Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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k2p blog

  • A mindless pursuit of “equality” d ...
    And now it is apparently wrong to avoid the employment of criminals because it could be "discrimination".
  • Thank goodness for the Russians
    A key panel at UN climate talks in Bonn went into deep freeze on Tuesday as Russia ignored pleas to end a procedural protest, according to a webcast of the meeting and sources there.
  • Parliamentary pigs and taxpayer troughs
    This affinity between human and pig behaviour is demonstrated daily - and especially - by parliamentarians the world over. They don't just feed - they gorge themselves. Perhaps it is the availability of the trough of taxpayers money which triggers our parliamentarians to revert to ancient type.
  • “Lull in warming even as greenhouse gase ...
    The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.
  • Murray Salby on carbon dioxide and temperature
    Prof. Murray Salby's presentation on 18th April 2013 in Hamburg explaining why carbon dioxide has little to do in causing global warming and in fact lags temperature both in the short term and in the long term.

Left Foot Forward

  • The cruellest postcode lottery of all
    Yesterday Public Health England published an interactive map showing the levels of variation in early death rates for local authorities across England (or as some have dubbed it, the Early Death Atlas).
  • Unemployment down 5,000 to 2.51 million
    Unemployment decreased by 5,000 between February 2013 and April 2013 to 2.51 million, with the unemployment rate rising to 7.8 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
  • The real causes of family instability are economic
    I believe that family instability is a problem. But it is not necessarily a consequence of the decline of the nuclear family. In modern Britain families come in all shapes and sizes and we should celebrate that.
  • The Mayor’s long-goodbye to London begins
    Today the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, set out his '2020 Vision' report for the capital. The report launch is the beginning of Boris Johnson’s long-goodbye to London as his attention increasingly turns elsewhere.
  • How the European Union is saving us from Prism
    In a piece for Slate magazine, Matt Yglesias has pointed out a potential problem for Eurosceptics on the back of the Prism surveillance scandal. Essentially, the European Union is acting as a bulwark against American attempts to snoop on the browsing habits of us Europeans.

Consumerist

  • Bank Clerk Transfers $300M After Falling Aslee ...
    Sorry about that headline, I’ve just been really tired and not sleeping well and anyway —  where was my bank account when a snoozing clerk accidentally transferred about $300 million accidentally? Oh, right. It wasn’t in Germany, which is where our dozing dude made his rather large m ...
  • Worst Charities In America Give Charities A Ba ...
    We might be experts on who the Worst Company in America is, but what about the worst charities in America? The Tampa Bay Tribune crunched on a bunch of data and figured out which American charities actually give the smallest proportion of their income out in cash aid. No, that doesn’t nec ...
  • Lululemon’s See-Through Pants CEO Backs ...
    Fresh on the heels of Lululemon’s announcement that it’d finally fixed that whole “You can see my butt through these pants, can’t you?” problem and would be restocking the luon pants with “more fabric across the bum” in its stores, the company’s CE ...
  • Appeals Court Hears Arguments On NYC’s F ...
    It’s been three months since a judge tossed out New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces, calling the regulation “arbitrary and capricious.” Today, a state appeals court panel heard arguments for and against the ban, but it doesn& ...
  • Your Review Isn’t Really About The Produ ...
    We often receive complaints from readers who have totally legitimate gripes about shipping or customer service issues at retailers, both online and in real life. Unfortunately, they chose to share these complaints with the world by writing about them in the retailer’s product reviews. The ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblower Sparks National Debate: Daily Wh ...
    Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: Is NSA Leaker a Hero or Traitor?  Hundreds of media outlets produced stories on Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who exposed the massive surveillance program PRISM that infringes upon American citizens’ privacy. GAP and our clients have been instrumental ...
  • Snowden Misdirection: Talking Heads Shoot the ...
    As is the case with so many whistleblowers who disclose evidence of government misconduct, the government and commentators are quick to attack whistleblower Edward Snowden's character rather than focusing on his disclosures. It's surprising that such a reputable forum like The New Yorker, whi ...
  • Edward Snowden – NSA Whistleblower Comes Forwa ...
    The Guardian: Edward Snowden – The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveilance RevelationsHong Kong, Where Snowden is Currently Residing Another groundbreaking story from The Guardian over the weekend revealed the identity of the whistleblower behind the recent NSA surveillance disclosures to be ...
  • Tip of the Iceberg: NSA Surveillance Goes Far ...
    The Guardian has another blockbuster scoop: The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program call ...
  • NSA Whistleblowers Vindicated by Explosive Rep ...
    Washington Post: Documents – U.S. Mining Data from 9 Leading Internet Firms; Companies Deny Knowledge There was a media storm yesterday after The Guardian reported on late Wednesday night that they had obtained a secret court order requiring Verizon to provide the National Security Agency (NSA ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • An Abbott fan offends with a bad joke. Gillard ...
    Pre-draft Update: I wrote all this before the latest twist came. For foreign readers: gawk, supposedly in March at an Opposition fundraiser, a menu listed an insulting Julia Gillard Kentuky Fried Quail (and worse). It turns out the menu was not even used, it was an inhouse mockup. No one at the ...
  • Australian skeptics outnumbers believers say O ...
    The bottom line is that a third of people are concerned enough to be willing to act, a third say they are concerned but are only paying it lip service, and a third are openly skeptical. What matters is that 63% of people around the world don’t want their governments to take any money from ...
  • Even with the best models, warmest decades, mo ...
    This beautiful graph was posted at Roy Spencer’s and WattsUp, and no skeptic should miss it. I’m not sure if everyone appreciates just how piquant, complete and utter the failure is here. There are no excuses left. This is as good as it gets for climate modelers in 2013 and John Chri ...
  • Unthreaded weekend
    For all the other news… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
  • Climate Aid: The $39 bn industry, mostly used ...
    Climate Analytics say that developed nations have paid $35.9 billion dollars into the UN Aid program called FastStart. This was the project rescued from the aftermath of the 2009 Copenhagen climate convention.  Somehow $3 billion of private finance has been tossed in as well, making it nearly $3 ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Here Come the Doomsday Comedy Movies!
    After numerous serious and blockbuster films about the apocalypse, some of which were certainly a result of the 2012 meme, here come the comedies. Of course they were probably written and filmed prior to last December, but it wasn’t unusual to expect the Mayan doomsday to be a flop. And no ...
  • What Will (likely) Kill You – Giving Doomsday ...
    Often when I am discussing killer solar storms with people, they’ll say something like I’m going to die one day anyway, so, whatever. It’s the opposite attitude of a prepper. But how do preppers react to the concept of something mundane killing them? I guess some strive to stay ...
  • Governments Should Be Supply Bottlenecks
    Of the many major concerns I have with a general lack of preparedness in society, two stand out that can be jointly fixed: Lack of government preparedness – especially in the more major scenarios like the next Carrington Event Just in time delivery to stores and supermarkets, as well as j ...
  • Salt and Survivalism
    Forget what they tell you about salt being bad for you – the jury is still out. And that’s only regarding too much salt. In ancient times salt was a valuable commodity! Ever wonder why? There are many good reasons for storing salt in your prepping supplies: Preserve meat – whe ...
  • Some Worrisome Virus Updates
    Flu Professor Hualan Chen, director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, deliberately mixed the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which is highly lethal but not easily transmitted between people, with a 2009 strain of H1N1 flu virus, which is very ...

Facing South

  • Rape and other sexual violence prevalent in ju ...
    Georgia and South Carolina are among the states with the highest rates of sexual assault of juvenile detainees, and most of the abuse involves the very staff members charged with supervising and counseling the troubled youngsters. read more
  • The 'shadow intelligence agency' behind the NS ...
    Booz Allen Hamilton employed Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on the National Security Agency's massive domestic spying program. The Virginia-based company has long had close ties to government intelligence. read more
  • How taxpayers subsidize union avoidance by Wal ...
    Taxpayers help support companies that are hostile to worker organizing through economic development subsidies and also through social safety net programs such as Medicaid and food stamps. read more
  • VOICES: From 'Mississippi Goddam' to 'Jackson ...
    Human rights advocate Chokwe Lumumba's election this week as mayor of Jackson, Miss. is the result of work by a new Black-led progressive coalition that intends to fight for power in a state too often written off as redneck Tea Party territory. read more
  • The end of the Solid South?
    The new issue of The American Prospect looks at changes unfolding in Southern politics, including a piece by Institute writers on the turbulent state of North Carolina. read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Turkey: Another Egypt?
    On many occasions the «Turkish-style» political system has been viewed as an example for Egypt to follow after the «Jasmine Revolution». Visiting Cairo in 2011, Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), tried to look as someo ...
  • Syria: Opposition In Retreat
    With financial assistance from Qatar and Saudi Arabia drying up and the flow of weapons from Turkey and Lebanon slowing, what had to happen now has: The rebels have begun retreating in panic under the Syrian Army’s onslaught. This is occurring against the backdrop of bad things happening for the ...
  • Meet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
    Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. Well, the “Syrian people” have spoken. Roughly 70% support the ...
  • Finland: A Terrorist Haven
    Finnish officials started to interact with Chechen terrorists as far back as 1999. Rene Nyberg, a high standing official from Finnish Foreign Ministry, first met Chechen representatives at the Helsinki EU summit by the end of 1999. When the criminal gangs of Basayev and Khattab invaded Dagestan ...
  • Why Do They Frighten Us With Syrian Chemical W ...
    The latest reports on the confiscation of two kilogrammes of sarin gas, a powerful neurotoxin, from safe houses in Adana, South Turkey, some 150 kilometres from the border with Syria, earlier this week, adds the relevance to an insightful comment by Peter Lvov, a Middle East expert from New East ...

