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English: 2008 breach of Earth's magnetic shield (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image shows many different aspects of the news-making solar event. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

NASA Sunspot Number Predictions for Solar cycle 23 and 24 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

President George W. Bush shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the conclusion of their joint press availability in the East Room of the White House Tuesday, July 25, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the conclusion of their meeting Tuesday, April 7, 2009 in Baghdad. General Raymond Odierno, Commanding General, Multi-National Force—Iraq, is at far left. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Lots of Attention, ...
  Do we need more discussion about the problem with sugary drinks, or is it time to act?
• Franciscan Center Kicks Off Innovative Fresh F ...
  The Franciscan Center will distribute free weekly CSA shares to 30 low-income people and families from June through November 2013
• Growing Justice (in Democracy-Deprived Detroit)
  Last week, Malik Yakini hailed the Bloomberg School with greetings from Detroit, “where democracy has been put into a deep coma.” Lamenting the governor’s appointment of an emergency manager, which eviscerates the authority of elected officials in the city, he segued into a lambast of capitalism ...
• Know Your Farmer, Know Your Benefits
  On Monday, USDA took a step to promote agriculture and ensure food access for vulnerable Americans.
• CLF Week in Links: Walmart, FDA, Food Justice ...
  As Ms. Lappé points out, if Walmart actually cared about the 50 million hungry Americans, 17 million of whom are children, it might consider halting cuts to its employees’ hours and benefits and provide a livable wage.

k2p blog

• “Moral Turpitude” at University of ...
  The University of New Hampshire has terminated the employment of a Professor for "moral turpitude". This "moral turpitude" probably did not amount to “moral delinquency of a grave order.” If the Professor decides "to grieve" the provost’s dismissal decision, the case will be decided by an arbitr ...
• Financial Times accused of lying and shoddy jo ...
  Financial Times reporters Claire Jones and Joseph Leahy are accused of making up stories and shoddy journalism.
• Solar Cycle 24 double peak now clearly evident
  Already in March there were signs that this Solar Cycle 24 would exibit a double peak. NASA's latest sunspot prediction for Solar Cycle 24 as of 1st May 2013 clearly shows that the sunspot activity is into its "double peak for this Cycle. A double peak was also evident in Cycles 22 and 23 and al ...
• India’s plummeting birth rates illustrat ...
  Fertility figures for half of India are actually below replacement level. Were it not for the Hindi-speaking heartland, India would already be looking at population stabilization and even decline. All the states of southern India post TFR figures below 1.9. A number of states in the far north an ...
• Cheers (hic)! Champagne research at the Univer ...
  New research shows that drinking one to three glasses of champagne a week may counteract the memory loss associated with ageing, and could help delay the onset of degenerative brain disorders, such as dementia.

Left Foot Forward

• The Week in Washington: Immigration bill survi ...
  Larry Smith's weekly round up of American politics.
• A mandatory living wage – the debate we need t ...
  If we don’t raise wages, control rents or reverse welfare cuts, we are going to completely price low paid workers out of London.
• Peace makers promote peace, not boycotts
  The international community should disabuse those Palestinians promoting boycotts of the idea that they can avoid these compromises. By failing to take that stand against the boycott campaign, professor Hawking has done nothing for the cause of peace. If anything, by encouraging behaviour that e ...
• Support for Scottish independence declines again
  Polling published today by Ipsos Mori for The Times suggests that the SNP’s independence headache continues as support for Scotland staying in the UK has increased to its highest level since August 2011.
• Look Left: The Queen’s Speech, the retir ...
  James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.

Consumerist

• San Francisco Gives Up Fight To Stick Radiatio ...
  Back in 2011, the city of San Francisco rustled up an ordinance that would require cell phone companies to slap stickers warning consumers of the potential dangers of radiation on each and every phone. The industry fought back, claiming the law violated its free-speech rights, and after a court ...
• Satirical FAA Report On Spirit Airlines Is Sca ...
  The Federal Aviation Administration would undoubtedly get more respect from the public if it was as obscenely candid as it is in this Onion article about how horrible the airlines handle customers. Our favorite line: “The FAA has come to the determination that Spirit Airlines treats its customer ...
• Sen. Warren Introduces Bill To Lower Rates On ...
  While commercial and personal borrowers are currently enjoying historically low interest-rates on loans, and big banks are able to obtain loans at less than one percent interest, student borrowers have had to fight against lawmakers looking to raise interest rates on federally subsidized student ...
• Restaurant Decides Maybe Selling Lion Meat Tac ...
  Attention, cat lovers and fans of all things furry: You might want to stop reading if you fear your heart may quail at the injustices served on the King of the Jungle. You’ve read the headline, so now you know — there is a restaurant in Florida that had been selling lion meat tacos. Yes, t ...
• U.S. Government: You Can’t Kick Someone ...
  If someone looks sort of icky, do you have the right to ask them to leave your restaurant? According to the United States Government, the answer is “no, not if they look icky because of a protected disability.” A Golden Corral restaurant in Michigan has learned that lesson the hard w ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Whistleblowers in the Spotlight: Daily Whistle ...
  AccountingWEB: Whistleblowing Reaches Center Stage During the past couple of years in the United States and United Kingdom, whistleblowing and whistleblower rights have been more widely recognized as the important facets of society that they are. This article cites progress within the federal ...
• "US Warns Industry of Heightened Risk of Cyber ...
  The Washington Post reports on sky-is-falling government warning of impending cyberattacks: The U.S. government on Thursday warned of a heightened risk of a cyberattack that could disrupt the control systems of U.S. companies providing critical services such as electricity and water. No do ...
• Diplomat Claims Retaliation: Daily Whistleblow ...
  New York Times: Diplomat Says Questions Over Benghazi Led to DemotionFormer US Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens A 22-year foreign-service officer who served in Libya at the time of the terrorist attack in Benghazi – that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Steve ...
• Obama Fight for 'Sensitive' Jobs Continues: Da ...
  Politico: Obama Stands Firm in ‘Sensitive’ Jobs Fight The Obama administration continues its attempt to make thousands of federal workers’ jobs ‘national security sensitive.’ The demarcation would remove certain civil liberty rights from federal employees, disabling them from claiming retaliat ...
• British Ambulance Delays Cause Deaths: Daily W ...
  BBC: Paramedic – Ambulance Delays ‘Causing Harm and Deaths’ Ambulance service in the East of England (EEAS) is deathly slow, according to a paramedic whistleblower. Due to lack of funding, ambulances undergo severe delays, lack personnel and even run out of gas as the few paramedics on staff st ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

• Obama donors compare Keystone decision to Linc ...
  The Washington Post reports:A group of 150 major Democratic donors and clean energy investors have sent President Obama a letter urging him to deny a presidential permit to the Keystone XL pipeline, comparing the decision’s significance to Abraham Lincoln’s push to end slavery through a constitu ...
• Nope, no reason to fear tyranny – oh, wait, th ...
  Human Events
• Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton ‘should never hold ...
  The Daily Caller reports:Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul wrote Friday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “should never hold high office again” in the wake of criticism over the administration’s handling of the lead up and aftermath of the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. ...
• House farm bill cuts food stamps by $20.5B
  The Hill
• Hispanic worker sues for injury; Couldn't read ...
  CBS Denver

JoNova

• Should you shoot your goat or feed it, to stop ...
  Who knew? Sometimes you should feed goats to prevent floods and droughts. Other times you should shoot them to get the same outcome. Confused? In times gone by you would need to ask the tribal witchdoctor. Now, in the post-modern period, talk to a climate scientist. Steve Goreham highlights some ...
• Big-Government incantation creates The Energy ...
  Senator Ron Boswell (National Party) makes the case in The Australian today that Australia is losing manufacturing due to rising energy costs, while the US is gaining manufacturing back from China because it has a cheap energy advantage with shale gas. I could make the case that when Big-Governm ...
• The worlds biggest solar PV seller was worth $ ...
  How is the hallowed Green tech industry working out for China? Not so well. Shi Zhengrong was called a “hero of the environment” by Time Magazine. He was a billionaire who ran the worlds largest seller of solar PV cells. But the glory days of 2008 – 2011 are gone. Another bubbl ...
• Dear John, you want “deniers” to h ...
  John, Thanks for the invite to assist with the crowd sourced online survey. Unfortunately I just can’t see this working. 1. The survey is profoundly anti-science, it’s exactly the kind of thing I debunk on my blog. Consensus is the stuff of politics, not science. Science is not a dem ...
• Weekend Unthreaded
  For all the things you want to discuss. Rating: 8.0/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 8.0/10 (2 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• Wish List? Axe Multi-Tool
  There are a lot of choices when it comes to multi-tools. They are almost always small, like a Swiss army knife. But there’s another way of achieving similar results – store all the little tools inside one big tool, like an axe: Mo-Tools Wood Inlay Axe On the big side we have an axe, ...
• 15% Chance of X-Flares Today
  Usually  NOAA forecasters tells us that the odds of an X-flare (the highest category of solar flares) is less than 1%, even at what is supposedly the peak of the solar cycle. Today they say 15%, and 40% chance of a lesser M-Flare, due to a very large sunspot pointing at us. Read more at SpaceWea ...
• Satellites at Risk from Mega Space Storm
  We are protected from solar storms by a cloud of charged particles, or plasma, that normally surrounds Earth out to a distance of four times the planet’s radius. Each Earth-directed solar outburst damages the cloud to some degree, and with time it repairs itself. A 2003 storm reduced the c ...
• Further Evidence for a Dec 2012 End Date
  I find it a little odd, but not at all surprising, that 2012 debunkers are now seizing on evidence that Dec 21 2012 was the end of the Long Count calendar (now that the world didn’t end). Of course last year that were latching on to anything that suggested 2012 was not the year. For me tho ...
• Fancy Living in Belize?
  Many people don’t even know where Belize is, so look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize (hint: it borders Mexico and Guatemala, and the Maya live there) So, why would you want to live there? Well, if you are happy with your current life, family and employment – and you have fa ...

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• A Nation Divided: The Balkanization of Syria
• Korean Crossroads: US Action 'Prelude to Globa ...
• Mali and the Second Scramble for Africa
• Canadian Activists Vow to Arrest George W. Bus ...
• US Supports Terrorism under Guise of "War on T ...

Daily Tech

• ESPN Looking to Pay Wireless Carriers for Cust ...
  This would allow customers to watch all the ESPN they want monthly    
• YouTube Offering Paid Subscriptions for Indivi ...
  Some will be as low as 99 cents per month    
• Huawei's CEO and Former PLA Officer Says His C ...
  Former military officer lashes out at reports that his company's hardware could be used for spying    
• Sony Returns to Profitability in 2013, Looks A ...
  Troubled 2011 is behind it, but much work remains    
• Sen. McCain to Introduce Bill for Picking Own ...
  McCain is hoping his new bill will force cable providers to let customers pick and choose the channels they want    

Oriental Review

• War in the East: How Khalkhin-Gol changed the ...
  In 1939 an unknown general named Georgy Zhukov trounced Japan at the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol in the Mongolian steppes, changing the trajectory of Japanese expansionism towards Pearl Harbour and Europe’s Asian colonies. The reasons for the spectacular Russian victories in Europe during WW II can b ...
• World War II in Europe – Timeline
  The biggest ground war in human history took place in Europe from September, 1939 to May, 1945. The WWII timeline presented today by ORIENTAL REVIEW is the cortesy contribution by the American military historian Walter DuBlanica. SEPTEMBER ,1939   to MAY,1940 Germany attacked Poland on September ...
• Terror Acts in US: Who Gains? (II)
  Part I Friendly fire to scare foes Anton Chekhov, a great Russian writer, has once said «If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act». If a country, like the United States churns out a number of contingency laws, then one day a contingency [...]
• Russia – Japan: Shifting Agenda
  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Moscow on April 28 for a three-day visit, during which he met with President Vladimir Putin. He planted a cherry tree at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ gardenyard and listened to some drumming. Other outcomes of the summit meeting included si ...
• Terror Acts in US: Who Gains? (I)
  If the terrorist acts had not taken place, they should have been invented. Since a long time the weakening of US global clout has been an issue in focus. The Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World report says the US economic and military leadership is going to become a thing of the past pretty ...

