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August 7, 2006 Pieces of a Hezbollah UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) that was taken down by the Israeli Air Force. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IAI Heron 1 UAV in flight Location: NAVAL AIR STATION, FALLON, NEVADA (NV) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle prepares to land after a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The Reaper has the ability to carry both precision-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) The Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter (white shirt on the right) listens to a brief on the “Sentry HP” Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) while touring Naval Special Warfare Development Group. U.S. Navy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: InView Unmanned Aircraft for use in scientific, commercial and state applications. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The RQ-7B, or the Shadow 200, is the type of unmanned aerial vehicle flown by VMU-3. The squadron will be activated at the Combat Center in September. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Aerovision Fulmar UAV during a recent flight (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: CBP Air and Marine officers control and watch images taken by Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) of the CBP. This surveillance provides information concerning illegal activities taking place in remote areas to Border Patrol agents. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Spc. Jeremy Squirres of Company A, 101st Military Intelligence Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, prepares a Shadow 200 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for launch at Forward Operating Base Warhorse, Iraq. This photo appeared on www.army.mil. author: Spc. James B. Smith Jr date: September 24, 2004 source: http://web.archive.org/web/http://www4.army.mil/armyimages/armyimage.php?photo=3472 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A group photo of aerial demonstrators at the 2005 Naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Air Demo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IAI Heron 1 UAV in flight. Location: NAVAL AIR STATION, FALLON, NEVADA (NV) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: MS Mavi Marmara making a tour of Istanbul harbour on the occasion of her return to Istanbul, December 26, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mavi Marmara (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

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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

• Arbitrating Bangladesh Labor Rights (Part II)
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford As Peter noted yesterday, the recent tragedies in Bangladesh factories have resulted in a major breakthrough with the signing of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Thus far, leading retailers such as H&M, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Sain ...
• Questions About the Mavi Marmara Referral
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In my previous post, I expressed my skepticism that the OTP will open a formal investigation into the situation — loosely defined — involving Israel’s attack on the MV Mavi Marmara. In this post, I want to raise two issues concerning Co ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Japanese military’s forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to “maintain discipline” in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers, an outspoken nationalist mayor has said. Russia has ordered the exp ...
• Could the ICC Investigate Israel’s Attack on t ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This is very interesting. The Union of the Cormoros, a state party to the Rome Statute since 2002, has formally referred Israel’s attack on the flotilla that included the MV Mavi Marmara to the ICC. The question I want to address in this post is wh ...
• Bangladesh Factory Safety Accord: Watershed In ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Here’s the text of the agreement described in reports in the NY Times and elsewhere today. It’s the most significant institutional response to the massive loss of life (now above a thousand dead) in the April Bangladesh factory collapse. This may be a ...

Public News Service

• Bed Sharing Safely: Not All Co-Sleeping is Cre ...
  Bed Sharing Safely: Not All Co-Sleeping is Created Equal PHOENIX - When it comes to the potential risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome from a mother sharing her bed with her baby, there is a push to change the message from "just don't do it" to "here is how it's done most safely." The shift is ...
• Report: New Policies Needed as Millennials Lea ...
  Report: New Policies Needed as Millennials Lead AZ Driving Decline PHOENIX - Arizona's driving boom is over. A new report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund says total vehicle travel miles peaked in 2007. According to PIRG public interest advocate Serena Unre ...
• Money Woes Worsen for Renters in Arizona
  Money Woes Worsen for Renters in Arizona PHOENIX - Just because you have a job doesn't mean you can pay the rent in Arizona. A new report, Housing Landscape 2013, from the nonprofit Center for Housing Policy shows an increasing number of renters are spending more than half their income on housin ...
• 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 ...

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

• Panicking NZ climate scientists go for the doc ...
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• New climate change study shows Antarctic melt ...
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• Another fisk of Ken Perrott – the climate deni ...
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• Climate change expert quits NASA, pushes nucle ...
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• New global warming scandal hits climate science
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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

• EU-China solar photovoltaic trade war
  Renewable Energy World explores the growing solar photovoltaic trade war between the EU and China, which is also happening here. The EU and US accuse China of dumping solar panels and are imposing punitive tariffs. China, of course, responds by imposing its own punitive tariffs. All of this may ...
• Facial recognition in Google Glass raises legi ...
  A genuinely useful Google Glass app helps hospital employees ID patients and share data. But what happens when Glass can ID anyone? There are some people, like those in law enforcement, who do not wish to be identified when they are walking down the street. These are genuine concerns. Glass can& ...
• IRS Tea Party scandal. WaPo spins, LA Times su ...
  WaPo implies the IRS Tea Party debacle was due to insubordination and thus not that big a deal. Excuse me? Why did a group of IRS officials deliberately and knowingly disobey orders from the director? That’s the question. Instead we get spin from the Washington Post, the Beltway attempts t ...
• Ultimarker – augmented reality meets 3D printing
  Mash up 3D printing and augmented reality and you get to see an visualization of what the 3D object will look like when completed, as it prints, with annotation. Both 3D printing and augmented reality are seen as the two most impactful and radical innovations of our time. Thanks to these techniq ...
• Water and population – two sobering maps
  Via Zenpundit who has links to the originals. The amount of drinkable water on the planet seems vanishingly small as the population keep rising. Water and population are inextricably linked, and not just for drinking . Water is also heavily used in manufacturing and generating electricity. Many ...

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

• IRS Agents Stole 60 Million Medical Records, L ...
  The Internal Revenue Service stole and improperly accessed 60 million medical records after raiding a California company, according to a legal complaint filed in March with the California superior court for San Diego. Fifteen IRS agents are now facing a class-action lawsuit in the matter. “In a ...
• This Day In History – May 16
  1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France. 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between loca ...
• BOSTON BOMBINGS; Interview With Police Involve ...
  “… He was about 6 or 8 feet away from me, firing his pistol at me, I was firing at him… I’d run out of ammunition, I had to do a reload in the middle of that, and he had a problem with his firearm, I don’t know if it jammed on him or what, [...]
• The Jack Blood Show – May 15 2013
  Wednesday 5.15.13 – Jack Blood explains the REAL scandals facing Obama and why republicRATS will never push for accountability. Callers and breaking news…. Donate to jackblood@hotmail.com or we die.
• The future is now! Amazon launches its own vir ...
  Govt comes down on those who try this is the real world – but if new cyber cash will condition the masses to accept a global electronic “currency” – which the bankers can manipulate and cut off anytime – then so be it. gives ‘tens of millions’ away for f ...

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 lets users rate any place and change ...
  Facebook place pages now include an option for users to give star ratings to businesses and locations directly from their page on Facebook.com, even if they haven’t been to the location. Previously, users could rate places...
• Vin Diesel, Sanaa Lathan, Emma Watson and othe ...
  Vin Diesel leads this week’s list of top gainers in the People Talking About This metric for actor/director pages. The “Fast and Furious” star has achieved 1.6 million total engagements with his page, increasing by 546k engagements...
• Facebook platform industry news: Compass Labs, ...
  Compass Labs Social marketing platform Compass Labs today announced a new dynamic campaign solution, The Social Advertising Optimizer, which automatically manages an advertiser’s bids. The tool can identify and optimize campaigns by ad placement, targeting and creative combinations based on...
• Facebook adds option for star ratings on conte ...
  Facebook today completed its global rollout of the new Timeline design with sections for music, movies, books, fitness and more. Now, it will begin letting users rate content from those sections or from third-party apps. Facebook...
• Facebook brings new status updates to mobile s ...
  Facebook has brought its new structured status update feature to its mobile website, allowing users to post what they’re watching, reading, eating, drinking, listening to or feeling from their phones. When this feature was introduced in...

National Geographic | Environment

• On Mount Everest, Seeking Biogas Energy in a M ...
  Work is under way on the world's highest-elevation biogas reactor, in an effort to transform a surplus of human waste on Mount Everest into a sustainable energy source.
• Climate Milestone: Earth's CO2 Level Passes 40 ...
  The last time the planet was such a greenhouse, our ancestors were climbing down from the trees—and sea level was tens of feet higher.
• Plants "Listen" to the Good Vibes of Other Plants
  Plants might be able to tell good neighbors from bad ones by the sounds they emit.
• Solar Impulse's U.S. Expedition Begins
  Solar Impulse, a solar-powered aircraft able to fly overnight, embarks on a cross-country trip-without a single drop of fuel.
• Pro-Environment Light Bulb Labeling Turns off ...
  Green labeling causes some consumers to shun energy-efficient light bulbs even when they know the choice could save them money, a new study finds.

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

• A New Life for Chris Christie
  The political and psychological aftermath of weight-loss surgery -- the skinny from a journalist who's been there
• Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
  The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb
• Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
  After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information
• Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
  American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter
• Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
  The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again.

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

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

• Wrong is Wrong, No Matter Who Does It
  This kind of behavior is just plain wrong. What really bothers me is what the PTB did to the Occupy movement. If there are so-called "Progressives" that wish to defend Obama and his cronies, they might just wish to take a minute to reflect on how they crushed the most promising populist movement ...
• Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terri ...
  Highlighting the Obama administration's targeting of government whistleblowers, Hedges says: "Talk to any investigative journalist who must investigate the government, and they will tell you that there is a deep freeze. People are terrified of speaking, because they're terrified of going to jail."
• The Real Benghazi Scandal
  The Republican fixation on Benghazi "talking points" has obscured the bigger scandal of last September's fatal attacks, the CIA's use of the consulate as an operational base without sufficient insufficient security. That failure underscores a series of other unexamined intelligence failures.
• Governance as Sadomasochism: Obama from the IR ...
  The Obama administration is sadomasochistic. It enjoys the pain inflicted on it by Republicans and the conservative media (see the controversy over the IRS and the Tea Party) so much, that it voluntarily ups the pain (see AG Holder's criminal investigation of the IRS). And it revels in meting ou ...
• Collusion Course: Machinations of the Double-H ...
  While continuing a fierce vigilance against the relentless encroachments of an unhinged, unrestrained and openly murderous government, let us also recognize that the "free market" is, and always has been, a rigged game where vicious predators seek tyrannical control, by hook, crook and vast corr ...

