Sunday, May 12, 2013

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Dandelion Salad

  • Hold the front page! We need free media, not a ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger http://johnpilger.com 9 May 2013 The other day, I stood outside the strangely silent building where I began life as a journalist. It is no longer the human warren that was Consolidated Press in Sydney, though ghosts still drink at the King’s Head pub nearby. ...
  • Rule Britannia for Global Crimes by Finian Cun ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV May 8, 2013 It’s an anthem that is usually sung with chest-thumping pride and misty eyes by British imperialists. “Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves”. This jingoistic celebration of Britain’s former global ...
  • Mothers and Allies Challenge Wine Industrialis ...
    by Shepherd Bliss Writer, Dandelion Salad May 9, 2013 Half a dozen mothers from small town and rural Sebastopol in Northern California quickly rallied hundreds of people to their side to challenge Sonoma County’s Paul Hobbs Winery. He wants to convert a 40-acre apple orchard into a vineyard that ...
  • If We Love Our Children, Why Are We Dooming Th ...
    by Ed Ciaccio Writer, Dandelion Salad May 10, 2013 Environmentalist/Climate Catastrophe activist Bill McKibben’s campaign and web site www.350.org has a very specific, vital mission: “350 means climate safety. To preserve our planet, scientists tell us we must reduce the amount of CO2 in the atm ...
  • Secret meeting between Julian Assange and Goog ...
    Dandelion Salad TheChomskyVideos on May 11, 2013 Leaked Full Secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Thanks to Wikileaks. Date – 23 of June, 2011 *** Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt WikiLeaks April 19, 2013 On the 2 ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Anarchy in the C ...
    The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Vortex of Color
    This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Starburst Jewel
    Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material for new star formation. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Stephen Hawking letter: Some facts on Israel a ...
    In our letter to you we make reference to a range of aspects of Israel’s treatment of Palestine and the Palestinians. Our descriptions there are necessarily abbreviated, and this note provides a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Letter sent to Prof. Stephen Hawking
    The following letter was sent to Stephen Hawking by 20 scientists urging him to reconsider his participation, as a keynote speaker, at Israel's Presidential Conference, a major public event... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to s ...
    Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • “Crossing Lines” Is Going to Be a Disaster…
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Ever since my friends at Wronging Rights flagged the upcoming NBC series Crossing Lines, which is about an ICC police unit, I’ve been scouring the internet for more information about what will no doubt be an absolute train-wreck of a TV show. Tonig ...
  • Events and Announcements: May 12, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers In cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, is hosting a conference on the legacy of the ICTR. The organizers are currently calling for papers. A short abstract must reach ...
  • Ian Buruma Is A Great Historian, But Like Ever ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The WSJ Saturday edition has a long review essay by distinguished historian Ian Buruma providing some historical perspective on the close to hot Chinese-Japanese conflict over the Senkaku Islands. It is a fascinating essay, and I was particularly struck by his argumen ...
  • An Unusual Dissenter from Kenya’s Bid to Shut ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Kenyan government has asked the Security Council to pass a resolution deferring the prosecution of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, the newly-elected President and Deputy President of Kenya. That’s not surprising; the Kenyan government has been ...
  • Weekend Roundup: May 4-10, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, the discussion of Kiobel continued with guest posts by Jordan Wells asking whether corporate liability is jurisdictional, and Anthony Colangelo arguing that Kiobel actually contradicts Morrison – the case on which it is supposedly ...

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • The college bubble has popped
    College Bubble Has Popped. RT: @bysamro: GOLDMAN: College-Educated Americans Are More Unemployed Than You Think read.bi/15QCATa” — John Carney (@carney) May 9, 2013   Employment for high school grads is improving while employment for college grads is dropping. Has a college education with i ...
  • IRS targeted groups ‘educating on the Constitu ...
    The IRS and everyone else involved in this egregious abuse of power needs to get honest real quick before it metastasizes into a serious scandal for the White House. Remember, it was the Watergate cover-up that brought down Nixon, not the break-in itself. And isn’t it just jolly the IRS ap ...
  • Hardwell live at Ultra Music Festival 2013
  • IRS senior officials knew Tea Party targeted, ...
    This is a bombshell. Senior IRS officials knew as early as 2011 that nonprofits linked to the Tea Party and Glenn Beck were targeted for additional scrutiny and harassment. The IRS explanation so far has been inadequate, to put it mildly. This revelation throws gasoline on the fire. This is an o ...
  • Gun nuts and stupid liberals in the US. Shut u ...
    A fine rant. “Last week I mentioned calling gun control ‘gun safety’ and in the comments everyone started yelling ‘gun nuts’ or ‘stupid liberal’ and you know what, I think that’s exactly the way our shitty government likes it because then we’ ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • WAR ON MUSLIMS; Chuck Hagel, ‘OLD ORDER& ...
    ‘The OLD ORDER in the Middle East is disappearing, and what will replace it remains unknown… the US will remain engaged in helping shape the NEW ORDER, but we must engage wisely…” – Chuck Hagel   (AE) – US Secretary Of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a speech at ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – May 9 2013
  • WAR ON SYRIA; Russia’s Deputy PM & Top P ...
    (AE) – A very important member of Russia’s cabinet, Deputy Prime Minister and top PR man Vladislav Surkov, unexpectedly resigned just one day after John Kerry’s meeting with Putin. The story may be exactly as it’s being portrayed below, internal politics, but it makes one ...
  • Book – Roger Stone (Former Nixon Aide) w ...
    Pretty much as we expected – though this goes higher up the food chain than LBJ and Nixon! So – Does this mean that we are not ‘Conspiracy Nuts” now?   Via Daily Caller Legendary Republican operative Roger Stone claims in his new book that Lyndon Johnson arranged Joh ...
  • Bryce Reed, a West EMT Whose Best Friend Died ...
      Image via KRGV.com Bryce Reed Updated below. Original story, 10:05 a.m.: An EMT and incident commander with West Emergency Medical Services was arrested early this morning on charges of possessing a “destructive device,” multiple media outlets are reporting. Bryce Reed, 31, is ...

The Air Vent

  • Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest
    John Cook (of the inaccurately named Skeptical Science blog) sent me a link to a new survey.  The survey has been discussed around the internet for the last couple of days because John was involved in the last Lewandowsky paper which combined poor methodology with libelous remarks directed at th ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...
  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: Fortune 500, Waze, Recommend ...
    Facebook breaks into Fortune 500 – Facebook has made its first appearance on the Fortune 500 list at No. 482 this year. The Fortune 500 is a yearly list of top U.S. companies. Facebook ranks sixth out of...
  • Facebook extends mobile page redesign to Android
    Facebook has begun to roll out its new mobile page layout to Android, a spokesperson from the company tells us. Two weeks ago the social network debuted a redesign for business and fan pages on iOS,...
  • Guest Post: Search without Social is Incomplete
    This is a guest post by Bill Hankes, a director at Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. The amount of data Facebook ingests every day is roughly equivalent to the total amount of Internet traffic at the height of...
  • Facebook careers: Instagram policy, privacy co ...
    Facebook added 17 new positions to its careers page this week, including a Manager of Public Policy for Instagram and a number of openings on the user operations, finance and sales teams. New listings added to Facebook’s careers page:...
  • Facebook hires and departures: VP EMEA filled; ...
    Facebook has hired Nicola Mendelsohn as VP, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, filling a void being temporarily filled by VP of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson after Johanna Shields left in October 2012. Mendelsohn was most...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Individuality Breeds Greatness -- The Memo Slo ...
    Sloane Stephens either never received or failed to read the memo on what makes the Great Ones, quite simply, GREAT!
  • To the Motherless on Mother's Day--Part 2
    Not everyone has a mother to celebrate on Mother's Day. For those who have mentally ill or abusive mothers, this is a sad, even bizarre, holiday.
  • Nawaz Sharif stages comeback in Pakistan's lan ...
    Defying political pundits, former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif's Muslim League (PML-N) emerged as the leading political party in Saturday's general election in Pakistan. According to unofficial results PML-N was leading on 117 of 272 seats of the National Assembly.
  • The Donkey of the Messiah
    The occupation has already created a de facto One State -- an evil state of oppression and brutality, in which half the population (or slightly less than half) deprives the other half of almost all rights -- human rights, economic rights and political rights. The Jewish settlements proliferate, ...
  • Monsanto Has Taken Over The USDA
    While Hungary has just destroyed all Monsanto genetically engineered corn fields, the USDA takes a slightly different approach toward the chemical giant. The USDA has, in fact, never denied a single application from Monsanto for new genetically engineered crops. Not one. Not ever.

