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Scoop - NZ

  • Cultural Cleansing in Iraq
    Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-inv ...
  • The new Libor scandal.
    The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics ow ...
  • The Illuminati were amateurs: The new Libor sc ...
    The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics ow ...
  • How the Gold Market was Crashed
    Why does the Fed need to explain what they are doing now? Well it isn’t because everything is going just fine. Put it this way. They must figure when you have 50 million people on food stamps and the Dow Jones is going up a few hundred points a week and making all time highs and you have 16 t ...
  • Pilger: Dance on Thatcher's grave, there has b ...
    In the wake of Thatcher's departure, I remember her victims. Patrick Warby's daughter, Marie, was one of them. Marie, aged five, suffered from a bowel deformity and needed a special diet. Without it, the pain was excruciating. Her father was a Durham miner and had used all his savings. It was wi ...

Independent - London

  • Huge decline in hijackings by Somali pirates
    Next Sunday will mark the one-year anniversary of the last successful hijacking by Somali pirates, the chair of the global group trying to combat the pirates has said.Related StoriesNigeria joins journalist danger list on World Press Freedom daySomalia: UN’s late declaration of famine in 2011 c ...
  • Tupac Shakur's aunt and police killer Joanne C ...
    The aunt of dead rapper Tupac Shakur has been added to the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists after evading justice over the killing of a policeman 40 years ago.Related StoriesOhio trial hinges on a dying man’s blinksAnyone for Cricketts? The rifles made especially for childrenYoung guns: The ...
  • Fox, rat, and mink passed off as mutton: Chine ...
    Chinese police have arrested 904 people and seized 20,000 tonnes of illegal products since the turn of the year, in an investigation into "meat-related offences" which revealed fox, mink and rat meat all being passed off as mutton.Related StoriesNorth Korea: Pyongyang ups ante with 15-year sent ...
  • €1m dumped by burglars during Belgian car chas ...
    It's a oft-debated question of scruples: if you find money in the street, do you cite 'finders keepers' and pocket it or do the 'decent thing' and hand it in to authorities?Related StoriesVideo: Helicopter balances on crash barrier in NorwayFar-right Golden Dawn MP Giorgos Germenis hits 12-year ...
  • €1m thrown dumped by burglars during Belgian c ...
    It's a oft-debated question of scruples: if you find money in the street, do you cite 'finders keepers' and pocket it or do the 'decent thing' and hand it in to authorities?Related StoriesVideo: Helicopter balances on crash barrier in NorwayFar-right Golden Dawn MP Giorgos Germenis hits 12-year ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Masked gunmen storm meeting and begin shooting ...
    Teachers gathered for a meeting on April 26 were horrified when two masked men ambushed their meeting and began firing blanks. The 15 instructors at the Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway, Oregon did not realize that it was an emergency drill and not a real attack. After the terrifying test, ...
  • United States, Britain, Israel, South Korea an ...
    Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input 'should not have the power of life and death over human beings,' a new draft U.N. report says. The report for the U.N. Human Rights Commission this week has called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of killer robots until an intern ...
  • Speed of light may not be constant, physicists say
    The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the nature of the vacuum of space. The definition of the speed of light has some broader implications for fields such as cosmology and a ...
  • Robotic insect RoboBees make first controlled ...
    In culmination of a decade's work, RoboBees achieve vertical takeoff, hovering, and steering Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flappin ...
  • Bread madness - schizophrenia or gluten sensit ...
    The more we study gluten, the more we learn how antiquated and out dated the current definitions being used to define it are. Less than a year ago, it was thought that celiac disease was the only manifestation of gluten sensitivity. Today this false misconception has been dis-proven in multiple ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Harper Broadcasting Corporation . . .
    STEVIE IS MOVING IN ON THE CBC. According to Lauren Strapagiel at Canada.com with an article, "If Harper ran CBC programming", there is "newly tabled legislation that would give Prime Minister Stephen Harper a tighter grip on Canada’s national broadcaster". Go read the article, an ...
  • Like the Mask says . . .
    TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL! Just check out Matt Taibbi's article in Rolling Stone, "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Worth your time and attention. It's all about the big banks: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related cor ...
  • Conservative consequences . . .
    ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, but so do inactions. Conservatives are hard-wired to deny this, these days, it seems. Unlike, say, America's last great Republican, Eisenhower, who built things that people could use, like roads and highways. Compared to Ike, today's conservatives are mean, twisted, ...
  • Food fascists . . .
    THE CEO OF NESTLE is a nasty fascist. According to American Live Wire, "Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized – Not A Human Right". Check out the video. Myself, I will never buy anything from Nestlé or its subsidiaries.
  • Canadian creativity . . .
    CONSIDERING OUR CURRENT Stevie situation, this seems rather inspirational. According to a report from the CBC, we have "Canadian glow-in-the-dark toilet seats to light the way".

Media Matters for America

  • NRA Features Conservative Media Figures Known ...
    The National Rifle Association's annual meeting on May 3-5 will feature a number of conservative media figures -- including Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Ted Nugent -- who often use violent rhetoric and promote gun-related conspiracy theories.Glenn Beck: Premiere Radio Networks Ho ...
  • Who Are The Right-Wing Media's Benghazi Lawyer ...
    Victoria Toensing and her husband and legal partner Joseph diGenova are pushing claims that anonymous State Department and CIA "whistleblowers" have been blocked and threatened by the Obama administration to prevent their testifying on the September 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in ...
  • The Fox News Celebration Of The Bush Library D ...
    Fox News celebrated the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum by lionizing his administration and employing myths and falsehoods to defend his legacy. Fox News also conducted softball interviews with Bush (by his "biggest fan") and his former officials to rehab his ima ...
  • Myths & Facts Behind The Campaign To Attack Di ...
    MYTH: The Recent Rise In Disability Benefits Is "Astonishing" FACT: Growth In Benefits Largely Due To Changing Demographics And The Financial Crisis Demographic Changes Account For Much Of Disability Insurance Enrollment Growth Baby boomers have aged into their ...
  • REPORT: Cable News Ignores TX Fertilizer Plant ...
    In reporting on the factory explosion in West, Texas, cable news virtually ignored the fertilizer company's storage of 270 tons of ammonium nitrate at the plant, which is 1,350 times the amount that is allowed to be stored without disclosure to the federal government.Reuters: Plant Had Been Stor ...

Global Research.ca

  • Post-Chavez Latin America: An Alliance Between ...
    Many questions have arisen about what direction Latin America and the so-called «pink tide» will take since Hugo Chavez’s death and his successor Nicolas Maduro’s victory in the Venezuelan presidential elections against Henrique Capriles Radonski on April 14, 2013. These…
  • US Defense Secretary Says Washington Weighs Ar ...
    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a Pentagon press conference Thursday that the US is “rethinking” policy on directly arming the so-called rebels in Syria. Appearing with British Defense Minister Philip Hammond, Hagel became the first Obama administration official to acknowledge…
  • A privatização da água: a Nestlé nega que a ág ...
    O atual Chairman e ex-CEO da Nestlé, que é a maior produtora de alimentos do mundo, acredita que a resposta para as questões globais da água é a privatização. Esta afirmação está no registo da empresa maravilha que vendia “junk…
  • The Pink Tide in Latin America: An Alliance Be ...
    Many questions have arisen about what direction Latin America and the so-called “pink tide” will take since Hugo Chavez’s death and his successor Nicolas Maduro’s victory in the Venezuelan presidential elections against Henrique Capriles Radonski on April 14, 2013. These…
  • Three Months After 9/11: U.S. and NATO Worked ...
    FBI Translator Alleges that Bin Laden and His Number 2 Worked as Part of Operation Gladio Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has been deemed credible by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, several senators (free subscription required), and a coalition…