BlogHer

  • Raid the Tool Shed & Make Dad Some Father's Da ...
    [Editor's Note: Father's Day is a tricky holiday to craft for. You can only make so many #1 dad trophies out of noodles right? Enter Remodelando la Casa and her clever scrap wood dad sign. I know my husband's tool shed could use a little sprucing up. This fun sign would be perfect. Super easy to ...
  • "The Voice" Recap: Who Will Make It To the Finals?
    Tonight will be the cruelest cut as two singers will be elminated and only three will make it to next week's finale. Why, The Voice PTB, WHY? Image: Still from NBC video Each singer sung one song they chose and one chosen by their coach, but to be honest I lost track of which was which. Which ...
  • Coconut Oil for Sunburns: Just in Time for Summer!
    I am a big proponent for coconut oil. I slather the stuff on my skin; use it in my baking and as an agent for soothing sunburn. Coconut oil works wonders as a moisturizer, so when I came home from the beach the other day with a nasty sunburn on the backs of my legs (we’ve all been there, you kno ...
  • (Interview) Present and Unaccounted For: Black ...
    When you think of a doctor, what image comes to mind? Is it a black woman? That's the question filmmaker Crystal Emery poses to viewers through her upcoming documentary Present and Unaccounted For: Black Women in Medicine. The film profiles many groundbreaking women, including the first black wo ...
  • Gloria Feldt's New Organization For Women + More!
    Gloria Feldt of Heartfeldt has started a new organization called Take The Lead to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions by 2025. Gloria is offering a free webinar on June 18th. Image by maryannerussell.com Courtney, blo ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Add These Superfoods To Your Grocery List
    Health awareness is increasing and so is the demand for healthy and nutritious food choices. Arguably, many prepackaged and processed food options unnecessarily pollute the can-be-simple process of providing our bodies with nutrition. In response, ... Related posts:4 Ancient S ...
  • Easy & Painless Fitness
    You don’t need to run a marathon to be healthy — literally. In fact, research is showing that shorter, more intense running may be just as good for overall fitness training than longer, less intense running. The intriguing part is that shorter, intense running could avoid ... R ...
  • Increase In Lung Transplants For Children
    The high profile story of two children who need lung transplants has moved organ transplant board members to action, with ramifications for other youngsters in need of new lungs. In a revision of existing policy, the ... Related posts:Lung Cleansing Benefits of Oregano Upper r ...
  • Organic Farmers Take A Stumble With Monsanto D ...
    In a major blow to organic farmers and food sovereignty advocates, the US Court of Appeals Monday has thrown out a lawsuit against Ag Giant Monsanto meant to protect organic growers against accusations of patent ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: Appeal Filed! Dea ...
  • NASA Confirms Sun-Gazing Has Healing Abilities
    Ever wanted to be in more than one place at a time?  That’s right, I’m talking about the super-human abilities that can be gained by those who follow the protocol for what’s known as sun-gazing, ... Related posts:15 Houseplants For Improving Indoor Air Quality According To NASA ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • 4th Circuit shoots down delay tactics in Araco ...
    The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this morning gave the widows of coal miners Don Bragg and Elvis Hatfield another small victory on their way to getting their day in court against the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. In this short opinion, the 4th Circuit shot down the latest e ...
  • Mining lobby: ‘War on coal’ never ...
    There’s an interesting commentary from the National Mining Association’s Luke Popovich in the recent issue of Coal Age magazine about the “war on coal” campaign against the Obama administration and the recent federal appeals court decision upholding the U.S. Environmental ...
  • Friday roundup, June 7, 2013
    In this photo taken Tuesday, May 28, 2013, sprinklers watering coal ash landfill to limit dust, near the village of Usce, by the power plant Nikola Tesla, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the Serbian capital Belgrade. In Serbia _ a Balkan country that once took pride in its unspoiled nature ...
  • Taking on the EPA: The latest from AG Morrisey
    Photo via Patrick Morrisey for Attorney General Facebook page. I had been meaning to point out to Coal Tattoo readers an important decision this week from the West Virginia Supreme Court (discussed here by the Gazette’s Kate White), because the ruling could impact the ongoing efforts of At ...
  • Coal miner killed in Alabama
    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration reports today that there’s been a coal miner killed in Alabama, at the Jim Walter Resources No. 7 Mine near Brookwood. Here’s what was reported by the local media: A 36-year-old man was killed in a mining accident at the Jim Walters Reso ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Understanding and Validating Cross-site Reques ...
    Cross-site Request Forgery–often written CSRF and pronounced "Sea-surf"–is a common web applicaiton vulnerability thats far too misunderstood. Having participated in countless information security interviews over the years, its stunning to see the number of experienced profes ...
  • Questions For People Who Have Nothing to Hide
    Many people, including apparently Sam Harris of all people, seem to feel the argument: I don’t care if people look at my email and phone conversations because I’ve got nothing to hide… …is a good argument. It is not, and here’s a good demonstration of why. Are the a ...
  • The Difference Between Wiretapping from Bush a ...
    There are many people who are asking us long-time Obama supporters why we’re not just as upset about PRISM as we would have been if this program had come from Bush. It’s an absolutely fair question. It reeks of emotional bias and an intellectually-compromised double standard. I&#8217 ...
  • The Art of Lacing Shoes
    For those who are interested in style, dress, wardrobe, etc., this is the site for learning to lace and tie your shoes properly. My favorites are: The Over-under Lacing Method for athletic shoes Ian’s Secure Knot for all shoes Jason Powell told me about this site back in like 2002. It took ...
  • Rowing Gamified
    Gamification of exercise is not something I’d normally endorse, since the effect is likely to be extremely temporary. But in the case of indoor rowing on an ergometer I think it’s much different. I am not in any kind of shape whatsoever, and I did 500M in 2:00 this morning. I was on ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Murry Salby: CO2 is the integral of temperature
    ...in the past, on short timescales, it has therefore fluctuated rapidly... Honza [=Jan] U. sent me the following one-hour April 2013 talk by Prof Murry Salby of Australia's Macquarie University: This astrophysicist and atmospheric scientist has a rather impressive publication re ...
  • Finding and abandoning incorrect general relat ...
    While I was buying and installing my new fridge, I kept on burning my brain by analyzing various refinements and implications of the paper by Maldacena and Susskind. Some business with the M2-brane topology change and entanglement looked too obvious to me so I returned to the question ...
  • Hooper: XENON100 may have seen DM candidates, too
    ...if it's so, LUX will observe 1-6 DM particles a week... Dan Hooper of Fermilab released an interesting new salvo in the dark matter's war on existence, Revisiting XENON100's Constraints (and Signals?) For Low-Mass Dark Matter. Recall that the set of underground experiments that are t ...
  • Bohr model: 100 years ago
    One hundred years ago, in July 1913, when the author was 28 years old, Philosophical Magazine received Niels Bohr's manuscript on his model of the atom. Happy birthday. Both 25-page papers are available in English here: On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules I On the Constitution of Atom ...
  • Toshiba's Westinghouse claims to be the Czech ...
    While the Czech media discuss politicians' opinions on whether we need an expansion of the Temelín nuclear power plant at all – because of the expected drop in coal and gas prices (due to shale oil) – the Japanese investigative journalists claim that they already know that we need it and the Jap ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Fort McMurray floodwaters wash out roads, power
    Roaring floodwaters in Fort McMurray, Alta., are eroding riverbanks, washing away roadways, and threatening gas and phone lines this morning, as a state of emergency remains. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: State of emergency dec ...
  • Overcoming The Media’s Spreading of Stupidity
    from SchiffReport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Peter Schiff: Think the Obama Recovery was bad? Just wait until the Obama Recession! from Fox Business, via SchiffReport: SGTr ...
  • State of emergency declared in Fort McMurray
    The mayor of Fort McMurray declared a local state of emergency on Tuesday over concerns about flooding caused by Hangingstone River overrunning its banks. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Suicides force First Nation to declare sta ...
  • YOUR RANDOM DHS MONITORED PHRASE OF THE DAY
    from What Really Happened: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY! “What we are up against: liars with no honesty or integrity or decency, just plain bastards…” — William S. Burroughs, from Last Words YOUR RANDOM DHS MONITORED PHRASE OF THE DAY Resistant SGTreport – The Corporate Prop ...
  • Neil Macdonald: Obama’s whistleblower conundrum
    Twenty-nine-year-old Ed Snowden not only blew the lid off America’s massive domestic surveillance program, Neil Macdonald writes. He also blew a hole in Obama’s attempt to try to have it both ways when it comes to secrecy and national security. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Tour operators urged to ‘blacklist’ drunk and ...
    A representative for tour operators in Norway is calling for a travel industry “blacklist” to weed out what he calls the “worst” Norwegian tourists who get drunk, cause trouble, abandon their children or make unrealistic demands while out traveling. The proposal, however, ...
  • ‘Drillos’ easily overcome Macedonia
    The Norwegian national football team (landslaget) recorded a routine victory against Macedonia in a friendly international in Oslo on Tuesday 11 June. The team, nicknamed the “Drillos” after manager Egil “Drillo” Olsen, followed up their 1-1 draw with Albania the previous ...
  • Norway disappoints Chinese tourists
    Tourists from China spend more money than anyone else visiting Norway, but they’re also the least satisfied, Norway’s travel authorities have found. The Chinese seem to be most unhappy with hotel service levels, and with the food. The number of Chinese visitors at Norwegian hotels do ...
  • Lawyer claims the US spied on his client email
    High-profile Norwegian attorney John Christian Elden believes the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on private email correspondence between him and a client charged with acts of terrorism, TV2 reported on Tuesday. Elden told TV2 that he had used his private Facebook account to co ...
  • Protests fly over family’s deportation
    The sudden, middle-of-the night deportation of a refugee family to Jordan this week has sparked protests from their supporters, humanitarian organizations and several top politicians. Two opposition parties are claiming that they’ll try to bring the family back to Norway if they win govern ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • What Permaculture Isn’t – and Is
    by Toby Hemenway The Permaculture Flower, modified from David Holmgren. The petals represent the basic human needs, and we work to meet them sustainably on the personal, local, and regional levels. Permaculture is notoriously hard to define. A recent survey shows that people simultaneousl ...
  • Prince Charles Attacks Monoculture Food Produc ...
    May 27, 2012: Ladies and Gentlemen, if I may say so, this is a very important conference. I am sure what you have heard so far about the problems we face and the obstacles to tackling them has given you a clear context in which to be able to consider what comes next this afternoon. The [...]
  • Backed by Real Horsepower (video)
    Photos © Craig Mackintosh The image of the tractor has symbolized farming since the 1900s. In fact, you’d have to travel a bit further back in time to find an equally enduring symbol: the horse… until now! Alternative farming practices — known variously as permaculture, ...
  • Corporate Carve-Up
    Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa. by George Monbiot One of the stated purposes of the Conference of Berlin in 1884 was to save the people of Africa from the slave trade. To discharge this grave responsibility, the European powers ...
  • The Great Strawberry Heist
    The thieves watched and observed from a safe distance, noting my movements 24/7, 365 days a year. They struck hard when opportunity presented itself and then disappeared, leaving only a trail of destruction and broken dreams. Hundreds of strawberry plants, leaves, roots and berries all disappear ...