Switchboard

  • Carbon Dioxide Hits New Highs: Living In a Le ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Carbon dioxide concentrations have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in at least three million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration anno ...
  • Inside Edition Segment Airs on Pet Dogs Killed ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC “Believe it or not, the federal government is responsible for unintentionally killing over 1,000 dogs in the last 12 years,” reported Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero on a segment tha ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Get to Know Me!
    Since SEK sort of reintroduced himself with this infamous “Rude, Sexy People Do It in His Office” post last night, I thought I’d take the opportunity to formally introduce myself…erm…myself. Hi, my name is bspencer aka vacuumslayer aka Dr.KennethNoisewater, and I&#8 ...
  • Today in Non-Phallic Historical Advertising Ca ...
    Nothing to see here. From 1951.
  • This Day in Labor History: May 12, 1902
    On May 12, 1902, coal miners in Pennsylvania’s anthracite fields went on strike. There were many strikes in the coal fields during the Gilded Age, but this one has special significance because the refusal of the industry to negotiate pushed the strike into the fall and placed urban America ...
  • LGM Podcast: Canadian Security and Defence [si ...
    A couple days ago I sat down with Dr. Paul Mitchell of the Canadian Forces College to talk Canadian military and procurement policy. We went on a bit about general issues of Canadian strategy, followed that up with a long discussion of Canada’s relationship to the F-35 project, moved on to ...
  • An LG&M podcast: Steven Attewell & A VERY SPEC ...
    As promised, here Steven discusses all those moments he bit his tongue on during the previous podcast with A VERY SPECIAL GUEST. You won’t want to miss this! Enjoy! Because you know you’re spoiling for 31 minutes of white-hot speculation (.mp3). Our very civilized discussion of the p ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Empower In-House Counsel to ...
    States that bar pro bono work by company lawyers admitted elsewhere should amend the rules to permit it.
  • OPINION: Failure to Mirandize Does Not Violate ...
    Much of the discussion in the media on whether the surviving Boston bombing suspect should have been given Miranda warnings when he was arrested appears to be based on a misconception: that law enforcement officers are required to give suspects the warnings set forth in Miranda v. Arizona and th ...
  • OPINION: 'Miranda' and the Constitution
    It has become increasingly evident that the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of Boston bombing suspect by questioning him without his Miranda warnings. It is disturbing that the DOJ would risk its criminal prosecution by ignoring such basic rules and even more disturbing for ...
  • THE PRACTICE: The Dark Side of Shareholder Act ...
    Third-party bonuses create the wrong incentives, fragment boards and encourage a shift toward the short term.
  • Lobbyists Press Legal Fight
    Lawyers for six lobbyists fighting what they call a "constitutionally problematic" Obama administration policy want a federal appeals court in Washington to revive their lawsuit. The challengers, represented by a team from Mayer Brown, argue in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • U.S. Web Tool Aims to Bolster Research on Clim ...
    The Obama Administration this week introduced an online tool to improve research into the link between climate change and human health and promote innovative responses to future threats. As climate change triggers more extreme weather events and temperature shifts, it is becoming increasingly im ...
  • Third Coal Export Proposal Falls By Wayside in ...
    A large U.S. pipeline developer has dropped plans to build a $200-million coal export facility in northern Oregon, the third major terminal proposal to be shelved or canceled in the Pacific Northwest. Officials at Houston-based Kinder Morgan say the Columbia River site could not optimally accomm ...
  • How Mussel Farming Could Help to Clean Fouled ...
    Along the shores of New York Harbor, scientists are investigating whether this ubiquitous bivalve can be grown in urban areas as a way of cleansing coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers, and other pollutants. BY PAUL GREENBERG
  • Declining Snow Cover Imperils Plant and Animal ...
    Declining winter and spring snow cover in parts of the Northern Hemisphere poses a growing threat to the plant and animals species that depend on the snow to survive harsh winters, a new study says. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a Shutterstock team of scie ...
  • Battery-Equipped Wind Turbine Better Integrate ...
    General Electric recently introduced a wind turbine equipped with a storage battery, creating a type of “hybrid” turbine that industry leaders hope will improve the integration of intermittent energy sources onto the grid and reduce the costs of wind power. The GE battery is able to store less t ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Now Criminal ...
    A first responder to the huge explosion last month at a Texas fertilizer plant was arrested Friday for possessing a pipe bomb – but officials aren’t linking his arrest to the deadly incident. The probe, however, is now a criminal matter, they said. The arrest Friday of a first responder to the d ...
  • Frozen Dead Guys
    Is cryonics an ambulance into the future or the latest twist on our ancient fantasy of rebirth? Boulder, Colorado, 1989: the young Norwegian’s phone rang. On the line was his mother in Oslo, where it was already evening; dark with a November chill. She needed to tell him that his beloved grandfa ...
  • US government orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun ...
    The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. The US State Department wrote to the gun’s designer, Defense Distributed, suggesting publishing them onli ...
  • Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidd ...
    The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the biparti ...
  • Age of consent should be "lowered to 13 to sto ...
    A top female barrister has sparked outrage after claiming the age of consent in Britain should be lowered to 13 in order to stop the "persecution of old men" in the wake of the Savile sex abuse scandal. Lawyer Barbara Hewson’s [right] shocking comments have been condemned by children’s charities ...

Not My Tribe

  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...
  • My impatience with not so anti frackers
    I’d tell you I’ve had it up to here with moderate turncoats, but of late I’ve resolved to keep them well underfoot. Take the local fight against FRACKING.   We’ve built a pretty determined group of fractivists in Colorado Springs, with healthy allies statewide, and i ...
  • Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be acc ...
    It’s the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syri ...
  • Colorado Springs gay pride festival 2013 moves ...
    Haven’t we seen this countless times before: a nonprofit buys bigger britches forgetting that there was a reason it wore tight pink shorts, esthetics being the governing factor in neither case. Local Pride organizers may tell you they needed a larger park, but for what? The world’s l ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Richard Gage, Bob McIlvaine, and Deborah Voorh ...
    In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall Richard Gage AIA, 9/11 victim's family member Bob McIlvaine, and journalist Deborah Voorhees respond to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's recent diatribe attacking 9/11 Truth. This interview includes Richard and Bob's challenge to Maddow to bring them onto her show, an ...
  • Are all telephone calls recorded and accessibl ...
    A heads up from Gregg Roberts over at AE911Truth.org: Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi ...
  • Paper Accepted and Published at Scientific Met ...
    I’m happy to announce that I’ve successfully had a paper accepted and published at the website Scientific Method 9/11. It’s an updated version of my paper Other Collapses in Perspective. In it, I present scientific explanations for why other steel structure fire-induced collapses are not compara ...
  • Fukushima's Catastrophic Aftermath Continues ( ...
    In her book titled No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 - 2012) said: Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse t ...
  • Salon blames Infowars and "conspiracy theories ...
    Just when you thought the attacks couldn't get more ridiculous... Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan: "Tamerlan “took an interest in Infowars,” according to Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan’s sister. He was also apparently interested in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Landmark operation evicts illegal ranchers fro ...
    The Yanomami are celebrating the start of an operation to remove illegal ranchers from their land© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian authorities have begun an operation to remove eleven illegal ranches from the Yanomami territory in Brazil, and return the land to the Indians. At least three of ...
  • Awá's plight reaches top human rights watchdog
    The Americas' leading human rights body has been called upon to save the Awá, Earth's most threatened tribe, from illegal invaders on their land.© SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has received an urgent petiti ...
  • Survival launches tourism boycott of India’s A ...
    Still of video showing Jarawa girls forced to dance for tourists.© AnonSurvival International has today launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of ‘human safaris’ to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped. The tribal rights organization is calling on ...
  • 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
    Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
  • Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
    Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...

Greg Palast

  • "Now that the SOB is Dead..." A Novel Idea: As ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine "Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry with us?" "Us", in this conversation, are the Taliban. The SOB in question is Osama bin Laden. The Taliban's frustration was relayed to me by Yahya Maroofi, Counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid K ...
  • Palast reports from KazakhstanFBI Spiked Chech ...
    By Greg Palast from Vice.com UK [Astana, Kazakhstan]  Following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, I received documents marked "SECRET" from the files of the FBI's Washington field office. The information in those files will make you sick. [Click through to get a free download of the fi ...
  • Billionaire Bankster Penny PritzkerBreaks into ...
    By Greg Palast  You made fun of me when I suggested that President Barack Obama would nominate a confessed bank scammer, a loan-sharking mortgage predator, to his cabinet.  But thar she blows! Today, Obama has named Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce. As the President says, It's a milestone:  ...
  • Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine - Leer el artículo en español aquí. The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers ...
  • 3 Years ago Today Deepwater Horizon Explodes
    By Greg Palast The Hidden Truth - Watch the Film

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Ten Little Fingers
    By Cathy Jameson While anticipating the birth of my first child, someone told me that new moms shouldn't worry while pregnant. It isn’t healthy for the pregnancy or for the baby. As long as the baby has ten little fingers...
  • Autism and Motherhood It's 1998 Every Day
    By Kim Stagliano My 18 year old daughter Mia made me this pin in preschool, 1998. I wear it every Mother's Day with pride. Little did I know that my three year old daughter would remain very much a child,...
  • Natalie Palumbo's Gripping Autism Public Servi ...
    Natalie's PSA took FIRST PLACE in the Notre Dame High School National Film competition. Congratulations, Natalie. You're an inspiration and you represent autism siblings and Age of Autism in an artistic and professional manner that will take you far. Kim...
  • Team Zoccoli Presidential Traverse 26 Mile Whi ...
    On June 15, Nick, Jonathan and Nicky Zoccoli are going to hike through New Hampshire's White Mountains in a 26 mile Presidential Traverse to raise money for autism action through Age of Autism. Nick is uncle, and Jonathan and Nicky...
  • No title
    By Anne Dachel May 10, 2013, Toronto Globe and Mail: Here's an autism statistic: family May 9, 2013, WCSH-TV Portland ME: Autism training preparing first responders May 9, 2013, WLBZ2 Bangor ME: Keeping people with autism safe Toronto Globe and...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

new geography

  • Slow the Presses!
    It has been a difficult time for newspapers. The industry has experienced serious challenges due to multiple factors going back at least to the early 1960s when the three major television networks began their extensive and widely popular evening news programs, with the likes of Walter Cronki ...
  • The Average Manufacturing Establishment Is Sma ...
    The common image of American manufacturing, as Harold L. Sirkin wrote in Bloomberg Businessweek, is of huge plants with waves of assembly-line workers producing cars and refrigerators. But there’s a whole other world of niche manufacturers in the U.S., and these small firms are more ...
  • The Cleveland Miracle That Should Never Have Been
    “[T]he most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.” Writer David Foster Wallace The story of the three Cleveland women kidnapped over 10 years ago and recently found alive in a house on the city’s Near W ...
  • Can Public Banks Help Fix Local Finance?
    Are public banks the answer for the recession-induced decline in municipal revenue and other ills that plague our cities? It’s a solution being discussed in more than one American city.   Mike Krauss, a founder of the Public Banking Institute and a chairmen of the Pennsylvania Pubic Ba ...
  • The 2013 Best Cities For Job Growth
    The 2013 edition of our list shows many things, but perhaps the most important is which cities have momentum in the job creation sweepstakes. Right now the biggest winners are the metro areas that are adding higher-wage jobs thanks to America’s two big boom sectors: technology and ...

water.org

  • Three Mothers, Three Stories
    The dignity and strength of women around the world is astounding - in celebration of Mother's Day, watch this video and hear the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and found a path to water.
  • Breathing Easier in India
    In Tamil Nadu, community residents are often dependent on remote and unsafe connections for drinking water. Even when a public water tap is nearby, long lines can take up precious time that could be better spent on income generating opportunities.
  • A Toilet Brings Honor
    Mrs. Annakka Ujinikoppa and her sisters wanted to find a way to help their mother-in-law gain closer access to a toilet. They were finding the cost too high but then they discovered a WaterCredit loan.
  • A shorter journey in Ethiopia
    Wereda Gulo-Mekeda is located on the northern part of the Tigray regional state characterized by mountainous landscape with a limited supply of potable water. People there were suffering from this challenge, which was forcing them travel long distances to collect water.
  • Building Her Future: Mrs. Chawda's Story
    Galalben Keshubhai Chawda, pictured in red, is 38 years old and lives in Thakkerbapa Nagar, Ahmedabad, India. She has worked incredibly hard to become a successful construction worker and has skills in masonry, plastering, tiling, flooring and stone cutting. Here is her story, in her own words.