BlogHer

• Could More Asian American History Could Preven ...
  May is Asian-Pacific American History Month, and as the month opens up, one of the topics people are talking about is how a UC Irvine Asian American fraternity could think it was okay to make a YouTube video of themselves -- with one of the members in blackface. Granted, they could use a lesson ...
• Serums to Lighten Your Skincare Regimen for Summer
  I have been missing Paris lately, and I kept thinking about how women there never wear ANY makeup. You know why? Because their skin is FLAWLESS, even the older women. So I thought I might talk to you about the virtues of using a serum in your skin-care regimen, especially now that winter has fin ...
• Internet Bystanders: When Should You Step in a ...
  The story of Amanda Berry's rescue has raised an interesting question on the Internet. Three women, kidnapped ten years ago, were finally found this week all due to a man who took action. Charles Ramsey thought he was helping Amanda Berry escape a domestic dispute and kicked down a door for he ...
• Pregnancy, Antidepressants and Autism: What's ...
  Editor's note: A recent New York Times blog, "Study Links Autism With Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy, may have many who use these drugs worried over the impact it could have on a current or future pregnancy. But as Katherine Stone points out, this post isn't the full story by far. Read on ...
• Hyperbole and a Half's Wrenching, True 'Advent ...
  Allie Brosh left the internet for a year and a half. She dropped back in today with the most harrowing, yet also funny, relatable, and true description of what happens in a depressed brain that I've ever read or seen. Have you read it yet? It's called Depression, Part Two. Do you want to grasp a ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Herald-Leader: ‘More leadership, fewer p ...
  U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to the Kentucky Coal Association during a luncheon at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, Ky.,, on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.  (AP Photo/The Lexington Herald-Leader, Pablo Alcala) The editorial board at the Lexington Herald-Leader certainly didn&#82 ...
• FirstEnergy says Harrison Power Station transf ...
  There was a flurry of activity yesterday afternoon in the wake of FirstEnergy Corp.’s quarterly conference call with stock analysts, with hints from some citizen bloggers that the company was on the verge of dropping its proposal to transfer the Harrison Power Station to its West Virginia ...
• Groups seek EPA rule to limit mining pollution
  This just in from Earthjustice: Yesterday afternoon, a coalition of Appalachian and national groups pressed the Environmental Protection Agency for stronger protection for their waters from the most extreme form of coal mining, mountaintop removal … In a formal petition for rulemaking, 17 ...
• Miners facing more problems with SCSRs?
  The Ocenco M-20  shown donned and ready for escape. On the heels of last year’s announced phase-out of the long-troubled CSE Corps. SR-100 model, the last thing coal miners need to hear is that there are more problems with the self-contained self-rescuer devices they rely on to save their ...
• Friday roundup, May 3, 2013
  This Sept. 4, 2011 file photo shows the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. Navajo lawmakers will vote on a lease extension for a coal-fired power plant that allows the delivery of water to Arizona’s major metropolitan areas. (AP Ph ...

Daniel Miessler

• Different Fallacy Types
  An informal fallacy is an error in reasoning that does not originate in improper logical form. Arguments committing informal fallacies may be formally valid, but still fallacious. An error that stems from a poor logical form is sometimes called formal fallacy or simply an invalid argument. There ...
• Honeytokens in Databases
  The new measure calls for a file storing cryptographically hashed passwords to contain multiple passwords for each account, only one of which is valid. Attackers who manage to crack the hashes would have no way of knowing if the corresponding plain-text password is real for a particular user. Lo ...
• Violent Crime Way Down, but Nobody Notices
  National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences b ...
• Upgrading to Nginx 1.4.x on Ubuntu
  There are a couple of tricks to upgrading to official builds of nginx on Ubuntu. Here are the steps. First, add the key to the nginx servers within Ubuntu: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ABF5BD827BD9BF62 Add the repo locations to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://n ...
• U.S. Directly Accuses China Of Cyberattack
  The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”via U.S. Accuses China’s Military in Cyber ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

• In the honor of the heterotic string
  Heterosis or the hybrid vigor or outbreeding enhancement is the lucky event (and an important component of Darwin's evolution) in which the offspring has qualitites that surpass both parents, usually because it inherits the good characteristics from both. The parents are on both sides ...
• Nassim Haramein: science as religion
  It is the second time when I was contacted by someone who seems to be a fan of Nassim Haramein. Who is that? Another surfer dude in Hawaii, a self-taught supergenius, we are told, who will give us unlimited free energy according to the green optimists (no, there has never been anything remotely ...
• Short questions often require long answers and ...
  Several debaters as well as complexity theorist Boaz Barak religiously worship their belief that it must be that \(P\neq NP\) and that the question whether the proposition holds is extremely deep because \(P=NP\) would revolutionize the whole world. Most of their would-be arguments are exam ...
• Comparing the depth of the millennium problems
  The Riemann Hypothesis is probably the deepest one In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute offered 7 times $1,000,000 for the proofs of the Millennium Prize Problems. Is it possible to compare which of them are deeper than others? Needless to say, such a comparison depends on personal ...
• Will you help John Cook "quantify the consensus"?
  Climate fearmonger and kook John Cook sent me, because of this "one of the more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web" you are just reading, the following link: Survey of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research (University of Queensland) I suppose that the gibberish characters at the end of t ...

Tatumba 2.0

• N.S. cabinet minister resigns after bathroom f ...
  Nova Scotia MLA Percy Paris has resigned from cabinet after a scuffle at the Nova Scotia legislature on Thursday afternoon. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan resigns from cabinet Aboriginal A ...
• Abenomics Brings Currency Wars to G7 Talks
  from Gold Core: As the global economic slump continues central bankers, such as Mario Draghi, and politicians have vowed “to do whatever it takes” to get economies back on track. Such policies while having near term benefits are considered extremely risky in the longer run by many commentators a ...
• Abenomics Brings Currency Wars to G7 Talks
  from Gold Core: As the global economic slump continues central bankers, such as Mario Draghi, and politicians have vowed “to do whatever it takes” to get economies back on track. Such policies while having near term benefits are considered extremely risky in the longer run by many commentators a ...
• Abenomics Brings Currency Wars to G7 Talks
  from Gold Core: As the global economic slump continues central bankers, such as Mario Draghi, and politicians have vowed “to do whatever it takes” to get economies back on track. Such policies while having near term benefits are considered extremely risky in the longer run by many commentators a ...
• Big-name retailers scramble to improve garment ...
  The disastrous collapse of a Bangadesh garment factory has big-name Western retailers scrambling to pay compensation and set new standards for their manufacturers, to assuage consumer concerns and prevent tarnishing of their own reputations. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dol ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• FDA Action on Tanning Beds
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Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Karl Rove takes his best early shot at Hillary ...
• Can J.R. Smith get hot again?
• Pinch-hit hero Mike Baxter can't crack the Met ...
• More support for a protective dune forest in t ...
• The price of talking to Shirley Huntley

Views & News from Norway

• Townships reject more refugees
  Many local municipalities in Norway are refusing to accept more refugees, and struggling with what they say are the “skyrocketing” costs of integration. Only one in five has taken in as many refugees as the state government wished. Many of Norway’s municipalities (kommuner) bel ...
• Farmers didn’t get what they want
  Norwegian farmers’ organizations were disappointed and surprised this week when the left-center government coalition, which includes the country’s most farmer-friendly party, only offered them half of the taxpayer support they’d demanded. They still stand to get average pay rai ...
• Controversial royal visit to weapons producer ...
  Crown Prince Haakon went ahead with his planned visit to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas this week amidst criticism back home in Norway. The visit had been criticized because of Lockheed Martin’s history of making cluster bombs and because it was seen as a “PR coup&# ...
• Townships reject more refugees
  Many local municipalities in Norway are refusing to accept more refugees, and struggling with what they say are the “skyrocketing” costs of integration. Only one in five has taken in as many refugees as the state government wished. Many of Norway’s municipalities (kommuner) bel ...
• Conflicts chill ice hockey action
  Some of Norway’s top ice hockey players found themselves out in the cold this week because of conflicts on and off the ice. Mats Zuccarello Aasen, currently playing in the prestigious Stanley Cup for the New York Rangers, is suddenly unwelcome on Norway’s own national hockey team bec ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Geoff Lawton’s Online PDC Now Made Easy – But ...
  I just wanted to let you know I can barely believe it. It seems like we just opened this thing up. We’re actually going to be closing registrations down in about 14 hours from the time of posting this (i.e. registrations close at midnight May 10th, USA PST, or sooner) so I just wanted [...]
• The “Long Emergency”, Permaculture, and Towns ...
  by Andrew Willner We live in dangerous times, when economic collapse, climate chaos, and peak oil threaten the foundations of society, abundance, and all we hold dear. “Business as usual” will no longer suffice, because that way leads to certain pain, peril and impoverishment. Unsp ...
• Naming Convention for Permaculture Research In ...
  As we look around our planet we should need no further evidence of the urgency with which we should dedicate ourselves to establishing and demonstrating sustainable systems for human settlement. We especially should need no further evidence as permaculturists. With this in mind and with the inte ...
• Australia’s First Earthship
  by Danielle Wolff-Chambers and Shelley Clements Here we are in Queensland, May 2013, half way through an Earthship build. It is the first one to be built in Australia and has been experimental in many ways. We started the build in January with a very diverse group of about 50 people ranging in ...
• Australia’s First Earthship – Finishes Worksho ...
  We are very excited to announce the finishes workshop for Australia’s first Earthship in Queensland, Australia. The Earthship design concept and systems have been applied to the subtropical climate of the area. Come and see the rammed earth tyres, the can walls, the earth berm, the hempcre ...

