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• They Never Figured On stephen harper
  Should the Governor General dissolve  Parliament and call a new election based on the blatant criminality of the harper regime? Technically it's possible. But the exercise of such raw power would be considered monarchical and the story of the Westminster Parliamentary System is of the gradu ...
• Conservatives on Crack
  You know, I've said elsewhere that given the fact that US-American right-wingers have embraced draft-dodging, adopted daughter banging, brood of abandoned children spawning, intellectual and moral degenerate Ted Nugent as one of their own, simply for his gun-loving, vegetarian-loving, chickenhaw ...
• More Books
   Reading Susan George's book Another World Is Possible If ... , Susan George has been writing great, readable stuff since the 1970s. I've read A Fate Worse Than Debt and How the Other Half Dies. If you want a good introduction to the political-economic history of the postwar period and how ...
• I Can't Blame KirbyCairo
  Sick at heart of all the stupidity and evil being rewarded, Kirby Cairo has thrown in the towel when it comes to blogging. Joining Boris at the Galloping Beaver and Rural at Democracy Under Fire. Alison at Creekside took a hiatus from hopelessness not too long ago; perhaps with Christy Clark's s ...
• This Country is Fucked
  This whole fucking world actually. This whole fucking human race is doomed. The greed-heads aren't going to be torn to pieces by the ravenous hordes. The ravenous hordes will tear each other to pieces. The biggest greed-heads will survive in their isolated fortresses, and congratulate themselves ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Fighters and Arctic sovereignty
  Ernie Regehr debunks the claim that fighter aircraft such as the F-35 have any significant contribution to make to Canadian security and sovereignty in the North.
• Do you have a Peace Mom?
  How did your Peace Mom make a difference in your life, and in your community? Let us know, and send her an eCard for Mother's Day!
• Missile-defence radar at Goose Bay?
  The Department of National Defence is looking for ways to contribute to the U.S. missile defence system and may try to revive a proposal to build a radar at Goose Bay.
• How to spend the defence budget
  On April 15, we asked Ceasefire.ca supporters how they would better spend the money wasted on weapons and war.
• Get rid of the nukes, part two!
  According to a recent New York Times report, the United States is "quietly urging" Britain to abandon its "independent nuclear deterrent".

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Just A Couple Videos To Brighten Your Day!
  Due to popular demand, here are the songs I have been playing on my radio show: ASK YOUR DOCTOR BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-19-13
  Today, Kevin explains the importance of eliminating hydrogenated oil, trans fats, and homogenized dairy from your diet. Self Help: Steps Toward Perfect Health Get Vitamin D FREE For Life! Promote Heart Health Turn Back The Hands Of Time Shower The Toxins Away Protect Your Body Health: Butter Is ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-26-13
  Today, Kevin explains how there is one very unique ability that ALL successful people have. Find out what it is and if YOU have what it takes to become a part of this exclusive club! Self Help: Your Wish Is YOUR Command Lose Weight The Safe Way Improve Your Health & Vitality Give Kevin YOUR ...
• Read this if you have EVER taken an antibiotic….
  A subject that we don’t hear a lot about anywhere is called Candida albicans, which is also known as the Candida albicans yeast infection or candida overgrowth. Let me explain this. As you know, I’ve had Dr. Jeff McCombs on the show before, a longtime friend of mine. He is the world& ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-9-13
  Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FTC is monitoring this radio show! Self Help: Click Here If You’ve Ever Taken An Antibiotic Don’t Let Fear Control Your Life Delete Nutritional Deficiencies Videos: Muse – Uprising Bob Basso – We The People Stimulus Package Health: The New Hot Celebrity ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Ex-soldier told to repaint his St George’s fla ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDaily Mail May 20, 2013 An ex-soldier who painted a St Georges flag on his front door was ordered to cover it up by his landlords who claim it could be considered ‘offensive’ and may bring ‘distress&#82 ...
• BBC Admits: No Global Warming For 15 Years
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBBC News May 20, 2013 Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained “standstill” in the hea ...
• Activists Rally to Free Adam Kokesh
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCall flood seeks to secure release of former Marine kidnapped for exercising First Amendment Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com May 20, 2013 Activists are rallying to secure the release of former Marine and broadcaster ...
• North Carolina 2-year-old puts dad’s unattende ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNorth Carolina 2-year-old puts dads unattended gun in his mouth and fires Raw StoryBy David Edwards   Like Raw Story on Facebook A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina is expected to survive after shooting himself with ...
• The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHere is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s latest Texas Straight Talk on why the recent revelations that the IRS has been harassing the President’s political opponents show that those concerned with pro ...

Dandelion Salad

• Rise Up or Die! by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig May 20, 2013 Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel befor ...
• David Swanson: Are we in favor of killer flyin ...
  with David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad http://warisacrime.org May 19, 2013 TheRealNewsMay 19, 2013 David Swanson: Activists succeeding in turning public opinion against drone strikes; other forms of actions on the rise. *** How Your Town Can Stop Drones by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Sal ...
• Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Cor ...
  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page May 16, 2013 Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever they’re in trouble, and are s ...
• TransCanada Seizes Land In Texas By Eminent Do ...
  by Walter Brasch Writer, Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com May 19, 2013 Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River; to the west is the B ...
• Noam Chomsky: Drones Are Murder Without Trial ...
  Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Jason Liosatos on May 17, 2013 My interview with Noam Chomsky. We talk about ethical compromises, and government actions without vision or wisdom which is creating terrible consequences and feedback loops. We also talk about the Drone killings, the US terrorist ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Swirl of Star Fo ...
  This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather unpoetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy, stretching out into space in different directions and forming a fuzzy streak in this image. It is a starburst galaxy — ...
• Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Proper ...
  An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away ...
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Dunes of Titan
  Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the sizes and patterns of dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary as a function of altitude and latitude. The dunes in areas that are more elevated or are higher in latitude, such as ...
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galactic Wheels
  How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one. This image was ...
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Two Views of Iapetus
  These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon. The left-hand panel shows the moon's leading hemisphere and the right-hand panel shows the moon's trailing side. While low and mid ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Asa Winstanley: Secret files reveal Anti-Defam ...
  Two confidential Anti-Defamation League memos from the 1970s show that the pro-Israel “civil rights” group sent spies to report on talks by Noam Chomsky, a noted critic of Israel. “Chomsky is an Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Moshé Machover: Zionist myths – Hebrew versus ...
  Let me start with a proposition that should by now be a matter of general knowledge: the totality of Jews do not constitute a nation in the modern sense of this term; nor have they been a nation in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Abe Hayeem: A fair and just consideration of S ...
  This is an appeal for you to follow the recommendations of the International Court of Justice regarding the building of the Separation Wall and all of the Israel settlements in the occupied West... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Al-Nakba
  “The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago….” So begins this four-part Al-Jazeera series on the ‘Nakba’ (the ‘catastrophe’), about the history of the Palestinian exodus... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Activists not to drop charges against Israeli ...
  According to Article 90 of the Turkish Constitution, international agreements prevail over domestic laws if there is a conflict between them and no appeal can be made to the Constitutional Court... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Guest Post: The Human Rights Impact of Drone S ...
  by Jonathan Horowitz [Jonathan Horowitz is writing in his personal capacity. He is the Associate Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative’s National Security and Counterterrorism Program.] When assessing the legality of drone strikes, attention is often focused on the State that ca ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Monday, May 20, 2013
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee last week that the U.S. would be at war with al-Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed in 2001 af ...
• Guest Post: Official Act Immunity – Getting th ...
  by Ingrid Wuerth by Ingrid Wuerth [Ingrid Wuerth is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at Vanderbilt University Law School.]  Yes, this is another post on foreign official immunity, prompted in part by the Fourth Circuit’s decision in Samantar.  It responds to Profess ...
• Events and Announcements: May 19, 2013
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict is organising a workshop on Law, Faith and Historical Memory to take place in London (Stratford Campus, University of East London) on June, 12. More information is here The University of Wisconsin is inviting ...
• Visualizing International Criminal Justice
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to a remarkable new report on international criminal justice authored by Daniel McLaughlin, a former legal officer at the ECCC, for Fordham’s Leitner Center for International Law & Justice. As the introdu ...

Public News Service

• Infant Stress Linked to Behavior Problems Late ...
  Infant Stress Linked to Behavior Problems Later in Life PHOENIX - New research makes clear a direct link between stress experienced by people as infants and behavioral problems as they grow older. Recent studies find that infants' brains are reacting to external stresses, even while they sleep ...
• Eggs: "Cage Free", "Free Range" or Caged…
  Eggs: "Cage Free", "Free Range" or Caged… PHOENIX – Cage-free, free range, pasture-raised or just eggs – a growing number of people are concerned with where and how their food is produced. Now a new bill in Congress would make egg-labeling mandatory, as well as adding more hum ...
• Got Mice? Hold the Glue Traps
  Got Mice? Hold the Glue Traps PHOENIX - A mouse sighting in your home can turn even the bravest person into a quivering mass. Whether it's a few mice or a few hundred, there are effective and humane ways to deal with furry unwanted guests that don't involve poison or glue traps. John Griffin, ...
• 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 ...