Cryptogon

  • Crap Cannon: Israel Sprays Putrid Liquid for C ...
    Via: Russia Today:
  • Auditor: 100,000 Dashcam Videos Disappear from ...
    Your what hurts? Via: Seattle Post-Intelligencer: More than 100,000 dashcam videos have disappeared from the Seattle Police Department, prompting city investigators to recommend the department do a better job of tracking and saving those videos.
  • Bill Gates, Jeb Bush, Oprah and Warren Buffett ...
    Via: WBTW: Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world, is spending time in the Lowcountry. WCBD confirmed the American business magnate is at the Sanctuary on Kiawah Island. Suspicion was raised when nearly 20 very expensive jets were seen lined up at the Charle ...
  • Bloomberg Spied on Market Data Subscribers
    Via: CNN: That was the unsettling realization Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) executives came to a few weeks ago when a Bloomberg reporter inadvertently revealed the surveillance capabilities reporters from the news and financial data provider have over users of Bloomberg terminals. Traders thro ...
  • Cops Beat Woman For Filming Another Beating
    Via: Alternet: Baltimore police beat up a woman and smashed her camera for filming them beating up a man, telling her: “You want to film something bitch? Film this!” the woman claims in court.

The Economic Collapse

  • America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A ...
    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 ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of ...
    The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by a very, very wide margin.  And right now the bankers are scared out of their wits because their warehouses are being drained of physical gold at a frightening rate.  So what happens when thei ...
  • The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Ind ...
    There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession.  The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are telling an entirely different story.  If historical patterns hold up, the economy is heading for ...
  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be A ...
    If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.  It is a system that was designed by international bankers for the benefit of international bankers, and it is systematically impov ...
  • What Would War Between Israel And Syria Do To ...
    War is a horrible thing.  Just ask anyone that has ever been in the middle of it.  And in this day and age governments around the world possess weapons of such incalculable power that war should be unthinkable.  In future wars, we could literally see millions of people killed on a single day.  N ...

Desertification

  • About Aqua Zai, Zai Bug and Zai Hopper (Google ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=9223 Helping the African deserts bloom Israeli agricultural technology and know-how is being put to innovative use to combat desertification • Four students at the Interdisciplinary Center ( ...
  • Global Campaign on Drought Preparedness and Ri ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.indepthnews.info/index.php/global-issues/1577-before-the-next-drought-wreaks-havoc Before The Next Drought Wreaks Havoc By Jutta Wolf | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – The growing intensity, frequency and duration of d ...
  • COMBATING DESERTIFICATION BY CARBON SEQUESTRAT ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org.ir/news/latest-news/marking-10-years-combating-desertification-carbon-sequestration-project-iran MARKING 10 YEARS OF COMBATING DESERTIFICATION BY CARBON SEQUESTRATION PROJECT IN IRAN “Iran is one of those countries most affected by desertification and has made the reh ...
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    Read at : http://www.trust.org/item/20130509113916-vklma/?source=hptop Scientists struggling to put land degradation into SDGs Author: SciDev.Net – Jan Piotrowski Lack of data and poor communication by scientists may be keeping land degradation and desertification off the sustainable devel ...
  • Large-scale expansion of Amazon agriculture th ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130510075524.htm No-Win Situation for Agricultural Expansion in the Amazon The large-scale expansion of agriculture in the Amazon through deforestation will be a no-win scenario, according to a new study. Published today, 10 May, in IOP Publ ...

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  • Greg Cote: Bulls full of technicals and e ...
    3-year-old boy dies after falling into backyard pool in Paso Robles Funny sages in San Luis Obispo Autopsy performed on man found dead in water off Port San Luis Knicks barely avoid low-scoring record in Game 3 Bear at Morro Rock leads to lockdown at Morro Bay High CMC's inmates, budget cut ...
  • Iran's chief nuclear negotiator joins pre ...
    TEHRAN, May 11 (Xinhua) -- To many's surprise, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili made an announcement on Saturday about his decision to run for the country's upcoming presidential contest. Earlier in the day, he appeared in Iran's Interior Ministry and registered for the race slat ...
  • Medicinal rice can cure gastro, knee, hea ...
    Here is some good news for patients suffering from joint pains, heart-related ailments and other chronic diseases. There is no need to run around hospitals if medicinal rice is consumed, says Panchakarla Vishnuvardhan Rao. A farmer and Gopala Mithra member, Mr. Rao, is raising ‘medicin ...
  • NCU scientist reveals possible causes of ...
    MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The Northern Caribbean University scientist whose study revealed that the soil in sections of Manchester and St Elizabeth has poisonous metals, has said that the high level of contamination could be a combination of bauxite mining, sub-standard farming, chemica ...
  • Nurses pivotal to health care system: Pre ...
    Tweet New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said nursing has evolved into a modern medical profession and nurses have become an indispensable part of the country's health care system. "Nurses form a large part of the health workforce and are the backbone of the...

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Common Dreams

  • Vote Rigging? Charges Fly in Pakistan As Elect ...
    A massive crowd rallies Thursday evening, May 9, 2013 for Imran Khan, the populist cricketer-turned-activist. Khan has drawn massive crowds and enthusiasm in the closing days of Pakistan's national elections. (Photo/Facebook) UPDATE - Sunday 11:29 AM ET Agence France Presse is reporting: ...
  • Vote Rigging? Charges Fly in Pakistan As Elect ...
    A massive crowd rallies Thursday evening, May 9, 2013 for Imran Khan, the populist cricketer-turned-activist. Khan has drawn massive crowds and enthusiasm in the closing days of Pakistan's national elections. (Photo/Facebook) read more
  • A Formal Legal Mandate for a Criminal Investig ...
    In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, Guatemala's President-elect Otto Perez Molina, center right, greets new members of Guatemala's Army elite special forces, "Kaibiles," at a graduation ceremony in Poptun, Guatemala. (AP) General Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and cri ...
  • A Formal Legal Mandate for a Criminal Investig ...
    In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, Guatemala's President-elect Otto Perez Molina, center right, greets new members of Guatemala's Army elite special forces, "Kaibiles," at a graduation ceremony in Poptun, Guatemala. (AP) General Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and cri ...
  • Israeli Attacks on Syria Escape Security Counc ...
    Critics argue that the silence of the Security Council constitutes an international green light to Israel to continue with its new policy and military aggression against Syria. (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas) UNITED NATIONS - Israel, which has launched three air strikes inside Syria since January this ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

  • California Shared Renewable Energy Bills Pass ...
    Where California goes, so does the rest of the country. We don’t have enough shared renewables laws in the US. Passing these bills would set a great example and help spread renewables beyond just California.
  • Bloom Energy Raises $130M More for Fuel Cell F ...
    Fuel cell "startup" Bloom Energy just raised $130 million more in venture capital, taking total funding to beyond $1.1 billion for this firm and makes it one of the all-time leaders in venture capitalization.
  • A Mother’s Day Climate Change Message from the ...
    In honor of Mother’s Day, remember our daughters and sons will soon be running this country; we can show them, by working right alongside them, that being a responsible parent means being an engaged citizen.
  • Nuclear Energy: What Does Kewaunee's Future Hold?
    Shortly after 11 AM on Tuesday, May 8, 2013, the operators at Dominion Resources’ Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station opened the plant’s output breaker, disconnecting the turbine generator from the grid for the last time.
  • How Is Expanding Oil and Gas Production Consis ...
    An all-of-the-above approach to energy encompassing oil and gas, along with renewables, carbon sequestration, nuclear power and efficiency is fully consistent with addressing climate change.