Pointman's

• Some thoughts about policy for the aftermath o ...
  Charles Mackay wrote in his book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” The book may have been written in ...
• The big green killing machine: They sit with G ...
  It was a hellishly hot African day. Mac stood behind the young Danish girl, who sat at a table in the open air. He’d rigged a tarpaulin shade over them to give some relief from the midday sun. They’d never quite worked Mac out. What he didn’t appear to have in terms of any obvi ...
• It’s an ill wind.
  This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Electricity is available to many people at the touch of a button, so more people live in greater comfort and security than ever before in mankind’s time on earth.  Without electricity life is very basic ...
• The difficult kind.
  My woman teaches the difficult young children. She does what’s called special needs and I think she was born to do it. She takes all the ones who’re a bit behind the pack and perhaps will always be, the ones who’re a bit lost, the silly hearts who’re still determined to s ...
• A postcard from warmer climes.
  As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

• ‘Sustainable Intensification: the future of fa ...
    Guest blog contribution from Professor Janet Dwyer, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire. Janet Dwyer is a...
• Shoehorning a new CAP into outdated pillars
  Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) discussions have been hotting up to sizzling point this year, and with CAP reform due on...
• The challenge for cyber security policy
  If you’re reading this blog, you are no doubt acutely aware of how much of our lives we now conduct...
• In my element
  In March I was fortunate to attend the UK-Russia Frontiers of Science symposium – a great meeting for early career...
• Staying in the Premier Research League
  This morning, the research community put out its ‘A team’ and released a joint statement, and a piece in the...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• An Eventful April for Oceana's Climate and Ene ...
  Mock oil spills like this one were staged around the country in April to demonstrate disastrous effects of oil drilling on the oceans. Photo: Sarah Schwimmer Oceana’s climate and energy campaign had an eventful April. In our ongoing effort to stop East Coast offshore drilling before it starts ...
• Victory! Maryland Becomes First East Coast Sta ...
  Governor Martin O'Malley signs bill into law banning possession, sale, and distribution of shark fins in Maryland Maryland made history today by becoming the first East Coast state to ban the possession, sale and distribution of shark fins throughout the state. They join the entire West Coast ...
• Delaware Sends Shark Fin Ban to Governor
  Less than one week after passing the state Assembly, the Delaware state Senate has signed on to a bill banning the trade of shark fins within the state’s borders.  The states spanning the entire West Coast, plus Hawaii and Illinois, already have shark fin bans in place.  In Maryland ...
• Record-Setting Water Temps Changing Marine Eco ...
  Map showing shifts in distribution of many fish stocks in the Northeast U.S. (Credit: Janet Nye, NEFSC/NOAA) The oceans are heating up, and marine ecosystems are changing because of it. Long before climate scientists realized the extent of impacts from carbon dioxide emissions, ocean scientis ...
• Delaware House Takes Action for Sharks
  Delaware, Let's keep shark fins where they belong -- On sharks, not in soups. Source: Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, the Delaware House of Representatives took a huge step forward for shark conservation efforts worldwide when they passed a bill that would prohibit the trade of shark fins within ...

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Taylor Marsh

• Joe Biden and Al Gore on KXL
  VP Joe Biden (at Buzzfeed) and former VP Al Gore (at Price of Oil) have both recently opposed KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Biden’s comment was to a Sierra Club member on a ropeline in South Carolina. His office quickly said his position really hasn’t changed, and he awaits the result ...
• Judge Denies Obama Appeal on Plan B
  THE Obama administration’s appeal on Plan B has been denied by the judge, who slammed President Obama and Secretary Sebelius’s obvious political stunt to appease political conservatives in both parties. The judge called Secretary Sebelius out for ignoring the science of Plan B, writi ...
• Woman Survives in Bangladesh: ‘Never dreamed I ...
  THIS WEEK, as we hear of the miracle of a woman pulled from the garment factory wreckage in Bangladesh, what we’ve watched has evolved into the women’s international edition of real life survival. From Cleveland to Bangladesh, women have come through unimaginably harrowing ordeals. F ...
• The Furor Over the Benghazi Talking Points Rewrite
  **UPDATED** http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/white-house-holds-offrecord-benghazi-briefing-163704.html IT’S the obsessions of the week, the rewrites of the Benghazi talking points. It won’t keep another Benghazi style attack from happening again or keep our embassy personn ...
• The RNC Benghazi Ad Romney Didn’t Run
  Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. US News | Syria News | More ABC News Videos IT’S an exclusive from ABC News, the RNC Benghazi ad that Mitt Romney wouldn’t let them run. Why? Because it might distract people from his pitch on the economy. Let’s thi ...

Hudson New York

• Palestinians in Syria Killed, Injured, Displaced
  More than 55,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee Syria to Lebanon and Jordan over the past two years, according to figures released by the United Nations Work and Relief Agency [UNRWA]. According to Palestinian sources, more than 2,000 Palestinians
• Blaming America
  Before the blood was even cleaned from the Boston sidewalks, a number of opinion pieces and cartoons published in Western media suggested that those killed or maimed in the blasts were suitable victims – the result of an America that has refused to
• UK: The Crisis of Female Genital Mutilation
  British authorities are redoubling their fight against the spiraling problem of female genital mutilation (FGM) after a weekly primetime television show broadcast by the BBC forced the previously "taboo" subject into mainstream debate. FGM is endemic in
• Britain's Feckless, Two-Faced Approach to Radi ...
  If the U.S. authorities are beset by questions about their capacity for the prevention – or lack thereof – of Islamist terrorism, similar questions need to be asked about the response to terror conspiracies in Britain. In the U.S., the debate is fed by
• North Korea Goes South: to Menace the U.S.
  On December 12, 2012 -- the 28th anniversary of its pledge to join to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) -- North Korea successfully launched a satellite into orbit aboard an Unha-3 rocket. After the launch, two months later, on February 12, 2013,

Urban Survival

• The Friday Funnies
  Rather than our usual parade of droll, depressing, life-stressing notes about how the economy is collapsing, I thought this morning we could take a much lighter.  Oh, sure, we tackle the take-down of the 3D printing of guns in our … Continue reading →
• Coping: 3D Guns as a Possibly Passing Technology
  You may have noticed a couple of  changes on the web if you have been thinking about picking up online planes for 3D printing of gun parts.  We that this morning the download page at Defense Distributed is now carrying … Continue reading →
• Blow-Off Top Done?
  Maybe…The commodities were rolling down a bit this morning and we’re beginning to wonder if the blow-off top in the stock market has ( or is about to) finish its run.  I pondering loading up on some short-side instruments, either … Continue reading →
• Coping: Note to Junior Time Monks
  A reader named Mikolean has been “eyes-open” at the postings we did of snips of the www.nostracodeus.com “cube view” which Grady and Mike cooked up to give a kind of 3D look at language rolling by.  Seems kinda odd, figures … Continue reading →
• Short-Term Prospects
  We can’t help but notice that gold is down another $21-bucks in trading 45-minutes before the markets open.  In the futures, the Dow looks to pop about 30 points to the upside which will set up completion of a move … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Edgar Cayce Predictions
  George Noory - Coast To Coast am talks about... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Why Nobody Trusts the Mainstream Media ~ How ...
  The Beginning Of The End For The Mainstream... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• The Government Moves to Ban 3D Printable Gun D ...
  These printable arms will most likely be the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• RUSSIA Shows Off its MILITARY FORCE
  Russia's Military Might for More Than... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Quantum Internet - What the Frack Is It?!
  Some government scientist guys have been using... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

• BODY HOSTAGE
   A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
• MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
  Most of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with over [...]
• WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
  Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...
• MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
  It’s always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for everytime we are s ...
• IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
  Love has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...

NRDC Switchboard

• EPA methanol hazard assessment less health pro ...
  Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) IRIS program issued its draft Toxicological review of methanol for public comment and external peer review. The document provides an assessment of the noncan ...
• April Showers No Longer Bring the Usual
  Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. This guest post is by Fay Augustyn, conservation associate at American Rivers, as part of a blog series for Getting Climate Smart, a joint effort by NRDC and American Rivers to guide state action on c ...
• Transit stars in 3 kinetic time-lapse minutes ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I don’t think filmmaker Alessandro Della Bella intended to make a video about transit in Zurich, but trains, trams, streetcars and the people who ride them are the clear ...
• Stepping Up to Control Climate Super-Pollutants
  Vignesh Gowrishankar, Staff Scientist (Sustainable Energy), New York U.S. Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced a bill today that seeks to catalyze the nation’s action on “climate super-pollutants” – non-carbon-dioxide a ...
• Why I Signed A Letter Against the Keystone XL ...
  Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Way back in 1997, I was honored to receive the Heinz Award  and now I’m joining other winners of that prize and the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize as signatories to a ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• Khamenei to Assad: Full and Unlimited Support
  Following Israel’s attack on Damascus this past weekend, Tehran affirmed its full support for Syria. Tehran recognizes the core of the equation: the Israeli attack was on Syria, but the real target was Iran and Hezbollah. This is the gist of the message from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, r ...
• Syria to respond immediately to any new Israel ...
  Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad says the country will “respond immediately” to any new Israeli aggression against Syrian territory. Source. Iran threatens response to alleged Israeli strike in Syria In message from Ayatollah Khamenei to Assad, Tehran vows to respond t ...
• US heads 41-nation war games in Gulf, Iran fea ...
  Massive US-led military drills began in the Persian Gulf in a second such show of maritime might in under a year. The US says the exercises are not aimed at Iran, who earlier vowed to close the Hormuz Strait, and now expresses concern over the drills. The US Navy has issued a statement that the ...
• Russia Not to Tolerate Further Israeli Attacks ...
  Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond. Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the acceler ...
• Israel used depleted uranium in airstrike on S ...
  A senior Syrian official says Israel has used depleted uranium in its recent airstrike against the Jamraya Research Center in the outskirts of Damascus. The official, who was present near the attack site on Sunday morning, told Russia Today that Israel used “a new type of weapon” dur ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

• 100% renewable energy advocates validated by n ...
  The authors of Australia’s first significant study into providing 100% renewable energy have welcomed the new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), which has found that it is technically feasible and affordable to run the National Electricity Market with 100% renewable energy ...
• Earth to moon in 8 years, Melbourne to Brisban ...
  By Gerard Drew When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as quickly as humanly possible, and in eight years Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon. On the other hand, our federal transport minister would have us believe building a high-speed railway from ...
• Electricity prices fall: renewable energy des ...
  By Dylan McConnell Dylan McConnell is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Let’s be honest: the relationship between renewable energy and the electricity market is complex. So what does the latest report from Australian energy research firm RepuTex tell us? Well, for a start, coal-fi ...
• High-speed rail cost and timeline “laughable”
  April 11, 2013 Researchers who have performed their own analysis of the high-speed rail link from Melbourne to Brisbane have today questioned the governments announced 45-year timeline and $114 billion costing. “When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as ...
• Solar panels reduce everyone's power bills
    May 10, 2013 Australia's one million (and counting) solar powered households could be keeping everyone else's power bills down, by suppressing wholesale electricity prices. That conclusion is drawn from a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Journal of Energy Policy. The paper ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Aquarium launches desperate search to save a s ...
  Aquarists at ZSL London Zoo have launched a worldwide appeal to find a female mate for a fish species that is believed to have gone extinct in the wild.
• New endangered list for ecosystems modeled aft ...
  The IUCN has unveiled the first iteration of its new Red List of Ecosystems, a ranking of habitats worldwide.
• Indonesia welcomes Greenpeace ship 3 years aft ...
  Indonesia has welcomed Greenpeace's ship, the Rainbow Warrior, back into its waters for the first time since deporting the vessel in October 2010. The Rainbow Warrior arrived today in Jayapura, a major port in Indonesian New Guinea, as the first leg of a tour to raise environmental awareness acr ...
• Microsoft puts price on carbon, buys credits f ...
  Microsoft is 'offsetting' some of its greenhouse gas emissions by buying credits generated by a forest conservation project in Kenya.
• Continued deforestation in the Amazon may kill ...
  Continuing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest could undermine agricultural productivity in the region by reducing rainfall and boosting temperatures, warns a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Sierra Express