Switchboard

• State Emissions Report Card Puts California at ...
  Alex Jackson, Legal Director, California Climate Project, San Francisco The federal government’s energy statistics agency issued its latest state energy-related greenhouse gas emissions report card on Monday, which compares how states&rsq ...
• The time is now for a UN High Commissioner for ...
  John Romano, Global Fellow, International Program, New York City NRDC has joined hundreds of other civil society organizations in support of a proposal for the establishment of a UN “High Commissioner for Future Generations.”  While ...
• New Federal Fracking Rule Rumored to be Imminent
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. It’s rumored that the BLM is about to release the next draft of its proposal for fracking guidelines for public lands. We’ve been blogging about all the significant failures with the fir ...
• Driving Our Destiny: Demographics Show the Dri ...
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Yesterday U.S. PIRG released their latest, best analysis of national vehicle-miles-of-travel (VMT) trendlines, reiterating the finding that absolute VMT peaked in 2004 while ...
• India cracks down on "thin-film" exemption, bu ...
  Kristina Johnson, Program Assistant, Food and Agriculture, India Initiative, Urban, San Francisco May 7th – May 14th, 2013 India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Climate Change Mumb ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Long Arm of the Dawes Act
  I’ve talked about both the history of the Dawes Act and the private ownership of the Wounded Knee Massacre site by someone who is threatening to develop it. Here’s a good essay expanding on these issues, talking about how an act dispossessing Native peoples of their land in 1887 stil ...
• The Unsurprisingly Shrinkng Deficit
  If most of the political agitation about “the deficit” was about the deficit, this would change the course of the political debate. Alas, a majority of political agitation about “the deficit” is produced by people solely interested in a pretext to dismantle the welfare st ...
• Today’s Overstated Health Panic
  Salt: In a report that undercuts years of public health warnings, a prestigious group convened by the government says there is no good reason based on health outcomes for many Americans to drive their sodium consumption down to the very low levels recommended in national dietary guidelines. Thos ...
• The Latest in Job Safety Hazards: Poop Foam
  Tom Philpott reports on a new job safety hazard developing in agriculture. The enormous manure piles on today’s gargantuan hog farms are gurgling up explosive foam. This never really happened before 2009, but it is an increasingly common occurrence on industrial-scale hog farms. The proble ...
• Red-Baitee of the Day
  Marvin Miller.

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

• How We Can Pedal, Crank, Dance, And Walk To Cr ...
  Generating electricity isn't limited to burning things or harnessing the power of the wind, waves and sun. What's the potential for human power?
• Electric Vehicle Charger Prices A Little More ...
  A simplified Level 2 charger for electric cars goes for less than half the usual price.
• African Jeep Safari Experiences Set To Go All- ...
  Electric off-road vehicles are coming to the African safari experience, offering up a quieter, and perhaps cleaner driving, outing in the bush.
• Solar Sailboat Shows How ‘Groovy’ Off-Grid Lif ...
  If you've ever stared out your office window, wishing for a life less tethered, get ready to drool.
• Putting The Muscle Into Electric Cars
  Even as EVs appeal to feminine sensibilities, they can likewise appeal to the testosterone-fueled, tech-savvy masculine side of some of us (men and women).

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Letter to the Editor: Reading Too Much into Mi ...
  Dan Schweitzer, Supreme Court counsel of the National Association of Attorneys General, responds to Simon Lazarus' NLJ piece about the implications of Wos v. E.M.A.
• Objections Mount to $1.6 Billion Toyota Settl ...
  Potential class members in the sudden acceleration litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. have filed objections to the proposed $1.6 billion settlement reached on behalf of consumers asserting claims for economic damages.
• AP Subpoenas Spotlight Obama's Scrutiny of Press
  The Obama administration's record on transparency once again faces criticism--this time from both Republicans and Democrats--following the revelation that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly obtained and reviewed Associated Press telephone records during a criminal investigation into a suspe ...
• 'Company Doe' Asks Fourth Circuit to Keep Reco ...
  A company using a pseudonym in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is fighting to keep documents under seal in a dispute rooted in whether the public should be allowed to see a consumer product safety report.
• Boston Founder's Defamation Claim Against Wido ...
  An intermediate state appeals court on Tuesday revived Boston rock band founder Donald Scholz's defamation case against late lead singer Brad Delp's ex-wife over her alleged statements to a newspaper linking Delp's suicide with his rocky relationship with Scholz.

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

• US Slams Iran's Rotation as Chair of Conferenc ...
  She explains that while the presidency of the CD is largely ceremonial and involves no substantive responsibilities, allowing Iran-a country that is in flagrant violation of its obligations under multiple UN Security Council Resolutions.
• Google's Newest Innovation, Google Glass
  While Google has captured everyone's attention with its newest innovation, Google Glass, and it seems cool, it must do more than that.
• Is China Showing a Sign of Shift in Its Policy ...
  With the reports starting to make headlines that the Bank of China publicly announced last week that it closed the account of North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank, question then emerged, is China showing a sign of shift in its policy stance on North Ko
• Pakistan Holds Historic Elections
  The poll was generally seen as successful one, but violence on Saturday killed at least 24 lives.
• US Chicken Industry Defends Arsenic Levels in Food
  Both arsenic in birds and bird feed and the deaths described in Gourmet magazine stem from the cult of cheap food perpetrated by US factory farms.

environment 360

• Glaciers on Everest Disappearing as Temperatur ...
  The glaciers on Mount Everest and the surrounding region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last five decades as temperatures have risen and snowfall has declined in Pavel Novak that section of the Himalaya, according to a new study. Using satellite imagery and topographic maps, a team of scient ...
• Shifting Petrel Diets Suggest Effect of Humans ...
  An analysis of the bones of ancient and modern Hawaiian petrels has revealed that modern petrels, which forage in the open ocean, are eating prey lower on the food chain than in centuries past, a dramatic shift USGS that coincides with the rise of industrial fishing. In tests conducted on petr ...
• Interview: Climate Pioneer’s Son Ponders a Wor ...
  Climate scientist Ralph Keeling has followed in the footsteps of his renowned father, Charles David Keeling, who in 1958 became a pioneering figure in humanity’s struggle to combat climate change when he developed an accurate method of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere and Scripps Institution of ...
• Project Looks to Quantify Power Plant Emission ...
  A team of scientists is enlisting public support to help produce a more comprehensive inventory of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants globally, urging citizens to identify power plants in their communities with a new digital app. While data from some of the Google Earth world’s industri ...
• True Nature: Revising Ideas On What is Pristin ...
  New research shows that humans have been transforming the earth and its ecosystems for millenniums — far longer than previously believed. These findings call into question our notions about what is unspoiled nature and what should be preserved. BY FRED PEARCE

Red Ice Creations

• Walking with dinosaurs? Archaeologist says its ...
  A world-renowned archaeologist has warned that people should be concerned about the issue of resurrecting extinct species. TV presenter and professor Alice Roberts has argued people should "grapple with" the issue of bringing Ice Age animals back from the dead. "We are, quite seriously, on the b ...
• Huge X-class Solar Flares Keep Erupting from S ...
  Sun watcher’s faces might well be melting off with all the activity that’s been bursting forth from the sun over the last forty-eight hours. In the increasing solar activity that’s ramping up to peak during 2013, our star has been releasing dramatic and powerful bursts of radiation into space - ...
• Deep Canadian mine yields ancient water
  Water drilled from rock in a North American mine is among the oldest yet found on Earth, say scientists. Novel dating techniques used by the Canadian and UK team suggest the fluid is at least 1.5 billion years old. The water was probably once on the surface and then percolated through the ground ...
• Robots to provide ’defense and security’ in Br ...
  Bedford’s iRobot Corp. said Wednesday that it has been awarded contracts totaling $7.2 million from the Brazilian government for robots that can help provide security as Brazil gears up for a World Cup soccer tournament, a scheduled papal visit this summer, and the 2016 Olympics. The company mak ...
• Mainstream Media Tactic: Label All Opposing Vi ...
  What does the mainstream media do when they don’t want to discuss a real issue that diverts away the topic from political theater? Simply deem it a wild ‘conspiracy theory’ and pretend it doesn’t exist. It’s a tried and true method. It has worked for a long line of question-dodging politicians, ...

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

• Conflicting Advice on Healthy Salt Consumption ...
• When Vitamin C-ing is Disbelieving
• Clean Eating for Busy Families (3 Easy Recipes)
• How Mom Shaped My Healthy Eating Habits
• Diabetes: Here’s Why You Should Get Tested NOW

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

• Guatemala’s former dictator convicted of genocide
  Thousands of indigenous people in Guatemala were tortured or killed during the military dictatorship of José Efrain Ríos Montt.© Survival InternationalA former general who presided over a reign of terror in Guatemala during the 1980s has been convicted of genocide. During the military dictators ...
• Brazilian Indians forced to leave mega-dam site
  Amazon Indians have been protesting against Belo Monte for years© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrThe Brazilian authorities have evicted Indians from the Belo Monte dam site, where they were protesting for their land rights. Representatives of eight tribes had been occupying the area, demanding that the g ...
• 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 ...