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

• Antarctic ice melting scare cancelled – climat ...
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• Climate change consensus study backfires on re ...
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• 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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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

• Skateboarders video aftermath of CT train crash
  Seriously NSFW language!
• State of California has a serious water worker ...
  The problem is California state pay for water workers is so much lower than industry standards that state employees with experience immediately get hired for substantially more pay at private utilities. The result is a growing California water worker shortage This costs the California tens of mi ...
• How to suppress revolution. Buy people off wit ...
  Charles Hugh Smith often has perceptive and unusual takes on issues. He says the bankster class has implicit support from those getting government entitlements, and that this hurts the rest of society. Entitlement spending is running huge deficits while the middle and working classes get poorer. ...
• White House knew about IRS targeting weeks ago
  It is not credible that Obama didn’t know about the IRS targeting before May 10 considering that his chief counsel knew. President Obama claims not to have been made aware of the IRS indiscretions until May 10th it seems the White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit ...
• Solar photovoltaic is finally a net producer o ...
  Advances in solar photovoltaic technology has boosted output of the panels so that (finally) solar PV is a net producer of electricity. Until until now, PV panels took more electricity to manufacture than the panels generated. That has finally flipped. The amount of energy generated by all of th ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• WAR ON SYRIA; NATO’s Anti Muslim War Cri ...
  (AE) – The great episode below of “Comment With George Galloway” exposes some of the latest war crimes in Syria, performed by western backed foreign mercenaries, and also discusses how the British people are suffering in a collapsing economy of increasing austerity while the Br ...
• This Day In History – May 21
  1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America. 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. 1881 – The Ameri ...
• Michele Bachmann Presidential Campaign Investi ...
  The FBI has jumped into a multi-pronged investigation of alleged misconduct by the failed presidential campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on Sunday. While the FBI wouldn’t confirm or deny any involvement in the probe, sources with knowledge o ...
• Arkansas state treasurer arrested on federal e ...
  Arkansas state treasurer Martha Shoffner (D) is scheduled to appear in a federal court Monday in connection with extortion charges. KATV-TV reported on Saturday that Shoffner was arrested at her home by Federal Bureau of Investigation and taken to Pulaski County Jail, where she has been held wit ...
• Fox News Reporter May Face Criminal Charges fo ...
  The government will use any and all information at its disposal to find journalist sources, as shown in The Washington Post‘s report this morning on a Department of Justice investigation into Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen, who may face criminal charges for reporting government s ...

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 releases native share dialog for iOS ...
  Facebook today announced the availability of a new native share dialog for iOS, which will give developers an easy way to incorporate Facebook sharing — including Open Graph actions — in their apps. The mobile share dialog is a...
• Facebook now lets users suggest photos for pla ...
  As part of the social network’s continuing efforts to build out its location database, Facebook now allows users to upload and suggest photos for unadministered place pages. Facebook’s location platform relies heavily on user-generated content and...
• Guest Post: Campaigns Don’t Always Need To Be ...
  This is a guest post by Mario Zelaya, Managing Director at Majestic Media, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer & digital marketing agency, specializing in custom apps and promotions for web and mobile. Marketers are starting to focus...
• Facebook roundup: IPO anniversary, Glassdoor r ...
  Facebook shares down 31 percent since IPO 1 year ago – Facebook shares closed today at $26.25, up $0.12 from yesterday but down 31 percent since the company’s initial public offering on May 18, 2012. Despite...
• Facebook brings new Offers format to Android
  Facebook today announced that its new version of Offers with larger images and calls to action are now available on Android. In February, the social network began testing the new layout on desktop with an option to...

National Geographic | Environment

• Wind Energy’s Shadow: Turbines Drag Down Power ...
  Wind turbines rob each other of energy if installed too closely together. But the world's fastest-growing source of renewable power still has plenty of room for expansion.
• Everest Ice Shrinking Fast, Scientists and Cli ...
  The world's highest peak has been shedding snow and ice for the past 50 years, possibly due in part to global warming, new research shows.
• 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.

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

• On "42:" A Movie About Racism
  At one level, the movie 42, about Jackie Robinson, is a "baseball movie." But to my mind much more importantly, it's a movie about racism in the United States. Since our nation is still so heavily burdened with this way of thinking, engineered and promoted by the corporate and political intere ...
• The Peculiar Politics of Karl Rove's 'Outrage' ...
  The threat to democracy that the president described would be complete -- as sincere activists on the right and the left would be shunted to the sidelines of a new political landscape where corporate cash decides the day and the boss is not a CEO but a cynical political operative named Karl Rove.
• H&M Responds Slowly to Bangladesh Factory Coll ...
  H&M (Hennes & Mauritz), a major Swedish "fast fashion" retailer, led 30 international companies this week to commit to a new $3 billion fund to improve the safety of garment factories in Bangladesh. Watchdog organizations say the companies acted only because of external pressure by activists and ...
• No Bear Market In Gold
  The misinformation that Soros had sold his gold holdings came from misinterpreting the reason Soros' holdings in the GLD gold trust declined. Soros did not sell the shares; he redeemed the paper claims for physical gold. Watching the gold ETFs, such as GLD, being looted by banksters, Soros cashe ...
• Rise Up or Die
  We stand helpless before the corporate onslaught. There is no way to vote against corporate power. Citizens have no way to bring about the prosecution of Wall Street bankers and financiers for fraud, military and intelligence officials for torture and war crimes, or security and surveillance off ...

Switchboard

• Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Issues Decisio ...
  Jordan Weaver, Project Scientist and Science Center Fellow, Washington, D.C. In the ongoing saga of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and its faulty steam generators, on May 13, 2013 an Atomic Safety & Licensing Board panel of th ...
• A Big Move for a Small State -- Delaware Bans ...
  Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco Delaware may be tiny in terms of its size, but in terms of its bold action for ocean conservation and the protection of the apex predators that sustain our marine resources Delaware is a giant ...
• New Carbon Pollution Level Confirms We Have En ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Scientists recently reported that the level of carbon in the atmosphere has passed 400 parts per million. Carbon pollution causes climate change, and many experts believe we need to bring this level ...
• New round of arts grants help revitalize and a ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   It’s no secret, unfortunately, that many American downtowns and neighborhoods were disinvested, some severely, over the past several decades.  The consequences were ...
• Missouri's 2013 Legislative Session Ends, the ...
  Kimi Narita, MAP Energy Fellow , Chicago As Missouri’s legislative session was coming to an end on Friday, supporters of the Renewable Energy Standard (RES) waited with bated breath to see if any last minute amendments would sneak through an ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• In Conclusion, Any Increase in Marginal Tax Ra ...
  I wanted to alert LGM readers about an exciting real estate opportunity. You can buy property in a Manhattan high rise for as little as $158,000! Of course, that’s for the wine cellar. A three bedroom apartment will run you about nine grand a month…after you’ve paid $32 million ...
• Crack Babies
  Hardly surprising that the crack babies “epidemic” in the 1980s was based on poorly designed scientific studies and really was just another tool in white backlash tool box to blame black people for their own poverty and justify the war on some classes of people who use some drugs.
• Impeachment? More Like Tried For Treason!
  Roy reports on the scandal that is even worse than the Benghazi failed Arkansas drug running land deal scandal: something about an umbrella. There are many crazy responses documented, but the source of the very funniest is, in retrospect, not entirely surprising: We must clear some extra space f ...
• Neocons:Munich :: Austerians:Stagflation
  Matt O’Brien is correct: I checked, and re-checked, and triple-checked, and I can confirm that it’s not 1979 anymore. Now, that shouldn’t be too surprising — I’m not writing this on an Apple II, after all — but it is to a generation of men (and yes, they are a ...
• Sunday Night Linkage
  Or, if you prefer, Monday morning… More on the Able Archer docs. Aaron Bady’s post on MOOCs is genuinely excellent. I thought Star Trek: Into Darkness was just awful, and I liked Abrams’ first effort. This is some sweet airpower advocacy. If you’re into that kind of thing ...

Desert Research Institute

• Tribute to Dorothy S. Gallagher
  Today the entire DRI family is saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and long-time supporter Regent Dorothy S. Gallagher.
• 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 ...

Earth Techling

• Plugged In: US Electric Car Sales Hit 100,000
  Plug In America says that somewhere in the U.S. today, the 100,000th plug-in car was sold since the introduction of the latest generation of EVs in late 2010.
• LG Debuts Flexible OLED Panel At SID 2013
  Meet the light, super-efficient screen that could make your smartphone invincible.
• Back Off On China Solar Duties, Germany Urges EU
  The EU is close to slapping punitive duties on Chinese solar imports, but Germany for one wants to see a negotiated settlement.
• Antarctic Outpost To Use Wind, Solar Energy To ...
  Brazil's planned Antarctic research station will use solar panels for the sunny summers and wind turbines in the long winters to supply renewable energy year-round.
• West Coast Drives Leaf EV Sales Bump
  The lower-priced Nissan Leaf is selling better in 2013, particularly in West Coast areas that have extensive charging infrastructure.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• THE CAREERIST: Harvard Law Really is No. 1
  Are you still fussing with that U.S. News & World Report ranking of law schools? How provincial! We live in the global economy, so what really matters is how your law school ranks ­internationally.
• OPINION: Prosecutors Help with Exonerations
  Law enforcement personnel initiated or cooperated in a record high number of them in 2012.
• OPINION: Time for Radical Change in Legal Edu ...
  Students would save three years of tuition if they could enter law school after their freshman year.
• THE PRACTICE: Calif. Case Upsets Equilibrium o ...
  In last year's Sargon decision, the California Supreme Court took a major step toward embracing the Daubert approach to admissibility.
• Judgments Pile Up
  Congress approved legislation five years ago to raise the stakes in civil terrorism lawsuits and make it easier to collect on judgments. Since then, the dollar amounts have gone up, but judgments remain largely unsatisfied.

