937 3¢ Coronation stamp. I guess two "A"s and 3¢ are what Canada ...
  • Ya gotta love it . . .
    Cartoons for the Week of April 21-27, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Universal Press Syndicate
  • The Harper Broadcasting Corporation . . .
    STEVIE IS MOVING IN ON THE CBC. According to Lauren Strapagiel at Canada.com with an article, "If Harper ran CBC programming", there is "newly tabled legislation that would give Prime Minister Stephen Harper a tighter grip on Canada’s national broadcaster". Go read the article, an ...
  • Like the Mask says . . .
    TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL! Just check out Matt Taibbi's article in Rolling Stone, "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Worth your time and attention. It's all about the big banks: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related cor ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wall Street Journal 's Idiocracy: CO2 Is What ...
    The Wall Street Journal once again published an op-ed disputing climate science by authors with no peer-reviewed papers on the topic and ties to groups funded by the oil industry. The op-ed argues that we should be "clamoring for more" carbon dioxide because it is a "boon to plant life," ignorin ...
  • Right-Wing Media Push New Benghazi Myths Ahead ...
    Right-wing media are using a congressional hearing to push new myths about the Obama administration's response to the September 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. In fact, these myths are discredited by previous congressional reports and testimony, which show that ...
  • STUDY: Media Ignore Climate Context Of Midwest ...
    The Midwest has experienced near record flooding this spring, resulting in four deaths, extensive property damage, and disruptions of agriculture and transportation. Evidence suggests that manmade climate change has increased the frequency of heavy downpours, and will continue to increase floodi ...
  • The Origin And Truth Behind Alex Jones' AMMO Act
    Republican congressmen are giving credibility to Alex Jones and his conservative fringe website Infowars.com, which popularized a conspiracy theory that DHS is stockpiling ammunition for nefarious purposes. The conspiracy theory has now inspired legislation known as the AMMO Act of 201 ...
  • Fox Snubs Pro-Immigration Rallies In Favor Of ...
    Fox News devoted significantly more airtime to the Heritage Foundation's claims that providing legal status to undocumented immigrants will have negative fiscal impact, but mostly ignored pro-immigration rallies during the same period.Fox News Spent More Than 25 Minutes Promoting Heritage's Flaw ...

Global Research.ca

  • Say No to War on the Korean Peninsula! For a L ...
    On July 27, 1953, Korean War hostilities were ended only temporarily by introducing the fragile Armistice Agreement which was signed by DRPK, China and USA/UN. However, that “temporary cessation” of the deadly military conflicts has not put an end to…
  • Australia’s Defence White Paper. Threatening C ...
    The 2013 Defence White Paper, which defines the Australian government’s strategic military orientation, codifies its unconditional support for the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia. The document asserts that “the relationship between the United States and China will determine the outlook&# ...
  • Bush Versus Obama: Who’s Worse?
    Obama Names Top Fundraisers to Major Political Posts Glenn Greenwald notes today: Last week, the Obama administration announced its choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission: Tom Wheeler, who is not only a former telecom lobbyist but also a huge…
  • US Prepares War with Syria as Washington backe ...
    Calls for a war with Syria mounted yesterday, despite mass popular opposition to war in the United States, amid reports that US-backed Islamist opposition forces fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have suffered serious reverses. Speaking on NBC…
  • “Syria to Respond immediately to any New ...
    Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad says the country will “respond immediately” to any new Israeli aggression against Syrian territory. “The instruction has been made to respond immediately to any new Israeli attack without (additional) instruction from any higher ...

TPM Cafe

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

  • 5 Critical Actions Obama Needs to Take Right N ...
    Each of these actions is within President Obama's power right now. If he's serious about addressing climate disruption, not one of them is optional. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If all goes well, my parents will finally get to return hom ...
  • 5 Critical Actions Obama Needs to Take Right Now
    Each of these actions is within President Obama's power right now. If he's serious about addressing climate disruption, not one of them is optional. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If all goes well, my parents will finally get to return hom ...
  • James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing ...
    The country's leading climatologist talks about what our future looks like if we continue along with business as usual -- and what we could do to prevent catastrophe. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.It’s hard to imagine anyone who has don ...
  • “Human Beings Have No Right to Water” and Othe ...
    Privatization of our natural resources is leading to the inevitable extinction of our species, and possibly all life on earth.  In the 2005 documentary, We Feed the World, then-CEO of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, shared some o ...
  • Get Ready for Higher Prices and Less Energy Se ...
    A deeply flawed study that ignores the harmful environmental and health impacts of gas drilling is being used to rally for exports. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Unlimited export of U.S. natural gas would have enormous implications on the future of ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Discussion of Austin Energy Governance Ordinan ...
    Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell just postponed a major agenda item (#15), regarding an un-elected board taking over Austin Energy. Numerous citizens were planning to attend the council meeting tonight to express  concerns, and had gone out of their way to arrange their schedules to be there. The ma ...
  • In aftermath of West explosion, Legislature tr ...
    Smith’s Bill – HB1714 – Makes Perry’s Texas Even More of a Paradise for Polluters and is expected to be heard in the Texas House sometime on Thursday Contact your representative (don’t know who that is . . . click here) and tell them to vote NO on HB 1714 On April 17th, an explosion [...]
  • Tomorrow, President Obama is coming to Austin ...
    Join 360.org with a message to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline RSVP on Facebook: facebook.com/events/167981560029199/ Here are the details: What: Austin Tells Obama: No KXL! When: Thursday, May 9 at 3:30pm Where: Obama will be speaking at Applied Materials at 9700 US Highway 290 East. We are going ...
  • Right-to-Know Provisions Need to be Added to C ...
    Two bills were laid out in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Monday – SB 1625 by Senator Davis (D-Fort Worth) and SB 1637 by Senator Duncan (R-Lubbock).  Senator Duncan summed up the issues before the committee. He said the key issues include: who gets notice and how; whether hearings ...
  • Traffic noise and pollution may impact kids’ h ...
    A story in MyHealthNewsDaily by Lindsey Konkel says, according to a new study from Germany, children who live near a noisy road may be at an increased risk of hyperactivity.  Those in the study who were exposed to the highest noise levels at home showed 28 percent more symptoms  of hyperactivity ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Fisheries Department Reaches Deal With Think T ...
    (Postmedia News) OTTAWA — Some federal scientists working at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans may soon gain new freedom to control their research and speak in public, under a tentative deal announced Thursday to transfer manageme ...
  • Left Wing Set to Win in Canada's BC, May Resha ...
    (Reuters) The left-leaning New Democrats are set to reshape energy policy in Canada's Pacific province of British Columbia if, as expected, they seize power from the Liberals in Tuesday's elections to the provincial legislature. Opini ...
  • Safety Honor for Marathon Canceled After Refin ...
    (AP) DETROIT — A state agency canceled a Wednesday event to honor the safety record of a Detroit oil refinery where a recent fire forced the temporary evacuation of some nearby homes. The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Admini ...
  • NYC to Begin Distributing Storm Aid This Summer
    (New York Times) The federal government has approved New York City’s plan to spend the first $1.77 billion in aid for Hurricane Sandy recovery, with the money expected to start flowing by early summer to homeowners, busi ...
  • New York Senate Fracking Backer Tied to Firm W ...
    (Bloomberg) Senator Tom Libous, a champion of fracking in the New York Legislature, is blocking a bill that would delay drilling for natural gas for at least two more years. Passage of the measure would harm the prospects of a real-est ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • A One-Woman Death Panel
    John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are refusing to make any recommendations for the Death Panels: The top two Republicans in Congress informed President Obama on Thursday that they will refuse to fulfill their duty under the Affordable Care Act to recommend members of a new board with the power ...
  • Casual Observation
    A $45 million bank heist is very impressive. It's interesting that the only reason it worked is because the U.S. still uses magnetic strips on bank cards, which means that the rest of the world has to have ATM's that read magnetic strips. America, No. 1. Discuss
  • God Love You, Joe
    It's funny how some things happen. Joe Biden's greatest virtue may be his tendency to go off script. Last May, in the heat of President Obamas reelection efforts, Biden went on "Meet the Press" and said he was comfortable with same-sex marriage. Obama had not at that point announced his su ...
  • Why Do They Hate the FLOTUS?
    Check out the comments to the screenshots of these photo tweets by Michelle Obama and Pro Football sensation, Colin Kaepernick posted at this San Francisco 49er Fan Blog. Compared to some comments I've seen regarding her, these are actually pretty tame, but still the nastiness is raw and palpab ...
  • Killing Our Credit Rating
    Today, the House will vote on a bill that would authorize the Treasury Department to prioritize debt payments in the event that the debt limit is exceeded. The bill has no chance in the Senate and would be vetoed by the president in the unlikely event that it landed on his desk. So, the bill i ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    An awesomely mixed bag of what's cool on the web, with everything from the adaptive reuse of old military bunkers, to white-knuckle team-building pursuits. Buckle up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Mental Baggage: Abandoned Suitcases From an In ...
    Having lain forgotten in an attic for years, and filled with the treasured possessions of an insane asylum’s patients, these suitcases have poignant stories to tell. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Innocent-Looking But Deadly Assassin Snail
    Find out how a 'vicious' denizen of the animal kingdom is keeping fish-tanks clear thanks to its homicidal tendencies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    This week, a glimpse into the camouflaged world of animals, finding out why some ad men really ought to go back to the drawing board, and more! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Burning Asphalt in the Himalayas: Road Workers ...
    The Leh-Manali Highway runs through spectacular Himalayan scenery, but life is not so pretty for those who maintain this high-altitude road. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Cubic NUWAIX: Spoiler Alert! Uncompetitive Bid ...
    HOW TO CUBIC YR APOCALYPTIC SKRILLO FLOW? uncompetitive bidding :) source- CBRNE Exercise / CMAP Support Services - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities J&A6.302-1_-_J3PBCS5990.pdf - Dec 7 2012 Quick post about how much money you can make simulating the apocalypse for the new Home ...
  • Pentagon domestic operations switches from "pu ...
    This is an incredibly short period of time, he said, and it forces a change in the relationship between DOD and other agencies. The old paradigm was to have civil partners “pull assistance” from DOD, while now DOD will actually push assistance where it is needed. Defense.gov News Article: Offic ...
  • 2013: Boston, paper gold, Obama signs Stock Ac ...
    Hang tight folks, it looks like we are on the cusp of another 'burst of change' on a few fronts. You should probably double the watts going to your news radar for at least 10-14 days, if you possibly can. And all those cheesy "financial systems" are getting Extra Discontinuous as they usually do ...
  • Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of T ...
    I remember seeing Spook years ago on a rough videotape with horrible audio at the Soap Factory - shortly thereafter it was possible to obtain the DVD, based on a negative long-hidden in some film vault under a false name. Spook is one of those incredible movies - a 1973 narrative of a black CIA ...
  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Miracle survivor pulled from Bangladesh ruins
    In this photograph taken on April 28, 2013, Bangladeshi Army use a crane to remove rubble from an eight-storey building that collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Bangladeshi rescuers Friday pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a garment factor A woman was pulled alive Friday from t ...
  • Philippines may pull peacekeepers from Golan
    A picture taken on March 8, 2013 shows a UN peacekeeper using binoculars on an observation tower in the largely abandoned city of Quneitra, in the demilitarized United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) zone, in the Golan Heights. The PhilippineThe Philippines said Friday it may quic ...
  • Arrests mar landmark Jerusalem women's prayers
    Israeli police push back a crowd of Ultra Orthodox Jewish men during the monthly prayer of the liberal Jewish religious group Women of the Wall on May 10, 2013 at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. Jerusalem police were holding five ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem police were on Friday holding ...
  • Bombs kill four, wound 20 on Pakistan election eve
    Pakistani army soldiers keep vigil at an electoral materials distribution centre in Islamabad on May 10, 2013. Bombs exploded near party political offices in remote areas of Pakistan on Friday, killing four people on the eve of a landmark general electionBombs exploded near party political off ...
  • N. Korea says jailed US citizen preached regim ...
    People watch a news broadcast in Seoul on Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American tour operator jailed in North Korea on May 2, 2013. Bae had smuggled in anti-Pyongyang materials and sought to establish a base to overthrow the regime, according to the North's SuprA Korean-American tour operator jailed ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • LIVE: Verdict Expected Soon in Guatemalan Geno ...
    A verdict is expected as soon as today in the historic trial of U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the first head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide. He is charged with overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Mayan region after h ...
  • Addressing the Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Rape is center stage this week after the dramatic rescue of three women from close to a decade of imprisonment in a house on a quiet street in Cleveland. The suspect, Ariel Castro, has been charged with kidnap and rape. These horrific allegations have sho ...
  • Exclusive Video Inside Cooper Union Student Oc ...
    More than 50 students, faculty and staff at The Cooper Union in New York have begun a sit-in inside the office of the school’s president, Jamshed Bharucha. Democracy Now! 's Martyna Starosta filmed students reading an open letter to Bharucha condemning his decision to end the school& ...
  • Eduardo Galeano on Writing, "Historical Amnesi ...
    Part one of this interview aired on the May 8th, 2013 program Watch part two of our conversation with the celebrated Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, author of the new book, "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History." Galeano’s classic book, "Open Veins of Latin Am ...
  • Breaking News: Mississippi Supreme Court Issue ...
    The Mississippi Supreme Court has blocked the execution of Willie Jerome Manning just hours before he was scheduled to die. The court voted 8-to-1, with Justice Michael Randolph objecting. The case attracted national attention after the FBI admitted that its original analysis of the evidence ...