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Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Thirdworldizing America
    by Stephen Lendman Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America's "new growth industry." The state of today's America is deplorable. In his latest May 3 analysis, economist John Williams said "April "employment and unemployment data were nonsense: the ec ...
  • Eroding Freedom in America
    by Stephen Lendman US democracy is illusory. America never was beautiful. It's not the land of the free and home of the brave. It wasn't created that way. More than ever, it's not now. Freedom is a four-letter word. It's fast disappearing. It's an endangered species. Wealth, power and pr ...
  • Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers As more people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth, instead of them; that the government continues to give the banksters who crashed the economy a break while cutting access to basic necessities, that the government continu ...
  • Foreclosure Inferno, Florida Homeowners, and HB 87
    Michael Collins Justice and basic concepts of law are sacrificed to allow banks greater ease and efficiency in taking possession of your home. A bill passed last week by the Florida legislature offers efficiencies and advantages to banks that may launch a major increase in foreclosures in the st ...
  • EARLY CREATION Facebook Pages: Real, Fake or R ...
    By Robert Singer As is becoming more and more common in the Internet age, right after a disaster (e.g., the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Sandy Hook shooting and now the Boston Bombing), the online community starts buzzing with gossip about the event. These wild rumors and conspiracy ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Inequality is accelerating
    "Inequality is accelerating – and with it, the fragility of our economy." The latest column by Frances Russell, Tax cuts a race to the bottom, connects the dots between worsening income inequality in Canada, the insatiable political drive for more tax cuts, and the diminishing role of gover ...
  • CCPA presents on income inequality to the Stan ...
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the witnesses who testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as part of the committee’s ongoing study of income inequality. Armine discusses income inequality—giving us cause to consider what inaction could mean—and ...
  • Links to Union Related Material from Broadbent ...
    April 2, 2013.  From Andrew Jackson at the Broadbent Institute:   The Broadbent Institute has posted five responses to the report, "Union Communities, Healthy Communities" expressing support for labour rights and strong unions by activists from other social movements. These spe ...
  • Four more years of austerity
    Ontario's provincial budget has been tabled and the conclusion is: Ontarians can expect four more years of austerity budgets. Read the tea leaves in this instant budget analysis by Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy here.
  • Without change in public policy, Canada's gend ...
    The coming weeks will see women and men graduating in nearly equal numbers from schools across Canada. By the time those women and men reach their 30s, they will see the gap between their incomes and their share of paid work widen. This pattern will continue throughout their working lives. The w ...

World Wide Hippies

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • California Shared Renewable Energy Bills Pass ...
    Where California goes, so does the rest of the country. We don’t have enough shared renewables laws in the US. Passing these bills would set a great example and help spread renewables beyond just California.
  • Bloom Energy Raises $130M More for Fuel Cell F ...
    Fuel cell "startup" Bloom Energy just raised $130 million more in venture capital, taking total funding to beyond $1.1 billion for this firm and makes it one of the all-time leaders in venture capitalization.
  • A Mother’s Day Climate Change Message from the ...
    In honor of Mother’s Day, remember our daughters and sons will soon be running this country; we can show them, by working right alongside them, that being a responsible parent means being an engaged citizen.
  • Nuclear Energy: What Does Kewaunee's Future Hold?
    Shortly after 11 AM on Tuesday, May 8, 2013, the operators at Dominion Resources’ Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station opened the plant’s output breaker, disconnecting the turbine generator from the grid for the last time.
  • How Is Expanding Oil and Gas Production Consis ...
    An all-of-the-above approach to energy encompassing oil and gas, along with renewables, carbon sequestration, nuclear power and efficiency is fully consistent with addressing climate change.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Scratch 2.0 Released - Use It In A Browser
    The Scratch Team at MIT Media Lab has released Scratch 2.0, a revamped version of the well known graphical, block-structured, programming language for kids and the good news is that it is even easier to get started. It is three years since Mitch Resnik and Paula Aguilera posted a video to You ...
  • Charles Leadbeater: The era of open innovation
    In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't. A researcher at the London think tank Demos, Charles Leadbeater was ...
  • Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an inju ...
    In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has b ...
  • Supplementary Order Paper No 237: Proposed Ame ...
    Examples A process that may be an invention A claim in an application provides for a better method of washing clothes when using an existing washing machine. That method is implemented through a computer program on a computer chip that is inserted into the washing machine. The computer program ...
  • Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidd ...
    Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named "photo tool," a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyo ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • The college bubble has popped
    College Bubble Has Popped. RT: @bysamro: GOLDMAN: College-Educated Americans Are More Unemployed Than You Think read.bi/15QCATa” — John Carney (@carney) May 9, 2013   Employment for high school grads is improving while employment for college grads is dropping. Has a college education with i ...
  • IRS targeted groups ‘educating on the Constitu ...
    The IRS and everyone else involved in this egregious abuse of power needs to get honest real quick before it metastasizes into a serious scandal for the White House. Remember, it was the Watergate cover-up that brought down Nixon, not the break-in itself. And isn’t it just jolly the IRS ap ...
  • Hardwell live at Ultra Music Festival 2013
  • IRS senior officials knew Tea Party targeted, ...
    This is a bombshell. Senior IRS officials knew as early as 2011 that nonprofits linked to the Tea Party and Glenn Beck were targeted for additional scrutiny and harassment. The IRS explanation so far has been inadequate, to put it mildly. This revelation throws gasoline on the fire. This is an o ...
  • Gun nuts and stupid liberals in the US. Shut u ...
    A fine rant. “Last week I mentioned calling gun control ‘gun safety’ and in the comments everyone started yelling ‘gun nuts’ or ‘stupid liberal’ and you know what, I think that’s exactly the way our shitty government likes it because then we’ ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • A motorway to save “dying” Wellington?
    Recently, to shrug off blame for the Wellington region’s contraction in employment per capita, the government has taken to blaming the city council’s opposition to roading. As I have mentioned before, National has big plans to spend billions (perhaps as much as $5 billion, if we include the $2.4 ...
  • General debate, May 12, 2013
  • Precious kauri need committed action
    Kauri dieback disease (Phytopthorataxon Agathis or PTA) needs a solution but this Government isn’t providing it. The relentless killer of our iconic kauri is not waiting and the group tasked with tackling PTA, is lacking a $5 million government commitment to achieve a breakthrough. The famous gi ...
  • Christchurch mental health initiative better t ...
    Seeing images of the extent of the devastation wrecked by the earthquakes on Christchurch was depressing. I couldn’t even imagine how life must be for the people who had to work and raise their families in such tough conditions. So it’s great to see bright splashes of colour with the positive me ...
  • Tui Mine – Healing the Maunga
    The Tui Mine was abandoned in the 1970s on the side of Mt Te Aroha. It was a small copper and gold mine which left an ugly legacy. The mine’s toxic waste dump was unstable and cracking and the water downstream of the underground mine workings were poisoned by the heavy metals leaching from the [...]

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Landmark operation evicts illegal ranchers fro ...
    The Yanomami are celebrating the start of an operation to remove illegal ranchers from their land© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian authorities have begun an operation to remove eleven illegal ranches from the Yanomami territory in Brazil, and return the land to the Indians. At least three of ...
  • Awá's plight reaches top human rights watchdog
    The Americas' leading human rights body has been called upon to save the Awá, Earth's most threatened tribe, from illegal invaders on their land.© SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has received an urgent petiti ...
  • Survival launches tourism boycott of India’s A ...
    Still of video showing Jarawa girls forced to dance for tourists.© AnonSurvival International has today launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of ‘human safaris’ to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped. The tribal rights organization is calling on ...
  • 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
    Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
  • Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
    Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #Colorado House Unanimously Votes for #Industr ...
    from Tenth Amendment Center source: The Colorado state house today voted to approve SB13-241 , a bill that would legalize the farming and production of “industrial hemp” within the state. If signed into law, the bill would effectively nullify the unconstitutional ...
  • The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food St ...
    from activistpost.com: Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money. As you will read about ...
  • At 95, Hitler's Food Taster Talks Paranoia, Po ...
    from montrealgazette.com: They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler' ...
  • Fight to Patent Human Genes Heard by Supreme Court
    from activistpost.com: On Monday, the Supreme Court heard Myriad Genetics plead their case on why they want to patent human genes. According to the biotech company, it discovered the gene linked to higher risks in breast and ovarian cancer and plans to further its research. Related:&nbs ...
  • Duke Professor Suggests Simple Solution to Cou ...
    from activistpost.com: Arguably, animal rights activists are the most tenacious; so much so, that they have routinely been labeled anarchists and terrorists by various governmental organizations the world over. Yet, beyond the general demonization campaign of anyone who professes sympathy for th ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A ...
    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 ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of ...
    The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by a very, very wide margin.  And right now the bankers are scared out of their wits because their warehouses are being drained of physical gold at a frightening rate.  So what happens when thei ...
  • The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Ind ...
    There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession.  The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are telling an entirely different story.  If historical patterns hold up, the economy is heading for ...
  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be A ...
    If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.  It is a system that was designed by international bankers for the benefit of international bankers, and it is systematically impov ...
  • What Would War Between Israel And Syria Do To ...
    War is a horrible thing.  Just ask anyone that has ever been in the middle of it.  And in this day and age governments around the world possess weapons of such incalculable power that war should be unthinkable.  In future wars, we could literally see millions of people killed on a single day.  N ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Sequestering our mothers
    The automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester will have a severe effect on programs serving women in general and mothers in particular -- especially those living in the South. With Mother's Day approaching, we take a by-the-numbers look. read more
  • Carrying water for an end to mountaintop removal
    Activists hauled polluted water from Appalachia to Washington, D.C. this week to draw attention to the plight of communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining. The action comes as legislation was reintroduced in Congress to protect coalfield waterways. read more
  • 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
  • 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