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

• Cycle of Violence Spikes 'High' in Nigeria
  President Jonathan reportedly ordered more troops to be sent to the north-eastern states to stop the flow of insurgency and violence.
• PMW Accuses UNRWA for Exposing Map Erasing Israel
  These pictures were broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV and on the Palestinian news site pn-news.net, corroborating PMW's report.
• Tornado Warnings Ahead: Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa
  AccuWeather.com reports as many as 15 tornadoes have been reported by the National Weather Service this evening as severe thunderstorms continue across the Plains.
• US Helps Refugees Turn Their Stories of Traged ...
  US admits more refugees each year than all other resettlement countries combined more than three million since 1975.
• FIFA Delegation Assesses Football Development ...
  In a press statement issued at the Djibouti Football Federation headquarters in the capital Djibouti on Saturday, President Souleiman Hassan Waberi, himself a FIFA commissioner has outlined the importance of the FIFA delegation visit to his country

environment 360

• System Converts Pig Waste Into Biogas and Fert ...
  An international team of researchers has developed a system that will help Chinese farmers convert massive amounts of pig waste into a renewable source of energy Getty Images and fertilizer. The project, led by Australia-based Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remed ...
• A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southe ...
  Illegal logging and unchecked economic development are taking a devastating toll on the forests of Vietnam and neighboring countries, threatening areas of biodiversity so rich that 1,700 species have been discovered in the last 15 years alone. BY DANIEL DROLLETTE
• ‘Artificial Forest’ Nanosystem Mimics Photosyn ...
  U.S. scientists have developed what they say is the first integrated nanosystem capable of replicating the process of photosynthesis, a sort of “artificial forest” that could one day lead to the production of hydrogen that could be used to power fuel cells. Composed of nanowire structures — inc ...
• In Post-Tsunami Japan, A Push To Rebuild Coast ...
  In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, the Japanese government is forgoing an opportunity to sustainably protect its coastline and is instead building towering concrete seawalls and other defenses that environmentalists say will inflict serious damage on coastal ecosystems. BY WINIFRED BIRD
• Scientist’s U.S. Road Trip Reveals Higher Meth ...
  Methane measurements collected during a scientist’s road trip across the U.S. revealed that local emissions of the potent greenhouse gas are higher than previously known in many regions. Using a gas chromatograph mounted to the roof of a rented camper, Ira Leifer of the University of California, ...

Red Ice Creations

• Big Bang: Biggest meteorite explosion rocks th ...
  NASA scientists have recorded the biggest ever meteorite impact on the Moon, with an explosion equal to 5 tons of TNT. The event is part of ‘lunar meteor showers’ observed by astronauts of the Moon exploration program. The 40-kg meteorite measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide traveling 56,000 mph sla ...
• Military Says No Presidential Authorization Ne ...
  A recent Department of Defense instruction alters the US code applying to the military’s involvement in domestic law enforcement by allowing US troops to quell “civil disturbances” domestically without any Presidential authorization, greasing the skids for a de facto military coup in America alo ...
• Ancient Maya Pyramid Destroyed in Belize
  An archaeological group says it plans to take legal action. Despite its small size, the Caribbean country of Belize is known for a few outstanding characteristics: a spectacular barrier reef, a teeming rain forest, and extensive Maya ruins. It now has one fewer of those ruins. A construction com ...
• Ginger: A Warming Herb
  Ginger is an Asian herb that is particularly well known to us in the West. Over time, and with trial and error, its stimulating properties and piquant flavor have been integrated into both our herbal “materia medica” and cuisine. Brewed as an herbal tea, ginger root is particularly helpful for t ...
• Australian man dead for 40 minutes revived wit ...
  In an Australian first, doctors have used a new resuscitation technique to revive three patients who were clinically dead for up to an hour. One of the lucky survivors was Colin Fiedler, 49, who was pronounced dead at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, after suffering a heart attack, Th ...

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

• How to Manage 100 Trillion Bacteria in Your Gut
• What is Carbon Monoxide Doing in Your Tilapia ...
• The Kid’s Nutrition Resource You Need to Keep ...
• SmartyPants Gummy Vitamins for Adults. Seriously?
• GMO Food: How European Trade May Help America ...

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• 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

• Awá woman’s death highlights government neglect
  Ajrua Awá's death is a huge loss to her community© D Pugliese/ SurvivalAn Awá woman has died of an easily treatable disease, despite the Brazilian government receiving funds from a mining company for the tribe’s care. Ajrua Awá was 40 years of age and the mother of five children, the young ...
• 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 ...

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: Measles Mania, DSM-5 Worries
  By Anne Dachel May 20, 2013, Fox News: Measles surge in Britain years after vaccine/autism scare May 18, 2013, Midland (MI) Daily Review: Benefit at CMU to showcase local talent, raise autism awareness May 18, 2013, Santa Cruz Sentinel: Dr....
• Second Child with Autism Wanders, Drowns in On ...
  By Kim Stagliano I awoke to an email on Saturday, the subject line read, "My son is missing." I paused for a moment. You know how email can be - lots of funky subjects that lead to phishing emails of...
• Chicago Bound For Autism One
  Mark, Cat and Dan smile for a photo op. (Note: we''ll be live blogging from Autism One on Friday and Saturday to bring the conference to our readers.) By Cathy Jameson I wait all year for this week to arrive....
• Congratulations to Sam Wessels 10 year old CNN ...
  Many of you know Lin Wessels, a tireless advocate for people with autism - who by virtue of living in Iowa was able to meet all of the Presidential candidates, along with her son, to introduce them to autism. Lin...
• Autism and MMR before the Lancet Paper? Mumps, ...
  Below is a new video from Dr. Andrew Wakefield. You can view the full series of videos at Autism Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYcxIrs4oyk

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

• Vaccine Victims’ Mother Speaks Out
  Tasha shares her story of shock, disappointment, guilt and remorse in neglecting to research the side effects of vaccines before vaccinating her children. Tasha's story is real life, scientific evidence of the harm that vaccines can and do cause.
• 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.

new geography

• Religious Freedom Lures Many to U.S. from Asia
  It's been two decades since California Gov. Pete Wilson used grainy ads of undocumented immigrants – "They keep coming" – as an effective means of stoking fear of newcomers and assuring his re-election. Yet, increasingly America's immigration realities are moving far beyond the mojado paradi ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Toronto
  Toronto is the largest city (metropolitan area) in Canada and its principal commercial center. However, this is a relatively recent development. Toronto displaced Montréal is Canada's largest city during the 1960s. Since the 1971 census, when the two Metropolitan areas were nearly identical ...
• America’s Off-The-Radar Tech Hubs
  At the moment, the technology sector is the focus of a lot of attention — and with good reason. Tech industries have helped turn San Jose and Austin into major economies and brought other large metros, like Detroit, through tough spells. But which small, off-the-radar towns out there als ...
• 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 ...

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

• China Now Spends $125 Billion Per Year On Riot ...
  Via: AFP: Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China’s huge internal security budget. The country is estimated to have more than 180,000 protests each year and the ruling Com ...
• CALEA II: FBI Wants Backdoors In Secure Commun ...
  Via: Freedom to Tinker: Today I joined a group of twenty computer scientists in issuing a report criticizing an FBI plan to require makers of secure communication tools to redesign their systems to make wiretapping easy. We argue that the plan would endanger the security of U.S. users and the co ...
• Eldercare Robots?
  Via: New York Times: Just like Frank, as the baby boomer generation grows old and if the number of elderly care workers fails to grow with it, many people might end up being cared for by robots. According to the Health and Human Services Department, there will be 72.1 million Americans over the ...
• ‘War on Terror’ Is Permanent
  Via: Guardian: That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the “war on terror” will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week’s big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military histo ...
• Funnel Shaped Wind Turbine
  Via: Discovery: The Chaska, Minn.-based company Sheer Wind thinks it has a design that could bring the cost of wind power down to a price competitive with natural gas. Daryoush Allaei, Sheer Wind’s chief technical officer, told DNews that a utility-scale system of these wind turbines — that is a ...

The Economic Collapse

• 7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They ...
  Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?  In America today, we are more "connected" than ever.  The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the ...
• 10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, A ...
  The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species.  The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. ...
• 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 ...

Desertification

• Seeds to fight hunger (Italian) – (Amand ...
  Read at : http://www.amandacastello.com/blog/ Semi per sconfiggere la fame Cari amici del blog Pachamama, la nostra campagna Semi e Noccioli per la vita sta avendo moltissimi riscontri positivi. L’ho pubblicata sul mio profilo facebook e ho anche approfittato per condividere … Continue rea ...
• ALLEVIATION OF MALNUTRITION AND HUNGER BY SMAL ...
  We all read a lot about the nice large-scale initiatives of international and national organizations to combat hunger.  Unfortunately, we learn less about the splendid results booked by small-scale farming or gardening projects.  And yet, the direct effect of these … Continue reading →
• THE BEAUTY OF FLOWERS (Willem Van Cotthem)
  Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden and house. I like to share … Continue reading →
• Aeolian desertification from 1975 to 2010 and ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification Evaluation of aeolian desertification from 1975 to 2010 and its causes in northwest Shanxi Province, China Zhanjin Xuea, Zuodong Qina, , , Hongjian Lia, Guangwei Dingb, Xianwen Menga a Institute of Loess Plateau, … Continue reading →
• Desertification: To Care or Not To Care? (Goo ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.gentbc.be/en/event-detail/gent-bc-business-cafe-desertification-to-care-or-not-to-care-a-particular-view-from-an-outsider-2/ Gent BC Business Café – Desertification: To Care or Not To Care? A particular view from an ‘outsider’ June 17th, ...