TPM Cafe

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

  • James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing ...
    The country's leading climatologist talks about what our future looks like if we continue along with business as usual -- and what we could do to prevent catastrophe. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.It’s hard to imagine anyone who has don ...
  • “Human Beings Have No Right to Water” and Othe ...
    Privatization of our natural resources is leading to the inevitable extinction of our species, and possibly all life on earth.  In the 2005 documentary, We Feed the World, then-CEO of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, shared some o ...
  • Get Ready for Higher Prices and Less Energy Se ...
    A deeply flawed study that ignores the harmful environmental and health impacts of gas drilling is being used to rally for exports. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Unlimited export of U.S. natural gas would have enormous implications on the future of ...
  • EPA Slams State’s Draft Impact Statement For K ...
    Here are the reasons EPA said that the State Department’s assessment needs more work. On the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rated the adequacy of the State Department’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as having “Insufficient Information.”Yesterday was ...
  • Sandra Steingraber's Moving Letter: From Jail ...
    Steingraber issued a letter from Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York after being jailed for civil disobedience. The following was letter was written from the Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York where Steingraber is serving a fifteen day sentence for blockading a gas compression riglas ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Climate Change Denial vs. Science at Texas Leg ...
    Just before Earth Day, the House of Representatives once again demonstrated its commitment to protecting the fossil fuel industries that fund many of the members campaigns instead of protecting the people of our state from the devastating impacts of climate change by passing HB 788. The bill req ...
  • Foreign Ownership Could Halt Licensing of Sout ...
    NRC Says NINA Doesn’t Meet Their Requirements On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told judges overseeing the licensing case for two proposed South Texas Project reactors that the applicant (NINA) is subject to foreign ownership control or domination requirements and does not meet the p ...
  • Texas Legislature Attacking Austin Democracy
    While Austin City Council continues to move forward with an ordinance to transfer governing authority of Austin Energy from our elected City Council to an unelected board, Austin democracy is being attacked at in the state legislature as well.  Senate bill 410, sponsored by Senator Kirk Watson a ...
  • Houston community leaders and residents discus ...
    Hundreds of residents living near the Port of Houston attended a Town Hall meeting Thursday evening at Holland Middle School to learn about the changes coming to their communities with the expansion of the Port. “For far too long, the voices of community members living with the health and safety ...
  • As Country Honors West, Texas Victims in Memor ...
    Guest post by the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Texas Plant Disaster Shows Fragmented System of Oversight The specific cause of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant disaster is still being investigated, but one thing is clear: Tragedies like this shouldn’t happen in America. Our country can and ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Lake creature caught on film in Ireland
    Student Conall Melarkey was filming from a boat on Lough Foyle when something unusual appeared. In the footage, the Nessie-like hump of what looks lik...
  • Time crystals and perpetual motion
    A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has devised the concept of a mysterious structure called a time crystal. Frank Wilczek is well known for developing ex...
  • Satellite collision narrowly missed
    NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope narrowly avoids destruction in an orbital near-miss. The dangers of space debris have re-asserted themselves th...
  • Pilots report near miss with UFO
    Two pilots of a passenger plane have reported almost colliding with an unknown object over Scotland. The Airbus 320 had been coming in to land at Glas...
  • Is antimatter the key to anti-gravity ?
    Scientists at CERN are experimenting to determine if an antimatter object would actually fall upwards. The radical concept could lead to the discovery...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • US Crop Insurance Shields Farmers From Drought
    (Sydney Morning Herald) When dry weather destroyed Leonard McKissick's soybeans last year, US government-backed insurance paid him $US40,000, the bulk of his loss. Across the Arkansas Delta this spring, farmers such as McKissick are s ...
  • Fracking Giant Halliburton Nixes North Carolin ...
    (News & Observer) After more than six months of congenial meetings, the N.C. Mining & Energy Commission was set to approve its first fracking rule Friday, perhaps the most important of all the safety rules the commission will w ...
  • Anti-Fracking Laws in New York Towns Upheld on ...
    (Bloomberg) Anti-fracking laws passed in two New York towns were upheld by an appeals court, which rejected arguments by a dairy farm and a Norwegian energy company that the bans are superceded by state law. An appellate panel of the ...
  • EPA Drops $569 Million in Response to Hurrican ...
    (The Hill) The Obama administration said Thursday it would spend more than half a billion dollars to repair and upgrade water treatment plants in New York and New Jersey that released vast amounts of sewage into East Coast waterways af ...
  • Committee Vote Set for EPA Nominee
    (The Hill) The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote May 9 on whether to advance the nomination of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the panel announced Thursday. McCarthy, who would re ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Knowing What is Broken
    Jon Favreau the speechwriter (not Jon Favreau the actor/writer/director) has a column today in The Daily Beast about presidential leadership. In itself, the column isn't all that interesting to me. I have written the same things for the same reasons. However, I did enjoy his point about how t ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Howard Kurtz
    Howard Kurtz doesn't think NBA-player Jason Collins is gay enough because he dated a woman for eight years and was even engaged to be married. No word on whether Jason Collins is black enough because we all know how slavemasters treated their negro women back in the day. So, what is Kurtz' ...
  • Is This Moral Equivalence?
    It looks like Colorado is about to implement universal mail-in voting. You'll still be able to vote early in person or in person on election day, but all voters will receive a mail-in ballot. They are also introducing same-day registration. In 2012, Colorado trailed only Minnesota and Wis ...
  • Casual Observation
    I really never expected to associate the Mountain Dew soft drink with white women being raped by black goats. But I do. Guess who is to blame? Discuss
  • I Guess We Can't Do Anything About This
    It's May 2nd, and the month has already seen 20 people shot in Chicago, three of whom have already died. Philadelphia is slacking, with only four gunshot victims and no fatalities. The amount of #GunFAIL we are experiencing may not be at an all-time high, but once you stop and look at it there ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Innocent-Looking But Deadly Assassin Snail
    Find out how a 'vicious' denizen of the animal kingdom is keeping fish-tanks clear thanks to its homicidal tendencies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    This week, a glimpse into the camouflaged world of animals, finding out why some ad men really ought to go back to the drawing board, and more! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Burning Asphalt in the Himalayas: Road Workers ...
    The Leh-Manali Highway runs through spectacular Himalayan scenery, but life is not so pretty for those who maintain this high-altitude road. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Your Brain on Drugs
    Almost 10 percent of Americans suffer from addiction to alcohol or other drugs. The infographic below offers this and other startling and enlightening info fixes. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Hot Air Balloons Soaring Over Pushkar's Hill F ...
    From ground level, the ancient city of Pushkar in Rajasthan is a busy, dusty noisy city, but seen from a hot air balloon it is both tranquil and beautiful. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Pentagon domestic operations switches from "pu ...
    This is an incredibly short period of time, he said, and it forces a change in the relationship between DOD and other agencies. The old paradigm was to have civil partners “pull assistance” from DOD, while now DOD will actually push assistance where it is needed. Defense.gov News Article: Offic ...
  • 2013: Boston, paper gold, Obama signs Stock Ac ...
    Hang tight folks, it looks like we are on the cusp of another 'burst of change' on a few fronts. You should probably double the watts going to your news radar for at least 10-14 days, if you possibly can. And all those cheesy "financial systems" are getting Extra Discontinuous as they usually do ...
  • Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of T ...
    I remember seeing Spook years ago on a rough videotape with horrible audio at the Soap Factory - shortly thereafter it was possible to obtain the DVD, based on a negative long-hidden in some film vault under a false name. Spook is one of those incredible movies - a 1973 narrative of a black CIA ...
  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...
  • NEW VIDEOS: Interviews from Enbridge blockade ...
    Got a batch of videos here from the last week to check out. Glad to have a little chance to bring these interesting projects, including Idle No More MN & the Enbridge Blockade near Leonard MN (also known as the encampment) going strong since late February. All these videos are basically uned ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • US military plane 'crashes in Kyrgyzstan'
    US soldiers on the runway of the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan on February 12, 2009. A military transport plane has crashed in mountains with three crew members aboard shortly after taking off from a United States airbase in Kyrgyzstan, officials said.A military transport plane crashed in mounta ...
  • Obama “comfortable with” FDA decision allowing ...
    President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that he's "comfortable" with the Food and Drug Administration's decision to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill to anyone aged 15 or older.“It’s not my decision to make,” he told reporters in Mexico City, but sai ...
  • Hagel: Arming Syrian rebels is an option
    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel became the first official to publicly confirm that the U.S. is considering arming Syrian rebels. In a Pentagon press conference he said, "Arming the rebels – that's an option. You look at and rethink all options. It doesn't mean you do or you will ... It doe ...
  • Facebook’s impossible dream
    I received an email from a Facebook public relations person just a little before midnight Wednesday, or about 10 hours after I posted my rant about Facebook mobile advertisements and giant-breasted zombie-stalkers. The spokesperson sought an opportunity to chat about the work Facebook was doing ...
  • How shoppers can help prevent Bangladesh-type ...
    While rescue workers continue to dig through the rubble of Rana Plaza, the collapsed Bangladeshi garment factory responsible for the deaths of 433 people (and counting), Americans are faced yet again with the stark reality of consumer culpability in these disasters.Major clothing retailers like ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #834
    Why FBI and CIA didn't connect the dots on Boston bombers. Korean spy’s deportation reveals web of intrigue. Secret US court approved all domestic spying requests in 2012.
  • Revealed: South Korean intel officers caught s ...
    A court in Australia has released information about “inappropriate activities” allegedly conducted by South Korean intelligence officers targeting trade negotiations between Seoul and Canberra.
  • News you may have missed #833
    Report states Switzerland increasingly targeted by spies. Prosecutors raid South Korean spy agency. Former AOL VP to lead CIA tech and science division.
  • Is Mexico-US anti-drug intelligence cooperatio ...
    Some senior American officials believe that the anti-drug intelligence cooperation between the United States and Mexico is in its closing stages, following tens of thousands of deaths in the past decade.
  • CIA bankrolling Afghan government officials ‘o ...
    The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has delivered “tens of millions of dollars [in] off-the-books cash” to Afghanistan’s governing elite, but there is little evidence that such bribes have helped promote Washington’s interests in the country, according to a new exposé published o ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Civil Resistance, What is it? and why do we do ...
      This is part 2 of the workshop. Part two is the discussion portion of the workshop and it is an audio file. Listen here: http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-civ_res_audio_discussion_part_2.mp3   Related Rochester Indymedia articles: Anti-Drone Banner Drop in S ...
  • US Hatched Terror Plots
      US Hatched Terror Plots   by Stephen Lendman   Terrorists "R" us. Washington bears full responsibility. Numerous schemes are planned. Some are alleged and foiled. Others involve violent plots. Media scoundrels convict innocent people in the court of public opinion.    ...
  • False Flag Chemical Attack on Syria
      False Flag Chemical Attack on Syria   by Stephen Lendman   It doesn't surprise. On April 27, WikiLeaks Supporters Forum headlined "Syria False Flag Chemical Weapons - Obama sets up America for invasion," saying:   read more
  • Only 10% support military involvement in Syria
    The citizens of this country are in no mood to see U.S. military involvement in Syria.  Of course, it has already begun.  Consultation, secret assistance, and money given for “communications” (which allows other money for weapons) all contribute to the military effort.  For months ...
  • Hostility Toward a Nation: What is the Source?
                    Two recent, but seemingly unrelated, news articles are worth reviewing more carefully, to see a common thread.                 The ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Former Black Panther Assata Shakur Added to FB ...
    The FBI added Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorist List today. In addition, the state of New Jersey announced it was adding $1 million to the FBI’s $1 million reward for her capture. Shakur becomes the first woman ever to make the list and only the second domestic terrorist to be added ...
  • Pregnant Anti-War Soldier Sent to Prison
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Amid the ongoing violence in Iraq, a young, pregnant soldier has been sent to prison this week for desertion. She refused to return to the war in Iraq back in 2007. Pfc. Kimberly Rivera first deployed to Iraq in 2006. She guarded the gate at Forward Operat ...
  • See "Harvest of Empire" - New Film by Democrac ...
    "Harvest of Empire" premieres in Houston this Friday, May 3, at the Sundance Cinema, 510 Texas Ave., and plays there through May 10. Producer Wendy Thompson Marquez speaks after the Friday night showing. Click here for details. See the film play in Philadelphia this coming May 10-17 ...
  • Terror in the West, Texas, Night
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath has dominated the nation’s headlines. Yet, another series of explosions that happened two days later and took four times the number of lives, has gotten a fraction of the coverage. It was the worst industrial ...
  • RIP Bob Edgar, Longtime Common Cause President ...
    Bob Edgar passed away suddenly this morning at his home in Northern Virginia at the age of 69, according to Common Cause, the democracy watchdog group for which Edgar served as president and CEO . "Bob will be remembered for his decency, kindness, compassion and humor. His deep commi ...