Pointman's

  • How to run a really bad infowar campaign.
    It’s perhaps a debatable opinion, but I think the main way that a lot people found out there actually was such a thing as the climate skeptic blogosphere, was that its existence was highlighted by the alarmists themselves. In the complete absence of any PR budget, it was actually the alarm ...
  • Politicians, thieves and those greedy pigs in ...
    It’s simple, easy and a mistake, to despise all politicians. In my experience, they’re actually like us and mostly decent people, and when push comes to shove, they’ll usually try to do their best for the people they’ve been elected to represent. To some extent or another ...
  • Birthday bash.
    It’s my birthday in May, there’s going to be a party and it’ll follow the same procedure as every year. An intermittent BBQ throughout the afternoon and evening, followed by a bonfire after it gets dark. The buildup is happening; wooden pallets are arriving and being stacked up ...
  • Working together.
    You’re moving through hostile territory, so you stick close to each other. The boss is a real leader man, and he’s as good as they come, brave as a fighting Rhode Island Red rooster, liked and held in high respect by his men, which is why he’s right up front, doing the leadersh ...
  • Some thoughts about policy for the aftermath o ...
    Charles Mackay wrote in his book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” The book may have been written in ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...
  • Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
    This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: How did you get involve with VOTE? In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...
  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Oceana's Michael LeVine Testifies Against a Re ...
    Michael Levine testifying before Congress | Courtesy Alaska Wilderness League Yesterday, Michael LeVine, Pacific Senior Council, Oceana, testified on the “Offshore Energy and Jobs Act” (H.R. 2231) in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of th ...
  • Oceana Explores the Baltic!
    20130607 - Trip Madrid - Malmö from Oceana on Vimeo. On World Oceans Day this past Saturday, Oceana launched its first ever Baltic Sea coastal expedition. We’ve dedicated this mission to studying the Baltic coastline, and particularly Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Finland, where a number of uniqu ...
  • Study Shows: Coastal States Failing to Protect ...
    Pacific threadfins in a Hawaiian fishery, courtesy of NOAA   Saturday was World Oceans Day, a day to celebrate the many ways the oceans benefit our lives. These benefits are most obvious to residents of our coastal states, who can regularly enjoy beach outings, fresh seafood, marine lif ...
  • A historic time for offshore wind
    The first offshore wind turbine in the U.S. was recently deployed off the coast of Maine. The pilot project uses a floating platform with a small wind turbine affixed to a tower. The project is a small, but significant step toward developing an abundant clean energy resource in the U.S.
  • VICTORY! EU Shark Fin Ban Loopholes to Be Closed
    The European Union closed a final loophole in their shark fin bans, effectively making shark finning forbidden by all vessels in EU waters and by all EU-registered vessels around the world. Photo: Wikimedia Commons We’ve got some great news to share with you – The European Union (EU) agr ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Orwell’s “1984″ Sales Jump, Hope Readers Don’t ...
    Sales of George Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, have jumped as, apparently, people look for ways of thinking about the current story of Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency surveillance. The 1949 publishing date was three years from the beginnings of the NSA, in 1951. But NSA basica ...
  • The Tony Awards: I Was That Kid, Too
    WHAT TO say about the Tony Awards this past Sunday and Neil Patrick Harris, who should host the telecast for life? The dig at the movie Les Misérables was precious. …and Mike Tyson? I had the pleasure of working at Radio City Music Hall. It’s a cavernous place that when seen from the ...
  • Carl Levin Fails Military Sexual Assault Victims
    In a striking showdown between Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and a member of his own party, Mr. Levin said on Tuesday that he would remove a measure aimed at curbing sexual assault in the military from a defense spending bill. [New York Times] GIVE CARL LEVIN ...
  • Schmoozer in Chief, the JFK Model
    TAKING A page out of the JFK play book is never a bad idea, which is what President Obama did on Monday, surprising reporters with an appearance and an off-the-record chat. Media outlets reportedly were not told Obama would be in the schmooze session. Reporters who attended Monday’s session with ...
  • Dave Letterman Lampoons Obama Over NSA
    WHEN comics like Dave Letterman start making fun of your policies the subject starts to get into the bloodstream of the America conversation. John Oliver was the first to lampoon Director of National Security James Clapper, whose testimony in front of Congress has led for new calls for his firin ...

Hudson New York

  • New Iran Crisis Looming
    At a time when news headlines from the Middle East are dominated by battles in Syria, growing Sunni-Shi'ite conflict in Iraq and Lebanon, and mass disturbances in Turkey, it is easy to forget about Iran's nuclear program; but early warning indicators are
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2013
    The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. A new report states that 70% of Christians killed around the world in 2012 were killed in that African nation. Among some of the atrocities committed in March alone, at
  • The Middle Eastern Hornets' Nest
    "Islamophobia" is a word about which we have heard plenty over the last decade. It can include saying anything about Muslim behavior, Muslim scripture or Muslim history of which any Muslim anywhere disapproves. If you say that you do not think that
  • Why Does the New York Times So Hate Missile De ...
    In nearly two thousand stories and editorials since President Reagan identified missile defense as a critical new capability needed for America's security, the New York Times has rarely found anything positive to say about America's first line of defense
  • The Radicalization of Palestinians Kerry Has N ...
    The Israeli government this week barred Jibril Rajoub, a former Palestinian Authority security commander in the West Bank, from entering Israel to attend a conference organized by the left-wing Meretz party. By banning Rajoub from attending the

Urban Survival

  • Russia for Snowden?
    We were wondering yesterday about the travel options for Edward Snowden now that Hong Kong has hung out the “not welcome” sign.  I can think of several countries where he might be able to seek refuge, but all are likely … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Summer Arrives
    Although it has been an exceptionally nice spring, it’s time to admit that summer has arrived in East Texas. The good news is that in addition to being run out of the house by so many zucchini and yellow squash … Continue reading →
  • Bourne Again Leak
    Our resident war gamer, who has a pretty good handle on how the national security apparatus works, offers some penetrating insights into the Prism leak which seems to have captured national attention over the weekend.  Especially so since the self-proclaimed … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Government Beyond Review
    Our news analyst fellow up in Winnipeg makes the case (if’n you read between the lines) that our long-hypothecated Directorate 153 may be closer to reality than you might otherwise wish to believe. As you’ll recall, the core idea behind … Continue reading →
  • Job Report – Pass the Salt
    That’s because you will want to take this morning’s job report with a grain or two of salt…   “Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 175,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.6 percent, the U.S. … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • How LEED-ND standards reduce driving and assoc ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Confirming previous analysis, newly published research indicates that real estate development located, designed and built to the standards of LEED for Neighborhood Development ...
  • President's Memorandum on Transmission Corrido ...
    Carl Zichella, Director of Western Energy Transmission, San Francisco Last week President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum that should greatly improve the way transmission lines are sited, reviewed and permitted and their corridors designated ...
  • Department of Interior's own Watchdog in New R ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York The Department of Interior’s Inspector General released a scathing report today on the way Interior (DOI) sells taxpayer-owned coal to big coal companies at cut-rate prices. Most of the ...
  • Data indicate water pollution from shale gas o ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences investigated the potential impacts to surface water quality from shale gas development. The researchers use ...
  • Monitoring Abuses by White House Office
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. This week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is holding a confirmation hearing on one of the most important White House positions you’ve ne ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Jordan wargames: Patriot batteries, F-16s and ...
    Multinational military exercise ‘Eager Lion’ has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The US brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards. The exercises will last for 12 days, bringing t ...
  • Bilderberg conspiracies are ‘absolute nonsense’
    Ken Clarke today dismissed conspiracy theories  about the secretive Bilderberg Group conference as ‘absolute nonsense’. And in a thinly-veiled swipe at Commons Speaker John Bercow, he said he could not believe he had been dragged to the Commons to comment on an event held by a privat ...
  • US nuclear bombs ‘based in Netherlands’ – ex-D ...
    Some 22 US nuclear weapons are stored on Dutch territory, says former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. Mr Lubbers, a centre-right prime minister from 1982-94, said they were stored underground in strong-rooms at the Volkel air base in Brabant. He made the revelation in a documentary for Nation ...
  • Internet monitoring system to stalk social med ...
    (NaturalNews) If you post articles to your Facebook wall that warn others about the dangers of vaccines, or Tweet links to the latest studies tying vaccines to autism through Twitter, the vaccine pushers of the world could soon know about it in real time. According to new reports, Bill & Mel ...
  • US Marines deployed along Jordan border with Syria
    US Marines have been deployed along Jordan’s border with Syria as the Syrian army inflicts heavy losses on foreign-backed militants, Israeli media reports say. Source.  

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Comedy night benefit for Beyond Zero Radio
    In this federal election year, we are asking you to make a donation that matters! Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers run two weekly programs on Community Radio 3CR. Proceeds from this comedy fundraiser will go to 3CR's annual Radiothon, to keep our shows and our station on air. This fun night ...
  • Beyond Zero Radio Comedy Fundraiser
                 Come along to the Beyond Zero Emissions Comedy Extravaganza featuring Beyond Zero Radio's own Matt Grantham and other top local and international comics. Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) has two weekly programs on 3CR Community Radio. All procee ...
  • National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
    This week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate change. Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The Feder ...
  • Announcing the 5x4 Hayes Lane project
    Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to be an official Project Supporter of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project. The goal of the development is to be a super energy efficient and zero carbon dwelling in the heart of the City of Melbourne. The team are looking to transform an under-used laneway into a demon ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Bachmann was right? $2 gas, with a catch
    One of Republican House member Michele Bachmann's most famous and controversial campaign promises — that Americans would see $2-a-gallon gasoline prices if she were elected president — may have come true without her even winning the nomination. Only not in the way she expected.
  • Syrian bald ibis may be down to a single bird
    The eastern population of northern bald ibises (Geronticus eremita) has likely fallen to a single breeding bird, reports conservationists monitoring the dwindling flock. The population had believed to be obliterated starting from 1989 until a small group was discovered in 2002 in Syria. However, ...
  • Ocean acidification pushing young oysters into ...
    Scientists have long known that ocean acidification is leading to a decline in Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) in the U.S.'s Pacific Northwest region, but a new study in the American Geophysical Union shows exactly how the change is undercutting populations of these economically-important mol ...
  • Poisonous jellyfish on the rise in the Mediter ...
    Scientists across the Mediterranean say a surge in the number of jellyfish this year threatens not just the biodiversity of one of the world's most overfished seas but also the health of tens of thousands of summer tourists.
  • Conserving the long-neglected freshwater fish ...
    Borneo is a vast tropical island known for orangutans, rhinos, elephants, sun bears, proboscis monkeys, hornbills, and ubiquitous leeches. Conservationists have championed all of these species (aside from the leeches) in one way or another, but like many tropical regions Borneo's freshwater spec ...