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

• Dachel Media Update: Purdue, DSM-5, NVIC
  By Anne Dachel May 15, 2013, WISH-TV, Indianapolis, IN: Purdue seeks infants for child autism study May 14, 2013, TV8 Grand Rapids, MI: More autism, less special education--Fewer kids in special ed despite rise in diagnoses May 14, 2013, Albert...
• Autism One Presents Age of Autism: Year in Rev ...
  Join us at 8:30am on Saturday, May 25th at Autism One in the Louvre room. Mark, Kim, and Dan will review the year and then? We are going to debut a new 9-minute video, "How Mercury Triggered the Age of...
• Columbia Journalism Review Casts Eye on Vaccin ...
  By Anne Dachel May 1, 2013, the Columbia Journalism Review published the story, Sticking with the truth--How 'balanced' coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism by Curtis Brainard From the title of the article, it...
• Dachel Media Update: Screenings, Services
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump: May 13, 2013, Wayne County (NY) Post: Wayne ARC leads the way in autism services May 13, 2013, Wall Street Journal: Autism Center Is Set to Target Need---A New Mental-Health Campus...
• Dachel Media Update: Mother's Day, DSM-V
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. May 14, 2013, Telegraph (Australia): Crackpot crusaders putting our kids at risk May 12, 2013, Rock Hill (SC) Herald: Mother's Day difficult for SC mom with autistic son May 12, 2013,...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Prominent Europeans Discuss Dangers of GMOs
  Dangers of GMOS and worldwide cultivation statistics.
• 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.

new geography

• America's New Manufacturing Boomtowns
  Conventional wisdom for a generation has been that manufacturing in America is dying. Yet over the past five years, the country has experienced something of an industrial renaissance. We may be far from replacing the 3 million industrial jobs lost in the recession, but the economy has adde ...
• America’s New Oligarchs—Fwd.us and Silicon Val ...
  When Steve Jobs died in October 2011, crowds of mourners gathered outside of Apple stores, leaving impromptu memorials to the fallen businessman. Many in Occupy Wall Street, then in full bloom, stopped to mourn the .001 percenter worth $7 billion, who didn’t believe in charity and whos ...
• Why Gentrification?
  The mostly commonly chosen means, or at least attempted means, of revitalizing central cities that have fallen on hard times is gentrification.  Gentrification is the process of replacing the poor population of a neighborhood with the affluent and reorienting the district along upscale lines ...
• Housing Market Fringe Movement
  A year or two ago, pundits and planners, in California and elsewhere, proclaimed – and largely celebrated – the demise of suburbia. They were particularly heartened by a report, financed by portions of the real estate industry, that predicted the market for single-family homes in the sta ...
• 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 ...

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

• Florida Tweaks Traffic Lights to Rob Citizens ...
  Via: WTSP: A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida’s rules regarding traffic signals has allowed local cities and counties to shorten yellow light intervals, resulting in millions of dollars in additional red light camera fines. The 10 News Investigators discovered the Florida Departmen ...
• Official Cover Espionage Bust in Russia
  All countries run intelligence operations out of their embassies. This is the nine-to-five grind of espionage work. If there’s anything noteworthy here, it’s the banality of the whole thing. When I took an international security studies class in college long ago, this process was des ...
• ‘Petrol Price Rigged for a Decade’
  Via: Telegraph: MPs and energy experts tonight raised fears motorists have been “taken for a very expensive ride”, after officials searched the offices of BP and Shell for evidence of price-rigging. The companies are suspected of distorting the oil price since 2002, meaning drivers have potentia ...
• Navy Launches X-47B from Carrier
  Via: ABC: The Navy for the first time Tuesday launched an unmanned aircraft the size of a fighter jet from a warship in the Atlantic Ocean, as it wades deeper into America’s drone program amid growing concerns over the legality of its escalating surveillance and lethal strikes. Called the ...
• Saudis Discussing Surveillance and Censorship ...
  Via: Thought Crime: Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they’re working on in that country. Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it’s not uncommon for me to get emails requesting that I h ...

The Economic Collapse

• An Even Bigger Scandal: Why Are IRS Audits Bei ...
  Is it right for Barack Obama to use IRS audits to punish his political enemies?  As crazy as that sounds, there is a mounting body of evidence that indicates that this is actually happening.  And if this can be proven, it is a much, much larger scandal than the IRS giving "extra scrutiny" to the ...
• An Interview With Barack Obama About The IRS S ...
  Does Barack Obama have any idea what is going on in the government that he is supposedly running?  Scandals are erupting all around him, and he supposedly was not aware that any wrongdoing had taken place in any of those instances.  It is almost as if every major government agency has gone rogue ...
• 10 Scenes From The Economic Collapse That Is S ...
  When is the economic collapse going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look around the globe.  The next wave of the economic collapse may not have reached Wall Street yet, but it is already deeply affecting billions of lives all over the planet.  Much of Europe has already descended i ...
• Shut Them Down! – Payday Loan Companies ...
  Would you take out a loan that has an annual percentage rate of 391 percent?  Yes, I know that sounds absolutely crazy, but millions of Americans do it every single year.  The typical payday loan requires borrowers to pay about 15 dollars for every $100 that they borrow for two weeks.  That come ...
• 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 ...

Desertification

• The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food ...
  Read at : http://www.splendidtable.org/story/how-to-feed-10000-people-from-food-grown-on-3-acres-in-the-city How to feed 10,000 people from food grown on 3 acres in the city Will Allen is proving that city farms work — big time. He’s not conjuring up theories; everything that he is teachin ...
• Loss of Common Plants and Animals (Science Daily)
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130512140946.htm Climate Change Will Cause Widespread Global-Scale Loss of Common Plants and Animals, Researchers Predict More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate & ...
• Saving Seeds to Save a Culture (Foodtank)
  Read at : http://foodtank.org/news/2013/04/navdanya-saving-seeds-to-save-a-culture Navdanya: Saving Seeds to Save a Culture “Seed is the first link in the food chain. Saving seeds is our duty, sharing seeds is our culture,” says Dr. Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya, an organization whose &#823 ...
• Combating desertification in Turkey (Google / ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.tema.org.tr/web_14966-2_2/neuralnetwork.aspx?type=97 Combating desertification Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activit ...
• Combating desertification by Carbon Sequestrat ...
  Read at : http://www.undp.org.ir/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/594-vina-barahman 05 May 2013- Marking 10 years of combating desertification by Carbon Sequestration Project TEHRAN, 05 May 2013- Today the Carbon Sequestration Project (CSP) led by Bureau of Desert Affairs, in th ...

News Blaze

• US Slams Iran's Rotation as Chair of Conferenc ...
  She explains that while the presidency of the CD is largely ceremonial and involves no substantive responsibilities, allowing Iran-a country that is in flagrant violation of its obligations under multiple UN Security Council Resolutions.
• Google's Newest Innovation, Google Glass
  While Google has captured everyone's attention with its newest innovation, Google Glass, and it seems cool, it must do more than that.
• Is China Showing a Sign of Shift in Its Policy ...
  With the reports starting to make headlines that the Bank of China publicly announced last week that it closed the account of North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank, question then emerged, is China showing a sign of shift in its policy stance on North Ko
• Pakistan Holds Historic Elections
  The poll was generally seen as successful one, but violence on Saturday killed at least 24 lives.
• US Chicken Industry Defends Arsenic Levels in Food
  Both arsenic in birds and bird feed and the deaths described in Gourmet magazine stem from the cult of cheap food perpetrated by US factory farms.

Worldnews

• Watch: Shia Labeouf-Directed Video For Future ...
  At the very least, it’s hard not to admire Shia Labeouf’s attempts to stretch himself artistically. Whether it’s appearing naked...
• U.S. tax chief ousted in scandal
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. Seeking to regain the initiative amid a series of controversi ...
• Bombings kill at least 33 in Iraq
  Updated: May 15, 2013 6:28PM BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded near a bus station in Baghdad’s main Shiite district Wednesday, the deadliest in a series of explosions that killed at least 33 people nationwide, officials said. The bloodshed came amid growing tensions between the Shiite-led gover ...
• Democrats and the IRS
  President Obama fired acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on Wednesday, two days after claiming it was an "independent" agency. That was certainly a rapid re-education. But Mr. Miller shouldn't be the only fall guy, because the 54-page report released Tuesday by the Treasury Inspector General ...
• >Business Highlights
  ___ Google unveils $10-a-month 'All Access' music plan SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Wednesday launched a subscription-based music service, allowing users of Android phones and tablets to listen to their favorite songs and artists for a monthly fee. The streaming service, called All Access, is ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Diagnosic Technology Improved By Chemistry Bre ...
  From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures. Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current contrast agents and dyes are expensive, difficu ...
• Ranbaxy shares slump on $500 million fine to s ...
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd shares fell 3.4 percent in pre-open trading on Tuesday after the Indian generic drugmaker pleaded guilty to U.S. felony charges related to drug safety and will pay $500 million in civil and criminal fines. (Source: Reuters: Health)
• Drug manufacturer agrees to $500 million penalty
  Ranbaxy admitted that it made and sold impure drugs at two manufacturing sites in India (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Have a look at The Psychology Daily, the new psychology portal powered by MedWorm, with all the latest psychology news and rese ...
• Elan's $1 billion drug royalty deal aids bid d ...
  DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish drugmaker Elan Corporation has agreed a $1 billion royalties deal that could soothe concerns about its potentially risky acquisition strategy and fend off a takeover bid from Royalty Pharma. (Source: Reuters: Health)
• Scientists ask public to hunt for power plants
  Initiative will use crowdsourced data to inform global carbon modelling.

Common Dreams

• Mass Public School Closures in Chicago Spark C ...
  The mass public school closings in Chicago have sparked a pair of federal civil rights lawsuits charging that the closings have a discriminatory impact on African-American students and students with disabilities. The suits are asking for an injunction to halt the closures of 53 elementary school ...
• US Gov't Reaps Billions in Profits Off Backs o ...
  The United States government is reaping billions in profits off the backs of struggling students, according to new figures made public Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office. According to the 2013 fiscal year forecast, the Department of Education is slated to bring in an estimated $50.6 bill ...
• Improve Working Conditions in Bangladesh? Walm ...
  In the wake of the worst garment factory tragedy in world history, which left over 1,200 dead in Bangladesh last month, a number of Western brands have signed an agreement to improve working conditions in their subcontracted factories there. Walmart was missing from the list of signatories. ...
• Momentum of Fast Food Workers Strikes Sweeping ...
  They came to New York City. Chicago. St. Louis. Detroit.  And on Wednesday the wave of strikes by fast food workers has come to Milwaukee, where hundreds of workers are echoing the chorus of voices calling for $15 an hour and the right to unionize. ...
• States Brace for Monsanto's 'Big Stick' in GMO ...
  (Photo: Vermont Right to Know)Grassroots groups across the United States are mobilizing against the nation's powerful biotech firms as a new round of labeling laws for foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) make their way through state legislatures.  ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

• The Ethanol-Gasoline Cost Gap
  While it’s true that on a gallon-to-gallon basis ethanol historically has been cheaper than gasoline, ethanol contains far less energy than gasoline and therefore has cost consumers more to travel the same distance.
• Are Electric Cars Green? The External Cost of ...
  Even if there is enough lithium to displace the 1 billion internal combustion engine cars that now pollute the earth with electric cars, it is the electronic waste problem that should dominate the question.
• OTEC and Energy Innovation: The Willie Sutton ...
  The average amount of energy the ocean absorbed each year over the period 1993 to 2008 was enough to power nearly 500 100-watt light bulbs for each of the roughly 6.7 billion people on the planet.
• Renewable Energy's Popularity: Support for Win ...
  How many people support renewables or nuclear energy, or for that matter fracking? A closer to look at polls shows that support numbers should be treated with caution.
• Warren Buffett Pumps $1.9 Billion Into Iowa Wi ...
  When Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy announced the new investment, it gave full credit to the extension of the production tax credit for enabling it to expand its wind generating capacity.