• Sierra Leone Policy Watch connects with Global ...
  The central focal subject of discourse when Global Diaspora Forum (GDF) convenes on May 13 – 14, 2013 for its third annual celebration of the contributions Diaspora communities make to their countries of origin is “Where Ideas Meet Action.” GDF events will meet in Washington, DC; Dublin, Ireland ...
• Press Release: Office of the President State H ...
  It has come to the notice of Government that certain individuals are peddling rumours that His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma intends to run for a third term as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. This is totally untrue and against the provision of the 1991 National Const ...
• ACC targets pupils in Matotoka and Rosengbeh towns
  The Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission North, has on Wednesday 8th May, 2013 enlightened secondary school pupils in Matotoka and Rosengbeh in the Tane Chiefdom Tonkolili District to enable them speak against illegal charges and other forms of corrupt practices in their schools.  ( ...
• FDID-Sierra Leone on the eve of Bob Marley night
  May 11th is commemorated by young people the world over in remembrance of the death of legendary Reggae artist Bob Marley.  Bob Marley was and still is celebrated not just for the melody and lyrics of his music but also for his rich messages that appeal to wider audience. The themes of his music ...
• Geoengineering Africa’s Climate Change
  Geoengineering would have been more interesting, if it was an artificial solution to common environmental issues, such as floods, erosions, drought, blizzards, avalanche, storms, etc.  But Geoengineering is not. Geoengineering is directed at reducing factors responsible for some of these extreme ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Dairy company pleads guilty to animal mistreatment
  A Taupo dairy company's guilty plea of failing to provide sufficient food for hundreds of cows sends a "strong deterrent message'', Federated Farmers says.At the Rotorua District Court today, Southland-based sharemilking company...
• Fonterra milk collection drops 0.5pc
  The impact of drought in February, March and April on dairy farms was greater than Fonterra anticipated, with milk collection down 0.5 per cent in the first 11 months of the season.Fonterra collected 1.414 million kilograms of milk...
• Synlait spends $15m to keep up with China demand
  Canterbury's Synlait Milk said it would spend $15 million to upgrade its special milks drier at Dunsandel to meet strong demand for infant formula in China.The investment will enable Synlait Milk to become one of only two manufacturers...
• Crafar bidders face High Court action
  People involved in the failed Crafar Farms bid could lose their residential and rural properties if High Court action by the police is successful.May Wang and Chen Keen were charged with corruption in Hong Kong late in 2011 over...
• Cows 'sick and depressed' in mistreatment case
  More than 1000 cows on a large Taupo dairy farm were left dangerously thin, sick and "sad" after months of being underfed, a court has been told.A trial began in the Rotorua District Court yesterday of five parties, who between...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Benghazi Attack Could Haunt Clinton, Rodman Pl ...
  The Benghazi fiasco could come back and cause Hillary Clinton some headaches.  Dennis Rodman is planning to head back to North Korea to try and free an American citizen who has been sentenced to 15 years hard labor by officials in the Stalinist hellhole.  Tea Party ...
• Scrappy High School Band Survives Attempted Mu ...
  The high school band in Gold Beach, Oregon, isn't bad. The group is only 15 kids, but they did well in last year's District Festival and were hoping to return this year to take the crown. Just one problem: The band's director is a volunteer and the local teachers union didn't like ...
• Meet a Muscular Dystrophy Sufferer Who's Getti ...
  Colleen Sullivan's body is destroying itself. At 17, the Marathon, Florida, resident contracted muscular dystrophy, followed by rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and "mixed connective tissue disease." Today, it's not unusual for Sullivan's knuckles to swell "nearly to the size of g ...
• Lawsuit Over Police Shooting in Vallejo Cites ...
  The father of one of six police shooting victims in Vallejo, California last year is suing the police department for inadequate training policies on the deadly use of force. 17-year-old Jared Huey had allegedly robbed a gas station at gun point and then fled in a stolen Jeep before ...
• Congressman Introduces Bill That Would Limit F ...
  Yesterday, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced H.R. 1922, known as the Foreign Assistance Under Limitation and Transparency Act (FAULT) Act, which would limit foreign assistance to five countries that “undermine U.S. foreign policy objectives.” The five countries mentioned in the ...

Mercury Rising

• Friday Cat Blogging
• More on Reinhart, Rogoff, and whether there is ...
  Reinhart and Rogoff have re-done their calculations regarding debt and growth: Setting the noise aside, growth in the high-debt category is less than half of what it averages for the low-debt category. [note: this quote just refers to post-war economies, but their longer data series shows the sa ...
• Things Conservatives Don’t Want You To S ...
  Check this out: Back in 2010, Hong Kong workers had a landmark victory against usurious capitalists when they earned passage of legislation mandating a minimum wage, as well as numerous other pro-labor measures. At the time, “business activists” claimed this would cost Hong Kong work ...
• Financial culinary skilling
  Reuters: Hard-pressed company bosses across much of the world are under so much pressure to deliver on growth that many have resorted to cooking the books, Ernst & Young said in a survey Tuesday. One in five of almost 3,500 staff quizzed in 36 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and ...
• US Media Buries UN Report On Syrian Rebels And ...
  In the mad rush by Bill Keller and all the neocons and their fellow travelers to drink the blood of the Assad government and Shock-Doctrinize Syria, the US media is largely ignoring the statements made by UN official Carla Del Ponte about the US-backed Syrian rebels and their possible use of sar ...

Reality Sandwich

• Civilization Class
    The following is excerpted from Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing.  read more
• "And Beyond Here There Be Dragons...."
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• Victory for Bees: EU Passes Insecticide Ban
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• Wild Water
    Daniel Vitalis is the host in the upcoming Evolver Learning Lab course, "Why Wild Water: Water Shamanism and the Healing Secret of Ethno-Hydrology." This live, interactive video webinar will take place on May 16.  read more
• Declaring Independence
  Used to be no end of people willing to gang up and go with the flow without question. Couldn’t say if it’s just being human, cultural or something peculiar to a moment in history, but it’s true that the society in which I live has gotten into trouble more than once over this pervasive trait. ...

Desertification

• Critics Slam California “Forest Offset” Plan
  More than two dozen environmental organisations are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to disregard recommendations from a United Nations task force to include so-called forest “offsets” in the state’s new emissions-trading scheme. The offsets would serve as a mechanism by which emissions-pr ...
• Rich Countries Drag Feet at Climate Talks
  Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists. “The main barrier to confronting the climate crisis isn’t lack ...
• Building an Agricultural Empire
  Genghis Khan knew about hard times. The founder of the Mongol Empire, which spanned most of Eurasia until roughly 1227, Genghis and his clan had to survive on their wits and natural surroundings, often resorting to meals of “green leafy things” when food was scarce. Today that history seems to h ...
• From Herders to Cultivators
  When the food-strapped Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) appealed to the Mongolian government for food last month, it signaled a major turning point in the public image of this Central Asian country, which has long struggled to feed its own population of three million. Transformed fro ...
• The Clock Is Ticking on Koala Conservation
  Australia’s iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, and mining and urban development conspire against th ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• Turkish PM accuses Syria of using CW
  Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons despite a new UN finding on the possible use of the nerve agent, sarin, by foreign-backed militants in the Arab country.
• Saudi king fires air force chief
  Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has dismissed and retired Air Force Commander General Mohammed al-Ayesh by royal decree.
• ‘Israeli regime behind Syria crisis’
  A political analyst says the Israeli regime has been ‘really laying the groundwork’ for the turmoil in Syria, Press TV reports.
• ‘Brahimi to stay on as Syria mediator’
  UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has agreed to remain in his post as an international mediator on Syria following reports of his decision to quit, a top UN official says.
• Brazil says will help end Syria crisis
  Brazil says it is ready to contribute to finding a way that would end nearly two years of deadly violence in Syria.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• Election Results Are In!
  Congratulations to the newly elected SPS Governing Council for the 2013-2014 academic year. The winners are: Student Representative: Mary Casey, Online Master’s in Business Management and Leadership. “CUNY provides an outstanding education at a reasonable price. I could have enrolled in an adult ...
• Fairytale or Horror Show
  When I was a little girl I believed in fairy tales. I never saw past the happy ending to think there could ever be an ugly side to love. In fairy tales the only names called were terms of endearment. The boy never told the girl she was stupid or held his arm pressed against […]
• Educational Attainment, Occupations, & Work-Li ...
• Workers Unite! Film Festival
• SPS in the Rocky Mountain West
  The following post was written by Kristel Brown, M.A. in Applied Theatre class of 2012: My family and I recently relocated from New York City to Boulder, Colorado.  After eight years in the city, three of which were spent immersed in CUNY’s SPS community as part of both the Disability Studies pr ...

Dissident Voice

• Bill Clinton: The Unimportance of Being Earnest
  In keeping with its absurd mantra of All the News that’s Fit to Print, on March 25th, 2013 the New York Times decided to dedicate a section of its front page to the declaration that former president Bill Clinton now supports the rights of gay people to be married. This of course being the same [...]
• Will Courts Halt Diseased Farmed Salmon in Pub ...
  On May 7, I launched a lawsuit against the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Harvest in the Federal Court of Canada for the illegal transfer of diseased Atlantic salmon into net pens on the Fraser sockeye migration route. The Minister appears to have acted without authority, exceeding his jurisdi ...
• Canadian Fealty to Israeli Militarism
  While the Harper Conservative government has loudly proclaimed its close ties to Israel most Canadians would be surprised to learn the Tories have decided to make the two countries blood brothers. In the international affairs equivalent of a Mafia initiation ceremony Canada has sworn undying loy ...
• The Warring Camps
  We’re daily subjected to a lot of pious hand-wringing over the helpless victims of lethal and degrading austerity. Amid all the compassionate boo-hoo-hoo we will sometimes hear people berating the left for presenting no alternative. Economic predation is taken for granted with goodbye-crue ...
• A Deadly Price for Our Clothing
  The deadly collapse of a building in Bangladesh late last month made news around the world and brought the country back into the Western media spotlight. On 24th April, Rana Plaza, a eight-storey building housing several garment factories, and situated in Savar, 24 km outside the Bangladeshi cap ...

Nick Turse

• pulitzerfieldnotes:QUALITY VS. QUANTITYBaya ...
  pulitzerfieldnotes: QUALITY VS. QUANTITY Bayalpata, Achham, Nepal: Mahendra Secondary School is tucked halfway up one of Achham’s countless steep peaks. Everyday but Saturday at 10am a seamless stream of girls in pleated skirts and boys in tucked collared shirts clamber up rocky paths to reach ...
• pulitzercenter:An assortment of #WhatIWrites ...
  Simeon Tegel writes about climate change in Latin America, from Mexico's droughts to Ecuador's melting glaciers and beyond. http://bit.ly/LAclimate Tracey Eaton writes about Cuba, including the activists who are under threat, like Las Damas http://bit.ly/R1LaFJ. For his full reporting proj ...
• reuters:Documenting the missing children of ...
  reuters: Documenting the missing children of New Delhi: between January 1 and May 8 of 2013, 725 children in Delhi were reported missing and are untraced.  REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal
• "What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apar ...
  ““What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apart from the now clichéd Orwellian twists that...
• “No Sleep Till Benghazi”Photo of rebel fight ...
  “No Sleep Till Benghazi” Photo of rebel fighters in central Benghazi courtesy of IRIN
  
  

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Female Garment Workers Bear Brunt of Tragedy
  Last month, 18-year-old Shapla was just another one of thousands of garment workers employed in a factory in Savar, a suburb of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. Today she is a handicapped survivor of one of the worst industrial accidents in history: the collapse on Apr. 24 of the massive Rana Plaza, ...
• Egypt’s Political Instability Taking Tol ...
  Regardless of who is responsible for Egypt’s current political impasse – be it the administration of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi or an aggressive secular opposition – local experts are certain of at least one fact: Egypt’s dire economic circumstances will not improve without pol ...
• Ethiopian Journalists Hope New Council Will Ea ...
  Several Ethiopian publications are coming together to set up a ‘press council’ with the hope of easing restrictions on the media in Ethiopia. The journalists suggested the idea of the council at a May 3 meeting held at the behest of the Ministry of Information to discuss media reform ...
• Pluralities of Israelis, Palestinians Want Str ...
  Amidst a new U.S. effort to revive the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, healthy pluralities of both peoples want U.S. President Barack Obama to play a stronger role in resolving their conflict, according to a major new poll released here Thursday by the Pew Research Center. The su ...
• Cuba Knows Condom Use Not Enough
  “But I always used a condom!” was the sentence that played over and over in Jaime Roche’s mind when the young Cuban man tested positive for HIV in October. “I couldn’t believe it. I’m an advocate of using condoms, even for oral sex,” the health worker, who preferred not to give his real name, to ...