Sierra Express

  • Massive Deforestation in Selenga – Paramount C ...
    Paramount Chief of Selenga Chiefdom, Desmond Kagobai, has raised concern over the rampant illegal deforestation in his chiefdom, a situation which, he said, keeps worrying him. Raising the concern during an exclusive interview with Sierra Express Media in the chiefdom headquarter, Dambala, Chief ...
  • Time for Rolling Boulders
    During the rainy season last year, a giant boulder rolled through a shack at Congo Town in Freetown and massacred four people. For the past years, the rainy season in especially Freetown has been characterized by rampant reports of rain disasters particularly in the slum areas like Kroo Bay whic ...
  • Welcoming Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed to Si ...
    His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia visited the small West African State of Sierra Leone on 10th June, 2013, following his recent invitation by Sierra Leone’s President, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma. (Photo: l-r HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin ...
  • Parliamentary Committee Lambasts Education Min ...
    The Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Education has expressed grave concern over the deplorable and progressively retrogressing standard of education now plaguing this republic, blaming the precarious situation on the gross inefficiency of the Education Ministry. In the committee room in parl ...
  • Principal in Embezzlement Scam
    The Principal of the Methodist Senior Secondary School in Kenema, Vandi Tarawalie, is reported to have embezzled over Le20 million meant for the refund of the girl child school fees. During an interview with this reporter in his office, Mr. Tarawalie admitted that he did not refund the girl chil ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra confirms $7 milk price
    Fonterra said it had confirmed $7.00 per kg of milksolids as the set price for its pilot guaranteed milk price scheme.The set price is the same as Fonterra's opening milk price forecast for the current season.The pilot scheme...
  • Liam Dann: Govt too slow on China dairy concerns
    Food safety is the hottest of issues for the Chinese public and there is a great deal of pressure on the Government to show the food scandals of the past few years are behind it. Last week I wrote that there was a sense in which New...
  • Aussie biggest NZ investor
    Widespread fears of a flood of Asian investment and a Chinese farm-buying spree are misplaced - Australia is the largest overseas investor in New Zealand.A new KPMG analysis of foreign investment from July 2010 to December last...
  • Ministry works to allay Chinese concerns
    The Ministry for Primary Industries says it's working on a number of initiatives aimed at addressing concerns in China about the rapid rise in the number of New Zealand infant formula brands available to Chinese consumers.The statement,...
  • NZ infant formula status at risk, say big players
    New Zealand's reputation for high quality infant formula is being jeopardised by inexperienced companies looking to cash in on booming Chinese demand, a high-powered industry group says.The

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Scott Shackford on Huffington Post Live at 5:3 ...
    Tune in this evening to hear me defend parents’ rights to force changes upon public schools in a lively discussion at Huffington Post Live. Here’s the way the Huffington Post describes parent-trigger laws: Letting parents take greater control over failing schools sounds like an ea ...
  • Government Snooping is Not the Same as Targeti ...
    Ayn Rand long understood something that more economistic, utilitarian, just-the-facts libertarian thinkers missed, to their detriment: that there is something weirder and darker underlying anti-liberty, anti-market sentiment than just a belief that the state makes life better. There ...
  • Police Sic Dog on the Wrong Guy, Hang Around f ...
    It's simply not fair to say that police-canine encounters always end with the use of a weapon against the dog. Sometimes, the police use the dog as a weapon against people — innocent people. That seems to be the case in the matter of Daniel Rodriguez of Contra Costa County, Californi ...
  • Appeals Court Seems Skeptical of Bloomberg's B ...
    Today a lawyer seeking reinstatement of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's big beverage ban faced a barrage of skeptical questions from a state appeals court panel. The widely ridiculed rule, which never took effect, would have imposed a 16-ounce limit on servings of certain sugar ...
  • Boston Bombing Paranoia Nostalgia: Boston Real ...
    The details of this truth is stranger than fiction and fiction often stumbles on truth story were in Boston Globe last week though I didn't come across them til today: The scenario had been carefully planned: A terrorist group prepared to hurt vast numbers of people around Boston ...

Mercury Rising

  • GOP-Run Wisconsin State Lege Wants To Kill Rea ...
    Why? Because reality has a well-known liberal bias. From Nieman Journalism Lab: This week, a legislative committee approved a measure that would not only evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices on the University of Wisconsin campus, but also bar any university st ...
  • My nominee for presidential medal of freedom: ...
    Via Marcy Wheeler, the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks on the record with Glenn Greenwald. Snowden is speaking from Hong Kong. Just amazing. ____ Added: Excerpts here. Booz Allen Hamilton, Snowden’s employer, is a Carlyle subsidiary. A full biography here. A full analysis of Booz A ...
  • Sensenbrenner Hides His Role In Creating The S ...
    “Tex” Sensenbrenner’s been caught yet again — this time by Marcy Wheeler: To hide his role in championing the use of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act to collect of Americans’ phone data and other “tangible things”, one of the architects of that legisla ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Noted with boredom: the smoking gun on the wir ...
    Not that we shouldn’t be shocked and angry. So, DemocracyNow covered the story in 2005, and I quoted them here: The NSA, on the other hand, does it wholesale, where they take entire streams of communications coming down from satellites, which can contain millions of communications… S ...

Reality Sandwich

  • So, You Wanna Do Aya?
    So, You Wanna Do Ayahuasca? read more
  • Teaching Truly: Introducing Indigenous Worldvi ...
    I think we’re on the brink of disaster on many fronts. I believe that Native people can help push us back away from that brink.—N. SCOTT MOMADAY, KIOWA read more
  • How to Grow Plastic
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  • Rooftop Agriculture: What's in it for Me?
    The following is excerpted from Eat Up: The Inside Scoop on Rooftop Agriculture, recently published by New Society Publishers.  read more
  • Plant Human Connection
    Dan Schreiber is the creator and creative director of Starseed Gardens Nursery and Teahouse, a space dedicated to showcasing harmonic relationships between plants and humans and alternative biotechnologies. His work with organic plant growth enhancers is on the cutting edge of increasing plant ...

Desertification

  • Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record High in 2012
    Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new record, according to data released Monday. The findings, from the International Energy Agency (IEA), come just weeks after scientists in Hawaii recorded carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere higher than 400 parts p ...
  • Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
    Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík. And a big part of reversing soil decline is carbon, the same element that is overheating the planet. “Keeping and putti ...
  • Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangl ...
    Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh’s arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of rea ...
  • Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
    Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activis ...
  • Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
    As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed up with ...

Blogging Canadians

  • We have to care about Hamilton’s history
    I lived at home during my undergrad days. The HSR became my best friend, shuttling me from campus to home with a slight downtown detour with…
  • "Emperor" Erdogan doing what Muslim dictators ...
    People are being arrested for using Twitter to spread "untrue information" according to the regime. ....Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 25 people for "spreading untrue information" on social media and provoking protests. The Anadolu Agency says Wednesday the peop ...
  • Canada's Bank CEO's Are Among Highest Paid .. ...
    "Canadian bankers were among some of the highest-paid banking executives in North America last year, with three in the top 10, according to a new list compiled by Bloomberg Markets magazine. In all, six Canadian bank CEOs were in the top 20." CBC  "Canada's biggest banks accepted ten ...
  • Chair of Toronto Catholic School Board Tries t ...
    Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the Catholic school system, they find a way to further disgust you. The Toronto trustees are preparing to vote on a motion tomorrow to replace the government-mandated Gay-Straight Alliances with the Archdiocese’s Catholic alternative called ...
  • Detroit’s amazing urban farms help build community
    When I ran for the Presidency of the McMaster Student Union, one of the platform points I was most passionate about was one concerning the creation…

Press TV - Middle East

  • Turkish lawyers protest in Ankara
    Lawyers have taken to the streets in the Turkish capital Ankara to protest the arrest of their colleagues in a harsh police crackdown.
  • ‘Palestine plight a top priority for Iran’
    A senior Iranian official says the issue of Palestine has been among Iran’s top priorities since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
  • UN boss concerned over violence in Iraq
    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the outbreak of deadly violence in Iraq, calling for dialogue among all Iraqi political groups to address the current critical situation in the country.
  • Syrian Army must be stopped: France
    French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says the Syrian Army’s advance towards the strategic northern town of Aleppo must be halted.
  • 120 gunmen killed near Syria’s Aleppo
    At least 120 gunmen have been killed in clashes near the Syrian city of Aleppo as the country's army makes fresh advances in the strategic city.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Educational Attainment, Occupations, & Work-Li ...
  • CUNY TV Goes Digital
    New Yorkers on the small screen! CUNY TV premieres several new shows on digital channel 25.3 this week. Based on the trailer there is something for everyone. Which one will you tune in to watch? Incredible Indies, Asian American Life, Surviving the Recession, or Arts in the City?
  • Much Needed Advice From Academic Advisors
    As we enter our second week of the Summer 2013 Term, many of us have busy schedules that can range from working full time and taking classes, working part time and taking care of children, or a combination of both scenarios. By this time many students reflect on their time management skills and ...
  • A Bus Party!
    The BLK ProjeK is having a bus party!
  • Student Success Stories
    Christina Boryk has taken the position of Associate Director, Healthcare Transformation Project with Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She will combine her interests in health care, training and adult learning to help develop activities to improve the quality o ...

Dissident Voice

  • Why Did Edward Snowden Go to Hong Kong?
    A lot of people in the US media are asking why America’s most famous whistleblower, 29-year old Edward Snowden, hied himself off to the city state of Hong Kong, a wholly owned subsidiary of the People’s Republic of China, to seek at least temporary refuge. Hong Kong has an extraditio ...
  • The Work Only You Can Do
    The cards are shuffled the cards you’re dealt are approximately random tho there is a near infinitude of subtle factors beyond our comprehension influencing every outcome every hand random is close enough except that some have advantages great or small &, in proportion some have disadvantage ...
  • The Coders Are the New Normal — Putting ...
    Accountable only to the bottom-line of profitability, corporate culture and its growing influence in American life has signaled a radical shift in both the notion of public culture and what constitutes the meaning of citizenship and the defense of the public good.  – Henry Giroux I will in ...
  • Remembering A Fire-Breather
    Richard Gregory (“Richie”) Phillips, former general counsel and executive director of the MLUA (Major League Umpires Association) from 1978 to 1999, died May 31, 2013. He was 72. To describe Phillips as a “hard-nosed negotiator” doesn’t really do him justice. His extremely confrontational style ...
  • Turkey’s Tree Revolution
    A new vision has dawned in Turkey. ‘The protection of the human rights of all citizens and the active participation of the people in politics and civic life’ are the driving tenets of any democracy. It is only fair for citizens to demand dignity and respect if their voices are not heard. What be ...

Nick Turse

  • pulitzercenter:“Think of it like this. We h ...
    pulitzercenter: “Think of it like this. We have an unemployment rate in this community that has been estimated up to 80 percent. There is no work. You live in poverty, and suddenly there is the hope of getting a monthly income via the disability grant. I’ve heard it described to me as winning ...
  • In this March 19, 1964 photo, one of several s ...
    In this March 19, 1964 photo, one of several shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas which earned him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces ...
  • killanythingthatmoves:U.S. Marine wields a f ...
    killanythingthatmoves: U.S. Marine wields a flame thrower during Operation New Castle, 03/26/1967. Photo courtesy of NARA, Records of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1775 - onward. Buy the book: Also available as an ebook:
  • "When I remember the world I grew up in, I see ...
    “When I remember the world I grew up in, I see the parts of it that were Paradise — and...
  • Lashkar Gah Prison Holds Incarcerated Insurgen ...
    Lashkar Gah Prison Holds Incarcerated Insurgents 11/30/2012 Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan Inmates from the criminal wing of the Lashkar Gah prison—many of them incarcerated for crimes like kidnapping and charges related to the opium trade, waited in line to use NDS-monitored phones ...