Solari

  • Buying Local
    Click Image to See the Whole Infographic Why Buying Local is Worth Every Cent Infographic by CustomMade
  • G7 Finance Ministers to Discuss Banking Reforms
    By BBC News Finance ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations are set to begin a two-day meeting on Friday. Banking reforms will be top of the agenda at the meeting, which is being held close to London. Continue Reading
  • Solari Stories – The Blue Light
  • Number of U.S. Companies that Reach $100-Milli ...
    By Kauffman Foundation The pace at which the United States produces $100-million companies has been stable over the last 20 years despite changes in the economy. However, according to a new Kauffman paper released today, the locations and sectors in which those companies are created are changing.
  • California, New York and DC Look to Ban 3D-Pri ...
    By RT A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history of the infant technology. If some lawmakers have their way, it will also be the last. Continue Reading

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Steven Haulenbeek’s Minimalist Apoc LED Lamp i ...
    Steven Haulenbeek used simple materials and construction techniques to build this stripped down, efficient LED lamp. The humorously titled Apoc lamp "can be deconstructed and turned into a small kindling fire at a moments notice. Just large enough to cook    
  • Nir Meiri’s Marine Light is Made from Dried Se ...
    The Marine Light, which stands 40 cm tall and 33 cm wide, features a unique translucent lampshade that's made of dried seaweed. To create the lampshade, designer Meiri applied fresh seaweed to the thin metal frame while it was still wet. As the strips of    
  • State Department Steps in to Block Access to 3 ...
    It has only been a couple of days since the Liberator 3D-printed gun was successfully fired in Texas by Defense Distributed. But after the gun was downloaded over 100,000 times in just two days, the State Department told founder Cody Wilson to take down the    
  • Solar Power Trees Sprout at Nation’s First Net ...
    The energy-efficient Sandy Grove Middle School was designed in collaboration between First Floor K-12 and SfL+a Architects. Together with Spotlight Solar they built a school which will save $35 million over 40 years. The pioneering school is still under construction    
  • BVN Architecture Unveils 3D Puzzle Emergency S ...
    The Melbourne Emergency Shelter Exhibition lasted from May 1-5, 2013 and was held in Federation Square where leading architects from the area designed and built emergency shelters. The purpose of the event was to explore solutions to emergency shelters in    