CenterLine

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

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Tech Drive In

  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...
  • EasyShutdown: Lets you Schedule Shutdowns in U ...
    Shutdown command works just fine, but if you want a GUI to schedule system shutdown in Ubuntu, EasyShutdown is the answer. It was a very basic app made to do just that one thing, scheduling shutdowns in Ubuntu. And it is nicely integrated with Unity launcher as well. Easy Shutdo ...
  • Ubuntu 13.10 will be called "Saucy Salamander" ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 has already been up and running with a number of very cosmetic changes. And we've been covering every detail of the release over the past 6 months. Now it's time for another major Ubuntu release cycle. In typical Canonical fashion, the next Ubuntu (Ubuntu 13.10 ie.) will have a qu ...
  • Left 4 Dead 2 beta Coming to Linux Next Week!
    Long before the official arrival of Steam for Linux client, we had a report revealing Valve's ambitious plans which also included a Linux port of their popular title Left 4 Dead 2 aka L4D2 (further read: 20 most exciting Linux games for 2012). Rumor-mills can all rest now. Valve has offic ...
  • Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 with GNOME 3.6 Released
    As far as I am concerned, this is a very important release. Ubuntu GNOME (previously called Ubuntu GNOME Remix) has one of the best implementations of GNOME Shell desktop. And as we've already seen in our earlier Ubuntu GNOME review, if you want the best of Ubuntu and pure GNOME in a single pa ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Senior IRS official: ‘I’m not good ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) During a conference call with reporters, senior IRS official Lois Lerner uttered words that are now reverberating across the blogosphere: “I’m not good at math.” Don’t worry, Lois, neither is anyone else. And the less you can ...
  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • False flag theater: Boston bombing involves cl ...
    The mainstream media story of the Boston Marathon bombing is of Chechen terrorists who unleashed weapons of mass destruction, killing four and wounding 264 in an unthinkable scene of “bodies flying into the street”, “so many people without legs” and “blood everywhere.”
  • Benghazi’s Dirty Little Secret
    Americans (at least the ones who know where Libya is) are understandably confused and angry about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that killed US ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi. If they are looking to the current congressional hearings to clarify what really happened, they will be g ...
  • Jerusalem Day: Key Annexation Step Completed
    Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said during Jerusalem Day: "next year in a more built up Jerusalem," improving on an old Jewish prayer.
  • Malcolm Shabazz’s Suspicious Death
    AN said he was killed in Tijuana, Mexico. Unconfirmed reports said "he died early Thursday morning, May 9, 2013, from injuries sustained after he was thrown off a building or shot as he was being robbed.
  • VetLikeMe, edition 4.3 May 2013
    Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your time. VetLikeMe is a national newspaper dedicated solely to Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business (SDVOSB).

electric politics

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

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  • NATO Interoperability: U.S. Deploys First Deta ...
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa May 9, 2013 Av-Det partners with Poland as first F-16 rotation arrives By Senior Master Sgt. Sarah Webb 52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs ==== U.S. aircraft, service members and civilian contractors will rotate to the Av-Det on a quarterly basis ...
  • Georges Duhamel: No end to war without moral r ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Georges Duhamel: Selections on war ==== Georges Duhamel From The Heart’s Domain (La Possession du monde) (1919) Translated by Eleanor Stimson Brooks Here should lie the lesson and the one benefit of this war: that we should u ...
  • NATO’s Military Infrastructure Moving To Russi ...
    Itar-Tass May 10, 2013 NATO’s military infrastructure moving to Russian borders – Lavrov WARSAW: NATO’s military infrastructure is moving towards Russia’s borders, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “When the military infrastructure is moving towards borders, this always evokes ...
  • NATO, Persian Gulf And Asia-Pacific: Pentagon ...
    Department of Defense May 9, 2013 Officials Call for Continued Ballistic Missile Defense Modernization By Donna Miles ==== The proposal also includes funding to implement regional missile defense approaches that Creedon said will be tailored to the unique deterrence and defense requirements of E ...
  • Cesare Pavese: A moment of peace, to be rebor ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Cesare Pavese: Every war is a civil war ==== Cesare Pavese From The House of the Hill (Prima che il gallo canti) (1949) Translated by R. W. Flynt “It may be lost, but it’s not over,” I muttered to myself. “T ...

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Intel Hub

  • Denver International Airport Whistleblower: Co ...
    Shepard Ambellas | For the first time, a whistle-blower from within the Denver International Airport confirms the existence of a massive deep underground military facility located on the airport's property.The post Denver International Airport Whistleblower: Continuity of Government Plans E ...
  • I Confronted a Drone Pilot
    Aaron Dykes | I had the chance to talk to an Air Force drone pilot operating out of Whiteman Air Force Base, and astonishingly, he admitted to me that he took part in strikes on wedding parties in Middle East & Asian countries said to harbor terrorists.The post I Confronted a Drone Pil ...
  • Is an Open Carry March on Washington D.C. an A ...
    Derrick Broze | Libertarian radio show host Adam Kokesh plans Armed March on Washington D.C. for Independence Day 2013.The post Is an Open Carry March on Washington D.C. an Act of Aggression? appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • ‘Nearly 40k Homes Seized in Spain in 2012’
    Press TV | Nearly 40,000 homes in Spain have been seized by banks in 2012, due to foreclosures, official data shows.The post ‘Nearly 40k Homes Seized in Spain in 2012’ appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Senior IRS Official: ‘I’m Not Good ...
    Mike Adams | During a conference call with reporters, senior IRS official Lois Lerner uttered words that are now reverberating across the blogosphere: "I'm not good at math."The post Senior IRS Official: ‘I’m Not Good at Math’ – Yeah, We Know appeared first on Intell ...

FRS

  • Assata Shakur Becomes the First Woman Added to ...
    Assata Shakur   Madeleine Davies, Jezebel.com, May 3, 2013 As of yesterday, former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army Assata Shakur became the first-ever woman to be added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. She is currently 66 years old and living in Cuba where she ...
  • Assata Shakur Becomes the First Woman Added to ...
    Assata Shakur   Madeleine Davies, Jezebel.com, May 3, 2013 As of yesterday, former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army Assata Shakur became the first-ever woman to be added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. She is currently 66 years old and living in Cuba where she ...
  • An Open Letter From Assata
    My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and ...
  • An Open Letter From Assata
    My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and ...
  • Mohawk warrior and champion of the people dies
        by John Hill, Mohawk Nation News, mohawknationnews.com, May 2, 2013   A great loss to the people, to the nation, to the resistance, anti-imperialist movement right across Great Turtle Island.  On March 13th, Dacajeweiah, Splitting-the-Sky, 61, left us forever when he passed aw ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Congress Wants the Abrams, but the Army Says ' ...
    There’s a reason that there’s a huge bloated Pentagon budget, and it really doesn’t involve the Pentagon. It’s about Congress and the private sector pushing for products the government doesn’t want or need.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 29, 2013
  • The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up i ...
    According to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 26, 2013
  • U.S. on Hot Seat: Israel Calls 'Red Line,' Say ...
    The U.S. declared that use of chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian civil war would be a "red line" action that could provoke American military intervention. Now top U.S. ally Israel is formally alleging that Syria's ruling regime used sarin gas.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 23, 2013
  • Alleged Boston Bombers Not like Bad Guys in th ...
    After seeing "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," in the wake of the Boston bombings, I couldn't help but think how much easier it is to pick out the bad guys in the movies.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Apr 22, 2013
  • Obama Justified in Criticizing Senators Over B ...
    Many U.S. senators who voted against increasing background checks for gun purchases may have inadvertently handed their next challengers powerful fodder in campaign battles.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 18, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • The Week In Numbers: The Brightest Explosion E ...
    3.6 billion light-years: the distance from Earth of a recently observed gamma-ray burst, the brightest explosion NASA scientists have ever seen $25,000: the fine internet providers face per day if they refuse to spy for the FBI 200 horsepower: the oomph in the turbodiesel engine of this four-pa ...
  • Emergency Spacewalk Likely for 'Serious' ISS C ...
    Astronaut Tom Marshburn: “Suddenly very busy!” Astronauts on the International Space Station are preparing for a potential emergency spacewalk to fix an ammonia coolant leak outside the station. On Thursday, the ISS crew spotted small white flakes floating away from an area of the Station’s P6 ...
  • Glove Changes Color When It Detects Toxins
    The glove, still in its prototype stage, could prevent serious injuries in workers who handle toxic materials. Think of it as a wearable (and less cruel) canary. Researchers have developed a prototype of a glove that changes color in the presence of airborne toxins, such as carbon monoxide. Res ...
  • Abandoned Star Wars Sets And Other Amazing Ima ...
    Plus the sunrise from space, holograms made from ultrasounds of babies, and more     
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Veterans Today

  • False flag theater: Boston bombing involves cl ...
    The mainstream media story of the Boston Marathon bombing is of Chechen terrorists who unleashed weapons of mass destruction, killing four and wounding 264 in an unthinkable scene of “bodies flying into the street”, “so many people without legs” and “blood everywhere.”
  • Benghazi’s Dirty Little Secret
    Americans (at least the ones who know where Libya is) are understandably confused and angry about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that killed US ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi. If they are looking to the current congressional hearings to clarify what really happened, they will be g ...
  • Jerusalem Day: Key Annexation Step Completed
    Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said during Jerusalem Day: "next year in a more built up Jerusalem," improving on an old Jewish prayer.
  • Malcolm Shabazz’s Suspicious Death
    AN said he was killed in Tijuana, Mexico. Unconfirmed reports said "he died early Thursday morning, May 9, 2013, from injuries sustained after he was thrown off a building or shot as he was being robbed.
  • VetLikeMe, edition 4.3 May 2013
    Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your time. VetLikeMe is a national newspaper dedicated solely to Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business (SDVOSB).