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• America and Pakistan in Search of New Future
  Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD America and Pakistan both stand at a critical juncture in time and history and are searching for new policies for change and new relations. America had the opportunity when President Obama – the first colored president to enter the WHITE- White House erected by his ...
• How Your Town Can Stop Drones
  By David Swanson Local resolutions have helped advance many issues, including war opposition, when they've been passed in large numbers. When we passed a resolution in Charlottesville, Va., last year opposing any attack on Iran, I heard from numerous cities that wanted to do the same. As far as ...
• Anti-Assad Forces: Caught in the Act Again
  by Stephen Lendman Previous articles discussed Washington-supported death squads in Syria. It's common practice in all US direct and proxy wars. Massacres and unspeakable atrocities are committed. Women are raped. Civilians are treated like combatants. Official coverup and denial follow. ...
• Spies "R" Us
  by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed institutionalized spying on Americans. Anyone can be monitored for any reason or none at all. Manufactured national security threats, silencing dissent, targeting whistleblowers, and challenging press freedom subvert constitutional rights. ...
• Industrial-Grade Fluoridation Chemicals Cost S ...
  Fluoride Action Network Industrial-grade fluoride chemicals added to US public water supplies contain arsenic that the EPA classifies as a human carcinogen. Switching to low-arsenic pharmaceutical-grade fluoride will save society $1 billion to $14 billion annually, according to research publish ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• New video from our Budget Forum featuring Kevi ...
  On April 25th, the CCPA hosted a forum on the changing nature of federal budgets, featuring former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. As the keynote speaker, Mr. Page delivered a captivating talk about his time as Canada’s first PBO, and we are grateful to him for sharing his experience wi ...
• Is wealth too powerful in Canada?
  Thursday evening at the Canadian War Museum, in a debate presented by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and moderated by historian Jack Granatstein, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan and economist William Watson debated the motion, “Wealth has too much power in Canada.” Read Armine's argumen ...
• 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

• Deepwater Horizon oil spill 'cleanup' made tox ...
  Dec. 1, 2012 (NaturalNews) The cleanup technique used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually made the spilled oil more than 50 times more toxic than doing nothing, according to a study conducted by researchers fr ...
• GEOS-5 - Aerosois - [aerosols whipping around ...
• BEIJING'S POLLUTION ALARMS NEIGHBORS
• WHEN THE MERMAIDS CRY: THE GREAT PLASTIC TIDE
• BPs Extinction Level Event! Experts: 'We Have ...
  April 1, 2013 Despite the fact that dead dolphins and manatees are STILL showing up in droves along BOTH coasts of Florida, experts have been advised that they are NOT ALLOWED to discuss their findings due to the ongoing court cases involving BP. Since I am not beholden to BP nor to corrupt poli ...

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

• The Ethanol-Gasoline Cost Gap
  While it’s true that on a gallon-to-gallon basis ethanol historically has been cheaper than gasoline, ethanol contains far less energy than gasoline and therefore has cost consumers more to travel the same distance.
• Are Electric Cars Green? The External Cost of ...
  Even if there is enough lithium to displace the 1 billion internal combustion engine cars that now pollute the earth with electric cars, it is the electronic waste problem that should dominate the question.
• OTEC and Energy Innovation: The Willie Sutton ...
  The average amount of energy the ocean absorbed each year over the period 1993 to 2008 was enough to power nearly 500 100-watt light bulbs for each of the roughly 6.7 billion people on the planet.
• Renewable Energy's Popularity: Support for Win ...
  How many people support renewables or nuclear energy, or for that matter fracking? A closer to look at polls shows that support numbers should be treated with caution.
• Warren Buffett Pumps $1.9 Billion Into Iowa Wi ...
  When Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy announced the new investment, it gave full credit to the extension of the production tax credit for enabling it to expand its wind generating capacity.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
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• This Seasons Biggest Blow-out Sale! 74% off Au ...
• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

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Groklaw

• Patentable Subject Matter New Notices From Ca ...
  The Canadian Intellectual Property Office ("CIPO") has recently published two notices for patent examiners relating to patent interpretation, and in particular computer-related/business method type patents....The FCA held that patent claims must first be purposively construed before one can eval ...
• New Yorker Launches 'Strongbox' for Anonymous ...
  The New Yorker on Wednesday launched "Strongbox," an online system for sources to send files and messages to the magazine's journalists with "a reasonable amount of anonymity," as Senior Editor Amy Davidson put it.... Strongbox was perhaps the last contribution of the late Aaron Swartz, who was ...
• What Are The Major Changes That Android Made T ...
  The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel. Most embedded systems on which I have worked have made drastic changes to the kernel, only to leave user-space alone - for example, a heavily-modified "realtime" kernel but X11 for a GUI. Android is the opposite: ...
• Google to Launch Music-Streaming Service
  Google Inc. is set to launch a paid subscription music-streaming service akin to that of Spotify AB as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. - WSJ
• Germany tells Google to tidy up auto-complete
  Google must now remove defamatory word combinations when told about them, said the court. A person's privacy would be violated if the associations conjured up by auto-complete were untrue, the federal court said in a statement about the ruling. - BBC News

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Politics in the Zeros

• EU-China solar photovoltaic trade war
  Renewable Energy World explores the growing solar photovoltaic trade war between the EU and China, which is also happening here. The EU and US accuse China of dumping solar panels and are imposing punitive tariffs. China, of course, responds by imposing its own punitive tariffs. All of this may ...
• Facial recognition in Google Glass raises legi ...
  A genuinely useful Google Glass app helps hospital employees ID patients and share data. But what happens when Glass can ID anyone? There are some people, like those in law enforcement, who do not wish to be identified when they are walking down the street. These are genuine concerns. Glass can& ...
• IRS Tea Party scandal. WaPo spins, LA Times su ...
  WaPo implies the IRS Tea Party debacle was due to insubordination and thus not that big a deal. Excuse me? Why did a group of IRS officials deliberately and knowingly disobey orders from the director? That’s the question. Instead we get spin from the Washington Post, the Beltway attempts t ...
• Ultimarker – augmented reality meets 3D printing
  Mash up 3D printing and augmented reality and you get to see an visualization of what the 3D object will look like when completed, as it prints, with annotation. Both 3D printing and augmented reality are seen as the two most impactful and radical innovations of our time. Thanks to these techniq ...
• Water and population – two sobering maps
  Via Zenpundit who has links to the originals. The amount of drinkable water on the planet seems vanishingly small as the population keep rising. Water and population are inextricably linked, and not just for drinking . Water is also heavily used in manufacturing and generating electricity. Many ...

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Just World News

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frogblog

• Green vision for education or charter schools?
  The Bill that will facilitate charter schools went through the second reading last night. It relies on the Māori Party for support as no one else apart from National and ACT will vote for it. The Bill is a privatisation device to assist education franchises and groups who do not want to be accou ...
• Hands across the sand opposing risky deep sea oil
  With the Government’s announcement a couple of weeks ago that they are opening up 190,000 more square kilometres to oil drilling, there’s never been so much at stake in the movement to protect our waters, coasts and climate from deep sea oil. And Aotearoa is responding. Opposition to this risky ...
• Protection Orders
  Protection Orders are in the media again, after another woman was killed by her ex-partner in breach of a protection order. Protection orders were created by the Domestic Violence Act and are one of the key tools in responding to Domestic Violence. They are issued by the Family Court. The police ...
• David vs. Monsanto
  Monsanto’s busy lawyers Last Monday the US Supreme Court found in favour of Monsanto over yet another small farmer. Indiana soybean farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman bought some seeds from a grain company, where other farmers drop off their seed. He only wanted to sow cheap seed so bought what he called ...
• Bill English – no solution to poverty
  Yesterday, in reference to the budget Bill English noted “We don’t believe that there is a solution to poverty in general so I wouldn’t expect any large scale intervention”? Goodness. I guess all the work of the Expert Advisory Group on Child Poverty, consisting of much esteemed doct ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

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 ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Guatemala’s former dictator convicted of genocide
  Thousands of indigenous people in Guatemala were tortured or killed during the military dictatorship of José Efrain Ríos Montt.© Survival InternationalA former general who presided over a reign of terror in Guatemala during the 1980s has been convicted of genocide. During the military dictators ...
• Brazilian Indians forced to leave mega-dam site
  Amazon Indians have been protesting against Belo Monte for years© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrThe Brazilian authorities have evicted Indians from the Belo Monte dam site, where they were protesting for their land rights. Representatives of eight tribes had been occupying the area, demanding that the g ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Searching for a saviour as our next ...
  A host of qualities has been suggested for what would make an ideal mayor for Montreal, but with time running short for candidates to emerge, Montrealers might have to settle for someone less than ideal.
• Opinion: Attacks on Christians in Egypt are pa ...
  What was originally dubbed as the Arab Spring has evolved into a series of deadly seasons, especially for the indigenous Christians of the Middle East.
• Editorial: Truth and reconciliation - from pas ...
  Many non-aboriginal Canadians remain all too ignorant of the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools, whose damaging legacy continues to be felt in aboriginal communities across the country.
• Editorial: In fighting terror, vigilance takes ...
  The RCMP announcement Monday that it has thwarted a terror plot targeting train travel near Toronto highlights not only the value of diligent police work, but also the value of human intelligence sources in foiling such plots.
• Editorial: Common sense prevails in Lachine Ho ...
  Health Minister Réjean Hébert has accepted the view of people in the community who saw in the transfer an upgrade of their health services, not a threat.

Food World Order

• Venezuela President: Food Shortages Due to 'Ec ...
  from venezuelanalysis.com: During a speech on Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blamed food shortages on an “economic war” from the Venezuelan private sector, and assured the government is taking measures to resolve the issue. Shortages of basic food items have been felt across the c ...
• #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 ...