My AntiWar

• Muck & Meir: Prolific Analyst Botches Fact ...
  Summary: Israeli commentator Meir Javedanfar has made a very successful career of trafficking conventional wisdom and mainstream narratives about Iran?s nuclear program. In a recent op-ed for the Guardian newspaper he has insisted ? as he has done for years now ? that the economic warfare and c ...
• Stephen Hawking: Furore deepens over Israel bo ...
  Summary: Political motive revealed after Cambridge University first claimed scientist’s non-attendance was on medical grounds source: The Guardianread more
• Israel Announces More West Bank Settlement Con ...
• India’s Top Diplomat Praises Cooperation ...
• Yemeni Minister, Expecting High-Level Guantana ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Stephen Hawking: Furore deepens over Israel b ...
  Summary: Political motive revealed after Cambridge University first claimed scientist's non-attendance was on medical grounds source: The Guardianread more
• Muck & Meir: Prolific Analyst Botches Facts to ...
  Summary: Israeli commentator Meir Javedanfar has made a very successful career of trafficking conventional wisdom and mainstream narratives about Iran’s nuclear program. In a recent op-ed for the Guardian newspaper he has insisted – as he has done for years now – that the economic warfare and ...
• Obama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weap ...
  Summary: "The billions of dollars we are lavishing on the B61 is criminal. This is billions of dollars spent on a weapon whose mission evaporated at the end of the cold war. It's clearly aimed at buying senators" source: The Guardianread more
• How the BBC helps pave the road to war on Syria
  Summary: The Syrian conflict has been accompanied by a distinct media narrative. Within this narrative - which poses a binary division between the forces engaged in the conflict, identifying the players as good (the rebels, who must receive 'our' support) and bad (the government) - the role t ...
• The west and its allies cynically bleed Syria ...
  Summary: If western politicians were really interested in saving lives, they would use their leverage to negotiate a settlement source: The Guardianread more

The Daily Galaxy

• NASA Selects 2nd Mars Rock in Search for Ancie ...
    The JPL team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days. The rock, called "Cumberland," lies about nine feet (2.75 meters) west of the rock where Curiosity's drill ...
• "Adios, Planet Earth!" Mars One Closing in on ...
                 “Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.” So wrote Kurt Vonnegut in his novel The Sirens of Titan, about a wealt ...
• First Biological Evidence of a Supernova Explo ...
                  While there is, on average, only one supernova per galaxy per century, there is something on the order of 100 billion galaxies in the observable Universe. Taking 10 billion years for the age of the Universe (it's actually 13.7 billion, but stars didn't form for the first ...
• "Project 1640" --Amazing New Space Technologie ...
                  Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets -- planets that orbit stars beyond our sun -- and more than 2,700 other candidates. What are these exotic planets made of? Unfortunately, you cannot stack them in a jar like marbles and take a closer look. Instead, res ...
• Never-Before-Seen Cluster of Hydrogen Clouds B ...
                   In a dark, starless patch of intergalactic space, astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum (M33). The researchers speculate that these rarefied blobs of gas -- each abou ...

Natural News

• Not even good enough for dog food: Imported fo ...
  Do you really know what's in all the food you're eating that's imported from China? If you don't, you're actually in good company: The FDA only inspects 1% - 2% of all the food imported from China, so they don't know either. Even when they inspect a shipment, they rarely...
• Psychological crossroad of an unhappy life
  (NaturalNews)There is a point at which a life becomes unsatisfying. Regardless of the reasons, a person begins to place too much emphasis on: what already exists; and what he believes. That may sound like a strange thing to say. & ...
• Black bean broth: Treatment for arthritis, gou ...
  Treatments for arthritis and gout, such as home remedies like black bean broth, offer antioxidant protection, lower uric acid levels, reduce pain and inflammation, and should be made part of your home remedy arsenal. Anecdotal evidence shows that the broth of cooked...
• Are children being zombified?
  A conscious parent may be described as one who would like to raise a child who is fully alive to their choices to live free, intelligent, healthy lives, in tune with themselves and connected to nature. Compare that conscious parental aspiration to these proven facts...
• Feds push for mandatory cancer warnings on tan ...
  Despite the fact that millions of Americans, both young and old, are grossly deficient in vitamin D, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on a crusade to fully discredit one of the best natural sources of this important hormone besides natural sunlight exposure...

Threat Level

• Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidd ...
  Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That's because buried in ...
• $45M Bank Hack Suspect Was Shot Dead While Pla ...
  Alberto Yusi Lajud-Peña, one of a number of suspected ringleaders behind a coordinated and sophisticated global bank heist operation that netted the thieves $45 million in stolen funds, was mowed down inside his Dominican Republic home last month while playing ...
• Feds Charge 8 Alleged Mules in $45 Million Glo ...
  Eight suspects have been charged in New York for their role a global cybercrime ring that authorities say involved the theft of more than $45 million from financial institutions around the world in two cyber heists.
• First Legal U.S. Gambling Site Will Comp You W ...
  Online gambling became legal in Nevada last week, but Mac users are left out of the Texas hold 'em draw at the nation's first state-sanctioned online site. That's because Cupertino's operating system isn't supported. It's a rather strange twist, given ...
• Judge Allows Evidence Gathered From FBI’s Spoo ...
  An Arizona judge has denied a motion to suppress evidence collected through a spoofed cell tower that the FBI used to track the location of an accused identity thief.

PERRspectives : Blog

• New House GOP Debt Ceiling Blackmail Demand? N ...
  Two years ago, Congressional Republicans took the unprecedented step of holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to extract draconian spending cuts. Now, the GOP's willingness to sabotage the American (and global) economy may be about to take an even more dangerous--and obscene--turn. House Re ...
• Issa Mocked Families of Four Americans Killed ...
  On Wednesday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) will hold new hearings into the Benghazi consulate attack which claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Hyping tomorrow's show, the Grand Inquisitor of Barack Obama boaste ...
• Syria Strikes Show the Paradox of Israeli Powe ...
  As the chaos and carnage in Syria continues to escalate, some conservatives are very happy indeed with word of Israeli air strikes against weapons shipments reportedly destined for Hezbollah. While John McCain crowed that "the Israelis seem to be able to penetrate it [the Syrian air defense sys ...
• Politico's New Myth: It's Never Easy for House ...
  "It's never been easy for House Republicans to raise the debt limit." With that opening sentence, Jake Sherman and Steven Sloan of Politico provided air cover for the GOP's unprecedented--and dangerously irresponsible--debt ceiling hostage-taking. After all, Republicans in both houses of Congr ...
• Demint Blasts CBO over Immigration Reform Bill ...
  During his tenure as a South Carolina Senator, Republican Jim Demint was a big supporter of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In the fall of 2009, he cosponsored a bill requiring the budgetary impact of all legislation to be "scored" by the CBO at least 72 hours before its consi ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

• Who’s at Fault for Guantanamo Mess?
• In Case You Missed…
• Three Ways to Help Consortiumnews
• The Spark that Ignited the Vietnam War
• The Danger from Conventional Wisdom

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Tesla Coupe Rendered By Theophilus Chin Would ...
  When I was in middle school, it was quite popular amongst the boys to draw cars. Naturally, though, our interests changed. Nowadays, I don’t know anyone who draws cars, but there are of course some people who do it, and who even do it for a living. One such person, Theophilus Chin, has a h ...
• Cat Poop Killing Marine Mammals?
  Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have been investigating multiple marine mammal deaths. There has been an increase in such deaths recently, but no clear single cause had been identified. Tissue samples from 161 marine mammals in the Pacific Northwest were taken from 2004 to 200 ...
• Ecotricity Entering Micro Wind Turbine Market
  Ecotricity, a large UK-based renewable energy company, is now looking to enter the micro wind sector. It is currently in the process of testing its own turbine design, which it says may be as much as 40% more efficient than similarly sized turbines that are now on the market. The general idea an ...
• Plastic Bag Fighting California Ban
  More on Plastic Bags and (Inevitable) Bans From Factory Direct Promos: Will California Become the First State to Officially Ban Single Use Plastic Bags? From ElephantJournal: If You Love Animals, Boycott Plastic Bags. From Yes! Magazine: Plastic State of Mind–A video parody: Why the age-ol ...
• Solar Eclipse On May 9 and May 10 2013 — Where ...
  A annular solar eclipse, also known as a ring of fire eclipse, will be occurring on Thursday/Friday. The eclipse will enter visibility on Friday morning May 10th local time. The eclipse will be visible to those throughout much of Australia, the Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesi ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Second segment of WUNC's series on fracking in NC
  The second in a series on fracking in NC from WUNC this morning touches on the issue of fracking was
• April 23
  April 23, 1890: “General Federation of Women’s Clubs founded in the US; conservation and “ecol
• Oil Sands: Environmental Monitoring Informatio ...
  Government of Canada http://www.jointoilsandsmonitoring.ca/ [From a Greenwire article by Nick Julian
• Parachute Creek spill: Day 46
  Amelia Garrison and Travis Smith talk to KKCO-11 News Reporter Christy Dimond in Parachute today Hap
• Birdsville's smelly water 'safe' to drink
  ABC News Chrissy Arthur 23 April 2013 The Diamantina Shire Council says the water supply at Birdsvil

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg’s AIG ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 12, 2013 Image by codep
• Michael Hudson: 2013 – the stage is set
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 11, 2013 Image by jim
• The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of ...
  Image by LividFiction via Flickr by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, Engla
• Gareth Porter: Afghan war, dead weight around ...
  with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 12, 2013 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• America's Indefinitely Detained + Close GITMO ...
  with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk January 11, 2013 Ima

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• Benghazi Another Right Wing Proxy Fight
  By @TedFrier It's hard to remember now but there was a time when conservatism offered a vital and exciting alternative to the larger, lazy and all-too complacent liberal consensus. At least that is how it seemed to me back when I was a college student in the 1970s and the school newspaper's toke ...
• Harry's 129th!
• Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D): Q and A - Immigrat ...
  Previously: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D): Immigration town hall in Kansas City - May 4, 2013 (May 5, 2013) Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): Immigration town hall in Kansas City - May 4, 2013 (May 5, 2013) Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D) at Representative Emanuel Cleaver's (D) immigration town hall ...
• Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): Immigration town hal ...
  "....And when I say courage, uh, what the point he was trying to make is, look, uh, we're moving too slow. We're moving too slow. And there's no such thing as it takes time. The people who say it takes time are the people who's rights are not in question...." Previously: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez ( ...
• Minority Rules
  By @TedFrier In the bookcase in my office are 100 or so volumes on history, economics, political philosophy and current events that I've read over the years during my train commutes back and forth from Boston -- a replica collection of which at my home caused my mother, on first seeing the title ...