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Divorces of (Real-Estate) Convenience in China
    To paraphrase Steely Dan, this is not your Haitian but your Hainan divorce. Recent regulations in China intended to tamp down real-estate speculation have had an unintended consequence of separating happily married couples to take advantage of better tax benefits accruing to single persons: Long ...
  • Brokebank USA: Living Paycheck to Paycheck
    Gillian Tett of the FT has an interesting article that seemingly contradicts all of the happy talk about how "America is back" with stock markets hitting all-time highs. There is no particular difficulty understanding stock market speculation and bubbles: with the Federal Reserve practically giv ...
  • German (Randian?) Solution: No Minimum Wage
    Sometime ago, I remember watching former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testifying before the US Congress when he was asked about his views about the minimum wage. "There should be none," I reflexively blurted out. Knowing that Greenspan was a libertarian former acolyte of Ayn Rand, the answer was ...
  • Egypt's World Beggary Tour 2013 Goes On
    The rise and millennia-long fall of the Egyptian Empire continues apace. From the giddy heights of empire catalogued in the Bible to its present penury, Egypt has come a long way--down, that is, with no end in sight. The latest humiliation of course is being flat broke after the "Arab Spring" br ...
  • EU-US FTA & the Lameness of 'Cultural Exception'
    There is already a certain desperation to the idea that trade can significantly be boosted between the US and EU FTA when they already have exceptionally low tariff levels. What more substantial trade barriers can be removed? Are these dynamic and growing markets? The answers, of course, are "fe ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A ...
    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 ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of ...
    The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by a very, very wide margin.  And right now the bankers are scared out of their wits because their warehouses are being drained of physical gold at a frightening rate.  So what happens when thei ...
  • The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Ind ...
    There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession.  The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are telling an entirely different story.  If historical patterns hold up, the economy is heading for ...
  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be A ...
    If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.  It is a system that was designed by international bankers for the benefit of international bankers, and it is systematically impov ...
  • What Would War Between Israel And Syria Do To ...
    War is a horrible thing.  Just ask anyone that has ever been in the middle of it.  And in this day and age governments around the world possess weapons of such incalculable power that war should be unthinkable.  In future wars, we could literally see millions of people killed on a single day.  N ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2013-05-10 Request for Credentials - United St ...
    Subject: Request for Credentials - United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning's Court Martial (UNCLASSIFIED) From: "USARMY Ft McNair mdw Mailbox Mediadesk OMB" Date: Fri, May 10, 2013 10:27 pm To: Undisclosed recipients:; Priority: Normal Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Media Advi ...
  • 2013-05-10 Assange Speech for Global Exchange ...
    Thank you for this honor. I am very happy to be sharing it with Noam Chomsky whose generosity and strength of character I have felt personally. Noam, you are the sea--relentless and enduring. You have crashed wave after wave of understanding into towering cliffs of lies, eroding them at their ba ...
  • 2013-05-02 LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks sol ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ( http://www.bradleymanning.org/ ) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 ( tel:516-578-2628 ) press@bradleymanning.org LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks soldier after SF Pride controversy Last Wednesday, it was publicly ...
  • 2013-04-30 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Sch ...
    Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Army Military District of Washington Guardians of the Nation's Capital FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13-14 DATE: April 30, 2013 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Scheduled for United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning WASHINGTON - An arti ...
  • 2013-04-24 WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
    WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE Wed Apr 24 17:24:44 BST Milestone Supreme Court Decision for WikiLeaks Case in Iceland Today's decision marked the most important victory to date against the unlawful and arbitrary economic blockade erected by US companies against WikiLeaks. Iceland's Supreme Court upheld ...

U N News

  • Mexico must strengthen its protection of human ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged the Mexican Government to strengthen the national structures that protect human rights, in particular the right to life, and reduce the involvement of the military in policing to reduce the use of force in the country.
  • US faces gaps in protecting human rights in bu ...
    Despite progress and innovation in key sectors of the United States' economy, too many loopholes remain to adequately protect human rights from adverse business practices, a group of United Nations independent experts today warned.
  • Amid hunger strike, UN rights experts urge US ...
    With some 100 prisoners at the Guantánamo Naval Base on a hunger strike, a group of United Nations independent human rights experts today reiterated their calls on the United States to shut down the detention centre.
  • Argentina must ensure independence of its judi ...
    A United Nations expert today called on Argentina to ensure the independence of its judiciary, following reforms passed earlier this month that affect the election process of the Magistrates Council which appoints and removes judges.
  • Ban welcomes peaceful elections in Paraguay
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed peaceful general elections in Paraguay that attracted wide participation, reiterating the United Nations' willingness to work with the newly elected authorities and people in the South American country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Wilderne ...
    A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.  Section 2(c) of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Next year (20 ...
  • Not all renewables are created equal
    Originally published May 6, 2013 on GristBy Tom Butler Can we all agree that the current energy economy is fundamentally toxic to nature and people? Can we agree that there is no more important task than building a new energy economy, one that supports flourishing human and natural communities? ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Darwinis ...
    One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin overthrew philosophy up to that time.  Darwin is not only the greatest biologist ever, but the greatest philosopher, even if most folks don’t begin to understand how much Darwin overthrew old thinking and shaped new thinking.  Ernst Mayr, who ...
  • Congressional testimony of Dr. Dominik Kulakow ...
    On April 11, 2013 Dr. Dominik Kulakowski, Assistant Professor at Clark University, testified before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation of the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives. His testimony was sent to us by George Wuerthner ...
  • Nationwide walks for wolves this weekend
    Walk for Wolves has been organized to raise awareness about the threats affecting the wolf population throughout the United States. In addition to losing their habitat, the most detrimental threats come from government bills allowing hunting and trapping an indiscriminate number of wolves by met ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Proof... The Denver Airport is One of the Most ...
    Having recently been stranded in Denver Airport for 24 hours, I can tell you anecdotally that the place is hellish. Exit arrows point at each other instead of outside; corridors lead to nowhere; and security checkpoints seem to disappear mysteriously as you approach them. ~ D Lensman - Videos ...
  • EVERY Television Newscast is a Staged Event
    Focus on the network evening news. This is where the staging is done well. First, we have the image itself, the colors in foreground and background, the blend of restful and charged hues. The anchor and his/her smooth style. ~ Jon Rappoport - Video read more
  • Proof... College Education In America Is A Gi ...
    College education in the United States has become a cruel joke.  We endlessly push our high school kids to invest tens of thousands of dollars and at least four years of their lives to get a college education because they won’t have any sort of a “future” without it.  So they sign ...
  • 'Natural Rights vs. The Patriot Act' ~ Judge ...
    Judge Napolitano discusses Natural Rights and why The Patriot Act is exactly the type of legislation the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution to PREVENT! Courtesy of Campaign For Liberty. ~ Video read more
  • Constitutional Freedoms... How Many Do We Sti ...
    This article explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right. ~ Washington'sBlog - February 21, 2013 (An excellent must read article!) - Maps - Video read more

Tarpley

  • Give Yourself a Real Graduation Present: Cut t ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net May 11, 2013 To the Seniors of the Class of 2013 Make Sure Your Commencement Ceremony Helps to Pass Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Bank on Students Bill! As every college student knows, the crushing burden of student loan debt poses the single greatest obstacle t ...
  • In Historic Breakthrough, Mass. Sen. Elizabeth ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net May 8, 2013 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Washington DC, May 8, 2013 — I urge a major all points mobilization in support of Sen Elizabeth Warren’s Bank on Students bill mandating that the Federal Reserve provide 0.75% cheap federal credit for fed ...
  • In Support of Reverend Edward Pinkney of Bento ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. SoulShakeDownDC May 6, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
  • Time to Stop This Depression Before It Morphs ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com April 30, 2013 NOTE: This episode has some audio defects [download audio]
  • Thatcher Milk Snatcher and the Decline of the West
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 23, 2013 Margaret Thatcher’s first high-profile political job came in 1970 when she was appointed to serve as education and science minister in the cabinet of the liberal Tory Edward Heath. She imposed a series of brutal budget cuts, the most infamous of ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Survival Priorities
    The things that you think you need are often actually ‘wants’, and what one wants is not always what one needs. Today’s system of modern society and its overwhelming persuasive bombardment of in-your-face and subliminal messaging of the things you ‘need’, is mostly ...
  • How To Escape A Sinking Car
    In the United States, approximately 400 people die each year because their cars are trapped in water. Most people do exactly the wrong thing in that moment… we roll up the windows and hope for an air bubble or call 911. Here is the right thing to do if your car is sinking; how to [...]
  • How People Survived In A Collapsed City
    This article is a personal survival experience of “one year in hell” in a collapsed city; a reality check. It is a lesson from history. It is worth the few minutes to read. Prepare Now; what is coming will be much worse…   The following story has shown up in the past on a ...
  • Find Your Direction By The Moon
    If you are lost at night, or simply wish to navigate at night, the moon can be an important indicator of general direction if you understand its shadows and how it moves across the sky. Here’s how…   These basic principles are for those living in the northern hemisphere, but is ...
  • Evil Gun Myth Busted!
    I came across this video and just had to share it with our readers. I thought it was pretty funny and laughed my a$$ off while watching it several times… I hope that some of you will enjoy the comic relief too…   From TheProRancher,   Transcript: This is a semi-automatic ha ...

Fast Company

  • More Advice From The Moms Of Business Leaders
    This weekend is all about those that launch the biggest projects possible: us. Today we're saluting moms everywhere with some wise words that have been crucial in shaping the careers of top executives across industries. Listen to their mothers! "When I was eight, I told my mom what I wante ...
  • "Be Like A Duck," And Other Advice From The Mo ...
    This weekend is all about those that launch the biggest projects possible: us. Today we're saluting moms everywhere with some wise words that have been crucial in shaping the careers of top executives across industries. Listen to their mothers! "My mother taught me that people grow quickly ...
  • A Trippy 3-D Film Collage Charts The Birth And ...
    Marco Brambilla’s works are Electric Kool-Aid video art Here are the things I saw last Friday night at a church in New York City’s Soho: Fireworks, unicorns, cowgirls with lassos, an astronaut, fiery rings of Hell, the starry galaxy, the Von Trapp Family Singers, the German nih ...
  • Sweating The Details: This Workstation Doubles ...
    Send an email. Jump rope. Send an email. Do some kettlebell push-ups. Repeat. If the buzz around the Internet watercooler is correct, sitting is the new smoking and our sedentary desk jobs are slowly sucking the life out of us. We need to move around more, but ironically, the most ergonomi ...
  • Stellar: Richard Wright Paints 47,000 Stars On ...
    A new permanent installation by the British artist flanks Rembrandt’s Night Watch, the main attraction at the museum. In the midst of the thoroughgoing and decade-spanning renovation that has transformed Amsterdam’s recently reopened Rijksmuseum, one notable masterpiece remains ...