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
  Click here for more information …
• 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

• An Even Bigger Scandal: Why Are IRS Audits Bei ...
  Is it right for Barack Obama to use IRS audits to punish his political enemies?  As crazy as that sounds, there is a mounting body of evidence that indicates that this is actually happening.  And if this can be proven, it is a much, much larger scandal than the IRS giving "extra scrutiny" to the ...
• An Interview With Barack Obama About The IRS S ...
  Does Barack Obama have any idea what is going on in the government that he is supposedly running?  Scandals are erupting all around him, and he supposedly was not aware that any wrongdoing had taken place in any of those instances.  It is almost as if every major government agency has gone rogue ...
• 10 Scenes From The Economic Collapse That Is S ...
  When is the economic collapse going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look around the globe.  The next wave of the economic collapse may not have reached Wall Street yet, but it is already deeply affecting billions of lives all over the planet.  Much of Europe has already descended i ...
• Shut Them Down! – Payday Loan Companies ...
  Would you take out a loan that has an annual percentage rate of 391 percent?  Yes, I know that sounds absolutely crazy, but millions of Americans do it every single year.  The typical payday loan requires borrowers to pay about 15 dollars for every $100 that they borrow for two weeks.  That come ...
• 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 ...

CASSE

• Moronic Oxymorons in the Age of Climate Change
  Four hundred parts per million... it's hard to fathom. Now more than ever we have to be wary of the "solutions" offered by the fossil fuel companies.
• Supply Shock: The Journey
  Writing a book can be a harrowing voyage, especially if you're paddling upstream against the flood-stage current of conventional economic thinking.
• Environmental Ignorance Is Economic Bliss
  Economics departments are churning out graduates who are not getting the whole story on their discipline's environmental failures.
• Maybe It’s Time to Offend a Few Folks
  Alexandra Paul says it's time to put aside politeness when it comes to opening a dialogue about overpopulation.
• The Lurking Inconsistency
  Herman Daly suggests that changing the economy will require more than new policies; it'll require a substantial change in worldview.

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

• Art Pope back in glare of national spotlight
  For years, North Carolina mega-donor Art Pope kept a low profile, quietly building one of the most influential state-based political networks in the country. Now, from his perch in the cabinet of N.C.'s governor, Pope and his agenda is getting national media scrutiny. read more
• 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
• NC renewable energy repeal advanced by committ ...
  A bill to end North Carolina's renewable energy program was passed out of a Senate committee last week even though it didn't have the votes it needed. What's happening in the state is part of a broader national effort to revamp renewable energy laws. read more

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 →

Short Sharp Science

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

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

• Insanity: US Approves Bee Death Pesticide as E ...
  by Anthony Gucciardi bee pesticides epa 263×164 Insanity: US Approves Bee Death Pesticide as EU Bans ItCorporate politics is business as usual inside the United States, as I am once again shocked to report the EPA has sided with industry lobbyists over public health in approving a highly da ...
• Reflections in a Petri Dish | The Darkness at ...
  By Visible It’s not like the government has to abide by the constitution or any of the laws of the land that used to exist in one fashion or another. They pay no attention to any of this when they are harassing ordinary citizens so… they could quite easily swoop in and round up all [ ...
• Pike Knew
  By Philip Jones 6-15-9 In a letter that he wrote to Italian Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini [2], dated August 15, 1871, Albert Pike [1] the most prominent of American Freemasons at the time and a man still revered as a Masonic `God` outlined plans for three world wars, that he said would be necessary ...
• Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots: US Pr ...
  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 continues to put big energy profits ahead of ...
• Monsanto protests scheduled in 36 countries — ...
  An international protest planned for later this month against biotechnology company Monsanto is slated to span six continents and include demonstrations in dozens of countries around the globe. Amid growing concerns over St. Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto and the impact the company is having on ...

Veterans Today

• Last of the Semites – Joseph Massad
  Herzl wrote, "The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies."
• Syria Counterattacks Israel
  Syria Counterattacks Israel As the dew of Hermon—Psalms 133:3 — By www.roytov.com — Shooting accurately a mortar is not easy. Its steep ballistic trajectory demands expertise and calculations, especially when more often than not, the operator of the weapon cannot see the target. Yet, ...
• Nigeria: Targeted for Destruction (2011 repri ...
  For those reading the news about Africa, both of you, Nigeria is under terrorist attack and preparing military operations against a group called Boko Haram, an Islamic group from the North, more accurately centered in Niger, a nation to the north, a cesspool of international intrigue.
• The JFK War: The Case of Federal Judge John T ...
  by James Norwood (with Jim Fetzer)   In 1995, John R. Tunheim was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as a federal judge for the District of Minnesota.  In the late 1990s, he served as chair of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), which oversaw ...
• US dictatorship and its free fall
  "New information on the 2000 election, information now in the hands of top military officials in the US, conclusively proves that America’s government is in “free fall.””

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 ...

PR News

• Shell's Heitmann to join Bayer AG
  LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY: Royal Dutch Shell communications leader Herbert Heitmann will join Bayer AG as head of a newly created communications and government relations unit, effective September 1.
• Burson forms new Asia-Pacific leadership team
  NEW YORK: Burson-Marsteller has restructured its leadership team in the Asia-Pacific region, naming Patrick Ford regional chairman and Matt Stafford CEO of Greater China.
• KEF America hires Waggener Edstrom to reach ne ...
  MARLBORO, NJ: Audio speaker manufacturer KEF America has selected Waggener Edstrom as its PR agency partner to help the brand engage a younger audience.
• Cohn & Wolfe acquires stake in Middle Eastern firm
  DUBAI: Cohn & Wolfe has acquired a stake in Middle East agency BPG | pr as it looks to expand its reach in the region.
• Hotwire opens San Francisco office
  SAN FRANCISCO: UK-based communications agency Hotwire has expanded its US presence with the launch of a San Francisco office.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
• Steve Hadley at FP: “I should have asked that ...
• Allen speaks about the day the Afghanistan cam ...

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Call for Comments: Proposed Ambient Air Qualit ...
  Organization:  Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development Initiative:  Alberta Ambient Air Quality Ob ...
• Call for Comments: Proposed Ambient Air Qualit ...
  Organization:  Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development Initiative:  Alberta Ambient Air Quality Ob ...
• AEN Spring Meetings & AGM
  Alberta Environmental Network 31 Mar 2013 - 18:00 - 1 Jun 2013 - 14:30 You are invited to attend the 2013 Alberta Environmental Network Spring Meetings & AGM. This gathering is ...
• Sign On Needed: Don't let a CAPP President bec ...
  Greenpeace Canada 3 May 2013 - 09:00 From: Mike Hudema (itstimetoriseup [at] gmail [dot] com) Hi all, just wanted to write to see if there are any other groups that want to sig ...
• Progress update shows little change, two years ...
  With substantial progress on only two of 19 recommendations, faster implementation of oilsands environmental solutions needed to secure social license for future development The Pembina Institute ...

Stop NATO

• Pentagon’s Strategic Command Developing ...
  U.S. Department of Defense American Forces Press Service May 14, 2013 Stratcom Strives to Build Coalitions for Space Operations By Donna Miles ==== “Our intent with combined space operations is to mirror some of the partnerships we have in other mission areas that are long-term and enduring.” Sp ...
• Interview: U.S., NATO Kill Afghan Civilians, B ...
  Press TV May 15, 2013 ‘US denial of Afghan civilian deaths absurd, ludicrous’ AUDIO U.S. accusations that the Taliban killed civilians in air strikes on April 6 are “absurd” and “ludicrous”, says Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop the NATO organization. U.S. commander Gen. Joseph Dunford has offic ...
• U.S. Moves NATO Troops To Sicily For Libyan In ...
  International Mediterranean News Service May 15, 2013 Bonino confirms 200 NATO troops in Sicily US forces near in case of escalating violence in Libya Rome: Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino on Wednesday confirmed that only 200 American NATO troops were being moved to Sicily to be ready for r ...
• Aldous Huxley: One cannot be ruler of militari ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Aldous Huxley: Selections on war ==== Aldous Huxley From Ends and Means (1937) Our world oscillates from a neurasthenia that welcomes war as a relief from boredom to a mania which results in war being made. *** A machine may be exq ...
• Public Debate: Ireland Being Pulled Into NATO
  An Phoblacht May 15, 2013 Neutrality debate: ‘Cold War relic NATO should be shut down’ Heated exchanges at Dublin meeting Mark Maloney There was tension in the air on Tuesday evening as scores of people packed into Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin, to listen to a debate chaired by Irish Ti ...

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Intel Hub

• New Department of Defense Rule Allows Military ...
  Derrick Broze | A recent rule change by the Department of Defense has given commanders of the military the authority to send the military in to intervene in "civil disturbances".The post New Department of Defense Rule Allows Military to Override Local Authorities appeared first on Intellihu ...
• US Government Preemptively Gears-Up for Your D ...
  Shepard Ambellas | Newly uncovered documents show how factions of the US government have planed and prepared for mass fatality and pandemic scenarios, while private corporations profiteer on your future demise.The post US Government Preemptively Gears-Up for Your Demise appeared first on In ...
• Police Breach Private Home and Tase Resident i ...
  Intellihub.com | Police breach a private residence and tase a resident while holding others at gunpoint. The post Police Breach Private Home and Tase Resident in Nazi Fashion appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Ex-Military Bio–Enviro–Engineer: Chemtrails Ar ...
  Avalon | Ex-Military Bio-Environmental Engineer Exposes the Covert Air Force Geoengineering Program currently In Progress GloballyThe post Ex-Military Bio–Enviro–Engineer: Chemtrails Are Real appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Reporter Claims IRS Harassment After Tough Oba ...
  The Dana Show | St. Louis Reporter Larry Conners revealed via Facebook yesterday that he has been “hammered” by the IRS since his much-discussed interview with President Obama.The post Reporter Claims IRS Harassment After Tough Obama Interview appeared first on Intellihub.com.