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • You Might Have Missed: Syrian Air Defenses? Dr ...
    Olga Khazan, “Interview: NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Syria and Soft Power,” The Atlantic, May 9, 2013. But one strike is a very different proposition than launching a big campaign. The benefit of surprise and stealth and a single-point strike may or may not tell us a good deal about Syrian ...
  • Europe's Defense Double Dutch
    On this anniversary of the 1940 Nazi invasion of the Low Countries it is perhaps appropriate to consider the state of Europe’s defense. Two events highlighted the essential contradiction between resources and commitments that bedevils European defense.  On 29 April the French published their fir ...
  • The Treacherous Road to Pakistan's Historic El ...
    Pakistan's upcoming elections on May 11 provoke both fear and hope. The last time Pakistan held a reasonably free and fair election, in 1970, the country ended up splitting into two, as Bangladesh emerged out of the ruins of a horrible civil war that led to Indian military intervention. This tim ...
  • Top of the Morning: Pakistan Prepares for Bloo ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Pakistanis Go to the Polls in Bloody Election Season There have been dozens of terrorist attacks, assassinations, and other forms of violence, killing hundreds of people in the lead up to tomorrows parliamentary elections. “Pakistanis head to the polls to vote on a ...
  • Why Israel Can't Be Part of Obama's Calculus o ...
    AP Photo/Ariel Schalit From Tel Aviv, so the usual map sites say, you could drive to Damascus in three hours and 20 minutes, if only there were no borders, barbed wire or war in the way. From vacation cottages in the Upper Galilee, where city people go to find some quiet, you can look across t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Notes on a Pseudo-Scandal
    OK folks, if you have the patience for some meta-blogging on the subject of Benghazi, let me share with you some of the thoughts that have been running around my head as I struggle with how to talk about this story. Whenever a topic like this comes up, you have to ask yourself a couple of quest ...
  • The Military Can't Handle the Truth
    Flickr/West Point Public Affairs The real scandal this week around military sexual violence isn’t the release of the latest in a string of Department of Defense (DOD) reports showing stunning levels of sexual assault—hell, even the DOD estimates 26,000 actual incidents compared with th ...
  • Sentimental for the Stones Ages
    AP Photo/Schroer The Rolling Stones aren't playing anywhere within 900 miles of New Orleans on their "50 And Counting" tour, so it's not exactly as if I have an anguished decision to make now that the Feds have confiscated my Lear jet. But unless offered a free ticket, I doubt I'd have ...
  • Are Vouchers Dead?
    When news broke Tuesday that the Louisiana Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s voucher system, which uses public dollars to pay for low-income students to go to private schools, the fight over vouchers made its way back into the headlines. The Louisiana program, pushed hard and publicly by Re ...
  • Congress, The Death Panels' Death Panel
    The Affordable Care Act contained many provisions meant to help "bend the curve" of heath-care costs, including cuts to provider payments, incentives for doctors and hospitals to keep patients healthier, and pilot programs to test innovative new ways of providing care. It also included the Inde ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Man Slain After Firing on Ohio Police Carried ...
    Authorities in Ohio say they aren’t sure what motivated a 42-year-old man to jump out of his car during a traffic stop in March and suddenly fire 37 rounds at two police officers. What seems clear, however, is the case is yet another example of the danger posed to unsuspecting officers who confr ...
  • Co-Author of New Immigration Study Says Latino ...
    Jason Richwine, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, is attracting attention because of a recently released anti-immigration study that is garnering criticism from fellow conservatives, including U.S. Rep. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and anti-tax warrior Grov ...
  • Reported Minnesota Militia Member Arrested in ...
    A 24-year-old Minnesota man with ties to an antigovernment militia group is under arrest for what now appears to be a plot to bomb a local police department. Buford “Bucky” Rogers, of Montevideo, Minn., only has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, but other federal charge ...
  • WND and Glenn Beck Want YOU to Build an Untrac ...
    We live in frightening times. In Boston, a college student who appears to have been radicalized online may face lethal injection for his alleged role in a terrorist attack that left four people dead and more than 260 wounded. Just a few months ago, in Connecticut, a young man killed 20 young chi ...
  • Religious Right Hurls False Accusations at SPLC
    They just can’t stop lying. They claim to represent Christianity and the celestial love for mankind that Christ embodied, but when it comes to whomever they regard as their enemies here on planet Earth, the crudest of libels will do. The latest example of the religious right’s endless series of ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Nationwide Day of Action Against Corporate Per ...
    Activists in 77 cities will be protesting against corporate rule and political corruption on Friday, May 10. This date marks the 127th anniversary of the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision, in which the Supreme Court first ruled that corporations are "persons,” e ...
  • Fannie and Freddie Should be Making Statutoril ...
    With this week’s announcements of record profits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the National Low Income Housing Coalition calls on the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Obama Administration to fulfill the statutory requirement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make contributions to th ...
  • ACLU Comment on First Day of Immigration Refor ...
    “The immigration reform bill remained largely intact and unscathed after the first day of markup,” said Laura W. Murphy, director of ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office. “The fact is that though the ‘Gang of Eight’ compromise has flaws, it represents movement ...
  • Strike Wave by Fast Food Workers Spreads to Na ...
    More than 100 workers at St. Louis’ largest fast food chains walked off their jobs Wednesday and Thursday, calling for $15 an hour and the right toform a union free from retaliation. The walkout – hitting major national chains like McDonald’s, Wendy’s Domino’s, Hard ...
  • Strike Wave by Fast Food Workers Spreads to Na ...
    More than 100 workers at St. Louis’ largest fast food chains walked off their jobs Wednesday and Thursday, calling for $15 an hour and the right toform a union free from retaliation. The walkout – hitting major national chains like McDonald’s, Wendy’s Domino’s, Hard ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Norway, Canada, the United States and the Tar ...
    James Hansen Today 36 Norwegian organizations sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stoltenberg expressing opposition to development of Canadian tar sands by Statoil (the Norwegian state is majority shareholder of Statoil). Signatories incl ...
  • Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo
    Marjorie Cohn Photograph, of a restraint chair at the hospital at Guantánamo Bay, (Photo: Carol Rosenberg/Miami Herald/Getty)More than 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo are starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being f ...
  • Obama and the Militarization of the “Drug War” ...
    Alexander Main
  • How Not to End the War in Syria
    Yifat Susskind As the war engulfing Syria worsens, the Obama Administration must prioritize the needs of civilians and resist the growing pressure for military intervention. Diplomacy and increased humanitarian aid are what’s needed n ...
  • How Not to End the War in Syria
    Yifat Susskind As the war engulfing Syria worsens, the Obama Administration must prioritize the needs of civilians and resist the growing pressure for military intervention. Diplomacy and increased humanitarian aid are what’s needed n ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Horsemeat scandal: fear that culprits will not ...
    Concern in UK at Irish inquiry as Europe-wide investigation stallsAlmost four months after the widespread adulteration of beef products with horsemeat was revealed by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, there are growing fears in the UK that the investigation to identify the full extent of the ...
  • Armed police surround Birmingham pub after man ...
    Victim of 'targeted attack' has been identified but gunman still on loose, police sayArmed police were surrounding a pub in Birmingham on Friday evening after a man was shot dead there.Officers were called just before 6pm to the Dovecote pub in Cockshut Hill after reports of shots being fired.Th ...
  • Ohio prosecutors face hurdles in Ariel Castro ...
    Experts say Ohio laws governing fetal homicides could be open to constitutional challenge as prosecutors look to press chargesOhio prosecutors will face a struggle to press death penalty charges against the Cleveland kidnapping suspect in relation to any miscarriages suffered by the three women ...
  • Conscious computing: how to take control of yo ...
    Twitter, Facebook, Google… we know the internet is driving us to distraction. But could sitting at your computer actually calm you down? We investigate the slow web movementBack in the summer of 2008 – a long time ago, in internet terms, two years before Instagram, and around the time of Twitter ...
  • Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to s ...
    US professor Noam Chomsky expressed regret at Hawking's initial acceptance of invitation to speak at conference in IsraelNoam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it has emerged.Chomsky, a US professor and well-know ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. Not Seeking Permanent Afghan Bases
    A White House spokesman says the United States "does not seek permanent military bases in Afghanistan." Jay Carney said on May 9 that any U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after most foreign troops withdraw in 2014 would "only be at the invitation of the Afghanistan governm ...
  • Afghan peace snared in regional politics
    if you are interested in contributing. Fears that the incompetence of the Afghan National Security Forces will doom the country's power transition as Western forces leave ignore a potentially more dangerous factor: political interference from regional countries. Are Pakistan, Iran, In ...
  • US could have nine Afghan bases in return for ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that the government could allow the US to keep nine bases in the country after most NATO forces withdraw next year, but added that he had demanded security and economic guarantees from the US in return. Karzai said the US wanted nine bases in Kabul, Bagram, ...
  • Germany Chancellor Merkel makes surprise visit ...
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, is dressed in a bullet proofed vest as she arrives to Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Friday, May 10, 2013. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel made a surprise trip to northern Afghanistan to visit her troops less than two weeks after insurgents killed a ...
  • Germanys Merkel Makes Surprise Afghan Visit
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has begun a surprise visit to Afghanistan. Officials said Merkel on May 10 flew into Mazar-e Sharif, the northern Afghan city where German forces are based. She is being accompanied by German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere. The visit comes six days a ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Bill to Extend Whistleblower Protections to Of ...
    On Apr 18, 2013, Rep. George Miller (D-CA) introduced bill to extend whistleblower protections to offshore oil and gas workers. Currently there is no federal law that protects oil and gas workers if they are retaliated against after they blow the whistle on workplace health and safety viola ...
  • Senate Democrats put off vote on Labor Nominee ...
    On April 24, Senate Democrats delayed a confirmation vote on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez. Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa was concerned that Republicans would use a threatened separate hearing as a forum to attack Perez in his absence. Read more. Senate Republicans have crit ...
  • NWC Files Another Brief Urging the MSPB to Ret ...
    On April 12, 2013, the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of King v. Department of the Air Force. At issue is whether the provision of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (“WPEA” ...
  • TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean Wins Appeal
     Today the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in MacLean v. Department of Homeland Security.  In 2003, Robert MacLean blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) plan to remove U.S. air marshals fr ...
  • Proposed Rule Would Increase Rewards to Medica ...
    On April 24, 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would increase rewards paid to Medicare beneficiaries and others whose tips about suspected fraud lead to the successful recovery of funds to as high as $9.9 million. Over the last three year ...

TechDirt

  • EA Says It's Going To Keep Using Manufacturers ...
    Given the current climate surrounding guns, violent video games and all points where the two intersect, it's not surprising that a large developer like EA would attempt to distance itself from gun manufacturers. No, EA isn't going to stop making video games with real-life weapons in them. I ...
  • New Data Exposes Scammy Hospital Pricing; Now ...
    A few months ago, we wrote about Steven Brill's amazing article in Time Magazine about hospital billing. As we noted at the time, the story confirmed what many people believed: that healthcare is a giant economic scam, and it's often the hospitals (not necessarily the insurance companies) who a ...
  • How Investor-State Dispute Resolution Threaten ...
    A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the growing importance of investor-state dispute resolution in so-called free trade agreements (FTAs). One of the most troubling aspects is how potentially it can be used to undo the hard-won gains for important areas like access to medicines. The US law pr ...
  • Who Would You Rather Trust: Bankers Or Regulators?
    Cross-posted from A simple model of banking regulation and, like, counter-regulation goes something like this: Regulators are conservative and dumb, and want to safeguard banks from bad risks even at the cost of preventing good risks, Bankers are aggressive and smart, and want to tak ...
  • DailyDirt: Can Computers Grade Written Essays?
    Technology aimed at education could really benefit an incredible number of students by making classes and learning (potentially) a more pleasant and efficient experience. Computers can't replace a really good human teacher, but they can make it easier for good human teachers to reach a vast audi ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Well, hello there. I took a lovely break from reading the news (see pic). But I suppose it is time to start figuring out what is going on in the world and whatnot. Feel free to share any interesting things in the comments. Did you know that The World Is Marching Towards Anarchy? Of course, [...]
  • In Memoriam to My Youth
    Happy birthday to me. As today I am forty years old. How the fuck did that happen? To distract myself from thinking about careening down that hill, I decided I should try to come up with a list of good things about being forty. Feel free to chime in with more – but only if you [...]
  • Yo Anarchists, Meet the Pastoralists
    I don’t know about you, but I know nothing about pastoralism. A few days ago, I had a chance to listen to Lalji Desai, a pastoralist from India. The whole time I was listening I kept thinking how much pastoralist ideology and culture reflects the kinds of values and goals that anarchists a ...
  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The ongoing campaign to cover up Obama’s indis ...
    Micah Zenko writes: Like many former senior Obama administration officials, Harold Koh has expressed his concerns about U.S. drone strike policies. As the former State Department legal adviser, he played an essential role in articulating and defending the international legal principles that supp ...
  • Hezbollah and Israel spar as Syria’s conflict ...
    Nicholas Blanford writes: A dangerous game of brinkmanship is unfolding in the Middle East pitting Israel against Syria and its militant Shi‘ite ally Hizballah in what threatens to expand the two-year Syrian civil war into a full-blown regional conflict. On three separate occasions since January ...
  • Morsy and the Brothers
    Shadi Hamid writes: Many Americans — and many Egyptians — are souring on the Muslim Brotherhood. Some are rather smugly saying, “I told you so.” From the American and Arab liberal perspectives, the Brotherhood seems run by hyper-charged Islamists bent on imposing their wi ...
  • Egypt NGO law could betray revolt’s ideals, sa ...
    Reuters reports: The U.N.’s human rights chief said on Wednesday Egypt risked betraying the ideals behind the 2011 revolution and slipping into authoritarianism with a new civil society law. The Arab country was at a “critical moment” more than two years after the uprising that ...
  • Video: Paul Ehrlich on human evolution and the ...
    This lecture was given at the Woodrow Wilson Center on September 18, 2008, to accompany the publication of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment.