Jadaliyya

  • Uncounted and Unacknowledged: Syria's Refugee ...
    [The following report was issued by the University of California Davis Human Rights Initiative and the Institute for International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund.]   Uncounted and Unacknowledged: Syria's Refugee University Students and Academics in Jordan  The following is a br ...
  • The Facade of Political Crises in Morocco
    This weekend, the conservative nationalist Istiqlal Party announced it will be withdrawing from the government coalition, led by the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), and will take its place in parliament's opposition. Its reason, according to the party's press release, was to &q ...
  • إشكاليّات الدّيمقراطيّة الانتخابيّة في فلسطين
    في مرحلة ما بعد الاستعمار، اعتبر الكفاح من أجل الديمقراطية أمراً مهماً لتحقيق الوعد بالتحرر الوطني. ومع نهاية الحرب الباردة تحديداً أصبحت الديمقراطية الانتخابية تعتبر الآلية الأكثر فاعلية لمواجهة الاستيلاء على الدول ومواردها، وحتى استقلالها على يد النخب الاستبدادية ذات الأفق الضيق التي نصّبت نفس ...
  • الثــأر والثــورة .. لماذا يثور الشمال ولا يفع ...
    "بعد بني سويف مفيش رجالة" عبارة كتبت على القطار المتوجه من القاهرة إلى الصعيد في الأيام الأولى من ثورة 25 يناير للمزايدة على رجولة أبناء صعيد مصر (الوجه القبلي) الذين لا يزالون يُتهمون بأنهم لم يشاركوا في الثورة كما فعل أهل الوجه البحري. وهو أمر متكرر على لسان بعض الثوار والنشطاء، وبال ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (May 10)
     [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@ ...

mediagazer

  • Follow Friday: The Clickbait Destroyer (David ...
    David Weigel / Slate: Follow Friday: The Clickbait Destroyer  —  Last summer, on a slow news day, a social media contractor named Alex Mizrahi got irritated with the Internet.  The Huffington Post's main Twitter account—Mizrahi was one of more than two million followe ...
  • The newsonomics of influentials, from D.C. to ...
    Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of influentials, from D.C. to Singapore to Raleigh  —  It's a season of new product launches, but you have to roam around the country and the world to find them.  You have to look for the niches they're trying to serve.&nb ...
  • Why E-Mail Newsletters Won't Die (Ryan Tate/Wired)
    Ryan Tate / Wired: Why E-Mail Newsletters Won't Die  —  Paul Berry is trying to build the news engine of the future, but, like many online media pioneers, he's finding he just can't escape the grubby format first used more than 40 years ago, e-mail.  —  Berry's b ...
  • Bloomberg Execs Knew Journalists Were Tracking ...
    Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed: Bloomberg Execs Knew Journalists Were Tracking Clients In 2011  —  An anchor made on-air comments about tracking log in information more than a year ago.  A big deal internally — but handled quietly.  —  Executives at the finan ...
  • Fed, Treasury Examining Bloomberg Use of Termi ...
    Steve Liesman / CNBC: Fed, Treasury Examining Bloomberg Use of Terminal Data  —  Both the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury Department are examining the extent to which Bloomberg-terminal usage by top officials might have been tracked by Bloomberg journalists, CNBC has learned.

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Greg Cote: Bulls full of technicals and e ...
    3-year-old boy dies after falling into backyard pool in Paso Robles Funny sages in San Luis Obispo Autopsy performed on man found dead in water off Port San Luis Knicks barely avoid low-scoring record in Game 3 Bear at Morro Rock leads to lockdown at Morro Bay High CMC's inmates, budget cut ...
  • Iran's chief nuclear negotiator joins pre ...
    TEHRAN, May 11 (Xinhua) -- To many's surprise, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili made an announcement on Saturday about his decision to run for the country's upcoming presidential contest. Earlier in the day, he appeared in Iran's Interior Ministry and registered for the race slat ...
  • Medicinal rice can cure gastro, knee, hea ...
    Here is some good news for patients suffering from joint pains, heart-related ailments and other chronic diseases. There is no need to run around hospitals if medicinal rice is consumed, says Panchakarla Vishnuvardhan Rao. A farmer and Gopala Mithra member, Mr. Rao, is raising ‘medicin ...
  • NCU scientist reveals possible causes of ...
    MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The Northern Caribbean University scientist whose study revealed that the soil in sections of Manchester and St Elizabeth has poisonous metals, has said that the high level of contamination could be a combination of bauxite mining, sub-standard farming, chemica ...
  • Nurses pivotal to health care system: Pre ...
    Tweet New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said nursing has evolved into a modern medical profession and nurses have become an indispensable part of the country's health care system. "Nurses form a large part of the health workforce and are the backbone of the...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/9/13 - 43 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - 43 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption - On May 7, 2013, Oklahoma became the 13thstate (and DC) to set an exception for underage drinking when reporting a medical emergency due to underage drinking. See which states have this and other exc ...
  • 5/9/13 - 12 States with Pending Legislation to ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 12 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - New bills were added in Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, while the bills in Florida died in committee.
  • 5/8/13 - Governments That Use ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - Governments That Use ProCon.org – The 11 international governments that have used ProCon.org include Australia, Canada, Israel, Palestinian territories, Philippines, and South Africa. Plus ProCon.org has been used by 27 US state governments and 14 US federal entities.
  • 5/7/13 - 221 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 221 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added another 26 books to the list of published texts citing ProCon.org research. Some of the authors who used ProCon.org include Mark Bittman, Newt Gingrich, Condoleezza Rice, Michael Schmoker, Tavis Smiley, and Joseph Stiglitz.
  • 5/7/13 - Rhode Island becomes 10th US state to ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Rhode Island becomes 10th US state to legalize same-sex marriage – Governor Lincoln Chafee signed the bill into law on May 2, 2013, making Rhode Island the last state in New England to allow gay marriage.  38 states have banned gay marriage, while two states have no ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • U.S. Web Tool Aims to Bolster Research on Clim ...
    The Obama Administration this week introduced an online tool to improve research into the link between climate change and human health and promote innovative responses to future threats. As climate change triggers more extreme weather events and temperature shifts, it is becoming increasingly im ...
  • Third Coal Export Proposal Falls By Wayside in ...
    A large U.S. pipeline developer has dropped plans to build a $200-million coal export facility in northern Oregon, the third major terminal proposal to be shelved or canceled in the Pacific Northwest. Officials at Houston-based Kinder Morgan say the Columbia River site could not optimally accomm ...
  • How Mussel Farming Could Help to Clean Fouled ...
    Along the shores of New York Harbor, scientists are investigating whether this ubiquitous bivalve can be grown in urban areas as a way of cleansing coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers, and other pollutants. BY PAUL GREENBERG
  • Declining Snow Cover Imperils Plant and Animal ...
    Declining winter and spring snow cover in parts of the Northern Hemisphere poses a growing threat to the plant and animals species that depend on the snow to survive harsh winters, a new study says. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a Shutterstock team of scie ...
  • Battery-Equipped Wind Turbine Better Integrate ...
    General Electric recently introduced a wind turbine equipped with a storage battery, creating a type of “hybrid” turbine that industry leaders hope will improve the integration of intermittent energy sources onto the grid and reduce the costs of wind power. The GE battery is able to store less t ...

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Dude, where’s my job?
    The real unemployment rate for Canadians over 25 was 8.8% in April. Not great, for sure, but slightly better than it was in 2009. For youth 15-24, it was up from last April – to 20.9% – so more than 1 in 5 youth are looking for work and can’t find it. In Ontario, it’s [.. ...
  • Polozogistics: Nine Thoughts About the Choice ...
      1. He’s Number Two: Stephen Poloz was widely acknowledged in economic and political circles as the second-best choice for the top job at the Bank of Canada. So the surprise was not that he was chosen. The surprise was, Why Not Tiff Macklem? Will someone please find out and tell the ...
  • Sociology: I Can’t Quit You
    True confession time, people. I commit sociology. And not just as a one-off. You might say—all right, I will say it—that I’m a repeat offender. In fact, I’m practically addicted. Scarcely a minute can go by without my synapses looking for their next fix. That might not be a politically correct a ...
  • Ontario Budget 2013: Four More Years of Austerity
    By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new leader – stands out as a case in point: it is carefully designed to survive a non-confidence vote. It extends a few olive branches to the opposition ND ...
  • What price would you pay for an education?
    How much would you give up to get a university education? For most of us, four years of work, study, investment and anxiety are the costs we are willing to pay to secure the benefits and opportunities of a university degree. But is a university degree worth so much to you that you would allow [. ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • 400 ppm: Overcoming the Grind of Reality to Re ...
      400 ppm: Overcoming the Grind of Reality to Revitalise the Dream by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a ...
  • Emergency desalination units needed as Marshal ...
    “About 6,000 people who live on the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific are facing an acute shortage of fresh water as a severe  drought worsens. A state of disaster was declared in the north. Australia announced it would provide AU$100,000 (£65,335) for emergency desalination units. Th ...
  • Native Americans begin 272 mile walk/run to pr ...
    “On Saturday, May 4, 2013, approximately 70 Native Americans representing the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Wells Colony, Elko/TeMoke Tribe, Battle Mountain and Yomba Shoshone along with Tribal members from the Northern Ute, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Navajo, Cherokee and non-nati ...
  • Safe drinking water disappearing fast in Bangl ...
    “The availability of safe drinking water, particularly in Bangladesh’s hard to reach areas, is expected to worsen as the country experiences the effects of climate change, experts say. “According to a study by the World Bank’s water and sanitation programme, about 28 mill ...
  • Suffocating The Desert: L.A.’s Need for ...
    “The skin of the desert has been peeled away. It is aloft, and it chokes those of us who breathe here. Each scrape from each stray plow or dozer, each square foot of exposed lakebed with the water siphoned off, each section of desert deemed to be more useful as a blank square mile ends [...]