Solari

  • Important EU Seed Law Vote: 6 May
    By Bifurcated Carrots There is an important vote coming up concerning proposed changes to EU seed law. This is a vote in the EU Commission, by written procedure, on Monday 6 May 2013. If the legislation passes this vote, it will then be sent on to the EU Parliament and Council. Continue [...]
  • IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin
    By Robert W. Wood Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if you think that means the IRS won’t get a piece, think again. Continue Reading
  • Solari Stories – The Power of Local
  • Central Banks Load Up on Equities
    [CAF Note: Is the planetary debt-for-equity we described in the 2nd Quarter Equity Review underway?] By Sarah Jones Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, are buying stocks in record amounts as falling bond yields push even risk- averse investors towa ...
  • US Equities vs. Gold and Silver
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Last Five Years Reviewing this comparison of the US equity markets to the performance of the largest gold and silver ETFs shows you why precious metals investors have been feeling so confident in recent years. The Last Twelve Months Over the last year, however, commod ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Chemicals from Personal Care Products Are Poll ...
    Photo via Shutterstock When the gales blow across the Windy City, residents may have more to worry about than mussed hair. According to a new study led by Keri Hornbuckle from the University of Iowa, chemicals found in a myriad of personal care products    
  • Abandoned Pearl Brewery Adapted into a Vibrant ...
    Pearl Brewing Company was originally founded in 1883 in San Antonio and this brewery was built in 1973, but in 1985, the company was bought out by Pabst Brewing Company. They shut the brewery down in 1991 and began contracting out their beers to other breweries,    
  • Princeton University Scientists Use a 3D Print ...
    Princeton University scientists have invented a new medical device that would have Ridley Scott nodding in recognition. By using live cells and metal nanoparticles, the researchers were able to use a 3D printer to create a bionic ear with an integrated coil    
  • Solar-Powered Salam Cardiac Centre is a Shippi ...
    The Salam Centre has been offering up free pediatric and adult cardiac health care since 2007 and is run by the Italian humanitarian organization EMERGENCY. During the design phase, TAMassociati Architecture noticed discarded shipping containers around the    
  • 8 Ways You Can Harness the Power of Technology ...
    Energy Saving Light Bulbs Energy saving light bulbs are small, so it might seem like they can't possibly save you that much money. The reverse is true, however. There are a variety of energy-efficient bulbs on the market, some of which use less than 75 percent    

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • NATO's Rasmussen Urges Striking New Transatlan ...
    NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared Europe and North America "need to strike a new transatlantic deal" based on "people, science, and culture" in order to "make our community of values stronger, wider, and deeper." Rasmussen gave these remarks in ...
  • The Isolationists Are Coming!
    AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File Ask yourself: Do you oppose putting U.S. troops everywhere, all the time? If you answered yes, you might be an isolationist, according to the word’s new definition. A piece in Tuesday’s New York Times, based on a new NYT/CBS poll, warned that “Americans are e ...
  • Top of the Morning: Bolivia Expels USAID; Brah ...
    Top stories from @DAWNSDigest Bolivia Expels USAID Bad news for the thousands of Bolivians served by USAID’s health programs. “President Evo Morales acted on a longtime threat Wednesday and expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development for allegedly seeking to undermine Bolivia’s leftis ...
  • Top of the Morning: Obama Preparing to Arm Syr ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Report: Obama Preparing to Arm Syrian Rebels Secretary of State Kerry is heading to Moscow this week to try and sell the case. This is significant news. President Obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition and has taken steps to assert more ...
  • Was Kaesong a Hole in the Korean Iron Curtain, ...
    So it increasingly looks like the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial zone is closed for good. (The Wikipedia write-up is a pretty good quick history of it.) read more

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • A Roaring Jobs Report
    Here is the thing to remember about every jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: You have to wait for the revisions. Remember, the monthly jobs report is a scientific survey of households and employers. That doesn’t mean it’s inaccurate, but for any given survey, there are ways to imp ...
  • Emotion and Reason in the Gun Debate
    You may have heard the story of Caroline Sparks, the 2-year-old Kentucky girl who was killed this week when her brother, all of 5 years old himself, took the rifle he got for his birthday and shot her in the chest. I suppose we should be thankful this kind of thing doesn't happen even more ofte ...
  • When Rock Criticism Found Its Voice
    AP Photo Newly out from University of Massachusetts Press, Devon Powers's Writing The Record: The Village Voice and The Birth of Rock Criticism—which'll cost you a whopping $80 for its 160 pages in hardcover, making the paperback's $22.95 price tag seem almost reasonable—is the first w ...
  • Ringside Seat: Guns Don't Support Senators. Vo ...
    It has long been axiomatic among political professionals that gun-rights supporters vote based on the gun issue, while those who favor more restrictive gun laws don't. Consequently, office-holders believe that contradicting the National Rifle Association (NRA) carries a political cost, while su ...
  • Government Oppression of Religious People Cont ...
    One summer when I was in college, I worked for a tiny lobbying firm, most of whose clients were disease-related. If the firm wasn't able to get you increased funding for research into your disease, at the very least it could get a friendly member of Congress to introduce a proclamation about it ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Religious Right Hurls False Accusations at SPLC
    They just can’t stop lying. They claim to represent Christianity and the celestial love for mankind that Christ embodied, but when it comes to whomever they regard as their enemies here on planet Earth, the crudest of libels will do. The latest example of the religious right’s endless series of ...
  • Oath Keepers ‘Patriot’ Group May Sponsor NASCA ...
    Jeffrey Earnhardt, a young prince of one of NASCAR’s royal families, and the Oath Keepers, a conspiracy-spinning “Constitutionalist” group, are joining forces for an upcoming race that “could help make Oath Keepers a household name.” At least that’s the pitch – and the hope – of the Oath Keepers ...
  • Ron Paul’s New Organization Reportedly Stacked ...
    Ron Paul, the libertarian former Texas congressman whose hard-line views are widely admired on the radical right but who claims to reject racism, has started a new organization stacked with a hodgepodge of far-right extremists. As The Daily Beast reported yesterday, the Ron Paul Institute for Pe ...
  • Texas’ Appleby Baptist Church Pushes Racist Do ...
    “The curse of Ham,” an old-time Biblical (mis)interpretation used to vilify black people and justify slavery and laws against racial intermarriage, is still alive and spreading bigotry in the United States. The Appleby Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, is among this country’s scattered, inde ...
  • Howard Phillips, Architect of the Religious Ri ...
    Howard Phillips, one of the main architects of the Moral Majority and, more generally, the American religious right, died Saturday at the age of 72. According to the Christian News Network, he had been suffering from dementia. Phillips had a long history in conservative and right-wing movements, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Indigenous Peoples Launch New Occupation on Be ...
    Some 200 indigenous people affected by the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon launched an occupation today on one of the main construction sites of the Belo Monte dam complex on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon. The group demands that the Brazilian government adopt eff ...
  • RI Becomes Tenth State Where Same-Sex Couples ...
    Today, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signed freedom to marry legislation into law following House and Senate approval, making Rhode Island the tenth state in the U.S. where same-sex couples can receive marriage licenses.  With Chafee's signature, all six New England states now ha ...
  • ACLU Statement on Maryland Governor Signing De ...
    Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley today signed Senate Bill 276 into law, making Maryland the 18th state to abolish the death penalty and the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line to do so. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Maryland actively campaigned for an end to the death ...
  • ACLU Statement on Maryland Governor Signing De ...
    Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley today signed Senate Bill 276 into law, making Maryland the 18th state to abolish the death penalty and the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line to do so. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Maryland actively campaigned for an end to the death ...
  • FCC Chairman Nominee “Bizarre Choice”
    TIME reports: “President Barack Obama named prominent venture capitalist Tom Wheeler as his nominee to be the new chairman of the Federal Communication Commission.”read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Sandy Hook Promise: There Will Be Change
    Bill Moyers Michael Winship This week, we spent time with Francine and David Wheeler, parents of six-year-old Ben Wheeler, one of the 20 children and six educators shot and killed at the Sandy Hook ...
  • Syria's Chemical Weapons...Iraq Redux?
    Phyllis Bennis News from the Middle East is growing more dire by the day. And unfortunately, most of the news from our own officials and influential sources continues to move in a direction that can only make that bad news worse.read more
  • Move Over, Koch Brothers: A Bigger, Darker Rig ...
    Ruth Conniff It's "the most powerful organization in America that no one seems to know about." That's how Scot Ross, executive director of the progressive think tank One Wisconsin Institute, describes the Bradley Foundatio ...
  • Obama: Walk Your Talk on Guantánamo
    Protest to demand the release of Yemenis detained at Guantanamo Bay, outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa April 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)“I will not eat until they restore my dignity.” That’s what Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel told his lawyer by phone from Guantánamo ...
  • Boston and Beyond: Terrorism at Home and Abroad
    Noam Chomsky April is usually a cheerful month in New England, with the first signs of spring, and the harsh winter at last receding. Not this year. 

Water Privatization

  • Athens Water Co names Antonis Vartholomeos new CEO
    Athens Water Supply & Sewage Co SA (EYDAP), Greece’s largest water utility, named Antonis Vartholomeos as chairman and chief executive officer on Wednesday, replacing Stelios Stavridis, who now heads the country’s privatization fund (TAIPED).
  • "Power privatization was a mistake"
    Former Energy Minister Uzi Landau: The decision to introduce private power producers was a mistake that will raise the consumer price of electricity.
  • Athens Water Names Vartholomeos to Replace Sta ...
    Athens Water Supply & Sewage Co SA, Greece’s largest water utility, named Antonis Vartholomeos as chairman and chief executive officer, replacing Stelios Stavrides, who now heads the country’s privatization fund.
  • Police: Crime would spike without state contro ...
    By Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG — Privatizing state liquor stores under proposed legislation would drain police resources and “water down” law enforcement, leading to higher crime rates, the president ...
  • Thessaloniki water company has four suitors
    The state privatizations fund (TAIPED) was reportedly satisfied on Monday with the expressions of interest from four bidders for the Thessaloniki Water Company (EYATH), although it did not reveal any names.