Care 2

• Pledge to Boycott Zoos ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
  I hereby pledge that I won't patronise any zoos Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Baby boom underway at African Lion Safari
  Its springtime at the African Lion Safari, where the population of all things furry and feathered at the attraction located just outside of Cambridge is literally growing by the day. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• 'Cheetah House': Schoeman Family's Pet Cheetah ...
  Here's one family dynamic you should never try to emulate Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• D'Aww: D'Artagnan the Paraplegic Cat Finds His ...
  It takes a very special person to adopt a cat who is incontinent and needs round-the-clock care, a shelter worker says. Bailey Maitland is that person. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Urge Marriott to Drop Down ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
  To produce down pillows, comforters, or jackets, birds are often pinned down as hurried workers yank fistfuls of feathers from the birds' sensitive bodies while they are still alive, often plucking them so violently that they rip open the birds' Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  &nb ...

Smirking Chimp

• Tick-Tick-Tick: Do 60 Minutes and America's Bi ...
• We Need More Officer Katies and Fewer RoboCops
• JFK-RFK-MLK??? The Questions Remain
• New Era Windows Cooperative Is Open for Busine ...
• Wait, We Outsource Military Supply Contracts T ...

Paul Krugman

• Same As They Ever Were
  When bad things happen to bad people.
• All About the ECB
  And nothing to do with austerity.
• Land of the Rising Sums
  The Japan shock, continued.
• In Praise of Public Libraries (Personal and Tr ...
  Peace, quiet, a chair, and a connection.
• More on the Roots of Bernanke Hatred
  The widow maker comes to America.

No Quarter

• The Obama/Hillary Benghazi Bamboozle Unravels
  State Department whistleblowers appeared on Wednesday before the House Government Operations and Reform Committee and proceeded to blow major holes in the deceitful narrative pushed by both Obama’s White House and Hillary’s State Department. Hillary in particular was damaged signific ...
• Hillary Flacks Attack Whistleblower
  You knew this was coming. Facing accusations from State Department insiders of negligence and deceit, Hillary and some of her lackeys are trying to impugn the testimony of Mark Thompson even before Mark has had the chance to testify. The Hillary supporter, Dan Benjamin, who was appointed as the ...
• Israel, War Monger?
  I suppose your personal views about Israel determines what you think about its most recent bombing of Syria. Me? I think the leaders who authorized this action in Tel Aviv/Jerusalem are crazy and are putting Israel at unnecessary risk. Why? Up to this point the Sunni Arab world appeared to be un ...
• Benghazi Story Continues Growing, Whistleblowe ...
  Lots going on with significant implications for the investigation into what really happened in Benghazi, Libya. First up? Excellent article at the Weekly Standard by Stephen Hayes detailing how State Department–Hillary Clinton in particular–changed what the intelligence community sai ...
• The Flawed Accountability Review Board
  Yes sir. Leave it to the blind, deaf and dumb supporters of Barack Obama to lead with their chin. It is an easy punch in the puss for me. Our resident troll, writing under the nom de stupidity of Owen Von Richter III provided the following ignorant rebuttal to my earlier piece regarding the fail ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

• Carrying water for an end to mountaintop remov ...
  Facing South Carrying water for an end to mountaintop removal Facing South Residents of Appalachia brought over 100 gallons of polluted drinking water to the Washington, D.C. offices of the Environmental Protection Agency this week to call attention to the plight of communities afflicted by moun ...
• Appalachians Make Toxic Water Delivery to EPA ...
  HNN Huntingtonnews.net Appalachians Make Toxic Water Delivery to EPA Grist Over 100 people, primarily Appalachia residents, took action today at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., calling for the EPA to use its powers to end mountaintop removal. 15 peopl ...
• Groups seek EPA mountaintop removal rule - Cha ...
  WDTV Groups seek EPA mountaintop removal rule Charleston Gazette Seventeen national, regional and local environmental groups this week urged the Obama administration to issue a new water quality rule aimed at reducing pollution from mountaintop removal coal mining. In a formal rulemaking petitio ...
• Appalachian groups ask EPA to set conductivity ...
  Appalachian groups ask EPA to set conductivity rule for runoff from ... Washington Post Activist groups want the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt new rules that would better protect Appalachian waterways from pollution by mountaintop removal coal mines. The 17 groups want EPA to create a ...
• UN human rights group calls for investigation ...
  Facing South UN human rights group calls for investigation of mountaintop removal mining in ... Facing South After visiting West Virginia communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights is calling for an investigation into al ...

Memeorandum

• Biden honors firefighters, jokes they saved hi ...
  Donovan Slack / Politico: Biden honors firefighters, jokes they saved his Corvette  —  Vice President Joe Biden has lots of stories about firefighters and EMTs.  —  There's the one about their rescuing his sons from a tragic car accident that killed his wife in 1 ...
• GOP Lawmaker Gives Teary-Eyed Lament After Gay ...
  Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: GOP Lawmaker Gives Teary-Eyed Lament After Gay Marriage Passes Minn. House  —  After a bill to pass same-sex marriage in Minnesota cleared an important hurdle on Thursday, a Republican lawmaker wept and said her “heart breaks” for the ...
• Scrubbing the Truth from Benghazi (Ron Fournie ...
  Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com: Scrubbing the Truth from Benghazi  —  Caught playing politics with tragedy, what's next for the Obama administration and GOP investigators?  —  With no trace of irony, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is accusing the GOP ...
• In historic vote, Minnesota House approves gay ...
  Baird Helgeson / Hot Dish Politics: In historic vote, Minnesota House approves gay marriage bill 75-59  —  In historic vote, Minnesota House approves gay marriage bill  —  A bipartisan coalition in the Minnesota House passed a measure Thursday to legalize same se ...
• After Plant Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of R ...
  New York Times: After Plant Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of Regulation  —  WEST, Tex. — Five days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant leveled a wide swath of this town, Gov. Rick Perry tried to woo Illinois business officials by trumpeting his state's low taxes and l ...

Energy & Environment News

• Dot Earth Blog: Bend, Stretch, Reach, Teach, R ...
  A short guide to limiting big regrets on the human journey.    
• Shares Rise After I.P.O. of New Zealand Power ...
  Shares in Mighty River Power, the first of several state-owned companies to be partially privatized, gained nearly 5 percent in the first day of trading.    
• Republicans Block Vote on Nominee to Lead E.P.A.
  The Republicans said they were protesting what they called an inadequate response by the nominee, Gina McCarthy, to more than 1,000 written questions.    
• Dot Earth Blog: Fresh Analysis of the Pace of ...
  New looks at the pace of global warming and sea-level rise.    
• Dot Earth Blog: How Technology and Tourism Can ...
  In a new documentary, students explore efforts to conserve endangered sea turtles in a region focused on fishing.    

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.4, northeastern Sakha, Russia
  Friday, May 10, 2013 08:38:27 UTC Friday, May 10, 2013 08:38:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 13.40 km (8.33 mi)
• M 5.0, Halmahera, Indonesia
  Thursday, May 9, 2013 13:56:42 UTC Thursday, May 9, 2013 10:56:42 PM at epicenterDepth: 114.90 km (71.40 mi)
• M 5.8, south of the Fiji Islands
  Tuesday, May 7, 2013 10:10:55 UTC Tuesday, May 7, 2013 10:10:55 PM at epicenterDepth: 70.10 km (43.56 mi)
• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
  Tuesday, May 7, 2013 02:17:52 UTC Tuesday, May 7, 2013 01:17:52 PM at epicenterDepth: 96.30 km (59.84 mi)
• M 5.1, south of Java, Indonesia
  Monday, May 6, 2013 19:50:23 UTC Tuesday, May 7, 2013 02:50:23 AM at epicenterDepth: 32.30 km (20.07 mi)

China Dialogue

• 可再生能源&#6530 ...
  欧美推行私有化和解除管制规定的新古典主义思潮，使其无法在壮大可再生能源产业 ...
• 昆明市民请&#2489 ...
  观察者认为，向白宫请愿要求停建昆明当地的炼油项目，更大程度上是抗议者的一种 ...
• 美国的日常&#8220 ...
  就在中国与泛滥的铅污染奋战之时，美国也在与自己的铅“遗毒”苦苦抗争，而且面&# ...
• 儿童是中国&#3808 ...
  中国铅污染严重但治理进程缓慢，儿童成为最大受害者。美国经验，或许可以借鉴。 ...
• 中美两国终&#2011 ...
  两位气候问题专家就新成立的中美气候变化工作组给出了他们的建议。 美国国务卿&# ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Does God Hate Climate Change?
  Democrat lawmaker is trying to sell environmental legislation as "God's work" -- but is he pandering to region to push progressive legislation? During a 17-minute long speech on the senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R-HI) cited an interesting source to urge his co ...
• Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned F ...
  Workers at the New Era Windows Cooperative are celebrating the grand opening of their new unionized, worker-owned and -operated business.  Workers at the New Era Windows Cooperative are celebrating the grand opening of their new unionized, worker-owned and -operated business. Almost a yea ...
• The Media Apparently Has No Idea How to Deal W ...
  Why wouldn’t the media want to address Ramsey’s comical yet wise comments about race and its sociological effects?  What makes Charles Ramsey’s interview so great? His pure genuineness. Period. If you need to be reminded of that, please watch below:We all fall in love ...
• Watch: Jon Stewart Tears into Racist and Sexis ...
  "I don’t think women and minorities are going to leave you just yet, but I wouldn’t get cocky."  On last night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart took on a handful of Democrats who exposed their prejudices in recent weeks. Just because Republicans have completely fai ...
• How 3-D Glasses Reduce 'The Great Gatsby' to O ...
  The new version of Gatsby is an experience that emphasizes Fitzgerald’s admiration for capitalism but erases his critique. Starting Friday, masses of Americans will sit with 3-D glasses perched on the ends of their noses, carried away by Baz Luhrmann’s magic carpet ride into the ...

Threat Level

• Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidd ...
  Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That's because buried in ...
• $45M Bank Hack Suspect Was Shot Dead While Pla ...
  Alberto Yusi Lajud-Peña, one of a number of suspected ringleaders behind a coordinated and sophisticated global bank heist operation that netted the thieves $45 million in stolen funds, was mowed down inside his Dominican Republic home last month while playing ...
• Feds Charge 8 Alleged Mules in $45 Million Glo ...
  Eight suspects have been charged in New York for their role a global cybercrime ring that authorities say involved the theft of more than $45 million from financial institutions around the world in two cyber heists.
• First Legal U.S. Gambling Site Will Comp You W ...
  Online gambling became legal in Nevada last week, but Mac users are left out of the Texas hold 'em draw at the nation's first state-sanctioned online site. That's because Cupertino's operating system isn't supported. It's a rather strange twist, given ...
• Judge Allows Evidence Gathered From FBI’s Spoo ...
  An Arizona judge has denied a motion to suppress evidence collected through a spoofed cell tower that the FBI used to track the location of an accused identity thief.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

• Firefly Salmonella I:4,5,12:i:- Outbreak Grows ...
  According to a report just released by the Health Department, as of May 5, 2013 at least 196 patrons and 4 employees of Firefly who consumed food and/or drinks at Firefly... Continue Reading
• I bet High Hampton Inn wishes it provided Hepa ...
  According to the Jackson County Health Department, an employee at the High Hampton Inn restaurant in Cashiers, N.C., has tested positive for Hepatitis A. The Jackson County Health Department is... Continue Reading
• Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak Tops 80
  Consumption of imported cucumbers is the likely source of infection for the ill persons.  On April 24, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed Daniel Cardenas Izabal and Miracle... Continue Reading
• Salmonella Group B is Linked to Firefly Outbre ...
  It is expected that the Nevada and Southern Nevada Health District will update the public on the Firefly outbreak by the numbers ill and the likely serotype of the Salmonella. ... Continue Reading
• Texas E. coli O157:H7 illnesses may be as many ...
  The Brazos County Health Department and the Texas Department of State Health Services are investigating five cases of a possible fatal strain of E. coli O157:H7 found in Brazos County... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

• Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
  Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
• Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
  Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
• First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
  Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
• New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
  Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
• New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
  Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Microsoft's New CFO and Why Wall Street Cares
  Microsoft's new CFO indicates refocus on the enterprise
• Coursera Adds More to Their Educational Offering
  Coursera reveal that students will be offered free access to textbooks for the duration of their course.
• Samsung Targets Market for Electronic Health R ...
  Olympic Medical Center is intent on moving forward with electronic health records.
• Native Advertising May Have Solved it's Multi- ...
  Scaling native advertising has hindered it's adoption, but there may be a solution.
• Yerka Launches Next-Gen Digital Entertainment ...
  Yekra, famous for the documentary film Thrive, enters the market out of a two year beta with a plan to revolutionize the direct-to-market entertainment economy.