News Blaze

• Cycle of Violence Spikes 'High' in Nigeria
  President Jonathan reportedly ordered more troops to be sent to the north-eastern states to stop the flow of insurgency and violence.
• PMW Accuses UNRWA for Exposing Map Erasing Israel
  These pictures were broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV and on the Palestinian news site pn-news.net, corroborating PMW's report.
• Tornado Warnings Ahead: Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa
  AccuWeather.com reports as many as 15 tornadoes have been reported by the National Weather Service this evening as severe thunderstorms continue across the Plains.
• US Helps Refugees Turn Their Stories of Traged ...
  US admits more refugees each year than all other resettlement countries combined more than three million since 1975.
• FIFA Delegation Assesses Football Development ...
  In a press statement issued at the Djibouti Football Federation headquarters in the capital Djibouti on Saturday, President Souleiman Hassan Waberi, himself a FIFA commissioner has outlined the importance of the FIFA delegation visit to his country

Worldnews

• Heartland Institute wastes real scientist ...
  Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where armchair experts gave up fighting over whether climate change is occurring? Scientists have the thankless job of fact-checking books like the ones sent out by the Heartland Institute. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters This spring, I began receivi ...
• Mark Webber racing to save his F1 career
  The Monaco Grand Prix looms this weekend as a career-saver for Australia's Mark Webber. Webber is the defending champion in Monte Carlo, a round he also won in his 2010 breakout season. The 36-year-old is under pressure to win soon to have any chance of retaining his Red Bull seat next year ...
• 'Klopp is positively crazy'
  The Arsenal forward feels there is no favourite for the Champions League final, but believes the Borussia Dortmund boss is capable of motivating his players in unconventional ways Arsenal attacker Lukas Podolski has described Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp as...
• Blanc: Bayern are like a steamroller
  The former France coach believes the Bavarian club hold the edge on their Bundesliga rivals but feels the Champions League final is finely poised Laurent Blanc believes Bayern Munich are favourites in the Champions League final against Borussia...
• 'Racism is everyone's problem, not just I ...
  The Azzurri boss has made it clear that racial absue must not be tolerated and criticised Zdenek Zeman for comments over a recent incident involving Mario Balotelli Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has called on the footballing world to tackle the problem of racism after AC Milan's Mario...

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

• Almost Half of Deaths in Kids Under 5 Occur in ...
  Title: Almost Half of Deaths in Kids Under 5 Occur in 5 Countries Category: Health News Created: 5/11/2010 8:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 5/12/2010 12:00:00 AM
• Talking to Mom by Phone May Relieve a Daughter ...
  Title: Talking to Mom by Phone May Relieve a Daughter's Stress Category: Health News Created: 5/12/2010 8:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 5/12/2010 12:00:00 AM
• Some Women Lack Strong Feelings About Motherhood
  Title: Some Women Lack Strong Feelings About Motherhood Category: Health News Created: 5/11/2010 12:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 5/12/2010 12:00:00 AM
• Valtech Cardio trata a los primeros pacientes ...
  OR YEHUDA, Israel, May 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- - Valtech Cardio trata a los primeros pacientes con regurgitación mitral con un dispositivo de anuloplastia percutánea sin cirugía a corazón abierto Valtech Cardio Ltd., compañía de dispositivos médicos...
• Among Patients Carrying BRCA Mutations, PARP I ...
  In the largest clinical trial to date to examine the efficacy of PARP inhibitor therapy in BRCA 1/2 carriers with diseases other than breast and ovarian cancer, the oral drug olaparib was found to be effective against advanced pancreatic and prostate cancers...

Common Dreams

• 'Atomic Bomb-Like' Tornado Damage in Oklahoma
  BREAKING - A mile-wide tornado blasted through Oklahoma City suburbs this afternoon causing massive damage to schools and neighborhoods. One TV helicopter reports the wide-area of destruction is "Atomic bomb-like." * * * * * *read more
• Foreclosed Homeowners 'Move In' to the Dept. o ...
  Protesters erected a 'foreclosed home' barricade in front of the Department of Justice Monday afternoon. (Photo: @OccupyDenver)Underwater homeowners and hundreds of allies barricaded the front door of the Department of Justice building Monday afternoon to protest the "too big to jail banks& ...
• Dissent as 'Terrorism': Targeting Public Prote ...
  Results from a year-long investigation into the activities of the United States' expansive counter-terrorism apparatus found that, throughout the country, the government has turned the tax-payer-funded intelligence-gathering against its own citizens in an effort to suppress dissent. ...
• Keystone XL Opponents Turn Up Heat on Obama's ...
  (Photo: Image by John Moore / Getty Images)Organizing for Action, the so-called 'grassroots arm' of the Obama administration, was designed to harness the youthful and hopeful energy of its members, and bring the political energy generated during the previous presidential campaigns to hel ...
• Julian Assange: UK Spy Messages Suggest He is ...
  Screenshot from Spanish TV's Salados, May 19, 2013. Speaking during an interview with Spanish television program Salvados, which aired on Sunday, WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange said that he has received a series of unclassified instant message exchanges from UK intelligence officials sugg ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• Energy Efficiency: In Praise of Waste
  It’s time we stopped wasting time with brain dead energy saving mantras and got on with the real task of building a clean energy infrastructure so we can use far, far more electricity.
• Grossly Incomplete: Redefining GDP for Climate ...
  It isn’t about “Green GDP” or “green accounting.” It’s honest accounting. Every ton of coal, every barrel of oil causes more in external damages than it adds value to GDP. Properly measured GDP ought to reflect that fact.
• Rising U.S. Oil Supply and the Impact on Globa ...
  The recent growth in U.S. production has helped reduce the price of Brent crude, a leading global benchmark, by about $25 a barrel. That’s big, because the cost of crude oil is the single biggest factor in the price of gasoline.
• Energy Innovation: “Artificial Leaf” Could Blo ...
  The idea of an “artificial leaf” sounds simple enough: Take a small, cheap, light-collecting device the size of a typical leaf, dunk it in a quart of water, and use solar energy to generate enough hydrogen gas for powering a small fuel cell.
• Energy in China: Construction of Biggest Hydro ...
  Reuters reports that China’s environmental ministry has okayed the construction of a new hydroelectric dam on the Dadu River in the Sichuan province, which when completed will be the country’s largest.

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

• Muslim Brotherhood Divides Egypt
  Posted by Michael Collins Success is not defined by taking power, but by how power is managed. From Al-Akahbar-English - Your Middle East correspondent By: Alain Gresh, Mustafa BassiouniPublished Saturday, May 18, 2013 An interview with National Salvation Front leader Hamdeen Sabahi, who epi ...
• 65 Years of Palestinian Nakba
  By Dr. Elias Akleh Every 15th of May Palestinians; old and young, all over the world, within Zionist occupied Palestine, in every Palestinian refugee camp, and in every exile country, commemorate the Palestinian Nakba; Arabic for national catastrophe. Palestinians contemplate their stolen ...
• Yahu! Answers
  By Robert Singer is a new way to find out what the fuck is really going on in the world. Warning: Answers at Yahu! can result in Cognitive Dissonance and be hazardous to your mental health. AlfredE Resolved Question Who removed “They Live” from the Internet and why? Unti ...
• Vermont's new choice for death with dignity
  Mary Shaw On May 13, the Vermont state legislature passed a bill that legalizes physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients whose suffering has become unbearable but who are capable of making an informed consent on their own behalf. Governor Peter Shumlin has indicated that he will s ...
• Disconnect: Soaring Markets/Troubled Economies
  by Stephen Lendman Forget everything you learned about markets, economics and finance. Perhaps Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and other noted figures were wrong. Central banks run today's world. Major ones matter most. Money printing madness controls everything. Lo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada
  The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights has a new e-bulletin with some interesting updates. Given the interest lately in temporary foreign workers and their impact on Canada's labout market, Ken Georgetti's update, Migrant workers account for most new jobs: CLC is particularly relevant. ...
• 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 ...

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

• Energy Efficiency: In Praise of Waste
  It’s time we stopped wasting time with brain dead energy saving mantras and got on with the real task of building a clean energy infrastructure so we can use far, far more electricity.
• Grossly Incomplete: Redefining GDP for Climate ...
  It isn’t about “Green GDP” or “green accounting.” It’s honest accounting. Every ton of coal, every barrel of oil causes more in external damages than it adds value to GDP. Properly measured GDP ought to reflect that fact.
• Rising U.S. Oil Supply and the Impact on Globa ...
  The recent growth in U.S. production has helped reduce the price of Brent crude, a leading global benchmark, by about $25 a barrel. That’s big, because the cost of crude oil is the single biggest factor in the price of gasoline.
• Energy Innovation: “Artificial Leaf” Could Blo ...
  The idea of an “artificial leaf” sounds simple enough: Take a small, cheap, light-collecting device the size of a typical leaf, dunk it in a quart of water, and use solar energy to generate enough hydrogen gas for powering a small fuel cell.
• Energy in China: Construction of Biggest Hydro ...
  Reuters reports that China’s environmental ministry has okayed the construction of a new hydroelectric dam on the Dadu River in the Sichuan province, which when completed will be the country’s largest.