Guardian

  • Ukip will change face of British politics like ...
    'We get it,' says Tory chairman after Ukip enjoys biggest surge by a fourth party in England since the second world warNigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has declared his party is on course to change the face of British politics in the wake of its strongest performance in local elections, making a s ...
  • Headteachers voice GCSE inaccuracy fears
    High proportion of teachers admit they lack confidence in GCSEs and distrust those who mark them, Ofqual poll showsGCSE exams are in need of a complete overhaul, the head of England's qualifications watchdog has admitted, after finding that a quarter of headteachers do not expect their pupils' g ...
  • Phone-hacking investigation: Rebekah Brooks's ...
    David Johnson to be charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice for allegedly concealing evidence from policeRebekah Brooks's former bodyguard is to be charged with concealing potential evidence from the Scotland Yard investigations into phone hacking and the bribing of public offic ...
  • No one should be jailed in secret, says top judge
    Lord chief justice issues urgent guidance to judges following court of protection's imprisonment of Wanda MaddocksNo one should be jailed in secret, the lord chief justice has said in urgent guidance sent out to judges following the court of protection's imprisonment of a woman for contempt.The ...
  • EC cuts eurozone growth forecasts and urges UK ...
    Olli Rehn says there's no case for George Osborne to loosen fiscal policy, as Commission predicts deeper euro recessionGraeme Wearden     

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • 4 insurgents killed in N. Afghan province ISAF
    Kabul, May 3 (Xinhua-ANI): Four militants, including a senior insurgent leader, were killed Friday when Afghan forces and the NATO-led coalition troops launched an operation in northern province of Baghlan, according to coalition statement issued here. "An Afghan and coalition security force kil ...
  • GOP senator demands answers for CIA ‘ghost mon ...
    The Hill May 3, 2013 The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is demanding an explanation for the CIA’s decade-long effort to funnel cash to Afghan leaders, including President Hamid Karzai. The reported millions in so-called ';ghost money'; -- delivered an ...
  • Taliban told to distance itself from al-Qaeda ...
    The Taliban has been asked to issue a declaration distancing itself from al-Qaeda and committing itself to peace talks before it can open a political office in Qatar, diplomatic sources have said. The conditions have been laid down by the Qatari government with the backing of Kabul and the US, r ...
  • Pak-Afghan border to be sealed for three days ...
    The border crossing with Afghanistan in Khyber tribal region will stay closed for three days before the May 11 general elections, an official communique has said. The Home and Tribal Affairs Department said in the communique that the Torkham border crossing would be kept closed to avoid any ter ...
  • Afghan interpreters launch legal challenge aga ...
    Lawyers acting for three Afghan interpreters who have worked with British forces have launched a legal challenge against the Government's decision not to allow them to settle in the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • Universal Responds To Lawsuit About Its Hollyw ...
    A few months back, we wrote about yet another example of Hollywood accounting appearing in the courts, when StudioCanal sued Universal Studios, saying that Universal (which, for many years, was owned by the same parent company) had cheated them out of millions that it owed them for certain movie ...
  • Blackberry CEO Predicts Tablets Will Be Obsole ...
    When Microsoft was preparing its Surface tablet for the market, CEO Steve Ballmer famously -- and ridiculously --- claimed that people didn't really want iPads, but that they craved the Surface much more instead. While you have to respect a CEO believing strongly in his own company's product, t ...
  • Norwegian Parliament Approves Extreme Version ...
    A few years ago, I was in Norway for Nordic Music Week and got to meet with a number of people from all sides of the music industry there. It was very interesting to see how many of them were adapting to the changing environment. It was quite encouraging to see many were learning how to adapt ...
  • New EU Regulation Threatens Rare Seed Varietie ...
    Unless we are farmers, we tend to take seeds for granted. But civilisation is built on seeds: it was the rise of large-scale agriculture, based in part on the skilful breeding of ever-better seeds, that eventually allowed towns and then cities to form; and with them, the trades, arts and scienc ...
  • Our Patent System Incentivizes Drug Companies ...
    You may have seen the news recently that the US government has kicked off a lawsuit against Novartis, the pharmaceutical giant, for paying kickbacks to doctors to get them to prescribe certain drugs. Authorities said the Basel-based company for a decade lavished healthy speaking fees and "opu ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • In Memoriam to My Youth
    Happy birthday to me. As today I am forty years old. How the fuck did that happen? To distract myself from thinking about careening down that hill, I decided I should try to come up with a list of good things about being forty. Feel free to chime in with more – but only if you [...]
  • Yo Anarchists, Meet the Pastoralists
    I don’t know about you, but I know nothing about pastoralism. A few days ago, I had a chance to listen to Lalji Desai, a pastoralist from India. The whole time I was listening I kept thinking how much pastoralist ideology and culture reflects the kinds of values and goals that anarchists a ...
  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • As long as it stays open, Guantánamo is a stai ...
    Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo, writes: I am going to say something I have not said as often as I would have liked: I agree with President Obama. Despite indications to the contrary – such as fighting me tooth and nail in court the past three yea ...
  • How to close Guantanamo
    Laura Pitter writes: President Barack Obama finally broke his long silence on Tuesday on the need to close Guantanamo. Echoing comments he made four years ago — when, on his second day in office he promised to close the facility within a year — he said “Guantanamo is not necess ...
  • Video: Will Obama close Guantanamo?
  • U.S. drone strikes being used as alternative t ...
    The Guardian reports: The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay. John Bellinger, who was responsible for draf ...
  • The CIA’s rogue operations
    Following the New York Times’ revelation earlier this week that the CIA has been regularly delivering shopping bags full of cash to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Sarah Chayes writes: Karzai’s relationship with the CIA is believed to long predate the tense days in late 2001 when CIA ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Newsbytes: Climate Sceptics Win Rocks Britain& ...
    From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Green Lobby Concerned The UK Independence Party has overtaken the Liberal Democrats as the third party of British politics, Nigel Farage declared today as he made major gains in local elections. As senior … Continue reading →
  • John Cook’s new survey – lots of q ...
    I and (according to Cook) 50 other blogs (with a supposed 50/50 skeptic to advocate split) have received this invitation: Hi Anthony As one of the more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web, I’m seeking your assistance in conducting … Continue reading →
  • Lords a leapin
    Guest post by Mike Jonas From the UK’s BBC comes this news item: Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee Under the obligatory photo of chimneys spewing steam, is a totally uncritical article on the final report from … Continue reading →
  • Ocean Heat Content (0 to 2000 Meters) – ...
    OVERVIEW Before the ARGO floats were deployed, there were so few temperature and salinity observations at depths below 700 meters that the NODC does not present ocean heat content data during that period for depths of 0-2000 meters on an … Continue reading →
  • Sunspot Cycle and the Global Temperature Chang ...
    Guest post by R.J. Salvador I have made an 82% correlation between the sunspot cycle and the Global Temperature Anomaly. The correlation is obtained through a non linear time series summation of NASA monthly sunspot data to the NOAA monthly … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Scientists map elusive 3-D structure of telome ...
    Like finally seeing all the gears of a watch and how they work together, researchers from UCLA and UC Berkeley have, for the first time ever, solved the puzzle of how the various components of an entire telomerase enzyme complex fit together and function in a three-dimensional structure. The thr ...
  • Scientists ‘read dreams’ using bra ...
    Scientists have found a way to “read” dreams, a study suggests. Researchers in Japan used MRI scans to reveal the images that people were seeing as they entered into an early stage of sleep. Writing in the journal Science, they reported that they could do this with 60% accuracy. The ...
  • Autism Rate Rises To 1 In 50 Children – Cause ...
    In 2002 the Center for Disease Control estimated that autism affected about 1 in 150 children. By 2012 the CDC estimate had increased to 1 in 88. Now, according to the latest revision of the estimate recently released, autism affects 1 in 50 children. That’s a phenomenal 300 percent increase in ...
  • See-through brain
  • Brains as Clear as Jell-O for Scientists to Ex ...
    The visible brain has arrived — the consistency of Jell-O, as transparent and colorful as a child’s model, but vastly more useful. Scientists at Stanford University reported on Wednesday that they have made a whole mouse brain, and part of a human brain, transparent, so that networks of neurons ...

CFACT

  • Free market energy policies can end economic m ...
    America does not need “comprehensive” energy policies devised and dictated by Washington. It needs policies that unlock our creative genius and allow free enterprise and private sector innovators to operate on a level playing field – one that applies the same reasonable, responsible environmenta ...
  • Tier 3 rules are unnecessary, costly
    Tier 3 improvements would reduce monthly ozone levels by barely 0.5 part per billion (average levels) to 1.2 ppb (peak levels), ENVIRON International estimates, using EPA models. That’s equivalent to 5 to 12 cents out of $100 million! These reductions could not even have been measured by equipm ...
  • A chill in the air for crony climate cash?
    Within the past two years, at least seven peer-reviewed studies published in the scientific literature have concluded that the influence of doubling the amount of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is likely to be substantially lower than IPCC has determined and have ruled out the high-end projections.
  • Green lawyers rake in taxpayer dollars
    Suing Uncle Sam can often be a difficult and costly endeavor – difficult, that is, unless you happen to be an environmental policy organization staffed with a large number of lawyers. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5117.mp3]
  • New report: Obesity promotes global warming
    You’ve heard that being overweight can lead to diabetes and high blood pressure, but how about global warming? Probably not, but in a peculiar new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology some researchers actually proposed such a bizarre linkage. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5116 ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Proof of life
    I got really, really sick in the middle of last week. The worst of it passed pretty quickly but I haven’t been up for thinking many deep thoughts this week. Back next week!
  • The incomplete logic of gold investors
    Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ...
  • Troika's plan for Cyprus: destroy the village ...
    The economic crisis in Cyprus began with a depressingly familiar story: bank gambles on risky debt, loses its bet, goes bust and needs a bailout. It very quickly took what was to me1 a bewildering turn: Instead of a central bank cranking up the money printing machines until smoke billowed from ...
  • Most recent vintage of eulogies for rock music ...
    I’m a big rock music fan, so a couple recent articles on it have stuck with me. The first was from a couple weeks ago, and for the life of me I can’t track it down now. The gist of it was that the era of great guitarists is passing. The most celebrated are all old in rock and roll ...
  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • Know Your Farmer, Know Your Benefits
    On Monday, USDA took a step to promote agriculture and ensure food access for vulnerable Americans.
  • CLF Week in Links: Walmart, FDA, Food Justice ...
    As Ms. Lappé points out, if Walmart actually cared about the 50 million hungry Americans, 17 million of whom are children, it might consider halting cuts to its employees’ hours and benefits and provide a livable wage.
  • Newest recipient of the Cynthia and Robert Law ...
    The Center welcomes incoming MPH student Sadie Barr into its fold. Sadie is the 2013 recipient of the Cynthia and Robert Lawrence Scholarship.
  • The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal P ...
    The Center for a Livable today has undertaken a project to analyze the original recommendations of the Commission and to assess the impact and analyze the continued relevancy of the original report. It will be a thorough and unbiased review, and the findings will be released in a few weeks.
  • Oyster Aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay: Is M ...
    While oyster aquaculture seems to be a win-all situation, it is important to step back and first consider the potential issues that surround shellfish production in the Chesapeake Bay. The bay is not what it used to be, and there are many more complex water pollution concerns than there were 100 ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • From uranium mining to nuclear weapons and dis ...
    Blog : This site will build items on various topics concerning the nuclear cycle, from uranium mining to nuclear weapons to the decommissioning of old nuclear reactors. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • FDA Finally Reviewing Controversial Ingredient ...
    In 1972, Congress passed a law requiring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration set guidelines for anti-bacterial chemicals commonly used in soap. In a tentative draft published in 1978, the FDA identified one such chemical, triclosan, as potentially dange Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellne ...
  • PA JOURNO'S TORTURED LIFE IN AMERICA'S ELECTR ...
    MIL CONTRACTOR WAR CRIMINALS AND THEIR USG OVERLORDS BELIEVE THEY CAN CONDITION, CONTROL, SUBJUGATE U.S. CITIZENS VIA ELECTROMAGNETIC 'ENTRAINMENT' (READ: TORTURE) Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Hydraulic Fracturing Faces Growing Competition ...
    Nearly half of 25,450 oil and gas wells evaluated in U.S. are in water basins with high and extremely high water stress Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. Mines Pollute Up to 27 Billion Gallons o ...
    A new report released yesterday shows existing U.S. hard rock mines (e.g. gold, copper, uranium) will pollute up to 27 billion gallons of fresh water per year and cost as much as $67 billion per year to clean, in perpetuity. Based on government data ... Submitted by Stefanie S. to Environment ...