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

• Space Tourism's Black Carbon Problem
  The industry and the F.A.A. say the climate effects of flying civilians into space will be negligible, but some scientists fret about the accumulation of black carbon in the stratosphere. Virgin Galactic proudly touts the fact that each of the passengers who will fly into sub-orbital space on ...
• Untouched For The Last Billion Years, Water In ...
  Scientists may have discovered the oldest free-flowing source of isolated water ever known. Scientists digging around roughly one-and-a-half miles below the Earth’s surface in an Ontario mine may have just discovered the oldest free-flowing source of isolated, untouched water ever known. Thoug ...
• NASA's Kepler Spacecraft May Be Finished
  A critical failure in Kepler's alignment may spell the end for the storied planet hunter. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. --Johannes Kepler ...
• Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo
  The process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 has now been proven successful in humans. Scientists have made an embryonic clone of a person, using DNA from that person's skin cells. In the future, such a clone could be a source of stem cells, for super-personalized therapies made from people ...
• FYI: Do I Really Need My Pinky Toe?
  And without it, could I do everything a five-toed human does? Walking, running and skipping with just four toes may be easier than you think. “If you’re born without a pinky toe or have an accident and it’s removed, you can completely do everything you wanted to do,” Dr. Anne Holly Johnson, in ...

Veterans Today

• Last of the Semites – Joseph Massad
  Herzl wrote, "The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies."
• Syria Counterattacks Israel
  Syria Counterattacks Israel As the dew of Hermon—Psalms 133:3 — By www.roytov.com — Shooting accurately a mortar is not easy. Its steep ballistic trajectory demands expertise and calculations, especially when more often than not, the operator of the weapon cannot see the target. Yet, ...
• Nigeria: Targeted for Destruction (2011 repri ...
  For those reading the news about Africa, both of you, Nigeria is under terrorist attack and preparing military operations against a group called Boko Haram, an Islamic group from the North, more accurately centered in Niger, a nation to the north, a cesspool of international intrigue.
• The JFK War: The Case of Federal Judge John T ...
  by James Norwood (with Jim Fetzer)   In 1995, John R. Tunheim was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as a federal judge for the District of Minnesota.  In the late 1990s, he served as chair of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), which oversaw ...
• US dictatorship and its free fall
  "New information on the 2000 election, information now in the hands of top military officials in the US, conclusively proves that America’s government is in “free fall.””

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
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• In the big freeze - but for how long?
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• Widespread heavy rain on its way
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• Fleeting taste of summer about to end
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Internat'l Political Economy

• Liberation Theology, Leonardo Boff & 'Fixing' ...
  What is the difference between a socially active priest and one who dabbles in leftist politics? The dividing line was much clearer during the Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI eras when the latter was strictly verboten and priests were discouraged from engaging directly--especially in electora ...
• 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• An Even Bigger Scandal: Why Are IRS Audits Bei ...
  Is it right for Barack Obama to use IRS audits to punish his political enemies?  As crazy as that sounds, there is a mounting body of evidence that indicates that this is actually happening.  And if this can be proven, it is a much, much larger scandal than the IRS giving "extra scrutiny" to the ...
• An Interview With Barack Obama About The IRS S ...
  Does Barack Obama have any idea what is going on in the government that he is supposedly running?  Scandals are erupting all around him, and he supposedly was not aware that any wrongdoing had taken place in any of those instances.  It is almost as if every major government agency has gone rogue ...
• 10 Scenes From The Economic Collapse That Is S ...
  When is the economic collapse going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look around the globe.  The next wave of the economic collapse may not have reached Wall Street yet, but it is already deeply affecting billions of lives all over the planet.  Much of Europe has already descended i ...
• Shut Them Down! – Payday Loan Companies ...
  Would you take out a loan that has an annual percentage rate of 391 percent?  Yes, I know that sounds absolutely crazy, but millions of Americans do it every single year.  The typical payday loan requires borrowers to pay about 15 dollars for every $100 that they borrow for two weeks.  That come ...
• 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 ...

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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

• 2013-05-14 Statement of Lisa L Williams on Bra ...
  "News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee", wrote Glenn Greenwald. "When the predictable backlash instantly ensued, ...
• 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 ...

U N News

• Justice in Guatemala vital for preventing recu ...
  Establishing truth and justice in Guatemala is essential to ensuring that heinous crimes such as arbitrary executions, rape and forced displacement - committed during the country's civil war - do not take place again and to ending impunity, a group of independent United Nations experts said today.
• Guatemala: UN rights chief welcomes historic' ...
  The top United Nations human rights official today welcomed the conviction of José Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemala's former de facto head of State, to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.
• 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.

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

• Dave on Jefferson Public Radio
  The Jefferson Exchange host Geoffrey Riley and Dave Foreman talk about rewilding in a broadcast from May 14, 2013. Good questions and comments from listeners! http://traffic.libsyn.com/jpr/The_Jefferson_Exchange_05_14_2013_Hour_2.mp3 Order your copy of Dave Foreman’s Rewilding North Americ ...
• 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 ...

Asia Sentinel

• Triumph for Aquino in the Philippines
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Despite votes to be counted, the President wins his mandate
• Horrific Torture in Myanmar
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Christian human rights group's four-week visit uncovers widespread abuse
• How to End the Forever War
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Disengaging from Afghanistan, closing Guantanamo, controlling drone use could end the war on terror
• The Revolution in Oil Production
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Vast new North American supplies will have a dramatic impact on the world economy
• Indonesia Gets a New Finance Minister
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Well-respected economist has a limited range of options

We Know the Lies

• The Court Admits... 'The 16th Amendment Was NO ...
  The Court Admits the 16th Amendment was not ratified... ~ Mike Reviro - Document - Documentary read more
• Some States Did Not Legally Ratify the 16th Am ...
  Bill Benson's findings, published in "The Law That Never Was," make a convincing case that the 16th amendment was not legally ratified and that Secretary of State Philander Knox was not merely in error, but committed fraud when he declared it ratified in February 1913. r ...
• ALERT!... Obama To Use Executive Order To Pass ...
  The recent victory in the Senate over background checks may be short-lived. The “Obama Anti-Gun Machine” has several alternative plans to make sure that he can grab your gun and make gun control the law of the land.  One way or the other!  By hook or crook! read more
• False Flag Alert!... Why a Government Orchestr ...
  This is a short but urgent warning!... A false flag event, an act of war, a bombing or some other headlines grabbing 'orchestrated event' is very likely to occur in the next seven days precisely because the Obama administration is under intense fire right now and needs a quick distraction. I ...
• Irrefutable Proof... U.S. Military Is Intentio ...
  THE UNITED STATES MILITARY IS INTENTIONALLY POISONING INNOCENT AMERICANS! Here is undeniable PROOF POSITIVE! THE TRUTH IS OUT. USE IT WISELY. Heed the words spoken here and look at the Official Military Document. Chemtrails ARE the 'delivery system' for fungi, biologicals and much more. THIS ...

Tarpley

• Warren Bill to Cut Student Loan Rates to 0.75% ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. KDKA-1020AM, Pittsburgh with Chris Moore May 12, 2013 [download audio]
• 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 ...
• Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front Now Dominant Part ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV May 10, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• 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]

Modern Survivalism

• How To Rid Rabbits From Your Garden
  Don’t let their cute faces fool you; rabbits can do a lot of damage to your garden when your back is turned. Here are a few ideas how to stop rabbits from getting to your garden…   Rabbits leave clean–cut damage. If you walk out into your garden one morning and notice that it lo ...
• Behold A Pale Horse
  First, they came for the communist, but I was not a communist, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the socialist and the unions, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, and so I did nothing. When [...]
• Strongest Solar Flare Of The Year
  My Inbox has suddenly been filling with automated messaging from the Australian Space Forecast Centre of solar flare reports, a phenomenon that had quieted down of late during this current solar cycle. But quiet no more… We have just witnessed the strongest solar flare of the year. An X-cl ...
• Solar SuperStorm 1859 In the Blink of an Eye
  The Solar SuperStorm of 1859. It happened during September 1–2, 1859 and was the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded. It could all happen again… in the blink of an eye…   During the Thursday morning of September 1, 1859, Richard Carrington, a 33 year old amateur astronomer f ...
• 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 ...

Fast Company

• On View: A Sweeping Tribute To French Designer ...
  A new exhibit in Torino, Italy, shows off recently uncovered gems from Jean Prouvé’s body of work. The mid-century designer Jean Prouvé is not short on posthumous accolades or career retrospectives. Just two years ago, architect Norman Foster co-curated a show in Madrid ...
• Kickstarting: A Compact Speaker That Fits In U ...
  This portable speaker doesn’t need a surface to rest on. Alex Walker, Jack Brody, and Madeleine Thompson are all fourth-year product design students at the Stanford D.School. During the course’s capstone class, the trio teamed up to take a single concept from ideation to realiz ...
• How To Be A Social Intrapreneur: Persistence, ...
  In working to turn her Brazilian bank into a financial resource for micro-entrepreneurs, Aparecida Teixeira de Morais has learned valuable lessons about changing a company from the inside. Most Brazilians, including emerging entrepreneurs, find their path to opportunities blocked because t ...
• Tracking: Google+ Innovations At Google I/O
  Google is revealing many changes and improvements to its erstwhile social network Google+ that take it in unexpected new directions. Deep layouts, and auto-hashtags As part of the Google+ re-design, there's more emphasis on what Vic Gundotra called "depth"--which means making it easier for ...
• Watching The Frontier Unfold At Our Desks: Goo ...
  I love it when Apple, Facebook, or--as happened today--Google, live-streams announcements of new technologies that promise to make our lives better. It's like watching a new frontier being explored for the first time. The Fast Company office ambient noise changes from the usual congenial cacopho ...