Time - Top Stories

• Viewpoint: Don't Call the Planet 'Mother' Earth
  Viewpoint: Don't Call the Planet 'Mother' Earth
• Immigration Reform: Gang Reaches Across Aisle ...
  Immigration Reform: Gang Reaches Across Aisle as Senate Debate Begins
• Miracle in the Rubble: Survivor Found, as Bang ...
  Miracle in the Rubble: Survivor Found, as Bangladesh Death Toll Tops 1,000
• Warren: Students Should Get the Same Rate as t ...
  Warren: Students Should Get the Same Rate as the Bankers
• A Frustrated Obama Offers Little New Hope for ...
  A Frustrated Obama Offers Little New Hope for Jobs Progress in Washington

Invisible Opportunity

• Stephen Hawking Boycotts Israel | My Catbird Seat
  by Kevin Barrett Veterans Today New York Times:Stephen Hawking Joins Boycott Against Israel JERUSALEM – Stephen W. Hawking, the University of Cambridge physicist and cosmologist, has pulled out of a high-profile conference to be held here in June in order to support an academic boycott of Israel ...
• Peru bans GMOs: Will America take the hint and ...
  by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) The only other country in the Americas besides Ecuador to completely ban genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) from being cultivated within its borders, the South American nation of Peru has taken charge to help protect not only its own citizens bu ...
• » Israel Rescues Al-Qaeda Terrorists From Syri ...
  Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 9, 2013 Israel is sending military vehicles into Syria to pick up wounded Al-Qaeda terrorists involved in the fight against the Syrian Army before patching them up and sending them back into battle, another startling example of how the Zionist state is working ...
• Redlines and Other Double Standards: “Israel h ...
  Judging by its indulgent attitude to Israeli aggressions, Washington claims that Israel has the right to defend itself in any way it pleases: by unprovoked airstrikes across international borders; by meting out collective punishment; by carrying out extrajudicial assassinations; by invasions and ...
• London hospital sold body parts | Mail Online
  by PATRICK HENNESSY and PATRICK MCGOWAN London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital today admitted selling children’s body tissue removed during operations to a pharmaceutical company. The revelation comes on the day that the report on the removal and retention of thousands of dead childre ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

• The Strangest Interactions Between Wild Animal ...
  A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
• Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Turns Sun In ...
  Fire up the Johnny Cash and watch as the moon very nearly covers the entire sun, leaving just a golden sliver of a ring, during a Slooh Space Camera show of today's annular solar eclipse, starting at 2:30 p.m. Pacific/5:30 ...
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Slices in Sulci
  Slices in Sulci This perspective view focuses on the southernmost portion of Sulci Gordii, which highlights jagged fractures and fault lines, as well as some sinuous channels that were likely widened by short-lived lava flows or water. In the foreground ...
• Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor
  In the middle of the South Atlantic, there's a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds, few fish, not even much plankton. But researchers report that they've found buried treasure under the empty waters: ancient DNA ...
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Colliding Galaxies
  As they neared one another and collided their mutual gravitation disrupted the internal motions of the their stars transforming two spiral galaxies into fractured blobs. The spiral nature of NGC 4485 (to the upper right) still survives as these two ...

PakAlert

• Three things to know in the event of martial l ...
  Three things we should know in the event of home invasions during possible government takeover (Marshal Law) or Economic Collapse such as the one that is knocking at our door right now
• BREAKING: 3D printable gun ordered to shut dow ...
  On the Thursday, May 9 edition of the Alex Jones Show, 3D printing guru Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed announced that the US Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance, Enforcement Division (DTCC/END) had sent him a letter requesting the group remove all data supposedly in violation of the ...
• America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenu ...
  What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common? They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments. All over America today there are state and local governments that are drowning in debt. Many have chosen to use "traffi ...
• Report: Israel warns of Russian arms sale to Syria
  US informed of Russian plans to sell advanced ground-to-air missile batteries to Syria despite Western pressure to hold off. Israel warned the United States in recent days that Russia plans to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to Syria despite Western pressure on Moscow to hold off ...
• 10 Facts About Benghazi Even the Whistleblower ...
  Senator Lindsey Graham believes that “the dam is about to break on Benghazi. We’re going to find a system failure before, during, and after the attacks. We’re going to find political manipulation seven weeks before an election. We’re going to find people asleep at the switch when it comes to the ...

Andy Worthington

• From Guantánamo, Younus Chekhouri Speaks About ...
  Three weeks ago, as part of my ongoing coverage of the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo, which is now in its fourth month, I published an account by Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, with one of the men that Reprieve’s lawyers repr ...
• 25 Former Prisoners Urge President Obama to Cl ...
  As the prison-wide hunger strike continues at Guantánamo, the danger — following President Obama’s news conference last week, when he finally deigned to talk about Guantánamo — is that the mainstream media will think, as they did in 2009, that merely talking about the prison in ...
• Voices from Guantánamo: Obaidullah, an Afghan, ...
  As the prison-wide hunger strike continues at Guantánamo, having reached the three-month mark on Sunday, it is more important than ever that the voices of the prisoners continue to be heard, to maintain the pressure on the Obama administration to act. For meaningful action to be taken, President ...
• WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning: Andy Worthingto ...
  It’s almost three years since Pfc. Bradley Manning, who had been working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, was arrested by the US military and imprisoned in Kuwait for allegedly making available — to the campaigning organization WikiLeaks — the largest collection of classifie ...
• Save the NHS: The Next Moves for Campaigners, ...
  It’s now eleven days since the House of Lords voted against a motion proposed by the Labour peer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, which was intended to strike down regulations relating to Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act that had caused alarm to campaigners when they surfaced in Febr ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

• Mayflower Families to Kerry: Come and See What ...
  Ahead of a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, families directly impacted by the tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower, Kansas in March traveled to Washington, DC this week to deliver an invitation and a message to Secretary of State John Kerry. ...
• Alive: Woman Freed From Factory Rubble after S ...
  Though the death count has now surpassed 1,000 in the worst garment industry disaster in the history of Bangladesh, cheers of joy went up at the site on Friday after a woman was found alive inside the rubble after being trapped for more than two weeks. Associated Press reports: ...
• Pakistani Court Rules CIA Drone Strikes Are Il ...
  In the first major Pakistani court ruling on the legality of the CIA’s drone campaign in the country, a Peshawar High Court judge said this morning that strikes are ‘criminal offenses’. Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ordered Pakistan’s government to ‘use forc ...
• Pakistani Court Rules CIA Drone Strikes Are Il ...
  In the first major Pakistani court ruling on the legality of the CIA’s drone campaign in the country, a Peshawar High Court judge said this morning that strikes are ‘criminal offenses’. Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ordered Pakistan’s government to ‘use forc ...
• Fracking Activists Could Face Felony Charges a ...
  The same "Ag-Gag" laws that make it a crime to film or document egregious abuses on industrial farms may soon be used to criminalize anti-fracking activists who seek to expose environmental harms brought on by the gas drilling industry—if a bill recently proposed in Pennsylvannia ...

Lifehacker

• What's the Best Way to Keep a Shower Mirror Fo ...
  Shaving, flossing, plucking your eyebrows: get it all done in the shower. Why not? (OK, saving water is a good reason not to.) But how do you keep that mirror clear so you can see what you're doing? The DIY mavens at Stack Exchange have the answers. Read more...    
• This Week's Most Popular Posts: May 3rd to 10th
  This week we learned why it's hard to make friends, discovered some new Chrome apps, and gave ourselves a full body workout in seven minutes. Here's a look back.Read more...    
• Make a Stylish LED Lamp for About $3
  Generally speaking, ultra-cheap DIY projects don't look great. Somehow instructables user maybolicious figured out how to circumvent that unfortunate downside and create a stylish LED lamp for only $3.25.Read more...    
• Make a Vertical Planter with Bamboo and Save S ...
  When space is at a premium in your garden, it's time to think up. This DIY vertical planter requires just a pot, some twine, bamboo sticks, and a gardening net. It lets you pack a whole lot of plants in a very small space.Read more...    
• Be Funny at Work, It's Good For You
  A good sense of humor isn't just a way to make your workday more pleasurable, it can also help you perform better (and get ahead).Read more...    

Water Wars

• MOPEs Annual Water Wars
  Mind of Pink Elephants Annual Water Wars is a water event at Langford Park in July. Presale tickets are $10 online (without ticket processing fees) and $15 at the event. Water Wars is a four team water war using water guns, water balloons, water soakers, and water ammunition in an all out soakat ...
• 'Things Could Get Ugly': Fracking Set ...
  A new study released Thursday shows that a "significant portion" of fracking, a water intensive process, is happening in already water-stressed regions of the United States—most prominently Texas and Colorado, "which are both in the midst of prolonged drought conditions." rea ...
• ‘Water Wars’ warning issued to Bernardsville p ...
  BERNARDSVILLE – A water-gun elimination game that has gained popularity among high school students in recent years is apparently making some waves in the Somerset Hills Regional School District.
• Wimberley Water Wars
  Community activists protest Needmore Ranch development
• Capital Tonight: Water legislation a priority ...
  Funding the state's water future took center stage in both chambers of the Texas Legislature, today. On the House side, a bill to pull $2 billion dollars for water from the Rainy Day Fund was at the center of a contentious floor fight. Meanwhile, in the Senate, lawmakers took a big step towa ...

WordPress | Economics

• The Second Round of Shorting China
  After two years have passed, capitals gathered up again for the second round to put up bearish posit
• Comic Love Video
  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XWJrPzAUzAs I like the lyrics and the mood…but this video is conf
• hcpfhgks
  hcpfhgks %$~ Historical Wholesale Mortgage Rates %&& Historical View Of Mortgage R
• ECON kickoff May 10-13
  For today’s kickoff, look for “Applying Economic Concepts” on pg. 537 #5. Assume t
• Abercrombie and Fitch Not Stocking Larger Size ...
  Abercrombie & Fitch Not Stocking Larger Sizes For Women « CBS San Francisco. The video link was

Electronic Intifada

• Brooklyn College battle reveals hidden agenda ...
  Max Blumenthal New York City 12 February 2013 Why are J Street leaders afraid to debate Palestinians advocating a boycott of Israel?
• Biased new study skirts around racism in Israe ...
  Nurit Peled-Elhanan 12 February 2013 Western academics get offended when Palestinians use terms like “colonialism.”
• "I was determined to live with dignity," says ...
  Rami Almeghari Rafah 11 February 2013 Prisoner’s daughter recalls pain of not having her father around on her wedding day.
• Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boyc ...
  Eva Bartlett Gaza Strip 11 February 2013 Protests against Israeli goods take place close to the Gaza-Israel boundary.
• "Gaza is a Bantustan": author Samah Sabawi int ...
  Joe Catron Gaza City 10 February 2013 Playwright and political analyst visits Gaza after 17-year absence.