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 ...
• Receive up to $50 of personalized Pexagon Tech ...
• 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

• New International Coalition to TPP Negotiators ...
  Today EFF joins organizations from the around the world representing a diversity of interests in launching a new coalition to ask for A Fair Deal on intellectual property (IP) in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The coalition has launched a website at www.OurFairDeal.org calling f ...
• The End-Users Strike Back
  As Josh Lamel noted the other day, end-users such as retailers, financial services, grocery stores, advertising, hotel industries, and even oil companies are coming out in droves to fight abusive patent troll tactics. The FTC has posted all 68 public comments submitted to its patent assertion en ...
• Consumer tech rip-off from patent pools
  These patents are required by manufactures to make such common household devices as personal computers, digital set-top boxes, DVD players, digital television sets, digital cameras video game systems and digital video recorders. Most of the MPEG-2 patents have expired, but they still remain bun ...
• Patent Trolls in Public
  Following up on Colleen Chien's recent post (Patent Trolls by the Numbers), this post looks briefly at data on the 10 publicly listed firms that were predominantly in the patent assertion business during the period from 2005 to 2010 (Acacia, Asure, Interdigital, Mosaid, Network-1, OPTi, Rambus, ...
• Software Patents: Separating Rhetoric from Facts
  From a bureaucratic perspective, granting 68,000 software patents per year (figure 3) may look like extraordinary productivity. From a software developer's perspective, this is the equivalent of facing 68,000 new laws each year that she must obey. Just as ignorance is no excuse for violating a l ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

• Skateboarders video aftermath of CT train crash
  Seriously NSFW language!
• State of California has a serious water worker ...
  The problem is California state pay for water workers is so much lower than industry standards that state employees with experience immediately get hired for substantially more pay at private utilities. The result is a growing California water worker shortage This costs the California tens of mi ...
• How to suppress revolution. Buy people off wit ...
  Charles Hugh Smith often has perceptive and unusual takes on issues. He says the bankster class has implicit support from those getting government entitlements, and that this hurts the rest of society. Entitlement spending is running huge deficits while the middle and working classes get poorer. ...
• White House knew about IRS targeting weeks ago
  It is not credible that Obama didn’t know about the IRS targeting before May 10 considering that his chief counsel knew. President Obama claims not to have been made aware of the IRS indiscretions until May 10th it seems the White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit ...
• Solar photovoltaic is finally a net producer o ...
  Advances in solar photovoltaic technology has boosted output of the panels so that (finally) solar PV is a net producer of electricity. Until until now, PV panels took more electricity to manufacture than the panels generated. That has finally flipped. The amount of energy generated by all of th ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

• General debate, May 19, 2013
• Crackdown on overseas borrowers – a real ...
  One of my pet bug-bears about the annual "crackdown" on student loan repayments that we've been experiencing for the past five years since National has been in Government is the implication that it's lazy students that are being targeted. Student loan borrowers who are eligible to repay their lo ...
• How do we create a real golden age in the arts ...
  Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Christopher Finlayson found himself fighting a losing battle on twitter last night as he tried to defend his hyperbolic claim that New Zealand was currently experiencing a "golden age" in the arts under his watch. So what would create a real golden age for the ...
• Better transport planning needed in Christchurch
  This week in Christchurch I attended a breakfast lecture by visiting planning consultant Todd Litman from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, British Colombia.  He was advocating the benefits of “multi-modalism” transport planning – which basically means modern transport planning that sprea ...
• Health Budget predictions and alternatives
  As I write this I am preparing to go into  Parliament to hear the Budget, and no doubt to see  Government Ministers crowing about “more money than ever before” spent on Health, and ‘brave new’ programmes for this and that. I only get the Budget documents once I’m actually in Parliament, and have ...

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

• Economics and Armchair Psychology
  Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
• "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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Awá woman’s death highlights government neglect
  Ajrua Awá's death is a huge loss to her community© D Pugliese/ SurvivalAn Awá woman has died of an easily treatable disease, despite the Brazilian government receiving funds from a mining company for the tribe’s care. Ajrua Awá was 40 years of age and the mother of five children, the young ...
• 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 ...

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

• Vermont Pushing To Be First State To Mandate G ...
  from undergroundhealth.com: Vermont seemed more likely than ever to become the first US state to mandate the labeling of genetically modified food (GMO) after a bill passed the state house, though legislators worry about a lawsuit threat from biotech giant Monsanto. Similar bills seekin ...
• New Buycott App Lets You Take Control Of Your ...
  from undergroundhealth.com: Buycott app lets you vote with your wallet in the supermarket. A new app scans grocery barcodes and more for information about the brand’s parent companies and where those companies spend their money. Know which companies support GMO and where their money is ...
• 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 ...

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

• 7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They ...
  Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?  In America today, we are more "connected" than ever.  The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the ...
• 10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, A ...
  The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species.  The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. ...
• 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 ...

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

• What 'social welfare' nonprofits are trying to ...
  The recent IRS scandal has brought new attention to the role of so-called "social welfare" nonprofits in politics. What nonprofits groups are trying to influence elections in North Carolina? read more
• 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

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. ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Check this out– IRS scandal is just the tip of ...
  by Simon Black on May 14, 2013 IRS May 14, 2013 Manila, Philippines Some days one can’t help but look at the headlines and think of Ayn Rand. With all the destructive measures by desperate governments from Cyprus to Argentina, it seems sometimes like we’re reading from the pages of her seminal w ...
• Smoking Mirrors | An Ignorance and Denial too ...
  By Visible Depending on who you listen to, you might hear pretty much anything and depending on how you are disposed, you might believe almost anything. I am an optimist and I don’t want to change. This sometimes means that I have to accept, dispassionately, the necessity for certain thing ...
• When will Obama say, “I am not a crook”? | Jon ...
  By Jon Rappoport May 19, 2013 http://www.nomorefakenews.com The upward pressure of ongoing scandals is moving into the White House. Benghazi, AP, IRS. The president’s surrogates are trying out their lying skills. Jay Carney: The situation at the IRS isn’t really a scandal, depending on what the ...
• Preschool threatens to dismiss worker for lunc ...
  HONOLULU —When Carissa Lee O’Connell’s husband Rick began preparing organic home lunches for his wife four months ago, the goal was to improve her severe nasal allergies. “Instantly the allergies went away, the colds disappeared and it’s all from just eating raw, natural ...
• Inventor Of ADHD’s Deathbed Confession: ...
  By Moritz Nestor, Current Concerns Source 2.9K ADHD HoaxFortunately, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK, President: Otfried Höffe) critically commented on the use of the ADHD drug Ritalin in its opinion of 22 November 2011 titled Human enhancement by means of pharma ...

Veterans Today

• Graham Fuller, Uncle Ruslan, the CIA and the B ...
  One of the many unexplained (at least not officially) anomalies of the persons claimed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is the presence of key CIA figure in the direct family of the accused brothers. Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. ...
• Impertinent Complaints Politely Sidestepped
  The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was "an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for... and closes the door on meaningful dialogue".
• Boston and the CIA ‘Snafu’ Part II:
  The open press statement of denial by senior reportedly former CIA official Graham Fuller in April of a link between the Boston Bombings and the CIA, labeling the reports “absurd,” may go down in history as one of the worst intelligence blunders in the past century.
• Vernon Hershberger trial puts food freedom &#8 ...
  One brave Wisconsin farmer stands tall against the toxic corporate takeover of our food supply.
• The Council on Foreign Relations
  (Excerpted from Big Oil & Their Bankers: Chapter 3: The House of Saud & JP Morgan)  by Dean Henderson     In 1919 Rothschild’s Business Roundtable launched the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London.  The RIIA soon spawned sister organizations around the glob ...

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

• Hofstra PR student dies in standoff with intruder
  HEMPSTEAD, NY: Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old public relations major at Hofstra University, died on Friday during a shootout between a police officer and a home intruder who held her at gunpoint.
• APCO names McGregor greater China chairman
  BEIJING: APCO Worldwide has named James McGregor chairman for the agency's greater China region.
• Traackr, Nimble team up for influencer marketing
  SAN FRANCISCO: Influencer search engine Traackr has partnered with contact-management service Nimble to create an integrated platform for influencer marketing.
• KemperLesnik appoints Gruber sports, events VP
  CHICAGO: KemperLesnik has appointed Curt Gruber, former VP of business development for the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves, as VP of sports and event marketing.
• Late July Organic Snacks taps Haberman
  MINNEAPOLIS: Late July Organic Snacks has appointed marketing agency Haberman to oversee the company's social marketing expansion and its 2013 campaign.

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 Advances Global Interceptor Missile S ...
  Missile Defense Agency May 16, 2013 Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System Completes Successful Intercept Flight Test ==== This test exercised the latest version of the second-generation Aegis BMD Weapon System and Standard Missile, providing capability for engagement of longer-range and more so ...
• Anatole France and Michel Corday: War is a cri ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Anatole France: Selections on war Michel Corday: Selections from The Paris Front ==== Michel Corday From Under the Rose (1926) Translated by J. Lewis May “War is a crime, for which victory brings no atonement.” “M ...
• European Guantanamo: Why The U.S. Wants Serbia ...
  Voice of Russia May 17, 2013 European Guantanamo or the reason the US wants Serbia to give up Kosovo The U.S. military base in Kosovo was constructed in 1999 without consulting with the government of Serbia and is the largest U.S. military base built outside of the U.S. since the Vietnam War. Th ...
• Pentagon Shepherding Bosnia Into NATO
  United States European Command May 17, 2013 Firm support for NATO and EU integration efforts NATO HQ Sarajevo: BiH Minister of Defence Zekerijah Osmić paid a visit to the Pentagon where he met with US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel, Fena reported. Osmić noted that a way out of the current impa ...
• Henri Barbusse: Jesus on the battlefield
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray I had seen Jesus Christ on the margin of the lake. He came like an ordinary man along the path. There is no halo round his head. H ...

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Intel Hub

• July’s Armed March Could Allow Washingto ...
  Shepard Ambellas | The establishment would love nothing more then to not let a good crisis or "armed march"go to waste.The post July’s Armed March Could Allow Washington to Garner More Tyrannical Power appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Is the Nova PBS Premier of Manhunt – Boston Bo ...
  Avalon | Is the Nova PBS Premier of "Manhunt – Boston Bombers" similar to "Debunking 9/11 Bomb Theories"The post Is the Nova PBS Premier of Manhunt – Boston Bombers State Sponsored Propaganda? appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Shocking: 12 Year-Old Kid Exposes Criminal Ban ...
  Shepard Ambellas | A 12 year-old kid has taken the Internet by storm as she easily explains and describes to the general public how the criminal banking system actually works in Canada.The post Shocking: 12 Year-Old Kid Exposes Criminal Banking System On TV appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• Media Once Bitten, Forever Scorn
  Sartre | Hurrah, the worm has turned! Or has it? The corporatist controlled mass media love affair with the puppet spinmeister seems to be on the rocks.The post Media Once Bitten, Forever Scorn appeared first on Intellihub.com.
• FBI Investigate Quabbin Reservoir Trespassing ...
  Avalon | An FBI Investigation is underway into the May 14th, 2013 Quabbin Reservoir Trespassing by Foreign Chemical Engineer GraduatesThe post FBI Investigate Quabbin Reservoir Trespassing by Chemical Engineers appeared first on Intellihub.com.