Jadaliyya

• The Ongoing Nakba: The Forcible Displacement o ...
  Israeli practices and policies are a combination of apartheid, military occupation, and colonization. Together, they aim to ethnically cleanse the territory of historic Palestine from its indigenous Palestinian presence. This Israeli regime is not limited to the Palestinians living in the occup ...
• Nakba 2013: The Palestinian Youth Movement Com ...
  The fifteenth of May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth commemoration of the day the oppressive Zionist state came into being.  It also marks sixty-five years from the beginning of our collective fragmentation and simultaneous resistance.  This current period that we are living also marks ...
• النكبة، هنا، الآن
  النكبة، هنا، الآن في الذكرى الخامسة والستين للنكبة، ارتأينا أن نعيد قراءة معاني وتردّدات تلك الأشهر المعدودة بين شتاء 1947 وصيف 1948، التي شكّلت الحاضر الفلسطيني؛ بتقسيماته السياسية والجغرافية والديموغرافية والاجتماعية والطبقية. إن تمثيل وتمظهر القضية الفلسطينية في الوعي الفلسطيني والعربي والعا ...
• حول استبعاد النكبة الفلسطينية من دراسات الصدمة
  حول استبعاد النكبة الفلسطينية من “دراسات الصدمة“ (Trauma) في البداية سأقدم لكم سرداً للاجئة من سوريا (تم تسجيله 6 آذار/مارس 2013، في مخيم عين الحلوة في لبنان): كان عمري ست سنوات ونصف عندما غادرنا [فلسطين]. كنا في وادي سلامة قرب بنت جبيل، بين جبلين، نجلس تحت أشجار الزيتون. كان الناس ي ...
• الفردوس الذي اجتاحه الأشرار وتنازل عنه السماسرة
  [”الفردوس الذي اجتاحه الأشرار وتنازل عنه السماسرة“، هو أحد العناوين التسعة  التي توزعت في كتاب  “أنيس صايغ عن أنيس صايغ”  للكاتب أنيس صايغ – عن دار رياض الريّس (بيروت، 2006). تقدم "جدلية" هنا مقطفات من هذا الكتاب الذي يعد مادة ثرية لا عن الحياة الاجتماعية والسياسية في فل ...

mediagazer

• At Least Two Pay-TV Operators Circling Hulu (W ...
  Wall Street Journal: At Least Two Pay-TV Operators Circling Hulu  —  At least two pay TV operators, including cable giant Time Warner Cable Inc., are weighing an investment in Hulu as the online video site considers a range of strategic options, according to people familiar with ...
• With Thirst's Droplet, the vision for news on ...
  Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: With Thirst's Droplet, the vision for news on Google Glass becomes a little clearer  —  One of the big questions about Google Glass is how it will affect the way we consume information (if, that is, it gains popularity and acceptance in mainstream c ...
• News Corp. hires Toni Cook Bush to oversee lob ...
  Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: News Corp. hires Toni Cook Bush to oversee lobbying after split  —  News Corp. has hired D.C. insider Toni Cook Bush.  (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP)  —  News Corp. has hired a D.C. heavyweight to handle its lob ...
• Political ad windfall drives local TV consolid ...
  Sasha Chavkin / Columbia Journalism Review: Political ad windfall drives local TV consolidation  —  As a trend accelerates, industry and activists disagree about the consequences  —  As campaign ads saturated the airwaves during the 2012 campaign, and piles of ca ...
• Under Fire, White House Pushes to Revive 'Medi ...
  Charlie Savage / New York Times: Under Fire, White House Pushes to Revive ‘Media Shield’ Bill  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation that would provide greater protections to reporters from penalties for refusing to ...

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

• Watch: Shia Labeouf-Directed Video For Future ...
  At the very least, it’s hard not to admire Shia Labeouf’s attempts to stretch himself artistically. Whether it’s appearing naked...
• U.S. tax chief ousted in scandal
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. Seeking to regain the initiative amid a series of controversi ...
• Bombings kill at least 33 in Iraq
  Updated: May 15, 2013 6:28PM BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded near a bus station in Baghdad’s main Shiite district Wednesday, the deadliest in a series of explosions that killed at least 33 people nationwide, officials said. The bloodshed came amid growing tensions between the Shiite-led gover ...
• Democrats and the IRS
  President Obama fired acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on Wednesday, two days after claiming it was an "independent" agency. That was certainly a rapid re-education. But Mr. Miller shouldn't be the only fall guy, because the 54-page report released Tuesday by the Treasury Inspector General ...
• >Business Highlights
  ___ Google unveils $10-a-month 'All Access' music plan SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Wednesday launched a subscription-based music service, allowing users of Android phones and tablets to listen to their favorite songs and artists for a monthly fee. The streaming service, called All Access, is ...

no frakking consensus

• Two Quotes from Mark Jaccard: 2013 vs 2011
  An economist who insists he's never described himself as a Nobel laureate did, indeed, do so. In written testimony.
• Speakers Bureau Still Says Jaccard is a Nobel ...
  Press releases, event posters, news stories & speakers bureaus have all falsely described economist Mark Jaccard as a Nobel winner. He says it isn't his fault.
• The Drama Queen Files – Exhibit #6
  Carbon dioxide, superstition, and protecting the oceans.
• The Way Nature Intended
  The natural world is heartless and cruel. Yet we humans equate 'natural' with 'good'.
• The Scare Story of 1881
  Back in the 19th century, newspapers declared that something had "gone wrong" with the climate. The public was told that the telegraph system might cause the destruction of the human race.

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

• 5/15/13 - Illegal Immigration Around the World ...
  immigration.procon.org  - Illegal Immigration Around the World: 13 Countries Compared to the United States – While the United States had 2.7% - 3.9% of its population living in the country illegally between 2000 - 2010, 13 other countries we reviewed had illegal immigration rates averagin ...
• 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.

Truth About Our World

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

TVNZ

• Rumour mill in overdrive over Byron Kelleher's ...
  Media speculation is rife that former All Black Byron Kelleher may be romantically involved with Princess Charlene of Monaco.
• Giant rubber duck deflates in Hong Kong
  A giant New Zealand made rubber duck that's spent the past six years being transported around the world spreading a message of peace and harmony has met an untimely end
• Accused Cleveland kidnapper 'not a monster' - ...
  Man charged with holding three women captive plans to plead not guilty, his lawyers says.
• Three life terms for abortion doctor
  A Philadelphia doctor has been sentenced to three life terms without parole for murdering babies.
• OJ Simpson takes stand in bid for new trial
  OJ Simpson has taken the stand as he seeks a new trial in the armed-robbery case that sent him to prison five years ago.

environment 360

• Glaciers on Everest Disappearing as Temperatur ...
  The glaciers on Mount Everest and the surrounding region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last five decades as temperatures have risen and snowfall has declined in Pavel Novak that section of the Himalaya, according to a new study. Using satellite imagery and topographic maps, a team of scient ...
• Shifting Petrel Diets Suggest Effect of Humans ...
  An analysis of the bones of ancient and modern Hawaiian petrels has revealed that modern petrels, which forage in the open ocean, are eating prey lower on the food chain than in centuries past, a dramatic shift USGS that coincides with the rise of industrial fishing. In tests conducted on petr ...
• Interview: Climate Pioneer’s Son Ponders a Wor ...
  Climate scientist Ralph Keeling has followed in the footsteps of his renowned father, Charles David Keeling, who in 1958 became a pioneering figure in humanity’s struggle to combat climate change when he developed an accurate method of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere and Scripps Institution of ...
• Project Looks to Quantify Power Plant Emission ...
  A team of scientists is enlisting public support to help produce a more comprehensive inventory of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants globally, urging citizens to identify power plants in their communities with a new digital app. While data from some of the Google Earth world’s industri ...
• True Nature: Revising Ideas On What is Pristin ...
  New research shows that humans have been transforming the earth and its ecosystems for millenniums — far longer than previously believed. These findings call into question our notions about what is unspoiled nature and what should be preserved. BY FRED PEARCE

oldephartte/Diigo

• Lies My Country Told Me
  Tags: lies propaganda government expose psyops online radio
• Tar Sands Watch
  Tags: water pollution ecosystem genocide woodlands
• Agriculture Defense Coalition
  Tags: agriculture food-poisoning
• HistoryWorld - History and Timelines
  Tags: History timeline Resources world studies SocialStudies reference ...
• nuclear-news
  Tags: nuclear radiation wastes hazards health

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Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• Oslo Freedom Forum founder’s ties to Islamopho ...
  Thor Halvorssen, the founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, receives significant funding from the same financiers who support the Islamophobes who inspired anti-Muslim Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
• Bayern Munich Build Mosque for Muslims
  The German football club agreed to a request to build a mosque in the Allianz Arena stadium to serve its Muslim players and fans.
• Saudi Arabian Student With Pressure Cooker All ...
  A Saudi Arabian student living in Michigan says he was questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after neighbors saw him with a pressure cooker and alerted authorities.
• UKIP Councillor Eric Kitson Steps Down For Rac ...
  Eric Kitson said: 'Islam is a cancer which needs to be cured with radiation.'
• Toronto Board of Rabbis Denounce Pamela Geller
  The Toronto Board of Rabbis (TBR) expresses its profound disappointment that a local Jewish organization has extended an invitation to Pamela Geller.

Energy News

• Top Talk Show: You ever seen those Geiger coun ...
• New flyover of giant sinkhole — Largest breach ...
• Leak of radioactive material at U.S. nuclear p ...
• Watch: Mystery black substance detected in Jap ...
• Expert: U.S. nuclear plant vulnerable to ‘Timo ...

Japan Times

• Hashimoto sticks to guns on sex slaves
  Osaka politician Toru Hashimoto refuses to retract his remarks justifying the use of "comfort woman" during the war and the need for legal brothels in ...
• Seoul envoy: Mayor is odd man out
  The South Korean ambassador to Japan slams Toru Hashimoto for his remarks justifying Japan's wartime sex slave system, saying the Osaka mayor lacks historical knowledge ...
• Fault under reactor at Tsuruga active: NRA
  A fault running under reactor 2 at the Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel says, effectively killing any chance ...
• The comedy and drama of Takashi Fujii
  At age 41, Takashi Fujii has quite the resume. In 2000 and 2001, he appeared on national broadcaster NHK's annual top-rated New Year's variety show, ...
• TPP-fearing farmers get lip service?
  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sees participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a way to bolster Japan-U.S. relations but the requirement to scrap tariffs across the ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Obama releases finances: should have refinanced
  The President released his financial disclosure forms today. He still owes between $500,000 and...
• Harry Potter casts spell on Canadian campuses
  Students connect through Potter-themed clubs and classes
• Greg Daniels on the end of The Office
  The producer of the Office reflects on silly comedy, poignant moments and realistic stuff
• Still trying to explain the iPod tariff
  Still no answer on end user certificates
• The making of a Palme d’Or winner
  Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz weigh in on the decision ahead

Making It Count - CCPA

• Any jokes in it? Cultural exception and state ...
  France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under anglo-saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates w ...
• On the Abuse of Language: “Modernizing” Labour ...
  The government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province’s labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months ...
• New mining royalties: much ado about nothing
  On Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit based and ad valorem royalties. In this blog post, we will demystify these ways of calculating royalties in order to best analyze the go ...
• 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 ...