Watts Up With That?

  • The Way Back
    Guest essay by Dr. Vincent Gray, Wellington, NZ For over 30 years the world has been saturated with the environmental fallacy. It has taken over the media; newspapers, radio, TV; the education system;, the schools, the universities. It has led … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny: Prince Charles struck by irony m ...
    Apparently, Prince Charles recent pronouncement has created a riff in space-time, and an irony meteorite was ejected, striking the prince in the head. A photo follows. From Raw Story: Prince Charles criticizes ‘corporate lobbyists’ and climate change skeptics for turning … Continue reading ...
  • Introduction to the Hadley Centre’s HadCRUH Sp ...
    UPDATE: I’ve added an animation to the end of the post. It illustrates the changes in specific humidity anomalies in response to the 1997/98 El Niño and the 1998-01 La Niña. ############ The UKMO Hadley Centre created a global surface … Continue reading →
  • Cirrus Cloud seeds identified – will hel ...
    From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a fairly important discovery, one that will help us understand the role clouds play in the Earth’s energy balance. The fact that mineral dust and metallic aerosols are identified would suggest that as … Continue reading →
  • The Layers of Meaning in Levitus
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There have been a lot of electrons sacrificed on the altar of the discussion of the Levitus ocean heat content data. The oddity seems to be that the deep ocean is gaining heat faster than … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Two-year-old girl receives new trachea made fr ...
    Doctors announced today that two-and-a-half year old Hannah Warren just became the youngest person in history to receive a bioengineered organ transplant, a new windpipe made of a synthetic scaffold and her own stem cells. The nine-hour long procedure was performed April 9th, at Children’s ...
  • A Sleep Gene Has A Surprising Role In Migraines
    Mutations on a single gene appear to increase the risk for both an unusual sleep disorder and migraines, a team reports in Science Translational Medicine. The finding could help explain the links between sleep problems and migraines. It also should make it easier to find new drugs to treat migra ...
  • Injectable Oxygen Keeps People Alive Without B ...
    Scientists have made a breakthrough that could save patient’s lives and open up the possibilities for underwater exploration. A team at Boston Children’s Hospital have invented a micro-particle that can be injected into your bloodstream to oxygenate your blood – without any help being requ ...
  • Injectable Nano-Network Controls Blood Sugar i ...
    In a promising development for diabetes treatment, researchers have developed a network of nanoscale particles that can be injected into the body and release insulin when blood-sugar levels rise, maintaining normal blood sugar levels for more than a week in animal-based laboratory tests. The wor ...
  • The Cause of High Blood Pressure Revealed By C ...
    Computer simulations show that high blood pressure can be entirely explained by arterial stiffening as we age, say researchers. High blood pressure dramatically increases the risk of a stroke or heart attack and so is one of the biggest silent killers in the Western world. But while there are se ...

CFACT

  • Rich Greens killing jobs for ordinary Americans
    The American economy has some basic problems. We need more well-paid jobs, increased revenue, and our trade balance is out of whack. Each of these issues could be easily addressed, but environmentalists are doing everything they can to kill potential solutions.
  • Environmental groups blocking renewable energy ...
    Everyone knows that environmental groups oppose the construction of coal and nuclear plants – but do they also oppose wind and solar projects as well? The surprising answer is “yes." [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5120.mp3]
  • Free market energy policies can end economic m ...
    America does not need “comprehensive” energy policies devised and dictated by Washington. It needs policies that unlock our creative genius and allow free enterprise and private sector innovators to operate on a level playing field – one that applies the same reasonable, responsible environmenta ...
  • How ethanol programs cause 200,000 deaths each ...
    The EPA claims that ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has only a minimal impact on food prices. But Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, disagrees. . . [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5119.mp3]
  • Tier 3 rules are unnecessary, costly
    Tier 3 improvements would reduce monthly ozone levels by barely 0.5 part per billion (average levels) to 1.2 ppb (peak levels), ENVIRON International estimates, using EPA models. That’s equivalent to 5 to 12 cents out of $100 million! These reductions could not even have been measured by equipm ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Activism in the spaces in between
    It can be difficult to write about activism in an open-ended effort like the one against fracking. It isn’t like a campaign where everything is geared toward election day, at which point everyone will know who won and who lost. It’s different even from an issue like the Keystone XL ...
  • Proof of life
    I got really, really sick in the middle of last week. The worst of it passed pretty quickly but I haven’t been up for thinking many deep thoughts this week. Back next week!
  • The incomplete logic of gold investors
    Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ...
  • Troika's plan for Cyprus: destroy the village ...
    The economic crisis in Cyprus began with a depressingly familiar story: bank gambles on risky debt, loses its bet, goes bust and needs a bailout. It very quickly took what was to me1 a bewildering turn: Instead of a central bank cranking up the money printing machines until smoke billowed from ...
  • Most recent vintage of eulogies for rock music ...
    I’m a big rock music fan, so a couple recent articles on it have stuck with me. The first was from a couple weeks ago, and for the life of me I can’t track it down now. The gist of it was that the era of great guitarists is passing. The most celebrated are all old in rock and roll ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • CU Hails Historic Vermont House Vote on Labeli ...
    Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, commended the Vermont House of Representatives for today's historic vote passing H-112, requiring the labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) food sold in that state, by an overwhelming margin of 99 to 42. The bill now moves to the Verm ...
  • Vt. House Approves GMO Labeling Bill
    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont House has approved legislation calling for labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms.Click here to read this article
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  • Ginger is Better than Drugs for Pain, says Study
    A new study published in the journal Arthritis compared ginger extract to the common drugs betamethasone (cortisone) and ibuprofen for the treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.Click here to read this article
  • Frankenfoods: Good for Big Business, Bad for t ...
    Thirty years ago, scientists figured out how to directly modify the genes in our food crops. No more of that inefficient and slow breeding! Farmers would grab plant genes by the nucleotides and bend them to their will!Click here to read this article

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My Care2 Picks

  • The BP Cover-Up
    Deepwater Horizon is different from any other spill in human history. The extreme technology used to drill at unprecedented depths lacks the extreme safety equipment and protocols needed to stave off disaster. No one is ready for it. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |    ...
  • Toxicity of Deepwater Horizon Source Oil and t ...
    Research Article Coral Larvae were exposed to multiple concentrations of BP Horizon source oil (crude, weathered and WAF), oil in combination with the dispersant Corexit® 9500 but exposure to Corexit alone resulted in complete mortality Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |&n ...
  • 10 Most Shocking Things About Sunscreen
    We've been sold damaging lies, for us & the world around us. I was once told, "If you cannot eat it, then it doesn't belong on your skin" which is more & more relevant each day. 1. Sunscreens are now in 97 percent of Americans blood streams and... Submitted by Syd H. to Green Lifestyle &nb ...
  • Announcing New Transparency Bill to Disclose V ...
    If passed, this will be the first time in the history of vaccination in the United States that parents will be given a full list of the ingredients of a vaccine before their child is vaccinated. Representative Boland has not only recommended full disclos. Submitted by Evelyn J. to Health & Welln ...
  • Jay-Z and Beyoncé's trip to Cuba isn't the pro ...
    Emotions run deep, high, and very bizarre when it comes to the subject of Cuba. The few but very influential pro-embargo lobby have put a stranglehold on a lucid discussion surrounding Cuba. The U.S. embargo has not and will not work. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't &nb ...

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

Farm Wars

  • Civil Disobedience or Death by Design
    By my clock it's five minutes past midnight. We are into unchartered territory. Territory where only bravery and vision can hope to cut through the torpor and stupor which is bringing about the designed obsolescence of the human race and the transgenic re-engineering of the common gene pool of o ...
  • GMOs – The Walking Dead of the Food Industry
    Informed people in the nursing industry did some GMO research and came up with this infographic.
  • Vernon Hershberger Real Food Trial
    While Vernon is on trial in the courtroom, raw milk is on trial in the court of public opinion. Join us for a “Grow Your Food Freedom” meeting and networking event happening in conjunction with the trial.
  • 35 Reasons You Should Never Be Without Vinegar
    Whether you are storing up supplies for hard times or just want to save a little grocery money on cleaning supplies, one thing you should never be without is vinegar. People have been using it for ages – and not just for cooking or preserving foods. Vinegar’s versatility is virtually unmatched w ...
  • How to Heal a Planet
    It starts with just one choice…

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Report warned Boston Marathon was vulnerable t ...
    ShareThisReport warned Boston Marathon was vulnerable to terrorism --A regional intelligence agency told police days before the attack that extremists could potentially target the event. 09 May 2013 Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report id ...
  • China reports one more bird flu death, toll ri ...
    ShareThisChina reports one more bird flu death, toll rises to 32 09 May 2013 China reported one more death from a new strain of bird flu on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 32, with the number of infections staying at 129, the official Xinhua news agency said.  A 56-year-old man died ...
  • 'Chained CPI Not a Tweak: It's a Cut to Social ...
    ShareThis'Chained CPI Not a Tweak: It's a Cut to Social Security,' Alliance Members Tell Congress 08 May 2013 After Medicare deductions, Marty Alvarado has about $950 left in her monthly Social Security check. The Alliance for Retired Americans members from Dallas told a Capitol Hill H ...
  • Convicted Nuclear Protesters Must Stay in Jail
    ShareThisConvicted Nuclear Protesters Must Stay in Jail 09 May 2013 An elderly nun and two other nuclear protesters asked Thursday to be released from jail as they await sentencing for breaking into the Y-12 National Security [sic] Complex and defacing the walls of a uranium processing plant. ...
  • Two Boys Suspended For Pointing Pencils Like Guns
    ShareThisTwo Boys Suspended For Pointing Pencils Like Guns 08 May 2013 A 7-year-old boy, who was suspended for two days after playing a game of make-believe with his friend, returned to school on Wednesday.  On Friday, Christopher Marshall, a second grader at Driver Elementary School in Suf ...