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    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Farm Wars

  • Food As A Political Weapon: The USDA’s Suicide ...
      Pat Mooney, co-founder & Executive Director of etcgroup.org (formerly RAFI) discusses terminator & traitor seeds patented by the USDA & Monsanto, possible implications for bio-warfare and agra-terrorism.
  • Monsanto Wet Dream
    In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer struggles to survive. When he resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders he risks everything.
  • 2081 Universal Absurdity
    A dystopian future in which everyone is "finally equal...."
  • “Stunning” Difference of GM from non-GM Corn
    A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM corn.
  • GMOs in USDA Organic Food
    It seems that “organic” does not mean “safe from tampering.” What sorts of “business interruptions” justify using non-organically produced annual seeds? I’m willing to bet that the dramatic effects on crops due to drought from climate change easily warrant such activity, under this clause; howe ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Conn. OK's more waste storage at nuclear plant
    ShareThisConn. OK's more waste storage at nuclear plant 03 May 2013 State officials authorized the [deadly, leaking] Millstone nuclear plant on Thursday to significantly expand nuclear waste storage capacity over the next 30 years. Without a national site to take spent nuclear fuel, Millstone ...
  • 'We want people to call us if the guy down the ...
    ShareThis'We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government' --Palm Beach County sheriff gets $1 million for [Orwellian] violence prevention units 29 Apr 2013 Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million fo ...
  • Record low in Arctic sea ice caused by global ...
    ShareThisRecord low in Arctic sea ice caused by global warming, says UN 02 May 2013 Global warming not only increased temperatures last year but caused a record low in Arctic sea ice, as well as deadly storms and economic uncertainty, the UN has warned. The World Meteorological Organisation that ...
  • Sources: Bombing suspects had originally plann ...
    ShareThisSources: Bombing suspects had originally planned for July 4 attack 02 May 2013 The suspected bombers in the Boston Marathon attack had originally intended for the plot to happen on July 4th, CBS News has learned. According to CBS News, a U.S. official confirmed that detained suspect ...
  • Man shot and killed at Houston's Bush Intercon ...
    ShareThisMan shot and killed at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport, authorities say --Police say man was confronted by agent from Homeland Security --'The agent fired once at the suspect, who appeared to try to shoot himself at the same time.' 02 May 2013 A man was shot and killed Thursday ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • US Border Security - Immigratio​n, Crime, and ...
    19 April 2013 Written by: General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.) Below is both the Statememt for the Record and the PDF presentation from General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.)   Click the icon to the left to Download and view the above document. Click the icon to the left to Download ...
  • FBR Report: Attacks Continue as the Burma Army ...
    Kachin State, Burma 13 April 2013 Written by: Free Burma Rangers Map showing area of this report. BA – Burma Army activity. Below is a list of Burma Army activities in Kachin State and Northern Shan State in April, including attacks, troop movements and resupply operations. 11 April 2013 •B ...
  • FBR Report: The Burning of Karenni Camp 2 And ...
    13 April, 2013 Karenni State, Burma Written By: Free Burma Rangers Dear friends, On Friday afternoon, 22 March, a fire devastated the Mae Surin Refugee Camp, home to more than 3,605 people. The deadly fire killed 39 people and left 2300 homeless. The response of people wanting to help has bee ...
  • Come to Jamaica - Mon!
    09 April 2013 Crystal clear A good friend—who is a young former Marine Captain and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan—was taking a break from grad school when he headed to Jamaica. I emailed asking how his vacation went.  His answer…is a trip.  My friend's letter has been edited so that ...
  • Ammunition Atmospheric in America
    04 April 2013 I posed a question on Facebook about ammunition availability across the United States.  About 150 answers have come in so far: My Facebook Page

The Killing Train

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

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 2, 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 ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Great Convergence In the past 500 years, the western world has come to rise to prominence over the rest. This process was the result of expansionist imperialism, militarism and warfare; but also of the development and projection of new economic and social models, largely those based around s ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 1, 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 ...
  • BFP Boston Terror Update 4- The Backdoor Deal ...
    Under-the-Radar Developments on the Syria Front The series of our analyses on the Boston Bombing-Syria-Russia-CIA connections continues with further related developments unfolding in the last few days. In my April 22 interview for Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener Report I provided three possible US ...
  • Lew Rockwell Show: The Boston Bombing, the CIA ...
    Sibel Edmonds Talks to Lew Rockwell about what’s “Really” Happening in Central Asia & the Caucasus  Yesterday I was back on the Lew Rockwell Show to talk about the geopolitical context and implications of the Boston Bombing. It was a great honor to be back on Mr. Rockwell’s show. Show Notes: ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Lawyer Accused of Serial Rape, Victims ...
    Introductory Note: In this story, I am reporting the claims of four Israeli women that they were raped by the same man.  Obviously, as I’m not a private investigator nor physically present to investigate this case, I am reporting my impressions of the case and the credibility of both parti ...
  • Israel’s Currency Excludes Mizrahim, Palestini ...
    Israel is in the process of producing new designs for its paper currency.  In the past, the bills have featured graphic images of prominent Zionist “heroes” like Herzl, Ben Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, Zalman Shazar, Zeev Jabotinsky, and Moshe Sharett.  If you’ll notice, the choices ...
  • Veteran Israeli TV Political Reporter Accused ...
    Walla published an article yesterday about a veteran Israeli TV reporter accused of repeated instances of sexual harassment of female colleagues.  A former Channel 2 newscaster, Gadi Sukenik, aired the charge and said it involved a “most serious case” of serial harassment: “Eve ...
  • Jerusalem to Name Street for Sheldon Adleson
    In a distinct departure from custom, the Jerusalem municipality announced that it would name a street for American casino magnate, Sheldon Adelson.  In Israel, streets are named after individuals after they pass away.  So perhaps this may’ve been the expression of an unconscious wish to sp ...
  • Israeli Judicial Review Finds Jail Personnel N ...
    In perhaps the closing chapter of the sad tale of Ben Zygier, the judge tasked by the State to investigate the suicide of the Mossad agent, released (and Hebrew) her hitherto partially censored investigative report (Hebrew) in his case.  She found at least six prison officials guilty of severe n ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • 'Detritivore' Design: How to Use Trash to Crea ...
    Detritivores are creatures that consume decaying matter. Detritivore designs use abundant waste products to make scalable technology solutions. Unlike loftier concepts of zero-waste design such as Cradle to Cradle, Detritivore design accepts that the world is already loaded with discarded and ...
  • How a Computer Can Organize Thousands of Docum ...
    Before computers, all document-driven stories started with a big stack of paper. Often, the first task was to organize all that paper, by sorting individual documents into piles by type. This gives journalists a high-level idea of "what's in there" and helps them decide what to read more closely ...
  • Behavio Updates the Funf Open-Source Project
    The Behavio team is very happy to announce a major version update to Funf, our open-source mobile sensing framework, accompanied by respective updates to Funf's two user-facing components (Funf Journal and Funf In A Box). In the time since our last major version update (Funf 0.3) last year, w ...
  • OpenNews Revamps Code Sprints; Sheetsee.js Win ...
    Back at the Hacks/Hackers Media Party in Buenos Aires, I announced the creation of Code Sprints -- funding opportunities to build open-sourced tools for journalism. We used Code Sprints to fund a collaboration between WNYC in New York and KPCC in Southern California to build a parser for electio ...
  • Why Media Sites Should Adopt Responsive Design
    Responsive design is the big buzz of 2013. If 2012 was foretold to bring prosperity based on the Chinese zodiac, Mashable's prediction for 2013 forecast a big year for responsive design, presenting a significant paradigm shift in the web design and development world where previously we were rest ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Darkest Edge - Searching for Answers on Gu ...
    Many are asking how senators — elected officials, who are supposed to represent the public and are required to garner voters’ support — could so flagrantly disregard public opinion in opposing the background checks for gun buyers that some 90 percent of Americans embrace. The most common e ...
  • Indonesia on Edge - Indonesia Readies Mass Pro ...
    Indonesia has announced that it will begin to mass-produce surveillance drones this year. Analysts say Indonesia's local drone development and production is part of a broader trend of rapidly modernizing militaries in the Asia Pacific.Funded by the Defense Ministry, Indonesia initiated its ...
  • The New Lybia - Libyan Islamists Invade Minist ...
    In its attempt to bring about a peaceful transition for yet another Islamic nation, the United Nations mission in Libya said it is monitoring the latest conflagration in that war-torn country. A number of gunmen reportedly took control of the ministries of justice and foreign affairs, and other ...
  • The New Egypt - Egyptian Newspaper Features Tw ...
    An Egyptian newspaper featured two articles on Tuesday that promote the libel that Jews drink Christian – and Muslim – blood on Passover. Anonymous blogger Elder of Ziyon spotted the articles in Egypt’s Misrelgdida (“New Egypt�) newspaper.The first is an article by a Palestinian Arab, ...
  • The Archeologial Edge - Gabriel Stone May Revo ...
    Thirteen years after it was found, what has been called the most significant archeological find in the land of Israel since the Dead Sea Scrolls is finally going on display at the Israel Museum.The unique work known as the Gabriel Stone and sometimes as the Revelation of Gabriel, dates from the ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Kansas Will Go To Court Against Eric Holder To ...
    What happens in Kansas stays in Kansas.  At least that's what Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is telling Attorney General Holder about guns sold to residents of the state. A new state law contends that guns purchased in the state to Kansans were free of any federal regulations and federal ag ...
  • Marathon Was Picked Because Bombs Were Finishe ...
    They finished early!  That's what sealed the fate of the victim of the Boston Marathon and saved the attendees of  Boston’s famous July Fourth celebration on the Charles River Esplanade. Younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told federal investigators that he and his brother initially p ...
  • HUH? Chuck Hagel Says Administration Consideri ...
    Perhaps when he drew the "red line" about the use of chemical weapons, the President was convinced the WMD would never be introduced into the Syrian "civil" war. At a minimum he never considered what he would do should that line be crossed. Now that the line as been crossed it is clear t ...
  • The John "New Improved" John Kerry/Arab Peace ...
    By Barry Rubin There's something very strange about this alleged new Arab League peace initiative and I find no serious addressing of these issues in the media coverage. A step toward efforts by Arab states to move toward proposing a possible peace with Israel is a good thing. E ...
  • PC MADNESS! LA Times Drops "Undocumented Alien"
    The LA Times has decided to play one better than the Associated Press. Last month the syndicated news service announced they will no longer describe people who come into this country illegally as illegal, yesterday the LA Times announced that "undocumented aliens" was also verboten. A ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbines have reduced property values, co ...
    An Ontario court says that landowners near a proposed wind farm have suffered diminished property values. A lawyer for the landowners says the decision will clear the way for more actions against both wind developers and those who lease their land for wind turbines. But a spokesman for the wind ...
  • $4-million turbine fire at Kibby Mountain puts ...
    A fire destroyed a multimillion-dollar wind turbine at the Kibby Mountain wind farm in northern Franklin County, which has generated concern about the safety and reliability of turbines, and the process by which these fires are reported to government officials and the public. Companies that oper ...
  • Wildlife researcher pleads guilty to unlawful ...
    United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that a Julian resident pled guilty today to the unlawful taking of a Golden Eagle, in violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, before the Honorable David H. Bartick, United States Magistrate Judge. At the time of the plea, wildlife re ...
  • Hunger protest against wind turbines continues
    Residents from Miaoli County’s Yuanli Township (苑裡), on the 11th day of a hunger strike, rallied yesterday outside the Executive Yuan, protesting against a project to build wind turbines near their homes. “I want to stress that we are not against green energy solutions. In fact, we fully support ...
  • Environmental groups sue federal agencies over ...
    Environmentalists who are suing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar over approval of a 200-MW wind farm in Nevada say regulators relied on a “one-sided” and “incomplete” environmental analysis to pursue a renewable energy project while “disregarding” other policies ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...
  • Journalism curriculum, and the hands-in-the-ai ...
    It’s hard work making sure a journalism curriculum remains relevant. Here are “four essential components to the new curriculum for teaching news and communication,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of The Elements of ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 5: How to us ...
    If you want to design the future, learn to code. That’s how I concluded the last post in this series. So far, I’ve discussed HTML and CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, the command line, and software and CMSs. The vast majority of journalists out there are probably not going to stick with ...