FRS

• India: “Don’t pose as Maoist rebe ...
  HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times  Ranchi, May 18, 2013 CPI-Maoists through posters have warned criminal groups and splinter outfits not to lift levy claiming to be Naxals in Ramgarh district. The poster read, “Criminals are warned not to pose as Maoists rebels. If the party comes to know ...
• China Is Seen Nearing U.S.’s Military Power in ...
  [Petar Kujundzic/Reuters--A Chinese commander adjusts the cap of a soldier in Beijing, ahead of a visit by President François Hollande of France in April.] By MARTIN FACKLER, New York Times,  May 1, 2013 TOKYO — China’s growing industrial might is likely to allow it to mount an increasingly form ...
• Documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak talks about h ...
    Red Ant Dream — Trailer Published on May 1, 2013 A documentary about those who live the revolutionary ideal in India Director: Sanjay Kak Synopsis:  ‘Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist’, the revolutionary patriot had said almost a hundred yea ...
• Documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak talks about h ...
    Red Ant Dream — Trailer Published on May 1, 2013 A documentary about those who live the revolutionary ideal in India Director: Sanjay Kak Synopsis:  ‘Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist’, the revolutionary patriot had said almost a hundred yea ...
• 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 ...

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

• Number Of Published Cancer Studies That Can't ...
  Half of cancer scientists have failed to reproduce the findings of other researchers, according to an anonymous survey. In an anonymous survey taken by scientists at a prestigious cancer center, more than half of the respondents said they'd failed to reproduce published scientific findings at l ...
• IMDB's Greatest Movies Ever, Beautifully Organ ...
  Sorry, animated movies. Drama is top dog. You probably have your own choice for Greatest Movie Of All Time. But what do the masses say? The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has a set of picks, rated by users, that you can peruse. And if you want to know a little more about what kind of movie make ...
• Giant Carnivorous Plant Found In Silicon Valley
  The precise method by which Yahoo! digests and dissolves its prey. Yahoo! is a carnivorous plant whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid, known as a pitfall trap. Startups, such as Flickr, Tumblr, and Del.icio.us, are attracted to the cavity formed by the cupped ...
• Candy Totally Won't Make You Fat, Says Study F ...
  It's cool to eat as much candy as you want, you guys, no problem, just live off the stuff. Good news, guys! Candy isn't going to make you fat or kill you or anything negative at all! Feast on M&M's like an 8-year-old on Halloween, because you're totally good on this one. Says a study funde ...
• How Science Got The 'Crack Baby' Epidemic So Wrong
  A New York Times mini-documentary examines the flawed science behind the 1980s 'crack baby' scare. The New York Times has a fascinating documentary on the crack cocaine epidemic that gripped the United States in the 1980s. The short of it: The “crack baby” scare that threatened to spawn a gener ...

Veterans Today

• Graham Fuller, Uncle Ruslan, the CIA and the B ...
  One of the many unexplained (at least not officially) anomalies of the persons claimed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is the presence of key CIA figure in the direct family of the accused brothers. Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. ...
• Impertinent Complaints Politely Sidestepped
  The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was "an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for... and closes the door on meaningful dialogue".
• Boston and the CIA ‘Snafu’ Part II:
  The open press statement of denial by senior reportedly former CIA official Graham Fuller in April of a link between the Boston Bombings and the CIA, labeling the reports “absurd,” may go down in history as one of the worst intelligence blunders in the past century.
• Vernon Hershberger trial puts food freedom &#8 ...
  One brave Wisconsin farmer stands tall against the toxic corporate takeover of our food supply.
• The Council on Foreign Relations
  (Excerpted from Big Oil & Their Bankers: Chapter 3: The House of Saud & JP Morgan)  by Dean Henderson     In 1919 Rothschild’s Business Roundtable launched the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London.  The RIIA soon spawned sister organizations around the glob ...

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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• January 2nd warmest globally on record
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Internat'l Political Economy

• Geopolitics of Eurovision: Echoes of Yugoslavia
  Formerly known as the Cold War Studies programme, LSE IDEAS has always been focused on post-1989 events in that part of Europe. As out founders keep saying, understanding the Cold War is key to understanding the current era of globalization. I need not remind anyone that the wars there were espe ...
• 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They ...
  Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?  In America today, we are more "connected" than ever.  The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the ...
• 10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, A ...
  The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species.  The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. ...
• 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 ...

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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

• Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Reef Defense C ...
  Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is proud to announce the launch of Operation Reef Defense, a global campaign to end the destruction of coral reefs and the many threats they face worldwide. Coral reefs represent some of the planet’s most biologically diverse ecosystems providing critical habita ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The 1964 ...
  In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby ...
• The “New Conservation’s” Surrender to Development
  by Brian Miller, Michael E. Soulé, and John Terborgh Abstract When a functioning ecological system is perturbed by human activity, processes are distorted and species diversity often declines. Research has shown that loss of species diversity decreases productivity, resilience (stability), effic ...
• 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 ...

Asia Sentinel

• Thailand Three Years Later
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Anniversary of Savage May passes with little incident
• Malaysia: An Irreconcilable Divide?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The outlook isn't that good, an academic says
• The Spying Game
  ? (http://twitter.com/share) Spies in the newsroom? Or spying on newsrooms? There's far too much of both
• Malaysia's Rigged Electoral System
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A win for the opposition is nearly impossible
• Sovereign Wealth Funds Go After Western Property
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The vulture capitalists swoop down

We Know the Lies

• ALERT!... U.N. Gun Ban Moving Toward Ratification!
  For years, the United Nations has been working on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that would regulate small arms on a global scale. President George W. Bush took the U.S. out of negotiations, because he did not want any involvement in a treaty that would infringe on our Second Amendment rights. ...
• Why is Obama Hiding 6,000 Page Report on Bush ...
  President Barack Obama is currently blocking the release—or allowing the CIA to block the release—of a comprehensive Senate report on the use of torture by the George W. Bush administration CIA that is said to conclude that torture was not an effective or reliable method of interrogation. ~ ...
• Obama’s Endgame
  History demonstrates that the descent into war is preceded with a justification, real or contrived. As with all tyrants, if a legitimate justification for the impending conflict is not forthcoming, the despot, in this case Obama, will simply make one up. The way that this objective is reach ...
• IRS Scandal... Timothy Geithner Is The Key
  Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller was forced by to resign, predominantly due to the July 7, 2011 memorandum that I published last weekend in my report, IRS HAD ENEMIES LIST IN 2010 & 2012. The document, written on U.S. Treasury Department stationary, demanded that senior IRS manag ...
• Critical Information!... Insider... 'U.S. Amba ...
  Vatic Note: Of all the blogs we have put up, this first one below is the most important and critical truth exposure I have ever published on this blog. ~ Videos read more

Tarpley

• Republicans Gin Up Benghazi Incident, Hope to ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV May 16, 2013 Zealously seeking issues to use against the Obama White House, the reactionary Republicans of the US House of Representatives last week once again dredged up the Benghazi incident of September 11, 2012 in the form of a full-blown media circus center ...
• Mobilize Now for Elizabeth Warren’s Bill ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. Guns and Butter with Bonnie Faulkner May 15, 2013 [download audio]
• Support S. 897, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com May 14, 2013 [download audio]
• 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 ...

Modern Survivalism

• Compost
  Building a compost pile is an easy gardening project. Compost provides nutrition for plants, it builds the soil, and feeds beneficial microbes. Here are a few ideas how to get started with your own compost pile…   First, choose the best location for your compost pile, which should be ...
• Decoy Safe
  A decoy safe…the kind of safe to throw off a burglar or forced intrusion, will enable you to more safely store your ‘real’ emergency cash, important papers, valuable jewelery, precious metals, or other valuables. Is there an ultimate intruder proof safe?   A burglar proof ...
• Camouflage
  The most commonly sold camouflage for civilians might be Real Tree or Mossy Oak, its primary purpose: blending in during a hunt (or just stylin’ at the mall). But when we think of camouflage for survival, our mindset must change. This article draws heavily on the US Army’s FM20-3 – Camouflage ma ...
• Heirloom
  Here’s a question… Would you rather eat a near perfectly round tomato that looks good but has a tough skin and tastes bland? Or would you rather eat a misshaped tomato of varying color and texture but tastes mouth-watering good?   There are basically two types of seed… &#8 ...
• If We Cannot See Bread Lines, Do They Exist?
  Do you think that as a country we are not facing similar ‘food line’ problems as those during the Great Depression of the 1930′s? Think again… The difference today being that it is hidden from our view. Since perception is reality, then the reality must be that there is n ...

Fast Company

• Rural Modernism: A Charming Off-Grid Home Plan ...
  The House on Limekiln Line offers a modern take on the local agricultural vernacular--plus a bunch of energy-conscious features. Deep in the rural heart of Ontario’s Huron County, an asymmetrical A-frame silhouette can be seen above the surrounding grass and rolling cornfields. The H ...
• A Book That Celebrates The Tactile Thrills Of ...
  Fully Booked extols print media’s tactile, artsy strengths: intricate folds, pop-ups, embossing, and bindings. “Let me state this for the record: the Internet is not dead. Digital will not disappear. Print will not kill the web.” These statements are laid out in bold red, ...
• Next Time You Hear There’s A Scientific Debate ...
  A study of studies finds that basically all scientists say it’s happening and that we’re causing it. When a recent Pew Research Center survey asked "do scientists agree [the] earth is getting warmer from climate change because of human activity?" 43% of Americans said "no." In ...
• Watch: An Interactive Documentary Modeled On I ...
  10-second teaser clips? Limited time subscriptions? It’s not pornography; it’s an interactive documentary about pornography. It’s an artful documentary steeped in the traditions of cinéma vérité. But to anyone looking over your shoulder, you’ll ...
• How Adult Tumblrs Could Land Yahoo In A Legal ...
  Marissa Mayer says she wants to "let Tumblr be Tumblr" after acquiring David Karp's microblogging service for $1.1 billion. But the bigger problem for Yahoo might be porn pages that don't reveal enough. Of all the questions about monetization, advertising, and scale that have surfaced sinc ...