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

  • Petition | President Obama: Close Detention Fa ...
    07 May 2013 Petitioning President Obama President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Written By: Morris Davis I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need your help. I pe ...
  • Webview : Crisis At Guantanamo - May 10
    07 May 2013 From: Center on National Security at Forham Law Crisis at Guantanamo: Will the Prison Ever Close? Join Carol Rosenberg, David H. Remes, Dr. Gerald E. Thomson, and Karen Greenberg for a discussion about current conditions at Guantanamo and the feasibility of closing down the pr ...
  • Important 60 Minutes Piece for TBI patients
    06 May 2013 Veterans and their families need to watch this. Thank you to the numerous vets who sent the link. I just sent a thanks to David Martin at 60 Minutes. Mr. Arnold Fisher deserves a standing ovation and eternal gratitude for his efforts and inspiration. http://www.cbsnews.com/video ...
  • Fraud Surrounding MIA Green Beret John Hartley ...
    06 May 2013 Many people contacted me in regard to a documentary movie about an American Green Beret, missing some 44 years.  They wanted to know if this story is true. Unfortunately, this is another fraud, shamelessly pulling on the heartstrings of the many good people who want it to be t ...
  • US Border Security - Immigratio​n, Crime, and ...
    19 April 2013 Written by: General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.) Below is both the Statememt for the Record and the PDF presentation from General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.)   Click the icon to the left to Download and view the above document. Click the icon to the left to Download ...

The Killing Train

  • Evicting the Gandhians: An Interview with Hima ...
    [First published at http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/] read more
  • The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview with Sudha ...
    [First published in Kafila: http://kafila.org/2013/04/20/the-bastar-land-grab-an-interview-with-sudha-bharadwaj/] This intervew with SUDHA BHARADWAJ of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha was conducted by JUSTIN PODUR in Raipur on 5 March 2013 JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you see the relationsh ...
  • To break a siege: A review of Nirmalangshu Muk ...
    [First published at kafila.org] http://kafila.org/2013/04/03/to-break-a-siege-justin-podur/#more-17722 This is a review by JUSTIN PODUR of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege (Pluto Press 2012) read more
  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...
  • Why the Taliban is unlikely to win
    KABUL – Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai two days ago. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the open. Ultimatel ...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 9, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Syria Update: The Geopolitical Double Game
    Conflicting Moves Create the Intended ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ Just a cursory review of the latest developments in Syria is enough to make anyone dizzy. Well, not everyone- not those who pay attention to the chronology of events unfolding hourly and get past the smoke and mirrors created to obscure ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Language of Deception Since the Boston bombings, society was promised more “security”… do you feel more secure? Since austerity and ‘structural reforms,’ people were promised economic growth and prosperity. Do you feel that you are in an economic ‘recovery ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 8, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The EyeOpener- Who is Graham Fuller
    In the days of hysteria immediately following the Boston bombing, an unlikely media darling emerged. Ruslan Tsarni, the alleged bombers’ uncle, known to the press as “Uncle Ruslan,” gained notoriety for the ferocity with which he denounced his own nephews and their alleged Islamic radicalism. It ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Ben Zygier Compromised Major Mossad Operation ...
    Trevor Borman produced a second installment of his TV documentary on Prisoner X aka Ben Zygier.  Borman was the first journalist to expose the real identity of Prisoner X three months ago.  Now, he has produced yet another astonishing segment in this scandalous story.  The Australian journalist ...
  • Hebrew University’s “Monstrous Carbuncle” on J ...
    Haaretz yesterday reported that the Hebrew University, the prime minister’s office, and the city of Jerusalem have announced a grandiose architectural plan to build a 25-story building in the shape of a golden helmet on the top of Mt. Scopus.  The new building will be dedicated to the lega ...
  • Second Israeli Attack in Days Targets Syrian M ...
    Israeli and U.S. media confirm that Israel launched its second attack on Syrian military targets in three days.  Haaretz says that both attacks were against Iranian Fateh-100 series surface-to-surface missiles and destined for its Hezbollah allies.  Israel calls these weapons a “game chang ...
  • Israeli Attack Escalates Concern on Syria Inte ...
    Israel’s attack today on a Syrian weapons convoy, just confirmed by Israeli sources, reportedly carrying advanced missiles from the country on Hezbollah’s behalf (so Israel claims), comes at an incredibly delicate time.  Rumors are flying about Syrian use of chemical weapons in its c ...
  • Israeli Lawyer Accused of Serial Rape, Victims ...
    Introductory Note: In this story, I am reporting the claims of four Israeli women that they were raped by the same man.  Obviously, as I’m not a private investigator nor physically present to investigate this case, I am reporting my impressions of the case and the credibility of both parti ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Why Big City #OpenGov Solutions Don't Always W ...
    I work for a civic technology startup in San Francisco, but I'm a small-town native who works daily with small to midsized communities. As such, when I read or hear about the latest "answer" to civic problems, created by a team of geniuses and piloted in one of the largest cities in the country, ...
  • How Washington D.C.'s Laws Were Set Free for W ...
    On Greater Greater Washington, Tom MacWright recently wrote a blog entry highlighting the problems of access to the Washington, D.C. Code. There is, first, a legal obstacle: Washington D.C. claims copyright over their laws, which is to say that it is illegal to reproduce them without permission ...
  • 'Detritivore' Design: How to Use Trash to Crea ...
    Detritivores are creatures that consume decaying matter. Detritivore designs use abundant waste products to make scalable technology solutions. Unlike loftier concepts of zero-waste design such as Cradle to Cradle, Detritivore design accepts that the world is already loaded with discarded and ...
  • How a Computer Can Organize Thousands of Docum ...
    Before computers, all document-driven stories started with a big stack of paper. Often, the first task was to organize all that paper, by sorting individual documents into piles by type. This gives journalists a high-level idea of "what's in there" and helps them decide what to read more closely ...
  • Behavio Updates the Funf Open-Source Project
    The Behavio team is very happy to announce a major version update to Funf, our open-source mobile sensing framework, accompanied by respective updates to Funf's two user-facing components (Funf Journal and Funf In A Box). In the time since our last major version update (Funf 0.3) last year, w ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Food Edge - How State and Local Government ...
    With simple and innovative measures, public agencies at state and local levels can play a significant role in promoting healthier eating habits—steps that could make a difference in curbing the nation's obesity epidemic. One effective option, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloom ...
  • The Benghazigate - Boehner "Complicit' If Beng ...
    Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) came under increased pressure Thursday to create a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack.A day after three State Department whistle-blowers criticized the administration’s response to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Frank Wo ...
  • The Defense Edge - Sequester is Here to Stay
    The sequester has been law for almost two years. But the Pentagon’s delayed planning for implementing it has now made it easier for Congress to keep massive defense cuts on the books.The military wasn’t given their marching orders from the White House to begin formal planning for sequestrati ...
  • The Lobbying Edge - Big Businesses and Localit ...
    When do 21 Republican senators vote for higher taxes? Answer: When the biggest businesses and local politicians hire top K Street lobbyists to push for the tax-hike legislation.A bipartisan majority of senators on Monday passed the "Marketplace Fairness Act," which forces large and mid-sized onl ...
  • Education on Edge - Obama’s Early Education ...
    The release of President Obama’s budget reignited the debate over the potential benefits of public investment in early childhood education. The centerpiece of his proposal is a $75 billion federal-state partnership to provide all low- and moderate-income four-year-olds with high-quality, full- ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Speech Obama Should Give On Keystone XL B ...
    Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama
  • The Downwinders : Fracking Ourselves To Deat ...
    Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty b ...
  • Boston, Brazil And Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, ...
    The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per t ...
  • From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Sha ...
    The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons o ...
  • Postcard From The End Of America : San Jose B ...
    Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • IRS VS.Conservatives UPDATE: IRS Has a Disastr ...
     Scroll down for Update There is that old line about paranoia..sometimes they really are after you. Such is the case with the IRS who in a just released story by the Associated Press admits to targeting conservative organizations' tax exempt status during the 2012 Presidential elec ...
  • Protesting The Koch Brothers--Good To Hear The ...
    Boy oh boy those progressives sure like to throw away money, but sometimes its really nice to see them wasting their money instead of the tax payers hard earned cash. Specifically two progressive groups (Courage Campaign Institute and Forecast the Facts) will be running ads on the Web s ...
  • Democratic Party In Decline? (So Says Long-Tim ...
    David Sosnik, who was Bill Clinton's political director wrote a 12-page memo obtained by Politico (embedded below) warning that the party was in decline, Barack Obama is losing his power and the party may face more problems when Obama is out of the White House “Since Obama was elected Pres ...
  • OBAMA LIED: Benghazi "Talking Ponts" Were Edit ...
    This may shock so many people reading this but apparently the Obama administration has been lying about those now infamous talking points used by UN Ambassador Susan Rice to talk about the Benghazi terror attack on Sunday a.m. news shows. Jonathan Karl of ABC News has obtained 12 different ve ...
  • Hey John McCain---Get Your Grubby Little Progr ...
    Anybody who has Cable TV knows the frustration of having a few hundred channels but nothing to watch. Part of the reason is the bundling done by content providers.  So for example, if you want Discovery Channel you are stuck with getting the Oprah network  because they it is owned by ...