Sources

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
    Khadija Komboani’s nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania’s Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. And until recently, the 36-year-old mother of 12 from Nungwi village in Unguja on the northernmost part of Zanzibar, spent most of her day walking to her nearest ...
  • Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious R ...
    The struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism’s most revered site and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as “Women of the Wall” prayed legally and in a way they saw fit. For 24 years, the Women o ...
  • Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel S ...
    The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag’s apartment in one of Cairo’s poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building. Constructed ...
  • Globe Less Peaceful Than Five Years Ago – Report
    The world – especially the Greater Middle East – has become less peaceful than it was five years ago, according to the 2013 edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) released here Tuesday by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP). Consistent with that trend, the Index also foun ...
  • U.S. Regulatory System “Stymied by Special Int ...
    A broad-based alliance of public interest and other groups is warning that years of attacks by business interests has made the U.S. regulatory so inefficient that public safety is being put at risk. The groups, under the umbrella of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS), are urging the Whi ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • America’s Failed Syria Strategy
    Summary: U.S. support for the Syrian opposition was about two things. One was to use the opposition to bring down the Assad government, to (in their calculation) damage Iran’s regional position. Secondly, it was about coopting the Arab Awakening: to show that after the loss of pro-Western ...
  • Iran has a right to peaceful nuclear enrichment
    Summary: The campaign to elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor as Iranian president is well under way. The eight candidates took part in a TV debate on cultural policies yesterday, with a further debate scheduled before the vote takes place on 14 June. source: The Guardianread more
  • The Self-Defeating Dynamics of American Hegemo ...
    Summary: Our experience in the U.S. government—running from roughly the period of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s until March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, when we left our positions at the White House on the National Security Council staff—effectively spanned the high-water m ...
  • Former Canadian ambassador to Iran: Canadian F ...
    Summary: John Mundy, the last Canadian ambassador to Iran, writes that the Canadian Foreign Minister Baird's hawkish position on Iran has prevented real solutions from being considered, and notes that Iran had already accepted many of the demands placed on its nuclear program source: Iran ...
  • Print What Message New US Sanctions Are Meant ...
    Summary: The United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Relations passed a bill on May 22, 2013, which has paved the way for the US President Barak Obama to enforce new sanctions against all companies conducting transactions with Iran regardless of the type of their transact ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Saturn Can Vibrate Like a Bell" --Creating Sp ...
                      Saturn can vibrate like a bell within periods of a few hours, and these oscillations cause gravitational tugs that, in turn, create the spiral patterns in the rings. The cause of the vibrations remains unknown. Researchers at Cornell found the density waves propagat ...
  • New Unknown Type of Star Discovered
                             A Swiss team from the famous Geneva Observatory has achieved extraordinary precision using a comparatively small 1.2-metre telescope for an observing programme stretching over many years. They have discovered a new class of variable stars by measuring minute ...
  • The "Ocean Moon" --Future Submersible Missions ...
                    Jupiter's Europa might not only sustain, but foster life, according to the research of University of Arizona's Richard Greenberg, a professor of planetary sciences and member of the Imaging Team for NASA's Galileo Jupiter-orbiter spacecraft. The deepest ocean on Earth is ...
  • "Anapole Dark Matter" --New Theory Explains Wh ...
                  "Most models for dark matter assume that it interacts through exotic forces that we do not encounter in everyday life. Anapole dark matter makes use of ordinary electromagnetism that you learned about in school – the same force that makes magnets stick to your refrigerator ...
  • Image of the Day: Sculptor Galaxy's Black Hole ...
                    Nearly a decade ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), which sees higher-energy X-ray light, has ta ...

Natural News

  • GMO feed turns pig stomachs to mush! Shocking ...
    If you have stomach problems or gastrointestinal problems, a new study led by Dr. Judy Carman may help explain why: pigs fed a diet of genetically engineered soy and corn showed a 267% increase in severe stomach inflammation compared to those fed non-GMO diets. In males...
  • Senator Al Franken: from SNL spoofer to NSA su ...
    (NaturalNews)Al used to be a funny guy. Now, he's not. Make no mistake about it, if Bush were president at the moment, Little Al would be attacking him mercilessly. But with Obama in the White House, Al sings a different tune. The NSA spyi ...
  • Acupuncture reduces anxiety for IVF patients: ...
    Although dealing with invasive fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) can be highly stressful, acupuncture is a simple, risk-free way to help alleviate this burden. Significantly, acupuncture may also help boost fertility and increase the success rate...
  • Mediterranean diet shown to improve brain agin ...
    A significant number of people believe that memory loss, inability to learn new concepts and the risk for vascular dementia (mini strokes leading to cognitive impairment) are a natural part of aging. Nothing could be further from the truth. As a society we are so conditioned...
  • Nanny state control freak Bloomberg declares m ...
    Mr. Nanny State himself, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is at it again, making ridiculous statements about subjects in which he knows next to nothing about. This time, the subject is medical marijuana, and the anointed one says there are no medical benefits from its...

Threat Level

  • Connecting the Dots on PRISM, Phone Surveillan ...
    Physically, the NSA has always been well protected by miles of high fences and electrified wire, thousands of cameras, and gun-toting guards. But that was to protect the agency from those on the outside trying to get in to steal ...
  • Google’s Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP
    Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer data court-authorized data to the government, a company spokesman says. Instead the company transmits the data to the feds via ...
  • ACLU Sues NSA Over Mass Phone Spying
    A second lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSA's dragnet phone surveillance program was lodged today in a New York federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union, calling the spying "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by ...
  • Lawmakers Seek Declassification of Secret Spy ...
    A bi-partisan group of senators proposed legislation today that seeks to declassify certain rulings from a secret spy court that is at the center of a firestorm over one of its leaked rulings requiring Verizon to turn over calling records ...
  • Defense Department Orders Employees, Contracto ...
    The Department of Defense is instructing its employees and contractors not seek out or download classified material from the public domain that was leaked last week to the Guardian and Washington Post that detailed a massive, covert and government-run ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Press, Polls Wrongly Conflate Bush and Obama N ...
    In the wake of the twin revelations about the National Security Agency's dragnet of phone calls and online activity, polling suggests that a majority of Americans apparently remain comfortable with their civil liberties being compromised in the cause of preventing terror attacks. Probably just ...
  • S&P Raises U.S. Outlook, Warns GOP on Debt Ceiling
    In recent week, a growing consensus of economists, analysts and political leaders has called for an end to U.S. fiscal austerity. Even as the influential Reinhart-Rogoff high-debt/low-growth thesis was being shredded, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) slashed its FY 2013 deficit forecast by ...
  • How Arrested Development Explains the Republic ...
    The arrival of season four of Arrested Development on Netflix may have been one of the most hyped developments in entertainment in recent years. But whether you loved it or hated it--or just didn't care--it's hard to dispute the lasting impact of the show. As Ben Yagodo explained in Slate, the ...
  • The Red-Blue Health Care Gap After Obamacare
    From the beginning, the defining irony of the never-ending debate over Obamacare has been this: health care is worst in those states where Republicans poll best. That is, the map of the states with the worst health care systems largely mirrors GOP strongholds in the Electoral College. Red state ...
  • Rubio, Like McCain, Pledges to Vote Against Hi ...
    It is said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. But when it comes to Republican presidential frontrunners and comprehensive immigration reform, the results appear to be all farce, all the time. After all, in 2008 a John McCain desperate to win over xenophobic ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Supermoon 2013 — Super Moon Occurring On June ...
    The biggest, brightest Moon of the year is almost here. On June 23, 2013, a Supermoon will be occurring. What that means is that the Moon will be closer to the Earth than at any other time during the year — in fact, the upcoming Super Moon will be the closest encounter between the Earth an ...
  • 10,000 Jobs Could Be Created By Recycling In UK
    A report jointly produced by the Environmental Services Association and Waste and Resources Action Programme has found that 10,000 jobs could be generated by the UK recycling industry. One of the main areas for potential recycling and reuse is the electronics industry, because an estimated 12 mi ...
  • Dark Matter Explained By Very Simple Theory? P ...
    Is dark matter simply a type of particle that is endowed with a rare form of electromagnetism? That very-simple theory may do a much better job of explaining what dark matter actually is than any previous proposals, according to new research. The theory proposes that the majority of the matter i ...
  • 700-Pound Snake — Giant Snake Found In North C ...
    Was a giant 700-pound snake recently killed in Proctor, North Carolina? Two photographs showing what appear to be absolutely enormous snakes are currently going viral — both images feature captions stating that the snakes in question are: over 700 lbs, 98 feet long, man-killers, found in N ...
  • Saturn’s Moon Dione May Possess Subsurface Ocean
    Saturn’s moon Dione may possess a subsurface ocean, one which may have at one time been geologically active, new images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggest. The new images are of Dione’s rather strange 500-mile-long mountain — Janiculum Dorsa. After analysis by ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Guardian Needs To Do Some Vetting Here
    By @TomBales1  Before I make any hard fast judgments about this young Snowden fella that I won't be able to walk back later should I prove to be wrong, I want to know one thing.  What was the relationship between he and Glenn Greenwald prior to Mr. Snowden's employment by BAH because based ...
  • A modern application of an old idea
    By @BginKC A few years ago I was the leader of a study group for a Criminal Justice class on the history of the penal system. One session sticks out in my mind because in it I used the current surveillance state as an analogy to help them grasp the concept of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison d ...
  • "Conservative Reformers" Face Steep Climb
    By @TedFrier Okay, I admit it. I am obsessed with the Republican Party and its transformation into a vessel for a right wing movement that, by my reading of history, rejects democracy in favor of some form of authoritarian "freedom" that represents the worldview of reactionary conservatives, and ...
  • It's Critics of Food Stamps Who Are "Corrupt"
    By @TedFrier Jeff Jacoby's screed against welfare and food stamps is bad on so many levels. "Is welfare corrupt?" the conservative columnist asks in this morning's Boston Globe. "Of course it is." Jacoby's hook for this sweeping claim is a recent report from the Massachusetts state auditor show ...
  • Obama, Reagan And The GOP Double Standard
    An old joke: Ronnie and Nancy are back in Southern California, at their favorite restaurant on Rodeo Drive. The waiter asks for Nancy's selection. "I'll have the filet mignon," she tells him. The waiter asks, "What about the vegetable?" Nancy quickly replies, "Oh, he'll have the same." Groan! I ...