Jadaliyya

• Last Week on Jadaliyya (May 13-19)
  This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles, and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Why There Is No Military Solution ...
• Jadaliyya's Occupation, Intervention, and Law ...
  Since launching in July 2010, the Occupation, Intervention, and Law (O.I.L) page has made rich contributions to the field of studies examining the Middle East, armed conflict, law, and human rights. O.I.L has sought to explore the relationship between, and the debates within, the fields of ...
• سعادت حسن منتو: قصة قصيرة
  [سعادت حسن مَنتو واحد من أشهر كتاب القصة القصيرة بالأردو وأكثرهم إثارة للجدل. ولد منتو في أيار سنة ١٩١٢ قرب مدينة لودِيانا في أقليم بنجاب (في الجزء الذي أصبح لاحقاً في الهند) وتوفي في كانون الثاني سنة ١٩٥٥ في مدينة لاهور في باكستان قبل أن يبلغ من العمر أربعين عاماً. نشر إثنين وعشرين مجموعة قصصية ...
• الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي
  لا لتلك "النكبة: الليبرالية الفلسطينية أمام القضاء الإسرائيلي. يعود معنى المساواة لغوياً إلى حتمية وجود طرفين مختلفين تتم المساواة بينهما، بمعنى جعلهما متعادلين. انطلاقاً من هذا المنطق تعمل إسرائيل منذ عقدين على الأقل على الدفع باتجاه التعادل في العلاقة بينها وبين "الآخر" الفلسطي ...
• ما هي النكبة؟
  ما هي النكبة؟ تستدعي مفردة النكبة (أو الكارثة) إلى الذاكرة تأسيس دولة إسرائيل على أرض فلسطين عام 1948 عن طريق طرد أكثر من نصف سكان فلسطين التاريخية، وتدمير التراث الفلسطيني، والمؤسسات الاجتماعية والسياسية في الاراضي المحتلة. إن الاجابة الممكنة عن سؤال حول معنى النكبة في الزمن الحاضر يمكن أن نجد ...

mediagazer

• Apple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional ...
  Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times: Apple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional Panel Says  —  WASHINGTON— Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subs ...
• The day in government snooping - Journalists w ...
  Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: The day in government snooping  —  Journalists were already rattled by the Department of Justice's secret seizure of Associated Press phone records when Ann Marimow's disturbing scoop in The Washington Post about the U.S. Department of Justice investiga ...
• Acting FCC Chair Clyburn: My Goal Is Not to Dr ...
  John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable: Acting FCC Chair Clyburn: My Goal Is Not to Drop the Baton  —  Says her focus will be on “continuity and progress”  —  In a note to staff on her first official workday as acting chair of the FCC, Mignon Clybur ...
• Yahoo can't decide if it's a media company or ...
  Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post: Yahoo can't decide if it's a media company or a tech company  —  Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1 billion is a big gamble by Marissa Mayer, the company's recently-hired CEO.  The microblogging site is a valuable asset, but media accou ...
• Jann Wenner's Kid Is the New Head of RollingSt ...
  Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: Jann Wenner's Kid Is the New Head of RollingStone.com  —  Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner has a knack for picking talent.  So we're sure his online staff will give a hearty welcome to their new boss: Jann Wenner's fresh-out-of-college kid.  &md ...

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

• Heartland Institute wastes real scientist ...
  Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where armchair experts gave up fighting over whether climate change is occurring? Scientists have the thankless job of fact-checking books like the ones sent out by the Heartland Institute. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters This spring, I began receivi ...
• Mark Webber racing to save his F1 career
  The Monaco Grand Prix looms this weekend as a career-saver for Australia's Mark Webber. Webber is the defending champion in Monte Carlo, a round he also won in his 2010 breakout season. The 36-year-old is under pressure to win soon to have any chance of retaining his Red Bull seat next year ...
• 'Klopp is positively crazy'
  The Arsenal forward feels there is no favourite for the Champions League final, but believes the Borussia Dortmund boss is capable of motivating his players in unconventional ways Arsenal attacker Lukas Podolski has described Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp as...
• Blanc: Bayern are like a steamroller
  The former France coach believes the Bavarian club hold the edge on their Bundesliga rivals but feels the Champions League final is finely poised Laurent Blanc believes Bayern Munich are favourites in the Champions League final against Borussia...
• 'Racism is everyone's problem, not just I ...
  The Azzurri boss has made it clear that racial absue must not be tolerated and criticised Zdenek Zeman for comments over a recent incident involving Mario Balotelli Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has called on the footballing world to tackle the problem of racism after AC Milan's Mario...

no frakking consensus

• The Playing Field Isn’t Remotely Level
  Climate skeptics don't hire advertising agencies to help them manage their brand. Green groups do. So tell me again which side is lavishly funded?
• WWF Gets Into Bed with Oppressive Dictatorship
  The World Wildlife Fund has organized an event this week in the United Arab Emirates. You know, one of those countries in which political parties are banned.
• 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.

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

• 5/17/13 - Economic Impact of Golf
  golf.procon.org - Economic Impact of Golf: State by State - See the number of golf facilities in 31 states, along with the economic output, jobs, and wage income created by golf. California has the highest total economic output from golf, totaling $15.1 billion per year.
• 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.

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

• Protester climbs onto dome of St Peter's Basilica
  The man, who is sitting on a ledge, is holding a banner which says "Stop this massacre!"
• Schapelle Corby faces parole setback
  The convicted Australian drug smuggler has suffered a setback in her bid for freedom.
• Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle - ...
  About 30 Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers have been killed in the rebel stronghold of Qusair.
• Gandhi blood sample up for auction in London
  Two microscope slides bearing the blood of Mahatma Gandhi are to go on sale.
• North Korea fires sixth missile in three days
  North Korea fired two short-range missiles today, making six launches in three days.

environment 360

• System Converts Pig Waste Into Biogas and Fert ...
  An international team of researchers has developed a system that will help Chinese farmers convert massive amounts of pig waste into a renewable source of energy Getty Images and fertilizer. The project, led by Australia-based Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remed ...
• A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southe ...
  Illegal logging and unchecked economic development are taking a devastating toll on the forests of Vietnam and neighboring countries, threatening areas of biodiversity so rich that 1,700 species have been discovered in the last 15 years alone. BY DANIEL DROLLETTE
• ‘Artificial Forest’ Nanosystem Mimics Photosyn ...
  U.S. scientists have developed what they say is the first integrated nanosystem capable of replicating the process of photosynthesis, a sort of “artificial forest” that could one day lead to the production of hydrogen that could be used to power fuel cells. Composed of nanowire structures — inc ...
• In Post-Tsunami Japan, A Push To Rebuild Coast ...
  In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, the Japanese government is forgoing an opportunity to sustainably protect its coastline and is instead building towering concrete seawalls and other defenses that environmentalists say will inflict serious damage on coastal ecosystems. BY WINIFRED BIRD
• Scientist’s U.S. Road Trip Reveals Higher Meth ...
  Methane measurements collected during a scientist’s road trip across the U.S. revealed that local emissions of the potent greenhouse gas are higher than previously known in many regions. Using a gas chromatograph mounted to the roof of a rented camper, Ira Leifer of the University of California, ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Suffer the Children | Psychology Today
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• 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 ...

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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

• Stakelbeck Condemns Obama for Defending Right ...
  From the looniverse of Right-Wing Evangelicaldom: Stackelbeck argues against religious liberty for Muslims.
• ‘A Symbol of Friendship’ : Turkish ...
  PM Tayyip Erdogan placed a ceremonial stone on a 15-acre construction site in Lanham, Maryland that will likely become the largest and most striking examples of Islamic architecture in the western hemisphere.
• Greek neo-Nazis threaten to mobilize against m ...
  The fascist Golden Dawn warns of slaughter if the first official mosque of Athens is created.
• ‘Valentino’s Ghost’ hits med ...
  Michael Singh's documentary connects the USA's foreign policy agenda to America's negative portrayals of Arabs and Muslims.
• The Battle for Bunker Hill
  "The Battle for Bunker Hill tells a story that is amazingly close to what has really happened to us since 9/11."

Energy News

• Japan Times: Discharges of Fukushima nuclear m ...
• Rice planted 10 miles from Fukushima Daiichi — ...
• Japan Times: Radiation level in Fukushima town ...
• Strong M6 quake hits near Fukushima nuclear pl ...
• Study: Concentrated Fukushima radioactive plum ...

Japan Times

• Pyongyang fires sixth ‘missile’ in three days
  North Korea fires two more "projectiles" into the Sea of Japan, drawing more condemnation from South Korea and the United Nations.
• Yokohama clears out nursery waiting lists
  The city of Yokohama reaches its 2010 goal of clearing all nursery school waiting lists, a feat that could lead to relief for Japan's working ...
• Tokyo hospital ready to conduct preventive mas ...
  A hospital announces it is ready to perform preventive mastectomies and that it has done so for several women in the past who developed cancer.
• Visa violators stage sit-in to stay
  Visa violators kick off a five-day protest at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau to protest plans to deport overstayers en masse on planes.
• Fear and incarceration, from Kampala to Nagoya
  "I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a ...