Wind Watch

  • At Lowell, Sheffield: DPS commissioner concern ...
    The Vermont Department of Public Service is collecting and investigating noise complaints caused by the three large wind projects in Vermont. DPS Commissioner Chris Recchia said Thursday that the amount and nature of the complaints warrant the investigation to see if the noise is creating a publ ...
  • Falmouth board labels turbines a ‘nuisan ...
    FALMOUTH — The zoning board of appeals declared two town-owned wind turbines a nuisance in a 4-1 vote Thursday night. The decision overturned Building Commissioner Eladio Gore’s determination that noise from the turbines did not constitute a nuisance. Turbine abutter Neil Andersen, of 211 ...
  • Wind turbine blades 17 metres long ripped off ...
    Walkers had a narrow escape as blades on a wind turbine ripped off in high winds across common moor land. The 17m turbine blades split and scattered across Ovenden Moor Wind Farm, Cold Edge Road, Wainstalls, Halifax. Walkers and local residents were stunned at what could have been a nasty accide ...
  • Eagle chopped in half by wind turbine
    [Eagle chopped in half by wind turbine] En ung havørn blev i går skåret i to stykker af en snurrende vindmølle i Skagen. Dansk Ornitologisk Forening er i oprør og mener, at fejlplacerede vindmøller kan koste flere fugle livet. Den dræbte fugl med et vingefang på 2,25 meter blev fundet på jorden ...
  • FAA: Wind turbines in Litchfield could negativ ...
    A proposed wind turbine project in the town Litchfield exceeds obstruction standards, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. In 11 letters sent to Ridgeline Energy — which has proposed 492-feet high wind turbines in the area — the administration warns that the structures would exceed ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...
  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...
  • Journalism curriculum, and the hands-in-the-ai ...
    It’s hard work making sure a journalism curriculum remains relevant. Here are “four essential components to the new curriculum for teaching news and communication,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of The Elements of ...

Facing South

  • More questions in NC redistricting case
    The three-judge panel hearing a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's redistricting on the grounds that it dilutes the African-American vote called the attorneys together this week to discuss a few remaining questions, indicating a decision could be near. read more
  • NC renewable energy repeal advanced by committ ...
    A bill to end North Carolina's renewable energy program was passed out of a Senate committee last week even though it didn't have the votes it needed. What's happening in the state is part of a broader national effort to revamp renewable energy laws. read more
  • The BP spin doctor is in
    BP is scrambling to save the company's image from the realities of the ongoing Gulf disaster, but it can't hide the truth. read more
  • VOICES: Reign of Error -- a sonnet concerning ...
    Observations on the current state of North Carolina politics, in verse. read more
  • Nullification: How states are making it a felo ...
    Though the Supreme Court rejected nullification after Southern states tried to use it to avoid desegregating public schools, the concept is now being deployed by gun rights advocates -- and not just in the South. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Closing Guantanamo
    1) Close it. 2) Send most of the prisoners to US ultramax prisons. e) No longer together, break their solidarity and thus resistance. 4) No longer at “Guantanamo” and with “Guantanamo” closed, break the media narrative. Anyone who thinks Obama cares about force feeding pr ...
  • Closing Guantanamo
    1) Close it. 2) Send most of the prisoners to US ultramax prisons. e) No longer together, break their solidarity and thus resistance. 4) No longer at “Guantanamo” and with “Guantanamo” closed, break the media narrative. Anyone who thinks Obama cares about force feeding pr ...
  • Listen to my interview with Jay Ackroyd
    We covered the surveillance state, police incompetence, the reasons for the “shelter in place” order in Boston, and so on.
  • Listen to my interview with Jay Ackroyd
    We covered the surveillance state, police incompetence, the reasons for the “shelter in place” order in Boston, and so on.
  • Speaking with Jay Ackroyd on the Security Stat ...
    We’ll touch on the surveillance state, Boston, Dorner, and the oligarchy.  Feel free to listen in.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • News Corp profit trebles despite hacking costs
    ABC – Global media company News Corporation has more than tripled its third-quarter profit. In the three months to the end of March, News Corp made a net profit of $US2.85 billion. That is a substantial improvement on the $US937 million the company made during the same time last year, and ...
  • 8 to be charged in $45 million cybertheft bank ...
    CNN – Federal prosecutors are set to announce charges Thursday in a global cybertheft ring that allegedly stole $45 million from banks and other financial firms. The charges are due to be announced in Brooklyn by U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch of the Eastern District of New York. A spokesman ...
  • Bangladesh sentences Islamist to death for 197 ...
    Reuters) – A Bangladesh tribunal convicted and sentenced an Islamist party leader to death on Thursday for atrocities in the country’s war of independence, bringing a wave of violent protest from his supporters nationwide. Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 61, assistant secretary general of the ...
  • Bangladesh factory collapse death toll tops 800
    DW – Rescue workers have recovered over 800 bodies from the rubble of a collapsed garment factory and expect to find more. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi authorities have closed 18 factories deemed unsafe. The discovery of more bodies trapped beneath the debris on Wednesday pushed the death toll o ...
  • Sex crimes soar in US military
    Aljazeera – Sexual assaults in the US military are a growing epidemic across the services and thousands of victims are still unwilling to come forward despite a slew of new oversight and assistance programs, according to a new Pentagon report. Troubling new numbers estimate that up to 26,0 ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Mammonism (aka Mormonism) Exposed by Two Hones ...
    This is a re-posting from the public blog of a man named Christoper Ralph – who loves TRUTH, HONOR, and EXCELLENCE more than Mammon.  I met Grant Palmer over a decade ago, and shared with him my research on Joseph Smith’s “Mentor” – Luman Walters.   Grant Palmer is ...
  • What Steven “Spell-Berg” Didn&#821 ...
    Abraham Lincoln and the Rothschilds   The Real Cause of the Civil War By  Rev. Charles E. Coughlin   Civil War Was Not Fought Over Slavery, But Financial Freedom (This article was originally published in the Feb. 12 and Feb. 19th, 1940 issues of Social Justice)   TEXTBOOKS that have been ca ...
  • Tales from the Crypt – Twilight Saga and ...
    Her name is Stephanie Meyer, author of the best-selling “Twilight” vampire and werewolf romanticism novels par extraordinaire.   Although her “religion” is Mormon and she was educated at Mormon-owned BYU, Meyer’s “bloodline” is Yiddish, originating in Ea ...
  • Tales from the Crypt – Twilight Saga and ...
    Her name is Stephanie Meyer, author of the best-selling “Twilight” vampire and werewolf romanticism novels par extraordinaire.   Although her “religion” is Mormon and she was educated at Mormon-owned BYU, Meyer’s “bloodline” is Yiddish, originating in Ea ...
  • Leonard Horowitz and His “Royal Bloodlin ...
    I have had a bellyful of Mr. Horowitz’ hypocrisy and fraud.  I have been patient long enough with these vindictive deceivers. Here’s an offer for you, Horowitz – if you and your home-breaking girl friend Ms. Kane will cease and desist telling LIES about me, (drop your defamator ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Why Chechnya?
    Below is an excellent 60 minute interview with FBI translator and whistle blower Sibel Edmonds. In it she provides extensive background on the cold war CIA/NATO Gladio Operation, which apparently never ended in Turkey and the Caucasus. This background is essential in understanding how the C ...
  • China Moves Against the Dollar
    The following video by Storm Clouds Gathering provides an excellent summary of continuing Chinese efforts to chip away at the US dollar. These include a recent trade agreement between China and Australia to use the yuan and Australian dollar – rather than the US dollar – in bil ...
  • 29% Believe Revolution May Be Necessary
    A recent study from Farleigh Dickinson University reveals that 29% of Americans believe an armed revolution may be necessary in the next few years to “protect liberties.” 18% of Democratic respondents shared this view, 27% of Independents and 44% of Republicans. The study, which i ...
  • Bolivia Expels USAID
    According to Reuters, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales celebrated International Workers Day (May 1) by expelling the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Mr Morales accused the agency of seeking to “conspire against” the Bolivian people and his government. Mora ...
  • Happy Birthday, World Wide Web
    (Above) The first public website – reconstructed at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html April 30th marked the 20th anniversary of the technology behind the World Wide Web becoming available royalty-free to the public. On April 30, 1993 the Swiss group CERN made the softw ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...
  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...
  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...

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SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Estimate for Williston Basin Oil Resources is ...
    Last week the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided an update of oil and gas resources in the Bakken region. This was their first update since a 2008 report that estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil and 1.85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
  • The Key to Running the World on Solar and Wind ...
    Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of solar and wind power is their intermittency. In locations like Hawaii, where I live, wind and solar power are already competitive on price. My fossil-fuel supplied electricity typically costs above 40 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind and solar power can compete ...
  • Test Your International Oil IQ
    In last week’s column, we examined some oil production trivia involving US states. This week, we look at some international oil trivia covering the 5-year period 2007-2011, as well as some individual trivia from 2012. In this case, the data sources are the 2012 BP Statistical Review of Wor ...
  • Test Your Oil IQ
    As a result of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) revolution, US oil and natural gas production have been rising for several years. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), US oil production has risen by 27% over the past 5 years. In reviewing the data for individual states, I ...
  • Ethanol Lobby Agitates for E15 Mandate
    History of U.S. Ethanol Policy In 1978 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a gasohol waiver that set the maximum legal limit of ethanol in motor gasoline at 10 percent denatured anhydrous ethanol. 27 years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 created a Renewable Fuel S ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • 10 Best Augmented Reality Apps
    Tags: Augmentedreality, apps, TechApnaby: Dean Mantz
  • BiblioNasium
    Comments:Create your own classroom reading community – Kids Share Book Recommendations. Use Online Reading Logs, Find Books At Their Reading Level - Lauri BradyTags: reading, social media, collaborationby: Lauri Brady
  • Save Webpages as PDF in Safari on iPad without ...
    Tags: pdf, ipad, webpages, mlearning, safari, elearningby: Dean Mantz
  • Shotcut
    Comments:This new discovery of an open source, cross platform video editor looks promosing.  There is a learning curve with it but a possible option for projects that need time at school and home. - Dean MantzTags: shotcut, videoediting, multiplatformby: Dean Mantz
  • MapStory : Welcome!
    Comments:This is an interesting approach to visualize information while trying to tell it in a story format.  - Dean MantzTags: maps, storytelling, visualization, MapStory, data, tools, geographyby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Why You Should Never Drink from a Garden Hose
    Summertime is just around the corner, which means days outside gardening, running through the sprinkler, and a nice cold drink of water from…not your garden hose. At least, not unless you want to choke down a cocktail of heavy metals and plasticizers, according to new testing from from HealthyS ...
  • The Risky Chemical Lurking in Every Room of Yo ...
    Antibacterial products for the home that contain triclosan have never been proved to be effective, and there's evidence to suggest they could actually be harming your family, according to a growing number of public health organizations and scientific studies. While the Food and Drug Administra ...
  • Protect Your Cat from High-Rise Syndrome
    Sometimes your cat's instincts could work against him, particularly this time of year. All across the country, warmer months become prime time for high-rise syndrome, a term veterinarians use to describe the trend of pets—usually cats—falling from open high-rise windows, fire escapes, or balcon ...
  • 6 Tick Myths, Debunked
    Ticks are gross and they're dangerous. Thanks to climate change and years of suburban sprawl, tick populations are booming—as are myths about whether they can make you sick, where they like to live, and how to get rid of them. "It turns out that a lot of what people know about ticks has b ...
  • 5 Reasons to Smile about Your Food
    The food industry hides some pretty unappetizing secrets. From pink slime and pesticides to food dyes and contaminants, the news about food can seem negative and overwhelming at times. The food system is far from perfect, but we want you to know there's a lot to smile about, too. Here are some ...