Care 2

  • Commend Worlds Largest Coal Company for Turnin ...
    Congratulate the worlds largest coal company on going solar Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Open Thread - 6/12/2013
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • One in three Americans are now poor, sapping o ...
    The flood of poor people in this Land of Plenty is being swollen by turbulent economic waters sweeping millions of Americans downstream from the middle class. Submitted by Arielle S. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Could This be Hillarygate?
    See 1st comment. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Archaeologists Say 400 Animal Species Were Off ...
    Mexican archaeologists have identified more than 400 animal species in some 60 offerings made to the gods at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, including molluscs, fish, birds, reptiles and mammals, the National Institute of Anthropology Submitted by Marty Powell to Science &amp ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Top Secret Hysteria
    Watching the parade of politicians and pundits condemning NSA “whistleblower”, Edward Snowden, as a traitor who should be charged with treason is both amusing and disturbing. I am amused in the same way that a smile crosses my face while watching the classic scene from CASABLANCA, Po ...
  • Whistleblower Outs Self
    Edward Snowden is now the man. Good and bad. He is the man pulling back the curtain on the National Security Agency and he is driving the neocons and those who favor giving Government all power over you absolutely nuts. I encourage you to go to the Guardian website and watch the video and full [...]
  • Barack Obama’s Surveillance Delusions
    Trust Barack Obama? Are you kidding me? Is this a joke? Well, let me see. . .are there any reasons we should not trust you? Let me count the ways: 1. Fast and Furious–Obama claims he was ignorant of a scheme cooked up in the Department of Justice to run weapons into Mexico, which were [...]
  • Shame on the Fascists
    Some Republicans and Democrats are fascists. They do not give a damn about the Constitution and use the pervasive threat of fear to justify giving the Federal Government unlimited power to pry into your life. The despicable, loathsome members of Congress–McCain, Graham, Mike Rodgers and Di ...
  • Some Republican Hypocrisy Meets Some Democrat ...
    Remember the good old days when that evil genius, George W. Bush, was savaging our civil liberties and Democrats were in an uproar? I was reminded of this golden age last night while watching a re-run of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911. We learned last night, courtesy of Gleen Greenwald, th ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Abigail Savitch-Lew | - City Limits
    Abigail Savitch-Lew | City Limits Her creative writing and journalism explores political, environmental, and social issues such as racism, classism, and mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Three of her short stories have been published, including “The Eunuch” in The Best ...
  • Shareholder Vote a Loud Signal to Va. Utility ...
    Bloomberg Shareholder Vote a Loud Signal to Va. Utility on Climate Concerns Bloomberg The second urged Dominion to write a report about how the company could end its use of coal produced through mountaintop removal mining. The third proposal—which was filed by Amundsen—sought to make sustainabil ...
  • Erin Brockovich DUI: Activist Faces Misdemeano ...
    Erin Brockovich DUI: Activist Faces Misdemeanor Charge Of Operating A Boat ... Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. Time to Learn Mandarin? - theTrumpet.com
    Time to Learn Mandarin? theTrumpet.com Another Chinese firm came under fire in March for using a “mountaintop removal” technique of coal mining in eastern Tennessee. The company spent $616 million to acquire the U.S. coal company—marking the first acquisition of American coal assets by any ... ...
  • Patriot Bankruptcy Puts Retired Miners in Life ...
    Patriot Bankruptcy Puts Retired Miners in Life and Death Struggle Huffington Post In what now, in hindsight, was clearly a brazen act of corporate greed, Peabody left Patriot holding the bag for two of its biggest legacy responsibilities - its unionized workforce, and mountaintop removal coal mi ...

Memeorandum

  • Man Details Risks in Exposing China's Forced L ...
    Andrew Jacobs / New York Times: Man Details Risks in Exposing China's Forced Labor  —  MASANJIA, China — The cry for help, a neatly folded letter stuffed inside a package of Halloween decorations sold at Kmart, traveled 5,000 miles from China into the hands of a mother of ...
  • Lawmakers say NSA briefing didn't address priv ...
    Jeremy Herb / The Hill: Lawmakers say NSA briefing didn't address privacy concerns  —  Lawmakers concerns over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs were not alleviated after the full House received a briefing on the programs Tuesday.  —  Lawmakers ...
  • Remarks by the President on Immigration Reform ...
    The White House: Remarks by the President on Immigration Reform  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody.  Welcome to the White House.  It is a pleasure to have so many distinguished Americans today from so many different walks of life.  We've got Democrats and ...
  • Patrick Leahy files gay couples amendment (Seu ...
    Seung Min Kim / Politico: Patrick Leahy files gay couples amendment  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy is trying again on immigration and gay rights.  —  The Vermont Democrat filed an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill on Tuesday t ...
  • The Mystery and the Agony of the New York Time ...
    The Atlantic Wire: The Mystery and the Agony of the New York Times' Juicy Anthony Weiner Story  —  What does The New York Times have on Anthony Weiner that they aren't ready to tell the rest of the world yet?  Probably the first extensive interviews with the women he sexted ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, north of Ascension Island
    Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:58:37 UTC Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:58:37 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.30 km (6.40 mi)
  • M 5.2, Vanuatu
    Tuesday, June 11, 2013 19:12:54 UTC Wednesday, June 12, 2013 06:12:54 AM at epicenterDepth: 73.50 km (45.67 mi)
  • M 5.1, Antofagasta, Chile
    Tuesday, June 11, 2013 09:37:05 UTC Tuesday, June 11, 2013 05:37:05 AM at epicenterDepth: 103.70 km (64.44 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Monday, June 10, 2013 22:29:00 UTC Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:29:00 AM at epicenterDepth: 6.40 km (3.98 mi)
  • M 5.6, Northern Territory, Australia
    Sunday, June 9, 2013 14:22:13 UTC Sunday, June 9, 2013 11:52:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 3.90 km (2.42 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 邻避运动如&#2030 ...
    2012 年接连发生的几场环境群体事件，让邻避运动成为无可回避的社会现象。霍伟亚根&#2 ...
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    生活在中国城市的数亿人口，有一半饮用着不合格的自来水。撰写这篇报道的宫靖和 ...
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    中国大量有毒的土地被开发为住宅区，甚至是高档的住宅。但居民对此一无所知。高 ...
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    世界上能够使用清洁厕所的人远不如人们从前认为的那样多，这已经给公共健康和环 ...
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    中德这两个截然不同的城市，是否能携手找到应对气候变化挑战的解决方案？乍看起 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Last Week in Poverty: Denying a Head Start in ...
    To get a sense of just how foolish and shortsighted the $85 billion across-the-board sequester cuts are, you don’t have to look any further than Washington's Head Start program. The following article first appeared on the Nation.com. For more great content from the Nation, sign up ...
  • Why Libertarians Are Basically Cult Members
    Simply note libertarianism's fatal flaw and you'll get an enraged, hysterical response. They still don't get it My previous Salon essay, in which I asked why there are not any libertarian countries, if libertarianism is a sound political philosophy, has infuriated memb ...
  • It's High Time We Abolished the Department of ...
    It's the path to national sanity. The surveillance state is even bigger, and scarier, than we thought.And, as a result, it's time that we broke up the failed national security experiment known as the Department of Homeland Security. Returning to dozens of independent agencies will return ...
  • Enough of These Comic Book Hero Movies -- It's ...
    Superman is a big warning that Hollywood needs a break from superhero movies. Twenty years ago, after appearing in two phenomenally successful, visually opulent and generally brilliant Batman movies, Michael Keatondecided he didn't want to make any more Caped Crusader films. So he wa ...
  • Court Officer Sexually Assaults Woman in Court ...
    The Clark County family court is under heavy scrutiny after a video showed a woman who said she was sexually assaulted being arrested. Employees from Clark County family court in Nevada are under investigation for covering up an alleged sexual assault by a court officer, according to KLAS-TV, ...

Threat Level

  • Connecting the Dots on PRISM, Phone Surveillan ...
    Physically, the NSA has always been well protected by miles of high fences and electrified wire, thousands of cameras, and gun-toting guards. But that was to protect the agency from those on the outside trying to get in to steal ...
  • Google’s Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP
    Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer data court-authorized data to the government, a company spokesman says. Instead the company transmits the data to the feds via ...
  • ACLU Sues NSA Over Mass Phone Spying
    A second lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSA's dragnet phone surveillance program was lodged today in a New York federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union, calling the spying "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by ...
  • Lawmakers Seek Declassification of Secret Spy ...
    A bi-partisan group of senators proposed legislation today that seeks to declassify certain rulings from a secret spy court that is at the center of a firestorm over one of its leaked rulings requiring Verizon to turn over calling records ...
  • Defense Department Orders Employees, Contracto ...
    The Department of Defense is instructing its employees and contractors not seek out or download classified material from the public domain that was leaked last week to the Guardian and Washington Post that detailed a massive, covert and government-run ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • 87 Now Sickened By Townsend Farms Hepatitis A ...
    As of June 10, 2013, 87 people with acute hepatitis A infections that may be linked with consumption of a contaminated product have been reported by eight states: Arizona, California... Continue Reading
  • Townsend Farms: a way to be responsible and ge ...
    Townsend Farms, Inc. 23400 NE Townsend Way Fairview, OR  97024 As you are aware, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has linked 79 hepatitis A illnesses in 8... Continue Reading
  • Townsend Farms now Linked to 79 with Hepatitis ...
    On June 3, 2013, Townsend Farms, Inc. of Fairview, Oregon voluntarily recalled certain lots of its frozen Organic Antioxidant Blend because it has the potential to be contaminated with hepatitis... Continue Reading
  • With over 300,000 packages of Townsend Farms O ...
    Costco sold over 300,000 packages of Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend that have been linked to hepatitis A illnesses.  Harris Teeter sold a relatively small quantity of the blend and... Continue Reading
  • Raw Milk Vetoed in Nevada – Too Much of a Gamble
    Raw milk from Nye County’s Amargosa Valley won’t be showing up on store shelves in Las Vegas anytime soon. Existing law confines the sale of certified raw milk to the... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | The Pasto and the Anti-Pasto ...
    By Visible It’s coming. It’s definitely on the way. We don’t know what it is or what it will look like. We don’t know much, that’s for sure. We do know more than our leaders however, at least some of us do. Some of us know that the creeps and cretins in (snicker) el ...
  • Colorado secede? Counties weigh exit plan to f ...
    By Mark Trumbull | Christian Science Monitor – Sat, Jun 8, 2013 In this photo taken May 24, 2013, a large sign posted at the entrance of Paradise Firearms in Colorado Springs, Colo., invites customers to sign a recall petition against Colorado Democratic State Senate President John Morse. I ...
  • Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Fast ...
    by Dr. Susan Berry As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject publi ...
  • Second Colorado Senator recall Election underw ...
    by Max Slowik Colorado voters in Pueblo have gathered enough signatures to start a recall vote of Democratic Sen. Angela Giron following her support of the unpopular gun laws recently passed in the state, including mandatory background check on all firearm transfers as well as magazine capacity ...
  • Boulder woman disturbed by police policy to en ...
    By Joe Rubino Camera Staff Writer Posted: 06/09/2013 03:00:00 PM MDT Boulder residents who intentionally leave their doors open, may unintentionally be inviting a Boulder police officer in for a visit. Chrissy Smiley learned this fact in surprising fashion on Thursday afternoon when she returned ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Compare our New America to the America-that-on ...
    Summary: We made a compact with ourselves when creating the United States, ratified by elected officials to show consent of the governed for so long as the Constitution lived. Many considered this a bold act, one with few if any precedents. But our forefathers successfully fought to defend the R ...
  • What they mean when the government says &#8220 ...
    Summary: Even the best journalists and national security experts have difficulty with technical stories like the recent NSA revelations. Today Marcus Ranum (bio) cuts through the government’s lies, explaining the truth behind the NSA’s tapping vital telephone and email communication ...
  • Our opinion leaders leap to defense of the gov ...
    Summary: Our reaction to the revelations about the NSA spying on us reveal much about America. Here we review some of the more interesting ones. See our New America in the mirror. . Contents The usual suspects defend the government against us Our best and brightest defend the government, not us ...
  • The US government spys on us because America i ...
    Forecast: Nothing will change as a result of the recent revelations about NSA spying on US citizens. There will be no substantial restrictions on its programs or slowing of its growth. This is a key moment in the birth of a New America, when we feel the harness on us — and accept it. Ameri ...
  • The NSA news might be a birthday for the New A ...
    Summary:  These are special days! The New America approaches as the Second Republic (under the Constitution) dies.  Our children are the victims. Powerful elites are the agents. We are the cause. Recent events show this to any who choose to see. . This week we learned more about the extent of th ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Glowing Pinwheel ...
    The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. The picture is composed of images taken by XMM-Newton’s Optical Monitor telescope using different filters: red ...
  • Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good ...
    A disease called coffee rust has reached epidemic proportions in Central America, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers and the morning pick-me-up of millions of coffee drinkers.
  • Stunning Life-Sized Photos Capture Close Encou ...
    Few people are lucky enough to have had a quiet underwater encounter with a whale. For the rest of us, there are photos like these: Life-size composites of sperm, humpback and minke whales, captured from less than 6 feet away. ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Fensal and Aztlan
    Although hidden from human eyes, the Cassini spacecraft can spot these dark features on the surface of Titan thanks to its special near-infrared filters. The features seen here have been dubbed "Fensal" and "Aztlan" by scientists. The dark features are ...
  • Video: Cloaking Device Makes a Cat Disappear
    Scientists in Singapore and China have crafted a cloaking device that works in natural light, and they've recorded videos of a cat and fish disappearing inside it.