Facing South

  • UN human rights group calls for investigation ...
    The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights recently visited West Virginia communities affected by the controversial mining practice and said allegations of health damage, water pollution, failure to protect cemeteries, and harassment of opponents should be investigated and add ...
  • Reversal of fortune: A prosecutor on trial
    In the world of abusive prosecutors, Ken Anderson stands out: Anderson, a Texas prosecutor who abused his authority to help send an innocent man to prison for decades, now faces 10 years behind bars for his misconduct. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Wal-Mart goes green?
    The Arkansas-based retail giant aims to become a renewable-energy giant. But can Wal-Mart's business model ever really be considered sustainable? read more
  • Death in Bangladesh and Texas: Will bottom-fee ...
    How many tragedies will it take before industry stops its relentless search for the world's cheapest wages and decides fair labor costs and safe working conditions are a part of doing business? read more
  • Ad campaign puts Arkansas oil spill images bef ...
    An ad campaign featuring images of Exxon Mobil's Arkansas oil spill disaster targets the federal regulators in charge of approving the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

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Ian Welsh

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Homelessness on the rise in America
    Aljazeera – Three years ago President Barack Obama promised to end homelessness for children and families within a decade. Since making that pledge, the number of families facing homelessness has been rising. Now there are fears that federal budget cuts will make the problem even worse. Re ...
  • Euro drops as ECB’s Draghi hints at char ...
    DW – Central bank chief Mario Draghi has hinted at the possibility of a negative interest rate on deposits held at the bank. After the bank cut interest rates to a record low, Draghi said such a move might boost the economy. The European Central Bank mooted the possibility of taking furthe ...
  • Struggling factories underline fragility of wo ...
    Reuters – Manufacturing across the world stumbled last month, underlining the fragility of the global economy and building the case for more action from leading central banks. Gloomy purchasing managers indexes – surveys of factory activity that correlate strongly with economic activ ...
  • India protests fatal assault in Pakistani jail
    DW – India has demanded that inmates in Pakistan accused of fatally beating a jailed Indian farmer convicted of spying be “brought to justice.” Sarabjit Singh, 49, had been in a coma since being assaulted in prison on Friday. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday urg ...
  • Hallway Take: Obesity: Take the ‘White&# ...
    MedPage Today Watch video

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Tales from the Crypt – Twilight Saga and ...
    Her name is Stephanie Meyer, author of the best-selling “Twilight” vampire and werewolf romanticism novels par extraordinaire.   Although her “religion” is Mormon and she was educated at Mormon-owned BYU, Meyer’s “bloodline” is Yiddish, originating in Ea ...
  • Tales from the Crypt – Twilight Saga and ...
    Her name is Stephanie Meyer, author of the best-selling “Twilight” vampire and werewolf romanticism novels par extraordinaire.   Although her “religion” is Mormon and she was educated at Mormon-owned BYU, Meyer’s “bloodline” is Yiddish, originating in Ea ...
  • Leonard Horowitz and His “Royal Bloodlin ...
    I have had a bellyful of Mr. Horowitz’ hypocrisy and fraud.  I have been patient long enough with these vindictive deceivers. Here’s an offer for you, Horowitz – if you and your home-breaking girl friend Ms. Kane will cease and desist telling LIES about me, (drop your defamator ...
  • Leonard Horowitz and His “Royal Bloodlin ...
    I have had a bellyful of Mr. Horowitz’ hypocrisy and fraud.  I have been patient long enough with these vindictive deceivers. Here’s an offer for you, Horowitz – if you and your home-breaking girl friend Ms. Kane will cease and desist telling LIES about me, (drop your defamator ...
  • Hacked Again – I am Done Blogging
    For the record – this site was VICIOUSLY hacked once again despite numerous changes to my password. I received a rather urgent call from a concerned friend who knows me very well.  He was appalled at what he saw on my blog.  Going into my “dashboard” and looking at what I actua ...

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Scotts Contracting

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

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Happy Birthday, World Wide Web
    (Above) The first public website – reconstructed at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html April 30th marked the 20th anniversary of the technology behind the World Wide Web becoming available royalty-free to the public. On April 30, 1993 the Swiss group CERN made the softw ...
  • The Corporatization of Medical Research
    Guest post by Steven Miller (This is the last of three guest blogs by Steven Miller about Obama’s BRAIN Initiative and Wall Street’s broader agenda of privatizing all aspects of medical treatment and research. In this last post, he makes the alarming revelation that corporations ...
  • Corporatizing Life
    Guest post by Steven Miller This is the 2nd of three guest blogs by Steven Miller about Obama’s BRAIN Initiative and Wall Street’s broader agenda of privatizing all aspects of medical treatment and research. In this post Miller traces how decisions in the Supreme Court and US Pa ...
  • Privatizing the Brain
    Guest Post by Steven Miller (This is the 1st of three guest blogs by Steven Miller about Obama’s BRAIN Initiative and Wall Street’s broader agenda of privatizing all aspects of medical treatment and research. In this post, Miller describes a parallel process in which Big Pharma ...
  • Boston Bombers: All in the CIA Family
    According to Daniel Hopsicker in MadCow Morning News, it turns out Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of the two alleged Boston bombers, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller. Uncle Ruslan, in turn, had a decade-long business relationship with Halliburton, the oil company ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...
  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...
  • Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun V ...
    These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Pane ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Key to Running the World on Solar and Wind ...
    Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of solar and wind power is their intermittency. In locations like Hawaii, where I live, wind and solar power are already competitive on price. My fossil-fuel supplied electricity typically costs above 40 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind and solar power can compete ...
  • Test Your International Oil IQ
    In last week’s column, we examined some oil production trivia involving US states. This week, we look at some international oil trivia covering the 5-year period 2007-2011, as well as some individual trivia from 2012. In this case, the data sources are the 2012 BP Statistical Review of Wor ...
  • Test Your Oil IQ
    As a result of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) revolution, US oil and natural gas production have been rising for several years. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), US oil production has risen by 27% over the past 5 years. In reviewing the data for individual states, I ...
  • Ethanol Lobby Agitates for E15 Mandate
    History of U.S. Ethanol Policy In 1978 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a gasohol waiver that set the maximum legal limit of ethanol in motor gasoline at 10 percent denatured anhydrous ethanol. 27 years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 created a Renewable Fuel S ...
  • Debut of the Wall Street Journal Energy Panel
    Last week I made my debut as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) new feature The Experts: Journal Reports. The idea is that the WSJ poses questions to the panel, and each panel member provides a response of 300 words or so. The first 4 questions that were asked — and ans ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Your Lipstick's Dangerous Secret
    Your favorite lipstick could contain more than a splash of fun color. University of California–Berkeley researchers just uncovered new evidence your favorite brand could also be hiding a heavy metal secret. Scientists detected "concerning" levels of chromium, cadmium, and manganese in popular l ...
  • Allergic? Blame Where You Were Born
    Being born in the U.S. entitles you to a huge variety of freedoms that those from other countries don't enjoy—but it may come at the price of sneezing, itchy eyes, wheezing and all the other ills that plague allergy sufferers. A study just published in JAMA Pediatrics has found that children bo ...
  • Antibiotic Emergency: How You Can Help Save Mo ...
    There's a quietly surging medical emergency taking hold across the country: Some of our most prized antibiotics aren't working anymore. A combination of bacteria's natural ability to evolve, unnecessary prescriptions, and factory farming is putting the U.S. on the brink of losing these lifesavi ...
  • Europe Bans Bee-Killing Insecticide
    The European Commission will proceed with its plan to protect bees with a ban on neonicotinoid insecticides after a vote on Monday failed to block the measure. In the U.S., however, farmers can still use these chemicals that act like potent insect nerve agents. Fifteen of the 27 European Union ...
  • The Most Powerful Way to Change the Food System
    Despite the rise of the Food Network, cooking shows and competitions on virtually every channel, and celebrity chefs who have turned restaurants into a new form of dinner theater, Americans are more disconnected from their food than ever. Forget our admiration for celebri-chefs. The amount of ...