The Wonk Room

• Activist Working To Overturn Sodomy Ban Receiv ...
  An activist suing to end Belize’s beyond-outdated ban on same-sex sexual activity has been subjected to an escalating pattern of death threats as his case comes closer to resolution, according to report in The Guardian. Caleb Orozco is an openly gay man in a country that criminalizes his e ...
• Intermission
  The bridge is yours. -If you like Arrow, the CW is doing another show with Greg Berlanti, its creator. -What is the actual artistic imperative to put The Great Gatsby in 3D. -Trying to build a Netflix for games. -Audrey Plaza playing a teenager trying to make up for what she thinks as her sexual ...
• What ABC Left Out Of Its Report On Benghazi Ta ...
  ABC News published on Friday what it promoted as an “exclusive” report purportedly uncovering new and seemingly damning evidence implicating the Obama administration in its handling of talking points it generated in the aftermath of the terror attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission i ...
• The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change: ...
  The National Journal has a long piece out, “The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change: Science, storms, and demographics are starting to change minds among the rank and file.” Back in October 2010, NJ ran an article explaining, “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection ...
• ‘Scandal’ Creator Shonda Rhimes On Race In Her ...
  My friend Willa Paskin, Salon’s TV critic, has a very interesting profile of Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Scandal, a show in which “America is run by an African-American spin expert, a scheming first lady and a mercenary gay guy who also happens to be in one of the sexiest homosexua ...

thwap's schoolyard

• It's Friday
• On the road again ...
• Why Liberals r the Real Haters ...
  Hi! Welcome back to thwap's increasingly insane schoolyard! I'm going to continue to channel the right-wing mind because I have no desire to type about anything else. Today I'll be learnin' you on how it's the pinkos, liberals, commies, white-guilt types who are the real racists in society. The ...
• Channeling the Right-Wing
  So, for the continuing entertainment value of left-wing Canucks who long to see some similar thinking as they browse gloomily through the inter-tubes, I've decided to try to think like a right-wing voter. Yes, yes. Crude stereotypes, doesn't do justice to the  nuanced worldviews of this dem ...
• Two Random Things
  Almost a decade ago, I spoke to a group of socialist academics and activists. I said that if we were to move forward we needed to come up with something big but nevertheless doable with the political system as we know it. I proposed utilizing small-l liberal values about democracy and human rig ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Do you have a Peace Mom?
  How did your Peace Mom make a difference in your life, and in your community? Let us know, and send her an eCard for Mother's Day!
• Missile-defence radar at Goose Bay?
  The Department of National Defence is looking for ways to contribute to the U.S. missile defence system and may try to revive a proposal to build a radar at Goose Bay.
• How to spend the defence budget
  On April 15, we asked Ceasefire.ca supporters how they would better spend the money wasted on weapons and war.
• Get rid of the nukes, part two!
  According to a recent New York Times report, the United States is "quietly urging" Britain to abandon its "independent nuclear deterrent".
• Canada and missile defence
  Canadian missile defence supporters are back in the news, arguing once again that Canada should join the U.S. missile defence system to protect against the North Korean Nuclear Threat.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• It’s Time To Turn Your Health Around!
  The holiday season is finally coming to an end and that means the excuses have to end, as well. It’s time to get into the habit of truly taking care of yourself. Lucky, you have me to guide you. Here are my top 12 ways to stay healthy all year long. I hope they help [...]
• Just A Little Reminder…
  I know you’ve seen this list a bunch of times on my blog, but I always like to post it at least once a year as a little reminder… 10 Foods You Should NEVER Eat! 1. Microwaved Food 2. Excitotoxins (MSG – monosodium glutamate, aspartame) and anything you can’t pronounce 3. ...
• Eliminate Those Deadly Chemicals In Your Body
  Our US Government does not want you to know what their own agency, The Center for Disease Control, just reported in their own study. They took thousands of American citizens and checked their blood and urine for 212 toxic chemicals. They took a random sample of them and all 212 toxic chemicals w ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-2-13
  Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that inflation is already here and that your standard of living is declining rapidly because of it. Self Help: Uncontaminated Meat Further Your Education Manifest Your Every Desire The Only Answer To Cancer Drop-Dead Gorgeous Hair Without The Side Effects H ...
• It’s Almost Over…
  The holiday season is finally almost over, so let’s start the de-stressing process…. Ice cream seems like a quick fix, but you’re better off making some wise stress-busting diet choices such as: Eating oatmeal, which provides more of all the B-Vitamins (except for pantothenic a ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Kings and Queens of the Supreme Court | Think Tank
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAbby Martinyoutube.com Abby Martin takes a look at the interests driving the decisions of US Supreme Court Justices, as well as profiling some of the most controversial members of the court. Abby then talks to BTS produc ...
• Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTorrent Freak May 10, 2013 A few days after the blueprints for the worlds first printable gun were published online, Defense Distributed has been asked by the State Department to pull them down, citing possible arms traf ...
• Is Iran anti-Semitic?
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIs Iran anti-Semitic? By Roi TovFriday, May 10th, 2013 Is Iran anti-Semitic? — The Mechanics of Hatred and the Right to Self-Defense — — Writing on certain topics demands visiting unpleasantly racist we ...
• U.S. to return more stolen dinosaur skeletons ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.comBy Agence France-Presse Mongolia may need to rustle up some more glass cases for its first dinosaur museum after US authorities announced Friday they will hand back a large new collection of stolen fossils. A ...
• Newly Designed Chinese Drone Ready for its Fir ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWantChinaTimes May 10, 2013 A newly designed Chinese drone is ready for its first flight test after completing its taxi test last December at an unknown airfield in the southeastern province of Jiangxi, reports Duowei Ne ...

Dandelion Salad

• Barack Obama’s Message — Continuation of ...
  Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 7, 2013 TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency, unless, withi ...
• Chris Hedges: Perpetual Rebellion
  by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad May 6, 2013 AntiHasbara Chris Hedges 4 May 2013 Convocation Hall Toronto . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMQqTgALoM Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books ...
• Stay Out of Syria! by Leah Bolger and David Sw ...
  by Leah Bolger and David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad http://greenshadowcabinet.us May 5, 2013 Statement of Leah Bolger, Secretary of Defense and David Swanson, Secretary of Peace, of the Foreign Affairs Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet: The Obama administration has seemingly painted itself ...
• Noam Chomsky: Things Are Ugly—Do Something Abo ...
  Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky videonation – May 6, 2013 Post-9/11 repression pales in comparison to what Americans have had in the past, and we have more ways to make a change than people used to have. So why aren’t we doing anything with them? “I’ve never seen such fear an ...
• The Death of Truth by Chris Hedges (Interview ...
  by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig May 6, 2013 This interview is a joint project of Truthdig and The Nation magazine. LONDON—A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting i ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• The Strangest Interactions Between Wild Animal ...
  A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
• Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Turns Sun In ...
  Fire up the Johnny Cash and watch as the moon very nearly covers the entire sun, leaving just a golden sliver of a ring, during a Slooh Space Camera show of today's annular solar eclipse, starting at 2:30 p.m. Pacific/5:30 ...
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Slices in Sulci
  Slices in Sulci This perspective view focuses on the southernmost portion of Sulci Gordii, which highlights jagged fractures and fault lines, as well as some sinuous channels that were likely widened by short-lived lava flows or water. In the foreground ...
• Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor
  In the middle of the South Atlantic, there's a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds, few fish, not even much plankton. But researchers report that they've found buried treasure under the empty waters: ancient DNA ...
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Colliding Galaxies
  As they neared one another and collided their mutual gravitation disrupted the internal motions of the their stars transforming two spiral galaxies into fractured blobs. The spiral nature of NGC 4485 (to the upper right) still survives as these two ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Jonathan Cook: Missing from the Arab peace pla ...
  Former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami: “Israel’s line was busy, or there was no one on the Israeli side to pick up the phone.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more ...
• Shir Hever: Israel’s Syria strategy to weaken ...
  Israel apparently has bombed inside Syria, as most people that follow the news know by now. Originally, the propaganda or PR around this event was that they were bombing chemical weapons on their way... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Musa Budeiri: Always with the oppressed – a fa ...
  Akiva Orr was a larger than life character. He was a natural communicator, a performer and a raconteur in search of an audience... From the outset, his trajectory would lead him to critically engage... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• David Finkel: Realities of Zionism
  Zionism is viewed [by Moshé Machover] as a colonial-settler project, not a national liberation movement. Its particular aims, “based not on exploiting the labor of the indigenous people but aiming to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Lia Tarachansky: Seven Deadly Myths
  When the government tries to silence a history, a light is shed on the nation’s biggest taboo. This is the story of those who fought to erase Palestine and created an Israeli landscape of denial. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Kiobel Insta-Symposium: Kiobel Contradicts Mor ...
  by Anthony Colangelo by Anthony Colangelo [Anthony J. Colangelo is Associate Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law.] I explained in a previous post why I think extending the presumption against extraterritoriality to causes of action crafted by forum law is strange. But there may be ano ...
• Is This the Model of a Viable Post-Kiobel ATS ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Baher Azmy, the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), has flagged a very interesting ATS case that is due to be re-argued in light of the Supreme Court’s recent — and much discussed here at Opinio Juris — decisio ...
• US Congressional Bill to Be Introduced for New ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), member of the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, plans to introduce a bill that would increase Congressional oversight over kill-capture operations conducted outside of Afghanistan by the US military.  Bo ...
• Guest Post: Immunity — Separation of Powers, H ...
  by Ingrid Wuerth [Ingrid Wuerth is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at Vanderbilt University Law School.  You can reach her at:  Ingrid.wuerth@vanderbilt.edu.] This post examines two aspects of the Fourth Circuit’s 2012 decision on remand in Yousuf v. Samantar.  Sam ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, May 9, 2013
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Another clothing factory has caught fire in Bangladesh, killing eight; this news comes after a recent factory collapse with a death toll now over 900, with both tragedies putting international safety standards in the spotlight.  In other Bangladesh news, the ...

Public News Service

• Poll: Latinos See Teen Pregnancy as a Major Issue
  Poll: Latinos See Teen Pregnancy as a Major Issue PHOENIX – Strong majorities of U.S. Latinos say preventing teenage pregnancy is a major issue, and that high school sexual education should include the topics of birth control and sexually-transmitted diseases, as well as abstinence. Those ...
• Despite New Stock Market High, More are Invest ...
  Despite New Stock Market High, More are Investing Locally PHOENIX - It's been a good start to the year on Wall Street, but that isn't stopping some investors from moving away from global capital markets to put their money into local enterprises where there's a positive social effect along with a ...
• "Amazing Earthfest" Showcases Red Rock Country
  "Amazing Earthfest" Showcases Red Rock Country KANAB, Utah - A celebration on the Arizona-Utah border will bring a few thousand hiking enthusiasts together for a firsthand look at the spectacular public lands of the Colorado Plateau - and it starts this weekend. The Amazing Earthfest is in its ...
• FDA's New 'Plan' for Teen Pregnancy Prevention ...
  FDA's New 'Plan' for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month PHOENIX - May is Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, and the FDA has started it off with a major announcement. The agency will allow a form of women's emergency contraception known as "Plan B One-Step" to be sold over-the-counter, and to women as ...
• Funding Cuts Hit Medical Research; Patients Ma ...
  Funding Cuts Hit Medical Research; Patients May Suffer the Consequences PHOENIX - When Congress passed the "sequester" cuts as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, across-the-board reductions were imposed on a number of agencies. The National Institutes of Health lost five percent of its budg ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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