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

• Public Displays of Accountability
  Joan Crockatt hails her government's high ethical standards
• The NDP shows off Thomas Mulcair
  New ads for the NDP leader
• What to make of Marissa Mayer’s $1B Tumb ...
  Inside Yahoo's latest comeback attack
• Twelve thoughts on Nigel Wright and Duffygate
  Politicians and pundits on the latest bombshell in Ottawa
• The Coen brothers unplugged
  Portrait of a failed folkie lights up Cannes

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

• California council adopts delta management plan
  “A California agency on Thursday unanimously adopted a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. After several hours of public comments and protests by opponents, the Delta Stewardship Council voted 7-0 to approve the final version of the Delta Plan, a ...
• Long wait ahead for packaged drinking water in ...
  “For thousands of residents who depend on ‘mineral water’ for cooking and drinking, the protest by packaged drinking water manufacturers has come as a shock. Over the past few days, many city residents have been bluntly refused canned water supply by local distributors. According to the Ta ...
• New report reveals the U.S. areas facing the h ...
  “A new report from the Columbia University Water Center, in conjunction with Veolia Water and Growing Blue, reveals that businesses and cities in some of America’s most iconic regions are now under even greater risk of water scarcity. “All cities and all businesses require wate ...
• EPA issues order to protect Yakama Nation drin ...
  “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, has ordered two gas stations to close their underground injection wells to protect drinking water on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington. Da Stor at Lillie’s Corner gas station, in Wapato, operates two underground injection well ...
• 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 ...

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

• “we” continue to act like the 3 bl ...
  …absolutely classic … both political parties engage in “beating-a-dead-horse” and have for years and “we” (that’s you and me) continue to act like the 3 blind mice … see nothing … hear nothing … say nothing … and yet we continue to wonder how our government got into the shape it is today…   ...
• become an albatross around his neck…
  …The “switcheroo” Mayor Stanton did on Phoenix food tax has become an albatross around his neck…   Filed under: Blogroll
• I did not expect this hyperbole
  …frankly I did not expect this hyperbole from an organization declaring itself to be natural … Natural News is now nothing but a “shill” instilling fear without providing any substantive proof…   AN FYI FROM … NaturalNews  www.NaturalNews.com   Obamacare is causing a wave of docto ...
• new mantra is to secure profits for corporate ...
  …given Marine ineptness to protect their own water supply … raises questions about how adept they are at guarding America’s embassies and securing peace … OOP$ … not the mantra … new mantra is to secure profits for corporate interest$… Filed under: Blogroll
• today comic relief
  …today comic relief … who knows what DHS agency chief “big sis” will choose to impose tomorrow or the next day… 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

• National Science Challenges: Big science exper ...
  The National Science Challenges promised to be one of the most exciting experiments ever seen in our science and innovation sector.With a hit list of issues to throw our biggest brains at, backed up by a special pot of taxpayer...
• Scientists unravel secret world of mammoths fr ...
  The first time I met palaeontologist Dan Fisher was in a hotel in the Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia.I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a BBC crew. We were keen to head north...
• Stem cell breakthrough
  The prospect of using a patient's skin to generate healthy heart, liver or nerve cells for transplant operations has moved a step closer after a scientists' breakthrough.Using the cloning technique which produced Dolly the sheep...
• Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
  Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.A prominent expert called the work a landmark,...
• Canterbury professor to receive Einstein Medal
  A Canterbury astrophysicist will fly to Europe next week to be presented with the Einstein Medal from the Albert Einstein Society.Emeritus Professor Roy Kerr from Canterbury University is the first New Zealander to receive the award.It...

The Bovine

• Some of his best friends are germs
  From Michael Pollan in the New York Times: “I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. … Continue reading →
• Nadine Ijaz’s recent presentation to the ...
  Nadine Ijaz was invited to present on raw milk science to the BC Centre for Disease Control. Watch Nadine’s presentation online.  Not sure how long this presentation will be available for viewing. Earlier post on The Bovine about Nadine being invited … Continue reading →
• Montana Jones and Michael Schmidt may be force ...
  Update from Montana Jones: This four foot high stack of disclosure is “almost” all of it, says CFIA investigator David Eagleson. Vincent Lam’s novel “Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures” seems an appropriate accompaniment, since CFIA’s bloodbath killing of the c ...
• Final report — Alice Jongerden concludes ...
  Mother’s day was the last day of my fast. How could I turn down the special, – made with love – bowl of soup? After 27 days of milk, Real Milk, I thought it was time for a taste of … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Obamacare Premiums 47% Higher But Deductibles ...
  Here's the question of the day: If you have a choice (and you many not for long because companies are abandoning grandfathered plans) Should you skip Obamacare and keep your old plan? Any policy in place on March 23, 2010, the day health reform was enacted, falls under the grandfather exe ...
• Wild Swings in Gold and Silver; Time to Give U ...
  Overnight action in gold and silver was interesting to say the least. Silver plunged 10% and was halted four times in a flash crash, of sorts, yet is now in the green. Silver 10-Minute Chart click on chart for sharper image Silver hit as low as $20.25 and as high as $23.24. Th ...
• EU On Collision Course With Germany Over Tarif ...
  The threat by the EU to impose huge tariffs on solar panels from China has run into staunch opposition. The Financial Times reports Germany warns EU solar tariffs would be ‘grave mistake’ Germany’s vice-chancellor and economy minister put Berlin on a collision course with Brussels by warni ...
• Folly of Preserving the Euro at All Costs; Sho ...
  The Local, a website with German news in English reports Economists warn against German euro exit. “Even a believable rumour that Germany would exit the euro would result in a massive capital flight from the countries of southern Europe to Germany.” The southern European banking syste ...
• Poll Shows 46% in UK Want to Exit EU, 30% Want ...
  By a wide margin, but not quite a majority (yet), Let's quit EU say 46 per cent of voters in poll. Asked the exact question Conservatives want to put the public in the 2017 referendum – “Do you think that the UK should remain a member of the EU” – 46 per cent opt to come out, a higher figure ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 17, 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 ...
• BREAKING NEWS- How the Sunday Times Investigat ...
  The Sunday Times Journalists Describe How the Edmonds’ Story was Inexplicably Dropped under the Pressure of Undisclosed “Interest Groups” Associated with the U.S. State Department. UK magazine Ceasefire publishes never- before-disclosed insights into how the Sunday Times investigative series was ...
• Kyrgyzstan’s Maksim Bakiyev: Long Live Washing ...
  “The Selection, Grooming, Training, Installing, and Shielding of the World’s Most Corrupt Dictators a la USA” A few days ago the US government dismissed its criminal securities fraud case against Maksim Bakiyev, the son of former Kyrgyzstan leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The government did not explai ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 16, 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 Reality Principle -Episode 29
  “Unmasking Empire” with Glen Ford This week Eric sits down with journalist and commentator Glen Ford to discuss a number of key political and geopolitical issues. Eric and Glen examine the ongoing political theater surrounding the Benghazi attacks, providing their analysis of the real story that ...

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

• WATCH: Costa Concordia Wreck Site Like You’ve ...
  The Costa Concordia wreck site sets the backdrop for this amazing quadcopter promotional video just posted to Youtube
• Argentina’s Main Grains Ports Paralyzed By Lab ...
  Port workers in Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario went on strike over wages on Monday, slowing exports from the world's No. 1 soymeal and soyoil supplier.
• Kingfish Cancels 11 Tanker Order at OSX Brasil ...
  11-tanker order cancelled as OSX scales back construction of its shipyard at the Açu port complex.
• Kulluk Hearing Kicks Off in Alaska
  The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday is kicking off its formal marine casualty investigation hearing into the December 31 grounding of Shell's Kulluk drilling rig on Sitkalidak Island.
• Nippon Yusen Soars as LPG Rates Rise Most on R ...
  Nippon Yusen K.K., the world’s largest publicly traded operator of liquefied petroleum gas ships, surged the most in more than four years in Tokyo after a record weekly advance in rates.

Press TV

• Iran condemns Iraq deadly attacks
  Iran has condemned terrorist attacks across Iraq which have killed nearly 80 people including a number of Iranian pilgrims.
• Pakistan court grants Musharraf bail
  A Pakistani court in Rawalpindi has granted bail to former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, in a case related to the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
• Russian forces foil attack on Moscow
  Russian security forces have foiled a terror attack on the country’s capital, Moscow, killing two of the plotters and arresting another.
• 2 soldiers killed in Lebanon’s Tripoli
  At least two soldiers have been killed and three others injured in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli.
• '51 killed in South Sudan clashes'
  Fifty one people have lost their lives in two separate clashes in eastern and northeastern regions of South Sudan, government officials say.

SciDev.net

• Latin America up in arms over US firms' domain ...
  Latin American governments are contesting plans by US firms Amazon and Patagonia to take charge of new geographic Internet domains.
• Non-native goats and iguanas threaten Pacific ...
  Feral goats and green iguanas introduced to small Pacific island states are destroying ecosystems and native wildlife, find studies.
• African soil diversity mapped for the first time
  An atlas of a key natural resource, Africa's soil, aims to give people outside the science world insight into its importance and management.
• Experts urge water's inclusion in development ...
  Better data and governance of global water resources are called for in a bid to get water security into the post-2015 development goals.
• Call to mainstream ethnobotany into development
  Scientists must partner with development actors and local communities to safeguard important plants.

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

• Butterflies with Inbuilt Solar Cells
  Transcript to follow......
• Did selfishness fuel farming?
  Around 12,000 years ago, the behaviour of our ancestors underwent a radical change. Rather than taking food that was growing naturally around us, as we had done for thousands of years previously, we b...
• Toxic Chemicals Harm Seabirds
  Transcript to follow......
• Quickfire Science: Angelina Jolie
  It emerged this week that actress and director Angelina Jolie chose to have a double mastectomy, because she carries a gene called BRCA1, which greatly increases her chances of developing breast cance...
• Earth's oldest water beneath Canada
  Water that hasn't seen the light of day, or had contact with the Earth's atmosphere, for 2.5 billion years has been discovered in Ontario, Canada. Reporting in Nature this week, a team of Canadian ...

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