PakAlert

  • Military told not to read Obama-scandal news
    President Obama has said the outrage over the federal government’s decision to monitor citizens’ phone activity is all “hype.” He might want to share his opinion with the U.S. Air Force, which is ordering members of the service not to look at news stories about it
  • BOMBSHELL: Document Examiner Tied To Obama Def ...
    Reed Hayes is a court qualified handwriting and document examiner whose business is located in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has nearly 40 years of handwriting related experience, and has worked as an international consultant and speaker. Never heard of him? Well, Hayes is the Certified Document Examiner ...
  • Obama To Ignore Senate, Sign 2nd Amendment-Vio ...
    A majority in the U.S. Senate has told President Barack Obama not to do it. There’s no doubt that an overwhelming majority of Americans would oppose it — if the media ever told them about it. Nonetheless, this past Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that Obama will sign a controversia ...
  • DHS Admits Boston Training Drill Involving Bac ...
    The Department of Homeland Security has gone public with an admission that an exercise was planned months before the Boston Marathon bombings that involved backpacks being used to detonate explosives by rogue terrorists
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    Throughout May of 2013, Southern California, home of 22 million people, received by far the most powerful daily aerosol attacks this writer has ever seen since learning of the Geoengineering issue in 2007. The sky remains whited-out and mountains ten miles away are barely visible due to toxic ch ...

Andy Worthington

  • Radio: Andy Worthington Defends Bradley Mannin ...
    Last week, as the trial of Bradley Manning finally got underway at Fort Meade in Maryland, nearly three years after the military analyst was first arrested for the biggest leak of classified documents in US history, I was asked to take part in a radio show on Voice of Russia, the radio station w ...
  • Join the Anti-Capitalist Week of Action in Lon ...
    I just have time to throw out a quick reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday June 11, there’s a Carnival Against Capitalism taking place in London’s West End, beginning at 12 noon, at the start of a week of action against the G8, which takes place on June 17-18 in Northern Ireland. There ar ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Seeking $2500 to Support ...
    Please support my work! Dear friends and supporters, Every three months, I ask you, if you can, to make a donation to support my ongoing work on Guantánamo and the 166 men still held there. All contributions are welcome, whether it’s $25, $100 or $500 — or, of course, the equivalent in pounds st ...
  • The Season of Death at Guantánamo
    Seven years ago, late in the evening on June 9, 2006, three prisoners — Ali al-Salami, a Yemeni, and Mani al-Utaybi and Yasser al-Zahrani, both Saudis — died at Guantánamo, in what was described by the authorities as a triple suicide, although that explanation seemed to be extremely ...
  • “Dirty Wars”: An Immensely Powerfu ...
    On May 13, I was privileged to be invited to a London preview of “Dirty Wars,” the new documentary film, directed by Richard Rowley and focusing on the journalist Jeremy Scahill’s investigations into America’s global “war on terrorism” — not historically ...

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Sciencebase

  • What do you do if you’ve got osteoarthritis of ...
    Film director Baz Luhrmann made a spoof graduation speech famous with his hit “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” back in 1999. At the time, I wasn’t particularly worried about the line in that track: “Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.&#8 ...
  • Say my name, say my name
    Successful companies have solid brand names we recognise wherever we are in the world and they rarely change them – Coca Cola, Microsoft, Apple, Gap. Of course, there are successful companies that do re-brand, although usually when bigger companies subsume and split them up, think Imperial ...
  • Dietary DMAA, dimethylamylamine, death
    DMAA was originally a decongestant but has been marketed as a “dietary supplement”. It’s dodgy, it seems, to say the least, and the US Food & Drug Administration does not allow its legal sale as a food supplement. Here’s what Andrey Pavlov doggedly had to say about D ...
  • Buzz blinds Dolby
    This is a major geek out, Thomas Dolby sings his classic “She Blinded Me With Science” with Buzz Aldrin taking the role of the late, great Dr Magnus Pike. Shame Aldrin fluffs it at one point and shouts “Silence”, but then other members of the crew of Apollo 11 are infamou ...
  • Drowning doesn’t look like drowning
    It’s all thrashing and screaming for help isn’t it? Well, no. Absolutely not. Drowning people cannot even reach out to grab your oustretched hand or a thrown ring let alone yell and wave their arms. I used to help lifeguard our now dry local, public swimming pool, lido, but I was nev ...

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Lifehacker

  • When Does It Make Sense to Buy Apple Hardware ...
    Dear Lifehacker, I like Apple hardware, but it doesn't run cheap and I'm not sure I want to use OS X. I know I can run Windows, but am I wasting money purchasing a Mac if I'm not using it as a Mac? When does it make sense to buy Apple hardware instead of a standard PC?Read more...  &nb ...
  • S.H.O.V.E.L. Feeds You, Cuts Things, Opens Bot ...
    S.H.O.V.E.L. is yet another multitool, but it has a distinct advantage. It sports a spork for eating, a serrated edge for cutting things, a bottle opener for opening god knows what, and six feet of paracord for whatever your heart desires. Also, it's open source and you can make it however you l ...
  • What is the downside to automatic app updates?
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    Sometimes you need to enter a long command again, or find something you typed long in the past. Sure, you can press the up and down arrows to navigate a fair amount of your history but that isn't practical when you have to search for something awhile back. Instead, just type history.Read more... ...
  • Most Popular Multitool: Leatherman Wave
    If you need to do a quick repair on the go or in your home, a trustworthy multitool is a good thing to have. Earlier this week we asked you which multitools you thought were the best. We took those nominations, highlighted the most popular multitools, and put them to a vote. Now we're back to f ...

Water Wars

  • Klamath tribes, feds call in water rights
    The historic calls come after Oregon set water rights priorities earlier this year in the basin, home to one of the nation's most persistent water wars. Drought has cut water flows in upper basin rivers to 40 percent of normal.
  • Water Wars Affecting Oyster Business
    The waging water wars is now effecting the oyster business.
  • Tri-state water wars taking a toll on Apalachi ...
    The Florida bay, which provides 10 percent of the nation's oysters, is suffering from a lack of fresh water from the Apalachicola River.
  • Coastal Voices: Dams can be removed while righ ...
    There has been much debate lately over the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and whether legislation is needed to remove the Klamath River dams and whether the KBRA terminates tribal rights. We are in the water wars together and should strive for unity. However a debate on whether tribal peopl ...
  • Drums Along the Nile
    Editor’s note: Water fights in Texas and elsewhere in the United States are gettting serious, but the furor building in Africa provides a taste of the water wars — possibly actual shooting wars — that may become a prominent feature of this century. A familiar legend says that Egypt has privately ...