big think

  • The Red Planet in Blue
    False coloring is used in this image to reveal greater detail. The image here depicts mystery martian morphology. It captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image is courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona ...
  • A New Lunch Option: Hitting The Dance Floor
    What's the Latest Development? Workers looking for a change of pace at lunchtime might want to take advantage of several new  midday dance parties popping up at different places around New York and other major cities. Food takes a distant back seat to music at Lunch Break, a free event s ...
  • Abercrombie and Fitch: Uncool
    If there’s one thing Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries doesn’t want, it’s non-skinny women. The company won’t make clothes in larger sizes because they want to attract the “cool kids” in high school, Jeffries explains, and non-skinny girls don’t fit the bill.  The company does make larger ...
  • Your License Plate Is Telling On You
    What's the Latest Development? After being refused a request to see public data records collected from automated license plate readers in the Los Angeles area, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are now suing the city police department ...
  • There's No Success Like Failure: Why You Need ...
    In his book, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, Robert Kaplan offers a practical guide to help people filter out conventional wisdom and peer pressure to get to know who they really are. But that will only get you so far, Kaplan says. The next i ...

Information Liberation

  • Cleveland Police Say They'll "Review" Handling ...
    I forgot it's also standard operating procedure for dispatchers to stay on the line with victims. Via Yahoo's The Lookout: Cleveland officials are investigating the handling of a call from kidnapping victim Amanda Berry to 911 on Monday. Berry...
  • Cop Offers Man Ride Home, Drives Him to Seclud ...
    After a dispute at a bar for alleged underage drinking, 20-year-old Rodolfo Lopez Castaneda, who police have not yet confirmed was involved in the drinking incident, was offered a ride home by Lee County sheriff's deputy Michael J. Ronga. Rather t...
  • Listen To The Way This Rude Dispatcher Handled ...
    The problem with government granted monopolies is the quality of service they provide reflects the fact they don't have to compete for dollars in the marketplace. They get money regardless of the quality of the "service" they provide. Here's a...
  • Two Nebraska Cops Facing Felony Evidence Tampe ...
    Although cops delete footage or dispose of memory cards on a regular basis to prevent evidence of their wrongdoings to see the light of day, they rarely get disciplined for it. Until today, that is, when a Nebraska prosecutor filed criminal charge...
  • Police Arrest and Delete Footage From Hacker, ...
    WeAreChange recently got a chance to meet up with Alex from Federal Jack and Hack Miami, to get the full story of his arrest and destruction of evidence by the Miami Police Department. Alex was arrested for merely filming the police in Miami, the p...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • A design for life
    As the average age of the population goes up with people surviving many years more than their allegorical three score years and ten, the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of senile dementia will rise too. Many people can suffer symptoms for many years and yet live independen ...
  • How did feathers evolve?
    Carl Zimmer offered some insights at TED-Ed into how dinosaurs got their plumage and evolved into the flying birds, excellent birds, we see today. This is witty animation plucks up the courage to fill in the gaps. On an entirely unrelated note, I wrote a song about flight, which you can hear on ...
  • Win #DeceivedWisdom in our 10k competition
    My publisher just added up all the sales of my book Deceived Wisdom including hardback sales since November, Kindle and ePub downloads and the Audible editions. The grand total so far…drum roll please…is 10,000 copies, which ain’t bad for a popular science book (although it was ...
  • We’ve got a lot of grounds to cover
    Next time you’re sipping on your skinny, frothy mochachocafrappalatteccino with maple syrup and cinnamon at the local Costabucksorthree coffee shop and surfing on their EasyHack(TM) wireless internet spare a thought for the grounds. The burnt out and scalded fragments of beans gone by that ...
  • Pale Blue Dot
    The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched 1977) when it reached 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from Earth in 1990. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. Th ...

RFF Library

  • Green Economy and Trade: Trends, Challenges an ...
    United Nations Environment Programme http://unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/GETReport/pdf/FullReport.pdf [From Press Release] …At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) held in June 2012, governments agreed to the outcome document The Future We Want, which makes ...
  • Ecosystem Damages in Integrated Assessment Mod ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Wesley R. Brooks and Stephen C. Newbold http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2013-02 The impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems are among the key reasons for concern about climate change. Integrated assessment models are the mai ...
  • Moving Forward with Incorporating “Catas ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Elizabeth Kopits, Alex L. Marten, and Ann Wolverton http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2013-01 It has often been stated that current studies aimed at understanding the magnitude of optimal climate policy fail to adequately cap ...
  • The 2013 U.S. Electric Utility Report
    Black & Veatch http://bv.com/reports/2013-electric-utility-report [From an Energy Wire article by Saqib Rahim, sub. req'd]  …According to engineering consultancy Black & Veatch, pipeline chokepoints have caused brief but extreme spikes in natural gas prices. Without new infrastruct ...
  • Protecting National Park Soundscapes
    National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18336 America’s national parks provide a wealth of experiences to millions of people every year. What visitors see—landscapes, wildlife, cultural activities—often lingers in memory for life. And what they hear adds a dimensi ...

Scientific American - News

  • Cutting Down Amazon for Agriculture Could Cut ...
    LONDON – Researchers see no winners if agriculture made possible by widespread felling in the Amazon continues to expand. [More]
  • Earth and Moon Got Water from Common Source
    Measurements of the chemical composition of Moon rocks suggest that Earth was born with its water already present, rather than having the precious liquid delivered several hundred million years later by comets or asteroids. And in finding a common origin for the water on Earth and the Moon, the ...
  • Produce Industry s Food Safety Push Takes Toll ...
    Clean greens are healthy greens. [More]
  • Pear-Shaped Nucleus Boosts Search for Alternat ...
    A lopsided atomic nucleus may help to refine nuclear theory. The stubby pear shape, described today in Nature , may also be pointing towards new tests of particle physics that could reveal why matter became more common than antimatter in the early moments of the Universe . [More] ...
  • Moth Smashes Ultrasound Hearing Records
    Many moths have evolved sensitive hearing that can pick up the ultrasonic probes of bats that want to eat them. But one species comes pre-adapted for anything that bats might bring to this evolutionary arms race. Even though its ears are extremely simple -- a pair of eardrums on its flanks that ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Rising Tide: Building Resistance Tour – Uncede ...
      Rising Tide: Building Resistance Tour – Kamloops/Chase - Unceded Secwepemc Territory – May 8th We had a busy day in Kamloops, the first stop on our tour. We began by visiting two different High schools, facilitating clim ...
  • Régie du lentement
    Record wait times at Quebec’s rental board affect low-income tenants MONTREAL—On a wintry afternoon, housing rights activists and co ...
  • Halifax fasts for Gitmo detainees
    Members of Halifax Peace Coalition fasts in solidarity with indefinite detainees. K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - As the vast majority of priso ...
  • Activists Express Doubts on Affordable Housing ...
    On Monday May 6th Denise Peterson-Rafuse, minister of Community Services, together with Premier Darrell Dexter and with six local MLA's also in attendance, released the Nova Scotia housing strategy at the Woodside Community Centre in D ...
  • Call Us Crazy
    Mad movements organize against ableism, mentalism and more OTTAWA—People are Mad. And they’re doing something about it. Mental health awareness is gradually gaining groun ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The military sexual abuse scandal
    David Seaton's News LinksIt would seem to me that the current, quite justified uproar about sexual violence in the US armed forces sheds a very bright light on the cognitive dissonance produced by America's view of itself as a democratic, enlightened and inclusive society that serves as a model ...
  • The First of May... mayday, mayday
    David Seaton's News Links May Day - Margaret Scott"Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize..." Joe Hill The first of May, commemorating bloody labor unrest in Chicago, is celebrated all over the world as the universal holiday of labor... except in the USA of course.The same USA where "red", t ...
  • Hats off, It's Ella Fitzgerald's birthday
    The greatest singer of the Great American Song Book was born on the 25th of April 1917 With Count Basie Gershwin by God One Note Samba ... Delirium
  • Boston and the dilemma of "homegrown" terrorism
    David Seaton's News LinksAs the Spanish and British can attest since the Madrid and London attacks of 2004 and 2005, homegrown terrorism is tougher to anticipate than plots from outside. Edward Luce - Financial TimesThe word "homegrown" is not really applicable to Islamic terrorism. Islam even i ...
  • The bombs and bombers of Boston
    David Seaton's News LinksFederal investigators are hurrying to review a visit that one of the suspected bombers made to Chechnya and Dagestan, predominantly Muslim republics in the north Caucasus region of Russia. Both have active militant separatist movements. Members of Congress expressed conc ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • ABC News Reveals Drafts of Benghazi Talking Points
    Do I have to write about the latest on Benghazi? I guess so. In for a penny, in for a pound. ABC News now has a complete set of drafts of the infamous "talking points" that were prepared a few days following the Benghazi attacks. The drafts don't tell us much that we didn't already know, bu ...
  • Controlling Medicare Costs is Now Un-American
    Yesterday, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell announced that Republicans would not be naming any members to IPAB, the board empowered by Obamacare with making recommendations for ways to cut the cost of Medicare. Wesley Smith is really, really excited: Way to go! The next step is to use Se ...
  • The Groundbreaking Isaac Newton Invention You' ...
    I feel the need to write about something that's as far removed from Benghazi as humanly possible. How about Isaac Newton? As we all know, he invented calculus, the theory of gravity, and Newtonian mechanics, as well as conducting pioneering work in optics. But I'm reading a book called Newton ...
  • The Simple Reason Hedge Fund Billionaires Are ...
    Matt Yglesias informs me today that there is something called the Sohn Investment Conference, which, according to Reuters, "gets big name hedge fund managers to share their 'best ideas' with other wealthy investors." The hedge fundies, it turns out, are really unhappy with Ben Bernanke's monet ...
  • Quote of the Day #2: Paul Ryan Says Obama Neve ...
    From Rep. Paul Ryan, about a "secret beer" he had last month with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough: It was the first time I have had a candid conversation or a substantial conversation with a member of the Obama administration since they came into power. This time I'll mak ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 394: Fuck Your Religion
    Rod from ‘The Black Guy Who Tips’ joins us Stereotyping tall people Fuck your religion Who decides which interpretation is correct? MPAA ratings for porn Torturing people works Gun control 30 comic book movies worse than Iron Man 2 Share with your friends:
  • IC 393: Fuck Newark
    UFC 159 Live The Best Chinese Food Fuck Newark Why you don’t serve hard liquor at UFC events Cities aren’t that fun Mount Rushmore = Greatest ‘Fuck You’ example of White Privilege Upcoming movies: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel Thor 2 trailer Remembering bad childhood TV shows ...
  • IC 392: Manly Shit
    Good Sci-Fi The problem with Defiance Patt Oswalt’s awesome idea for Star Wars Episode VII White weddings are awesome Gender Roles can be fine Doing manly shit Some people deserve to die Pulling guns for chicken Share with your friends:
  • IC 391: Morning Wood Syndrome
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips joins Kriss & Kev Laughing at mental illness….until its not funny Being offensive Rick Ross outrage revisted The difference between Eminem & Rick Ross Going all in with being offensive Bringing awareness to Morning Wood Syndrome Women’s MMA B ...
  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...