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • WHOA… am I reading this correctly
    …WHOA… am I reading this correctly corporate is delivering FAKE news to Americans … while I choose to believe this to be true … with incontrovertible independent 3rd party proof it would make it easier for many to shallow…     Every Television Newscast Is a Staged Event   &# ...
  • enrich and engorge themselves with GOLDEN PARA ...
      … “we” do not have any i$$ue when bank$ters … politician$ … Wall Street Exec$ … enrich and engorge themselves with GOLDEN PARACHUTE$ … but … it’s not acceptable for others… Filed under: Blogroll
  • military is there to protect Afghan poppy crop ...
    …what don’t you choose to acknowledge … America’s corporate dominated military is there to protect Afghan poppy crop … not destroy it … just follow the $$$…  U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, Makes Peace With Afghan Poppies   Watch video here … http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe ...
  • you just might come to understand the unlimite ...
    …make the time to read “W” Bush/Cheney … Patriot Act … you just might come to understand the unlimited potency this law gave to government … and the regulators … enforcers it employs…   The FBI Doesn’t Think It Needs a Warrant to Read Your Email   By Andrea Peterson, Think Progre ...
  • corporate profit$ … Wall $treet stock pr ...
    …make$ perfect $ense … can’t have employee fleeing from their assignment even in the face of personal danger … corporate profit$ … Wall $treet stock prices are far more important … ju$t what the hell are you thinking… California Strawberry Pickers Fired for Fleeing Dangerous Wildfire By Annie-Ro ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives ...
    On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: "Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of ...
  • All the world's rarest birds in one book: phot ...
    The World's Rarest Birds is an extraordinary bird book. 590 different bird species are classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered, with many species only existing in captivity. A new book, The World's Rarest Birds, catalogs all of these species. Each species is shown with remarkable color ...
  • Conservation without supervision: Peruvian com ...
    When we think of conservation areas, many of us think of iconic National Parks overseen by uniformed government employees or wilderness areas purchased and run from afar by big-donor organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, or Conservation International. But ...
  • What if companies actually had to compensate s ...
    The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading pub ...
  • Letting nature do the talking this Earth Day ( ...
    Instead of writing a special article for this Earth Day, we are instead letting nature's beauty do the talking. The photos below were taken by the Mongabay.com team — Rhett Butler, Jeremy Hance, and Tiffany Roufs — in the twelve months since Earth Day 2012. Countries in this set incl ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • When robots take over essential human tasks
    Sherry Turkle shows up begging for a latte. She's left her wallet in her hotel room. She's exhausted, she says, and could do with a coffee."You can see it's not my most perky morning. But I'm really thrilled to be meeting with you."As...
  • 'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific
    Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between the Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light.The celestial spectacle, known...
  • New system fools brain into restoring hand use
    Some stroke victims may eventually recover lost hand function thanks to smart new computer system designed to fool the brain.University of Otago information science student Simon Hoermann, working with a large Otago interdisciplinary...
  • 'Physics nerd' wins spot at Nasa camp
    A self-proclaimed "physics nerd" from Burnside High School is heading to Nasa after winning a scholarship to space camp.Tom Marsh will experience what training is like for an astronaut, including zero gravity, when he visits in...
  • Warning as team create killer flu
    Senior scientists have criticised the "appalling irresponsibility" of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory.They warned there is a danger that the new viral...

The Bovine

  • Nadine Ijaz is invited to present on raw milk ...
    From Nadine Ijaz in B.C.: I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to present a special scientific Grand Rounds presentation entitled ‘Unpasteurized milk: myths and evidence’ to provincial public health staff at the BC Centre for Disease … Continue reading →
  • CFIA fixes their definition of local food to i ...
    From Tim Alamenciak in TheStar.ca “Food produced and sold in Ontario now qualifies as “local,” thanks to updated rules from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which critics say was following outdated policies. The federal agency’s original policy said food was only “local” … Contin ...
  • New dangers beyond GMOs — “Waiter, ...
    From Daisy Luther, at Activist Post, via SOTT.net “If we didn’t have enough to worry about in the grocery aisles, with GMOs, toxic additives, and pesticide-soaked foods, we can now add a new concern: nanoparticles. What exactly is a nanoparticle? As You … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk podcast with Alice, Jackie, and Randy ...
    Podcast followup to that raw milk story Randy wrote for the Vancouver Sun recently: Host Randy Shore welcomes raw milk activist Jackie Ingram and farmer Alice Jongerden of Home on the Range Dairy. Do the health benefits of raw milk outweigh … Continue reading →
  • Milk ad campaign could include raw
    Looking at this new ad campaign from the Dairy Farmers of Canada it’s hard not to imagine that they’re including raw milk as one of the options people might choose.  From Jordan Twiss, at Strategyonline.ca “The Dairy Farmers of Canada … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • German Export Machine Hits Skids; Imbalances I ...
    Eurozone imbalances continue to grow even as German exports slump. Why? German imports slumped even more, and the German current account surplus grew. Via Mish-Modified Google Translate from Les Echos, please consider Germany's Export Machine Slumps in March. The German trade surplus ...
  • Expect a Spike in Long-Term Japanese Interest ...
    I expect a spike sometime in the near future in long-term Japanese interest rates. People have been saying this for years, but the time may finally be at hand. The following headline is what tipped me off: BOJ chief expects no spike in long-term Japan interest rates. Japanese long-ter ...
  • Read Between the Lines: IMF Admits Spain is Ba ...
    It should be obvious to anyone reading this blog that Spain is in an economic depression as well as bankrupt. It is equally obviously that eurozone imbalances and a flawed treaty are to blame. Finding mainstream organizations willing to admit Spain is bankrupt is another matter. Yet today, ...
  • Germany France Feud Erupts Again; German Centr ...
    The simmering stew between Germany and France boiled over again this week as German Central Bank Head Blasts France. France needs more time to get its budget deficit under control. That much was made clear last Friday when the European Commission announced it was granting Paris until 2015 to ...
  • Huge Bubble in India Home Prices Ready to Burst
    Here are some interesting charts by Deepak Shenoy on the India Housing Bubble. India HPI click on any chart for sharper image India home prices have been going up at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26% since March of 2009. Mumbai and Delhi Shenoy rep ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Bob Marley-“War” This week we have Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician Bob Marley’s War for the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol pick. War was a song recorded and made popular by Bob Marley. The song is credited to Alan “Skill” Cole for the idea and late Wailers’ drummer ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 28
    “Gitmo, Syria, and Beyond” with Eugene Puryear This week, Eric sits down with activist and organizer Eugene Puryear to discuss a number of important issues. First, Eric and Eugene discuss the ongoing hunger strike at the Guantanamo concentration camp and the continued use of torture by the US au ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 9, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Syria Update: The Geopolitical Double Game
    Conflicting Moves Create the Intended ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ Just a cursory review of the latest developments in Syria is enough to make anyone dizzy. Well, not everyone- not those who pay attention to the chronology of events unfolding hourly and get past the smoke and mirrors created to obscure ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • ConocoPhillips: FSRUs are the Key to LNG Marke ...
    Chip Schuppert, ConocoPhillips’ Global LNG Marketing Manager spoke at last week’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston on the opportunities and challenges facing this developing sector. Hundreds of billions of dollars [...]
  • Hansen and HMS Bounty Organization Sued for $9 ...
    The official USCG and NTSB reports on the sinking of Bounty aren’t out yet. Even so, the lawyers for Claudene Christian’s mother (also named Claudene) felt they had more than [...]
  • Shipyard Photo of the Day: Anyone Need an Engine?
    Former shipmate Christopher Dale took this photo the other day while working at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in Okpo, Korea. The crane barge in the photo is the [...]
  • Chinese Shipyards Win Orders for Dozen Deltama ...
    Naval architecture firm Deltamarin announced today a handful of orders for their B.Delta bulk carrier design, all to be built at Chinese shipyards. Here’s how it broke down: Shipowner Number [...]
  • US-Bound Supertanker Rates Spike as More Ships ...
    (Bloomberg) — Charter rates for the largest oil tankers hauling Middle East crude to the U.S. climbed after stronger demand drew vessels to Asia, according to shipbroker Braemar Seascope Ltd. [...]

Press TV

  • '12 shot at Mother's Day event in US city'
    At least 12 people have been shot at a Mother’s Day parade in the US city of New Orleans, police officials have said, adding that three of the victims are in a critical condition.
  • ‘S Sudan soldiers ransacked UN stores’
    South Sudanese soldiers have ransacked stores of the United Nations in the east of the country, humanitarian sources say.
  • Turkish protesters blame govt. for blasts
    Hundreds of people have gathered in the southern Turkish province Hatay to protest against Saturday’s twin car bombings, which killed 46 people and injured over a hundred others in the town of Reyhanli.
  • Spaniards mark movement anniv.
    Thousands of Spaniards have demonstrated nationwide to mark the second anniversary of the "indignants" movement formed to protest against economic inequality and government’s austerity cuts.
  • Syria opp. to decide on joining talks
    Leaders of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition will decide whether to participate in a US and Russia-sponsored peace conference to end the violence in the Arab country.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Helium supplies dwindle
    transcript to follow...
  • Vaccine for dust mite allergies!
    It's the dream of many allergy sufferers to have some kind of jab that would vaccinate them against the misery of their reactions. Now new research from a research team in Thailand, working with a com...
  • 3D-Print Your Way to Invisibility
    A "cloaking device", capable of rendering objects invisible to microwave light, has been produced using a standard 3D printer by scientists in America. 3D printing - or Stereolithographic polymer-bas...
  • Quickfire Science: 3D Printing
    Transcript to follow......
  • Milk Monitor Collars Spoilt Dairy
    If you've ever accidentally put spoilt milk in your tea or on your cereal you'll know it's an experience you don't want to repeat. One way to stop this culinary disaster is to have sophisticated elect...

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