big think

  • Awesome Telescope Footage of SpaceShipTwo Bre ...
    A picture is truly worth a thousand words, and in this case, that truism applies to telescope footage. The video below shows Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier. Watch here: Taken by MarsScientific.com and Clay Center Observatory. Read More
  • The Case For Having Your Groceries Delivered
    What's the Latest Development? A study recently published in the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum claims that, far from being the lazy way out of shopping, grocery home delivery has the potential to impact the environment in a positive way. University of Washington professor ...
  • Learning From the Illusion of Understanding
    The feeling of certainty might be our default setting. We spend most of our mental life confirming our opinions, even when those opinions involve complex issues. We believe we understand the world with detail and coherence, even though our folk theories are usually incomplete. The sad reason ... ...
  • Foot-Powered Washer/Dryer Makes Doing Laundry ...
    What's the Latest Development? Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You, two soon-to-be graduates of the Art Center College of Design's Design Matters program, have created what they believe is a workable and affordable solution to the challenge of doing laundry in parts of the world with limited acces ...
  • MOOCS and the Stratification of American Highe ...
    So Peter Sacks, author of the excellent Generation X Goes to College, explains what's really wrong with the likely MOOCification of higher education. Studies show that learning through MOOCS and related online delivery systems isn't worse than that through the more traditional or persona ...

Information Liberation

  • 16-Year-Old Girl Arrested and Charged With a F ...
    A Florida teen with an exemplary record is facing federal charges after conducting what a classmate calls "a science project gone bad." 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot is accused of mixing housing chemicals in a small water bottle at Bartow High Scho...
  • High School Student Faces 20 Years For Obama F ...
    High school teen Cameron D'Ambrosio was arrested on terror charges and faces up to 20 years in prison for a Facebook post in which he made threats against the White House and mentioned the Boston bombings. Cameron D'Ambrosio. Image: Facebook "H...
  • Honors Student & Eagle Scout Charged with Felo ...
    According to Todd Starnes of Fox News, Cole Withrow, an Eagle Scout, honors student, and active church member has had his life turned upside down. The trouble began when Withrow discovered he had accidentally left his shotgun in his truck once he ...
  • Stefan Molyneux has been diagnosed with lympho ...
    Stefan's video debunking the economics in Zeitgeist was a huge influence on me in my journey to becoming an anarchist. His 'gun in the room' analogy changed my whole life. I fucking love this man and I love listening to his views on everything. ...
  • Video: Man Gets Arrested For Not Letting Under ...
    In this video out of Fayetteville, North Carolina an undercover cop detains and has a man arrested for drinking an Arizona 'Half & Half' Iced Tea (half lemonade, half iced tea) and not bowing down before the badge wielding thug and "letting him sme...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • How did feathers evolve?
    Carl Zimmer offered some insights at TED-Ed into how dinosaurs got their plumage and evolved into the flying birds, excellent birds, we see today. This is witty animation plucks up the courage to fill in the gaps. On an entirely unrelated note, I wrote a song about flight, which you can hear on ...
  • Win #DeceivedWisdom in our 10k competition
    My publisher just added up all the sales of my book Deceived Wisdom including hardback sales since November, Kindle and ePub downloads and the Audible editions. The grand total so far…drum roll please…is 10,000 copies, which ain’t bad for a popular science book (although it was ...
  • We’ve got a lot of grounds to cover
    Next time you’re sipping on your skinny, frothy mochachocafrappalatteccino with maple syrup and cinnamon at the local Costabucksorthree coffee shop and surfing on their EasyHack(TM) wireless internet spare a thought for the grounds. The burnt out and scalded fragments of beans gone by that ...
  • Pale Blue Dot
    The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched 1977) when it reached 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from Earth in 1990. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. Th ...
  • Getting the garlic blues
    Pickler Andrew Dalby responded to one of my recent tweets about not cooking asparagus in lemon juice because it discolours it. He had found that his garlic cloves turned blue when he pickled them in spiced malt vinegar. The discolouration doesn’t mean that the pickles are inedible. Now pla ...

RFF Library

  • H.R. 739, Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Re ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44118 [Summary]  As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on April 24, 2013 H.R. 739 would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop, no later than one year after the bill’s enactment, a manageme ...
  • Monitoring CO2 Emissions from New Passenger Ca ...
    European Environment Agency http://bit.ly/157kv3h [Business Green] New figures from the European Environment Agency (EEA) have confirmed the dramatic improvement in car fuel efficiency in recent years, revealing cars sold last year were nine per cent more efficient than those sold just three yea ...
  • The Role of Forests in a Future Climate Agreement
    Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Donna Lee http://hvrd.me/13RNof0 Forests can play a significant role in helping to avoid dangerous climate change, and a global agreement under the UNFCCC would be uniquely placed to support efforts in this r ...
  • The Case for U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas Exports
    Brookings Institution / by Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala http://bit.ly/16yUPvD The recent natural gas ‘revolution’ in the United States has encouraged a nationwide shift in its energy consumption patterns. An abundance of unconventional natural gas (with help from a patchy economic re ...
  • The National Security Dividend of Global Carbo ...
    AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies / Bryan K. Mignone http://bit.ly/10wHHyW Energy and environmental security objectives are often conflated in political circles and in the popular press. Results from a well-established integrated assessment model suggest that policies designed to ...

Scientific American - News

  • Airplane to Fly Across U.S. Powered by Sunshin ...
    The goal is to fly around the world using no fuel other than sunlight . But first a prototype of the solar plane to circumnavigate the globe will fly across the U.S.--taking off on May 3 and potentially proving that airplanes can fly long distances on nothing more than sunshine. [More] ...
  • Lead Poisoning Comes to the Remote Amazon
    Inside the simple wood-frame house, a 6-year-old boy plays with a piece of malleable metal, biting it as his younger sister watches. In the background, piled against the wall, are two long strips of the metal – lead sheathing from an electrical cable that the family sold for scrap. [More] ...
  • News from the Front in War on Cancer--Mission ...
    Janet Rowley noticed something odd about the glowing chromosomes revealed by her microscope. It was the early 1970s, the first years of the so-called " war on cancer ," and she was using a new staining technique to examine cells from patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a ...
  • Global CO2 Levels Approach Worrisome Milestone
    Near the moonscape summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, an infrared analyzer will soon make history. Sometime in the next month, it is expected to record a daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of more than 400 parts per million (p.p.m.), a value not reached at this key s ...
  • Transgenics: A New Breed of Crops
    When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm, says Anastasia Bodnar, “we were promised rocket jet packs” -- futuristic, ultra-nutritious crops that would bring exotic produce to the supermarket and help to feed a hungry world. [More] ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

David Seaton's News Links

  • The First of May... mayday, mayday
    David Seaton's News Links May Day - Margaret Scott"Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize..." Joe Hill The first of May, commemorating bloody labor unrest in Chicago, is celebrated all over the world as the universal holiday of labor... except in the USA of course.The same USA where "red", t ...
  • Hats off, It's Ella Fitzgerald's birthday
    The greatest singer of the Great American Song Book was born on the 25th of April 1917 With Count Basie Gershwin by God One Note Samba ... Delirium
  • Boston and the dilemma of "homegrown" terrorism
    David Seaton's News LinksAs the Spanish and British can attest since the Madrid and London attacks of 2004 and 2005, homegrown terrorism is tougher to anticipate than plots from outside. Edward Luce - Financial TimesThe word "homegrown" is not really applicable to Islamic terrorism. Islam even i ...
  • The bombs and bombers of Boston
    David Seaton's News LinksFederal investigators are hurrying to review a visit that one of the suspected bombers made to Chechnya and Dagestan, predominantly Muslim republics in the north Caucasus region of Russia. Both have active militant separatist movements. Members of Congress expressed conc ...
  • Bombs in Boston
    I live in Madrid, Spain, and at this moment we are enjoying a (momentary?) respite from nearly 40 years of constant terrorist attacks, mostly by Basque separatists, with the one monumental attack by Al Qaeda in March 2004 with nearly 200 dead.I remember once, many, many years ago, being in an of ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • A Different Kind of War Requires a Different K ...
    ThinkProgress passes along the following exchange on CNN between Jeffrey Toobin and former Bush administration press secretary Ari Fleischer. The subject is whether and why we need the Guantanamo prison: TOOBIN: This country fought Adolf Hitler. And I don’t really believe that Osam ...
  • No, the Oregon Medicaid Study Did Not Show "No ...
    Tyler Cowen links to a couple of writers today who say the recent study of the Oregon Medicaid experiment was bad news for Medicaid fans because it showed that Medicaid coverage had no effect on most of the medical conditions that were studied. His summary: Do read the rest of those post ...
  • It's the GOP's World, We Just Live In It
    Ron Brownstein writes about the problems faced by our two major parties: For Republicans, the key question was whether a congressional caucus rooted in the nation’s most conservative areas could court the broader coalition the party needs to regain the presidency. For President Oba ...
  • Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in April
    The American economy added 165,000 new jobs last month, but about 90,000 of those jobs were needed just to keep up with population growth, so net job growth clocked in at 75,000. That's OK, but not great. However, the BLS also revised its job growth estimates for the past two months fairly sha ...
  • Yes, There Sure Are a Lot of Vacancies in the ...
    Whose fault is it that there are so many vacancies in the executive branch? The New York Times investigates: The White House faults an increasingly partisan confirmation process in the Senate and what officials say are over-the-top demands for information about every corner of a nominee& ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 393: Fuck Newark
    UFC 159 Live The Best Chinese Food Fuck Newark Why you don’t serve hard liquor at UFC events Cities aren’t that fun Mount Rushmore = Greatest ‘Fuck You’ example of White Privilege Upcoming movies: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel Thor 2 trailer Remembering bad childhood TV shows ...
  • IC 392: Manly Shit
    Good Sci-Fi The problem with Defiance Patt Oswalt’s awesome idea for Star Wars Episode VII White weddings are awesome Gender Roles can be fine Doing manly shit Some people deserve to die Pulling guns for chicken Share with your friends:
  • IC 391: Morning Wood Syndrome
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips joins Kriss & Kev Laughing at mental illness….until its not funny Being offensive Rick Ross outrage revisted The difference between Eminem & Rick Ross Going all in with being offensive Bringing awareness to Morning Wood Syndrome Women’s MMA B ...
  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...
  • IC 389: Double Agent
    NWFO back together Trolling relationship experts on Twitter Operation Make AskCheyB quit Tiger Woods is a black double agent Hating on Tiger because of adultery Openly gay in the NFL in between homophobia and full support of gays the Fallon Fox/Transgender issue North Korea gotta go The Wolverin ...