Simple Climate

  • Arctic mission recovers record of surprising w ...
    The longest continuous Arctic land sediment core shows that the last time CO2 levels reached current levels, over 2.6 million years ago, North-East Russia was taken was 8°C warmer.
  • Google search basis undermines sunspot-winter ...
    A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van Oldenborgh from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and his colleagues, helped by an unholy alliance between Roger Pielke Sr a ...
  • Google search basis undermines sunspot-winter ...
    A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van Oldenborgh from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and his colleagues, helped by an unholy alliance between Roger Pielke Sr a ...
  • The climate scientist whose world spun on thro ...
    Milutin Milanković calculated his way through imprisonment and bombings to show how Earth’s movement helped drive ice ages, revealing how far we’ve strayed from the path we should be following into the next global freeze.
  • The climate scientist whose world spun on thro ...
    Milutin Milanković calculated his way through imprisonment and bombings to show how Earth’s movement helped drive ice ages, revealing how far we’ve strayed from the path we should be following into the next global freeze.

e!Science News

  • Secret streets of Britain's Atlantis are revealed
    A University of Southampton professor has carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich, dubbed 'Britain's Atlantis'. read more
  • Study highlights under-appreciated benefit of ...
    Scientists have identified many benefits for restoring oyster reefs to Chesapeake Bay and other coastal ecosystems. Oysters filter and clean the water, provide habitat for their own young and for other species, and sustain both watermen and seafood lovers. read more
  • Biomaterial shows promise for Type 1 diabetes ...
    Researchers have made a significant first step with newly engineered biomaterials for cell transplantation that could help lead to a possible cure for Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million Americans. read more
  • Salk researchers chart epigenomics of stem cel ...
    Scientists have long known that control mechanisms known collectively as "epigenetics" play a critical role in human development, but they did not know precisely how alterations in this extra layer of biochemical instructions in DNA contribute to development. read more
  • New advance in biofuel production
    Advanced biofuels -- liquid fuels synthesized from the sugars in cellulosic biomass -- offer a clean, green and renewable alternative to gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. Bringing the costs of producing these advanced biofuels down to competitive levels with petrofuels, however, is a major challen ...

unEarthed

  • Raw Sewage and a Raw Deal in Rochelle, GA
    When the town's toilets flush, guess what ends up in African-American yards Nine residents of Rochelle, GA are suing their city government for discharging the city's raw sewage onto th ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Danger in the Schoolyard
    Toxic coal ash found on school paths in Florida Truckloads of the coal ash product EZBase were delivered to one Florida homeowner's property.  (Clean Water Action) ...
  • Goldman Prize Winners: Making a Difference
    Three stories from around the world The 2013 Goldman Prize recipients.  (Courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize) It is easy sometimes to feel like t ...
  • Driller Seeks to Overturn Roan Plateau Victory
    Natural riches at stake in Colorado plateau area The Roan Plateau has been ranked as one of the four most biologically rich areas in Colorado.  (Michael Freeman) ...
  • Friday Finds: Seafood S.O.S.
    Climate change may ruin your next seafood night Photo courtesy of quinn.anya Seafood lovers hooked on $1 oyster nights may soon have to find a new source of c ...

Brave New Climate

  • 100 Per Cent Renewables Study Needs a Makeover
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...
  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...
  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
  • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
    In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
    Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
  • We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
    Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
  • Video: EPA Action May 8th!
    Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

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

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  • WATCH: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protest wom ...
    For the first time in 24 years, Israel Police protected nearly 500 Women of the Wall members Friday morning as they gathered at the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem for their monthly prayer service. The women were confronted by thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters, both young girls who watche ...
  • From Jerusalem Day clashes to stone-throwing s ...
    This week: Palestinians arrested as Israelis march (and bicycle) to Jerusalem, Israeli settlers and Palestinians throw stones, African immigrant women and children are released from prison, a graphic novel portray the popular struggle, shrink-wrapped animal rights activists ride through Tel Aviv ...
  • Photo collage: Israeli forces arrest dozens in ...
    Israeli forces arrest dozens at Damascus Gate during right-wing marches celebrating Jerusalem Day. Photos by: Anne Paq, Yotam Ronen, and Oren Ziv Dozens of Palestinians were arrested during clashes that erupted at the Old City’s Damascus Gate during a Jerusalem Day march staged by right-wi ...
  • Techwashing: Hasbara group strikes back after ...
    Israeli hasbara organizations have been calling Stephen Hawking a hypocrite for daring to boycott Israel while simultaneously using an Israeli-designed chip in his wheelchair. And this, in essence, is the emblematic Israeli response: shut your mouth when you criticize me. (Translated by Sol Salb ...
  • A Zionist defense of Hawking
    I wish there was a kinder, gentler way than acts of ostracism to get Israel to end the occupation,  but those ways have failed terribly.   I would not join a BDS protest; I’m a “two-stater” who believes Israel should remain a Jewish state because the alternatives would be worse ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Sir Richard Branson Launches Australian Govern ...
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke today joined Sir Richard Branson to launch the Australian Government's oceans video celebrating the creation of the world's largest network of Marine Parks.
  • Government welcomes first Sustainable Australi ...
    The City of Unley will save up to 98 million litres of drinkable water per year and have more secure, safe and sustainable water supply for the local community, thanks to an Australian Government funded stormwater harvesting project launched today.
  • $2.5m boost to the City of Unley's water security
    The City of Unley will save up to 98 million litres of drinkable water per year and have more secure, safe and sustainable water supply for the local community, thanks to an Australian Government funded stormwater harvesting project launched today.
  • Working together to protect the Daintree
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today joined traditional owners at Queensland's Cape Tribulation to dedicate 70,000 hectares of Australia's famous Wet Tropics rainforest as the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Indigenous Protected Area.
  • Public consultation on regulation amendments t ...
    Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten and Water Minister Tony Burke today invited public comment on a draft amendment to the Corporations Regulations 2001.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Florida’s Foreclosure “Reform&#822 ...
    Hey Ricky: Look, granted I’m a bit biased here, but the reality is the foreclosure bill passed by the Florida Legislation not only will not work, because it is fatally flawed, but it is impermissible in so many ways. There are a few things we learned in civics class, thingsRead the Rest...
  • Foreclosure Courts: Florida consumers need mor ...
    The debate over foreclosures in Florida makes its way all the way to California: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — With tens of thousands of foreclosure cases clogged in the state’s courts, the Florida Supreme Court is signing off on a plan to use lawyers — and not judges — to handle them.Read the ...
  • Attorney General (wait for it…wait for i ...
    Quick, name one thing Florida’s Corporate-owned government has done to support consumers and voters?  Right….you can’t do it.  That’s because the express and stated function of Florida government is to support, protect and defend the corporations that fund those who are e ...
  • A VERY, VERY DISTURBING PHOTO- There is a DIRE ...
            The United States Government has become a nation of bullies and thugs, run by criminal overlords. And our government is punishing not just innocent people all across the globe….they are also punishing all of us. Foreclosure is just one of the battlegrounds that ...
  • FORECLOSURE CHAOS/FORECLOSURE BOMBSHELL… ...
    Forget about the new foreclosure legislation (which we are appealing and which will be thrown out)…the biggest story by far that’s hitting foreclosure cases in Florida is a just-released opinion by the Florida Supreme Court that will have Foreclosure cases heard not by judges…n ...

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Vaccine Awakening

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

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