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

• Billboard in Peru creates drinking water from ...
  “A billboard in Bujama, Peru, which creates drinking water from humidity in the air, has produced 15,000 litres of water in six months. Co-produced by outdoor advertising owner ClearChannel Peru and researchers at UTEC, University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, the billboard cost U ...
• Scientists Find Extensive Glacial Retreat in M ...
  “Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering Mount Everest and the national park that surrounds it are finding abundant evidence that the world’s tallest peak is shedding its frozen cloak. The scientists have also been studying temperature and precipitation trends in t ...
• Chile denies deal to export fresh water to Qatar
  “Chile denied on Monday that it will export fresh drinking water to Qatar after a recent report about shipments to the oil-rich but water-poor Persian Gulf country caused a public backlash. The Gulf Times newspaper of Qatar cited Chilean Ambassador Jean Paul Tarud over the weekend as sayin ...
• Canada’s method of water treatment a ‘national ...
  “To Mark Mattson, Canada’s  old   fashioned method of water   treatment is a national embarrassment. “We’re probably one of the most backwards countries in terms of treating our water,” says Mattson, who runs the Lake Ontario Waterkeepers, an organization that advocates for clean, safe wat ...
• Why Federal Efforts to Ensure Clean Tap Water ...
  “Laura Garcia was halfway through the breakfast dishes when the spigot went dry. The small white tank beneath the sink that purified her undrinkable water had run out. Still, as annoying as that was, it was an improvement over the days before Ms. Garcia got her water filter, when she had t ...

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

• is but the tip of the iceberg
  …and in the next breath government has the expectation that “we” will trust them … this article is but the tip of the iceberg…   Florida quietly shortened yellow light standards for more red light tickets 05-14-2013  •  CBS News (video) A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida&# ...
• Johnson Utilities has been a “stinky”
    …Johnson Utilities has been a “stinky” player from day one which ADEQ is well aware of and to date no substantive action has been taken to persuade Johnson to act ethically… Filed under: Blogroll
• like “we” requested “W&#8221 ...
  … just like “we” requested “W” to fire the dummies he placed in charge of FEMA and Homeland Security … how did that work out…   RNC chief: Obama must fire Attorney General Holder 05-14-2013  •  The Ticket “Attorney General Eric Holder, in permitting the Justice Department to issue ...
• then why do “we” continue to load
  OK… then why do “we” continue to load our state legislature with those who refuse to acknowledge the will and direction of the electorate…?   Filed under: Blogroll
• the “right” numbers
  …the “right” numbers is solely dependent upon what story one is telling in the moment and what perspective they are choosing to highlight… Filed under: Blogroll

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 ...
• The river of plenty: uncovering the secrets of ...
  Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite this, little is known about the biodiversity and ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Medical wristband one step closer to market
  Sir Ray Avery's Vigil Monitoring - which is developing a wristband that constantly monitors a patient's vitals and uploads the information to the internet - has received funding from Callaghan Innovation to help get the invention...
• Interactive map: NZ and the Pacific from space
  Very few people will ever have the chance to see New Zealand 370km from space, but thanks to two astronauts returning to Earth today Kiwis won't have to make the journey.Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, NASA's Thomas Marshburn...
• Celebrity astronauts return to earth
  Canadian Chris Hadfield and his American colleague Thomas Marshburn left Earth on December 19 as astronauts, but they return as internet celebrities.Exhibition 35 of the International Space Station came to an end today, ending five...
• Museum hiring out crime solvers
  The Natural History Museum in London might seem an unlikely participant in the frontline of the fight against grisly crime.But then few museums can boast staff with the specialist skills of Amoret Whitaker, a motorbike-riding zoologist...
• Sunanda Creagh: Europeans all related despite ...
  Scientists have uncovered what, for some couples, may be an uncomfortable truth: all people of European descent are related.Go back a few generations and even people from opposite ends of the European continent share common ancestors,...

The Bovine

• Montana Jones back in court today
  Here’s what she published yesterday on her fundraising page: Back in Court tomorrow for the next appearance in the sheep case. The CFIA is now trying to have my lawyers bumped off this case and not permitted to represent me, … Continue reading →
• U.S. State Department is promoting biotech and ...
  From Wenonah Hauter in The Guardian UK: “If you have a feeling that genetically modified (GM) foods are being forced upon the population by a handful of business interests and vociferously defended by the scientists that work in the agriculture industry or … Continue reading →
• Frankenfoods: good for business, bad for the r ...
  From Tom Laskawy, on Grist.org “Thirty years ago, scientists figured out how to directly modify the genes in our food crops. No more of that inefficient and slow breeding! Farmers would grab plant genes by the  horns nucleotides and bend … Continue reading →
• 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 ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Breakout in Japanese 10-Year Bond Yield
  Curve Watchers Anonymous has its eye on global interest rates. For example, please consider this chart of 10-Year Japanese bonds. click on chart for sharper image Chart courtesy of Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank in Denmark. I have been paying close attention to ...
• Triple Dip Recession in France; It's Not the W ...
  France slipped into its third recession in four years as Germany barely went into positive territory, underperforming general expectations. The Financial Times reports France contracts in 1st quarter as Germany returns to growth French GDP shrank by 0.2 per cent in the first quarter, ...
• In Rare Praise of Teachers
  I do not frequently stand with teachers. It's not that I have anything against teachers. I don't. Teaching is an honorable profession. Those who understand my stance, know full well my problems sit with teachers' unions, administrators, and union work rules. Far too often I hear reques ...
• Will Shinzo Abe Succeed with Constitutional Ch ...
  As noted previously Shinzo Abe Seeks Constitutional Changes for a More Militaristic, Authoritarian Japanese Society. Today's question is: Will Abe Succeed? The answer boils down to election math. Japan News shows 63 and 100 are crucial figures in upper house election. click on char ...
• Wine Country Conference Speaker Presentations ...
  In case you missed it, please note that all of the presentations at the Wine Country Conference have now been posted. They are about 45 minutes each except for my short opening remarks. Mike “Mish” Shedlock Conference Welcome Remarks Chris Martenson: A Grand Experiment: Q&A with John ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• The US Establishment NGOs: The Shields for Imp ...
  “The Lesser Visible Foot-Soldiers for the Continuity of the Establishment & Survival of Imperial Presidencies” Have you heard the latest on Obama’s Justice Department secretly subpoenaing the telephone records of AP editors and journalists, and tracking their ingoing and outgoing calls? All ...
• Gangster State America
  Just Who Does the US Government Represent? There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig the markets for gold and silver. My explanation that the sudden appearance of an unprecedented 400 ton short s ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Madness, Insanity, and Society Recently, a major British psychological association has issued a statement challenging the biomedical basis of what we call “mental illness.” What does this mean? What is mental illness and how is it classified? How can or should we understand mental di ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 14, 2013
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener Report- House of Death: Anatomy ...
  The scale of what had taken place in the name of an ill-conceived “sting” operation is difficult to comprehend. Not only had the ICE informant participated in the torture and murder of more than a dozen people with the full knowledge of his government handlers; not only had this oper ...

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

• AdvanFort President: Pay for Security, Not Ransoms
  The revelation this week that the owner of an Algerian cargo ship whose crew was held by Somali pirates paid them $2.6 million in ransom is yet another indication that the rewards these denizens reap for their illegal, lifethreatening work.
• U.S. LNG Exports: If I Were a Betting Man…
  I was at the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill today attending a brief given by ICF International’s Harry Vidas in front of members of the Congressional LNG Export Working Group, consisting [...]
• Labor Unrest: Major Delays May Hit South Afric ...
  The prospect of major delays reoccurring in South Africa’s ports due to labour unrest appears to be increasingly likely as workers in a range of sectors across the country become [...]
• First Mobile Landing Platform Delivered to U.S ...
  The U.S. Navy on Tuesday accepted delivery of the first Mobile Landing Platform, USNS Montford Point (MLP 1), from General Dynamics-NASSCO in San Diego, Calif.
• EU Navy Commander Warns: Somali Pirates Still ...
  The EU Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) has reiterated its warnings that Somali pirates are still determined to get out to sea and, if presented with an easy target, will attack.

Press TV

• Austria rebuts UK push on Syria
  Austria has refuted British and French push for lifting the European Union arms embargo on Syria for them to be able to sell heavy weaponry to foreign-backed terrorists.
• Students slam Turkey’s Syria stance
  Hundreds of university students protesting the Turkish government’s stance on the ongoing crisis in Syria have clashed with police in the capital Ankara.
• Rohingyas fleeing cyclone, risk drowning
  Several overcrowded boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya Muslims escaping an approaching cyclone are facing the risk of drowning in waters off Myanmar.
• Bomb attacks kill 10 in Iraqi capital
  At least 10 people have been killed and 45 others injured after a series of car bomb attacks rocked different areas in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, officials say.
• 4-yr-old shoots dead preteen in Florida
  A 4-year-old child has shot and killed an 11-year-old boy in the US state of Florida, the latest in the series of deadly shootings in the past months.

SciDev.net

• Islamic nations are 'failing on R&D links and ...
  Muslim countries have failed to deliver on agreements to boost research spending and collaboration, their academicians claim.
• Let's reconnect green issues and development p ...
  Post-2015 discussions offer a chance to link the environmental and development agendas — it shouldn't be bypassed, says Myles A. Wickstead.
• Benin starts feeling the cost of rice pests
  The boom in rice growing in Benin has also led to more infestation of stored rice by pests, which is causing losses of hundreds of millions of francs.
• Nanotech filter may protect farmed fish from f ...
  Toxic nanoparticle treatment of ponds of farmed fish could be made safe by embedding in into water filters, find scientists in Iran.
• Call for action on Latin American cancer burden
  Urgent action is needed to head off a cancer epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, warns an international group of specialists.

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...
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