Simple Climate

  • The climate scientist whose world spun on thro ...
    Milutin Milanković calculated his way through imprisonment and bombings to show how Earth’s movement helped drive ice ages, revealing how far we’ve strayed from the path we should be following into the next global freeze.
  • The climate scientist whose world spun on thro ...
    Milutin Milanković calculated his way through imprisonment and bombings to show how Earth’s movement helped drive ice ages, revealing how far we’ve strayed from the path we should be following into the next global freeze.
  • Probabilities reveal shape of climate change
    David Stainforth from the London School of Economics and his colleagues have developed a new way to analyse weather data and understand whether temperatures have warmed evenly on a local level, showing European trends with less than a 2% chance of happening at random.
  • Probabilities reveal shape of climate change
    David Stainforth from the London School of Economics and his colleagues have developed a new way to analyse weather data and understand whether temperatures have warmed evenly on a local level, showing European trends with less than a 2% chance of happening at random.
  • Alternate histories back unique modern warmth ...
    Creating and averaging thousands of slightly different historic temperature records shows that Northern hemisphere 21st century temperatures are almost certainly unique in the last 600 years, according to Harvard University’s Martin Tingley.

e!Science News

  • Telling time on Saturn
    A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of Earth's magnetosphere. read more
  • Troubling levels of toxic metals found in lipstick
    A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. read more
  • Researchers estimate a cost for universal acce ...
    Universal access to modern energy could be achieved with an investment of between 65 and 86 billion US dollars a year up until 2030, new research has shown. read more
  • Dual-color lasers could lead to cheap and effi ...
    A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using light emitting diodes (LEDs) universally for cheap and efficient lighting. read more
  • Cyberthreats must require governments and busi ...
    In an age where cybersecurity is of foremost interest for governments and businesses, public and private organizations must deploy risk-intelligence governance to secure their digital communications and resources from eavesdropping, theft or attack, according to a new paper from Rice University' ...

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: Danger in the Schoolyard
    Toxic coal ash found on school paths in Florida Truckloads of the coal ash product EZBase were delivered to one Florida homeowner's property.  (Clean Water Action) ...
  • Goldman Prize Winners: Making a Difference
    Three stories from around the world The 2013 Goldman Prize recipients.  (Courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize) It is easy sometimes to feel like t ...
  • Driller Seeks to Overturn Roan Plateau Victory
    Natural riches at stake in Colorado plateau area The Roan Plateau has been ranked as one of the four most biologically rich areas in Colorado.  (Michael Freeman) ...
  • Friday Finds: Seafood S.O.S.
    Climate change may ruin your next seafood night Photo courtesy of quinn.anya Seafood lovers hooked on $1 oyster nights may soon have to find a new source of c ...
  • Victory: Court Upholds EPA Authority to Protec ...
    Unanimous panel of judges rule for EPA in coal industry lawsuit Yesterday, citizens in Appalachia celebrated a huge victory in their fight to protect their families and communities from harmful mountaintop removal mining. In a sh ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!
  • A Crowd Gathers in Philly at EPA Region 3 Offices
    Dustin White of Boone County explaining mountaintop removal to a group of 4th graders outside the EPA Dist 3 office in Philadelphia — at Appalachia Rising: Stand Up and Demand EPA End Mountaintop Removal.
  • Join Appalachia: Call EPA Region 3!
    Take action with Appalachia–Call EPA Region 3 now: (215) 814-5000. Appalachians and their allies are taking action right now in Philly at EPA region 3 Headquarters! The EPA has the power to ban the dumping of mine waste into our … Continue reading →
  • Appalachia Locked to Dirty Water–EPA has ...
    Contact: Delta Merner For Immediate Release Phone: 304-896-9437 Email: organizeapprising@gmail.com COMMUNITIES LOCKED TO DIRTY WATER The EPA Holds to Key to Clean, Healthy Water for Communities in TN, WV, VA & KY April 15, 2013– Appalachian citizens and allies from … Continue re ...

Amped Status

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

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  • The Russians came, the Russians stayed: A resp ...
    In a recent article, seasoned veteran of the Zionist Left Uri Avnery claimed that the influx of Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel, living in self-imposed ghettos, is what pushed the country to the right politically. Lia Tarachansky counters that the Russian-speaking community never ‘mi ...
  • PHOTOS: Israeli army attacks event for launch ...
    The Israeli military interrupts the launch event for a new graphic novel created by the makers of the documentary film ‘Budrus.’ Text by: Jessica Devaney, Photos by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Just Vision launched an Arabic graphic novel at the Budrus Girls School on Thursday. Created ...
  • A modest proposal for stopping settler violence
    For years, Israeli police and the Shin Bet have complained that they can’t deal with ‘price tag’ attacks. Here’s a simple proposition. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz The phenomenon of “price tag” attacks has been with us for some seven years now, and during this pe ...
  • WATCH: IDF detains Palestinian children and fo ...
    On Sunday, three Palestinian boys were detained by the IDF in Hebron, along with a Swedish activist who seems to have tried to calmly prevent their arrests. (Footage of the arrest is below, and highly disturbing to watch). According to the International Solidarity Movement, who put out a report  ...
  • WATCH: Israeli soldiers stand by, escort settl ...
    Following the murder of a settler from Yitzhar on Tuesday, dozens of Israeli settlers from the region attacked several Palestinian villages. They threw stones at Palestinians, at cars and buses, smashed windows and burned houses. These videos, taken by B’Tselem photographers from the villa ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Super trawler stopped again
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke today made a final declaration stopping large capacity commercial fishing vessels from operating in the area of the Small Pelagic Fishery for two years.
  • Government supports the work of indigenous rangers
    The Australian Government today reaffirmed its commitment to the network of indigenous rangers by supporting the important program for a further five years.
  • 'Lost' Australian World War Two shipwreck now ...
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke, today declared the World War Two Merchant Navy vessel the MV Limerick, sunk off the east coast of Australia on 26 April 1943, as a protected historic shipwreck.
  • Successful Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund proj ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke and Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation Yvette D'Ath today announced the 44 successful applications under the Australian Government's Indigenous Carbon Farming Fund Capacity Building and Business Support stream.
  • Creating a refuge along the famous Canning Sto ...
    More than six million hectares of Western Australia's striking desert country straddling the famous Canning Stock Route will be protected from today with the dedication of the Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area.

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Know Your Farmer, Know Your Benefits
    On Monday, USDA took a step to promote agriculture and ensure food access for vulnerable Americans.
  • CLF Week in Links: Walmart, FDA, Food Justice ...
    As Ms. Lappé points out, if Walmart actually cared about the 50 million hungry Americans, 17 million of whom are children, it might consider halting cuts to its employees’ hours and benefits and provide a livable wage.
  • Newest recipient of the Cynthia and Robert Law ...
    The Center welcomes incoming MPH student Sadie Barr into its fold. Sadie is the 2013 recipient of the Cynthia and Robert Lawrence Scholarship.
  • The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal P ...
    The Center for a Livable today has undertaken a project to analyze the original recommendations of the Commission and to assess the impact and analyze the continued relevancy of the original report. It will be a thorough and unbiased review, and the findings will be released in a few weeks.
  • Oyster Aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay: Is M ...
    While oyster aquaculture seems to be a win-all situation, it is important to step back and first consider the potential issues that surround shellfish production in the Chesapeake Bay. The bay is not what it used to be, and there are many more complex water pollution concerns than there were 100 ...

k2p blog

  • Book Burning to promote climate science!
    Book burning advances climate science
  • Fifty shades of fraud in Flanders
    One in twelve medical scientists in Flanders admits to making up or ‘massaging’ data in order for it to match a hypothesis. And almost six in twelve see such fraudulent practices happening around them. They identify high publication pressure as one of the causes.
  • “Bearing children has largely become the ...
    So is the human population "dumbing down"? Education level is not intelligence. To what extent intelligence is a hereditary trait is uncertain. It would seem that evolution must favour increasing intelligence but even this is not crystal clear. It is certainly a perception I have that "successfu ...
  • 100 Viking queens to be trapped and transporte ...
    100 Swedish queens are to be captured in Skåne in southern Sweden and transported to England.
  • “Consensus science” – by def ...
    "Consensus science" has no option but to become science by majority vote. Polls replace evidence. And where the belief is false, the belief itself prevents a return to the truth. "Consensus science" is belief and cannot be "science". The simple fact is that whenever a "scientific hypothesis" inv ...

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