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The Wonk Room

  • GOP Congressman Channels Todd Akin: ‘The Incid ...
    Despite Republican strategists’ efforts to keep GOP politicians from making insensitive comments about rape victims, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) channeled former Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) infamous “legitimate rape” comment during a committee hearing on Wednesday. Defending his ...
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    The bridge is yours. -It makes a lot of sense that Judy Blume loves Girls. -FX: aware there’s money to be made from actually appealing to Latino audiences. -Ta-Nehisi on teaching writing. -The real-life story behind the adorable Cheerios ad. -This looks totally trashy and I will watch the ...
  • Déjà Vu Fire Season Off To A Roaring Start In ...
    In Colorado, the fire season is starting to look ominously like a repeat of 2012 and a continuation of big fire years in the West. That matches models predicting climate change will usher in an era of massive, destructive wildfires. On Monday, Denver set a new record for the earliest date to eve ...
  • 4 Amendments That Could Make The House Defense ...
    Debate is set to begin on Wednesday among the full House of Representatives over if and how to amend their version of the Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Nearly 300 amendments were submit to the House Rules Committee, which polices the terms of the debate. Many of the ...
  • Federal Appeals Court Reassigns Death Penalty ...
    Last week, a coalition of civil rights organizations filed an ethics complaint against Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, alleging that she claimed “racial groups like African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime,” and that she made inap ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Violence Against Women Is No Big Deal
    That's why it's so prevalent. That's why ordinary average joes, "good guys" do it so easily. Our society (patriarchal) devalues women. I have my issues with the whole "rape is not about sex, it's about power" thesis, but I do know that rape isn't "surprise sex." Rape is meant to take something f ...
  • Busty Hookers, Cocaine, Crack Cocaine, Child P ...
    That's about the size of it. What should you expect to find with right-wing politicians? These are people who slash much-needed services for the poor, and who want to toss their fellow citizens into the cruel hands of private health insurance parasites, ... and it's all based on a "respect for t ...
  • Democracy Decays ... whatev's
    Anti-democratic sleaze-ball Dalton McGuinty presided over the deliberate deletion of government emails that detailed the costs of cancelling the gas plants and what the government knew about it. This deliberate cover-up of public information, this destruction of public information, should have b ...
  • Newspapers Routinely Slander Politicians ...
    In Right-Wing-World it is simply a given that a newspaper with a vendetta against a hero of the people will invent scandalous accusations, of, say, the Mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine with gangsters, just to pick on him and be mean and try to destroy him to protect their union-buddies and ...
  • Radiation in Space
    NASA's Mars Rover (or whatever) has done some studies or some such. The gist of it all is that there's so much radiation in space on the way over and then hitting the surface of Mars itself, that any human beings sent on a mission to Mars would die of cancer eventually. We just can't give them e ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Future of Canada’s subs in doubt
    That Sinking Feeling: A new report by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives raises questions about the future of Canada’s submarine program.
  • Arms Trade Treaty: Where’s Canada?
    The Canadian government voted in favour of the new U.N. Arms Trade Treaty in April, but it has refused to commit to signing the treaty, arguing that it needs to consult Canadians first.
  • Peacekeeping: Changes and constants
    Steve Staples and Josh Libben discuss what's changed and what hasn't over the history of U.N. peacekeeping and call on the Canadian government to once again become a significant contributor to peacekeeping missions.
  • Think carefully about the push for drones
    The Hill Times talks to Steve Staples and others about the Harper government's plan to acquire armed drones for Canada.
  • Fighters and Arctic sovereignty
    Ernie Regehr debunks the claim that fighter aircraft such as the F-35 have any significant contribution to make to Canadian security and sovereignty in the North.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-26-13
    Today, Kevin explains how there is one very unique ability that ALL successful people have. Find out what it is and if YOU have what it takes to become a part of this exclusive club! Self Help: Your Wish Is YOUR Command Lose Weight The Safe Way Improve Your Health & Vitality Give Kevin YOUR ...
  • Read this if you have EVER taken an antibiotic….
    A subject that we don’t hear a lot about anywhere is called Candida albicans, which is also known as the Candida albicans yeast infection or candida overgrowth. Let me explain this. As you know, I’ve had Dr. Jeff McCombs on the show before, a longtime friend of mine. He is the world& ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-1-13
    Today, Kevin reveals the secrets to beating the odds and making big money in gambling. Self Help: Mineral Based Make Up Change The Way You Think Make Your Dreams Come True Health: Fast Food Causes Childhood Obesity Harmful Medical Devices Causing Too Many Deaths Everything Kevin: Become An Insid ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-9-13
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FTC is monitoring this radio show! Self Help: Click Here If You’ve Ever Taken An Antibiotic Don’t Let Fear Control Your Life Delete Nutritional Deficiencies Videos: Muse – Uprising Bob Basso – We The People Stimulus Package Health: The New Hot Celebrity ...
  • Read before buying candy for your Valentine th ...
    It’s not just me folks. It’s in the news too. This headline reads… “Despite Costs, More Packaged Food Producers Replace High Fructose Corn Syrup” High fructose corn syrup is a poison. It causes illness and disease. Period. You get chemically addicted to high fructos ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • EVERY Market Is Rigged
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comEVERY Market Is Rigged By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Currency Markets Are Rigged Bloomberg reports today: Traders at some of the worlds biggest banks manipulated benchmark foreign-exchange rates used to set the v ...
  • “Metadata” Can Tell the Government More About ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com“Metadata” Can Tell the Government More About You Than the Content of Your Phonecalls By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Why Should You Care If the Government Spies On Your Metadata? The government has sou ...
  • DHS Wants Equipment For “Riot Control Situations”
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comProtective gear for FPS guards to protect government buildings Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com June 12, 2013 Image: Wikimedia Commons The Department of Homeland Security is purchasing hundreds of items of protective ...
  • Bilderberg 2013: What Did We Learn? | Think Tank
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAbby Martinyoutube.com Abby Martin speaks with filmmaker and activist, Jason Bermas, about what was learned from the latest Bilderberg summit in the UK, the growing media presence outside of the event, and the rise in cr ...
  • The Picture Is a Picture of Us
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Anthony Tarrant So my friend. A man so beloved I wish everyone in the world knew his brilliance, his depression, his humanity, compassion and crippling guilt, he sends me this ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: The Moral Order of the Country H ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad June 12, 2013 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Ring of Fire Radio Show June 11, 2013 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discusses whistleblowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden with author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Chris Hedges, on RoF Radio. Kennedy and Hedge ...
  • State Terrorism–Arbitrary Killings, Rape ...
    Warning This article may contain language depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be read by a mature audience. by Graham Peebles Writer, Dandelion Salad London June 6, 2013 The Ethiopian military and paramilitary forces, operating in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, are, ...
  • Fracking America’s Food Supply by Walter Brasch
    by Walter Brasch Writer, Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com June 7, 2013 Fracking—the process the oil and gas industry uses to extract fossil fuel as much as two miles below the ground—may directly impact the nation’s water supply, reduce water-based recreational and sports activity, and lead ...
  • Julian Assange: It’s a Vast, Sprawling, ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday Jun 11, 2013 The ex-CIA man who blew the lid off America’s vast NSA public surveillance net – is promising more explosive revelations. Edward Snowden’s supporters are mobilizing too – with tens of thousands signing a petition to pardon the whis ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Latin America-There is an Altern ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky LeftTalks Jun 8, 2013 A Message From Noam Chomsky To The Alter Summit In Greece. Recorded at the Left Forum 2013. see Noam Chomsky: The Problem for Latin America With Drugs is the US Demand, and Supply of Arms Noam Chomsky: The Dismantling of the Social Contract ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Glowing Pinwheel ...
    The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. The picture is composed of images taken by XMM-Newton’s Optical Monitor telescope using different filters: red ...
  • Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good ...
    A disease called coffee rust has reached epidemic proportions in Central America, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers and the morning pick-me-up of millions of coffee drinkers.
  • Stunning Life-Sized Photos Capture Close Encou ...
    Few people are lucky enough to have had a quiet underwater encounter with a whale. For the rest of us, there are photos like these: Life-size composites of sperm, humpback and minke whales, captured from less than 6 feet away. ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Fensal and Aztlan
    Although hidden from human eyes, the Cassini spacecraft can spot these dark features on the surface of Titan thanks to its special near-infrared filters. The features seen here have been dubbed "Fensal" and "Aztlan" by scientists. The dark features are ...
  • Video: Cloaking Device Makes a Cat Disappear
    Scientists in Singapore and China have crafted a cloaking device that works in natural light, and they've recorded videos of a cat and fish disappearing inside it.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Construction of new West Bank settlement proje ...
    Despite the 2011 tent protests, house construction has actually decreased over the last year in Israel. At the same time, the West Bank registered a national high in new construction projects for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The return to Iqrit
    In 1948, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from more than 400 villages as the new state of Israel was declared on a large part of their homeland – an event known to Palestinians as the nakba,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Julia Amalia Heyer: Racist attacks on Arabs in ...
    Youths attacked an Arab cleaning man working for the city of Tel Aviv as he was emptying garbage cans. They broke a bottle over his head. The man, covered with blood, asked them why they were doing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • New Israeli plan calls for more “intelligence” ...
    This week in Jerusalem, the Israeli foreign ministry hosted the fourth international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism... This is “a gathering that has served as an important... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Palestinian plight hits UEFA sp ...
    With Europe’s most talented young footballers preparing for the kick-off of the under-21 championships on Wednesday, Israelis are celebrating the biggest footballing coup in their history... Last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, June 12, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The Pre-Trial Chamber I has rejected Laurent Gbagbo’s challenge to the admissibility of the case against him, due to insufficient evidence that he is being actively prosecuted in Côte d’Ivoire.  EU officials have sent a “please explain” to ...
  • Diving into Domestic Data Mining
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo. Via Boing Boing a very good short animation discussing data mining. This isn’t focused on the NSA program that is currently the source of discussion and dispute but the broader issue of how both companies and governmen ...
  • Privileges and Immunities of International Org ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon I’ve spent the last days at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands attending a terrific conference on privileges and immunities of IOs.   (In addition to Leiden’s history of excellence in international law, there were some wonderful revelations at the confe ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The United States may decide early this week to provide armed assistance to Syrian rebels. Israel’s PM Netanyahu has made clear that Israel refuses to get involved in this discussion. Turkish riot police have moved into Taksim Square to remove anti-governmen ...
  • Guest Post: Pakistan’s official withdrawal of ...
    by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis [Michael W. Lewis is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University where he teaches International Law and the Law of War.]  Something interesting and I believe significant, happened on Saturday.  The Pakistani Foreign Ministry summoned the US Charge d’A ...

Public News Service

  • What Mosquitoes Have in Store for AZ This Year
    What Mosquitoes Have in Store for AZ This Year PHOENIX - They represent one aspect of the summer monsoon you may prefer to do without. The peak of mosquito season is quickly approaching in Arizona, and you can help keep yourself from becoming a victim by learning a little more about the buggers. ...
  • More AZ Children Eating Free Summer Meals
    More AZ Children Eating Free Summer Meals PHOENIX - More low-income children in Arizona are getting the free summer meals that help their families stretch food dollars, although, according to a new report from the Food Research and Action Center, many more could be served. It says more than 462, ...
  • Hold the Honeybee Panic – Other Crop Wor ...
    Hold the Honeybee Panic – Other Crop Workers Available PHOENIX - Honeybees are still in decline across the United States, according to a report from the USDA that points to pesticides, parasites, poor diet and lack of genetic diversity as some of the problems. The situation has piqued inte ...
  • Report: Women May Be Unaware of Chronic Lung P ...
    Report: Women May Be Unaware of Chronic Lung Problems PHOENIX – A new American Lung Association report says women are 37 percent more likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, than men – and that millions of women have symptoms that go undiagnosed. The most rec ...
  • Pork Giant's Sale to China Could Put Pig Promi ...
    Pork Giant's Sale to China Could Put Pig Promises in Jeopardy PHOENIX, Ariz. - A big business story about the sale of Smithfield Foods to a Chinese company puts a "pig promise" in peril. After the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) exposed the treatment of pigs at a Smithfield factory in ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Food Truck Movement in San Jose – gourmet food ...
    These aren’t your grandfather’s roach coaches, this is seriously good food! Last night Sue and I had Korean ribs, Hawaiian- style Loco Moco, and a lamb / cucumber wrap. All of it was delicious and from gourmet food trucks, all part of the growing food truck movement. The photos were ...
  • OMB – Metroland
    Released this year, they were amazing at Coachella
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  • Whoa. Germany demands Obama explain “American- ...
    Even our allies are appalled at the rise of the American Stasi and wish to know just what the fuck is going on in a country that bleats incessantly about how it is the protector of democracy and freedom. Well done NSA. Bravo, Obama. When even Zee Germans are staring open-mouthed at what they cal ...
  • Hey Los Angeles, want higher property taxes fo ...
    Surely it makes perfect sense to build huge tunnels to siphon water away from that useless California Delta to agribusiness and oil in the Central Valley and then onto Los Angeles, and then raise property taxes in L.A. to pay for this shambling $50 billion dollar behemoth. Oh, but wait, L.A. won ...

Coteret

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